The Soviets using central planning stories to go from an agrarian feudal society with a literal Emperor to the first humans in space.
The fascist spear of Blitzkrieg which effortlessly ran through Poland and France was shattered on the bulwark of Soviet storytelling and forced to retreat back to Berlin due to strong narratives and character development
The Soviet Union fell because of the ossified leadership’s increased lack of a knack for storytelling, and the Soviet people became enamoured by stories from the West. Of course they would come to regret that choice after the Union was dissolved and Harry Potter was eventually published…
Stalin was great at getting the whole Soviet Union to sit around a large fireplace while he smokes from his pipe in a rocking chair and tells a good story. Gorbachev was absolutely terrible at it, his stories don’t pass the Bechdel test and all his self insert characters are Mary Sues.
The Soviets using central
planningstories to go from an agrarian feudal society with a literal Emperor to the first humans in space.The fascist spear of Blitzkrieg which effortlessly ran through Poland and France was shattered on the bulwark of Soviet storytelling and forced to retreat back to Berlin due to strong narratives and character development
The Soviet Union fell because of the ossified leadership’s increased lack of a knack for storytelling, and the Soviet people became enamoured by stories from the West. Of course they would come to regret that choice after the Union was dissolved and Harry Potter was eventually published…
Stalin was great at getting the whole Soviet Union to sit around a large fireplace while he smokes from his pipe in a rocking chair and tells a good story. Gorbachev was absolutely terrible at it, his stories don’t pass the Bechdel test and all his self insert characters are Mary Sues.
This tracks. Have you ever seen a fascist encounter a deep complex narrative where the charaxters have lots of interiority?
You mean to tell me Game of Thrones was right all along?