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There are films and television shows, made in the late '50s and early '60s, that are very reluctant to name the Soviets as the enemy opposing our heroic American protagonists. The setting is clearly the then-contemporary Cold War; the bad guys of the plot clearly are agents of a certain Marxist-Leninist, monolithic, totalitarian world power, but words like Kremlin, Russians, and KGB never seem to come up. In these cases, the good guys always call them The Other Side, The Enemy, or A Foreign Power. And one can almost hear those capital letters being pronounced, when that other side is referred to. This trope has been used in films made in other eras as well, showing other world conflicts with other opponents, but it seems more frequently used, and almost comically noticeable when the setting and the years in which the film was made is the Cold War. We imagine this comes about because the film makers hope to sell their work in those very nations they would rather not name. Perhaps it was hoped that not giving a specific enemy would keep the film from dating itself, which if true is remarkable foresight of an otherwise completely unanticipated series of events. But in any case, be prepared for a lot of Mooks and The Dragon who seem topical and familiar (and speak with Slavic accents). The use of this trope diminished in the 70s and 80s, partly because during detente it became customary to occasionally show Americans and Soviets working together against a common enemy, often Neo-Nazis, Middle Eastern Terrorists, Greedy Industrialists, Organized Crime or Alien Invaders. It finally entered Forgotten Trope territory with the dissolution of the Soviet Union, with subsequent works openly invoking the hammer and sickle in Cold War period pieces. It still has some traction in certain former Soviet nations, such as Hungary and the Baltic states, which ban the display of "totalitarian symbols" of which the hammer & sickle is considered one (other symbols falling under the ban are usually the swastika and the arrow cross). See also Anonymous Ringer and Renegade Russian. Compare No Swastikas. Western Terrorists and Terrorists Without a Cause are a modern version, where one always deals with "a rogue faction", not any real organization. |
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Comically invoked in Megas XLR, where one Monster of the Week is a Humongous Mecha called R.E.C.R.—implied to be a forgotten Cold War experiment by the U.S. military—that rambles about protecting people from "the enemy". It was most likely made to combat the U.S.S.R., but when asked who "the enemy" is, it admits that data was lost, so it goes with the default answer: "everyone". | |
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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea's first season featured spy thriller episodes. In several, obviously Russian officials and agents plot against the USS Seaview but they are never identified directly, despite tea samovars and faux Red Army uniforms seen in abundance. | |
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A non-Russian example: the vaguely-Asian invading power in The Tomorrow Series is never identified, and indeed no nation could possibly fit all the criteria for the invaders (the closest match is Indonesia, which only lacks an aircraft carrier but could possibly build one). This was an intentional decision by the author, who wanted to focus on the story and characters and didn't want nationalists to use the books for their own ends. | |
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The Hitchcock spy thriller North by Northwest, which is ostensibly about KGB agents trying to kill a non-existent CIA agent, never mentions the "enemy" side by name, and a new fictional government agency name is substituted for the CIA. | |
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In the Buck Rogers episode "Testimony of a Traitor", is was revealed that just before Buck left Earth aboard Ranger 3, there was a conspiracy of high-ranking American officers to launch a first strike against The Other Side. | |
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Top Gun: Maverick, set over thirty years after the first movie, has an unnamed country as its antagonist. Their experimental nuclear program, and the fact that they have F-14 Tomcats, suggests they're meant to be Iran. However, there are also some aspects suggesting they're supposed to be Russia, like the presence of Sukhoi Su-57s, which only Russia operates, not to mention their snowy climate. And the insignia their military uses doesn't match any real country. | |
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In Blake and Mortimer's adventure The Secret Of The Swordfish, the enemy is a conveniently fictional Asian country whose national symbol is a red star (this is averted in the original french version, where the country is clearly identified as... Tibet). In SOS Meteors, it's an unnamed superpower in Eastern Europe whose agents have Slavic-sounding names. | |
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Averted in 13 Frightened Girls. The villains are explicitly working for Red China and the Soviet Union. | |
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24: The first season featured a Serbian mafia/military family called the Drazens as the villains. Although they spoke Serbian on screen, they were often referred to being from the "Balkans", with no country from the region named. Jack did at one point refer to Victor Drazen as having been Slobodan Milosevic's "shadow" though. The second season had diplomats and baddies from an unknown Arabic nation, which was only referred to as "a Middle Eastern state" by the characters. And the fifth season featured villains who, despite clearly being Russian separatists and having the assassination of the Russian President among their objectives, were referred to being from "Central Asia". |
