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== Anime & Manga ==

* The Soviet powers in ''[[Future War ~~198 X~~]]'' are the villains, murdering millions to get the designs for a [[Atomic Hate|missile defense system into their hands]].

* The Soviet powers in ''[[Future War 198X]]'' are the villains, murdering millions to get the designs for a [[Atomic Hate|missile defense system into their hands]].

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* ''[[Danger Girl]]'' mocks this trope by creating the outrageous 'Hammer' organization that [[Commie Nazis|combines Nazism and Communism]] (!!)

* Averted in the ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' comic series written by [[Larry Hama]] and published by Marvel. The Joes' Russian counterparts, Oktober Guard, were actually reluctant allies of the Joes who set aside their differences to fight against the Cobras. The only time the Soviet Union is ever referred as an "evil empire" is done sarcastically by one of the characters. Quite a feat, considering the comic was published during the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] era. Of course, portrayals of their soldiers and their government are two entirely different things.

* Also averted in [[Larry Hama]]'s ''[[Nth Man ~~the~~ Ultimate Ninja ~~(Comic Book)~~|Nth Man the Ultimate Ninja]]'', despite being set in the middle of [[World War III]] between the US and the USSR. The Soviet military might praise [[Glorious Mother Russia]], but they're highly competent, no-nonsense professionals. Too bad they're facing the world's deadliest assassin...

* Also averted in [[Larry Hama]]'s ''[[Nth Man: The Ultimate Ninja|Nth Man the Ultimate Ninja]]'', despite being set in the middle of [[World War III]] between the US and the USSR. The Soviet military might praise [[Glorious Mother Russia]], but they're highly competent, no-nonsense professionals. Too bad they're facing the world's deadliest assassin...

* The Red Ghost is another Marvel villain with his team of [[Everything's Better ~~With~~ Monkeys|super-apes]] (!!)

* The Red Ghost is another Marvel villain with his team of [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|super-apes]] (!!)

* ''[[The Tick]]'' parodied this trope with a villain-for-hire actually called the Red Scare, who would take jobs dressing up in supervillain attire themed around communist Russian symbology, pretend to menace some major public place, and then get defeated by his customers in a staged fight. The whole affair went hilariously awry when the Red Scare's customer was late to arrive, and the Tick, mistaking him for a real supervillain, attempted seriously to thwart him.

** Red Scare made an appearance in the live-action series as well, but in a completely different form. There, he was a 25-year-old Soviet combat android designed for one purpose: to kill [[Jimmy Carter]]. A group of diehard Russian commandos (or something) unearth it as part of a poorly-explained plan to destroy the U.S. Postal System, but the robot goes haywire (at the exact same time as Jimmy Carter arrives in town for a book signing).

* ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' villain Omega Red was made as a Soviet [[Captain America]] before turning into a [[Terrorist Without a Cause]].

* ''[[Tintin ~~(Comic Book)~~]] in the Land of the Soviets'' is an unusually early non-American example.

* ''[[Tintin]] in the Land of the Soviets'' is an unusually early non-American example.

* One of the members of the "evil" superhero team the Ultimates of Ultimate Marvel encounter is a Russian Thor copy named Perun (the Slavic god of thunder) who carried a hammer and sickle instead of a magical hammer. The implications are obvious, despite the comic being published 15 years after the [[Cold War]] ended.

** For one thing, the actual Slavic god Perun did carry a hammer and a sickle in the old myths. For another, he's based on the 616 Perun of the Winter Guard/People's Protectorate/Supreme Soviets.

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* Played for laughs in ''[[Fighting American]]'' -- the villains were still Communists, but they had names like Ghnortz, Bholhtz, and Hotsky Trotsky. Of course, since after a couple of episodes the entire series was a [[Captain America]] spoof, this is unsurprising.

* Surprisingly, the Rocket Red Brigade (the first Russian super-team in the DC Universe) managed to avoid this. Kilowog, their original creator, was the sole survivor of an alien race that was naturally community-oriented, and he was portrayed as an idealist who genuinely believed in the Soviet Union's potential. Brigade members varied widely in personality and outlook, but many of them took on heroic roles against bigger threats like alien invaders.

