What is propaganda atomic heart?

Hello, ladies, gentlemen, comrades and undefined (it is funny that it never sounded like this “in the subject” before).

It is over, but to say that Atomic Heart caused, rightly, hot controversy on the Internet, divided the players into two implacable camps, split our society and forced the “brother to go to my brother”, this would mean frankly against the truth. Basically, the game community was quite sane by the creation from Mandfish, most of the part, everyone agreed that the game, in general, was good, not without flaws (like most games), with a peculiar atmosphere and interesting ideas, and diverged further to destroy “Vovchiks” and shove their polymers in Eleanor.

If in the results of the year from SG, Eleanor is not recognized as hot, I propose to consider the results of the year not legitimate.

But, of course, the Internet would not be an Internet, if individuals were not found in this case, of varying degrees of sanity, claiming that in fact, the game, it turns out, is promoting, campaigning, calling, rushing brains and so on as possible as possible?”And it would seem, among all the variety of interactive entertainment that they come out every year, most games, well, they are, well, you know, just games. But as soon as it comes to the creation of Russian (although in fact not only) developers, any game immediately becomes some kind of statement there. And the most amazing thing is that among those who declare the political engagement of the “atomic heart”, there is no complete unity, moreover, they manage to accuse the game at the same time of, rightly, opposite, mutually exclusive things.

Well, apparently, if according to Yevtushenko’s covenants a poet in Russia is more than a poet, then everyone believes that a video game in Russia should be more than a video game.

In fact, disputes about the ideological component of Atomic Heart began long before its release. And, it would seem, with the release of the game itself, gamers and involved should have beaten to come to any one opinion, but everything turned out differently, each of the parties simply declared its rightness on this issue. And in this I just do not see anything unusual. Another thing is more amazing, both sides give, almost the same arguments as evidence of their correctness. Well, and as you have already guessed, today we will try to figure out all this schizophrenia. So, let’s try to structure all this nonsense with you.

Well, let’s start with the topic that has been converted on the Internet just before the release of the game, namely, Atomic Heart is a pro-communist, great-powerful-Russian-shovinistic propaganda, created in the Kremlin’s dungeons (or Lubyanka), glorifying the Russian army and personally God-Mep … (in the sense, you understand), and in general, and in general, if you play inAtomic Heart, this means that you personally support the Great Russian imperialist manners. I suspect that you have already watched, or at least heard about such a video as “please do not buy Atomic Heart”, I will not disassemble it in detail, given that it was already quite well done on the IXBT channel (respect for them, if that). No, today we will analyze the claims yourself today and how adequate they are generally adequate.

So, let’s start with the most “tasty”. Atomic Heart is a pable propaganda designed to exalt the current state regime and personally …, since the USSR is not shown in a negative manner.

You know, I’m sorry that I am distracting, but I will tell you one entertaining case from life. Once, with one friend, being on an expedition, we decided to try local moonshine. Well, and as it usual, under this case, we pulled us into various conversations about any. And, somehow it happened that the conversation about Sholokhov came up with a conversation. Personally, although I admit that a series of books is not without shortcomings, I nevertheless instructed that the tetralogy of novels became a significant phenomenon in domestic and world literature. However, my colleague sang on the contrary, claiming that Sholokhov’s monumental work, in principle, is not worthy of familiarization. Excited by such an opinion, I decided to ask what could be so categorically causing a rejection to the description of the vicissitudes of Melikhov’s life. To which, I received a rather unexpected answer: “One familiar woman said so,” and trying to find out why he trusts the opinion of his acquaintance so much, he heard a sudden “because she has an alcoholic husband”. Well, if you roughly retell our further conversation, then it sounded from, something like this:

Me: That is, “Quiet Don” Bad Book?

Me: Because the woman told you so?

Me: And she should believe her because she has an alcoholic husband?

Me: That is, “Quiet Don” should not be read, because your friend has an alcoholic?

Well, and so it continued several times in a circle, since I could not trace the logic in these reasoning, how much I did not torture my friend.

Why did I make such a spacious retreat here? In general, in the assertion that atomic heart is pro-Russian propaganda, because it shows the USSR, about the same number of logic, if not even less. If in a quiet Don and the alcoholic husband, at least, were not mutually exclusive concepts, then it is to argue that communist propaganda is the propaganda of the Great Russian, it is, rightly, an exemplary example of Shue.

