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Lots of butthurt russians and germans on this board


"Propaganda! Propaganda! Propaganda!"

Look guys, I know it might be hard to see you're the villians in every WW2 and Cold War movie but that is just a fact. You did horrible things. You were not heroes trying to do what was good and right. If it weren't for the USA and its allies we would live under German/Russian rules (Putin is trying to do that even to this day)

And BTW, I'm not from the USA or Europe. I'm from a South American country that was passive during those days.

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Cool story, broski.

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That's not what most posters have a problem with. If you watch any German movie about WW2 you will find that they judge themselves harsher than anyone else. It's the obvious stereotypical and flatout wrong depiction of everything German and Russian. The propaganda and paranoia that everyone (US, Russia, Europeans) inhaled after WW2 is still here today and we still judge each other on totally antiquated stereotypes.

Think of a Russian movie director depicting New Yorkers as racists with concealed weapons. Totally false, but fits with the stereotype that Americans have in the world.

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Russians, maybe, but was the portrayal of Germans in this movie stereotypical?

The only really significant East German character was Vogel, who didn't seem to fit any German stereotype I'm aware of. Other small German parts didn't seem stereotypical either: the toughs who stole his coat would've been more at home in a movie set in Brooklyn, and the girl and professor who knew Pryor were painted in pretty soft tones, rather than as rigid, order-following Teutons.

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"Butthurt"? lol I think that term very much applies to your own post. ;-)

But to be more precise: You're comment is pretty unnecessary and ignorant. I don't see any Germans here complaining about being portrayed as the bad guys in WW2. NOBODY questions that, esp. no one in Germany. Plus this movie doesn't have anything to do with WW2, it plays about 12 years after the war. - Have you even watched the movie or just the trailer??

As stated in the previous reply, there are many sterotypes in regard to Eastern Europeans. Personally, I see no real problem with that. The main character in this film is an American and it's only natural that he and his partners are portrayed in a more likable way compared to the Soviets - so that the viewers can sympathize with them. But I see the point of the people critizising this sterotyping.

As for the Amercians being "good" and the Russians being "bad": That's a kind of naive thing to say. Both parties simply pursued their own interests and ideology. The question during that time was just who pulls the trigger first ...
Luckily, no one did. Everything else is history.

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No South American country was passive.

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Not very subtle, even for trolling.

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