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{{quote|A. Corrupt the young... Make them superficial, destroy their [[General Ripper|ruggedness]]. B. ...Get them interested in sex, [[Welcome to TV Tropes|books and plays and other trivialities]]... By psychopolitics create chaos... [[Gotta Kill Them All|Kill our enemies]]. And bring to Earth, through Communism, [[Motive Rant|the greatest peace Man has ever known.]]"|'''[[Step Three: Profit|Rules For Revolution]]''' (1946), ''[[Beam Me Up, Scotty|They Never Said It]]: A Book of Fake Quotes'' <ref>Note that there was an almost identical fake conspiracy theory about evil American plans in Soviet Russia, allegedly known as the "Dulles doctrine"</ref>}}

 

 

Dirty Communists are, essentially, Cold War-era villainous portrayals of the Soviet Union's people. After [[World War Two]], there was a very large effort to make them stock villains the same way [[Those Wacky Nazis]] were and still are. Special attention is brought to emphasizing all those wacky tropes found in [[Glorious Mother Russia]].

* The ''[[Command and Conquer]]: Red Alert'' series deals with Communist threats that start off half-way serious with an alternate continuity World War II and then go totally insane by the expansion pack ''Yuri's Revenge''.

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

* 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.

* 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]]''. At least, that's how [[Drill Sergeant Nasty|The Soldier]] sees him.

* ''[[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.

* ''[[Vega Strike]]'' has ISO (Interstellar Socialist Organization), though their image is mixed. In game and flavour materials some call them pirates and terrorists equal to [[Space Amish|Luddites]], while in one mission they act as a counterbalance to Merchant Guild captain thinking he's a greater priority than a shipload of wounded. They definitely are a paramilitary group habitually stealing stuff, but not attacking civilians. However, between their choice of ships, leaving [[Privateer|privateers]] alone and general image of being [[Cloudcuckoolander|a little out of sync]], ISO ends up as a circus cosplaying [[Robin Hood]] -- potentially mildly dangerous, but not to be taken quite seriously.

* 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.

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

* ''[[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.

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

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

 

 

* 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:

'''Russian representative:''' Yes, that is what we wanted you to think! }}

::He then presses a button on his desk and the Soviet banner drops in Red Square, the turf rolls back and the Berlin Wall complete with guards and dogs rises out of the ground, and Lenin busts out of his tomb, yelling "Must crush capitalism!"