History Main / HammerAndSickleRemovedForYourProtection

* {{Inverted}} in ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd''; since it started in 1977 and featured Stalinist successor states to the USSR using the hammer and sickle in the early 22nd century, modern stories involving the Russian MegaCities still show them using the hammer and sickle, and occasionally reference being Communist.

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* Averted in ''CommandAndConquerRedAlert''. Hell, the game's launch icon is not only a hammer and sickle, it's also inside the Red Star. You can't get any less subtle than that.

* Not made during the Cold War, and set much earlier but mentionable: the Creator/DonBluth animated film ''{{Anastasia}}'' ignores the politics of the Bolshevik Uprising (merging the February and October Revolutions into one event as well) and gives Rasputin a HistoricalVillainUpgrade to turn him into evil sorcerer who sold his soul to the devil for magic so he could kill the Romanovs.

* {{Inverted}} in ''JudgeDredd''; since it started in 1977 and featured Stalinist successor states to the USSR using the hammer and sickle in the early 22nd century, modern stories involving the Russian MegaCities still show them using the hammer and sickle, and occasionally reference being Communist.

* In ''{{Tintin}}'', the country of Borduria, with its mustachioed dictator Kûrvi-Tasch ([[IncrediblyLamePun Pleksy-Gladz]] in the original French), is a fictional Russian satellite states.

* In ''ComicBook/BlakeAndMortimer's'' adventure ''The Secret Of The Swordfish'', the enemy is a conveniently fictional Asian country whose national symbol is a red star. In ''SOS Meteors'', it's an unnamed superpower in Eastern Europe whose agents have Slavic-sounding names.

* In ''BlakeAndMortimer's'' adventure ''The Secret Of The Swordfish'', the enemy is a conveniently fictional Asian country whose national symbol is a red star. In ''SOS Meteors'', it's an unnamed superpower in Eastern Europe whose agents have Slavic-sounding names.

* The flag of Angola, which replaces the hammer and sickle with a machete and a gear. (A machete being a more common agricultural tool in Africa than a sickle, and a cog more representative of modern industry.)

* In NorthKorea, the flag of the ruling Korean Workers' Party is a modified version, with a paintbrush added to symbolize the artisans (the hammer and sickle, of course, represent the workers and the farmers respectively).

* The flag of EastGermany was another variation, swapping the sickle for a compass.

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* The film ''Film/FantasticVoyage'' is an excellent example of this. Contemporary dress, cars, and attitudes set this firmly in the early 60s, but the opposing nation that has resources enough to have the same miniaturization technology and implied military might to make that possession dangerous as the US is never called anything but "The Other Side."
* The Villains in ''Film/TopGun'' are from an unnamed communist state, which is also referred to only as "The Other Side."

* The Villains in ''Film/TopGun'' are from an unnamed Communist State.

* Swedish propaganda movies during WW2 is a special case. Since Sweden was neutral, ''all'' the countries involved in the actual war were potential enemies. It doesn't help warning people against the godless communists or beastly Huns if the spy or saboteur they actually have a chance of detecting works for the Western allies. Hence, spies, saboteurs etc are just nefariously ''foreign'', their allegiance is never spelt out, and they are given vaguely Mitteleuropean names (since people from any of the forces involved could be named such).

* A post UsefulNotes/ColdWar example (in-universe as well as in RealLife): In ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' it is revealed that one of the participants of WorldWarIII (from 2026 to 2053), and apparently as an enemy to the United States, was something called the Eastern Coalition.
* In ''Mr. Moto's Last Warning'' (1939), the enemy country was never identified leading to a CliffHanger ending.
* ''Film/InvasionUSA1952'' - not the Chuck Norris vehicle, but an earlier film that featured in MysteryScienceTheatre3000 - was a particularly odd case. The film portrays an invasion of the United States by obviously Soviet armed forces, aided by communist subversion, and comes across as a direct plea for increased defence spending to combat the RedScare. Nonetheless, the invading force is always "the enemy" and the Soviet Union is never identified by name.
* ''Series/WhyWeFight'': the films overall, and ''The Battle of Russia'' egregiously so, don't mention Communism at all and only ever portray the Soviet Union as a strong and loyal ally.

* A few Creator/IsaacAsimov short stories is set in a world where the UsefulNotes/ColdWar has gone on for so long that most people don't even remember what the original names of the two power blocs are anymore, and simply referring to the two as "Them" and "Us" instead.

