Russo-Ukrainian war: Strategic and economic theatres

[Albany Rifles]

So you're saying Peter Stromare never strolled into your quarters and said "ich bin hier to fix deine Cable"?

Quarters?!??!!

Hell no! I lived on the economy. No way was I going to live and Europe and hang out in a Little America enclave!

Lived in a farm town of about 1200 people. 2 restaurants and a brewery. It was a great place to live.

[Bigfella]

Well it's still a made-for-TV movie from the early 1980s and it's naturally going to show its age and origins. ("few artifacts of popular culture invite more condescension than the made-for-television movie". Network-made television movies in the United States have tended to be inexpensively-produced and perceived to be of low quality.")

At the same time, I watched it for the first time about 10+ years after it came out as a young adult, after the Cold War was long over and yes it was clearly a made-for-TV movie from the early 80s, loud and clear.

It also scared and depressed the living shit out of me. I don't think I'd ever seen anything so mind-boggling bleak and horrifying before or since. I can't imagine watching it in 1984 as an 8 year old.

A horror novel that came really damn close though was Swan Swan, which I read roughly around the same time. Holy shit that was depressing.


Threads, is likely the movie you're thinking of.

'Testament' is the one I was thinking of. Also 1983. Very bleak. :(

[TopHatter]

'Testament' is the one I was thinking of. Also 1983. Very bleak. :(

Just read the Wiki entry for that film. Dear god....

[Bigfella]

Just read the Wiki entry for that film. Dear god....

Like I said, not a great time to be a depressed teen.

[TopHatter]

Just learned there was a 4th film, not entirely similar but also about the effects of a nuclear detonation in a population center (Charleston SC) called Special Bulletin

[Amled]

Me I'm going to stream Dr. Strangelove.
Need a laugh!

[tbm3fan]

Just learned there was a 4th film, not entirely similar but also about the effects of a nuclear detonation in a population center (Charleston SC) called Special Bulletin

Never heard of that one but after reading a synopsis I won't go looking for it. Not because it would be depressing or anything along that line. It would be because they tried to disarm a nuclear device with many triggers in a harbor rather than towing the boat out to sea and sinking it. I'd be yelling idiots at the screen. I know it's a movie but they don't work that way for me as you should hear how often I yell at a screen for insulting my intelligence.

[TopHatter]

Never heard of that one but after reading a synopsis I won't go looking for it. Not because it would be depressing or anything along that line. It would be because they tried to disarm a nuclear device with many triggers in a harbor rather than towing the boat out to sea and sinking it. I'd be yelling idiots at the screen. I know it's a movie but they don't work that way for me as you should hear how often I yell at a screen for insulting my intelligence.

Maybe there was some reason mentioned in the movie that precluded them from moving the boat. In any case, it's a TV movie, so....yeah.

[Gun Grape]

In the late 80s I was assigned to a Nuclear Ordinance Platoon. We use to laugh at those movies

Effect of a nuclear war, think Hiroshima/Nagasaki and the surrounding areas. Not Chernobyl

[TopHatter]

In the late 80s I was assigned to a Nuclear Ordinance Platoon. We use to laugh at those movies

Effect of a nuclear war, think Hiroshima/Nagasaki and the surrounding areas. Not Chernobyl

I remember in The Day After they included a disclaimer to the effect that they deliberately toned down the damage caused by nuclear weapons...otherwise there wouldn't be much of a story to tell.

[Albany Rifles]

I am so glad I was in Germany during all of these shows.

All I had in Germany was 99 Luftballoons by Nena and protesters at the new Pershing 2 sites.

[Officer of Engineers]

protesters at the new Pershing 2 sites.

Probably those movies added to the protest numbers. I remember those days. Protesters deemed surrender without firing a shot is better than WWIII. I remember thinking that they were Moscow's 5th Column.

[Albany Rifles]

Probably those movies added to the protest numbers. I remember those days. Protesters deemed surrender without firing a shot is better than WWIII. I remember thinking that they were Moscow's 5th Column.

I remember when The Wall came down and Eastern European archives were opened up there was ample proof that the Western peace movements were heavily infiltrated by Warsaw Pact intelligence agencies.

[Gun Grape]

I am so glad I was in Germany during all of these shows.

All I had in Germany was 99 Luftballoons by Nena and protesters at the new Pershing 2 sites.

I saw Nena at a club in Hamburg 86ish. About 2 months after we got back to the State's that song was on every station.

That and drinking St Pauli Girl beers in the St Pauli district is about all that 23 year old Jarhead remembers about that port call

[Albany Rifles]

I saw Nena at a club in Hamburg 86ish. About 2 months after we got back to the State's that song was on every station.

That and drinking St Pauli Girl beers in the St Pauli district is about all that 23 year old Jarhead remembers about that port call

Yeah we got her on real time in 83-84 on German radio. Preferred Stuttgarter Hofbrau!