Soviet Bear

Soviet Bear

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Updated May 07, 2014 at 08:51PM EDT by Brad.

Added May 07, 2014 at 11:06AM EDT by jufishbong.

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About

Soviet Bear is an advice animal image macro series featuring a character illustration of a brown bear and various propaganda slogans that either glorify Soviet Russia and communism or denounce the United States and capitalism in general. The character can be seen as an extension of the popular In Soviet Russia… trope.

Origin

On May 6th, 2014 Redditor UKZephyr submitted a photograph of a Soviet Russian-themed election campaign poster for a student council candidate at his school to the /r/funny[1]. Redditor UKZephyr's post was quickly met with more than 74,800 up votes and gold rewards, reaching the front page of Reddit within hours.


N KAAITALIST AMERIC PROCHITAT ETO TRANSLATION, FOR THE HEAK: F YOU CAN READ THIS BEAR DO NOT VOTE THE ENEMY

In the comments section of the post, Redditor Tacoman404 chimed in on the identity of the cartoon bear with a screenshot from DayZ in which the character is featured on a propaganda poster (shown below).



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That same day, Reddtior JufishBong submitted an image macro featuring the original illustration of the bear and the caption reading "capitalist America steals your memes, vote Soviet bear" to /r/AdviceAnimals[2], where it garnered more than 15,000 upvotes in the first 12 hours.


CAPITALIST AMERICA STEALS YOUR MEMES VOTE SOVIET BEAR made on imgur

After Redditor JufishBong provided the blank template, dozens of additional image macro submissions followed suit on /r/AdviceAnimals[3], including a few counter-propaganda posters bearing the image of the American eagle featured in One Up America. However, the series has been also criticized by many members of /r/AdviceAnimals for employing less than original themes that are largely derived from "In Soviet Russia" jokes.

Notable Examples


TIRED OF SOVIET BEAR MAKING FRONT PAGE? CRIMEA RIVER made on imgur IN SOVIET RUSSIA YOU CONFESS TO BEAR ,memegeierator.net CAPITALIST AMERICA VOTES HYPNOTOAD VOTE SOVIET BEAR
BUY SOVIET BEAR BEFORE SOVIET-BEAR BYS Karm Calvin & Hobbes Pictures of Cats (GATS) 8.24 Louis C.KC 6.11 Pictures 00B) 9.21 Mocking People (MOCK) 8.1 6.42 Good Guy Greg (GGGha50th iSo COMMUNIST BEAR? SOUNDS LIKE REDDIT NEEDS LIBERATING made on imgur WE'LL RAISEA GENERATION SELELESSLYLOVAL TO SOVIETABEAR

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