General Orlov

General Orlov

James Bond Character
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name= General Orlov
portrayed=Steven Berkoff
gender=Male
age= mid-40's
affiliation=Soviet Army/Kamal Khan
status=Deceased
role=Villain

General Orlov is a fictional character and villain in the James Bond film "Octopussy", played by Steven Berkoff.

Orlov is a megalomaniacal Soviet General who believes that the Warsaw Pact has a decisive advantage over NATO in conventional military strength that is being tossed away by its leaders in détente. Rejecting their diplomacy, he advocates a massive military attack in Europe to seize dominance of the continent and call (what he thinks is) NATO's nuclear bluff. However, his proposal for a full-scale invasion of Europe is flatly rejected, with General Gogol being the loudest voice, because NATO would respond with nuclear strikes that would escalate the conflict to a global nuclear war.

To eliminate that objection, Orlov's plan involves the detonation of an atomic bomb at a circus performance inside a United States Air Force base in West Germany. The effects of the bomb would be indistinguishable from American atomic bombs, and the explosion would be assumed to be an accident (as a nuclear strike would trigger the Air Force's early warning systems), prompting nuclear disarmanent throughout the West and the East. Under Orlov's reasoning, with the nuclear factor taken out of the equation, the superior numbers of the Soviets would then be able to defeat the West without threat of nuclear reprisal, or even resistance, from NATO.

Orlov's accomplice in this scheme is Kamal Khan, an exiled Afghan prince involved in jewelry smuggling. He pays Khan by stealing priceless Fabergé eggs from state depositories and replacing them with counterfeits. He gets Bond's attention when MI6 agent 009, who had been working undercover, is killed with one of the counterfeits in his possession in West Germany.

Bond eventually confronts Orlov and attempts to force him to stop the train carrying the bomb. When Russian troops intervene, Orlov escapes and pursues Bond to the border by car. Orlov is killed when he tries to jump onto the back of the circus train crossing the border between East and West Germany and is gunned down. By this point, General Gogol had discovered Orlov's role in the jewellery smuggling. As Gogol calls him a disgrace, Orlov utters his last words: "Yes, but tomorrow, I shall be a Hero of the Soviet Union," unaware that James Bond is about to foil the scheme.


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