BTW where does the blue-eyed blond stereotype come from, it doesn’t seem to be the dominating type for most of Germany, and especially not south where reactionary and nazi stuff is most usual (not talking about former GDR now).
Also, eh, about that and Russian communists of today - there’s a book by Ivan Yefremov, “Andromeda nebula”, sort of a future communist utopia. Its characters are described as being, due to all kinds of medical and sports good arrangements, generally beautiful and healthy by our measure. So every time you see an illustration or a indie game art or a small cartoon made by Russian commies after that book, you see plenty of blue-eyed blond people. Except the author himself specifically described them all being racially mixed to the extent of impossibility of guessing one’s ancestors’ parts of the planet from looks. Of the main characters only one is described as having blue eyes, and that’s his only “Russian-looking” trait. Generally they look no more Russian than Bengali or Han Chinese.
That’s in the book. In illustrations it’s always the same shit as if from Nazi propaganda posters. I’m just hinting that this is very common for traditional communist groups, because they are in some sense conservative, looking into past where communism was a relevant young growing ideology, with that spring flavor like blooming lilac fragrance, and also due to the nature of that ideology putting some specific ideas of beauty as commonly normal, and if the majority of such a group is German, they’ll discard the minority opinions.
BTW where does the blue-eyed blond stereotype come from, it doesn’t seem to be the dominating type for most of Germany, and especially not south where reactionary and nazi stuff is most usual (not talking about former GDR now).
Also, eh, about that and Russian communists of today - there’s a book by Ivan Yefremov, “Andromeda nebula”, sort of a future communist utopia. Its characters are described as being, due to all kinds of medical and sports good arrangements, generally beautiful and healthy by our measure. So every time you see an illustration or a indie game art or a small cartoon made by Russian commies after that book, you see plenty of blue-eyed blond people. Except the author himself specifically described them all being racially mixed to the extent of impossibility of guessing one’s ancestors’ parts of the planet from looks. Of the main characters only one is described as having blue eyes, and that’s his only “Russian-looking” trait. Generally they look no more Russian than Bengali or Han Chinese.
That’s in the book. In illustrations it’s always the same shit as if from Nazi propaganda posters. I’m just hinting that this is very common for traditional communist groups, because they are in some sense conservative, looking into past where communism was a relevant young growing ideology, with that spring flavor like blooming lilac fragrance, and also due to the nature of that ideology putting some specific ideas of beauty as commonly normal, and if the majority of such a group is German, they’ll discard the minority opinions.