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* Played with in ''VideoGame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg''. The popular VideoGame/HeartsOfIron mod takes place in an alternate 1936 where World War I didn't see American involvement and so Germany won the war. Because the Soviet Union failed by the game's present day led to syndicalism (a more democratic and less totalitarian line of political thought) becoming the dominant revolutionary left-wing movement instead of communism. By the game's present, the Internationale consists of Britain, France, Italy, Chile, Mexico, and Bengal, and they can be potentially joined by others including Spain, Russia, and the United States (depending on how events unfold). It is possible for Totalists (very much DirtyCommunists) to seize power in any of these nations but they can be easily voted out and replaced by more moderate democratic socialist or even anarchist movements. The game tends to take a GreyAndGrayMorality approach to presenting the conflict between the syndicalist nations and the imperialist powers (though places like [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Iron Guard Romania and Pelley's Christian Commonwealth]] get no such favourable treatment -- it's clear they are the bad guys if anything).

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* Played with in ''VideoGame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg''. The popular VideoGame/HeartsOfIron mod takes place in an alternate 1936 where World War I didn't see American involvement and so Germany won the war. Because the Soviet Union failed by the game's present day led to syndicalism (a more democratic and less totalitarian line of political thought) becoming the dominant revolutionary left-wing movement instead of communism. By the game's present, the Internationale consists of Britain, France, Italy, Chile, Mexico, and Bengal, and they can be potentially joined by others including Spain, Russia, and the United States (depending on how events unfold). It is possible for Totalists (very much DirtyCommunists) to seize power in any of these nations but they can be easily voted out and replaced by more moderate democratic socialist or even anarchist movements. Even then, some Totalist leaders like Karl Radek adhere more closely to traditional Leninism or Trotskyism than Stalinism or Maoism. The game tends to take a GreyAndGrayMorality approach to presenting the conflict between the syndicalist nations and the imperialist powers (though places like [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Iron Guard Romania and Pelley's Christian Commonwealth]] get no such favourable treatment -- it's clear they are the bad guys if anything).
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* Surprisingly, in the vehemently anti-Soviet UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, there was at least a pro-Russian film released in 1940, "''[[https://imdb.com/title/tt0032935/ The Postmaster]]''", an adaptation of a short Creator/AlexanderPushkin story. It is [[{{Realpolitik}} absolutely no coincidence]] that it was made during the brief period when the [[https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molotov–Ribbentrop_Pact Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact]] was in use, and once it was broken, the film was quickly censored.

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* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': In ''ComicBook/BatmanZeroYear'', one of Bruce's mentors, GadgeteerGenius Sergei, worked at the Kremlin during the Cold War and might be the most pleasant and amiable mentor to appear in any of the book's flashbacks, despite being a SinkOrSwimMentor at times.



* The Rocket Red Brigade from the Franchise/DCUniverse.
* Gu Lao, the Socialist Red Guardsman from DC's Great Ten.
* One late-80s storyline in ComicBook/TheFlash involved Wally West working with Fidel Castro to stop alien invaders. Castro then threw him a birthday party.
* ''ComicBook/BatmanZeroYear:'' One of Bruce's mentors, GadgeteerGenius Sergei, worked at the Kremlin during the Cold War and might be the most pleasant and amiable mentor to appear in any of the book's flashbacks, despite being a SinkOrSwimMentor at times.
* The insectoid alien Gates is a member of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes and a communist. This was played up a lot more in his early appearances, where he would constantly complain about the United Planets' capitalist society; eventually, the writers seemed to decide this aspect of his personality was a little awkward and quietly phased it out.
* {{ComicBook/Colossus}} is a GentleGiant and was usually depicted as something of a patriot for the Soviet Union, though the sliding timeline means this has largely since moved on to just pride for simply Russian heritage.
* Collective Man, a Creator/MarvelComics superhero who is China's equivalent of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
** Also, the Chinese Radioactive Man once he joins the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}. He is genuinely more altruistic than his teammates, who are all {{Boxed Crook}}s.
* Marvel's Soviet Super-Soldiers ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a group of Red Army officers with superhuman powers]]) frequently teamed up with the Avengers and other mostly-American heroes against villains that threatened both the US and USSR. Eventually they turned against their government and were replaced by the Supreme Soviets, though after the USSR fell the two teams merged to form the Winter Guard.
* ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' has Vas, a former superhero for the Soviet Union who is an ardent communist and deplores what the Russia of the early 2000s has become. He's also the kindest, most genuine, and most affable character in the comic, with the only possible exception being [[NaiveNewcomer main character]] [[TheCutie Wee Hughie]] himself. Even [[VillainProtagonist Billy]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Butcher]], whose plan is to [[spoiler:kill ''every'' person with the super compound in their blood, even his closest friends]], likes Vas.
* ''{{ComicBook/Persepolis}}'': Marjane's Uncle Anoosh is a kind, friendly communist whom she adores. A number of other communists appear too, some noble, others hypocrites, but portrayed positively overall while friendly with Marjane. Because of her uncle, Marjane grows up with picturing {{God}} as Karl Marx, having her own kind of Islamic/Marxist hybrid philosophy. After losing faith in God, she still has a radical leftist point of view and hangs around with communists or anarchists.

