In 1991, the USSR collapsed and many of the former Soviet Socialist Republics succeeded. One of those is Equestria. Now Twilight and the rest of Main Six (after being released from a Gulag by the new government) have to tread lightly through the difficult rigors of post-soviet Equestria.
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In Soviet Equestria, fanfic writes you.
8456998 What do you mean?
8457271
I don't know,my insane mind i guess. Good chapter
8458128
I do plan on making a prequel story. A prequel story where the Equestrians are subjugated under the USSR. hint hint
Loving this story
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Thanks!
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8459037
It involves nuclear weapons, as hinted in the story :)
8459208
Even better!
Great!
woah, what's with the dislikes?!
8518535
The USSR invading Equestria is pretty controversial
8536392
Is it?
8536395
There are a lot of people on this site who think that ponies would never lose to humans and vice-versa. There are also a lot of reactionaries and dissidents, they like to go on about genocide Olympics and whatnot.
8536445
I see. How could the ponies win against the entire Eastern Bloc though? Especially when they have nukes that NATO and US cannot see go off.
The fuck?
8536561
Genocide Olympics is when someone shits on some group for committing genocide and someone trying to defend said group accuses someone else of doing something bad as if that makes it better. The far right likes to throw it around a lot.
Ex.:
Guy 1: The Nazis attempted to commit genocide on multiple ethnic groups, this is why I think Nazis are evil.
Guy 2: But the Soviet Union had Holodomor!
Guy 1: Uh, how does that change the fact that the Nazi doctrine called for the extermination of multiple ethnic groups?
Guy 2: It doesn't, but now that I pointed out someone else did bad things that means when you point out I support a system of governance that tends to lead to genocides it doesn't mean anything because a different system did bad stuff too! It doesn't even matter that you don't support the USSR! *pepe/pinochet meme*
They wouldn't, but many people on this site think that the gags in the show are 100% repressive of all ponies. People see Twilight Sparke (The strongest unicorn at the time) do some great feat and assume that it's just typical stuff for everyone in the show despite how much it shows her struggling to do it.
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I see.
Yeah. *cough* *cough* GreyOnBlue *cough* *cough*
I'm thinking about reading this, but the dislikes are turning me away. Can someone tell me why they are disliking?
8635352
Because the ponies were subjugated by the USSR and there is a bit of racism between ponies and humans.
8635418
So... like the anti-Humans Are Superior?
8635441
Well, just read it.
I think the idea is pretty interesting, but I'm not liking this info-dumping...
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ill say the disslikes are mostly since this is a touchy subject, also not horribly new and the writing leaves something to be desired
Reads Stalliongrad You sir have won the internet!
So... is it dead?
8778448
noooooooo............
8851941
YES.
however, the corner should be the hammer and sickle, as true to other USSR Republics
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i think that equestria should have been just a satellite state instead of an ssr
8854082
Makes sense, but I would assume the USSR would want territory in Equus and maybe make Equestria a republic while the other nations are satallites?
So I have a laundry list of problems with this entire...Fic:
1. Writing is as dry as eating wallpaper,
2. Fails to centralize any main protagonist or group of protagonists
3. Starts with an epilogue that tells in stead of shows
4. Fails to invoke any emotion and is more heavily pandering towards EDGY and DARK without giving a humanized example of living in such a place.
5. Is too short and doesn't cover enough bases.
I can go on for another dozen or so points, but in short the story lacks a protagonist, pacing, proper characterization and shifts tones far too quickly. In short, the dislikes are not because of the topic (though that didn't help) , but your inability to TAKE them to the place personally. You should have started with a pony having to deal with the day to day soul crushing work. Having to be a second class citizen in a country that finds him/her expendable. Set the weather and tone as both abusive and sad, let this pony watch a workmate fall over dead in a quarry or something and have him/her have to watch this corpse being dragged away; not for burial, but to be made into food or glue.
You can make a fic about any topic, but you better not half ass it.
My dudes, these chapters were just an overview of the history of the country, not the entire story, but this story is slow on updates. so you guys jump the gun and go full fucking story nazi on him. Completely destroying his motivation to write the story.
In Soviet Equestria fanfic cancels youFair enough.
8954131
Don't worry the KGB is here to save the-
nevermind
Just a note, story updates should be done through your blog; you can tag them with a story so that people following the story but not you will still get updates.
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Oh, sorry
Only good commie is a dead commie.
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w e w
Why so many downvotes? Yeah, it's kind of ridiculous. But it's supposed to be: It's a parody of the Yugoslav Civil War, the Ukrainian Civil War, and the post-Soviet chaos, with Ponies added for seasoning. It's real-world history, viewed through a fun-house mirror.
Nu, cho takaya? Ya ne ponimayu.
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A pretty bad thing I wrote a year ago.
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I can take a look at it and see if there's anything to salvage.
9324227
aight that's fine.
Okay this is epic