* The trope image is from "This Godless Communism," a feature appearing in ''[[Treasure Chest (~~Comic Book~~)|Treasure Chest]]'', a comic book published by the Catholic Guild and primarily distributed in Catholic parochial schools. The feature portrayed life in America after a hypothetical Communist takeover, with particular focus on the materialistic and anti-religious nature of Communism.

* The trope image is from "This Godless Communism," a feature appearing in ''[[Treasure Chest (comics)|Treasure Chest]]'', a comic book published by the Catholic Guild and primarily distributed in Catholic parochial schools. The feature portrayed life in America after a hypothetical Communist takeover, with particular focus on the materialistic and anti-religious nature of Communism.

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* ''[[Rambo First Blood Part II]]'' and ''Rambo III'' gave John Rambo the [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]]-esque patriotism that the previously disenchanted with America character has since become famous for.

** The image of John Rambo as an uber-patriotic flag waver is a false one. At the end ''Rambo II'' he is so disgusted by the government's attempt to cover up the fact that American prisoners of war are still being held in Vietnam that he doesn't return home. In ''Rambo III'' he is motivated by his desire to rescue his old friend Colonel Trautman rather than duty to the country he was born in.

* ''[[~~Red Dawn (Film)|~~Red Dawn]]'' is arguably the quintessential anti-communist movie of the 1980s.

* ''[[Red Dawn]]'' is arguably the quintessential anti-communist movie of the 1980s.

* ''[[~~Red Scorpion (Film)|~~Red Scorpion]]'' shows Russians as inhuman killing machines, except the one who turns against them.

* ''[[Red Scorpion]]'' shows Russians as inhuman killing machines, except the one who turns against them.

* ''[[Rocky IV]]'' created Ivan Drago whom remains one of the most recognizable symbols of Communism of the 80s.

** An episode of ''[[The Colbert Report]]'' featured a "special update" on the Cold War. The opening montage featured Lenin, Stalin, Kruschev, Drago, and [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|Yakov Smirnoff]].

* America's favorite adventuring archaeologist fights some [[Dirty Communists]] in his fourth film, ''[[Indiana Jones and ~~The~~ Kingdom of ~~The Crystal Skull (Film)|Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of The~~ Crystal Skull]]''.

* America's favorite adventuring archaeologist fights some [[Dirty Communists]] in his fourth film, ''[[Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull]]''.

** This particular example seems more of a homage to Cold War era pulp fiction, fitting the overall theme of the series pretty well.

** [[Dirty Communists]] were also the villains in LucasArts' game ''[[~~Indiana Jones and The Infernal Machine (Video Game)|~~Indiana Jones and The Infernal Machine]]''.

** [[Dirty Communists]] were also the villains in LucasArts' game ''[[Indiana Jones and The Infernal Machine]]''.

* Much of [[Chuck Norris]]' body of work. Especially ''Invasion USA''.

* Averted somewhat in ''[[The Beast of War]]'' (1988), which takes an unflinching look at the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan through the eyes of a tank crew being stalked by mujaheddin forces -- both Soviets and Afghans are portrayed as human as well as brutal.

* French comedy ''La cité de la peur'' features a hammer-and-sickle-wielding (literally!) serial killer. His motives are not political; however, he's copying a similarly armed killer from the [[Show Within a Show|film within the film]] ''Red Is Dead'', a [http://toma.d.free.fr/Nuls/lcdlp_red.jpg dirty communist indeed], who kills rich people because "profit was unbearable from his proletarian perspective."

* [[Clint Eastwood]]'s film ''[[~~Firefox (Film)|~~Firefox]]''.

* [[Clint Eastwood]]'s film ''[[Firefox]]''.

* [[Angelina Jolie]]'s ''[[Salt]]'' is about the Soviet Union having a secret program of sleeper agents out to destroy the United States and restore the Soviet Union. Given they intend to blow up Mecca to frame the United States for it, they are a PROFOUND collection of dicks.

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== Literature ==

* The Imperial Order in the ''[[Sword of Truth]]'' series by [[Terry Goodkind]] is blatantly portrayed as a fantasy Soviet State.

* The People's Republic of Haven in ''[[~~Honor Harrington (Literature)|~~Honor Harrington]]'' is an example of a science fiction communist state, especially after the revolution against the Legislaturists.

