DBWI: What is life in Amerika like Since 1987?

Dan1988;3241804 OOC: :o I'm sorry for that on my end - it's the end of the school year said:
some[/I] form of normalcy going on (as well as a different point of view), so I'm sorry if I gave off vibes like that. Will do better next time.

OCC: wow dude, WOW, you just over threw EVERY thing I posted, what was the reason other than you didn't like it? there Is a MAJOR difference between giving a different view or adding info to something and just saying "that didn't happen!"
 
OCC: wow dude, WOW, you just over threw EVERY thing I posted, what was the reason other than you didn't like it? there Is a MAJOR difference between giving a different view or adding info to something and just saying "that didn't happen!"

OOC: The simplest answer is that I'm stressed out and very nervous (I could go into detail, but then it would be very personal) - it's the end of the school year and final exams are around the corner - my first exam is Friday, and my last one is the 21st of this month. Does that help?
 
OOC: The simplest answer is that I'm stressed out and very nervous (I could go into detail, but then it would be very personal) - it's the end of the school year and final exams are around the corner - my first exam is Friday, and my last one is the 21st of this month. Does that help?

OCC: you are forgiven, listen to some Mika or Lady Gaga, remember to breath(I hear thats a good thing) and if you need some one to talk I'm here (damn near 24 hours a day)
 
From what I'm told, no such fleet exists, in spite of the fact that a large number of America's Trident and Poseidon armed ballistic missile submarines, and three dozen Sturgeon and Los Angeles class nuclear submarines (some armed with Tomahawk nuclear cruise missiles), were at sea at the time of the Soviet backstab. After they lost contact with the lawful US authorities, they followed a nuclear-war contingency plan and sailed for a number of English speaking US allies. Exactly what went where is still not public knowledge, but Canada's acquisition of six dozen Trident C-4 Submarine Launched Ballistic Missiles can be explained under this light. Other such weapons have appeared in the arsenals of Australia, New Zealand, Great Britain, and South Africa.

Of course, it seems that most of what the US had at the time got scuttled or blown up to keep the Soviets from getting it.
The thing that bothers me is the persistence of the story. I remember the movie Crimson Tide (1995), wherein the Soviet forces encounter the mad U.S. Captain Frank Ramsey, and his crazed attempt to sink the Soviet Pacific Fleet elements at San Diego. I know it was a stupid film, but the fact that the rumor popped up in that film, seems to give it some credence....
 
The thing that bothers me is the persistence of the story. I remember the movie Crimson Tide (1995), wherein the Soviet forces encounter the mad U.S. Captain Frank Ramsey, and his crazed attempt to sink the Soviet Pacific Fleet elements at San Diego. I know it was a stupid film, but the fact that the rumor popped up in that film, seems to give it some credence....

It comes from the Americans holding onto hope that somewhere there is a force that will one day come home, kick out the communists, dispose of the Quislings and the tyrants, and in the end, set things right. A forlorn hope, but a hope nonetheless. The only force that can do all of the above is the American people themselves, but until they believe that, it won't happen.

Crimson Tide wasn't at all bad, for a Bollywood drama. (Their comedies and musicals are usually good, their action flicks, not so much...) Given how it ends (Ramsey sinks most of his intended targets before a Soviet nuclear depth charge ends his assault), it is no wonder that the film is still banned in Commie-Yankee land. The special effects were top notch in '95, and still hold up. Especially the bit where the cruise missiles launched from the Dallas sink both the Kiev and the Kursk...

IIRC, originally, Ramsey's submarine was supposed to be an Ohio-class SSBN, and his goal was to be to cripple the USSR with a surprise nuclear attack. The script got changed early on because the studio thought that Ramsey as an anti-hero would sell better than Ramsey as a psychotic villain.
 
Crimson Tide wasn't at all bad, for a Bollywood drama. (Their comedies and musicals are usually good, their action flicks, not so much...)

Hey now - these things take time when producers go into new genres - and particularly in the case of Indian cinema, which is trying to avoid being typecast. Remember how the Canadian film industry had to adjust when all of a sudden it was now producing movies at an American rate and started investing heavily in English-language and French-language films, like that French-language remake of Jesus Christ Superstar in the streets of Québec City? (I wonder how they managed to get all those hot actors - seriously.) The same is true of Indian cinema. Recently there was an action film that was originally entirely in Tamil, but was dubbed over into English - the dubbing was bad, but the film was much improved from Crimson Tide.
 
This pretty much sums up life in the USSA today

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One thing that disturbs me is the nature of American Self-Defense Force (ASDF) since 1989, which is structured much in the same way as the German military in the Weimar Republic. The way it has been set up, once the Soviet forces eventually leave, the American government, whether in Heartland, or California, or even in Texas, will almost surely become a dictatorship rather than the worker's state that Moscow wants to develop....
 
Privyet, tovarisches! (Hello, mates! Greetings from the other side of the Atlantic.)

What is the current state of your infrastructure, communications, and trade in the American SSR?

Sorry for my English, I know you Soviet Yanks speak a different type of English than we Soviet Brits do. :D

I might get in trouble for even asking this question, you all know how things are here in the British SSR.

Crimson Tide wasn't at all bad, for a Bollywood drama. (Their comedies and musicals are usually good, their action flicks, not so much...) Given how it ends (Ramsey sinks most of his intended targets before a Soviet nuclear depth charge ends his assault), it is no wonder that the film is still banned in Commie-Yankee land. The special effects were top notch in '95, and still hold up. Especially the bit where the cruise missiles launched from the Dallas sink both the Kiev and the Kursk.

I enjoyed Crimson Tide. If I recall correctly, director Toshan Sevak got into a lot of trouble with the Soviet authorities for making that film. I hear he's making a new film about the Soviet push into then-West Germany and Keflavik-Reykavik from the perspective of the Icelandic and then-West Germans; early screenplay previews have given us the initials, RSR. Needless to say, the Soviets won't enjoy it.

One rumor that has been running wild since 1987, has been the rumor of the "Phantom Fleet" or "Ghost Fleet". The idea is that there still exists a small set of Seawolf and Trident subamarines that remain along the Pacific Northwest and Atlantic Seaboard, which contain the last "free" remnants of the U.S. Navy. If you believe the story, when they lost communications signals with the U.S. government in 1987 due to the EMP attacks, they disappeared and remained undetected, only to appear to gain food and supplies in different cities. Has anyone heard this story?

Nonsense, everybody knows the Seawolf subs never finished development and the Ohio subs were scrapped.
 
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Has anyone read the underground novel seriesby expatriate Harry Turtletaub, How Few Remain(1999-2009)? I know it is banned in most parts of the Soviet-controlled world, but it was released throughout the Pacific Rim, starting in the Philippines. The novel posits the idea that the "August Coup" of 1987 never took place, and that Mikhail Gorbachev stayed in power. He creates a world wherein the Soviet Union collapses in 1991. To make things seem terribly implausible, he has an African-American senator, from Lincoln's home state of Illinois, rise to power in presidential elections. He even has Alaskan rebel leader Sarah Palin makes her appearence in the novel....
 
Can´t say the events are all bad for north americans, netherless, on a national average IQ tests in 2008 showed + 20 points over IQ tests in 1986...
 
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