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PREVIEW: Are you winning, Red Son?

Pod Damn America

Pod Damn America

Comedy

4.3691 Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Anders read Red Son, the comic series that imagines what it would be like if Superman lived in Soviet Russia. Me and Alex watched the movie they made of it. We discuss it, Alan Moore, and super hero crap in general. FULL EPISODE AT Patreon.com/PodDamnAmerica

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0:00.0

And Joseph Stalin makes a whole point of being like, well, Superman, it's a necessary cruelty.

0:05.6

And you'd make the same decision if you were me, Joseph Stalin.

0:09.6

And Superman essentially says like, oh, a hard decision, A, and then his eyes glow red and he melts Stalin's head.

0:17.8

And then this is maybe my favorite part in the whole thing.

0:22.6

Guards in the other room burst in with machine guns see superman has blown Stalin's head off and then I'll take a knee yeah yeah

0:28.3

yeah what is that supposed to be a comment about or whatever I think that's like a might makes

0:35.6

right thing like it like in the Soviet sort of, this is like a consistent way we conceive the Soviet Union,

0:44.3

which is it's all this bureaucratic backstabbing in fighting over power and whoever takes it gets it.

0:52.1

You know, we just respect whoever is able to kill and,

0:55.9

and just make themselves,

0:58.3

uh,

0:58.6

in power.

0:59.7

Which in this case is Superman,

1:01.3

although in,

1:01.8

in the book,

1:02.4

he's reluctant to become the prime minister.

1:06.0

He does,

1:06.2

that's,

1:06.5

that's something he wants to do.

1:07.8

Okay.

1:08.2

That kind of makes more sense.

1:09.4

I guess they were just making a movie so they had to gloss over a lot of subtle parts about that. Because in the

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