Amerika – suggesting a Russian name for the United States – was an American television miniseries that was broadcast in 1987. It starred Kris Kristofferson, Mariel Hemingway, Sam Neill, Robert Urich, and a 17-year-old Lara Flynn Boyle in her first major role. Amerika was about life in the United States after a bloodless takeover by the Soviet Union. Not wanting to depict the actual coup, ABC Entertainment president Brandon Stoddard instead chose to set the action of the miniseries ten years after the event, focusing on the demoralized American people a decade after the Soviet conquest. The intent, he later explained, was to explore the American spirit under such conditions, not to portray the conflict of the Soviet takeover. A miniseries (sometimes mini-series), in a serial storytelling medium, is a production which tells a story in a limited number of episodes. ... See also: 1986 in television, other events of 1987, 1988 in television and the list of years in television. ... Kristoffer Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an influential American country music songwriter, singer and actor. ... On the cover of Playboy, April 1982 Mariel Hadley Hemingway (born November 22, 1961 in Mill Valley, California, USA) is an American actress. ... Sam Neill (born Nigel John Dermot Neill), OBE (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand film and television actor, and owner of the Two Paddocks winery in Central Otago. ... Robert Urich (December 19, 1946 – April 16, 2002) was an Emmy-winning actor, best known for playing private investigators on the television series Spenser: For Hire (1985-1988) and Vega$ (1978-1981). ... Lara Flynn Boyle Lara Flynn Boyle (born March 24, 1970) is an American actress born in Davenport, Iowa, of mostly Irish descent and raised in the working-class suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. ... A coup d’État (pronounced ), or simply coup, is the sudden overthrow of a government through unconstitutional means by a part of the state establishment — mostly replacing just the high-level figures. ... The American Broadcasting Company (ABC) operates television and radio networks in the United States and is also shown on basic cable in Canada. ...

Described in promotional materials as "the most ambitious American miniseries ever created," Amerika aired for 14½ hours (including commercials) over seven nights, and reportedly cost US$40 million to produce. The program was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, and at various locations in Nebraska – most notably the small town of Tecumseh, which stood in for Milford, the setting for most of the action of the series. Donald Wrye was the executive producer, director, and sole writer of Amerika, while composer Basil Poledouris was hired to score the miniseries, ultimately recording (with the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra) eight hours of music – the equivalent of four feature films. ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 3. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Official languages None Flower White Trillium Tree Eastern White Pine Bird Common Loon Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Parliamentary representation  - House seats  - Senate seats 106 24 Area Total... Official language(s) English Capital Lincoln Largest city Omaha Largest metro area Omaha Area  Ranked 16th  - Total 77,421 sq mi (200,520 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 0. ... Tecumseh is a city located in Johnson County, Nebraska. ... Milford is a city located in Seward County, Nebraska. ... Basil Poledouris (Greek: Βασίλης Πολεδούρης) (August 21, 1945 - November 8, 2006) was an American film composer. ...

Genesis

Although claims have been made that Amerika was produced partly in response to the 1983 television film The Day After (which some critics felt was too pacifist for portraying the doctrine of nuclear deterrence as pointless), Stoddard dismissed this view, pointing instead to a column in the now-defunct Los Angeles Herald-Examiner by Nixon speechwriter (and later, television personality) Ben Stein. Stein's column appeared a few weeks before The Day After aired. He wrote, in part: The Day After is an American TV-movie which aired on November 20, 1983 on the ABC network. ... Pacifism is the opposition to war or violence as a means of settling disputes. ... The Los Angeles Herald Examiner building, located in downtown L.A., was designed by Julia Morgan. ... Richard Milhous Nixon (January 9, 1913 – April 22, 1994) was the 37th President of the United States, serving from 1969 to 1974. ... Benjamin Jeremy Stein (born November 25, 1944 in Washington, D.C.) is an American lawyer, economist, law professor, actor, comedian and former White House speechwriter. ...

...since my dear friends at ABC-TV have made a TV movie very rightly describing the terror of an atomic attack on America, perhaps they might consider something else. Perhaps they might make a TV movie about why the people of the United States face such a dreadful risk. They might make a movie about what life in the United States would be like if we lived under Soviet domination.

Here is the idea: Let's have a movie called "In Red America." It would be about a few days or weeks in the life of several American families after the Soviet Union had taken over America.

Stoddard acknowledged that Stein's remarks provided the inspiration for the series, and Stein apparently wrote an outline or story treatment for Amerika, although he was otherwise not directly involved.

Controversy

Amerika arrived amid much controversy. Many critics and viewers felt it was too long and unrealistic, a number of people argued that it would be damaging to Soviet-American relations, and a spokesperson for the United Nations objected to the U.N. being depicted as an occupying force under Soviet control. Some conservatives felt that Soviet brutality was greatly overplayed; conversely, a number of liberals dismissed the entire miniseries as right-wing paranoia. At various points, the program was scrapped, delayed, and rewritten. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity. ...

For their part, the Soviet Union threatened to shut down the ABC News Moscow bureau, although this threat was not carried out and indeed seemed to strengthen ABC's resolve regarding the miniseries. "We’re going to run that program come rain, blood, or horse manure," said ABC president John B. Sias, after the still-to-be-aired Amerika had generated more controversy and viewer response than any other ABC program before or since, including The Day After.

