Doushi Shoujo yo, Teki wo Ute - Vol. 2 Ch. 5

[MangaDex]

 

[Shidqiramadhan47]

i feel like Olga going to be a traitor... but I don't trust my guts

 

[outinthegardener]

I get a horrible feeling that they're going to be asked to shoot Baron the dog towards the end of their training. Say it ain't so.

Re: the Holodomor Famine of 1932-33. The classic Western narrative on Holodomor was that Soviet Policy under Stalin deliberately caused the famine, with anywhere from 10-50 million deaths during the famine. But I think this conclusion was heavily influenced by the need to propagandize Communism as flawed and evil. Western Academics were suppressed during the red scare and (especially in America) showing sympathy for any form of Marxism was a good way to lose publishers or get fired. Once a critical mass of anti-Soviet research was published, further research became incestuous and cited those same sources over and over.

A historian, Grover Furr, even argues that while the Famine did happen, the notion that it was deliberate was a fiction started by Ukrainian Ultra-Nationalist Nazis. You can read his article The Holodomor and the Film Bitter Harvest are Fascist Lies. Most of the Western narrative about Holodomor can be traced back to unsourced claims made by opponents of Stalin (Kruschev, or Biased Western Academics, or CIA plants). The ideas that it was deliberately caused by Stalin, that it was caused by inefficient collective farming, or that Stalin wanted to destroy Ukrainian national identity, is all hooey. The famine was caused by environmental issues, and Soviet policy helped mitigate the worst outcomes.

 

[solamente]

Serafima is already wading deep in interesting moral tensions, I feel like there's no particular narrative need for an additional shit-stirrer like Olga. Maybe it's because she's very one-dimensional? The author seems to be trying for realism, but then we get anachronistic transplants like Olga. I guess it's meant to be educational, though.

 

[undeed]

Are there any records that say this is how they practiced shooting moving objects in the old days?
What a terrible way to ruin a delicious piece of beef.

 

[outinthegardener]

Serafima is already wading deep in interesting moral tensions, I feel like there's no particular narrative need for an additional shit-stirrer like Olga. Maybe it's because she's very one-dimensional? The author seems to be trying for realism, but then we get anachronistic transplants like Olga. I guess it's meant to be educational, though.

Is Olga anachronistic? There were (and still are) Ukrainians on either side of their contentious history with Russia. Some who enjoyed being part of the USSR, some who wanted Ukraine to be independent, and some who aided the Nazi invaders. It makes sense for Olga to feel like she's not culturally part of the Soviet Union, but to see the Soviets as better than the Nazis.

 

[misopogon]

Serafima is already wading deep in interesting moral tensions, I feel like there's no particular narrative need for an additional shit-stirrer like Olga. Maybe it's because she's very one-dimensional? The author seems to be trying for realism, but then we get anachronistic transplants like Olga. I guess it's meant to be educational, though.

I don't think she's anachronistic, but I don't feel someone would discuss the oppression of Ukraine under Stalin so openly in a military academy either. I do agree it's a rather unnecessary storyline though; I think the author is making a point on that this manga isn't meant to be glorifying the Soviets or the Red Army even though they are its protagonists.