Most of the soviets weren't even Russian, their leaders were jews and the commoners were all kinds of central and eastern european, as well as Russians. But the regular folk watching those shows aren't aware of that distinction. Soviet and Russian are the same thing. Hence why there's evil Soviet tropes popping up around the place.
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Dnomen ago
Soviets are not the same as Russians....
Sure the Soviets were Russian but Russia is not the Soviet Union.
Broc_Lia ago
Most of the soviets weren't even Russian, their leaders were jews and the commoners were all kinds of central and eastern european, as well as Russians. But the regular folk watching those shows aren't aware of that distinction. Soviet and Russian are the same thing. Hence why there's evil Soviet tropes popping up around the place.