Eugene McParland 🇺🇦#Netflix has acquired rights to the russian series masha and the Bear, which incorporates pro-kremlin, militaristic propaganda aimed at children.
Source: United 24 Media
Eugen Rochko@EugeneMcParland Is it just about the holidays or is there something else? Those have been national holidays there as long as I can remember, celebrating the veterans of WW2.
Roman@Gargron @EugeneMcParland Netflix pays a Russian-tied studio, and part of that money lands in the same budget firing missiles at Ukraine. But the slower poison is the rest. Those holidays are not innocent celebrations. They are how Russia turns the army into something holy and dying for the state into something noble, planted in children before they are old enough to question it. (1/2)
Since 2014 that same machine has run on one fuel, the lie that killing Ukrainians is heroic. A cheerful bear is just where the lesson begins. (2/2)
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@prvrtl @EugeneMcParland Maybe Masha and the Bear is a propaganda cartoon--I don't know, I haven't watched it--but it seems weird to call out militarized holidays as the reason when 4th of July and Veterans Day exist in the US where Netflix is from.
@Gargron @EugeneMcParland A cheerful Wehrmacht bear streaming worldwide in 1943. Would that one be fine too?
#Netflix Extends russian Animated Series "masha and the Bear." What's Wrong With That?
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