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* The Rocket Red Brigade from the Franchise/DCUniverse.
* Gu Lao, the Socialist Red Guardsman from DC's Great Ten.
* One late-80s storyline in ComicBook/TheFlash involved Wally West working with Fidel Castro to stop alien invaders. Castro then threw him a birthday party.
* ''ComicBook/BatmanZeroYear:'' One of Bruce's mentors, GadgeteerGenius Sergei, worked at the Kremlin during the Cold War and might be the most pleasant and amiable mentor to appear in any of the book's flashbacks, despite being a SinkOrSwimMentor at times.
* The insectoid alien Gates is a member of the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes and a communist. This was played up a lot more in his early appearances, where he would constantly complain about the United Planets' capitalist society; eventually, the writers seemed to decide this aspect of his personality was a little awkward and quietly phased it out.
* {{ComicBook/Colossus}} is a GentleGiant and was usually depicted as something of a patriot for the Soviet Union, though the sliding timeline means this has largely since moved on to just pride for simply Russian heritage.
* Collective Man, a Creator/MarvelComics superhero who is China's equivalent of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
** Also, the Chinese Radioactive Man once he joins the ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}. He is genuinely more altruistic than his teammates, who are all {{Boxed Crook}}s.
* Marvel's Soviet Super-Soldiers ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a group of Red Army officers with superhuman powers]]) frequently teamed up with the Avengers and other mostly-American heroes against villains that threatened both the US and USSR. Eventually they turned against their government and were replaced by the Supreme Soviets, though after the USSR fell the two teams merged to form the Winter Guard.
* ''ComicBook/TheBoys'' has
''ComicBook/TheBoys'': Vas, a former superhero for the Soviet Union who is an ardent communist and deplores what the Russia of the early 2000s has become. He's also the kindest, most genuine, and most affable character in the comic, with the only possible exception being [[NaiveNewcomer main character]] [[TheCutie Wee Hughie]] himself. Even [[VillainProtagonist Billy]] [[HeWhoFightsMonsters Butcher]], whose plan is to [[spoiler:kill ''every'' person with the super compound in their blood, even his closest friends]], likes Vas.
* ''{{ComicBook/Persepolis}}'': ''Franchise/TheDCU'': The Rocket Red Brigade.
* ''ComicBook/TheFlash'': One late 80's storyline involved Wally West working with Fidel Castro to stop alien invaders. Castro then threw him a birthday party.
* ''ComicBook/GreatTen'': Gu Lao, the Socialist Red Guardsman.
* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': The insectoid alien Gates is a member of the Legion of Super-Heroes and a communist. This was played up a lot more in his early appearances, where he would constantly complain about the United Planets' capitalist society; eventually, the writers seemed to decide this aspect of his personality was a little awkward and quietly phased it out.
* ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'':
** Collective Man, a Creator/MarvelComics superhero who is China's equivalent of ComicBook/CaptainAmerica.
** The Soviet Super-Soldiers ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a group of Red Army officers with superhuman powers]]) frequently teamed up with the Avengers and other mostly-American heroes against villains that threatened both the US and USSR. Eventually they turned against their government and were replaced by the Supreme Soviets, though after the USSR fell the two teams merged to form the ''ComicBook/WinterGuard''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Persepolis}}'':
Marjane's Uncle Anoosh is a kind, friendly communist whom she adores. A number of other communists appear too, some noble, others hypocrites, but portrayed positively overall while friendly with Marjane. Because of her uncle, Marjane grows up with picturing {{God}} as Karl Marx, having her own kind of Islamic/Marxist hybrid philosophy. After losing faith in God, she still has a radical leftist point of view and hangs around with communists or anarchists.anarchists.
* ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'': Once he joins the Thunderbolts, the Chinese Radioactive Man is this, being genuinely more altruistic than his teammates, who are all {{Boxed Crook}}s.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'': [[Characters/XMen70sMembers Colossus]] is a GentleGiant and was usually depicted as something of a patriot for the Soviet Union, though the sliding timeline means this has largely since moved on to just pride for simply Russian heritage.
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* Depending on your choices in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', you can elect to support communism, and also play as a decent person (or at any rate [[DefectiveDetective try to, as much as you can]]). You can also find sympathetic left-wing characters among the cast. [[spoiler: And, while the murderer of all people ends up being revealed as a fervent communist, it's notable that his ideology actually has little to do with his crime, that he's overall not exactly portrayed as "villainous" - more like alienated and depressive, bordering on DeathSeeker - and that the murdered man, on the other hand and in contrast, was [[AssholeVictim pretty inarguably a monstrous individual.]] Said murderer also gives up without a fight after an overall peaceful conversation.]]

