History Main / GloriousMotherRussia

* [[https://wwww.youtube.com/watch?v=l_c4H5lKzf0 The Soviet March]] from ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMXx7I1Ewi4 The Soviet March]] from ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3''.

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* Surprisingly, a complete aversion comes in one of ''VideoGame/RagnarokOnline'''s island maps (which debuted from none other than the Russian [=rRO=] servers), being the peaceful and early czarist Moscovia, complete with a dungeon and monsters based on Russian folklore.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMXx7I1Ewi4 The Soviet March]] from ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3''.

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* In Williams' ''Pinball/{{Taxi}}'' pinball game, "Gorby" (UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev) talks like this.
-->'''Gorby:''' Hey, comrade taxi!
* [[GeneralRipper General Yagov]] from ''[[Pinball/F14Tomcat F-14 Tomcat]]''. Among other things, draining the ball prompts a Russian jingle to play, ending with him shouting "HEY!"

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* Downplayed with the ''Website/SCPFoundation'': while some SCPs were the product of the Soviet side of the arms race, the main instance of the trope is Captain Dimitri Arkadeyevich Strelnikov, via [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/reddawn his incomplete mastery of English, preference for Russian-made guns and hatred for Chechens]].

* The hosts of ''Podcast/FatFrenchAndFabulous'' give the harsh, deprived Ruskie treatment to Ayn Rand of all people.
--> "Hello Grandchildren, fight for sustenance."
** The soviet doctor who removed his own appendix in the Antartic earns a similar lampooning.
--> "I practice this surgery on live bear. No anesthesia.They fight."

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* Everything is cold and miserable. Mostly true, except in summer when everyone is ''hot'' and miserable -- it's called "continental climate". OTOH, cities near the Sea of Japan do not have a worse climate as New York (and the ones on the Black Sea are downright ''californian''), and some central cities look quite better in the last decade (less cold and miserable and more brain-melting hot and miserable).

* Bears. It's true that the bear is a common and well known animal in Russia, inasmuch as Russia having 60% of all Brown Bears in the world (and most of the remaining bears living in Northern Canada and Alaska). But they don't walk the streets of Russian cities[[note]] too often, at least, as there are regular occasions of a bear wandering into smaller Siberian podunk towns in search for food, while from time to time villages and smaller towns may be even besieged by a whole pack of bears or wolves (examples include Vankarem, Yaylyu and Verkhoyansk)[[/note]], and you can see a trained bear only in a circus. Using the bear as a symbol for Russia itself is mainly a foreign thing, although it is used in coats of arms for a number of cities, mostly in Siberia again, as well as the logo for UsefulNotes/VladimirPutin's ruling United Russia party. Bears and any big animals (including wolves) are very rarely seen in a wild by modern Russian urbanite.

* Communism. The old UsefulNotes/ColdWar stereotype of "Russian equals Soviet equals Communist" is not true. Communism is an ideology that had fallen out of fashion in most of the world, including Russia. Soviet is a system of government by workers' councils, a form of parliamentarism, and it outlived Communism in Russia for two years. The modern Russian Communist party is in fact actually rather reactionary in a number of ways, particularly on social policies.

--> "I practice this surgery on live bear. No anesthesia. They fight."

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle,'' Boris and Natasha and their accents were from "Pottsylvania," not Russia.

* Atheism. UsefulNotes/ColdWar-era Russians are often stereotyped as "godless Communists." The reality is more complex. The Soviet Union did persecute clergymen and dismantle religious institutions. However, the laity was mostly tolerated as the Communists realized that persecuting a group that made up a majority of Russia's population was a bad idea and many lay Christians actually supported the persecution of priests, who were viewed as a [[CorruptChurch greedy and corrupt elite]]. Also, UsefulNotes/JosefStalin himself would revive the Russian Orthodox Church to drum up support for Russia's entry into UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and never really bothered suppressing the Georgian Orthodox Church at all (he was afraid of getting an earful from [[MyBelovedSmother his mother]]). While some of the anti-religious were revived by Krushchev, they were again considerably relaxed from the Brezhnev era onward. Nowadays, the tables have flipped, and Russia has become increasingly religious, with the Russian Orthodox Church now an important player in state politics. However, Orthodox Christianity is seen more as a cultural identity by many Russians than an actual religion: only a half of Russians who call themselves Orthodox actually attend church services, and 80% of them do not even participate in the Eucharist.

