User blog comment:20thCentFopp/Inside the Villainy of Genius: Iron Man and Anton Vanko/@comment-4651179-20131209220730/@comment-23748647-20131210032812

We often see it. But Anton isn't really trying to instil Communism or anything in the comic. He just wants to defeat Iron Man to prove his suit is better. That's why he defects at the end when Krushchev betrays him. This is just, at it's core, a wrestling match between two minds. The politics is shove to the corner and actually forces Anton to give over all he is. That's inter.