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June 5, 2019 at 1:43 pm #1400427

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Dammit guys spoilers 🙂

It did bug me a little how they treated life in the USSR even on it’s Deathbed. You would not have called anyone a “Gentlemen” (It would be like going in to a board meeting and just dropping an N bomb) and the constant threats to have people shot are more 40K than USSR, they didn’t need to threaten you they just had to tell you what to do and you knew what would happen if you didn’t the Society was far more subtle and implied but I do understand this is TV and they need to make the danger very clear to the viewer. No Soviet would be shocked at how inefficient the USSR was, come on it took upwards of 7 years to get a car no one would be shocked the Soviet System was arbitrary or slow and they certainly wouldn’t have said anything about it openly especially not to an apparatchik.

@bobcockayne totally agree with all your points especially the second one, the Soviets absolutely would have sent men through to the area, they wouldn’t have cared about the effects in 10 or so years. If you kill tens of Millions of people in Gulags and Mass Executions you’ve pretty much shown the world you could care less about your own people’s well being.

It really was a great series hopefully we get more of these type of things in the future.