Nooooooo you’re not allowed to have human weaknesses once in a while

Sometimes I feel nostalgic about those classic 4 panel rage comics without text, so I woke up tired (you will never guess why) and drew one. I should do more, they’re fun to draw.

Clearly as the person who made this comic and this other comic and a bunch more on that theme, I must be a tankie because I used the word soviet in a non-negative way in my latest comic.

I’m sorry to say that your radar is faulty and that you are the orange person in the comic.

Are you really so fragile that one mention of the word soviet makes you see MLs?

I have an entire category of comics dedicated to criticising tankies, but somehow for some people it’s never enough.

first functioning rocket weapon

Chinese warfare had included rockets for centuries.

Americans and soviets had militarized rockets before WW2 (for ex. Katyusha on Wikipedia).

first manmade object in space

Define being in space.

The V2 barely grazed the edge of space, it didn’t have the power to actually escape the Earth’s gravitational péll.

Sputnik is the first object to actually be in space.

The Nazis …

You should be wary that nazi glazing has effects. Thanks to their lasting propaganda, people really believe they were a high tech empire that surpassed the rest of the world in every domain, triumph of the will style. Still to this day it helps fascism’s image as the “clean high tech” way that surpasses the rest in the mind of too many people. Don’t contribute to that for a simple gotcha. Even if you’re right, it’s not worth it.

I disagree.

Modern rocketry was invented by Tsiolkovsky (theory) + Goddard (liquid fuel) + Obert (engineering), only one of which was a nazi.

During WW2, nazis used slave labor to develop and industrialize rocketry, but they didn’t achieve anything. At most, they accelerated its development. Their rockets had training wheels, metaphorically speaking.

Post WW2, the nazi rocket program became the backbone of the US space program, and the USSR heavily based its own rockets on nazi rockets, but it’s the work of Zander (pre-WW2) and Korolev (pre-WW2 and post-WW2) that got rockets and then humans into space. Unlike the USA’s space program, Korolev refused to integrate nazi scientists in his operations, only brought some to help reconstruct V2s then sent them away. His team quickly surpassed german designs, the R-7 that got Sputnik to space was an entirely soviet design that had nothing in common with the V2.

Well why haven’t you done it already? :)

No political compass no, I just like pastel colors because they make me happy (really that’s the entire reasoning).

I tend to make conservatives orange these days due to the orange president, but it’s not always the case, just a mood of the moment thing. I like the other commenter’s reply, art is in the eye of the beholder, the colors are whatever you see in them - I probably unconsciously saw something in them when I was making the comic in the first place, you never truly randomly choose things after all.