Season 3 and especially 4 is full of the laziest anti-communist and Russophobic tropes. All Russians are cartoon villains with no personality besides cruelty and vodka, its always winter in Russia, everything in Russia is run-down and ugly, etc., etc. The one nice Russian guy just wants to escape and become American but then he's killed by, you guessed it, an evil Russian.
It makes sense to the storyline that the USSR would be poking around in the same stuff that the yanks are. Maybe something interesting could have been made of yanks and Soviets having to pool their knowledge and cooperate to fight the otherworldly monsters but the writers passed on that chance and did two seasons of cardboard cutout red scare bogeymen instead.
Season 3 and especially 4 is full of the laziest anti-communist and Russophobic tropes. All Russians are cartoon villains with no personality besides cruelty and vodka, its always winter in Russia, everything in Russia is run-down and ugly, etc., etc. The one nice Russian guy just wants to escape and become American but then he's killed by, you guessed it, an evil Russian.
It makes sense to the storyline that the USSR would be poking around in the same stuff that the yanks are. Maybe something interesting could have been made of yanks and Soviets having to pool their knowledge and cooperate to fight the otherworldly monsters but the writers passed on that chance and did two seasons of cardboard cutout red scare bogeymen instead.