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Vladimir Lenin: The Face of Communism
For Ian Fleming and many of his generation, the Cold War began in October 1917 with the Russian Revolution led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin. He is depicted in this aluminum portrait that was used to decorate a truck in a Lithuanian parade circa the 1970s. In all but one of the Bond novels published in the 1950s, the enemy is either Soviet or Soviet-sponsored, and a strong anti-Soviet position is a persistent feature. In From Russia with Love, published in 1957, Fleming describes the Soviets as "masochists" and "among the cruelest peoples in the world."
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