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* ''Fanfic/CoolCatSavesVietnam'': Cool Cat is told that the people he's fighting plan to spread Marxist Propaganda to the youth, and it's up to him to stop them. Cool Cat doesn't know what communism is, but he's more than happy to fight for America.

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* ''Fanfic/CoolCatSavesVietnam'': Cool Cat is told that the people he's fighting plan to spread Marxist Propaganda to the youth, and it's up to him to stop them. Cool Cat doesn't know what communism is, but he's more than happy to fight for America.
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* ''Fanfic/CoolCatSavesVietnam'': Cool Cat is told that the people he's fighting plan to spread Marxist Propaganda to the youth, and it's up to him to stop them. Cool Cat doesn't know what communism is, but he's more than happy to fight for America.
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* ''Literature/MineWereOfTrouble:'' Peter Kemp, writing about the Spanish Civil War, witnesses firsthand the violence and destruction the Republicans, especially the International Brigades, cause. It gets so bad that the Internationals are the only prisoners whom the Nationalists show no mercy to, throughout the war.
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* Creator/SamuelFuller's films in TheFifties enjoyed playing with this trope in ways which infuriated the American government. Fuller, being a US First Infantry war veteran, and enjoying the support of Darryl F. Zanuck, more or less was untouchable allowing him to get away with stuff that other film-makers couldn't:

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* Creator/SamuelFuller's films in TheFifties The50s enjoyed playing with this trope in ways which infuriated the American government. Fuller, being a US First Infantry war veteran, and enjoying the support of Darryl F. Zanuck, more or less was untouchable allowing him to get away with stuff that other film-makers couldn't:



* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' episode "America the Beautiful", there is a lot of [[{{Anvilicious}} deliberately heavy-handed]] commentary on American society throughout the years. Duckman and Cornfed first visit a [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black-and-white]] town representative of TheFifties, where they confront a StandardFiftiesFather about the disappearance of a woman named America who he used to date. When they end up insulting his way of life, he deduces that they aren't from around here, and that they must be communists, which ends with the entire town forming an angry mob and chasing them out.

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* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Duckman}}'' episode "America the Beautiful", there is a lot of [[{{Anvilicious}} deliberately heavy-handed]] commentary on American society throughout the years. Duckman and Cornfed first visit a [[DeliberatelyMonochrome black-and-white]] town representative of TheFifties, The50s, where they confront a StandardFiftiesFather Standard50sFather about the disappearance of a woman named America who he used to date. When they end up insulting his way of life, he deduces that they aren't from around here, and that they must be communists, which ends with the entire town forming an angry mob and chasing them out.
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* ''Literature/BlackTideRising'': After the ZombieApocalypse causes most governments to collapse, what's left of Russia's falls under the control of a septuagenarian General who is evidently a diehard communist, as he declares himself General-Secretary of a restored Soviet Union. His main contribution to the plot is to periodically threaten to nuke America if the remnant of the federal government doesn't share the vaccine he's certain they have stockpiled.

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* ''Literature/BlackTideRising'': After the ZombieApocalypse causes most governments to collapse, what's left of Russia's falls under the control of a septuagenarian General who is evidently a diehard communist, as he declares himself General-Secretary of a restored Soviet Union. His main contribution to the plot is to periodically threaten to nuke America if the remnant of the federal government doesn't share the vaccine he's certain they have stockpiled. [[spoiler: Then at the end of the second book he evidently tries to make good on his threats, so his subordinates remove him from power [[TheCoronerDothProtestTooMuch and he reportedly shoots himself in the back 20-something times]].]]
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* The state of the world in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' series is due to a war with communist China.

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* The state of the world in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' series is due to a war with communist China.



*** It makes sense since in the Fallout Universe, the US had switched it's main Cold War adversary from the USSR to Communist China, and the Soviet Union hated China.

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*** It makes sense since in the Fallout Universe, ''Fallout'' universe, the US had switched it's its main Cold War adversary from the USSR to Communist China, and the Soviet Union hated China.
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* ''Literature/HolmesOnTheRange'': The haughty antagonists in [[spoiler:the short story "Bad News"]] are embezzlers out to finance their dream of funding a communist [[spoiler:daily paper.]]

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