Now where was I?
At the end of last week I promised to follow-up with you about the Bond Girl, Olga Kurylenko, who featured as the subject of Something for the Weekend # 4. And judging by your emails, she was a very popular subject.
That’s my genius.
It seems, however, that certain parties are not as impressed. The London Telegraph reports:
The Communists of St. Petersburg and Leningrad Region, a hardline splinter group, issued a blood-curdling tirade against Kurylenko, saying that she had betrayed her homeland by appearing with James Bond and deserved the fate of World War II traitors who slept with “enemies of the people.”
In a Stalinist-style open letter, posted on its website yesterday, the Communists described James Bond as an “American spy” who had killed “hundreds of Soviet people and their allies.”
Before we dissect this, let’s remind ourselves just who this is aimed at:
Hi. It's me - from Friday.
There appears to be a disconnect, somewhere. First, unless I am very much mistaken, the Bond films are fictional. Second, Bond is supposed to be British, and third (and this is what perplexes me the most) Russia isn’t communist any more. Is it?
The Telegraph’s final paragraph puts it in context. Clearly someone in the press office at the Communist Party of St. Petersburg is having a laugh at the expense of the western media:
The group, which claims 500 members, has also condemned Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, which features an evil KGB agent played by Cate Blanchett.