Bond Behind the Iron Curtain

Just when you thought there was nothing left to say about James Bond or his creator, Ian Fleming, comes Bond Behind the Iron Curtain by James Fleming (Ian Fleming’s nephew) which looks at the world’s most famous secret agent from a completely different angle: through the eyes of the communist bloc. Even before the film…

James Bond vs. the USSR

Article by Michael Connick There is no doubt that government officials of the Soviet Union, and especially those in the KGB, viewed Ian Fleming’s James Bond stories as dangerous anti-Soviet propaganda. Both the books and films were banned in the Soviet Union. Komsomolskaya Pravda, the official newspaper of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, blasted…