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* [[Commissar Cap]]
* [[Day of the Jackboot]]
* [[Deep -Cover Agent]]
* [[Fake Russian]]
* [[General Ripper]]
* [[Glorious Mother Russia]]
* [[The Great Politics Mess -Up]] ...after the Cold War.
* [[Hammer and Sickle Removed For Your Protection]]
* [[Hot Line]]
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* 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.
* [[Ian Fleming]]'s ''[[James Bond (Literature)|James Bond]]'' novels are especially guilty of this. SMERSH (which [http[wikipedia://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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]].
** ''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.
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* ''[[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.
* ''[[MacGyver]]'' (where the Soviets get called Soviets)
* In ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|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).
** When they show non-metaphorical Soviets, however, this is averted: they aren't the villains, and one of them is a humanized, sympathetic character that helps out the heroes.
** In the animated serial ''Dreamland'', set in 1958, the Doctor chastises the American colonel Stark for wanting to wipe out all Russians.
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