* Atheism. UsefulNotes/ColdWar-era Russians are often stereotyped as "godless Communists." The reality is more complex. The Soviet Union did persecute clergymen and dismantle religious institutions. However, the laity was mostly tolerated as the Communists realized that persecuting a group that made up a majority of Russia's population was a bad idea and many lay Christians actually supported the persecution of priests, who were viewed as a [[CorruptChurch greedy and corrupt elite]]. Also, UsefulNotes/JosefStalin himself would revive the Russian Orthodox Church to drum up support for Russia's entry into UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, and never really bothered suppressing the Georgian Orthodox Church at all (he was afraid of getting an earful from [[MyBelovedSmother his mother]]). While some of the anti-religious were revived by Krushchev, they were again considerably relaxed from the Brezhnev era onward.

* Russian names. In media, they are formed by slapping suffixes like "ov", "ski", "vich" on a bunch of common names like "Boris" or "Vladimir", not caring what those suffixes mean and in what order do various Russian names follow. The end result is something like "Boris Ivanski Vladimirvich", which doesn't sound right at all to a Russian[[note]] "-vich" means literally "son of" and it's always the suffix for middle name / patronymic of a true Russian[[/note]]. See RussianNamingConvention on how to do it right.

* Russian language. In media, it is mostly portrayed with a [[FakeRussian ridiculous accent]], [[TheBackwardsR flipped Latin letters]] and a small number of commonly known words like "vodka", "da", "nyet", "pravda", "babushka", "suka", "tovarisch", "rodina", "borsch", "soyuz", "mir", "avtomat", "pulemyot", "slava", "kommunizm", "revolutsyia", "kapitalist", "mudak", "bratva", "gulag", "intelligentsiya", "kosmonaut", "balalaika", "matryoshka", "kazakh", "pogrom", "ruble", "Kopeck", "samovar", "kremlin". "partiya", "cheka", "bolshevik", "Spetsnaz", "commissar", "kapitan" "glasnost", "perestroika", "KGB", "Politburo", "tsar", "Afganistan", "Rossiya", "Chechnya", "dacha", "Amerika", "sharashka", "laika", "Kalashnikov"[[note]]водка, да, нет, правда, бабушка, сука, товарищ, родина, борщ, союз, мир, автомат, пулемёт, слава, коммунизм, револуция, капиталист, мудак, братва, гулаг, интеллигенция, космонавт, балалайка, матрёшка, казах, погром, рубль, копейка, самовар, Кремль, партия, чека, большевик, Спецназ, коммиссар, капитан, гласностъ, перестройка, КГБ, Политбюро, царь, Афганистан, Россия, Чечня, дача, Америка, шарашка, лайка, Калашников, армия. English: vodka, yes, no, truth, grandmother, bitch, comrade, motherland, borsch, union, peace, assault rifle, machine gun, glory, Communism, revolution, capitalist, bastard, brotherhood (gang), gulag, intellectuals, astronaut, balalaika, nesting doll, Kazakh, pogrom, rouble, kopeck, samovar, kremlin, party, cheka, bolshevik, Spetsnaz (SWAT), commissar, captain, glasnost, perestroika, KGB, politburo, tsar, Afghanistan, Russia, Chechnya, summer house, America, sharashka, laika (hunting dog), Kalashnikov[[/note]]. See RussianLanguage for an in-depth look at it and GratuitousRussian for more common ways to do it wrong.

* The hosts of''Podcast/FatFrenchAndFabulous'' give the harsh, deprived Ruskie treatment to Ayn Rand of all people.

* In ''VideoGame/WargameEuropeanEscalation'' the USSR is part of the WarsawPact, its armed with the heaviest tanks and helicopters over the rest of the Warsaw factions who have downgraded versions of the USSR's arsenal.

