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Xavier Breath

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4. I remember the Soviets throwing a hissy fit

Reply to keep_left (Reply #3)

Thu Jun 23, 2022, 05:05 PM

Jun 2022

over the miniseries airing on ABC, but then I watched it and wondered what all the fuss was about. Yeah, it made them out to be the baddies, but it was so (as you mentioned) cheesy that it was difficult to take seriously.

In the pantheon of '80s miniseries, it was certainly no "V."

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We're not gonna take it -- Let's bring back "Amerika." [View all] ificandream Jun 2022 OP

I also really love this version Ohio Joe Jun 2022 #1

Dee Snyder is definitely progressive SouthernIrish Jun 2022 #2

"Amerika" was also the name of a miniseries in the late '80s about a Soviet... keep_left Jun 2022 #3

I remember the Soviets throwing a hissy fit Xavier Breath Jun 2022 #4

Yeah, it was no "Thorn Birds" or "Winds of War", either. And of course, today we're dealing with... keep_left Jun 2022 #6

I don't think that the Russian psy ops are sophisticated. Caliman73 Jun 2022 #5

See reply #6. You're correct, the approach was really crude. It didn't work on educated people... keep_left Jun 2022 #7

The educated people thought they could control the movement to their own ends. Caliman73 Jun 2022 #8