User blog comment:20thCentFopp/Inside the Villainy of Genius: Iron Man and Anton Vanko/@comment-4651179-20131209220730/@comment-4652104-20131210075009

The whole image of a "former soviet officer wanting to bring back the power of the Soviet empire" is getting old. The kind of people in Russia, who have to influence and contacts to pull off a James Bond villain, are powerful oligarchs. They don't need to bring back the Soviet empire.

So yeah, it's all just fallout from the Cold War. And also one of the many examples of how little Amercians understand Russia.