History Main / GloriousMotherRussia

** The ''creation'' of the USSR in the first place may be an even bigger aversion, if you think about it. Centuries of czarist rule and tradition were replaced with ideas which came from a German Jew who lived in England and was a pretty committed Russophobe at that.

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

* Russia, an anthropomorphism of the country, from ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' is a PsychopathicManchild who loves vodka and often wishes to leave his cold, unforgiving homeland. He also claims that one day, [[CatchPhrase "everyone will be one with Russia."]] (No fuzzy hats or Cossack dances, though, oddly.)

-->-- "Wide is My Motherland," ''[[Film/Circus1936 Circus]]''

* [[ImpliedTrope Implied]] with Ivan Vodkov in ''VideoGame/ScrapMetalHeroes''. We're never told if he's Russian, but his robots use stereotypical Communist names like "People's Fury" and "Iron Hammer". And [[VodkaDrunkenski his]] [[ElSpanishO name?]] Yeah.

->''"In America, you can always find a party. In Russia, the Party can always find you!"''
-->-- '''Yakov Smirnoff'''

Then there are tall, furry hats, ThatRussianSquatDance, 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://kremlin-architectural-ensemble.kreml.ru/si/kremlinemsemblethematicwebsitepic2.jpg This]]'' is the Kremlin. [[note]]Moscow Kremlin, to be precise. There are actually [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kremlin_(fortification) many others]]. 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.)

** The Emperor himself was also partly based upon Vladimir Lenin, both were militant enforcers of atheism & materialism during their lives and later preserved & venerated in some sort of shrine, although the latter demands a fraction of rubles instead of psykers for his preservation. Also, the Emperor looks like Peter the Great, especially in [[https://1d4chan.org/wiki/File:646545.jpg one of his depiction outside his power armor]].

* Tet42 ''VideoGame/{{Tetris}}'' [[http://members.chello.at/theodor.lauppert/games/tetriscl.htm clone]] (1989) showcased the game's roots by displaying Kremlin-style architecture and playing Russian theme music at the start of each game (it's called the Russian folk song played is called "Korobeiniki", if you're curious, but everyone in the West [and possibly the East] knows it as "The Tetris Song"), and using TheBackwardsR. Followed (1991) by USSR-themed [[http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/1057/Super+Tetris.html Super Tetris]]. Later (1992) [[http://www.abandonia.com/en/games/914/Tetris+Classic.html Tetris Classic]] from the author of original ''Tetris'' has pictures related to Russian tale or historic character or St. Basil's Cathedral for background, and music to match.

* 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]].

* Downplayed with the ''Wiki/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 six-part finale of ''Machinima/ArbyNTheChief'' features Agent Smirnoff, a fiercely loyal Russian KGB agent determined to stop a drug smuggler that ends up as the roommate of the eponymous characters' owner.

** The Space Marines in general bears some resemblance to the modern Spetsnaz, by their [[TrainingFromHell ridiculously brutal training]], [[RageHelm full-face helmets]] & [[http://warhammer40k.wikia.com/wiki/Bolter stubby-looking]] [[http://http://wikipedia.org/wiki/SR-3_Vikhr guns]], official policy of secrecy, and the fact that some of them served under the universe's resident StateSec not unlike their real-life counterpart.

* Weebl's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyiEaSzpdMk Russian Dancing Men]]

** He's shown wearing a [[NiceHat papaha]], but since he was younger is at least period appropriated.

** 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/[[UsefulNotes/RussiansWithRifles Imperial Russian]] UsefulNotes/{{Cossacks}} with a taste for BlingOfWar.

** It's a FunnyAneurysmMoment when you play it nowadays, considering it was made only months before the collapse of the Soviet Union, and Gorbachev talking about how the "Soviet spirit will overcome all obstacles". It's almost sad, really. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVwUUNdc1HU Look how earnest he is when he talks about it]]! It makes you understand why Soviet nostalgia is more common than you think.
** This might be a subtle TakeThat, given the state of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian-Japanese_relations Russian and Japanese diplomatic relations]].
*** No one in both nations really pay attention to that crap politicos argue about, so it's just good, old CreatorProvincialism.

* A few of the songs by Music/{{Sabaton}} are about Russia's military conquests over the Nazis, including "Panzerkampf" and "Attero Dominatus."

* 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. Bears and any big animals (including wolves) are very rarely seen in a wild by modern Russian urbanite. 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. Historically, Russians have used the double-headed eagle as their national symbol.

* 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 UsefulNotes/RussianNamingConvention on how to do it right.

* 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 than 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).

* 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. However, in other appearances he shows HiddenDepths (his TrademarkFavoriteDrink isn't vodka, nor does he get why everyone thinks he likes Tetris (Is just ''stacking''!)

** Estovakia is based on the former Yugoslavian states rather than Russia/the USSR.