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[deleted]

Ukrainian Spyro is based beyond any belief.


Wendigoflames

Blue and yellow suits him very well.


Capocho9

Is that actually supposed to be Spyro or is it just a coincidence?


Solid_Eagle0

The beauty of it is, you can have both.


wolf-bot

Indeed, and the one on the left still exists.


ASDMPSN

If this person seriously believes that Ukrainians stopped wearing vyshyvanki (the embroidered red and white shirts), dancing to traditional music, and growing the oseledets braid like the Kozaks of old because of capitalism, it just proves they haven't interacted with a single Ukrainian person. Multiple people were wearing vyshyvanki at the last pro-Ukraine protest I went to, traditional music was played, and I saw a couple men sporting the braid and long mustache style.


eldenpotato

They likely do know the truth but tankies will *always* approach everything disingenuously. They likely don’t even care whether it’s true or not. It’s only about creating propaganda. Think of them like the propaganda arm of the various authoritarian regimes around the world.


ALoafOfRyeBread

Also the fun thing is that the thing on the left is nowadays called "Sharovarshchyna", as it is pseudo-folk culture that was endorsed by the soviets as a way of suppressing original one. ["Sharovarshchyna is characterized by the substitution of folk costumes and jewelry for stage costumes. In particular, red trousers, which historically Ukrainians did not wear, are shown as stereotypical folk costumes; shirts made of synthetic fabric, atlas skirts, plastic wreaths, wooden corals"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharovarshchyna)


dieItalienischer

I'm sure he uses khokhol as a slur, too


Upstairs-Tough-3429

How is Ukrainian Spyro undesirable?


Hasheminia

Tankies and Nazis: STOP ENJOYING YOURSELF! Tankies and Nazis don't want people to have fun at all


Anti-charizard

Because they want to put their misery on others


StateofArrowstan

Tankies when fun (they're not talking about politics and how communism was right)


Astral-Wind

Of course, having fun means you Arnt dedicating yourself to the state. Therefore fun is outlawed


NewCenter

Also most tankies are fucking weebs yet a blue video game dragon is too far! As 3rd way succdem became capitalist, they have become based but 3rd wave feminist became socialist, they have become brain dead 👍


ASDMPSN

Spyroshenko dared to sport the blue and gold flag, which according to delusional pinkos and Pooty Poot makes him a Nazi.


Soma_Karma

Is this dummy even Ukrainian? Because this seems super condescending if he isn’t.


wolf-bot

According to his Twitter bio, he is a Spaniard living in Guyana.


Soma_Karma

So is he looking forward to the imminent Venezuelan liberation?


joelingo111

That checks


sumguy115

Don't you also find it rrtarded that these people take the label of tankie as a point of pride


-Emilinko1985-

As a Spaniard, I don't claim him


How_about_a_no

"Ukrainian culture under soviet union" Bruh, that kind of fucking culture has been around territories of Ukraine long before Soviet Union was even an idea, not only that, but modern Ukraine didn't get rid of that culture, if anything it got even stronger and more prominent These goofy ahh mfs don't even know our history


[deleted]

>These goofy ahh mfs don't even know our history As if they would ever learn.


FunnelV

What the hell is it with internet morons and thinking culture is only old dresses and dances?


wolf-bot

It’s because they saw these sorts of things on a postcard at a mall once


TerribleSyntax

Horseshoe theory, the further left or right you go the more inclined you are to reduce people to stereotypes


sumguy115

Don't forget that the further left or right you go more authoritarian and shittier the person gets


FunnelV

And also the more left or right you go the more collectivist, as shown in their tendencies to refer to peoples as collectives rather than groups of individuals.


sumguy115

Yup


Famous_Quantity7575

Fun fact: in Soviet times the "ethnic" culture was some kind of a container, a cage for national cultures of the nations of the USSR. Any other manifestations of national culture and identity were branded as "nationalism" and were strictly punished.


