In Brazil we call that “lapada seca”. I don’t think I know how to translate the spirit of it, but literally it’s something like “dry slap”.
You say that when someone got slapped so hard you can feel the pain from afar.
lol
Do we have a Soviet counterpart in the comics/movies?
Omega Red
Arguably he’s more of a “Soviet wolverine”
True, but the experiments were meant to be the Soviets’ version of Captain America.
Fair
This guy looks like serious business.
Have you ever used Golden Star balm? The one on the shield here? It’s a bloody godsend
I haven’t, I will keep that in mind
Might be difficult to obtain the real thing, depending on your location. But it’s great for various things, including clearing out sinuses
Hell yeah best balm there is. I would love to have can so big from which the pictured lid came.
If his character wasn’t being used for propaganda I’d say he’s fine because he fought Nazis and didn’t participate in any wars post-WW2; can’t help but feel the original writer was probably like “um…I really don’t want to have to make a cover with Captain America punching out Vietnamese civilians”
IIRC he originally did participate in some post-WW2 shittery, including communist hunting. But that later got retconned to be a different character, who was given the mask after the original got iced. The new char went on to be a neo-nazi
Commodore Korea?