Negro Matapacos (“Cop-Killer Blackie”) was a famous stray dog from thestreets of Santiago who joined student protests across the city from 2010, and in particular during the 2011 movement for free education.
he was a stray dog from the streets of Santiago, and began joining student demonstrations in 2010. The following year, one of the biggest social movements since the fall of the military dictatorship began, fighting for free education and against neoliberal reforms to the education system.
Negro Matapacos was then seen regularly at every demonstration, defying tear gas and water cannons and always barking at or attacking only the riot police, and never any students or rioters. He subsequently continued to appear sporadically at future demonstrations, and hung out on university campuses, becoming beloved to student and radical movements as a symbol of resistance to violent authority.
His last days were spent resting with people who took him in, with a crowdfunded veterinarian.
Some people who knew him sent us some of their memories of him, telling us how he defied tear gas and water cannons, and only ever barked at or attacked police officers, and never students or rioters.
After his death, his legacy lives on in songs, street murals, an award-winning documentary and in the memories of all those who knew him. He was a good boy.
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Decided to play the demo for The Last Train because it looks like an interesting game, RTS + train. First plot point is "ebil gommies killed a miller and burned down the mill for no reason other than they're ebil"...
Really disappointing because it otherwise does seem like a pretty good game
Also the characters have ideologies and nationalist is described as "Values freedom, personal responsibility, and independence. Supports decisions that make the nation stronger."
I'm conflicted because it looks like my type of game but I don't wanna play as the bad guys
Shame, though, it's an interesting premise, sucks that it's overtly fascist.
Noooooo that game looked so good!!
I think you mean the Last Train Home since The Last Train is a game from 2018? but anyway the Steam description basically makes it sound like you're that Czech/whatever fascist battalion that got sent to Russia to fight the Bolsheviks and then had to gtfo the long way (iirc they went to China/Korea or something i don't remember)
Oops yeah, Last Train Home.
But the legion was there to fight on Russia’s side in WW1, with the promise of Czechoslovak independence from Austria. They weren’t there to fight the Bolsheviks, but the Bolsheviks end up being the antagonists because they’re just so evil.
In reality it seems like they negotiated passage with the Bolsheviks, who wanted them to disarm out of fear they would join the counterrevolution… which they ended up doing. They fought with some Hungarian nationalists near Yekaterinburg which prompted Bolsheviks to arrest some of them, which they responded to by attacking.
The game instead portrays it as the Bolsheviks demanding they disarm before they reached Moscow, and when they refused to do so (because “the evil gommies obviously just want us to disarm so they can kill us”) the Bolsheviks attacked unprompted.