* The People's Republic of Haven in ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' is an example of a science fiction communist state, especially after the revolution against the Legislaturists.

* [[Ian Fleming]]'s ''[[James Bond (~~Literature~~)|James Bond]]'' novels are especially guilty of this. SMERSH (which [[wikipedia:SMERSH|did exist in real life, albeit briefly and with a more limited purview]]) is an organization that sponsors countless crazy schemes to destroy the West and the communists tend to be both sexually "perverted" (Klebb is a [[Psycho Lesbian]]) as well as disfigured. Oddly, the movies would largely avert this in place of the smaller SPECTRE. Furthermore the evil "General G" of the novels becomes the much more genial General Gogol in the Roger Moore movies. Gogol is very much the face of the USSR in Bond films of this age. For instance, in ''[[~~Moonraker (Film)|~~Moonraker]]'', it is he, not the Soviet premier whom the US leadership talk to over the hotline in a crisis and in ''[[~~Octopussy (Film)|~~Octopussy]]'' it is Gogol who personally oversees the pursuit and shooting of a warmongering traitor who wanted to invade the West. Although he is a villain in ''[[For Your Eyes Only (~~Film~~)|For Your Eyes Only]]'', he is far nicer than the others in the movie and Bond doesn't even attempt to hurt him. In the Brosnan era he actually becomes an elder statesman figure (albeit off-screen, due to Walter Gottell's death) for the now friendly [[Russian Federation]].

* [[Ian Fleming]]'s ''[[James Bond (novel)|James Bond]]'' novels are especially guilty of this. SMERSH (which [[wikipedia:SMERSH|did exist in real life, albeit briefly and with a more limited purview]]) is an organization that sponsors countless crazy schemes to destroy the West and the communists tend to be both sexually "perverted" (Klebb is a [[Psycho Lesbian]]) as well as disfigured. Oddly, the movies would largely avert this in place of the smaller SPECTRE. Furthermore the evil "General G" of the novels becomes the much more genial General Gogol in the Roger Moore movies. Gogol is very much the face of the USSR in Bond films of this age. For instance, in ''[[Moonraker]]'', it is he, not the Soviet premier whom the US leadership talk to over the hotline in a crisis and in ''[[Octopussy]]'' it is Gogol who personally oversees the pursuit and shooting of a warmongering traitor who wanted to invade the West. Although he is a villain in ''[[For Your Eyes Only (film)|For Your Eyes Only]]'', he is far nicer than the others in the movie and Bond doesn't even attempt to hurt him. In the Brosnan era he actually becomes an elder statesman figure (albeit off-screen, due to Walter Gottell's death) for the now friendly [[Russian Federation]].

** ''Colonel Sun'' is an example of how politics can get REALLY ugly in the James Bond-verse. Kingsley Amis, under the pseudonym Robert Markham, wrote a very Fleming-like interpretation of the Chinese [[Dirty Communists]] threat with the titular sexual sadist. What's really appalling about the book is that the book contains countless humanized Soviet villains as it goes out of its way to say how different they are from the Chinese!

** Gen. Orlov from ''[[~~Octopussy (Film)|~~Octopussy]]'' is a full-fledged villain, but General Gogol investigates him in unwitting parallel to Bond's mission. The result of that was Gogol attempted to arrest Orlov before the East German border guards shot the renegade general dead and it's fairly obvious that if Gogol had learned Orlov's whole scheme, he would have raced to warn NATO.

** Gen. Orlov from ''[[Octopussy]]'' is a full-fledged villain, but General Gogol investigates him in unwitting parallel to Bond's mission. The result of that was Gogol attempted to arrest Orlov before the East German border guards shot the renegade general dead and it's fairly obvious that if Gogol had learned Orlov's whole scheme, he would have raced to warn NATO.

** The first few Bond novels written by John Gardner show SPECTRE working on behalf of the Soviets, although [[It's Personal]] against Bond as well.

* Dennis Wheatley had a real thing for bashing commies. Even in the stories for which he is now remembered, the Black Magic books, there is a Dirty Communist link, as the blurb on the back of ''The Satanist'' puts it: ''Colonel Varney had long suspected a link between Devil Worship and the subversive influence of Soviet Russia...''