That is, a country, in the very idea of ​​which the denial of the USSR lies, of course, will advertise itself, promoting the same USSR. After all, it is over, if everyone believes in such a wonderful country of the Soviets, which is shown in the game, they will not think about who participated in her collapse, and who received benefits from this.

But, all this, in fact, empty unfounded statements. Let’s talk about something a little more material, namely about the economy. I will not load anyone here with complex concepts and terminology, instead ask one simple question? What is the main distinguishing feature of the attitude to property in the USSR? Of course, this is the lack of private ownership of the means of production and the planning system. I think that this moment should not be explained to anyone. And this is what lies in the very basis of the existence of a socialist state, we can say “this is a base”. And this is exactly what in no case can exist in the modern publication of Russia. It is enough to recall that a bet on private business and corporations is now being emphasized now, that is, it is the most direct opposite to any principles underlying the existence of the USSR.

Well, by the way, since they remembered this, then, by the way, the assertion that Atomic Heart is nothing more than something that is personally supervised by the most important fan of the Soviet Union. By the way, let’s remember what exactly this fan said ..

And yet, even if we abstract from the schizoteria about “propaganda of the scoop is propaganda of the Russian Federation”, let’s explain something. And what does communist propaganda look like? No, serious, is the presence of a Soviet setting equal to the propaganda of the ideas of Marxism? Propaganda of which then Fallout, GTA, Elder Scrolls, Vananers are then? Maybe, nevertheless, the ideological orientation of the work depends on what, in fact, ideas were invested in it? And in general, is a simple demonstration of external signs to persuade someone to certain ideas?

In general, let’s look at the whole situation with examples, and I have the perfect candidate for this. Let’s take a closer look at one of the largest communist parties in the world, among non -socialist countries, namely, I say, about the Communist Party of Japan.

In general, the story of KPI is something that would deserve a separate consideration if I only had sufficient competence in this topic, and you can google yourself. But in short, the Communist Party of Japan, in the early years of its existence, is something like Mega Guren-Dan, only 10 times cooler. The party was restored several times, after, practically full of its destruction, even after the Second World War, when, it would seem, the Japanese government eliminated everyone to whom it could reach, in a matter of war years the number of the party increased to 100 thousand, and at the very beginning of its existence, in response to repression, one of the party members made an attempt on the very heard prince. In general, there were still many different things, as you already said, google yourself.

At this moment, KPI has about 350 thousand members, in the election they are standardly supported, somewhere around 6-7 million Japanese, and moreover, every year support among the population is only increasing, which can be judged by an increasing number of places occupied by KPI in the lower house of the Japanese parliament.

And I told this only about KPI, not mentioning the Japanese Trotskyist, neo-Marxist and other organizations.

Well, if you proceed from this, according to the logic of critics AH, just total communist propaganda among the population should be carried out by the Japanese mass culture. However, for example, let’s take a look at what your anime looks like.

Well, in general, in fairness, it www.winztercasinouk.com/ is worth admitting that there is a person who has never been shy in his Marxist views in the anime of the industry and did not deny that, from a part, in his works they are also present.

But before I reveal his personality, it is worth citing some points from an interview with Neppu magazine 2008:

“. I believe that the company should be the common property of people who work in it. And this is a socialist idea.”

“. Can we build democratic socialism? I suppose it’s possible … “

Well, I won’t continue to keep you in ignorance, this is Hayao Miyazaki.

Yes, he does not hide that in his cartoons, from a part, there is a propaganda of left -wing ideas. Well, let’s see what is happening in them, maybe they are entirely filled with Soviet posters, red flags, and Lenin’s busts? Well, actually not ..

As you can see, pro -communist propaganda does not mean a frantic demonstration of Soviet symbols. On the contrary, communist propaganda is the novel by Yaroslav Gashek, Pink Floyd songs, Miyazaki cartoons. Well, and the opposite is logical from this statement – not always a demonstration is a propaganda. I think we can end this point.

However, there is also a diametrically convertible opinion, supposedly Atomic Heart is a hard anti-Soviet, anti-marksist statement, and in general, “the soils parked”.

Well, let’s still analyze this point of view. So, Atomic Heart is a game that is a firmly criticizing socialist and communist ideology, because … but actually, why? No, it’s serious that there is such anti -communist in it?

