New Bond girl: A traitor to the Soviet Union
“Christ, I miss the cold war,” grumbled the exasperated M, played by Judi Dench, in the last James Bond film Casino Royale. She’s apparently not the only one. Russian Communists are attacking Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko, co-star of the new film, Quantum of Solace, for palling around with 007, a known “enemy of the Soviet ...
"Christ, I miss the cold war," grumbled the exasperated M, played by Judi Dench, in the last James Bond film Casino Royale. She's apparently not the only one. Russian Communists are attacking Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko, co-star of the new film, Quantum of Solace, for palling around with 007, a known "enemy of the Soviet people":
“Christ, I miss the cold war,” grumbled the exasperated M, played by Judi Dench, in the last James Bond film Casino Royale. She’s apparently not the only one. Russian Communists are attacking Ukrainian actress Olga Kurylenko, co-star of the new film, Quantum of Solace, for palling around with 007, a known “enemy of the Soviet people”:
“In the name of all communists we appeal to you, Olga Kurylenko, wanton daughter of unclean Ukraine and deserter of the Slavic world. The Soviet Union educated you, cared for you, and brought you up for free, but no one suspected that you would commit this act of intellectual and moral betrayal,” the St. Petersburg-based KPLO group’s statement read, going on to call James Bond “the killer of hundreds of Soviet people and their allies […] Your peers are engaged in struggles against NATO and you lounge around on the Cote d’Azur. How could you desert your homeland in its moment of need? Do you really want Crimean girls to be raped by cruel and stupid American marines?”
I’m sure proletarians everywhere are glad they took this principled stand against a fictional character.
Photo: VALERY HACHE/AFP/Getty Images
Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating
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