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* The [[Mike Hammer]] story ''One Lonely Night''. It even admits that the commies are drawn to resemble a red-baiting editorial cartoon of the day. Still, there is [[An Aesop]] about America not needing to stoop to the Reds' level.

* In ''The Zone'', a 1980's action series by James Rouch (set in an [[Alternate History]] [[World War Three]] Europe) the Warsaw Pact officers are universally portrayed as brutal sadists, who casually murder civilians and even their own soldiers if it suits their purpose or whim. However ''[[After the End|The Survivialist]]'' series by Jerry Ahern (written about the same time, and set in a post-[[World War Three]] [[Day of the Jackboot|Soviet-occupied United States]]) makes sure to offset its evil communist villains with decent chaps such as General Varakov and KGB agent Natalia Tiemerovna.

* In the 1970's action-adventure series ''[[The Executioner]]'', Red China is mentioned as being involved in the drug trade, which given what the CIA was up to in Cambodia and Vietnam is ironic (a similar mention is made in the [[James Bond (~~Film~~)|James Bond]] film ''[[~~Thunderball (Film)|~~Thunderball]])''. When the series was sold to Gold Eagle in the 1980's the KGB became the main villains, often portrayed as [[The Chessmaster]] behind international terrorism.

* In the 1970's action-adventure series ''[[The Executioner]]'', Red China is mentioned as being involved in the drug trade, which given what the CIA was up to in Cambodia and Vietnam is ironic (a similar mention is made in the [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] film ''[[Thunderball]])''. When the series was sold to Gold Eagle in the 1980's the KGB became the main villains, often portrayed as [[The Chessmaster]] behind international terrorism.

* Averted in one character of [[Ayn Rand]]'s ''We the Living'', with Andrei Taganov possibly being the most sympathetic communist in any anti-communist work, and perhaps the most sympathetic character [[Ayn Rand]] has written.

** The rest of Rand's works play this one straight, though.

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== Live-Action TV ==

* Klingons were originally meant to represent the Soviet Union during the Cold War but have since become the prototypical [[Proud Warrior Race Guy|proud warrior race]].

** ''[[Star Trek ~~the~~ Original Series]]'' averts this trope when they included Chekov in the crew. He was very proudly Russian, and the Cold War was at its height when the series first aired.

** ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' averts this trope when they included Chekov in the crew. He was very proudly Russian, and the Cold War was at its height when the series first aired.

** The Cardassians later take over this role (appropriately updated for the late-80s-early-90s) through their sparse appearances in ''[[Star Trek ~~the~~ Next Generation|The Next Generation]]'' and especially in ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'': vaguely described early on as an impoverished people with "deep spiritual values" who embraced a military dictatorship as a solution. Later, a decaying authoritarian super-power forced to relinquish its hold on the peoples it once held subject.

** The Cardassians later take over this role (appropriately updated for the late-80s-early-90s) through their sparse appearances in ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation|The Next Generation]]'' and especially in ''[[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|Deep Space Nine]]'': vaguely described early on as an impoverished people with "deep spiritual values" who embraced a military dictatorship as a solution. Later, a decaying authoritarian super-power forced to relinquish its hold on the peoples it once held subject.

*** This becomes quite blatant if you listen to some of the lunch conversations between Bashir and Garak, as Garak often takes a [[Straw Communist]] position when they debate some matter of politics or philosophy. Also, there is the title what the Cardassian's greatest creative work: ''The Neverending Sacrifice''.

* ''[[~~Danger Man (TV)|~~Danger Man]]''.

* ''[[Danger Man]]''.

* ''[[I Spy]]''

* Subverted in ''[[The Man ~~From~~ ~~UNCLE~~]]'' by creating the S.P.E.C.T.R.E like Thrush for both the East and Western blocs to team up against, and by teaming American Napoleon Solo with Russian Illya Kuryakin as the heroes.

* Subverted in ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' by creating the S.P.E.C.T.R.E like Thrush for both the East and Western blocs to team up against, and by teaming American Napoleon Solo with Russian Illya Kuryakin as the heroes.

