>>6245236>Cold War, Eastern Bloc settingThis is somewhat underexplored, I know of one ttrpg Night's Black Agents (I think it is the GUMSHOE investigative rpg ruleset?) that has a vampire espionage / Cold War setting theme, I remember a clever mechanic from that game called Symbol / Solace / Safety where you use generated character relationship contacts to "heal" (ie similar to film drama scenes, you would return to a mentor or trusted colleague etc to psychologically recover from trauma) but there was also a possibility of being burned ie having your haven or safe house or colleague attacked as a consequence of a failed mission etc.
I researched the Cold War setting but to be honest I am not very well informed or immersed about it on a historical level, I would be interested if someone else constructed the background research hehe, it is just easier to do dungeons or cyber cities or space stations lol, but I suppose some visual inspirations you could adapt include that Baader-Meinhof Complex (2008) film, those art installation taxonomies of factory equipment by Bernd and Hilla Becher for that East German bleak industrial aesthetic (though don't stray too much into STALKER Shadow Of Chernobyl or Escape From Tarkov territory lol).
There is that Luca Guadagnino film (2018) that redid Suspiria, the original Dario Argento horror film (1977) had some very very subtle buried Cold War themes (eg one character suspiciously named Olga, hehe) but Luca Guadagnino overdid it he went FULL DEUTSCHLAND with the setting in an East German dance academy, whereas Argento is famous for doing the harsh red green disorientating saturated colours, Guadagnino just made everything grey and Eastern European, something something witchcraft Tilda Swinton gets semi-decapitated and then the holocaust (?) that lady from Fifty Shades Of Grey also is in it but she does not get out her breasts, I was not too impressed by the film though it does feature a scene where a woman dancer gets all of her limbs mangled by invisible WITCHCRAFT force.
Anyway here is a good song from the film OST, it is the Radiohead man moan singing
Suspirium, Thom Yorke (Suspiria 2018 OST)
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GhD75FBAH5MThis is a waltz, thinking -
About our bodies
What they mean?
For our salvation
With only the clothes
That we stand up in
Just the ground
On which we stand
Is the darkness
Ours to take?
Bathed in lightness
Bathed in heat
[Verse 2]
All is well
As long as we keep spinning
Here and now
Dancing behind a wall
Hear the old songs
And laughter within
All forgiven
Always and never been true
[Verse 3]
When I arrive
Will you come and find me?
Or in a crowd
Be one of them?
Mother wants us
Back beside her
No tomorrows
At peace
