agitprop

The fact that a paper even worse than The Economist for being, as Lenin put it, "a journal which speaks for the millionaires", commissioned art of an extremely conventionally attractive by human beauty standards female bear, for the purpose of supposedly denigrating the Soviet Union, is just beyond insane to me. Like. The Cold War was just. So. Fucking. Absurd. The infamous American "condom plot" seems out of left field taken out of context, but if you compare it to some of the absurd shit that was actually done during the Cold War... yeah, no. Relabeled condoms as psychological warfare isn't half as weird as this goddamn bear and who exactly paid someone to draw her. (Not gonna say anything about the artist themselves, they weren't the one with the idea, they were probably just paid on commission or paid a day rate. Us commies of all people should understand "I just work here, I don't make rules or plans or ideas. They don't pay me to think.")

Although, yeah. Oof that's one heck of a MILF. Mama bear, huh? Would absolutely cuddle that. Bet she gives a good "mom hug". (Although, generally, I'm not into more fully animal anthros beyond just innocent cuddles, though the fur is definitely a cuddles turn on. I mostly want to hug her in the way I wish I could hug an actual bear - just standard innocent "I'm gonna die hugging that cute fur baby" stuff.)