Visual of a badly damaged, war-torn Moscow, refugees huddle in the streets.
The Kremlin - inside.
We see people busy removing books and papers from the shelves. A big image of Leonid Trotsky is carried away.
A minister and a general enter the room.
MINISTER BREZHNEV
The premier is gone!
GENERAL KUKOV
Yes, the coward has already fled! The USSR is as good as destroyed, comrade.
MINISTER BREZHNEV
Which is why we must hurry!
The minister removes a statue of Lenin and presses a secret button.
A secret entrance to a lift opens.
MINISTER BREZHNEV
Sir, I beg you, please!
The general enters the lift, the secret passage closes behind them.
GENERAL KUKOV
What is this? Some sort of escape route?
MINISTER BREZHNEV
No sir, a twelve month ago, I was put in charge of a top secret project.
GENERAL KUKOV
Whatever it is, it is too late.
MINISTER BREZHNEV
With respect, general, you are wrong.
The lift stops.
MINISTER BREZHNEV
Please.
The lift's door opens.
MINISTER BREZHNEV
For you see, sir, time is on our side.
We see a huge, barely lighted hall. A strange machine is in the center. Two scientists in white coats are standing in front of it.
SCIENTIST
No! No, no, no! It isn't ready! It hasn't been tested and we don't even know if it works.
GENERAL KUKOV
What works?
SCIENTIST
My... time machine.
The minister puts a small sheet into the scientist's hands.
MINISTER BREZHNEV
Prepare these coordinates.
SCIENTIST
No. Please. Please.
MINISTER BREZHNEV
Now!
SCIENTIST
Sir, no! No! No, please!
They walk up some stairs, towards the entrance of the time machine. The assistent opens the hatch.
MINISTER BREZHNEV
Get in!
The general stops and stares at the hatch.
GENERAL KUKOV
You cannot be serious.
MINISTER BREZHNEV
Come, comrade general, a new world order awaits us!
The general hesitates and looks back.
MINISTER BREZHNEV
Come!
We see three seats inside, the scientist takes place on the right one, the general takes place on the middle one, while the minister takes a seat at the left one. The scientist puts on fancy-looking goggles.
The minister points at the scientist, who pushes a button.
We see the time machine from the outside. Tesla coils are activated, the machine begins to glow in a blue hue. Inside, the three dematerialize.
We see a stage, a man in 30s era clothing leaves.
The three time travellers materialize.
The general reaches out for the curtain.
SCIENTIST
No no! Don't touch anything! We mustn't do anything to disrupt spacetime continuum.
The general turns towards the minister.
GENERAL KUKOV
Where are we?
MINISTER BREZHNEV
Berlin, 1932.
GENERAL KUKOV
1932?
MINISTER BREZHNEV
The German Society for Rocketry.
The three look at the stage. We see a young WERNHER VON BRAUN holding a speech.
SCIENTIST
Isn't that von Braun?
MINISTER BREZHNEV
Yes, doctor. The man most responsible for our enemies' technological superiority.The man who made them... invincible.
SCIENTIST
What do you plan to do?
The minister chuckles. Wernher von Braun approaches them.
WERNHER VON BRAUN
Meine Herrn?
The minister reaches out to shake hands with von Braun.
MINISTER BREZHNEV
Mr. von Braun...
Wernher von Braun suddenly dissolves in a blue-glowing pile of bits.
SCIENTIST
Nooooo!
The screen fades black.
The three rematerialize in the present.
We see the secret entrance open again, the room is well-lit and cleaned-up.
GENERAL KUKOV
I do not understand.
SCIENTIST
We have altered the past and changed the present!
A video screen turns on. An attractively dressed female INTELLIGENCE OFFICER appears on it.
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
Ah, good to see you, sir! I have the reports from the front as you requested.
GENERAL KUKOV
Thank you. What do you have for me?
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
I'm sorry, comrade general, I meant PREMIER BREZHNEV.
The minister-now-premier smiles.
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
Sir, the Allies are on the retreat, Western Europe will be ours!
PREMIER BREZHNEV
You hear that, general, our enemies have been defeated!
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
Hold on Sir, we are receiving an emergency transmission from our base in Kamchatka.
The image of an outpost commander appears.
OUTPOST COMMANDER
They're attacking! There are too many! We have to evacuate...
The screen scrambles, and the image of the outpost commander and the advisor disappear.
The face of a PRESIDENT NIXON appears.
PRESIDENT NIXON
The war machine of the greatest beacon of freedom and democracy has been mobilized. The decision has been made to stop the Empire of Evil!
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
Sir, it appears the States have mounted a full-scale assault against us!
GENERAL KUKOV
Which 'States'?
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
The United States of America, of course!
SCIENTIST
We now have two mortal enemies?
GENERAL KUKOV
We must unleash our cruise missiles. Annihilate them all!
INTELLIGENCE OFFICER
Execuse me, general?
GENERAL KUKOV
Our cruise missiles? Rockets?
SCIENTIST
Don't you understand? Without von Braun there is no cruise missiles, because we have altered the space-time continuum. Who knows what nightmares we have created...
The screen fades black.
A line appears:
"Studio Westerwald präsentiert"
We see an armada of aircraft carriers approach a coastline - each one of them prominently sporting a stars-and-stripes flag, fighter planes emerge from it in waves. Huge transport helicopers land at the shore, dozens of G.I.s emerge from each of them. Some of them carry baseball bats, which they use to throw grenades.
We see a coastal city (presumably Vladivostok) with a naval base filled with military vessels.
We see Earth from low orbit. Close-up on a on a satellite, apparently armed with a weapon, with a familiar-looking stars and stripes flag on it. We see the satellite activate, and an energy beam pointing down, onto the Pacific coast of Russia.
We see Vladivostok from afar, with the naval base (along with a big part of the city) being annihilated by the energy beam.
The screen fades black. The following huge red, letters appear:
Roter Alarm 3