Soon after, Secretary of State James Baker arrives in West Berlin to secretly meet with General Dmitry Leonov, the Soviet commander in East Germany, who strongly opposes Soshkin's crackdown. In mid-December, NATO airlifts military reinforcements to West Berlin.
Soon after, the East German government responds to the international condemnation of their conduct by ordering all foreign journalists out of the country. Those soldiers also fire shots over the wall into West Berlin. Two days later, a demonstration at the Brandenburg Gate ends with East German soldiers killing many East Berlin residents trying to scale the Berlin Wall and a West German cameraman filming the events.
In late November, a demonstration in Leipzig is brutally repressed by the East German Army at great loss of life. (In East Germany at least, the crackdown is not limited to demonstrators numerous moderate Communists such as Egon Krenz and Günter Schabowski are "disappeared", never to be heard from again.) The crackdown inflames popular opposition to communism. They are determined to end the uprisings in East Germany and the rest of the Eastern Bloc with a swift Chinese-style military crackdown in late October. Soshkin and the hard-liners fiercely resist the rise of glasnost and perestroika. The Soviet government announces that Gorbachev resigned for "reasons of ill health," but Gorbachev is never heard from again, his true fate "lost in the darkness of history." During his return flight, the hard-line Communist leadership stages a coup that deposes Gorbachev and installs (fictional) General Vladimir Soshkin as the new Soviet leader. On October 7, Mikhail Gorbachev, a supporter of those reforms, visits East Berlin. Many citizens are dissatisfied with their nation’s Communist leadership and seek reunification with West Germany. In the summer of 1989, East Germany is in turmoil. Daniel Schorr, reporting in front of the White House, is vaporized when a nuclear weapon detonates.
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The movie opens with clips of the US Armed Forces scrambling to respond to a Soviet nuclear attack.
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