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[โ€“] huf@hexbear.net 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

he's not russian, he's just vaguely russian-coded to sound evil. he is evil, yes, but also herbert felt like painting him russian for reasons... he failed a bit because harkonnen was taken from a finnish surname afaik.

[โ€“] Shinhoshi@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 8 months ago

Probably Cold War reasons. Let's not forget the original novel was written in 1965