#soviet answers

[sp4ce-catt]

SEND ME MORE CAT ASKS I LOVE YOUR CAT SO MUCH

OKA I WILL HERE'S ALL FOUR KITTIES FOR U :3

[ask-whitepearl-and-steven]

What characters in fiction do you think White Diamond is similar to? I heard one person, in a non-negative since compare Princess Bumblegum to her. She is from Adventure Time. Princess Bumblegum that is. Maybe you haven’t seen Adventure Time.

I liked the latest chapters by the way. Your is really pretty.

I'm very aware of Princess Bubblegum, but thanks for checking. :)

I personally find myself constantly comparing White and her mannerisms to the soviet animation feature called The Snow Queen:

To those of you who aren't familiar, I'm sure with a bit of sleuthing you can find a way to watch it. :)

[queeringclassiclit]

Which adaptation of Sherlock Holmes is the most queer?

*not including House M.D. because it's not really an adaptation, or any overtly queer pastiches like My Dearest Holmes or The Adventure of the Furtive Festivity because that's not really a fair contest

[comradezimovsmurdermysteries]

Zimov has such interesting design. He looks kind of Aisan to me (I am sorry if I got it wrong), but you say he comes from Siberia. Can you say more about his background?

Thank you so much for the interest in Zimov! He is honestly my most favorite character in the story (I mean, obviously, I made him the main character after all).

Zimov does have Asian roots. While researching the USSR, I got really invested in the indigenous people of the Siberian region. The Itelmen and the Chukchi people were especially interesting to me, because of their ties to nature, their spirituality and mythologies.

I took the images from Google.

As I said it in my main profile - my favorite animals are crows and ravens. Well, it turns out that in the mythology of the Itelmens there is a Raven spirit named Kutkh. Kutkh is a very intriguing character with appearances in many contradictory myths. He is often portrait as the creator of the world and yet also a laughing-stock and a trickster. He immediately became one of my favorite mythology figures and a new hyper focus.

The images are from Google. The first is the cover of the book "Raven Kutkh" by Publishing house "Malysh" ("Ворон Кутх" Издательства "Малыш"). The middle one is an illustration from the book "Fairy tales of the peoples of the North" compiled by V. Vinokurova, Yu. Sem ("Сказки народов Севера" Составители: В. Винокурова, Ю. Сем). The last one is an illustration from the book by Georgy Menovshchikov - "Travels of the Raven Kutkh in the Northern Countries" (Георгий Меновщиков - "Путешествия ворона Кутха по северным странам").

Because of that, I wanted Zimov to have roots that tie him to this Raven spirit. For the purposes of my story, I made up a Siberian tribe that is inspired by the Itelmen and the Chukchi people. Zimov’s mother comes from that tribe and has passed down the ties to the mystical world and her more spiritual nature to her son.

I hope that answers your question.

Thank you once again!

[communistkenobi]

What’s your opinion on Stalin?

love this. getting right down to business. the only thing I know about him is an anecdote my friend told me about how right after WWII the Allied powers were talking about what to do with Germany and Stalin suggested executing the top 50,000 Nazi officers and calling it a day and apparently Churchill really did not like that suggestion

[bedbabayka-art]

Do you think that, under different circumstances and expectations of each other (and a lot more compromising), Preobrazhensky and Sharikov could've gotten along?

It sounds like an option for a separate AU or fanfiction. But it seems to me that this is not possible in principle. Personally, I like how tense and comedic their relationship is in the book. And here their main confrontation lies not only in the fact that this is a struggle between the Creator and his Creation, not a struggle between the middle and lower classes, but a struggle between two identical and domineering characters. None of them compromise. So Sharikov teases Preobrazhensky for a reason, calling him humiliatingly "daddy-o" (this is a more correct translation of the word "папаша" into English, I heard this translation in an audiobook). Both of these characters are very stubborn. So I think their ideal relationship is to live separately and preferably as far away as possible.