Well, there is a villain trying to capture the whole world in it. Well, yes, this is not a standard path from fantastic militants?

In general, the plot of the atomic heart is such a typical sai-fi militant from the late 80s-early 90s, only in the setting of the futuristic Soviet Union, the times of the 20th Congress. That is, which work, in such a genre, does not use this path at all? But this does not turn it, I don’t know, but anything, into criticism, in general everything in the world.

No, this is just a standard plot for tresh militants. And let’s make another reservation, although I called the plot of Atomic Heart Treshov, this does not mean that he is bad, I’ll say more than that, in places, he is different, especially … And, by the way, it’s better not to spoil, no, “trash”, in this case, this is exactly what a genre characteristic. And seriously perceive history in the style of “cyborgs, they captured the world”, with the interspersed of the film “Universal Soldier”, nevertheless, I would not become.

And whether the presence of a villain as such in the game about the USSR is a game of antipaganda? Well, let’s remember Soviet cinema, maybe there have never been villains at all? No, I think you yourself can easily recall a dozen such. Take, for example, the film “Lenin in October” (I think that this picture will not suspect an anti -Soviet orientation?). Maybe there are no antagonists there? Again there is, moreover, there are plenty of.

Some focus on the fact that the game supposedly reveals the theme of a certain equality, which, in fact, has never been in the USSR. And in fact, the topic of equality, emphasize not equality, but equal rights, slipping, but only as part of the general background of Soviet ideology, without which it would be difficult to imagine this setting.

Well, let’s about the same equality, the absence of which, supposedly criticizes Atomic Heart. Well, yes, we really, even though the union is ideologically postulated and universal equality, some, still had a little more access to benefits than others. But the essence is that equality is exactly what, ideally, was to lead to the development of society.

Well, yes, it is over when they talk about the hypocriticality of Soviet propaganda, which only used the topic of universal equality, but in fact, someone was still a little better secured. After all, this is fundamentally different from the propaganda of capitalist countries, where it was always honest that “well, if you were not born what is called a“ decent society ”, you will never be able to get a normal education, and you will do not work in low -paid work. Of course you can go into voluntary slavery by laying your own house, and taking a loan to open your own business, well, though until you take this business from a large monopoly corporation from you. And you can still believe that you are lucky, because you still live in the countries of the center and not the periphery, where the same imperialist countries of the center can invade, and it is good if you are simply sent to the plantation with the invasion, but not kill ”… Ah, or not? Or in other countries, there are also such ideological mantras as “a country of equal opportunities”, “freedom, equality, brotherhood”. But, of course, in the case of the Soviet Union, this is “lying propaganda of scoops”, but in other countries “not everything is so simple” and “this is another”.

In 2020, Nestle expressed “extreme concern” due to the fact that the production of slave is used by the work of slaves. But I haven’t paid compensation.

What to say, summing up? The game Atomic Heart is just the use of the elements of the Soviet setting and no more. It does not carry any ideological charge, yes, and according to some moments, it is noticeable that the authors themselves were not strong tried to figure out the matters of Marxism-Leninism. In addition, some information confirms that in the first place, when creating the game, it was precisely the aesthetics, without any filling,. It is enough to recall the introduction, which different people call, either the “dreamer’s dream”, or “a subtle parody of the USSR”. In fact, everything that happens at the very beginning of the game is just one large adaptation of all Internet memes related to the Union, and all this is intended only to create a wybe.

Yes, of course, I will not deny that, nevertheless, some ideological cliches are present in the game, but they simply could not be avoided, since it was difficult to remove the authors from the world and, albeit, perhaps, unknowingly, but still, to reflect some of their views in their own creation.

In general, if you personally ask my opinion, then I could certainly tell why I think that the game, in fact, depicts a modern post-maoist China, but, for the most part, it would be just LNGS. And it’s better to talk about such things separately. Perhaps someday in the future.

