In today's play session, Yuri gets fired (again), the Saints become A Thing, we learn a great thing about combining emotes, and test out co-op with Ten uwu
“It was spectacular! It was a loss of self, a complete dedication for the good of the people. I was a ruling machine on amphetamines, I never slept. None of us slept. We built it all from nothing, with the help of the Yikuts, it was a brotherhood of nations. They respected our weapons and we respected their cheerful minds and dancing. In six years, a country rose from nothing. The workers worked themselves to death, toiling for the fifth day in a row, they literally died on the construction site, of a heart attack, of fatigue…”
“Of a gun butt in the back of the head?”
“You think so, but you’re wrong. It would be like that now, of course, but it wasn’t like that then. You can’t imagine what happened here, how it was. It ran through the world like happiness intoxication.”
“Happiness intoxication? Amphetamine was common in your country then, and not yet medically tested.”
But Ignus doesn’t listen. “I said terrible things, yes! I stood on a white horse, in a blizzard, and gave speeches. In the mountains, on the construction site… I swung my sword, with silver sunbeams on the hilt. And all around me fluttered white flags, crests of crowned horns made with silver thread, a pentagon between the prongs of the horns, the branches raised to heaven. Everyone who came here with me became happy, Zigi! Communism is powerful!
Believe in Communism, it’s a burst of enthusiasm! I promise! It’s beautiful when you believe in a person, but without it…!”
“Without it, there is nothing.”
“Nothing. It was a blizzard, but it was bright, it was morning.
Communism is white, it sparkles!”
(and I totally visualise Ignus Nilsen as the Silver Soldier/Worker/Scientist Man lol).
BTW: the film the video uses footage from is Metropolis by Fritz Lang and it's epic.