 On the DVD Ultimate Edition, Director John Glen comments he picked  up Paul Hardwick for the role of the "Soviet Chairman" because he  was a Brezhnevs lookalike. The same thing had happened in  _For Your Eyes Only (1981)_ (qv), with Janet Brown (I) (qv) and  John Wells (I) (qv) impersonating the Thatchers:  Margaret Thatcher (qv) and Denis Thatcher (qv).