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After reading, I had a thought. Some people have ceased to consider works as they are, especially games. That is, instead of an adequate approach in the form of a view of the fact that a specific game wants to tell the plot, how to captivate gameplay, what are the positive and negative sides in it, the principle is stupid and sharp as diarrhea of ​​the elephant: “Climate for any flaw, inflate it to cosmic proportions and ignore the rest”. And when such people become t.n. Independent gaming bloggers that love to oppose themselves to the press, it generally reaches a ridiculous one: in games they constantly see something that is not there and ignores the obvious. Before the heap, all this is sprinkled with a thick layer of lies. And the non -inhabitant audience listens with an open mouth and the word for word, this lies repeats without even being familiar with the work.

Instead of feelings – hysteria.
Instead of reason – reflexes.
Instead of a head on the shoulders – a toilet with an open lid to receive a new “high -quality content”. So there are various delusions that literally scream on the network: I did not play and did not look at YouTube, but I know for sure!

Remember, when the first video reviews from the Nostalgia Critic team appeared at the dawn of YouTube? When it was fashionable not to view the cinema, namely, what is nasty@. It was impossible not to mention a single novelty, nor the old cinema, so as not to pierce and roll out their unreasonable “la Fu” simply because they personally do not like the work, is not a world classic of 500 billion points out of 10 and does not make them the royal session of French love while viewing.

Now, when the young, relative to the movie, the industry of the virtual entertainment industry is becoming more and more, similar “experts in everything” appeared in the field of video games. Negative lures the audience very well, while you can put together social and material capital for yourself. From here it is natural and its own one needs its own agenda: that is why IXBT will also mention the “strong and independent”, “evil white cisgender”, even if there is no reason and suck conflicts from such depths that you are given a diva, and the vagratas will pour water for 30-50 minutes on topics that are maximally covered in 2 short sentences, and warriors against the murmurs.And the billibers constantly find the beaten goals for themselves, so that they will then put them as a visual illustration of all the owners of the consoles, and the atomic Hart will be attacked due to the fact that it is a “paradise for sobs” or vice versa, so on. Lies and scandals will only help this. The reason does not play a role – the main thing is to collect views on the Hyipova topic, and if at the same time it was not true for them that it does not play a role.

Only now the humor lies in the fact that the audience brought up on constant conflicts and feces or from it gets tired and starts to ask questions, or begins to put his idols already after they do not fall into the desired agenda, or “incorrectly” speak about the game that they like/do not like. So Nostalgia Critic destroyed its own audience for a similar approach to the film “Wall”, and Ikzibids – its own, for sayings in a positive way about Dying Light 2. What is the irony. It is doubly funny to observe how the popular YouTubeers who raised the audience on insults, accusations of corruption and other tantrums are drunk on streams and begin to cry, complaining about how all this is uninteresting, and they cannot do interesting: they are afraid to scare away the audience that is already accustomed to certain content.

Therefore, feel free to express your opinion and, most importantly, reinforce it with facts, comrades. Try to understand what the work wants to tell you and do not approach it biased. Remember that you may not like something superpopular or you will not have a thicket in small projects. Or vice versa. Because all people are different, with different experience, perception and interests. The main thing is not to be a young man and try to understand yourself, as the author of the article. )

Thank you. Great analysis. It was interesting to get acquainted.

It does not reach some stupidly that the entourage imposes certain restrictions and is not necessarily conscious propaganda.

It is curious that I have not heard about Bioshock Infinite in a similar vein. Meanwhile, the propaganda of the struggle of the proletarians against fucked capitalists much more.

There are several typos in the text, but these are trifles.

Khughel noble when I heard that the Atomic Hart is propaganda. Moreover, from the lips of those who play “Kal of OF Dutie”.

I think that propaganda in Atomic Heart was looking for the same repulsed as in films about Major Thunder! On the principle, well, it cannot be good cops in Russia (there is no bitch on you) well, well, there can not be something good in the USSR!

Such attention to the game only because it is Russian. Come out the next part of Folych or Bioshok in the setting of the USSR, everyone would have frankly played and everything would have played. Search in it any kind of helper or anti -alleged anti -alcohol, for it is not there, well, or almost no. This is a story, a comic book, about the alternative USSR, exactly the same Marvel with DS stamps about alternative America with its avengers and trial leagues and there are cranberries and anti -Soviet ones, but all, but we don’t care, we spread this cranberry jam on our Borodinsky and one, because this is American, which means they can be possible.

