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vamptastic · 2 years ago

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one small thing that bugs me about disco elysium is the lack of Fantasy Jews. i mean every setting that creates analogues of real world cultures tends to forget about us (i am generously overlooking when they make us into goblins or some shit). but still, idk, it'd be cool, and for the setting you'd figure we'd factor in a little. idk though, i know a decent amount about the history of jews in american socialism but little about our role in european communism especially outside of the ussr. there were certainly jewish communist movements within the ussr but most of us would've been gone long before the fall of the soviet union ig.

#i suppose im mostly interested in it bc my family was around in roughly that time period in western europe #ukraine and romania primarily (moved around very often)#and per my mom my ulta ULTA zeyde was a massive trotskyist #and i belieeeeeeve he was first in our family to come to canada (and then the us)#so if i haven't totally fucked the timeline he was around maybe... a couple decades before de is mostly set #i mean its an anachronistic setting and i am also talking out my ass here but #most of my family stayed behind ( greatgreatgrandpa left to dodge the draft <3)#which is a whole historical thing abt the russian army initially refusing to admit jewish soldiers and then switching it #essentially to use us as cannon fodder for a losing war #but i don't remember the exact timeline there so #that may have not been when we came to the us but when we left russia for bordering countries #anyway regardless. would be cool to have jews is all #particularly bc the game tackles fascism head on but then ignores one of the biggest factors in esp european facism #honestly we could be somewhere in measureheads ramblings and i just didn't make the connection

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