Check it out. I saw someone say it's a live-action sports anime and while I would never watch an anime I assume that's an accurate description. You'd be shocked how exciting they can make chess look in this show.
Check it out. I saw someone say it's a live-action sports anime and while I would never watch an anime I assume that's an accurate description. You'd be shocked how exciting they can make chess look in this show.
It's more okay now to depict the USSR in a positive manner because they're no longer a threat.
I think it's also the reason I've seen more positive takes on Chavez in the MSM lately. When Chavez was still alive, the tone was "Chavez must go!" Now it's "Chavez wasn't that bad actually, but Maduro must go!"
I don't know about that. Look at any other Netflix original that features the USSR and you'll see the most reductive old school red scare bullshit imaginable.
Yeah, the old Evil Empire narrative is still popular, but perhaps less so. I could be wrong; I wasn't alive in the 70s and early 80s, so I don't know how common sympathetic portrayals were.
I don't know if there were any, but Season 3 of Stranger Things is about as sympathetic to the USSR as Rocky IV.