* ''[[Airwolf]]'' was a post-Vietnam series that nevertheless reinforced the need for the communist menace to be stopped.

* ''[[Alias (TV)|Alias]]'' had K-Directorate, which seemed to be a Post-Soviet Free Agency (read: Terrorist). Likewise, it had Sydney's mom turn out to be a Russian Spy with two unreconstructed communist sisters.

* ''[[Alias (TV series)|Alias]]'' had K-Directorate, which seemed to be a Post-Soviet Free Agency (read: Terrorist). Likewise, it had Sydney's mom turn out to be a Russian Spy with two unreconstructed communist sisters.

* ''[[MacGyver]]'' (where the Soviets get called Soviets)

* In ''[[Doctor Who]]'', the Cybermen are sometimes viewed as a Soviet metaphor to balance the clearly Nazi Daleks (they're uniform, emotionless, and sometimes want to convert their enemies instead of slaughtering them).

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* [[The Colbert Report|Stephen Colbert]] believes that the Cold War is still going on.

* ''[[WKRP in Cincinnati]]'s'' Les Nessman was paranoid about [[Dirty Communists]], to the point that the emergency script he wrote for the station was an anti-Communist screed. When a tornado struck Cincinnati, Mr. Carlson ordered him to read the script on the air but to replace "Communist" with "tornado", which resulted in a long harangue about "Godless tornadoes" followed by the national anthem. His paranoia was explained in the final season when it was revealed that his father, who had abandoned their family when he was an infant, was himself a Communist, and that his mother had consequently instilled in Les a hatred of Communists.

* [[Monty Python|And then, there's, well,]] [[John Cleese ~~(Creator)~~|John Cleese's]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoATWN68IZA take] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|on the subject...]]

* [[Monty Python|And then, there's, well,]] [[John Cleese|John Cleese's]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MoATWN68IZA take] [[Crowning Moment of Funny|on the subject...]]

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** Strangely enough at least some KKK groups did expose sentiments that were if not communist then highly socialist during the 1930s.

* ''[[Paranoia]]'' takes the notion of a Red Scare to the Nth degree and beyond, usually with humourous effect.

* The ''[[Star Drive]]'' setting has a nation called the Nariac Domain, which consists of spacefaring cyber-communists.

* The ''[[Star*Drive]]'' setting has a nation called the Nariac Domain, which consists of spacefaring cyber-communists.

* ''[[Halt Evil Doer]]!'' has Battle Czar, who is a communist [[Anti-Villain]] turned terrorist. Amusingly, he's close friends with flag-waving terrorist leader, General Venom.

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** To the extent that even when you're ''playing as them'' they still come across as [[Jerkass|jerks]]:

{{quote| '''[[Tim Curry|Premier Cherdenko]]:''' We will sign this treaty, we will come together as brothers, and then... we will crush them!}}

* Parodied in the first ''[[Destroy All Humans]]'' video game, which is set in the 1950s; [[The Government]] and the sinister [[Government Conspiracy]] use the overwhelming paranoia around communism to cover up the actions of the protagonist -- who is actually an extraterrestrial. The population eventually buys into this to such a degree that people actually scream "Communist!" as soon as they see the alien in his natural form, and the police / military report "Possible Communist activity," when the protagonist is going around vapourising people and sucking out their brains.

* Parodied in the first ''[[Destroy All Humans!]]'' video game, which is set in the 1950s; [[The Government]] and the sinister [[Government Conspiracy]] use the overwhelming paranoia around communism to cover up the actions of the protagonist -- who is actually an extraterrestrial. The population eventually buys into this to such a degree that people actually scream "Communist!" as soon as they see the alien in his natural form, and the police / military report "Possible Communist activity," when the protagonist is going around vapourising people and sucking out their brains.

* ''[[Freedom Fighters (~~Video~~ ~~Game~~)|Freedom Fighters]]'' is pretty much the video game version of ''[[Red Dawn]]'', where the main antagonists are Communists invading America and you play as a leader of [[La Résistance|the resistance]] who is trying to push them out of the country. The major difference is, it's all taking place in [[New York City|New York]] and not Middle America.

