History PlayingWith / DirtyCommunists

* '''Reconstructed''': However, this does not make Communist regimes any less repressive, despite [[PunchClockVillain being staffed by normal people]].

** Khlebosupov and his collegaues are imagined to be Dirty Communists in the West, but when Agent Bob meets them, they turn out to be okay people.

** At first, that is. In reality, they are at best AffablyEvil, and will gladly kill and even [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] people in the name of expansion and more power.

* '''Averted''': The story uses WesternTerrorists backed by {{Corrupt Corporate Executive}}s as the primary antagonists, with no Communists in sight.

** The story is a SpyDrama written at the peak of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. Who else could be a main villain in this case?
** The story is a documentary about UsefulNotes/MaoZedong, [[ItsPersonal written by a defector whose entire family died in the Great Leap Forward ... nobody is expecting it to paint Communism or Communists in a particularly positive light.]]
* '''Lampshaded''': "Didn't you have enough ideologically-motivated wrongdoings for today, General?" "[[GratuitousRussian KONESCHNO NYET!]]"[[note]]"Of course not!"[[/note]]

* '''Exploited''': ANaziByAnyOtherName, or some other right-winger who aspires to govern as a totalitarian, [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany uses the fear of communists to gain political power and establish their own regime.]]

** General Khlebosupov is an unrepentantly evil bigwig in the Soviet military apparatus ... except he's a StrawHypocrite who doesn't care in the slightest about anything Karl Marx wrote, and is concerned only with his own power. Most of his compatriots actually don't mind if he goes too far in his world domination schemes [[KarmicDeath and Agent Bob offs him]].

* '''Straight''': [[GeneralRipper General]] [[PunnyName Khlebosupov]] is a paranoid {{Jerkass}} who [[BadBoss mistreats his underlings]] and plots to start WorldWarIII -- and it's up to [[TuxedoAndMartini Agent Bob]] to stop him.

** The Communists are the bad guys, but they are {{Noble Demon}}s and/or {{Well Intentioned Extremist}}s.

** The story is a documentary about UsefulNotes/MaoZedong, written by a defector whose entire family died in the Great Leap Forward ... nobody is expecting it to paint Communism of Communists in a particularly positive light.

* '''Exploited''': ANaziByAnyOtherName [[UsefulNotes/NaziGermany uses the fear of communists to gain political power and establish their own regime.]]
* '''Defied''': [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong Bob goes back in time to warn Karl Marx about the suffering and tyranny his Communist Manifesto will inspire some people to create.]] In order to prevent the atrocities of Stalin, Mao, and their ilk, Creator/KarlMarx goes out of his way to write in all his AuthorTract[=s=] that the Proletariat's Uprising [[VelvetRevolution MUST be completely and utterly non-violent]].

* '''Straight''': [[GeneralRipper General]] [[PunnyName Khlebosupov]] is a paranoid {{Jerkass}} who [[BadBoss mistreats his underlings]] and plots to start WorldWarIII - and it's up to [[TuxedoAndMartini Agent Bob]] to stop him.
* '''Exaggerated''':

** General is a head of the military in a state that's famous for it's repressive nature even compared to their Eastern Bloc allies.

** The story takes place during the reign of Khmer Rogue, Stalin's Purges, the Great Leap Forward, the Holodomor, the Hue Massacre, or another real life Communist atrocity.
* '''Inverted''':

** Khlebosupov and his collegaues are imagined to be Dirty Communists in the West, but when Agent Bob meets them, they turn out to be alright people.

** At first, that is. In reality, they are AffablyEvil, and will gladly kill and even [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] people in the name of expansion and more power.

** General Khlebosupov and his cronies have abandoned personal hygiene because of soap shortages, making them [[LiteralMetaphor literally]] [[{{Pun}} "Dirty Communists".]]
** The Communists attack Boston, New York, and Washington D.C. [[AnAsskickingChristmas on Christmas Eve]], with an entire army of {{Snowlems}} under the commmand of General Winter, and it's Agent Bob's job to stop them.
* '''Zig Zagged''': The story concerns a conflict between two Communist powers - the [[TheAlliance Workers of the World Alliance]], which [[ChummyCommies averts this trope]], and the [[TheEmpire Hammer Empire]], which [[VillainWithGoodPublicity tries to hide its nature]] under [[PropagandaMachine cheery propaganda]], but ultimately plays the trope [[DespotismJustifiesTheMeans disgustingly straight]].

** The story is a documentary about Mao Zedong, written by a defector whose entire family died in The Great Leap Forward ... nobody is expecting it to paint Communism of Communists in a particularly positive light.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Didn't you have enough ideologically-motivated wrongdoings for today, General?" "[[GratuitousRussian KONESCHNO NYET!]]" [[note]] "Of course not!"[[/note]]

* '''Defied''': [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong Bob goes back in time to warn Karl Marx about the suffering and tyranny his Communist Manifesto will inspire.]] In order to prevent the atrocities of Stalin and Mao, Karl Marx is sure to state specifically in all of his ideological writings that the Proletariat's Uprising [[VelvetRevolution MUST be completely and utterly non-violent]].
* '''Discussed''': "Darn... these Commies are always up to no good. You teach them a lesson, Agent Bob." "Will do."

