Krtek and Kofola 💪

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

[u/Traditional-Koala-46]

More like Communist not caring for cartoons and soft drinks so really competent people were able to work on them

[u/Gregori_5 → u/Traditional-Koala-46]

I think they actually pushed talented “undesirable” people into animation.

[u/dralexan → u/Gregori_5]

Which wouldn't make sense to make undesirable people "visible"

[u/Breaditta → u/Traditional-Koala-46]

Cartoons and the late 60s preoccupation film is imho good example of art that does not rely on pleasing the audience, as there was considerably little restrictions and guaranteed budget.

I wish we got more people willing to experiment nowdays and not just contemporary comedies with sexist jokes and the biggest risk taken being Slovak lead actress or a Vietnamese actor and period "art films" about lesbians made by straight men.

[u/chechekov → u/Breaditta]

yeah, there was so much more experimentation and variety of topics. plus genre-wise, we had so much fun sci-fi :’)

[u/Wolff_Hound]

That's some bold statement from someone in CZ-75 and Sa vz.58 range.

[u/HenryTheWho → u/Wolff_Hound]

Vz 58 was kinda trash tbh

[u/Streamer272 → u/HenryTheWho]

Blasphemy

[u/Capybaradude55 → u/HenryTheWho]

I don’t see much wrong with it

[u/HenryTheWho → u/Capybaradude55]

Too light for it's high rate of fire on auto, fire selector in weird position, mags not compatible with ak, muzzle thread done in opposite direction as ak, bayonet attached from back to front.

It a magnificent piece of gun but some stuff on it just leave you head scratching

[u/assasin1598 → u/HenryTheWho]

Oh nooo the VZ58... is different from AK47!

Who could have guessed.

[u/hoseja → u/HenryTheWho]

čobol blasphemy

begone

[u/AnarchiaKapitany]

Fucking Czechslovak ultrachads making the single most brilliant stop-motion animation series in the universe, Pat & Mat:

[u/M8rio]

Jů. Hele.

[u/kredokathariko]

The Czechoslovak communist government was actually pretty decent, being pragmatic and relatively liberal.

Unfortunately, our army crushed them in 1968 for it, which is a bloody shame. Who knows what Dubček could have done if he stayed in power for longer.

[u/adamgerd → u/kredokathariko]

Eh depends when. Under Dubcek fair, Gottwald was basically Czech Stalin and copied Stalin

[u/disappointed_neko → u/adamgerd]

Yeah but that was when Stalin lived. Gottwald died like a week after him so you could say that as soon as Stalin was gone it started getting better and in the end you had the best communist regime that ever existed (out of the communist regimes).

[u/FeetSniffer9008 → u/kredokathariko]

When you're comparing them to their fellow commies abroad like Khruschev or Hoxha they seem downright reasonable.

[u/SuperTropicalDesert → u/kredokathariko]

Imo we would have turned into a soft socialist state like Yugoslavia.

[u/lpcustomvs]

Well, what about: Czech metro trains, trams, Škoda cars, Tatra trucks, brutalism architecture, Aero aircrafts, list goes on.

[u/DaudyMentol → u/lpcustomvs]

So you are just naming all the businesses that were a lot more profitable and inovative before communism rather than during communism. Am i seeing this right?

[u/Deadluss → u/lpcustomvs]

TATRA AND SKODA BRRRRUUUUUH CAN'T BE MORE JELAOUS

[u/Jeeperman365 → u/lpcustomvs]

Ahh yes the aero aircraft. A true classic of Czechoslovakian engineering 😌

[u/DeVliegendeBrabander → u/lpcustomvs]

Calling brutalist architecture anything other than an unusual and cruel punishment is a crime in and of itself

[u/lpcustomvs → u/DeVliegendeBrabander]

I like it. Taste is subjective.

[u/Aromatic_Oil9698 → u/lpcustomvs]

Talking about architecture with a brutalism fan is like trading brownie recipes with a coprophliac

[u/lpcustomvs → u/Aromatic_Oil9698]

Seriously, I prefer brutalism over whatever happened to architecture between the year 2000 and 2010. At least here, in Poland, where I live.

[u/Sicko_Vicko → u/DeVliegendeBrabander]

It's important to separate the concrete panel apartment buildings from the actually interesting works of architecture

[u/Modo44 → u/DeVliegendeBrabander]

Who hurt you?

[u/Deadluss → u/DeVliegendeBrabander]

There's good brutalism and bad one

[u/FeetSniffer9008 → u/lpcustomvs]

Most of those things existed before commies stole them.

[u/geeshta]

I love living in a panelák actually

[u/l_______I]

What about Pat & Mat?

[u/Gooners_For_Ukraine → u/l_______I]

Do you think Pat and Mat ever explored each other’s bodies?

[u/l_______I → u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

Looking that they knew each other for a long time, I'd be strange if that didn't happen

[u/M8rio → u/Gooners_For_Ukraine]

I know for sure that if you were bachelor during that era, you had to pay sigles-tax. For real.
When your were paying extra for your life style why not to make most of it.
It just make sense.

[u/iamnotexactlywhite → u/l_______I]

is that not a cartoon?

[u/Paspartum → u/iamnotexactlywhite]

No it's a documentary and a manual

[u/AnarchiaKapitany → u/iamnotexactlywhite]

Fffuck off outa here disrespecting my Kuťáci. They are part stop motion animation, part religious material.

[u/DiscordBoiii]

Commies are incompetent, more news at 11

[u/Deadluss]

Polish communist government when they want to make successful automotive brand, but puts factory in the middle of capital city and is surprised that said factory don't have space to grow, hires criminals from prisons, don't khow why quality is so crap.

[u/IWillDevourYourToes]

Also good at building commie blocks for cheap (today it'd cost the GDP of China)

[u/mtkocak]

East Germany making unbreakable glass 🤯

[u/GoodUnlucky1430]

dont forget about the goat skoda

[u/sealand_14]

I actually despise the taste of kofola