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Racist Russian BS

So, for some reason I found out that my favorite Russian fairytale had an animated version. I’m talking about “Alyosha Popovich and Tugarin zmey” which is a story about how Russian princess had an affair with Mongolian dragon and then Alyosha killed the dragon because HoW dArE hE fUcK tHe PrInCeSs.. This is standard Slavic shit because in our mythology dragons have a human form which is irresistibly hot and they are also so amazing at sex that people who spent the night with a dragon lose interest in having sex with humans completely. 

Anyways, how do you think Russians depicted a Mongolian dragon who is supposed to be Adonis level of hot and superhuman sex machine in the unholy year of 2004?

Like this.

I honestly wish I was joking. For comparison, here’s an illustration of the fairytale from NINETEENTH CENTURY (1868 to be more precise):

Tugarin is the one on winged horse. So i’m asking: WTF Russia? If your art from 21st century is more racist than art from 19th century, you’re definitely doing something wrong. I would like to ask Russians on Tumblr if they have an answer, but I think the answer is Putin, am I right?

Anyways, I wanted to draw Tugarin in my own way, just to cleanse my mind from this racist BS and I ended up with this:

I think he’s hot enough. Also, I mixed Asian and Slavic dragon designs because he is in a Slavic story, but he also is Asian, so I kinda wanted his design to reflect this. Would you watch this fairytale as an anime with cool fights? I know I would lol. It’s much better than alll the racism that’s happening in the cartoon. Which is a shame, because the story is good and the characters are fine. The only problem that the cartoon has is racism (and some misogyny, but that’s normal for Russian cinema in general, so I didn’t touch on that).