** And the fifth season featured villains who, despite clearly being Russian separatists and having the assassination of the Russian President amongst their objectives, were referred to being from "Central Asia".

* In the ''[[Series/BuckRogersInTheTwentyFifthCentury Buck Rogers]]'' episode "The Trial of Buck Rogers", is was revealed that just before Buck left Earth, there was a conspiracy of high raking American officers to launch a first strike against The Other Side.
* ''GetSmart'' naturally had KAOS agents depicted as CommieNazis - they evoked this trope and expanded on it when a Chinese KAOS agent gunned down her Slavic compatriots, scornfully telling them that their brand of KAOS was watered-down and decadent, adding "only in ''our'' country is there true KAOS!"

* There was something like that in the former USSR - We had some generic imperialists instead of the US.
** To be more specific, the enemies are greedy imperialists who oppress <insert country> and deny its people free university education and healthcare. The later being illustrated by a dying old grandfather and his beautiful <insert a desperate relative> who is pleading the authorities to help, but being turned down because she has no money. Oh, and she is probably black, because we all know that greedy imperialists are racists. All the fun times we had!

* Aeroflot - Russian Airlines averted this trope, retaining their winged hammer and sickle logo because it's the most recognizable symbol of Russia's airline.

* MarvelComics played with this trope. The USSR/Soviet Union were not always mentioned by name but terms like: Reds, Commies, Moscow and Kremlin were common. This let to odd situations. In the first issue of the Fantastic Four, they steal a space shuttle to beat the communists into space, given that no other nation had a space program at the time, it's a clear reference to the Soviet space program. However the Soviets are just mentioned as Communists. In some cases they averted it, IronMan for example was injured in TheVietnamWar and it's stated to be as such. However a lot of these references were removed as time went on.

* The "Ruiner" table in ''VideoGame/RuinerPinball'' features a ColdWar theme, but while the player is identified as the United States, the enemy is never explicitly identified.

* '"GetSmart'' naturally had KAOS agents depicted as CommieNazis - they evoked this trope and expanded on it when a Chinese KAOS agent gunned down her Slavic compatriots, scornfully telling them that their brand of KAOS was watered-down and decadent, adding "only in ''our'' country is there true KAOS!"

* In the 60s, the JamesBond franchise replaced SMERSH (a real-life Soviet counterespionage agency) with SPECTRE (a made-up international criminal/terrorist organization) to avoid trouble.

The use of this trope diminished in the 70s and 80s, partly because during detente it became customary to occasionally show Americans and Soviets working together against a common enemy, often [[WesternTerrorists Neo]]-[[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]], [[WarOnTerror Middle Eastern Terrorists]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Greedy Industrialists]], [[TheMafia Organized]] [[TheMafiya Crime]] or [[AlienInvasion Alien Invaders]]. It finally entered ForgottenTrope territory with [[TheGreatPoliticsMessUp the dissolution of the Soviet Union]], with subsequent works openly invoking the hammer and sickle in Cold War period pieces.

* Played straight in Creator/DataEast's ''Pinball/SecretService'' pinball, though a few references to "KGB agents" slipped through.

* An original ''TwilightZone'' episode, "Two", seems to follow this trope. Elizabeth Montgomery is very Soviet in uniform and appearance and her one line is "Precrassny", Russian for "pretty". Of course, it's clearly an AfterTheEnd AdamAndEvePlot with an explicitly ambiguous TranslationConvention, so perhaps not?
** Possible subversions: Two other original ''TwilightZone'' episodes, "Probe 7, Over And Out" and "Third from the Sun", use this trope, but it turns out at the end that the characters are NOT from or on Earth, respectively. In this case, it's to setup a world we THINK we know, and then hit us with the TwistEnding.

There are films and television shows, made in the [[TheFifties late '50s]] and [[TheSixties early '60s]], that are very reluctant to name the Soviets as the enemy opposing our heroic American protagonists. The setting is clearly the then-contemporary ColdWar; the bad guys of the plot clearly are agents of a certain Marxist-Leninist, monolithic, totalitarian world power, but words like Kremlin, Russians, and KGB never seem to come up.

* ''Anime/ZeroZeroNineOne'' is an anime produced in modern times but based on a manga from the ColdWar era. It constantly refers to the East Bloc and West Bloc without ever naming the Russians (or any country). The manga being unavailable in the US, it's hard to tell if this was a carryover from it or if the series was deliberately being {{Retraux}}.

