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@oldyzach Awesome yet badly dated already on release.

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Well, guys, if you don’t get what “Masha and the Bear” fuss is about, let me explain.
It is not simply about it being a Russian cartoon. Hundreds of Russian cartoons are available on Western platforms.
I won’t be going into the pedagogical quality of this cartoon, though my son is not allowed to watch it. At this point, he would be so pissed off with the girl’s behavior that he’d refuse to watch it himself. Anyway.

This cartoon features the girl Masha wearing an NKVD cap. NKVD - a predecessor of KGB.
According to archival research, NKVD is responsible for:

- Executed for political reasons by the NKVD (1930s–1953): about 800,000–1 million people. During the Great Purge alone, approximately 681,692 people were executed under NKVD Order No. 00447 (1937–1938).

- Political arrests: around 4–5 million people were arrested on political charges during the Stalin era.

- Sent to Gulag labor camps for political reasons: about 2.5–3 million people over time, although many more passed through the Gulag system for both political and criminal offenses.

- Victims of mass deportations: about 6 million people from various ethnic groups and social categories were forcibly deported during the Stalin period. Many died during transport or in exile.

- Deaths in Gulag camps and special settlements: estimates range from 1.5 to over 2 million, depending on the period included and the methodology used.

So, we are talking about a little girl wearing a Gestapo-on-steroids cap.
Should it be allowed? Probably not. Especially in the times when the country that produced the film is busy with a genocidal war. And does not recognize the crimes of NKVD anymore, because its president is literally a fan of that organization. I’m pretty sure that this cute detail - the cap - was added as a dark joke to please him and the colleagues.

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@P_Kallioniemi Where do they even get that from?

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@sarrah_bellus The US have never been closer to falling into USSR-style 'communism' than it is now courtesy of this orange walking dumpster. Check out what Soviet CheKa had been doing 100 years ago and do an educated guess what happens next to your country unless it is de-trumped.

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@OK100800 @pepel_klaasa @adamemedia1 а вот и вылизыватели воров пр��шли

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@ChrisO_wiki they are fighting now with the long-dead people, besmearing their names again. The large portion of the victims of 1930-1940s 'purges' were exonerated in 1950s and 1990s. Now CheKists (called FSB this time) reasserting their right to terrorize people ad libitum.

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@ChrisO_wiki And until Andropov times they made no attempts to self-elevate again. Andropov's untimely death might have prevented CheKists from taking over, but they made one last successful attempt in 1999. And now they are back with vengeance. And since they have mutated into a cult 3/

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@steelrat65 @MikeLevin Now, do any of those ex-federal employees read this? May be it's time to thank that 'steelrat' creep for your misfortunes?

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@salmanakc256 @MikeLevin as fucking always

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@MikeLevin Any class-action against those 20-somethings? I doubt their actions are anywhere legal. Or just anger online?

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@brockpierson errr

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@brockpierson Loved it much much more than the second installment.

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@P_Kallioniemi @NikkiHaley Particularly amusing it is to see the verbiage of those who try to deflect and twist.

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@Mbakaza4L And, by the way, Brian May is alive and well, while the image suggests otherwise.

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@RightWingWatch Somebody feed him a good fistburger already?

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@brockpierson Once the process has started, don't even breathe on the drive, or else...

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@P_Kallioniemi I'd rather say broligarchs are jolly sadists, who damage others just because they can, for a plain amusement.

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@KuliScott60149 @DakdaR22 somebody, invest into this Scott Culo's head 9g of metal