From what I’m reading, these changes were already present in the console ports released last year, and S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2 also doesn’t have a Russian dub.

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      the Soviet regime was totalitarian and terrorist

      lol, deeply unserious. Speaking of totalitarian and terrorist regimes, shouldn’t Ukraine ban nazi symbols considering how many Ukrainians were murdered by nazis, and all of them would’ve been killed if Germany had won WWII? thonk

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          Why are there so many nazi groups openly wearing the symbols then? Why are there so many soldiers wearing them? Why was the Azov Battalion integrated into the Ukrainian military when their logo had a wolfsangel and a black sun on it?

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      They’re merely acting on what the majority of Ukrainians believe: that the Soviet regime was totalitarian and terrorist,

      Let’s just ignore this point for the sake of time, and ignore all the objective data on the prosperity the workers enjoyed under the Soviet Union and the objective drop in quality of life following its dissolution.

      I see zero ethnic repression in the dev’s actions.

      Oh, you mean like how they’re removing access to Russian-

      It does not have to come in the form of laws. When you cut off access to the Ukrainian television and force everybody to watch Russian TV…

      Mandating that the official language is used is not the same as outlawing the others.

      Is it repression when Ukrainians do it or is it not? The intentional cognitive dissonance is stunning.

      The reason why it’s so easy to pick apart your vehement defense of Ukraine is because 1) you are defending fascists, and 2) you are fundamentally refusing to understand that nobody is saying the modern state of Russia is some paradise or paragon of history.

      You go on these diatribes accomplishing nothing because you’re so neck deep in propaganda and liberalism that you don’t even know what is reality and what is fiction anymore.

      Even now your eyes are just rolling over at any of the facts posted in this entire post because surely you are on the right side of history and surely this war is one holy nation against the evil scourge and there is no need to ever question anything your media tells you and anything saying otherwise is just propaganda.

      Just ignore how you continue to spew a firehose of lies while others have disproven every single defense of Ukraine in this post and never addressing them. Anything to keep the facade of being on the right side.

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          WTF Yes.

          Around 30% of the Ukrainian population was ethnically Russian before the war, that is 30% of the population whose mother tongue is Russian and that language was forbidden. Like let’s not get into the many languages still spoken in Canada but just imagine if they said 'Sorry no more french being used as an official language or in our institutions, and the amount of french speakers in Canada is lower at 22%, if Switzerland said ‘fuck you french speakers and italians only swiss german from now on’.

          Like I thought this shit was obvious to everyone that ethnic minorities should get protections which include speaking their own languages. What are you some freak that walks around in the US that yells ‘SPEAK ENGLISH’ at people?

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              What does being ethnically Russian have to do with the language? Ukraine is perfectly fine with people who were born in Soviet or post-Soviet Russia

              Except if you speak Russian then…well not so much now right? But this is also nonsense if again Canada banned French in schools and government institutions it doesn’t matter if someone like Céline Dion is beloved when normal people are negatively impacted by their protections being taken away. Do you think that some 50-60 year old ethnically russian person that maybe learned ukrainian as a school kid but since they never used it again or not often enough doesn’t really speak ukranian anymore and now has to go to their municipal offices to renew some permits or their passport or whatever and they are shit out of luck because Poroshenko did away with all of that because he was and presumably still is a far right nationalist.

              Again while the latter is not outlawed when you pass laws that clearly do away with protections and you not so subtly say ‘You know it’s ok to be cruel to those people’ then people will be cruel, like look at the USA currently under Trump where a lot of people are a lot more comfortable being cruel towards minorities.

              But hey let me just quote a part the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages:

              Part II of the Charter

              Recognition of regional or minority languages as an expression of cultural wealth.

              Respect for the geographical area of each regional or minority language.

              The need for resolute action to promote such languages.

              The facilitation and/or encouragement of the use of such languages, in speech and writing, in public and private life.

              The provision of appropriate forms and means for the teaching and study of such languages at all appropriate stages.

              The promotion of relevant transnational exchanges.

              The prohibition of all forms of unjustified distinction, exclusion, restriction or preference relating to the use of a regional or minority language and intended to discourage or endanger its maintenance or development.

              The promotion by states of mutual understanding between all the country’s linguistic groups.

              Protections of minority groups is again like one of those things most nations and people agree on this isn’t radical stuff because if those existing protections are being taken away then it’s often a one way trip to ethnic repression which unless drastic measures are taken to put them back in will inevitably lead to mass killings or worse.

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          Is there a difference between that and invading another country and demanding or suppressing anything?

          I wonder what you think about Ukraine invading Iraq and Syria. Let me guess, you are completely fine with that, aren’t you?

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      I see zero ethnic repression in the dev’s actions. They’re merely acting on what the majority of Ukrainians believe

      You can apply this argument to a lot of things, including rampant racism in other de facto parts of NATO.

      And that is ignoring the fact that those beliefs are either nonsense (‘totalitarian’ is not a meaningful word, for example), or unfounded (like claiming that the USSR was somehow bad for the world).