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* [[Aesop]]: The Soviet takeover is much easier than they expected because Americans were unwilling to fight for their freedom.
{{quote|"You had political freedom, but you lost your passion ... How could we not win?"}}
* [[Cold WarWa[[Category:TV Series]]]: Or rather the way many people were afraid it would end.
* [[Day of the JackbootJackboo[[Category:TV Series]]]
* [[Downer EndingEndin[[Category:TV Series]]]
* [[DystopiaDystopi[[Category:TV Series]]]: The series opens with Devin Milford being released from a prison camp and travelling through once-prosperous farmland run down by ten years of collectivisation and Soviet asset-stripping.
* [[Divided States of America|Divided States of AmerikaAmerik[[Category:TV Series]]]: The Soviet Union plans to do this to the United States in order to prevent a resurgent America from posing a threat. At the end of the series the protagonist Devin Milford is shot by the leader of Heartland's defence force as he's about to make a radio broadcast calling for Americans to resist the breakup; this is viewed as 'treason' against Heartland.
* [[Invaded States of America|Invaded States of AmerikaAmerik[[Category:TV Series]]]: Subverted; the United States gives up without a fight and few think that resistance is worthwhile.
* [[Iron CurtainCurtai[[Category:TV Series]]]: Pushed all the way to the Pacific coast.
* [[LzherusskieLzherusski[[Category:TV Series]]]: Most of the Russian military. One or two of them have names that were even completely made up.
* [[Minion with an F In Evil]]: General Petya Samanov -- in charge of administrating (and eventually dismantling) the conquered US -- comes across as one of the most interesting and sympathetic characters.
* [[Mnogo NukesNuke[[Category:TV Series]]]: Averted, though in early script drafts nuclear weapons were apparently used to disable the US power grid and communications systems through massive electromagnetic pulse.
** The Politburo considers destroying several American cities "to encourage the others", but the local Soviet administration convinces them to go with the [[Divided States of AmericaAmeric[[Category:TV Series]]] plan.
* [[My God, What Have I Done?]]: The US Congress is wiped out in a "[[False-Flag Operation|terrorist attack]]" in a prelude to the breaking-up of the country. Samanov is [[Driven to SuicideSuicid[[Category:TV Series]]] at the sight.
* [[One World OrderOrde[[Category:TV Series]]]: The UN is now a Soviet puppet organisation, and the Commies are implied to control the entire world, or at least the parts that are useful to them.
* [[Prop RecyclingRecyclin[[Category:TV Series]]]: The two flyable ''[[Blue ThunderThunde[[Category:TV Series]]]'' props make a reappearance, except now they're [[Black Helicopter|Black HelicoptersHelicopter[[Category:TV Series]]].
* [[Red ScareScar[[Category:TV Series]]]
* [[La RésistanceRésistanc[[Category:TV Series]]]: Several characters, but [[We ARE Struggling Together!|not always working towards the same goalsgoal[[Category:TV Series]]] against the Soviets.
* [[Sinister SurveillanceSurveillanc[[Category:TV Series]]]: After Devin is picked up by his father at the station, a member of the [[Secret PolicePolic[[Category:TV Series]]] notes down the occurrence in his notebook.
* [[State Sec]]: The United Nations Special Service Unit carries out periodic "training exercises" -- involving [[Tank Goodness|tankstank[[Category:TV Series]]], [[Black Helicopter|Black HelicoptersHelicopter[[Category:TV Series]]], [[Gas Mask MooksMook[[Category:TV Series]]] and [[Stuff Blowing Up]] -- designed to [[Resistance Is Futile|intimidate the local populationpopulatio[[Category:TV Series]]].
* [[Take ThatTha[[Category:TV Series]]]: At least, the concept for the miniseries was inspired by this train of thought. A 1983 column by [[wikipedia:Amerika (TV miniseries)#Genesis|Ben SteinStei[[Category:TV Series]]] (yes, that Ben Stein) suggested that since ''[[The Day AfterAfte[[Category:TV Series]]]'' depicted the horrible what-if scenario of a nuclear attack on America, a movie should be made depicting the ''also'' horrible what-if scenario of America being conquered by the U.S.S.R., the threat that had led to the Cold War arms race in the first place.
* [[Twenty Minutes Into the FutureFutur[[Category:TV Series]]]: Takes place [[The Great Politics Mess-Up|in 1997]].
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