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The Twilight Zone (1959): An episode, "Two", seems to follow this trope. Elizabeth Montgomery is very Soviet in uniform and appearance and her one line is "Precrassny", Russian for "pretty". Of course, it's clearly an After the End Adam and Eve Plot with an explicitly ambiguous Translation Convention, so perhaps not? Possible subversions: Two other episodes, "Probe 7, Over And Out" and "Third from the Sun", use this trope, but it turns out at the end that the characters are NOT from or on Earth, respectively. In this case, it's to setup a world we THINK we know, and then hit us with the Twist Ending. |
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In the 60s, the James Bond franchise replaced SMERSH from the novels (a real-life Soviet counterespionage agency) with SPECTRE (a made-up international criminal/terrorist organization) because the producers considered Dirty Communists a Dead Horse Trope. | |
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009-1 is an anime produced in modern times but based on a manga from the Cold War era. It constantly refers to the East Bloc and West Bloc without ever naming the Russians (or any country). The manga being unavailable in the US, it's hard to tell if this was a carryover from it or if the series was deliberately being Retraux. | |
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The Scrooge McDuck universe has the antagonistic nation of Brutopia: filled with Russian bears and anti-capitalism. | |
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Played with in the Big Finish Doctor Who drama Thin Ice. The Doctor makes no secret to the listener that he and Ace have traveled to Moscow in 1968 just prior to the parade for the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution,note the parade itself figures in a set-piece chase in one of the episodes but oddly enough, nobody anywhere in the drama utters the name Soviet Union, or mentions the Communist Party of same, always using circumlocutions. of course, since this script was originally developed at a time when the USSR was still around, the trope may have been deliberately used to give an '80s feel. | |
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One episode of The Time Tunnel had the time-traveling heroes show up in a city with a hostile vibe and a lot of Cyrillic signage. The decided they were in "Southeast Europe." The plot revolved around a scientist from a carefully unnamed foreign power, who was developing a rival Time Tunnel. | |
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The film Fantastic Voyage is an excellent example of this. Contemporary dress, cars, and attitudes set this firmly in the mid-60s, but the opposing nation that has resources enough to have the same miniaturization technology and implied military might to make that possession dangerous as the US is never called anything but "The Other Side." | |
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Pat Mills intended Invasion to take place in a Britain occupied by the USSR; however, he was forbidden from doing this due to fears of antagonising the Soviet Embassy, and so the USSR became the Volgan Republic, a breakaway Soviet state that later managed to conquer the rest of the USSR and whose symbol is a stylised skull. | |
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The Villains in Top Gun are from an unnamed communist state, which is also referred to only as "The Other Side." | |
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Some of the episodes of the Finnish version of The Men from the Ministry recorded in the '80s remove the references to the USSR and the Russians, replacing them with simply "the other one" or "country of unfriendly relations", or not explicitly naming their nationalities. | |
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Get Smart naturally had KAOS agents depicted as Commie Nazis. They evoked this trope and expanded on it when a Chinese KAOS agent gunned down her Slavic compatriots, scornfully telling them that their brand of KAOS was watered-down and decadent, adding "only in our country is there true KAOS!" This reflects the real rivalry between the People's Republic of China and Soviet Union at the time, which had split following the reforms by Khrushchev. | |
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The Rocky and Bullwinkle Show had the villains Fearless Leader, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale come from the fictional country of Pottsylvania, a parody of a Cold War-era eastern European country (possibly based on East Germany... Fearless Leader's accent was a pastiche of a German one, though Boris and Natasha themselves sounded more Slavic). | |
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The 2022 Swedish war movie Black Crab is set Next Sunday A.D. during a civil war in an unnamed Nordic country. The 'enemy' is unnamed, with no insignia on their uniforms or helicopters, and there's no discussion of the war aims or motivations of either side. | |
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Why We Fight: The films overall, and The Battle of Russia egregiously so, don't mention Communism at all and only ever portray the Soviet Union as a strong and loyal ally, avoiding mention of the Ribbentrop-Molotov pact or the subsequent Soviet invasion and occupation of eastern Poland in concert with the Nazis in September 1939. Enforced, as telling the exact truth of the USSR's involvement in World War Two prior to June 1941 was a sure way to piss off a very necessary ally, as well as put the inconvenient question of why the US was allied with them to start into the troops. | |