AND ALSO, WHAT THE HELL IN THE FILM ADAPTATION, THEY SOMETIMES SIT ON THE COUCH IN THE SAME PRETENTIOUS WAY.

Shayfer James - Your Father's Son

[ybee]

been asking my rivals qp teams the question posed by the current mcu: if bucky barnes ran for congress, would you vote for him.

[flowercrowngods]

is there anything as joyous as finishing a book and finding there’s 24 works on ao3 providing missing scenes, character studies and a pov switched rewrite?

[narancia-answers]

https://youtu.be/0yDrtNEr_5M?si=FglmE4Bq14W64-4z

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@inquirepannacottafugo check this out

[misternibbs]

do you have a favourite flag, real or fictional?

in this household we stand for the f(l)ag

lol ok but seriously?

personally it would be the pan flag, the colours are pretty!!! they just. Fit nicely with each other idk it's just nice :3

CMY(K) flag heheh

OH ALSO

MARYLAND HAS BEST STATE FLAG. FIGHT ME NO I'M NOT BIASED 'CAUSE I USED TO LIVE THERE SHUT UP

[sp4ce-catt]

Hello there! I'm pretty much new to Tumblr so I hope I'm doing this correctly. Sooo question:

What would you say was your Queer awakening? What gave you the feeling of: Oh this is me?

I hope this isn't a bother but it's something I've been pondering

Have a lovely afternoon =)

ok so actually the ask box is mostly for being unhinged but I will answer ur question. I fell down the tiktok alt style pipeline in 2020. That's literally it. A lot of people there were identifying as bi or pan or nb and I was like hmmm I don't really feel like a girl and it all clicked from there

[dontlookforme00]

when you get this, list 5 songs you like to listen to, publish. then, send this ask to the last 10 people in your notifs (positivity is cool!!)

Have six

[comradezimovsmurdermysteries]

What was the inspiration behind setting your comic in the USSR?

Thank you so much for the question!

To be honest, looking back at everything, my inspiration came from a lot of different things.

The short version:

I became interested in learning Russian and because of that I got invested in the history of the language and so in USSR history. That got me hyper fixated on the subject of the USSR and since my creativity is very tied to my fixations, I decided that I want to write a story set in the Soviet Union.

The long version:

I was born in Bulgaria, which is a country that used to be part of the Soviet bloc during the time of the USSR. Most of my family members lived during the Soviet years, some have even traveled to the USSR itself and because of that I grew up surrounded by media like books, movies and animations of the time. I watched a lot of “Nu Pogodi!” (Ну Погоди!), “Cat Leopold” (Кот Леопольд) and Cheburashka (Чебурашка) when I was younger.  We had a few books in Russian like “Merry Pictures” (Весёлые картинки) and a favorite of mine “If I can, I will help!” (Если смогу - помогу!) which were all aimed at children and had this very cute art styles that I enjoyed.

When I grew up, I went to a school where alongside English classes, we also had Russian classes. My Russian teacher is one of the most kind and pleasant people I have met and we are still great friends to this day. They inspired me to give the Russian language a try and in doing so, I also fell in love with the culture and history behind it.

I also started taking private Russian lessons with another Russian teacher outside of school, who is also a very creative and inspiring person. They are an elderly person, who have lived and remember a lot of the Soviet years. They have even studied in the USSR and because they love history, during a lot of our lessons they told me about the formation, historical period of the USSR and its impact on the world as a whole. From there I got quite intrigued about that former country and have been researching it ever since.

Those two combined factors – the interest in Russian and the interest in history of the USSR period, got me a bit hyper fixated on the Soviet Union. And being a writer and an artist, my hyper fixations tend to dictate my creative choice. So, I decided that I wanted to write a story set in the Soviet Union.

Funny thing is that this story started as a completely different thing. It was more of a sci-fi adventure with aliens, but once I got into Russian and the USSR, it slowly and steadily got shaped into a detective (sort of fantastical) type of one. But that is a very long explanation to do, so maybe I will save it for another day.

I hope that answers your question.

Thank you once again!

