The Soviets (Union of Soviet Socialist Republics called also simply, CCCP or USSR) are the main antagonists of the 2008 action-adventure film Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, the fourth installment in the Indiana Jones franchise.
They are, just like in real-life, the Russian communist military of Soviet Russia under the leadership of Joseph Stalin, who become the enemies of the Imperialist United States of America following the Nazi Party's downfall after World War II, aiming at the possibilities of psychic warface. Indiana Jones comes across Soviets since at least 1947, but they become a genuine obstacle in 1957 when Stalin's protegé Irina Spalko looks after the Crystal Skull of Akator.
History[]
Beginning in 1917 as Henry Walton Jones, Jr. was becoming the intrepid archaeologist best known as Indiana Jones, Joseph Stalin began the quest for the Crystal Skulls, with his second-in-command, Irina Spalko, to world domination and knowledge of the universe.
In 1947, Indiana Jones first comes across the Soviets when a Soviet unit led by Nadia Kirov captures him in their search to stop Dr. Matthias Jäger and his acolytes, like Dunkelvolk, from finding the Philosopher's Stone to use it to bring back to life an army of undead Nazi Party members. However, Jones and Kirov ultimately join forces and manage to stop Jäger. Later that year, Jones comes across Dr. Gennadi Volodnikov and his Soviets, who try to find the Tower of Babylon, supposedly to contact the Babylonian deity Marduk, but Jones ends up realizing how CIA agent Simon Turner is twisting things against Volodnikov in his search to stop all Communism, leading Indy to turn against Turner, save the world and part ways with Volodnikov as friends.
However, as in real life, Stalin dies on March 5, 1953, of a stroke, but his protégé Irina Spalko wanted to finish what her boss had started. Although Stalin's successor Nikita Khrushchev doesn't believe in psychic warfare as his predecessor did, Khrushchev still gives Spalko his approval, with Spalko hoping that the Crystal Skull of Akator could possibly change Khrushchev's mind.
In 1957, Spalko kidnaps Harold Oxley, who was suspected of obtaining a Crystal Skull, and conspires with Indy's friend George McHale to join them only temporarily so that he would bring Indiana Jones to her and force him to help them, thus then also kidnapping Jones' son Mutt Williams and his ex-girlfriend Marion Ravenwood. However, many of the Soviets get killed in a chase, most notably Colonel Antonin Dovchenko by red ants, and Spalko believes she was victorious once she findd the Skull, but the Interdimensional Beings of Akator kill her and her remaining Soviets, who get all sucked into an unknown dimension through their UFO engines, thus losing and leaving Stalin's plans in vain.
By 1969, it can be presumed that the Soviet Union still thrives despite Spalko's death twelve years ago, now aiming at beating out America in the Space Race. However, thanks to the NASA's many scientists, among them Dr. Jürgen Voller, America manages to win the Space Race by sending the Apollo 11 to the Moon, where Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins land, defeating the Soviets once more.
As in real life, in 1992, the Soviet Union organization finally dissolves. They also presumably return Indy's diary, which the KGB somehow confiscated during the search for the Crystal Skulls, by 1993 to a now elder Jones, who lives off his days accompanied by his daughter, his many grandchildren, his neighbours and friends.
Trivia[]
- In-universe, it's unknown why didn't Indiana Jones think about looking out for his past Soviet contacts, like Nadia Kirov or Gennadi Volodnikov, to somehow force Irina Spalko to back off during the events of Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull.
External Links[]
- Soviet Union on the Indiana Jones Wiki
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