When Indiana Jones fought Nazis back in his movies made in the 1980s, any old German war criminals hiding out in Brazil and keeping up their subscription to Variety were probably just grateful to be remembered. They sure didn't call any press conferences. But now that Indy is fighting a hot KGB agent (played by Cate Blanchett in She-Wolf of Siberia drag) in Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, some old Russian Communist party members are peeved. These guys have been stubbornly holding onto the faith since the collapse of the Soviet Union more than fifteen years ago, and now, as if they didn't have it tough enough, they have to put up with Harrison Ford prancing across the screen to rub it in their faces? "What galls," says one party member, Viktor Perov, "is how together with America we defeated Hitler, and how we sympathized when Bin Laden hit them. But they go ahead and scare kids with Communists. These people have no shame." Sure, sure, but what have done for us lately? And don't think we've forgotten about The Blue Bird, Comrade.

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