* ''[[Freedom Fighters (video game)|Freedom Fighters]]'' is pretty much the video game version of ''[[Red Dawn]]'', where the main antagonists are Communists invading America and you play as a leader of [[La Résistance|the resistance]] who is trying to push them out of the country. The major difference is, it's all taking place in [[New York City|New York]] and not Middle America.

* The [[James Bond]] vehicle ''Everything or Nothing'' shows a Post-Soviet Union villain attempting to resurrect it.

* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' had several examples of this. The most [[Egregious]] one is Colonel Volgin whom is a [[Depraved Bisexual]] that possesses lightning powers and a desire to start nuclear war with the West. Of course, the game he appears in is one long love letter to 1960s spy movies, so he's not too out of place. Revolver Ocelot might also qualify despite being ultimately disloyal to the Soviet system. Olga and Sergei Gurlukovich despite being unreconstructed communists, are played fairly honorably and thus do not fall under the [[Dirty Communists]] trope.

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* ''[[Freedom Force]]'' plays this straight with [[An Ice Person|Nuclear Winter]] and somewhat averts this with (somewhat) with Red October who teams up with the ''[[Freedom Force]]'' in the sequel.

* At about the same time that ''Rambo II'' and ''[[Red Dawn]]'' were in their heyday, there was an arcade video game named ''Rush 'N Attack''. It was exactly what it sounds like.

* [[Husky Russkie|The Heavy]] from ''[[~~Team Fortress 2 (Video Game)|~~Team Fortress 2]]''. At least, that's how [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|The Soldier]] sees him.

* [[Husky Russkie|The Heavy]] from ''[[Team Fortress 2]]''. At least, that's how [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|The Soldier]] sees him.

{{quote| "''Stars and Stripes beats Hammer and Sickle.'' '''LOOK IT UP, COMMIE!'''"}}

* ''[[Home Front]]'' is a game where you see the menace of the North Korean government take over Japan, Korea, and the Philippines before invading the United States' plague ridden ruins. It was written by John Milius of ''[[Red Dawn]]'' fame, and he truly outdoes himself here, even seeing fit to include the page quote.

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== Web Original ==

* In ''[[~~The Gamers Alliance (Roleplay)|~~The Gamers Alliance]]'', the Proninist Party is basically that setting's version of communists.

* In ''[[The Gamers Alliance]]'', the Proninist Party is basically that setting's version of communists.

* The Gemini Galaxy of ''[[Imperium Nova]]'' has the United Federation of People's Republics, inspired by this trope. On the other hand, thanks to the [[Black and Grey Morality|nature of the galaxy they're in]], they're one of the ''better'' factions.

* Parodied on ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' with Rumble Red, the space commie.

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'''Old-Timey Homestar''': Aww, phooey! What ''do'' they have on your planet?<br />

'''Red''': Not much. Long lines. Expensive bread. }}

* ''[[~~Red Dawn Plus 20 (Roleplay)|~~Red Dawn Plus 20]]'' explores the universe of the [[Red Dawn|titular movie]] from a point 20 years "downstream", expanding vastly on the movie's world into a plausible and rich timeline from the standpoint of veterans of the war.

* ''[[Red Dawn Plus 20]]'' explores the universe of the [[Red Dawn|titular movie]] from a point 20 years "downstream", expanding vastly on the movie's world into a plausible and rich timeline from the standpoint of veterans of the war.

* Subverted in the [[Alternate History]] timeline [[Reds]]. The Dirty Communists turn out to be very much the heroes of the work, in spite of their moral complexity.

* Despite world history being changed big way in 1200, the [[~~Chaos Timeline (Literature)|~~Chaos Timeline]] also has them. Except that everyone calls them Socialists. They take over Britain in the mid 19th century and spread over all of Western Europe.

* Despite world history being changed big way in 1200, the [[Chaos Timeline]] also has them. Except that everyone calls them Socialists. They take over Britain in the mid 19th century and spread over all of Western Europe.

* [[Chairman Nuke]] lives and breaths this trope.

* ''[[~~Skippys~~ List ~~(Literature)~~|Skippys List]]'' has examples:

* ''[[Skippy's List|Skippys List]]'' has examples:

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* The "Old Timey" ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' cartoons set in 1936, but using tropes from all over the recent past, contained an alien called "Rumble Red", who claimed that they did not have (insert topic) on HIS planet ("[[Verbal Tic|...rumble!]]"), to which Homestar would reply "That's cause you're a communist fool, Red."