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* Depending on your choices in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', you can elect to support communism, and also play as a decent person (or at any rate [[DefectiveDetective try to, as much as you can]]). You can also find sympathetic left-wing characters among the cast. [[spoiler: And, while the murderer of all people ends up being revealed as a fervent communist, it's notable that his ideology actually has little to do with his crime, crime; that he's overall not exactly portrayed less as "villainous" - and more like alienated alienated, pathetic and depressive, bordering on DeathSeeker - DeathSeeker; and that the murdered man, on the other hand and in contrast, hand, was for the most part [[AssholeVictim pretty inarguably a monstrous individual.rather monstrous.]] Said murderer also gives up without a fight after an overall peaceful conversation.]]
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* Depending on your choices in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', you can elect to support communism, and also play as a decent person (or at any rate [[DefectiveDetective try to, as much as you can]]). You can also find sympathetic left-wing characters among the cast. [[spoiler: And, while the murderer of all people ends up being revealed as a communist (deserter), it's notable that his ideology actually has little to do with his crime, that he's overall not exactly portrayed as "villainous" - more like alienated and depressive, bordering on DeathSeeker - and that the murdered man, on the other hand and in contrast, was [[AssholeVictim pretty inarguably a monstrous individual.]] Said murderer also gives up without a fight after an overall peaceful conversation.]]

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* Depending on your choices in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', you can elect to support communism, and also play as a decent person (or at any rate [[DefectiveDetective try to, as much as you can]]). You can also find sympathetic left-wing characters among the cast. [[spoiler: And, while the murderer of all people ends up being revealed as a communist (deserter), fervent communist, it's notable that his ideology actually has little to do with his crime, that he's overall not exactly portrayed as "villainous" - more like alienated and depressive, bordering on DeathSeeker - and that the murdered man, on the other hand and in contrast, was [[AssholeVictim pretty inarguably a monstrous individual.]] Said murderer also gives up without a fight after an overall peaceful conversation.]]
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* Depending on your choices in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', you can elect to support communism, and also play as a decent person (or at least [[DefectiveDetective try to, as much as you can]]). You can also find sympathetic left-wing characters among the cast. [[spoiler: And, while the murderer of all people ends up being revealed as a communist (deserter), it's notable that his ideology actually has little to do with his crime, that he's overall not portrayed as "villainous" - more like alienated and depressive, bordering on DeathSeeker - and that the murdered man, on the other hand and in contrast, was [[AssholeVictim pretty inarguably a monstrous individual.]] He also gives up without a fight after an overall peaceful conversation.]]

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* Depending on your choices in ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', you can elect to support communism, and also play as a decent person (or at least any rate [[DefectiveDetective try to, as much as you can]]). You can also find sympathetic left-wing characters among the cast. [[spoiler: And, while the murderer of all people ends up being revealed as a communist (deserter), it's notable that his ideology actually has little to do with his crime, that he's overall not exactly portrayed as "villainous" - more like alienated and depressive, bordering on DeathSeeker - and that the murdered man, on the other hand and in contrast, was [[AssholeVictim pretty inarguably a monstrous individual.]] He Said murderer also gives up without a fight after an overall peaceful conversation.]]
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* Depending on your choices in [[VideoGame/DiscoElysium]], you can elect to support communism, and also play as a decent person (or at least [[DefectiveDetective try to, as much as you can]]). You can also find sympathetic left-wing characters among the cast. [[spoiler: And, while the murderer of all people ends up being revealed as a communist (deserter), it's notable that his ideology actually has little to do with his crime, that he's overall not portrayed as "villainous" - more like alienated and depressive, bordering on DeathSeeker - and that the murdered man, on the other hand and in contrast, was [[AssholeVictim pretty inarguably a monstrous individual.]] He also gives up without a fight after an overall peaceful conversation.]]

