Red Dawn - DDR

nik2016

In the 1984 original film the baddies were USSR, Cuba and Nicaragua.
In the 2012 remake were Russia, China and N. Korea (they focused more in n. Koreans)

What about DDR (East Germany)?

Set in the late 80's -early 90's or present era with a scenario similar to Homefront

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Luath

Luath

It would be better than the actual Homefront, the problem is that outside of some nostalgia for the DDR it's just not prevelant in the minds of most Americans. To practically a generation of kids playing video games Germany is just Germany, and in any case Germany is were you get Nazis from, not Communists


Luath
 

sdrucker

Banned
There was Amerika, the TV mini series where the Soviets launched a first strike unopposed, and not only occupied the US but broke it apart into regional territories under an occupation army. One of the more evil characters was an East German Major in the UNSSU that occupied the Kris Kristofferson character's home town:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika_(miniseries)
 

nik2016

sdrucker said:
There was Amerika, the TV mini series where the Soviets launched a first strike unopposed, and not only occupied the US but broke it apart into regional territories under an occupation army. One of the more evil characters was an East German Major in the UNSSU that occupied the Kris Kristofferson character's home town:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amerika_(miniseries)
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Yes I saw the series. I must say little unrealistic. Especialy their uniforms
 
joea64

joea64

I saw the miniseries as well, even used to have it on VHS tape. I think the biggest single problem with it, aside from its general quality issues and problems with uniform/weapon/etc. accuracy was that its timing was lousy; it broadcast right at the time that Mikhail Gorbachev was massively realigning the Soviet Union's foreign policy - indeed, the INF Treaty would be signed at the end of the year - and seriously embarking on glasnost and perestroika. In that environment, people just couldn't buy a program about the USSR suddenly conquering the USA. This was particularly the case seeing that some very weird ideas that made it sound like the miniseries was regurgitating John Birch Society propaganda (i.e., the whole business about the United Nations being the Soviets' catspaws in their occupations of the United States) found their way in. Moreover, the show never really showed much of Soviet plans to transform the conquered United States beyond breaking it up into smaller nations; I remember one particularly risible moment came when the commander of the "Heartland Defense Force" - Heartland being basically the upper Midwest, the entity that the Robert Urich character was sweet-talked and bullied into leading - was shown wearing full U.S. Army Class A uniforms. It was nearly as funny as the sequence in which Sam Neill's character, an idealistic KGB officer, was shown being conducted by his superior officer through White House corridors in which literally every single door was guarded by a - presumably Secret Service, or just as possibly the new regime's secret police's executive-bodyguard section - agent.
 
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