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The TV series Lost in Space had Dr. Smith, who was said to be an agent for The Other Side. During the first season, when he was an actual threat to the Robinsons, his cold, disaffected, menacing nature fit the cold war stereotype of a Soviet agent quite nicely. | |
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Doctor Who: The classic serial "Warriors of the Deep" was in a nightmare future where two "massive power blocs" were locked in... well, it was the cold war. But we only ever heard whoever the others were referred to as 'the opposing bloc'. Which was odd, considering two of the characters were undercover agents from their side and went on to refer to themselves as such after the reveal. The idea seems to have been that we don't know they're the same blocs, or even which one the main characters belong to ("Vorshak" isn't a real name at all, but sounds kind of East European), but it doesn't come across like that at all. (And the novelisation just flat out calls the enemy the East Bloc, and gives it a Utopia Justifies the Means philosophy, but still doesn't actually use the words "communist" or "Russia".) Also happened in the tenth anniversary serial "The Three Doctors", where the Doctor is told that a set of mysterious photographs were shown to the Americans "and the other ones." |
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There are at least one Nancy Drew book and one The Hardy Boys book written in the 1970s that feature sabotage against the US space program where the culprits turn out to be people "in the employ of a foreign power". Which one, exactly, is never said. | |
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The "Ruiner" table in Ruiner Pinball features a Cold War theme, but while the player is identified as the United States, the enemy is never explicitly identified. | |
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The identity of "the enemy" who fought the United States in the backstory of Z for Zachariah is never mentioned. Given the time frame of the book, it's probably the Soviet Union, but a modern reader might assume it's China or modern-day Russia. | |
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Mission to Moscow, a 1943 American pro-Soviet film about Joseph Davies' tenure as American ambassador to the Soviet Union, hardly mentions Communism at all, instead portraying Joseph Stalin as a noble leader and emphasizing the similarities between the Soviet Union and the United States. | |
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The Place Promised in Our Early Days is set in an Alternate History where Japan was divided after World War II, with Hokkaido going to "the Union". This context, combined with how nationals of the Union speak Russian, implies strongly that it's the USSR. | |
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The Avengers (1960s) went this route, often referring to "the other side" instead of "Russians". | |
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The Prisoner (1967) had a few episodes where Number Six or his former superiors at MI6 refer to 'The Other Side'. Of course, with how weird and vague The Prisoner could be, perhaps the other side ISN'T the Russians. And of course Number Six doesn't know which side actually runs the Village. | |
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An early issue of Fantastic Four features a scam involving a Humongous Mecha that's being run by the "Red Star" mining company - which is only ever stated to be in turn in the employ of a "foreign power". | |
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The "enemies of Freedom" in Project Moonbase, though we don't hear a single Slavic accent. | |
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Mission: Impossible occasionally referred to the Iron Curtain but the USSR was never specified as being the enemy: instead, the Bad Guys were merely described as "an unfriendly country" or with a fictitious Balkan-sounding name (regardless of what country was involved, though, they all seemed to use the same design of grey van with a distinctive rear-door arrangement...) In the first few seasons, the Voice on Tape often had to go to ridiculous lengths to avoid naming the country that Phelps (or Briggs) was being sent to (you'd think he'd kind of need to know that, wouldn't he?). In season 4, they started using various fictional country names, usually People's Republics of one sort or another. In season 5 they used a few real settings, including Japan, the only East Asian country ever visited in the original series. The last two seasons were mostly in the US. Episodes implicitly set in Germany referred to the "East Zone" and "West Zone." Averted in the 1980s revival, which even had a shot of the hammer and sickle in its opening sequence. |
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Invasion U.S.A. (1952): Not the Chuck Norris vehicle, but an earlier film that featured in Mystery Science Theater 3000, was a particularly odd case. The film portrays an invasion of the United States by obviously Soviet armed forces, aided by communist subversion, and comes across as a direct plea for increased defense spending to combat the Red Scare. Nonetheless, the invading force is always "the enemy" and the Soviet Union is never identified by name. | |
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