Athena5898 [any]@hexbear.net to Chapotraphouse@hexbear.netEnglish · 3 days agoDoes anyone know anything about this?hexbear.netimagemessage-square43linkfedilinkarrow-up192arrow-down10file-text
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minus-squareDoofusAscendant [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·3 days agoI know wargaming is nothing new but did people ordinarily churn out war-related content while the war is still happening?
minus-squareCarl [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up26·3 days agoyeah in WW2 they were bringing troops home to star in movies about their own alleged exploits, 50/50 government propaganda/capitalist profit seeking.
minus-squarepeeonyou [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 days agoyeah but were they making cawl of dootie about it? hell no, they didn’t even have pong yet.
minus-squareFALGSConaut [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 days agoThe Green Berets was released in the middle of the Vietnam war
minus-squareVILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·3 days agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolberg_(film)
minus-squareDoofusAscendant [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·3 days agoThat one was produced during WWII but was focused on the Napoleonic Wars.
minus-squareVILenin [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·3 days ago I mean, it’s a thinly veiled find-and-replace about the “Soviet hordes” But they made plenty about WWII as well https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stukas_(film)
I know wargaming is nothing new but did people ordinarily churn out war-related content while the war is still happening?
yeah in WW2 they were bringing troops home to star in movies about their own alleged exploits, 50/50 government propaganda/capitalist profit seeking.
yeah but were they making cawl of dootie about it? hell no, they didn’t even have pong yet.
Huh, TIL.
The Green Berets was released in the middle of the Vietnam war
i think so, yeah
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kolberg_(film)
That one was produced during WWII but was focused on the Napoleonic Wars.
But they made plenty about WWII as well
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stukas_(film)