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What Actually was a Gulag? – Call of Duty’s 2020 Red Scare

April 20, 2020April 20, 2020 CYM Committee 0 Comments Stalin, USSR, video games

The Soviets are frequently represented in fiction as comically excessive villains. The gulag is held up as the pinnacle of this malevolence, but is this focus on demonising socialist states a way for developers to avoid more relevant social criticism at home?

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A Marxist Analysis of Grand Theft Auto V

April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 editor 1 Comment CIA, GTA V, video games

Grand Theft Auto is a series with a justified reputation for excessive violence and hedonistic lifestyles, but is it possible to draw an anti-capitalist narrative from what might otherwise read as glorification?

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