Actually, I've thought about this a bit more and while the term Commies certainly fits the era, and while it might well work still today with American audiences (not sure about that though - guys get back to me on that one) it will, as Finn says, still smack of McCarthyism which to a lot of the rest of the world (as well as to a decent chunk of American audiences I guess) was a pretty vile era in US politics. We had a mini-version of it here in Australia too, though the Communist Party was never banned like it was in the USA.
(My grandfather, who was what we call a "wharfie" i.e. a dockside worker, told me that back in the day his trade union was a Communist trade union, whatever that entails. He didn't tell me much, but one thing I remember is that he said that the union achieved a lot of good things, such as teaching men how to read.)
So I certainly wouldn't want to tar Indy with a McCarthyist brush! That would make him seem too right-wing, to me at least. Calling them "the Russians" flags that they are an outside power posing a threat to the US and the rest of the Western world, which is exactly what they were in the film.
(My grandfather, who was what we call a "wharfie" i.e. a dockside worker, told me that back in the day his trade union was a Communist trade union, whatever that entails. He didn't tell me much, but one thing I remember is that he said that the union achieved a lot of good things, such as teaching men how to read.)
So I certainly wouldn't want to tar Indy with a McCarthyist brush! That would make him seem too right-wing, to me at least. Calling them "the Russians" flags that they are an outside power posing a threat to the US and the rest of the Western world, which is exactly what they were in the film.
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