i still remember that massive tantrum she threw at the waiter serving her spaghetti out of her dads head

as much as the show portrayed the soviet union as bumbling and secretive and callous and dysfunctional, i think about it now and despite everything it shows a state waking up (albeit slowly) to the immense scale of a problem and then actually mobilising appropriate resources to fix it, and in light of recent events its incredible how impressive that feels

the scene that always stuck with me was when legasov goes to the central committee and says (paraphrasing from memory) “i have a potential solution but it will need literally all the <some mineral> in russia” and the central committee just say “okay fine, do it, screw the cost”

picturing the same scene in the west “we need all the <mineral> in the country to stop a nuclear disaster killing millions” “but sweaty that belongs to rio tinto!” :nuke: fin

another thing that nobody mentioned yet is that the imperium has the space marines who are the heavily-armoured genetically-modified superhuman special forces guys, and then the vaaaast majority of the army are the imperial guard who are mostly just conscripts with shitty guns who get sent in human wave style to die en masse

there are various themed imperial guard regiments that have distinctive uniforms and fighting styles of their planet. the most popular amongst warhammer nerds are the death korps of krieg, who resemble gas-masked wwi soldiers with a german-style helmet. purely coincidentally, they seem to be most commonly painted in feldgrau colour schemes

:geordi-no: phony gods blessing

:geordi-yes: enlightened by my own intelligence