• How Avengers: Endgame Is Censored In Russia
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ5oRoaCEB8
I love how the Russian version doesn't make any sense. "I was at dinner the other day and I cried over a plate of salad" doesn't really have any emotional weight at all and makes it sound like he's just depressed that he's been forced to eat vegetables.
He just wanted a cheeseburger.
The only vegetable russians like bottled potato, so that that's pretty accurate.
I can't believe they censored the scene where thanos had sex for like 15 minutes straight and then walked to the bathroom to take a mean shit while smoking a cigar
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/242634/b19678ee-2d5a-449e-a39b-2a05b2864ade/image.png
Delete russia
The only thing that surprises me was that this wasn't also censored in China.
God damn it, get the fuck over it, Russia. Why do you guys INSIST on still being DICKS?? I don't see Italy, Japan or Germany being authoritarian and bristly as fuck to the world at large these days. They got with the program and moved the fuck ON. You're not even theocrats, just the most standoffish, butthurt, pride-staunched, burnt-out old relics of a bygone age outside the Middle East. You're like the unpleasant racist grump grandpa everyone has, except you won't just fucking die. At least China has an explosively huge population to blame its horseshit on. With you guys it's just sour grapes and bile.
More weight to throw around. Literally.
That's literally what Putin turned this country into, holy shit. That's brilliant, this is exactly what it feels like, like if Russia was this unpleasant racist old uncle among world powers.
Is it weird that my first thought was that they changed the "America's ass" lines
"That is inferior capitalist ass. "
Or that they coulden't pencil in scenes where China saves the day (See: Iron Man 3)
i don't know too much about it but hasn't homosexuality always been taboo in russia? i remember homophobia not being ostracised here in australia even in the early 2000s, it was okay to make jokes at the expense of gay people. the fact that we've legalised same sex marriage is a miracle in itself, even if it was a close vote.
In the 90s and early 2000s it wasn't an issue. People just mostly didn't give a shit. Homosexuality was decriminalized and that's about it, it wasn't something to really talk about. Then since like 2008 media started blaring anti-gay propaganda. Gay = pedophile, being gay is immoral, unnatural etc, you know, the usual. Now it's this huge taboo again.
When I watched the movie I didn't even register that the guy talking was gay. The whole scene was like just some background piece that set a little info on how things went after 5 years, so for me it was not really memorable. Which makes censoring that part even more hilarious and sad.
In the 90s and early 2000s there were bigger fish to fry. Everything was completely out of control. I feel like right now we're experiencing a rebound overreaction.
I realized that he was gay, because I heard the "he" part but in estonian, there are no gendered nouns, so it was lost in translation and noticed something missing in my language.
Out of control how?
The country went from a more or less functioning state to full on corruption, bribery, poverty, overt sales of govt assets to the highest bidder (factories, companies, some guy still just owns a large chunk of the Russian space agency Roscosmos from that time), rampant crime, a drunk moron of a president, etc, etc. Imagine an uncontrolled collapse of a state, and the ensuing power struggle. It wasn't pretty, the murder rate was sky high, the birth rates were atrocious, almost none of the civil services functioned as they should. The economy was ruined, the currency was unstable, it was defaulted and devalued. The few people who prospered in this time period, most of them didn't do so by legal means. Some real wild west capitalism. 2005 and on is a blessing compared to 1991-2000 in terms of quality of life here. This all coincided with the late 80s and onward push for western values and western lifestyles. People would finally experience the promised wealthy life with all the bells and whistles they'd been denied before. Then reality came crashing down, and people slowly became opposed to the idea that western way = best way, and they started valuing stability and traditionalism a lot more, after getting burned so badly on trying to change the whole thing. This is why a perceived strong leader with the goal of bringing everything to a more controlled state would do so well after all the chaos. This is also why a push against western values is doing well in Russia. This is also why the opposition is so weak. Not a lot of people really want change, they've had enough of that, nobody wants a repeat of 1991-1993, even if the people in the govt are the same dudes who did well in the 90s. The problem arises though, as usual, with the ever-increasing government power. They've been tightening control over everything they can reach, and they've been squeezing a bit too hard in some places for a while now. I'm not looking forward to what they do next, like with the whole sovereign internet project.
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