Sexy Mother Russia Talking With Burritos

This is not about elections, steel dossiers, or FBI reports I will never read. This is all about how sexy, crazy, cool, and dangerous those Russians can be on screen and off.
Movies with actors doing Russian Things:
Vanessa Angel from Spies Like Us Viggo Mortenson from that one killer movie, Eastern Promises Everyone in White Nights. Even Gregory Hines, a defector from the U.S. Mikhail Baryshnikov, Helen Mirren, and Isabella Rossellini Salt - Angelina Jolie Red Sparrow is a film, starring Jennifer Lawrence, about a young ballerina recruited into an elite organization of spies who use sex, not guns as a weapon. 
Red Sparrow opened at the wrong time of the #metoo movement, or was it just in time to justify the cause? This, That and Other News
The case of Sergei and Anna Chapman.  Maria Butina who sales couches and US gun toting charm. This guy fakes his own death to elude an assassination plot.  Sex coaches offer up the goods, America doesn't bite.  The Cold War scare. Even in the early eighties, we had to prepare for a potential bomb scare/ nuclear fallout. Duck and cover. Links to articles reference on this podcast.
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