By Stephen Adams
Last Updated: 11:15PM GMT 31 Oct 2008
Quantum of Solace girl accused of betrayal by Russian communists
The new James Bond girl has been accused of betraying her motherland by communists who see her fling with 007 as a metaphor for "sleeping with the West".
Ukrainian Olga Kurylenko, 28, plays a Russian-Bolivian agent who falls for Bond in Quantum of Solace, which opens in cinemas across Britain on Friday night.
But the Communist Party of St Petersburg is taking the action movie very seriously indeed, having accused her of helping "a man who worked for decades under the orders of Thatcher and Reagan to destroy the USSR."
In a message on the party's website, it said: "The Soviet Union educated you, cared for you and brought you up for free but no one suspected that you would commit this act of intellectual and moral betrayal."
The party went on to appeal to Kurylenko to use her feminine wiles to get Bond - or Daniel Craig - to "tell what other plans are being written in the Pentagon and Hollywood to discredit Russia and drive a wedge between the Russian and Ukrainian people."
The party's leader, Sergei Malinkovich, said: "Everyone knows that the CIA and MI6 finance James Bond films as a special operation of psychological warfare against us. This Ukranian girl sleeps with Bond and that means that Ukraine is sleeping with the West."
He added: "Now she has the right to choose - to become a collaborator or capture Craig and hand him over to the Russian security services for interrrogation.”
"According to our records, Craig works for American intelligence.”
Kurylenko grew up in Berdyansk, a port on the Black Sea, but moved to Paris to model aged 16.
While the Communist Party of St Petersburg may sound from its website attack like a party of the loony fringe, it is actually a major force in the city's politics.
and worse still is they are a major force in politics 