Also see HistoryOfTheUSSR for the UsefulNotes on this.

* The Heavy in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' started as a heavily armed, intimidating giant with a [[ICallItVera a beloved gun named Sasha]] and a Slavic accent (and slightly broken English), and the Heavy update includes a lot of Achievement names that quite blatantly parody Soviet Russia in general. Finnish translation ups the ante with ''Winter War'' references.

* Common in early 1960s MarvelComics stories,as a source of [[DirtyCommies Soviet Villains.]]

Then there are tall, furry hats, the CossackDance, [[strike:borscht]] borscht, vodka (''[[VodkaDrunkenski lots]]'' [[VodkaDrunkenski of vodka]]), and everyone constantly being [[CrapsackWorld miserable]] and [[DeathWorld cold]], which is why they drink the vodka. These tropes seem permanently associated with the area. In recent years, [[SensualSlavs the Russian bride]] has started to turn up a lot. Chernobyl has also become very important in the outside world's views of the country, even though it is in Ukraine. [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/RedSquare_SaintBasile_%28pixinn.net%29.jpg Saint Basil's Cathedral]] will probably show up, too. No, it's [[IAmNotShazam not]] the [[SymbologyResearchFailure Kremlin]]. [[http://russiantraveling.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/001.jpg This is the Kremlin.]] [[note]]That church next door is the Cathedral of the Annunciation.[[/note]] (Image searches on "Kremlin" invariably turn up far more of the former building than the latter.)

* ''VideoGame/Half-Life2'' has sections suggesting vaguely Soviet past of the City 17. The color scheme of non-combine locomotives fit, there are numerous appearances of Cyrillic script and so on. It is not pressed very much, but it's present and rather clear.

** The Valhallan Ice Warriors of the Imperial Guards are basically an exaggerated expy of WWII era [[RedsWithRockets Red Army]] with their WeHaveReserves mentality turned UpToEleven, while the Vostroyan Firstborn are inspired by Ukrainian/[[RussiansWithRifles Imperial Russian]] UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}} with a taste for BlingOfWar.

* Everything is cold and miserable. Mostly true, except in summer when everyone is ''hot'' and miserable � it's called "continental climate". OTOH, cities near the Sea of Japan do not have a worse climate as New York (and the ones on the Black Sea are downright ''californian''), and some central cities look quite better in the last decade (less cold and miserable and more brain-melting hot and miserable).

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* Everything is cold and miserable. Mostly true, except in summer when everyone is ''hot'' and miserable — it's called "continental climate". OTOH, cities near the Sea of Japan do not have a worse climate as New York (and the ones on the Black Sea are downright ''californian''), and some central cities look quite better in the last decade (less cold and miserable and more brain-melting hot and miserable).

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See TheGreatPoliticsMessUp, DirtyCommunists,ChummyCommies and FakeRussian. UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} explains Russia and its predecessors in some depth.

See TheGreatPoliticsMessUp, DirtyCommunists,ChummyCommies and FakeRussian. [[UsefulNotes/{{Russia}} UsefulNotes/[=Russia=]]] explains Russia and its predecessors in some depth.

Then there are tall, furry hats, the CossackDance, [[strike:borscht]] borsch, vodka (''[[VodkaDrunkenski lots]]'' [[VodkaDrunkenski of vodka]]), and everyone constantly being [[CrapsackWorld miserable]] and [[DeathWorld cold]], which is why they drink the vodka. These tropes seem permanently associated with the area. In recent years, [[SensualSlavs the Russian bride]] has started to turn up a lot. Chernobyl has also become very important in the outside world's views of the country, even though it is in Ukraine. [[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/49/RedSquare_SaintBasile_%28pixinn.net%29.jpg Saint Basil's Cathedral]] will probably show up, too. No, it's [[IAmNotShazam not]] the [[SymbologyResearchFailure Kremlin]]. [[http://russiantraveling.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/001.jpg This is the Kremlin.]] [[note]]That church next door is the Cathedral of the Annunciation.[[/note]] (Image searches on "Kremlin" invariably turn up far more of the former building than the latter.)