I mean real talk I suspect the two leads are animated using some measure of rotoscoping or motion capture and that's the main reason for it
Also funny thing about this, the real message of the film is about why all forms of public transportation are bad, so yes this is one of the most lib films ever
No they're not named. But what it does explicitly state is that the discontent against the noble Romanovs was literally fermented by demons, and the male lead in one of the palace servants and helps her and her mother escape. Then in the next scene the opening musical number is the people of ~~St Petersburg~~ ~~Petrograd~~ Leningrad singing and dancing in the streets at the rumor that a Romanov princess survived, and they quickly shut up when a commissar (hammer and sickle on his cap) looks at them angrily.
I also have to say, it's a really strange choice that the two leads (and members of the royal family) are the only characters designed to look like ~~real~~ uncanny people, and everyone else looks like a caricature.
Actually the real moral of The Jungle was "ew theyre putting the greasy kilbasa-groping fingers of polish immigrants in my food"
Definitely proof the Democrats could easily destroy an individual dissident like Manchin if they wanted to
CPRF stop being shit ass nationalists debasing a corpse challenge (Difficulty: Impossible)
"Turn your actual prayers to a deity that may not exist into commodities to buy and sell."
:jesus-cleanse:
And Jesus went into the temple of God, and cast out all them that sold and bought in the temple, and overthrew the tables of the money changers, and the seats of them that sold doves, And said unto them, It is written, My house shall be called the house of prayer; but ye have made it a den of thieves. — Matthew 21:12–13
Middle panel is unironically the argument OUN Banderite scum would have made about collaborating with the Nazis
As we all know from history the correct leftist position for the Great War was critical support for German war credits in order to fight British, French, and Russian imperialism
He might do extensive research for each season of the podcast but in this one there is very much a gaping hole that could have been filled by reading Red Petrograd.
He at least did a good job of emphasizing how every non-Bolshevik faction completely fucked up their position in between February and October 1917, thus throwing support to the Bolsheviks. But he pretty firmly turned against the Bolsheviks in his narrative after October in a very Orlando Figes kind of way. Thankfully he is covering how the Whites continue to be so incompetent and reactionary that everyone else has no choice but to support the Bolsheviks as the lesser evil. But a major tell is that he puts a lot of emphasis on the Bolsheviks dissolving the Constituent Assembly, ignoring how if the Constituent Assembly was even remotely relevant to the interests of the masses it would not have been so trivial to dissolve it.
The satire of ideologies in DE is genuinely some of the most biting satire in that regard anywhere. The satire of communism hits particularly hard because it comes from a place of real experience and affection.
I'm a dude playing another dude disguised as another dude
Anyone on this site who genuinely believes Vladimir Putin does "anti-imperialism" out of any motive other than supremely cynical, convenient, competing imperialist interest seriously needs to re-evaluate their stances and sources. Or, otherwise, go join the fucking Maupinite/Hazite clowns who are basically doing the most cringe reactionary shit imaginable, because they are your people.
I say this as someone who has for a while tried to stay out of the dogmatic factionalist bullshit in favor of just shitposting when it comes to this site. If you've been suckered into believing a siloviki-dominated hyper-capitalist kleptocracy like Russia is a genuine force for "anti-imperialism", you've been fucking had in the worst way possible. Even the most mindless simping for modern Dengist China has a more rational basis.