The kids visit the Masons, behind enemy lines in "occupied America" where they learn Robert's father was executed for "aiding guerrillas" (providing guns to the boys from his store). Eckert reminds them he had purposely raised them in a strenuous manner, ordering them to avenge him. Eckert through the fence, and learn that their mother is dead Mr. After several weeks in the forest, they learn that Jed and Matt's father is being held in a "re-education camp" at the town's drive-in movie theater. At one point they encounter a Soviet roadblock, but are saved by a U.S. Cuban Colonel Ernesto Bella instructs the KGB to go to the local sporting goods stores and obtain the records of the store's gun sales, the ATF Form 4473, to determine who owns firearms in Calumet and in the surrounding rural area.īrothers Jed and Matt Eckert, along with their friends Robert Morris, Danny, Daryl Bates, and Arturo "Aardvark" Mondragon, flee into the wilderness after hastily equipping themselves at a gas station general store owned by Robert's father. In downtown Calumet, Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Soviet troops begin imposing order after a hasty occupation. Jed Eckert, who had dropped his brother Matt off at the high school, returns to pick up him and several of their friends, narrowly escaping the chaos. Pandemonium follows as students flee amid heavy gunfire. He walks outside to question them and they open fire, killing the teacher and several students. In September, in the town of Calumet, Colorado, a local high school teacher pauses upon seeing Soviet troops parachuting from An-12 transport aircraft. In addition, the Ukrainian wheat harvest fails while a socialist coup d'état occurs in Mexico. At the same time, the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies aggressively expand their sphere of influence. The arrows show the invasion routes, and the red dots show the cities that were destroyed by nuclear weapons which are Washington D.C., Omaha ( Nebraska), New York City NY, Kansas City ( Missouri) and Beijing ( China).ĭuring the Cold War, the United States became strategically isolated after several nations withdrew from NATO. Green: The neutral countries of Western Europe. Red: The Soviet Union and its allies Cuba and Nicaragua. Approximate map of the events described in the movie:īlue: The United States and its allies Canada, the United Kingdom and the People's Republic of China.
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