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The 90s resulted in people in the west being way less harsh on communism in fiction, because as far as the west was concerned, communism had "failed." You can't make an intimidating and scary villain who also has an "incompetent" and "failed" ideology behind them. This is why the only communist villains from that time are in stuff like the Red Alert series, silly, campy villains trying to undo and rewrite history, relics of bygone era.
That explains a lot, actually.