Because I make an extensive edit to my previous post, it seems fair that I should provide another example for the benefit of the folks who are following via the Email notices since they don't see the edits.
The
Television Tropes & Idioms review also says Tropico uses the 'Dirty Communists Trope.'
Dirty Communists are, essentially, Cold War villainous portrayals of the Soviet Union's people or servants. After World War Two, there was a very large propaganda effort to make them stock villains the same way the Nazis have served pretty much ever since.
Dirty Communists are different from portrayals of the Soviet Union as an enemy because an especial effort is made pretty much to dehumanize them or reduce them to bad guys through elaborate measures. Special attention is brought to emphasizing all those wacky tropes found in
In Soviet Russia Trope Mocks You for example.
Dirty Communists have never quite caught on in fiction the way that
Those Wacky Nazis have. This may be due to the fact that the left-leaning politics of many in both entertainment and the media deliberately to downplay and even cover-up Soviet atrocities, or the fact that communism as an ideology is more morally ambiguous than Nazism, making its adherents less unsympathetic. In Russia, communism is even more controversial; there are some who completely agree with its portrayal as an evil ideology, some who have strong My Country Right Or Wrong feelings, and still kicking supporters of communism. Nevertheless, it remains a significant legacy that many authors still like to use.
With the end of the Cold War, this has become a mostly Discredited Trope, though it oddly has a lot more universal success with Post-Soviet villains than it has ever had with actual communist ones. Not so odd if losing the Cold War proves that Communism is Evil, which makes those who continue to promote it designated villains.
One associated Trope: Cold War
The period of high tension between Western-style democracies (led by NATO and the USA) and communism (led by the USSR and the PRC), lasting roughly from the "Iron Curtain" speech of 1946 to the Malta meeting in 1990 - historians disagree on the precise start and end dates, with one going as far as to date its beginning to Red October. There was no direct fighting between the two superpowers (Well, there was the whole Soviet pilots flying North Korean planes against Americans in Korea, the shooting down of Gary Powers, the fatal shoot down of Rudolf Anderson while flying over Cuba during the Missile Crisis -- but you get the idea.) although many indirect conflicts flared up (Korea, Vietnam, Afghanistan, etc).
Most famous for the sheer
amount [number] of nuclear weapons amassed by several countries, most notably the USSR and the USA. Highly influential in many a Spy Drama during this period, as setting or Back Story, such as Airwolf, The A Team, etc.
MY, 'Tropico' has only the most vague reference to the 'Those Wacky Nazis' in the set-up for El Presidente. That's too bad because Fascism was an important sub-theme in the political situation in "Latin America" post WWII.
Amount of wool ; number of sheep.
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