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This is more for fun than anything because it's hard to picture a scenario where it would actually happen, but:

I was watching the opening sequence for GoldenEye again and recalling that it made a powerful impression on me when I saw the film premiere in 1995 at the age of eleven, because it was only then I think that I really realised how bitter and ideological the Cold War had been: though I remember the Cold War, it was towards the end of Gorbachev's power and by that point the USSR was "just that big green country on the map", not The Enemy or even An Enemy.

Anyway, that opening features a couple of powerful scenes where it shows various Soviet symbols and statues being destroyed as a metaphor for the breakup of the USSR (inevitably causing the Communist Party of the Russian Federation to complain ;) ).

The challenge is: what sorts of symbols and statues would have been substituted if the film had instead been made in a world where the Soviets won the Cold War and it was showing the downfall of the West?
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