No one was saying it out loud at the time but Western analysts in the 1980s considered the Soviets unbeatable due their massive manpower and the fact that no matter how bloody a war is they don't have to answer to an electorate. Since this was produced in 1998 there's both more information available due to post cold war declassification and what is known about Soviet tactics and equipment. By the end of the month NATO have reached Berlin and both sides are in a dilemma as to what to do next ? What fascinated me about this speculative scenario is the conventional conflict rather than what might come next. Making slow headway Warsaw Pact forces manage to penetrate 50 miles but are then quickly pushed back as NATO technology and superior mobility wins through. Two weeks later the Soviets invade West Germany. In February 1990 the first shots are fired in the North Atlantic as the Soviets impose a blockade against sea-lanes. Within a few months tensions escalate between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Civil unrest in East Germany reaches crisis point and the Red Army brutally quells the protests. In 1989 liberal reformer in the Soviet Union ( Gorbachev) is overthrown and a hardline communist (Soshkin) leads the Politburo. This mockumentary from 1998 is a scary reminder of what might have been !!!!SUGGESTIVE SPOILERS !!!! The premise is something you've seen before. There was constant films and documentaries made about thermal-nuclear conflict and the old cliché of "The lucky ones died first" and the world has changed beyond all recognition with Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) no longer a constant threat. Considering that my hosts are like most most of my friends half my age I went in to morbid nostalgia mode where as a teenager in the 1980s the youth of today don't know how lucky they are compared to then. Sarah replied that she'd hope she die very quickly in those events which is probably the best anyone can hope for. Things like gamma ray bursts and asteroid strikes. I did mention to my hostess Sarah that if she ever wanted to terrify herself she should look up astrophysics on the internet and see what horrors the Universe has in store for this tiny speck of a planet. I popped down to see a couple of friends Danny and Sarah - a short time ago.