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* Depending on your choices in [[VideoGame/DiscoElysium]], ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'', you can elect to support communism, and also play as a decent person (or at least [[DefectiveDetective try to, as much as you can]]). You can also find sympathetic left-wing characters among the cast. [[spoiler: And, while the murderer of all people ends up being revealed as a communist (deserter), it's notable that his ideology actually has little to do with his crime, that he's overall not portrayed as "villainous" - more like alienated and depressive, bordering on DeathSeeker - and that the murdered man, on the other hand and in contrast, was [[AssholeVictim pretty inarguably a monstrous individual.]] He also gives up without a fight after an overall peaceful conversation.]]
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* Depending on your choices in [[VideoGame/DiscoElysium]], you can elect to support communism, and also play as a decent person (or at least [[DefectiveDetective try to, as much as you can]]). You can also find sympathetic left-wing characters among the cast. [[spoiler: And, while the murderer of all people ends up being revealed as a communist (deserter), it's notable that his ideology actually has little to do with his crime, that he's overall not portrayed as "villainous" - more like alienated and depressive, bordering on DeathSeeker - and that the murdered man, on the other hand and in contrast, was [[AssholeVictim pretty inarguably a monstrous individual.]] He also gives up without a fight after an overall peaceful conversation.]]

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* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAlliedAssault'''s first expansion, ''Spearhead'', depicts the Soviets as friendly and sympathetic. They also prove to be useful allies for Barnes, as they help defend an important bridge by calling in tank support for him.

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* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAlliedAssault'''s first expansion, ''Spearhead'', depicts The weapon manufacturer Vladof from ''VideoGame/Borderlands2''. In the Soviets as friendly and sympathetic. They original, they produced firearms with a high rate of fire to offset their low accuracy, but they now manufacture them that way to let civilian rebels outshoot MegaCorp thugs with more complicated but harder-hitting weapons. Fittingly, their assault rifles look a lot like AK rifles. They're also prove a Workers Collective, according to be useful allies for Barnes, as their sales pitch. Granted, they help defend an important bridge by calling are themselves a powerful MegaCorp in tank support for him.this setting, [[{{Hypocrite}} which goes against much of what they say]].



* The Qunari in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' are a Buddhist-Communist empire in which obedience and duty are the most important aspects of all life and society. Their world-view is completely {{black and white|morality}}, and they have no mercy for either criminals or those who oppose them, but many low-ranking people in the conquered territories are actively welcoming them and joining them voluntarily. Those born into the Qunari (or at least those who were picked to be assigned to the military) could hardly be called friendly in any way, but as long as you are getting straight to the point with them and don't show either indecision or boasting, they will treat you with respect and quite readily cooperate for the common good.
* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, the Russians are the good communists with a nice relationship with the United States, and one of the player presets in the first game is a descendant of a Soviet diplomat which were given a place in Vault 13. Some characters in the Fallout universe tend to lump Russians into "bad communists" along with the Chinese, but these are mostly the uninformed, the insane (No-Bark Noonan), and the non-sapient (Mr. Gutsy robots).
** After the end, there are the descendants of the [[RedChina Chinese]] (the resident [[DirtyCommunists bad commies]]) submarine crews beached in San Francisco called the Shi after their vessel "Shi-huang-ti", their mission is to protect their town and its inhabitants and research useful technology, like an antidote for highly addictive drug "Jet" and radiation-scrubbing plants.
** Another friendly [=ChiCom=], the ghoulified submarine captain Zao, is a quest-giver from ''VideoGame/Fallout4''.
* The Legends of '67 in ''VideoGame/FarCry6'' are a bunch of RetiredBadass LaResistance leftover from the original communist revolution in the country of Yara. While they freely admit their revolution didn't end particularly well, they are all depicted as heroic and decent people.



* Played with in ''VideoGame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg''. The popular VideoGame/HeartsOfIron mod takes place in an alternate 1936 where World War I didn't see American involvement and so Germany won the war. Because the Soviet Union failed by the game's present day led to syndicalism (a more democratic and less totalitarian line of political thought) becoming the dominant revolutionary left-wing movement instead of communism. By the game's present, the Internationale consists of Britain, France, Italy, Chile, Mexico, and Bengal, and they can be potentially joined by others including Spain, Russia, and the United States (depending on how events unfold). It is possible for Totalists (very much DirtyCommunists) to seize power in any of these nations but they can be easily voted out and replaced by more moderate democratic socialist or even anarchist movements. The game tends to take a GreyAndGrayMorality approach to presenting the conflict between the syndicalist nations and the imperialist powers (though places like [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Iron Guard Romania and Pelley's Christian Commonwealth]] get no such favourable treatment -- it's clear they are the bad guys if anything).
* In ''VideoGame/LuckBeALandlord'': The local mutual aid network contacts you via Commie_McComrade@bouncy.mail, and the relevant e-mails address you as 'comrade'. They're your initial and non-random source of Removal and Reroll, which are vital to managing your deck.
* ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonorAlliedAssault'''s first expansion, ''Spearhead'', depicts the Soviets as friendly and sympathetic. They also prove to be useful allies for Barnes, as they help defend an important bridge by calling in tank support for him.



* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'':
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'': One of your main allies is a socialist Sandinista freedom fighter, and the Sandinistas themselves are portrayed fairly sympathetically, even if they do cop to drug smuggling to fund their cause, which is toppling a brutal American-backed military dictatorship and political dynasty in their homeland of Nicaragua.
** ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' has a rather poignant EasterEgg accessible by throwing the Spetznaz guard of your cell food three times, where he has a friendly chat with Snake. He turns out to be a rather NiceGuy who laments that the Soviet Union and the USA are now bitter enemies and admits to having no hard feelings against Snake, and also admits that he's homesick and lonely. As thanks for listening to his troubles, he shows Snake a photo of his family[[note]]which has an emergency codec number for opening the cell door written on the back[[/note]] and returns Snake's cigarettes[[note]]which happen to be a spy gadget that sprays anaesthetic smoke[[/note]]. [[spoiler:He also reveals in the conversation that he's Johnny Sasaki's grandfather.]]
* Vlad, the BigGood in ''VideoGame/MotherRussiaBleeds''. While the government of the Soviet Union has, in the game's AlternateHistory, become a puppet of [[TheMafiya the Bratva]], Vlad remains a sincere, dyed-in-the-wool Communist who [[spoiler:ends up leading a revolution against the Bratva, albeit with the player characters [[OneManArmy doing a lot of the heavy lifting]].]]
* Likewise in ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'', there are a fair few positive depictions of left-wing ideologies in this AlternateHistory Earth. For example one of the best unifying warlord states for Russia (the Soviet Union doesn't exist in this time because the Nazis defeated and tore it down) is [[WideEyedIdealist Sablin]] of Buryatia, a genuine Leninist who can turn the nation into a free and democratic communist state, provided he can withstand the temptations of authoritarianism.
** Another more interesting case is [[NapoleonDelusion Rurik II/Nikolai Krylov]] of Kemerovo, which blends Soviet progressivism with monarchism and Slavic traditionalism - [[SuccessThroughInsanity a highly unusual combination that works surprisingly well]], as Rurik is, his eccentricities aside, a [[TheGoodKing decent guy]] who listens to his advisors and develops his country in a rational manner, and his son Yuriy[=/=]Rurik III even makes steps towards constitutional democracy and a welfare state.
** You can also get Chummy ''Anarchists'' in the Siberian Free Territory, a [[RousseauWasRight sensibly run anarchist "state"]] guarded by popular militia. Or Alexander Men's [[SaintlyChurch benevolent and peaceful Christian-Anarchist state]] where religious, ethnic and even sexual minorities are welcomed as equals.
* ''VideoGame/PhoenixPoint'': One of the three human factions you can align with, Synedrion is a scientific-minded consensus democracy formed out of the Marxist, left-wing anarchist and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bookchin Bookchinist]] movements that emerged during WorldWarIII and the beginning of the Pandoravirus outbreak. [[WeAreStrugglingTogether Though strongly divided on how to go about it]], Synedrion's nebulous end-goal is to study the Pandoravirus and learn to co-exist with it, learning from the past mistakes of humanity and trying to [[GaiasLament undo the ecological destruction of Earth]]. [[spoiler:If Phoenix Point sides with them in the ending, it results in arguably the best outcome for humanity, where their plan to create an ecological {{Utopia}} succeeds with minimal loss of life.]]
* ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}''
** The Duty faction preserves/recreates a strong Soviet influence in their troops and strongholds. While not exactly pleasant people as a whole, they are among the most disciplined and orderly groups of the Zone, and their main bases in all three games are probably the safest in the whole Zone, and the individual soldiers tend to be pretty chill.
** The Freedom faction are anarcho-communists inspired by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Makhno Nestor Makhno]], a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary during the Russian Civil War that fought with the Bolsheviks and later against them. They are laidback, hard-partying, and [[VodkaDrunkenski drinking]] folks [[TheStoner with a taste for the "herb"]].
* The Shared Burdens civic in ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}: Megacorp'' puts the civilization that takes it decidedly at odds with the game's eponymous megacorps. Represented by a sickle, it required Fanatic Egalitarian (i.e. a deep respect for the rights of its citizens) and does not allow Xenophobia (so those rights are extended to other species in their civilization). The civic gives the player access to the Shared Burdens living standards (which gives every citizen the same comfortably modest standard of living whether they're a ruler or a mine worker) and only allows the player to use Shared Burdens and [[PostScarcityEconomy Utopian Abundance]] living standards. In short, civilizations using the Shared Burdens civic are invariably good to their people and decent neighbors; at worst, they might take Militarist and become (ironically) [[{{Eagleland}} Democratic Crusaders]].
** The Worker advisor is a Chummy Commie PlayedForLaughs, peppering otherwise normal reports on what is going on in your empire with communist sounding buzzwords.



* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, the Russians are the good communists with a nice relationship with the United States, and one of the player presets in the first game is a descendant of a Soviet diplomat which were given a place in Vault 13. Some characters in the Fallout universe tend to lump Russians into "bad communists" along with the Chinese, but these are mostly the uninformed, the insane (No-Bark Noonan), and the non-sapient (Mr. Gutsy robots).
** After the end, there are the descendants of the [[RedChina Chinese]] (the resident [[DirtyCommunists bad commies]]) submarine crews beached in San Francisco called the Shi after their vessel "Shi-huang-ti", their mission is to protect their town and its inhabitants and research useful technology, like an antidote for highly addictive drug "Jet" and radiation-scrubbing plants.
** Another friendly [=ChiCom=], the ghoulified submarine captain Zao, is a quest-giver from ''VideoGame/Fallout4''.

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* In the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series, the Russians are the good communists with Hopper of ''VideoGame/ToothAndTail'' is, in a nice relationship with the United States, and world of BlackAndGreyMorality, one of the player presets in the first game is a descendant of a Soviet diplomat which were given a place in Vault 13. Some few playable characters in who can be deemed heroic. She's a proud communist who fights for a fair lottery deciding [[SapientEatSapient who will eat who]], as opposed to the Fallout universe tend current system that heavily favors the rich. Better, she firmly practices what she preaches, having fed ''her own arm'' to lump Russians into "bad communists" her people to keep them alive and fighting for her. She gets along particularly well with the Chinese, but these are mostly the uninformed, the insane (No-Bark Noonan), and the non-sapient (Mr. Gutsy robots).
** After the end, there are the descendants of the [[RedChina Chinese]] (the resident [[DirtyCommunists bad commies]]) submarine crews beached in San Francisco called the Shi after their vessel "Shi-huang-ti", their mission is to protect their town and its inhabitants and research useful technology, like
Longcoats, who regard her as an antidote for highly addictive drug "Jet" and radiation-scrubbing plants.
** Another friendly [=ChiCom=], the ghoulified submarine captain Zao, is a quest-giver from ''VideoGame/Fallout4''.
ally early on.



* ''VideoGame/{{STALKER}}''
** The Duty faction preserves/recreates a strong Soviet influence in their troops and strongholds. While not exactly pleasant people as a whole, they are among the most disciplined and orderly groups of the Zone, and their main bases in all three games are probably the safest in the whole Zone, and the individual soldiers tend to be pretty chill.
** The Freedom faction are anarcho-communists inspired by [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestor_Makhno Nestor Makhno]], a Ukrainian anarchist revolutionary during the Russian Civil War that fought with the Bolsheviks and later against them. They are laidback, hard-partying, and [[VodkaDrunkenski drinking]] folks [[TheStoner with a taste for the "herb"]].
* The Qunari in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'' are a Buddhist-Communist empire in which obedience and duty are the most important aspects of all life and society. Their world-view is completely {{black and white|morality}}, and they have no mercy for either criminals or those who oppose them, but many low-ranking people in the conquered territories are actively welcoming them and joining them voluntarily. Those born into the Qunari (or at least those who were picked to be assigned to the military) could hardly be called friendly in any way, but as long as you are getting straight to the point with them and don't show either indecision or boasting, they will treat you with respect and quite readily cooperate for the common good.
* The weapon manufacturer Vladof from ''VideoGame/Borderlands2''. In the original, they produced firearms with a high rate of fire to offset their low accuracy, but they now manufacture them that way to let civilian rebels outshoot MegaCorp thugs with more complicated but harder-hitting weapons. Fittingly, their assault rifles look a lot like AK rifles. They're also a Workers Collective, according to their sales pitch. Granted, they are themselves a powerful MegaCorp in this setting, [[{{Hypocrite}} which goes against much of what they say]].
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'': One of your main allies is a socialist Sandinista freedom fighter, and the Sandinistas themselves are portrayed fairly sympathetically, even if they do cop to drug smuggling to fund their cause, which is toppling a brutal American-backed military dictatorship and political dynasty in their homeland of Nicaragua.
* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'' has a rather poignant EasterEgg accessible by throwing the Spetznaz guard of your cell food three times, where he has a friendly chat with Snake. He turns out to be a rather NiceGuy who laments that the Soviet Union and the USA are now bitter enemies and admits to having no hard feelings against Snake, and also admits that he's homesick and lonely. As thanks for listening to his troubles, he shows Snake a photo of his family[[note]]which has an emergency codec number for opening the cell door written on the back[[/note]] and returns Snake's cigarettes[[note]]which happen to be a spy gadget that sprays anaesthetic smoke[[/note]]. [[spoiler:He also reveals in the conversation that he's Johnny Sasaki's grandfather.]]
* ''VideoGame/PhoenixPoint'': One of the three human factions you can align with, Synedrion is a scientific-minded consensus democracy formed out of the Marxist, left-wing anarchist and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bookchin Bookchinist]] movements that emerged during WorldWarIII and the beginning of the Pandoravirus outbreak. [[WeAreStrugglingTogether Though strongly divided on how to go about it]], Synedrion's nebulous end-goal is to study the Pandoravirus and learn to co-exist with it, learning from the past mistakes of humanity and trying to [[GaiasLament undo the ecological destruction of Earth]]. [[spoiler:If Phoenix Point sides with them in the ending, it results in arguably the best outcome for humanity, where their plan to create an ecological {{Utopia}} succeeds with minimal loss of life.]]



