>>I saw this when in it hit theatres. It was funny then, grim now.
It's sort of funny that there are still heads exploding about Russians, except that these days the "Reds under the Bed" are "the Nazi Russians under Stormy's skirts". Both equally ridiculous but as you say, not as funny except maybe to those who still guffaw at spiteful late night "comedians".
"... They ne'er cared for us
yet: suffer us to famish, and their store-houses
crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to
support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act
established against the rich, and provide more
piercing statutes daily, to chain up and restrain
the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and
there's all the love they bear us."
-- Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act 1, scene 1