* A post ColdWar example (in-universe as well as in RealLife): In ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'' it is revealed that one of the participants of WorldWarIII (from 2026 to 2053), and apparently as an enemy to the United States, was something called the Eastern Coalition.

* A few IsaacAsimov short stories is set in a world where the ColdWar has gone on for so long that most people don't even remember what the original names of the two power blocs are anymore, and simply referring to the two as "Them" and "Us" instead.

* ''The RockyAndBullwinkle Show'' had the villains Fearless Leader, Boris Badenov and Natasha Fatale come from the fictional country of Pottsylvania, a parody of a ColdWar-era eastern European country (possibly based on East Germany).

* [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jETJt_zbnKk This]] Soviet cartoon is set in "Some Land". "Some Land" includes a place named "Fifth Avenue", GratuitousEnglish writing, and a legislative body called "the Senate". Gee, I wonder what country that's supposed to be.

* The ''BigFinishDoctorWho: Destiny of the Doctor'' audio drama ''[[Recap/BigFinishDoctorWhoDOTD1HuntersOfEarth Hunters of Earth]]'' is set in 1963, and is all about the Cold War. But Captain Rook and Cedric only ever talk about "the Enemy". Confusingly, they also [[NoSwastikas only refer to the Nazis as "the Enemy"]].

* In ''{{Tintin}}'', the country of Borduria, with it's mustachioed dictator Kûrvi-Tasch ([[IncrediblyLamePun Pleksy-Gladz]] in the original French), is a fictional counterpart of the USSR, or, more likely, one of its satellite states.

* MarvelComics played with this trope. The USSR/Soviet Union were not always mentioned by name but terms like: Reds, Commies, Moscow and Kremlin were common. This let to odd situations. In the first issue of the Fantastic Four, they steal a space shuttle to beat the communists into space, given that no other nation had a space program at the time, it's a clear reference to the Soviet Space program. However the Soviets are just mentioned as Communists. In some cases they averted it, IronMan for example was injured in TheVietnamWar and it's stated to be as such. However a lot of these references were removed as time went on.

* The film ''Film/FantasticVoyage'' is an excellent example of this. Contemporary dress, cars, and attitudes set this firmly in the early 60s, but the opposing nation that has resources enough to have the same miniaturization technology and implied military might to make that possession dangerous as the US is never called anything but 'The Other Side'.

* Not made during the Cold War, and set much earlier but mentionable: the Creator/DonBluth animated film ''{{Anastasia}}'' ignores the politics of the Bolshevik Uprising (merging the February and October Revolutions into one event as well) and gives Rasputin a HistoricalVillainUpgrade to turn him into evil sorcerer who sold his soul to the devil for magic so he could kill the Romanov's.

* ''Film/InvasionUSA1952'' - not the Chuck Norris vehicle, but an earlier film that featured in MysteryScienceTheatre3000 - was a particularly odd case. The film portrays an invasion of the United States by obviously Soviet armed forces, aided by communist subversion, and comes across as a direct plea for increased defence spending to combat the RedScare. Nonetheless the invading force is always "the enemy", and the Soviet Union is never identified by name.

* The classic ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial ''Warriors of the Deep'' was in a nightmare future where two 'massive power blocs' were locked in... well, it was the cold war. But we only ever heard whoever the others were referred to as 'the opposing bloc'. Which was odd, considering two of the characters were undercover agents from their side and went on to refer to themselves as such after the reveal.

* [[http://www.kom-posti.fi/skp_logo.gif The logo of the Finnish Communist Party]], hammer and sickle avoided for historical reasons.
** [[SarcasmMode Would that include the Soviet Union invading Finland?]]
** That, and the fact that a major percentage of the Finnish Communists have traditionally held considerable antipathy towards the Soviet Union after Lenin's passing.

The use of this trope diminished in the 70s and 80s, partly because during detente it became customary to occasionally show Americans and Soviets working together against a common enemy, often [[WesternTerrorists Neo]]-[[ThoseWackyNazis Nazis]], [[WarOnTerror Middle Eastern Terrorists]], [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Greedy Industrialists]], [[TheMafia Organized]] [[TheMafiya Crime]] or [[AlienInvasion Alien Invaders]].