* Played with in ''VideoGame/KaiserreichLegacyOfTheWeltkrieg''. The popular VideoGame/HeartsOfIron mod takes place in an alternate 1936 where World War I didn't see American involvement and so Germany won the war. Because the Soviet Union failed by the game's present day led to syndicalism (a more democratic and less totalitarian line of political thought) becoming the dominant revolutionary left-wing movement instead of communism. By the game's present, the Internationale consists of Britain, France, Italy, Chile, Mexico, and Bengal, and they can be potentially joined by others including Spain, Russia, and the United States (depending on how events unfold). It is possible for Totalists (very much DirtyCommunists) to seize power in any of these nations but they can be easily voted out and replaced by more moderate democratic socialist or even anarchist movements. The game tends to take a GreyAndGrayMorality approach to presenting the conflict between the syndicalist nations and the imperialist powers (though places like [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Iron Guard Romania and Pelley's Christian Commonwealth]] get no such favourable treatment -- it's clear they are the bad guys if anything).
* Likewise in ''VideoGame/TheNewOrderLastDaysOfEurope'', there are a fair few positive depictions of left-wing ideologies in this AlternateHistory Earth. For example one of the best unifying warlord states for Russia (the Soviet Union doesn't exist in this time because the Nazis defeated and tore it down) is [[WideEyedIdealist Sablin]] of Buryatia, a genuine Leninist who can turn the nation into a free and democratic communist state, provided he can withstand the temptations of authoritarianism.
** Another more interesting case is [[NapoleonDelusion Rurik II/Nikolai Krylov]] of Kemerovo, which blends Soviet progressivism with monarchism and Slavic traditionalism - [[SuccessThroughInsanity a highly unusual combination that works surprisingly well]], as Rurik is, his eccentricities aside, a [[TheGoodKing decent guy]] who listens to his advisors and develops his country in a rational manner, and his son Yuriy[=/=]Rurik III even makes steps towards constitutional democracy and a welfare state.
** You can also get Chummy ''Anarchists'' in the Siberian Free Territory, a [[RousseauWasRight sensibly run anarchist "state"]] guarded by popular militia. Or Alexander Men's [[SaintlyChurch benevolent and peaceful Christian-Anarchist state]] where religious, ethnic and even sexual minorities are welcomed as equals.
* Vlad, the BigGood in ''VideoGame/MotherRussiaBleeds''. While the government of the Soviet Union has, in the game's AlternateHistory, become a puppet of [[TheMafiya the Bratva]], Vlad remains a sincere, dyed-in-the-wool Communist who [[spoiler:ends up leading a revolution against the Bratva, albeit with the player characters [[OneManArmy doing a lot of the heavy lifting]].]]
* The Shared Burdens civic in ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}: Megacorp'' puts the civilization that takes it decidedly at odds with the game's eponymous megacorps. Represented by a sickle, it required Fanatic Egalitarian (i.e. a deep respect for the rights of its citizens) and does not allow Xenophobia (so those rights are extended to other species in their civilization). The civic gives the player access to the Shared Burdens living standards (which gives every citizen the same comfortably modest standard of living whether they're a ruler or a mine worker) and only allows the player to use Shared Burdens and [[PostScarcityEconomy Utopian Abundance]] living standards. In short, civilizations using the Shared Burdens civic are invariably good to their people and decent neighbors; at worst, they might take Militarist and become (ironically) [[{{Eagleland}} Democratic Crusaders]].
** The Worker advisor is a Chummy Commie PlayedForLaughs, peppering otherwise normal reports on what is going on in your empire with communist sounding buzzwords.
* The Legends of '67 in ''VideoGame/FarCry6'' are a bunch of RetiredBadass LaResistance leftover from the original communist revolution in the country of Yara. While they freely admit their revolution didn't end particularly well, they are all depicted as heroic and decent people.
* Hopper of ''VideoGame/ToothAndTail'' is, in a world of BlackAndGreyMorality, one of the few playable characters who can be deemed heroic. She's a proud communist who fights for a fair lottery deciding [[SapientEatSapient who will eat who]], as opposed to the current system that heavily favors the rich. Better, she firmly practices what she preaches, having fed ''her own arm'' to her people to keep them alive and fighting for her. She gets along particularly well with the Longcoats, who regard her as an ally early on.
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* ''Fanfic/TarkinsFist'': Downplayed. Loi Cas is one of the story's protagonists and serves the officially Communist People's Republic of China. Furthermore, he is briefly mentioned to be an actual member of the Communist Party of China. However, Loi Cas never makes any statement whatsoever that even hints to him being ideologically predisposed to Communism. Truth in Television, as many professionals hoping to get ahead in one party socialist states often joined the ruling party, not out of genuine belief in the party's ideology, but to simply make career advancement easier.

