Just one of a number of problems with 2010 the biggest being that it was mostly literal rather than artsy the way Kubrick did it And if neither Russian nor Soviet is used in the film we can t very well use it in this article either unless we can find citations that declare them to be Soviets or Russians as Americans would say though they could just as easily be Ukranian And what they later decided to do in 2010 has no bearing on a discussionof 2001