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Henchwomen
Rosa Klebb / Tatiana Romanova
Soviet Stereotypes?
Former Soviet Colonel Rosa Klebb was Head of Operations and Executions for SMERSH before becoming SPECTRE's No. 3. She tries to entrap Bond in From Russia with Love, recruiting clerk Tatiana Romanova to seduce 007 so assassin Red Grant can murder him. Klebb's name is a play on the words with khleb i razy ("bread and roses"), a popular Soviet women's rights slogan. The female characters represent two 1960s Soviet stereotypes: the humorless bureaucrat and the seductress. But the movie helps confirm the allure of capitalism, because both choose to defect: Klebb for a life of crime in the "private sector," and Romanova for love and the materialism of the West. |