Wow, this is a competent analysis of such a chillor theme from a materialistic point of view, and not a simple throwing of feces and cries according to the type “Arya, Red Agricultural, Zopynida”? I applaud the author standing, because such an accurate expression of opinions and the presentation of why they are erroneous, at least I have, respect, because on the Internet you see this extremely rarely.

I did not find propaganda. I found a few pleasant childhood wibers and a bunch of stake, such as joint viewing “Well, wait” or video tutorials about a senior pioneer. The game is excellent, only in moderation.

PS: Thank you for the article

Simply, often, left -handed, promotional propaganda is built precisely on criticism of the existing system, for which, in turn, I criticize the left -wing themselves, which are often capable of criticism, and not on constructive ideas. Actually, the members of the Communist Party (like French, sorry, I don’t remember badly) and Marx for the “capital” was criticized in this way.

Well, about Gashek, just remember the context of the time when the novel was written. Indeed, during the First World War, it was the left-social leftist left-handed position.

The article is interesting, although I did not see especially new for myself, and so the people now really love to play.

p.With. For Pikch Putin next to Lenin and Stalin, thanks to himself, in case of important negotiations

You are fucking? They have nowhere to have nowhere in more detail. The fucking tantrum of the herd of rams = bad, because it is a fucking Istela of the herd of rams, and not because they collapse against the player

The presence of shortcomings as such does not equate an adequate reaction to these shortcomings to inadequate. How does not equate the refusal to accept an inadequate reaction to protect the problem phenomenon.

Nevertheless, there is a completely sane propaganda of the struggle against capitalism. Although not swollen, in my opinion.

Maybe where they did not get it, do not need to wind. There the era showed very beautifully, although local seagulls and zisa look great.

So, I may not understand something, but how the “adventures of the Schweik soldier” promotes communism? I saw more criticism of the monarchy and bureaucracy in the army there.

The fact is that this is the game – a splash that they have been waiting for a long time (and not only in Russia, which is confirmed by sales abroad), and it created a hype around itself. If it weren’t for the situation in the world, it would have been clearly better perceived, on the contrary, they would even shout “the unfortunate country, the unfortunate people, but through the thorns they create such art, buy more, we will raise Russia from the knees”, “they lost such a country and culture, that would be the USSR back”.
It is wildly interesting that after the second Major of the thunder will happen, because in the first they managed to see the order to see the order, because “all the cops are actually bad, they rape 50 children a day, and they throw 100,500 kg of grass for someone in their pocket, but absolutely all oppositionists are intellectuals with the highest, which are alien to all matters and they were objective in all matters”, but there was also opposition, because there was opposition.There the plague doctor is better than in the comic book (I won’t spoil it, but if in short, in the film it can be called a hero compared to his version from the comic book) and really fights injustice.
After the release of the second part, the savagery will begin in general: some will see the order again, because “again, the thunder wants to stop the brave oppositionist, again the power structures are good, how is it”, other extremism, because “Russia is so bad, so you still release such films, where you have a steep (and sexy, according to many) the villain is arranging, the Maidan is arranging a sagging example, a bad exampleyouth, and generally traitors of the Motherland, shoot. 111 ”, and the third is just“ The film from Rusny, and also estimate, there, one of the creators once a dad in Gazprom worked, do not buy shorter ”.
In short, to be a Russian creator now oh how not easy.

I passed, and did not see any propaganda in the game. I really liked the acquaintance, the Soviet atmosphere (who found the sunset of the USSR, he will understand). The last time such a feeling was when passing the series S.T.A.L.K.E.P. According to the logic of individuals indicated in the article, the Red Alert series promotes the attack on the United States, there is also a campaign for advice? Nevertheless they remember how in the 3rd part they “threw off” the statue of freedom?

Well, I don’t know, somehow it looks attracted. When I read the book, I did not see anything like that (and since I read in the army, I paid attention to the details), and you can attribute anyone to such logic. Yaroslav Hashka himself (a short biography was attached in my publication), of course, after the war he moved to Russia and joined the Communist Party, but then it is better to remember his work in a newspaper business.

In general, I believe that it is strange to give anti -war literature, even intersecting with the views of the left at the time, it is strange, so Gandhi can be considered to be in the left camp

It was just about Bioshok, not an atomic hard. Atomics sponsored to a fig of companies. Starting with the Chinese and ending with Hiji. At the last stage, the publisher has already connected in the person of the focuschome.