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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Amerika" (1987 miniseries imagining a future U.S. conquered by the Soviet Union)
Anyone remember this? It was one of those odd occasions when normally safe 80s TV decided to dip their toes into sci-fi or speculative fiction and throw real money at it (Other examples including "The Day After," the two "V" miniseries and "Twin Peaks). Big budget imagining of what the U.S. would be like if the U.S.S.R. both won the Cold War and took us over.
Johonny
(22,243 posts)About Canada taking over the US was better.
ChicagoRonin
(711 posts)Glad to know someone else remembered that as well.
John Farmer
(234 posts)Many are even closer
Irish_Dem
(59,719 posts)JustAnotherGen
(33,821 posts)My dad was a military officer who (no other way to say it ) had two mantras:
Better dead than Red
I hate the fucking Russians
Korean Vietnam War Era - Green Beret.
Made us watch it. He had several nights of PTSD nightmares after watching this and Red Dawn.
Also - we had to do survival training in the Adirondacks, this girly girl can kill and field dress game, and he liked to point out that if escaped enslaved people could get across the Niagara river - so could we.
I'm brainwashed so will see myself out of the discussion now.
LeftInTX
(30,610 posts)Lt Col USAF, B29 pilot. Korea, Vietnam
He also had the first two mantras.
However, no direct combat like Green Berets.
You get the idea.
JustAnotherGen
(33,821 posts)Archae
(46,892 posts)I saw about 10 minutes of it, saw that it was pure bullshit.
Ludicrously simplistic right-wing jingoism.
Overthrowing Soviet forces with loudspeaker trucks reciting the Pledge of Allegiance? Rifle-toting farmers taking on the Red Army? It felt like an NRA wet dream.
irisblue
(34,412 posts)WhiskeyGrinder
(24,100 posts)John1956PA
(3,432 posts)The introduction explains how the Russians brought down the U.S. military defenses. Years ago, on DU, there was a discussion about this aspect of the plot.
pansypoo53219
(21,789 posts)Bo Zarts
(25,711 posts)J.D.Vance!
tinymontgomery
(2,684 posts)Nazi's took over America.