Well, there's a bit of context behind it:
The name is a meme in Poland and comes from the 1969 adventure-comedy mini-series Jak rozpętałem drugą wojnę światową (How I unleashed World War 2).
In the second episode, the main character is in hiding insideof Nazi Germany after escaping from a Prisoner of War camp. He is eventually arrested for an unrelated reason and this is the fake name he gives to the German bureaucrat using the typewriter. Unsurprisingly, he is baffled by the spelling, especially once he gets it right... since he gets an even more difficult fake birthplace to spell by the MC.
Edit: If you mean Grzegorz, it means George and isn't too difficult, I suppose.
Grzegorz is a perfectly normal name, and it's not their fault if they have a difficult surname 😔
I like to describe I'm in Love With The Villainess as 'Lesbian isekai with Marxist-Leninist Characteristics', as it has a revolution lead by a vanguard party in the first two light novels (which the manga has yet to get past the first two LNs). 'Part 2' of the story does get away from the same precise political themes a bit but it's still entertaining (and it'll probably be nice if/when the manga gets there).
I haven't gotten to the politics yet beyond a couple of mentions of trade dependency, but it's pretty entertaining so far. Thanks for the recommendation.
Yeah, that's way above and beyond the average even in like, Berlin.
The most you get here is a small booth with a bench and glass covering the side + a plastic roof. Also the electronic screen with bus arrival times, but that's a city thing only.
Ashita no Joe was actually written by a conservative. It's class conscious though.
There's a manga adaptation of Das Kapital. It's neat.
I'm gonna recommend a bunch of anime, since I'm less of a manga reader:
Rose of Versailles is the best depiction of revolution around, even if it handles something really poorly late in the show, but is about the bourgeois revolution in France 1789 instead of anything socialist - as the name says. The author hadn't gone back to being a lib yet back when it was written.
Fang of the Sun Dougram is the story of a guerrilla war of independence... with mechs, of course, because 1981.
The Irresponsible Captain Tylor is arguably pro-anarchist. E1 is the worst of the whole thing.
Patlabor is a mecha police slice of life/comedy made by a bunch of commies or commie-adjacent people in the late 80s. Patlabor 2 is basically a pondering of "1989-1991. what now?"
The Universal Century Gundam shows approach leftist themes, but Tomino's politics are kind of a mess.
Then there's left-friendly but ultimately still lib media like Interviews With Monster Girls (yes, really. It's somewhat horny, but it genuinely is actually good and has something to say about society, in spite of the fetishistic-sounding title), Ghibli movies, Hinamatsuri (for a big arc at least - inequality is a topic) and the like.
Poland is doing militarization of the border claiming that Wagner is on the border and could invade any second now. Also, the election season began next week.
Lithuania and Latvia are getting increasingly close to Poland, arguably are even in its sphere of influence. Not Estonia, they're 🤡 in their own infamous, yet independent way.
Basically, I am assuming it's just sabre-rattling
Western music: If it approaches politics in its lyrics and it dunks on government policies, capitalism, war etc. even explicitly, the message gets ignored and even enjoyed by people it's supposed to criticise. For example, Reagan using Born in the USA for his 1984 election campaign, in spite of the lyrics being about war crimes in the Vietnam War.
Socialist country music: "If you look at the lyrics in this love song, you will find a metaphor about how communism is bad and how much they hate it! My heart aches for you, I want to reach you but you're not there [Not a real song, I made them up] See? the song is about the deep desire of the Author to escape the prison that's their countries but being unable to - how else can you interpret this?" - Libs both foreign and domestic. Based on a review of a Polish album I saw on rateyourmusic, but something that keeps popping up again and again whenever there's discourse on socialist era media.
Something something Michael Parenti and hostile evidence.
The author is probably a Nazi. He made a shitton of Wehraboo manga in the late 80s, as well as a manga from 1992 about a Japanese-American War and a lot of stuff about Japanese-Soviet fighting
Absolutely there is
Its a western, and especially America-centric view on the topic you used, but even then there's works that are likely to have been watched by older people that are Japanese animations.
