Wow, looks like the Soviets were way ahead of us in NFTs.
Wow, looks like the Soviets were way ahead of us in NFTs.
Cheese capitalists line droped
They actually designed this cover for a favor to the popular band Gorillaz, sadly they decide to create their own version.
The navy shark looks kinda cool tbh.
Naaaaa-vyyyy shark do do do do do do
How could you š
The fruit was too low-hanging. I couldnāt help myself lmao
Pretty witty, I can admit that š
I just sent this to another collector friend who happens to be a navy vet.... he appreciated that (along with his toddler).
Kinda want to send this to my navy brother in law, he'd get a kick out of this.
Army tiger looks awesome
I think the Rhino is army and Tiger marines.
Rhino is armored, it has a tank on its cap and jacket.
The tiger has the us army logo on its jacket.
Oh. I didnāt see the army insignia. Strange they didnāt do marines.
Probably because marines werenāt considered a separate branch in the Soviet military. They were a part of the Soviet navy.
Also (and perhaps coincidentally) one of the US Army units responsible for the most publicized and documented war crimes in Vietnam was called Tiger Force
Is this a new Gorillaz album?
You beat me to the joke, ough!
Can anyone elaborate on what exactly this is implying. Is it simply trying to say that the US Military is run by animals/ savages or is there a deeper meaning? It just doesnāt seem that insulting, almost like they are saying the US military is fierce/intimidating but Iām sure thatās not what they are going for.
It's implying they're acting inhumane. The cartoon was published during the Vietnam War.
That makes sense, thank you!
I found the uncropped original. The text says:
"Our guys show the maximum humanity in South Vietnam"
said in an interview with an American radio correspondent by representatives of the...
Land, Armored, Air and US Naval Forces.
It's from the classic Soviet satirical magazine "Krokodil" and was drawn by Yuliy Ganf
Thanks. I was trying to figure out if the rhino was supposed to be the Marines or what.
Tiger = Marines Rhino = Army Vulture = Air Force Shark = Navy
Not trying to be mean but the rhino also has a tank drawn on its cap
Well, both the Army and the USMC fielded tanks at the time. The Marine Corps didnāt get rid of their tank corps until 2021. The confusion came from a title that references military branches and the cartoonistās assumption that the US military has a distinct armored branch separate from infantry. No worries, you didnāt seem mean.
Right, but the descriptions says the 4 branches of the US military. āTanksā are not a separate branch, they are part of the Army. The 4th branch is the Marine corp but they donāt seem to be pictured here.
And apparently the air force is comprised of Ballchinians.
you cant say Soviet Union were wrong in this
source: im vietnamese
Sorry my country decided to fuck yours up over helping Fr@nce keep their plantation colonies. -Your Friendly Neighborhood Anarchist
It wasn't really about helping France keep anything, or US involvement would have stopped in 1954, but it only grew from then on. Washington moderately backed France initially, seeing the conflict as a proxy war, but only really moved in after the French left the area and recognized Vietnamese independence; the real 'fucking up' started like a decade later. It was 100% motivated by the US' domino theory.
Itās even worse cause Vietnam was one of the few cases where academic and professional sentiment wasnāt as brainwashed. Most people respected Ho Chi Minh and there was internal hope for friendly relations, then Domino theory kicked it to the curb and we ended up supporting radically terrible opposition and Pol Pot and what have you. Absolute and unacceptable disaster in every respect.
I could be wrong but I think there might be a deeper meaning to it. The tiger being a camouflage hunter suggesting the troops are cowardly, a rhino known to charge at just about anything for any reason (would make sense if this were made after The Battle of Hamburger Hill). Vulture is obvious but could also relate to the fact vultures are slow and just circle already destroyed prey, as opposed to MiGs which were maneuverable. The shark I think though is just because it is the only aquatic animal thatās perceived as malicious.
I just saw it as the animals being seen as malicious animals.
as opposed to MiGs which were maneuverable
Fanboying the MiG of all things is a weird hill to die on but ok.
On the one hand, I get what they're saying, but on the other hand, these animals are way more humane than the US Armed Forces in Vietnam.
Vultures usually take care of carrion, rhinos are legally blind, and sharks attack people by mistake.
I found the exact text.
"Our guys in South Vietnam show the maximum of humanity, "said representatives of the command of the ground, armored, air and naval forces of the United States in an interview with an American radio correspondent"
Where is the coast guard?
The Soviets weren't the only ones who forgot about the Coast Guard in Vietnam: https://www.warhistoryonline.com/vietnam-war/friendly-fire-uscg-chief-took-charge-saved-lives.html?andro=1&chrome=1 edit: grammar
If only those dang cutters werenāt so small
The coast guard doesn't exist it's a myth to scare children.
Yep.
Source: am Coastie, donāt exist.
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The coast guard actually saw combat during the Vietnam war
Hell, where are the Marines?
Iām guessing theyāre one of the two top ones; Tank battalions were never a separate branch so Iām guessing theyāre army and the tiger looks more āspec op-yā so Iām guessing heās marine
Has the Coast Guard ever committed War Crimes?
The shark looks like a concerned and helpful fellow.
Might've been a little bit more effective if they didn't choose such cool animals. The vulture's a little insulting, but being portrayed by the enemy as a tiger or shark is pretty cool.
And anyone enlisted outside of the air force would find the vulture hilarious.
I dunno I think the vulture looks pretty rad
Yeah I personally think it's the coolest one
It was still close to WW2, and the Germans used dangerous animals for some names, the Panther Tank, Tiger Tank, Rhino division, so there's that implication.
