Watching movies from the 90s is a trip because its full of casual chauvinist contempt for Ukraine and other former Soviet countries, portraying them as backwards shitholes full of criminals and sex workers. Then the switch was thrown in 2022 and These People Are Gondor, Actually. It’s so hollow, all the rhetoric so cheap and timely. When we finish sucking them dry and discard them, their image will be made that of dour savages who simply hate us for our freedom.
Watching movies from the 90s is a trip because its full of casual chauvinist contempt for Ukraine and other former Soviet countries, portraying them as backwards shitholes full of criminals and sex workers. Then the switch was thrown in 2022 and These People Are Gondor, Actually. It’s so hollow, all the rhetoric so cheap and timely. When we finish sucking them dry and discard them, their image will be made that of dour savages who simply hate us for our freedom.