Speed Racer (1967), Voltron (1981 and 1982, since it's a clone of Beast King GoLion and Armored Fleet Dairugger XV) for example
In other western countries, such as Italy or to a lesser degree France, Japanese Animation was very popular, with basically every of the bigger series being available and things like the various super Robo shows of the 70s, Lupin III or Dragon Ball being household names on those countries even if people weren't aware of them being Anime. Here's the Italian opening of Urusei Yatsura for example, in it's wonderful VHS aesthetics
And besides, I've used the term more broadly, simply referring to old Anime made before an arbitrary point of time of let's say 1995.
Why yes, a plot important item in this 1983 anime is just a newspaper article from the East German Socialist Unity Party newspaper "Neues Deutschland" on the 37th Conference of the COMECON, why do you ask?
...which funnily also implies that someone in the production team was fluent in German and read communist newspapers. Or that the production was at least partially outsourced to the GDR? Though that's less likely, considering the country was way less partial to collaboration with western capital than say Poland or Yugoslavia.
Also, the usage of natural light on the animation cell for lighting effects. Something that is both common in that era, and something I find appealing.
As for the show - it's fun. Basically a more down to earth Lupin III. It's also way less horny and problematic than City Hunter (the author's next manga, and a guilty pleasure of mine - the main character's behavior after the first 8 episodes or so to the very end of the anime there is very problematic, but the rest is mostly quite good imo.), which was a pleasant surprise considering it has female protagonists in a shounen manga from the early 80s.
I actually read the manga before watching this video (it's fairly short and well written) and the incestuous attraction implication was disturbing and uncomfortable for most of the manga, paired with a morbid fascination, as the video essay states, of what's gonna happen next - I actually found it pretty good by the end for the same reasons as stated in the video.
[Ookumo-Chan Flashback spoiler]
Ninomae was a very likeable character and the fact that Minoru started seeing her strengths, and even where he saw similarities... they turned out to be clearly defined and different people, with a good ending that left me feeling the same way like when there's a big crash in Formula One but the driver walks away unscathed.
Honestly, I didn't regret reading it at the end and it even makes me want to revisit Mysterious Girlfriend X - a manga that I dropped after
[Chapter 30-ish spoiler]
a rival was introduced.
It was a solid 7/10, of the weird manga kind.
Also the Iranian Revolution (which wasn't entirely Islamist in nature, but they were the ones who won the power struggle in its immediate aftermath - the liberals were out of the picture by 1980, while the communist opposition got finished off in mass executions in 1988) happened due to the unpopularity of absolute monarch Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was stubbornly supported by the US to his last days.
And this has roots in the western-supported coup against Mohammad Mosaddegh in 1953, who was a social democratic reformer.
It's a story that unfortunately repeats many times around the region, and globally too.
Gotta love the unstoppable march towards fascism happening everywhere, from Politics to something as banal as a shitty anime
Well yeah, that's part of the problem. Also the utter failure to reign Azov's influence in, Among other things.
Anti capitalism is basically illegal there too, with immediate suspicions of being DPRK intelligence operations and the like
Poland's Sabre-rattling a lot, I suppose. There's a Wagner on the border hysteria in Both far-right State media and lib private media, As well as a detailed reporting on basically all battles in Ukraine, etc.
Like ai mentioned in a recent megathread, the government (Morawiecki, I think) announced the movement of 10k troops to the Belarus border.
Actually, it's a result of dissatisfaction with that Government. Zelensky got popular for his reformist Plattform after all, promising among other things improved relations with Russia.
He didn't deliver, and before the war as I understand it, the popularity of "Servant of the People" was declining, as I understand it.
Ty nic nie wiesz o świecie na którym żyjesz poza tym że ci mówią które kraje są dobre a które złe