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* ''Fanfic/TarkinsFist'': Downplayed. Loi Cas is one of the story's protagonists and serves the officially Communist People's Republic of China. Furthermore, he is briefly mentioned to be an actual member of the Communist Party of China. However, Loi Cas never makes any statement whatsoever that even hints to him being ideologically predisposed to Communism. Truth in Television, TruthInTelevision, as many professionals hoping to get ahead in one party socialist states often joined the ruling party, not out of genuine belief in the party's ideology, but to simply make career advancement easier.
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*''Fanfic/TarkinsFist'': Downplayed. Loi Cas is one of the story's protagonists and serves the officially Communist People's Republic of China. Furthermore, he is briefly mentioned to be an actual member of the Communist Party of China. However, Loi Cas never makes any statement whatsoever that even hints to him being ideologically predisposed to Communism. Truth in Television, as many professionals hoping to get ahead in one party socialist states often joined the ruling party, not out of genuine belief in the party's ideology, but to simply make career advancement easier.
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* ''WorldOnFire'': Luc, a French communist who's arrested for opposing the Nazis, is treated sympathetically because he's on the good side.

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* ''VideoGame/PhoenixPoint'': One of the three human factions you can align with, Synedrion is a scientific-minded consensus democracy formed out of the Marxist, left-wing anarchist and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Bookchin Bookchinist]] movements that emerged during WorldWarIII and the beginning of the Pandoravirus outbreak. [[WeAreStrugglingTogether Though strongly divided on how to go about it]], Synedrion's nebulous end-goal is to study the Pandoravirus and learn to co-exist with it, learning from the past mistakes of humanity and trying to [[GaiasLament undo the ecological destruction of Earth]]. [[spoiler:If Phoenix Point sides with them in the ending, it results in arguably the best outcome for humanity, where their plan to create an ecological {{Utopia}} succeeds with minimal loss of life.]]
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* Hopper of ''VideoGame/ToothAndTail'' is, in a world of BlackAndGreyMorality, one of the few playable characters who can be deemed heroic. She's a proud communist who fights for a fair lottery deciding [[SapientEatSapient who will eat who]], as opposed to the current system that heavily favors the rich. Better, she firmly practices what she preaches, having fed ''her own arm'' to her people to keep them alive and fighting for her. She gets along particularly well with the Commonfolk, who regard her as an ally early on.

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* Hopper of ''VideoGame/ToothAndTail'' is, in a world of BlackAndGreyMorality, one of the few playable characters who can be deemed heroic. She's a proud communist who fights for a fair lottery deciding [[SapientEatSapient who will eat who]], as opposed to the current system that heavily favors the rich. Better, she firmly practices what she preaches, having fed ''her own arm'' to her people to keep them alive and fighting for her. She gets along particularly well with the Commonfolk, Longcoats, who regard her as an ally early on.
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* Hopper of ''VideoGame/ToothAndTail'' is, in a world of BlackAndGreyMorality, one of the few playable characters who can be deemed heroic. She's a proud communist who fights for a fair lottery deciding [[SapientEatSapient who will eat who]], as opposed to the current system that heavily favors the rich. Better, she firmly practices what she preaches, having fed ''her own arm'' to her people to keep them alive and fighting for her. She gets along particularly well with the Commonfolk, who regard her as an ally early on.
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* ''WorldOnFire'': Luc, a French communist who's arrested for opposing the Nazis, is treated sympathetically because he's on the good side.

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