putting my hand on the lathe In Dune Messiah, they're going to replace the part where Paul compares himself with Hitler, and have him quote the victims of communism propaganda. (hexbear.net)

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[-] huf@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago

he's not russian, he's just vaguely russian-coded to sound evil. he is evil, yes, but also herbert felt like painting him russian for reasons... he failed a bit because harkonnen was taken from a finnish surname afaik.

[-] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Probably Cold War reasons. Let's not forget the original novel was written in 1965

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