Cyberspace
is not immune to the growing obsession with all things Stalin that is
sweeping Russian public life. It looks like the most popular game
of 2009 in the country might easily be "Stalin
vs Martians: The Unknown Pages of the Second World War,"
an upcoming war-strategy game from a consortium of game studios. The
script doesn't sound too captivating (unlike the song -- called the
"Stalinator" -- in the game's trailer):
Year
1942. Summer. The martians suddenly land somewhere in Siberia and
attack the glorious people of Holy Mother Russia. It is a hard time
for USSR as you might know from the history books if you ever
attended school. The situation is really f**ed up, so comrade Stalin
takes the anti-ET military operation under his personal control. The
operation is a top secret and virtually nobody knows about the fact
of extraterrestial intervention.
I already hear a horde
of Kremlinologists speculating that Stalin's hardcore fans need to
argue for a massive and undocumented invasion by Martians to prove
his legacy, for -- without the Martians -- they are simply running out
of arguments for Stalin's greatness. And still, the very sight of a
dancing Stalin screaming "I command you to dance!" in the
game's trailer would easily compensate for the lack of creativity in
the script. Perhaps the game would make much more sense as a quest
than as a war strategy. Navigating Stalin through the mazes of the NKVD
would make for a truly eerie experience.
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