History PlayingWith / ChummyCommies

* '''Straight''': The American heroes meet up with contacts from the USSR, who are [[NiceGuy all friendly and affable people]].

* '''Lampshaded''': "All the propaganda was wrong, these guys are really nice!"

* '''Discussed''': "Hey, are you with the--" "With the communists, yes! And comrade, you've got to join us next week! We're having a party! [[AccidentalPun ...not the political kind.]]"

Let's head Back to ChummyCommies, comrade! I'll get you a vodka!

* '''Averted''': It's a standard UsefulNotes/ColdWar-era film and [[DirtyCommunists communists are bastards]].

** A URSS film portrays capitalist Americans and Brits fairly positively as misguided but noble allies against the Nazis.

** Even TheHero is a communist himself!

'''Basic Trope''': Communists are portrayed as friendly and benevolent.

** The communists live in a {{utopia}} where the communist vision of Creator/KarlMarx has been achieved and everyone living in it has IncorruptiblePurePureness. The UsefulNotes/{{capitalis|m}}ts, meanwhile, are all crazy [[TheSociopath sociopaths]].
** In a world TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture, the Communists have created ''numerous {{Boom Town}}s'' while treating ''[[AndroidsArePeopleToo robots as people too]]''! Meanwhile the Capitalists are still plagued by FantasticRacism issues and think AliensAreBastards.

** The story is set during real-life Communist reforms trying to liberalize oppressive Leninist states, such as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khrushchev_Thaw the Khrushchev Thaw]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_Spring the Prague Spring]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika the Perestroika]], or the era of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goulash_Communism Goulash Communism]]; and shows such a reformist period either [[DownerEnding end in dismal failure]] [[ForegoneConclusion as they did in real life]], to convey how authoritarian Communism didn't work out even when people tried their best... [[AlternateHistory or alternatively]], [[NotHisSled succeed]].

** The Americans suffer from a clear case of DemocracyIsBad and work for a CorruptCorporateExecutive.

** A pro-communist film portrays capitalist Americans and Brits fairly positively as misguided but noble allies against the Nazis.

** A friendly, gregarious communist turns out to be [[DefectorFromCommieLand secretly planning to defect]].

** The filmmakers are all communist sympathizers, so they make the Soviets appear as positive as possible.

* '''Deconstructed''': The Soviets being personally nice and caring leads the protagonists to turn a blind eye to how their [[InherentInTheSystem system is still very flawed.]]

* '''Played for Drama''': The friendly Communist government [[TheCoup is overthrown]] by hardliner DirtyCommunists, ANaziByAnyOtherName, or a corrupt MegaCorp, and its people have to fight to get things back to where they were.

* '''Reconstructed''': The protagonists ultimately acknowledge this, but also realize it's important to give their Soviet allies credit where it is due and be willing to work with them for a time, possibly even [[ThePowerOfFriendship helping eachother to improve their respective systems]].

** The communists live in a MarySuetopia where the communist vision of Creator/KarlMarx has been achieved and everyone living in it has IncorruptiblePurePureness. The UsefulNotes/{{capitalis|m}}ts, meanwhile, are all crazy [[TheSociopath sociopaths]].

* '''Zig-Zagged''': The main villain of the film is an evil Soviet General, but the heroes who fight him are aided by resisting communist soldiers, but one of the allies is a traitor motivated by the general bringing glory to the people, until he sees the general cares only for himself and not the good of the people.