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* Pretty much every other computer game and novel with a modern warfare setting ([[Tom Clancy]] produces examples of ''both'').
** Except that ''The Hunt for Red October'', ''Red Storm Rising'' and ''Cardinal of the Kremlin'' were set ''during'' the [[Cold War]] and therefore are not a case of this trope. All subsequent depictions in his works of [[The New Russia]] after [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]] are generally accurate, if not overly idealistic.
** ''The Sum Of All Fears'' was set during the cold war as a novel. When it was released as a movie in 2002 with Ben Affleck and Morgan Freeman, the story was updated using both
* Spoofed by ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', where Russia reveals that [[The Great Politics Mess-Up]] was a sham, and dramatically returns to its Soviet ways - including the Berlin Wall popping back up from the ground and the corpse of Lenin arising and staggering around his tomb, moaning "Must crush capitalism..."
{{quote|"The Soviet Union?" I thought you guys broke up.
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* In ''[[Ender's Game]]'', Russia is mentioned frequently as being a threat, and at the end of the book they even launch a brief civil war within the IF. In later books they continue to make trouble. Although the original was written before the collapse of the Soviet Union, communism and the USSR are never mentioned, and the government is kept very vague.
** Its referred to as The Second Warsaw Pact composed of every state that was in the Soviet Union and the previous Warsaw Pact plus a couple more states (implied that it has some influence all the way up to the Netherlands).
* ''[[World in Conflict]]'' is set in an [[Alternate History]], where USSR launches an attack on US and Western Europe in 1989 (in [[Real Life]], the final, milder part of the [[Cold War]]), with China later joining the party (no, not the Party).<ref>An ''extreme'' stretch, given that Russia and China are not on friendly terms, and in fact tend to despise each other</ref>
* In ''[[Call of Duty]]: Modern Warfare 2'', a [[False-Flag Operation]] by an international terrorist prompts Russia (which has already been taken over by hardline Ultranationalists) to launch a retaliatory assault on the US.
* The Russian-Georgian War fought in <s>[[Ghost Recon]]</s>[http://campaignspot.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZmM3MzAyODkyMWFhOTQ1YjljNzM5ZTRhMTRmNDNlZjI= 2008].
* ''The Time Traders'' by [[Andre Norton]]
* The first ''[[Deus Ex]]'' computer game, set in the near future, subtly implies that the Soviet Union might have risen again when the player encounters some emails with the domain "sovnet."
* The [[Command & Conquer|Red Alert]] series never really let the Bear [[Time Travel|calm down much]], but [[Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3|the latest game]] takes place in a contemporary-''looking'' world, so this trope is right at home.
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