nuclear what?
¶ by Rob Friesel
So apparently not even the internet … not Google, not IMDB … not no one has heard of this movie. It just kind of popped in there a couple of days ago and now I can’t seem to get it to go away. The same visions of the silent, brown haired woman in a jacket, with what looks like a bag of groceries walking down the snowy streets of the Soviet occupied town. She reaches into her bag and hefts a shitload of grenades and drops them down into the cockpit of the Soviet tank. She blows it and herself up.
But this memory is fairly vague and its accuracy is in question.
The distinct part of the memory is that there was some movie that I happened to catch part of as a kid that was about US resistance in a post-WW3 Soviet-occupied United States. It was nuclear winter and our heroes were a small band of scruffy Americans fighting against all odds. Poorly equipped, their only real advantage was determination. Even then (my memory puts me at about 7 or 8 when I caught this flick) I understood the Sisyphean nature of their struggle. The Soviets had won the war. There were tanks and troops on American soil. The only thing these would-be commandos could accomplish was to wreck some destruction just for the sake of pride.
Somehow this has slipped into obscurity though.
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