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* [[Government in Exile]]: President Dugan and what's left of his staff eventually wind up in an undisclosed location in Canada.
* [[Historical In-Joke]]:
** Possible example in the briefing for one of the Soviet missions. The player is shown a [http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20060622235058/cnc/images/b/be/Yuri_and_Stalin.jpg picture] of [[Joseph Stalin|Stalin]], with Yuri edited in on his right. This picture [https://web.archive.org/web/20130801060442/http://www.harrymcfee.com/StalinGorki1922.jpg really exists] and is famous for being doctored, the real life version showing Stalin sat next to [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]], who bears a fairly strong resemblance to Yuri. This version of the picture, created at the behest of Stalin, is a forgery to try and give him more credibility as one of Lenin's closest collaborators.
** Towards the end of the Allied campaign, the Cuban Missile Crisis is recreated. Except this time around, the Soviets and Allies are already at war and the outcome doesn't result in nuclear apocalypse.
* [[Hoist by His Own Petard]]:
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* [[Spanner in the Works]]: The Soviets in ''Yuri's Revenge''. Yuri activating the Psychic Dominators doesn't stop their initial goal of stealing the time machine in San Francisco to change the past and win the war. Only now, they're forced to deal with both the Allies and Yuri, thwarting both factions in the process.
* [[Spiteful AI]]: The mind control tanks take damage if it mind controls too many units. It will happily push forward and [[Mind Rape]] as many units as it can regardless of this until it is destroyed.
* [[Stock Sound Effect]]: The [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p8pK__lKq1s nuclear missile warning siren] used in the game was a stock sound clip from the Universal Studios Sound Effects Library, also used in countless media such as ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' and ''[[Downfall]]'' among others.
* [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]]: While pre-release screenshots of the game used exact replicas of the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe, these were altered in the final release likely due to usage rights over the depiction of French landmarks (especially when they are portrayed in a less-than-flattering light). Later releases of ''Red Alert 2'' patched this even further by giving them generic names e.g. "Paris Tower" and "Arch of Winning" due to [[Unfortunate Implications]] after the September 11 attacks. There is however a [https://ppmforums.com/topic-15871/ra2yr-prerelease-eiffel-tower/ mod] which restores the old Eiffel Tower complete with a custom destruction animation.
* [[Symbology Research Failure]]: ''Red Alert 2'' has Russian Orthodox Church architecture on ''Communist'' structures, never mind the fact that the Soviet Union has had a history of demolishing churches as per their anti-sectarian policy.
* [[Take Over the World]]: The Soviet campaign endings in a nutshell, with the one for ''Yuri's Revenge'' going a step further by mentioning Romanov's plans to expand Communism beyond Earth.
* [[Title Drop]]: "The entire world and all of its history is mine to '''command and conquer'''."
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