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Comrade Detective
2017 · TV series · 40 min episodes · 1 season
Created by Alessandro Tanaka, Brian Gatewood
In the 1980s, millions of Romanians tuned in to Comrade Detective, a gritty, sexy, communist buddy cop show that has now been digitally remastered and dubbed into English for the first time.
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Anecdotally since I see people referring to other Soviet TV shows making their way to Western audiences a friend turned me to on Comrade Detective. It's a fascinating view into propaganda as entertainment from the Cold War. It's free on Amazon Prime's streaming service.
From IMDB:
Parody comedy designed to resemble a non-existent gritty 1980's Cold War Romanian police show that promoted Communist ideals. The action-packed and blood-soaked first season finds Detectives Gregor Anghel and Joseph Baciu investigating the murder of fellow officer Nikita Ionescu and, in the process, unraveling a subversive plot to destroy their country that is fueled by what-else-but the greatest enemy: Capitalism.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5834198/
Off Topic.
If one is interested in Romanian TV shows...
"Comrade Detective" was a pretty good show.
There's a dubbed version available on Amazon IIRC.