The soviets also started calling the tank destroyers things like "big-game hunter" in response.
The tiger might be a reference to Tiger force and their alleged war crimes.
So according to the USSR the 4(?) branches of the US military are Army, Air Force, Navy, and...Tanks??
The word under the tiger seems to mean "ground" and the one under the rhino "armored."
I think the Rhino is the army, while the Tiger is the Marines.
Label underneath says "Armored"
OH! It's a rhino. I thought it was a dinosaur, but that makes more sense.
Nobody tell the marines that there under the department of the navy tho
Infantry and armored division (I'm not American, so i don't know if they're called something slightly different)
That's what I'm getting at, armored forces in the US aren't their own branch, so the other branch would be the Marines, and there's also 5 branches including the Coast Guard. Seems like a strange mistake for the usually well-written Soviet propaganda.
Soyjack rhino
I don't get it, those animals look kinda cool?
There's some text under the tiger and rhino, can anyone translate? I think there was some under the vulture and shark too, but it seems to have been cut off by the crop. Maybe having the caption would make the point clearer.
Itās depicting the US military as savage animals as a criticism of US war crimes and civilian killings in the Vietnam War.
That would make sense, but the animals just don't look super savage or brutish to me? If that's the intention I don't think it was executed very well.
Animal names like those were used in Nazi regiments and groupings so it had clearer continuity with the intention than it does now
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You remember what subreddit youāre on right
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Uh, okay?
Giving Vietnamese children birth defects is so cool!!!!!
Absolutely, but I'm surprised the USSR propagandists would think so.
I was able to translate the top right, says "Armored." My translator marked the top left as "Related" so I don't know about that one.
Thanks. You'd think the USSR would know better than to think 'Armored' was a separate branch of the US military, though. :confused:
Maybe it was just a difference more noticeable between the Army's Infantry and Armour Divisions and the Marines' Infantry and Armour Divisions
"Our guys in South Vietnam show the maximum of humanity, "said representatives of the command of the ground, armored, air and naval forces of the United States in an interview with an American radio correspondent"
They selected savage and brutal animals.
Infantry, Tanks, Airforce, and Navy?
It's an easier difference to tell between than Army and Marines as both had Infantry and Armour divisions
lol i like the Vulture Airforce, look awsome
They made every branch except the Air Force look cooler.
Honestly this seems like something we as Americans would play up
Oops we just made their military seem rad as hell
Veteran here. I'm not the least offended by this.
As a veteran, Iād love to hang this on my wall!
Um ok
NFTs
Accidentally based makes us look very cool
Yeah we have cool animals in our military what do you have?šŖš alcoholics?šššš¤£š¤£š¤£
Bear cavalry, for one.
Good taxidermists after we finish the safari.
Wooo nuclear warfare!!!!
Weāre all fucked
Furries.
bit of possible extra context: During WW2 , or at least the later part, the German naming convention for military vehicles and aircraft was "agressive animals". Tigers, Panthers, Bears, Rhinos, Elephants, polecats, hornets, bees, wasps, etc. To the point where the ISU-152 assault gun was nicknamed the "big-game hunter" or "animal killer". The association of ferocious beasts with "fascist agression" could be a callback to that if not simply a fairly obvious symbolic language.
I'm pretty certain it was called zveroboy (slang for "beast killer") and while you're idea is interesting it seems more than a bit fanciful.
Translantion is a vague art for sure - rendered directly into English that could just as easily suggest killing a pig to make sausages as it would killing a Tiger. But yes, possibly a bit fanciful.
they really missed the mark when it came to the seals
Marines looking hard as fuck
Whereās the National Guard?
Arenāt they part of the army? They are forgetting the coast guard tho. Edit: the national guard is made up of Army and Air Force reserves.
National Guard is the Army. Someone mentioned Airforce personnel but they're a part of the Air National Guard. A different (but similar) organization.
But all of them are holding a microphoneā¦.
They are being interviewed, somebody outside the frame holds the mic.
Ah! I see it now.
If all of these are predators who is gonna be left to hold the mic?
Looks like mascots the they put on their own equiplent.
No Marines?
I have their first 3 albums on Cassette
oh they rock
this somehow reminds of the video game Red Alert 2, in which generic US tank is called "grizzly" and its Soviet counterpart is called "rhino"
Class this under "attempts to make your opponent look bad that make them look awesome instead" - a tiger (universally liked animal) rhino (universally regarded positively), vulture (ehhhh it looks pretty menacing...), and a shark (universally well regarded as dangerous and sleek)?
shit the military would probably use this in their own ads if they knew it existed.
Badass
I mean, not exactly wrong.
Anyone catch the buzzard wearing a Nazi-style lapel? I know it's supposed to be "wings" for pilots.
Clever!
Anyone else see the Gorillaz album - Demon Days?
Looks like a gorillaz poster
If we were to truly anthropomorphize animals for the military, these are the exact animals I would want.
These NFTs are really getting out of hand.
Demon Days
Jungle Tigers, Screaming Eagles, Thundering Rhinos or Shark Attackers.
Damn, USA is a pretty bad-ass military.
That vulture has massive balls!
Not one of the USSR's best
Clicked through thinking this was the latest NFT launch.
This just makes us look like cool beastmen. The Russians suck at everything they try to do, I'm sorry but it's true
These are some pretty awesome mascots actually.
The art looks really awesome though
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