[communistkenobi]

Nick I am so sorry we have been friends for so long but what’s the difference between socialism and communism I am too American I am sorry

lol it’s all good! you can view socialism as a form of early communism, or rather, the transitional period through which communism is achieved. assuming a scenario in which there is a successful worker’s revolution, the socialist state has seized capitalist infrastructure and production and uses these things to work towards the ultimate goal of communism, a stateless classless moneyless society (stateless does not mean an undirected or unstructured society, just that the modern concept of the nation-state has been abolished as a result of the abolition of property and class - this is a pretty complex topic though so maybe a simpler way is to think of it for now is a world without borders. this is a scenario in which communism is global and has taken over all capitalist states, ie, very advanced or mature communism, and direction of resources and operations is done through administration as opposed to law and state governments - this is a very rough and general outline). a lot of capitalist infrastructure is extremely useful and necessary for the functioning of a proletarian state, and aren’t things we want to do away with (telecommunications, shipping, transport, medicine, various state and economic structures, etc - although obviously the way these things are run and the way workers are treated in those industries would change dramatically!). some people are socialists and just want a worker’s state without the communism part, some people (anarcho-communists for example) want to move directly to communism from capitalism, and debates about the exact nature and structure of a communist society are some of the fundamental things communists argue about. communism is the goal, socialism is (one of the possible) means. I personally tend towards models of centralised socialist state control and direction of a proletarian society, although I’m not well-read enough to provide you with a totally comprehensive platform on how all of that would work and that’s also like an insanely long conversation lol

[pattern-recognition]

today my boyfriend asked me what tank gijinka i would be and that’s how i know i’ve been force mascing him properly

[jellysshitpoems]

Hope you feel better soon—if it would help at all, I’d love to hear some of your recent favorite facts about nuclear energy if you have any!

Oh. My god. This made me realize I have so many unanswered nuclear energy asks i just never responded to. Im so sorry to anyone who asked me anything ill get on that.

I recently learned something thats nuclear energy related, but most of it falls under the incident category! And it involves Canada! 🫡🇨🇦🇨🇦🍁🫎 also the soviets, but its nuclear thats gone wrong so of course it does 🤷

In 1978 a nuclear reactor powered Soviet satellite broke up over the Northwest Territories without separating from the on board reactor like it was supposed to, leaving radioactive debris spread over a 600+ kilometre area. A joint American and Canadian operation was launched to clean the debris, named ‘Operation Morning Light’, which sounds like some star wars shit fr like operation morning like should be the assassination of Darth Vader like thats fucking badass

Anyways— some peices of the satellite were so radioactive it could kill a person after just a few hours of contact, and the whole operation took around ten months from late January to the mid October of 1978, just eight years before the significantly more famous Soviet nuclear fuck up that is the Chernobyl disaster! Fun!

Another satellite later failed in 1983, dropping its reactor into the Atlantic. Idk anything about that one though 🤷

Overall, clean up cost around $6 million dollars which the Canadian government asked the Soviet union to pay, but they only ever ended up giving the government $3 million. The Canadian winter did absolutely nothing to assist in the operation, doing quite the opposite and freezing all the fucking equipment lmao

The effect of this event on the First Nations people in the area is, of course, not talked about enough. Theres reasonable belief that this incident was the cause for high rates of cancer in the Fort Resolution area, but a provincial health report released a decade later claims there is no correlation. In 2012 the Chief of the Deninu Ku’e First Nation said he believed this to be the government shifting blame of cancer rates to the Indigenous communities own actions. I cant say Im an expert and know whether or not clean up was sufficient, but considering the Canadian government’s history of ignoring different types of pollution affecting the lives of Indigenous people… it certainly wouldn’t surprise me if it wasn’t.

Anyway long story short a Nuclear reactor was basically dropped into the Canadian north by the Soviets who then tried to ignore it and it was a bitch to clean. Also fuck the Canadian government 🖕

(Ive got articles and research papers if anyone wants to know more, I am not an expert or anything so I probably dont have the whole story and my telling may be inaccurate)