* Adverted with Linka, the Wind Planeteer from ''[[Captain Planet]]''. She's a <s>Russian</s> Ukrainian girl with [[Tsundere|quite a temper]], but is shown as a quite nice and even sympathetic character despite this flaw.

* In the "Justice Friends" shorts from ''[[~~Dexters~~ Laboratory]]'', Major Glory's (a [[Captain America]] [[Captain Ersatz]]) archnemesis was a [[Dirty Communists]] villain parody named Comrade Red who even used a weaponized hammer and sickle. Especially notable as Dexter's Lab came out years ''after'' the Cold War ended, but it's also worth remembering that Genndy Tartakovsky was born in the USSR.

* In the "Justice Friends" shorts from ''[[Dexter's Laboratory]]'', Major Glory's (a [[Captain America]] [[Captain Ersatz]]) archnemesis was a [[Dirty Communists]] villain parody named Comrade Red who even used a weaponized hammer and sickle. Especially notable as Dexter's Lab came out years ''after'' the Cold War ended, but it's also worth remembering that Genndy Tartakovsky was born in the USSR.

* In a season nine episode of "The Simpsons", "Simpson Tide", Homer ends up in command of a nuclear sub and accidentally steers it toward Russia. This prompts an immediate emergency UN meeting, in which the Russian representative refers to his people as the Soviet Union, prompting the following exchange:

{{quote| '''US representative:''' The Soviet Union? I thought you guys broke up?<br />

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** It's not confirmed by any means, but one story has Marshal Georgy Zhukov gaining a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] by storming into Beria's office on the night of the arrest and declaring "In the name of the Soviet people, you son of a bitch, you are ''under arrest''!"

*** There's another variant of the tale -- in which Zhukov ''shot'' Beria during arrest, and the whole "trial" thing was just a coverup.

* Another complication with Dirty Communists is that many revolutionary communists, [[Anarchy Is Chaos|anarchists]] and Mensheviks (the "moderate" communist party) revolted against Bolshevik rule. Trotsky's decision to side with the Bolshies against the Kronstadt shipyard-worker's rebellion/uprising is generally considered a [[Moral Event Horizon]] for the Soviet government, which was thereafter Soviet in name only ("Soviet" is Russian for "government by worker's council", e.g. town-meeting style government by the industrial unions). Trotsky was [[Rewarded As a Traitor Deserves|rewarded poorly]] for siding with Lenin and the dictatorship when Stalin took over after [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]'s death. Fearful that Trotsky would pose a threat to Stalin's one-man rule as an icon of the revolution, he was [[Stern Chase|pursued to the ends of the earth]], eventually being assassinated in Mexico City.

* Another complication with Dirty Communists is that many revolutionary communists, [[Anarchy Is Chaos|anarchists]] and Mensheviks (the "moderate" communist party) revolted against Bolshevik rule. Trotsky's decision to side with the Bolshies against the Kronstadt shipyard-worker's rebellion/uprising is generally considered a [[Moral Event Horizon]] for the Soviet government, which was thereafter Soviet in name only ("Soviet" is Russian for "government by worker's council", e.g. town-meeting style government by the industrial unions). Trotsky was [[Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves|rewarded poorly]] for siding with Lenin and the dictatorship when Stalin took over after [[Vladimir Lenin|Lenin]]'s death. Fearful that Trotsky would pose a threat to Stalin's one-man rule as an icon of the revolution, he was [[Stern Chase|pursued to the ends of the earth]], eventually being assassinated in Mexico City.

** Since then, the Communist parties in the West have been largely Trotskyist and claim that the Trotskyist parties of the Fourth International [[No True Scotsman|represent the only true Communism]] and that the Soviet government was actually State Capitalist. This is why the New Left in [[The Sixties]] was hostile to the rump Communist Party-US, which only gained traction during the period of US-Soviet friendship, and [[Misaimed Fandom|highly enamored]] of [[Mao Ze Dong|Chairman Mao]] instead.

*** Well, some of them were. Anarchists like Howard Zinn and Noam Chomsky definitely weren't.