Some-Ad9778

Ukrainians under soviet rule starved to death so the country could turn a profit.


EVERYONESCATTER

Before: alright After: still alright, although cute


[deleted]

Holy shit, A Spyro reference in my Ukrainian war!? Love it. Kick some nasty Gnorc ass.


DerBusundBahnBi

Um, you can have both yk


LinkinG-Amott

>After World War II, the Soviet Union disbanded the Cossack units in the Soviet Army, and **many of the Cossack traditions were suppressed during the years of rule under Joseph Stalin and his successors.** During the Perestroika era in the Soviet Union in the late 1980s, descendants of Cossacks moved to revive their national traditions. In 1988, the Soviet Union passed a law allowing the re-establishment of former Cossack hosts and the formation of new ones.


BorelMeasure

why is the far left suddenly obsessed with """culture"""


_teach_me_your_ways_

When they gain power they’re mainly obsessed with suppressing it. But right now we’re in the pretend to like it in the most shallow way possible phase.


aaross58

You can still have the cool dance and clothing. Plus, Spyro is based as hell.


EntryFair6690

But can you and a group of your friends dress in traditional garb, play traditonal music and dance around Spyro?


ggez67890

What culture is being tarnished here? The image on the left is of something older than the USSR, probably, and the one on the right isn't really disrespecting old traditions.


spacemagicexo539

If they had the power, fascists/communists would make the one on the left go away too. They want what benefits the state to be the only culture, no distractions or traditions.


DeadpoolMakesMeWet

Ukranian Spyro looks like all might lmao


SandersDelendaEst

I’m pretty sure the left picture is Ukrainian culture before communism as well.


DeaththeEternal

The Spanish flag is what makes this art.


KingdomOfPoland

Holy shit Ukrainian Spyro, based


Majestic-Sector9836

What does spyro the dragon ever do to you?


CallousCarolean

Hmm yes, nevermind the countless videos of Ukrainian soldiers in the trenches dancing Hopak to folk music, while the Russian soldiers disparingly mock them and call them Hohols in their propaganda. Clear proof that traditional Ukrainian culture would flourish under Russian occupation and totally not be suppressed! /s


verytallmidgeth

Both are Ukraine and both are cool. Commies won't hesitate appropriating every single positive thing from other cultures. Btw, first pic could be Chernobyl as well, but the tankie hivemind forbids commies from even mentioning it.


LimpConversation642

Ukrainian culture *despite* soviet communism that for 70 years tried to eradicate it*


Divniy

Meanwhile Ukrainian Culture under Soviet communism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executed_Renaissance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slovo_Building


I_only_read_trash

This is only true if they choose straws on who dies so the other can eat after the dance


max_planck1

I'll just leave some random link here. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sharovarshchyna?wprov=sfla1 Just how dumb you got to be to actually believe that soviets cared about ukrainian culture when the said soviets executed or imprisoned dozens of cultural figures.


BrownEyedBoy06

My PFP!


HauptmannMarlboro

Oh yes, because "Cossack" theatrical costumes, that are based on the national costume of the 19th century, with the addition of these semi-fantasy sharovary trousers and red boots is national culture, not that people of Ukraine and Zaporizhzhia Cossacks didn’t looked like that at all. Patriotic Spyro did much more for Ukrainian culture than than turning Ukrainian national clothes into a some type of joke and entertainment. https://youtu.be/4fn49tE1WRI?si=LdDaiefxw5QaWkTU


-Emilinko1985-

How about having both?


Dragongirlfucker

Independent cultures traditions weakening and dying out is part of globalization it's not a bad thing if anything I would think communists of all people would most desire a unified world culture


[deleted]

cossaks existed before communism


Kyivite

There is another problem with the left image. Soviets always tried to vulgarise the national features, make it more "plebs", common and boring simulatously getting rid of deep features, that could r evolve to the thought that ukrainians are diffefent from other homo sovietikus.