** General Khlebosupov is an unrepentantly evil bigwig in the Soviet military apparatus... except he's a StrawHypocrite who doesn't give two shits about anything Karl Marx wrote, and is concerned only with his own power. Most of his compatriots actually don't mind if he goes too far in his world domination schemes [[KarmicDeath and Agent Bob offs him]].
* '''Reconstructed''': However, this does not make Communist regimes any less repressive, even in spite of [[PunchClockVillain being staffed by normal people]].

** The story takes place during the reign of Khmer Rogue, the Great Leap Forward, the Holodomor, the Hue Massacre, or another real life Communist atrocity.

** HeroicCommunists

* '''Reconstructed''':
** However, this does not make Communist regimes any less repressive, even in spite of [[PunchClockVillain being staffed by normal people]].

** The story takes place during the Khmer Rogue, the Great Leap Forward, the Holdolomor, the Hue Massacre, or another real life Communist Atrocity.

* '''Reconstructed''': However, this does not make Communist regimes any less repressive, even in spite of [[PunchClockVillain being staffed by normal people]].

** The Communists attack Boston, New York, and Washington D.C. [[AnAsskickingChristmas on Christmas Eve]], with an entire army of {{Snowlem}}s under the commmand of General Winter, and it's Agent Bob's job to stop them.

** General is in command of one of the worst Gulags in Soviet History.
** The story takes place during the Khmer Rogue, the Great Leap Forward, the Holdolomer, the Hue Massacre, or another real life Communist Atrocity.

* '''Parodied''': General Khlebosupov and his cronies have abandoned personal hygiene because of soap shortages, making them [[LiteralMetaphor literally]] [[{{Pun}} "Dirty Communists".]]

* '''Invoked''': ???

* '''Deconstructed''': The work goes out of it's way to show that people in Eastern and Western camps are really NotSoDifferent after all.

* '''Enforced''': The story is a SpyDrama written at the peak of the UsefulNotes/ColdWar. Who else could be a main villain in this case?

* '''Defied''': [[SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong Bob goes back in time to warn Karl Marx about the suffering and tyranny his Communist Manifesto will inspire.]] In order to prevent this, Karl Marx is sure to state specifically in all of his ideological writings that the Proletariat's Uprising [[VelvetRevolution MUST be completely and utterly non-violent]].

* '''Defied''': ???

* '''Justified''': General is a head of the military in a state that's famous for it's repressive nature even compared to their Eastern Bloc allies.

* '''Exploited''': ???

** The Communists are the bad guys, but they are [[NobleDemon noble demons]] and/or [[WellIntentionedExtremist well intentioned extremists.]]

** The Communists are the bad guys, but they are NobleDemons and/or WellIntentionedExtremists.

** General Khlebosupov and all his friends are bona-fide CommieNazis, murdering their own people left and right and generally acting like the biggest assholes in the universe.

** CommieNazis.

* '''Zig Zagged''': ???

* '''Enforced''': The story is a SpyDrama written at the peak of the ColdWar. Who else could be a main villain in this case?

* '''Conversed''': "And again, we see the Commies as the bad guys. Don't the filmmakers know that the ColdWar is over?"

* '''Exaggerated''': General Khlebosupov and all his friends are bona-fide CommieNazis, murdering their own people left and right and generally acting like the biggest assholes in the universe.

* '''Inverted''': ChummyCommies
* '''Subverted''': General and his collegaues are imagined to be Dirty Communists in the West, but when Agent Bob meets them, they turn out to be alright people.
* '''Double Subverted''': At first, that is. In reality, they are AffablyEvil, and will gladly kill and even [[ColdBloodedTorture torture]] people in the name of expansion and more power.

* '''Lampshaded''': "Didn't you have enough ideologically-motivated wrongdoings for today, General?" "[[GratuitousRussian KONESCHNO NYET!]]" [[hottip:note: "Of course not!"]]

* '''Lampshaded''': "Didn't you have enough ideologically-motivated wrongdoings for today, General?" "[[GratuitousRussian KONESCHNO NYET!]]"

* '''Exaggerated''': General Khlebosupov and all his friends are bona-fide CommieNazis.

* '''Lampshaded''': ???

* '''Double Subverted''': At first, that is. In reality, they are AffablyEvil.
* '''Parodied''': ???

* '''Averted''': ???

* '''Discussed''':"Darn... these Commies are always up to no good. You teach them a lesson, Agent Bob." "Will do."
* '''Conversed''': ???

* '''Reconstructed''': However, this does not make Communist regimes any less repressive.