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Cold War Power Plays
The Cold War was a struggle over which political system would dominate the world: Western democracy or Soviet communism. When international tensions eased briefly in the early 1960s, the Soviets and political organizations in the Fleming books were replaced with Ernst Stavro Blofeld and SPECTRE, his worldwide criminal organization.
The seven SPECTRE films capitalized on Cold War fears of international espionage, economic sabotage, the space race, and nuclear proliferation and blackmail. SPECTRE is a lurking menage large enough to challenge the superpowers and take advantage of their unstable relations. However, East and West also often found themselves as SPECTRE's co-victims, forced to work together -- a trend eventually seen in the real world. |