• hello_hello [hy/hym]@hexbear.net
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    Year Hare Affair is cute, though its anthropomorphizing/personification can get a bit problematic (regarding depicting Koreans as an ethnic slur) as well as misrepresenting/simplifying soviet assistance to China (there’s a subplot about China having to invent nuclear weapons in spite of the USSR).

    The show is still somehow going strong knight-nod

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      (there’s a subplot about China having to invent nuclear weapons in spite of the USSR).

      As I understand it, the Chinese were promised support in developing their nuclear program including a prototype but the USSR ended up only providing one single lecture which had incomplete information. Sino-Soviet split stuff that China is still salty about.

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        That sounds about right. It’s mostly that year hare affair can get nationalistic at points, which, for a webseries started by one guy, is pretty tame.