Amerika was preceded by an ABC special addressing the considerable controversy prior to its airing (The Storm Over Amerika), and was followed by an "ABC News Viewpoint" panel discussion moderated by Ted Koppel, with Brandon Stoddard, Donald Wrye and several others addressing the issues surrounding the miniseries, along with questions and comments from a live studio audience in Minneapolis. Photo by Bob DAmico/ABC Ted Koppel, anchor of the ABC News program Nightline. ...

Social criticism

Amerika criticized American society in the 1980s, implying that apathy and an unwillingness to defend freedom on the part of many citizens made the Soviet takeover rather easy. At one point, a key Soviet official observes that their plans for conquering the United States succeeded far beyond their wildest dreams, because once the nation had been defeated, Americans turned inward, not caring about national issues, seeking only to retain a piece of the prosperity that had once been theirs. "It (the Soviet coup) worked because you lost your country before we ever got here," says the Soviet leader. "You had political freedom, but you lost your passion ... How could we not win?" This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

This theme is echoed by another character later in the film:

Nobody wanted to risk anything for anybody else. Everybody was afraid they were going to lose what they had. They knew it was bad. They were just afraid it'd get worse. That's all they lived for - for things not to get worse.

Another speech, by politician Peter Bradford (see below), lashes out at apathetic American attitudes:

Damn, I'm so tired of this "I'm an American" bull! Where was all that patriotism when it counted? Where was that willingness to sacrifice? Nobody wanted to join the damn army to defend the country unless they got paid well! Nobody wanted to give any time to public service unless they could make a career out of it! And I didn't notice a lot of us giving up our lives in the last 10 years!

An early scene shows schoolchildren in Chicago learning about Social Darwinism, which is characterized as the dominant philosophy in the old United States before the Soviet conquest and occupation, and a speech delivered by one child later in the series demonstrates the extent of Soviet indoctrination in the new America: Nickname: The Windy City, The Second City, Chi Town, The City of Big Shoulders The 312 Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in Chicagoland and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook Incorporated March 4, 1837 Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

We are the voice of the new generation. We are the voice of the new people. The destructive ways of the past are gone. We will replace them with our vision of the future. The Party will lead us to the new age. There have been those who have tried to stop the new age. They are the corrupt reminder of the past. They have tried to confuse us with the idea that the old America was a good country. We know that lie. History teaches us that lie. We are grateful to our Soviet brothers who saved the world from destruction, and we can now join them in a world of socialist brotherhood. Everyone will go to school, everyone will have a job, everyone will be equal. No one will exploit or be exploited, and all those who oppose this wonderful vision will be crushed.

Major characters

The storyline of Amerika primarily follows three political leaders:

Peter Bradford (played by Robert Urich) is a well-meaning, honest, county administrator in Nebraska who cooperates with the Soviets to create a better life for his community. Bradford attracts the attention of the Soviet leadership because, although interested in cooperating, he is independent, and widely respected by his constituents. The Soviets choose him to run one of the Bantustan-like states – "Heartland" – carved out of the former United States. Under the new regime, Bradford's title is "Governor-General." Robert Urich (December 19, 1946 – April 16, 2002) was an Emmy-winning actor, best known for playing private investigators on the television series Spenser: For Hire (1985-1988) and Vega$ (1978-1981). ... Official language(s) English Capital Lincoln Largest city Omaha Largest metro area Omaha Area  Ranked 16th  - Total 77,421 sq mi (200,520 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 430 miles (690 km)  - % water 0. ... Map of the black homelands in South Africa as of 1986 Map of the black homelands in Namibia as of 1978 Bantustan is a territory designated as a tribal homeland for black South Africans and Namibians during the apartheid era. ...

Devin Milford (played by Kris Kristofferson) was a maverick politician before the Soviet occupation, and ran for President in 1988 (in the novel, 1992), after the U.S. defeat. He was placed in a prison camp for daring to speak the truth about the Soviet conquest during his presidential campaign. At the beginning of the miniseries Devin is declared "rehabilitated" and is released back into society, into the custody of his father, who lives in the county run by Peter Bradford. (conservative Critics of Amerika have claimed that in real life, the Russians would have been unlikely to release such a person back into society.) Kristoffer Kristofferson (born June 22, 1936) is an influential American country music songwriter, singer and actor. ... Prisoner of War camps Contents // Categories: Substubs | Prisons and detention centres ...

Colonel Andrei Denisov of the KGB (played by Sam Neill) is the Soviet administrator for the American Central Administrative Area. At times, Andrei seems disappointed by the ease with which America has been conquered. He is romantically involved with Kimberly Ballard (played by Mariel Hemingway), an actress who discovers her American patriotism during the miniseries. Andrei's immediate superior and mentor is General Petya Samanov (played by Armin Mueller-Stahl), the Soviet military leader in charge of the occupation. The KGB emblem and motto: The sword and the shield KGB (transliteration of КГБ) is the Russian-language abbreviation for Committee for State Security, (Russian: ; Komitet Gosudarstvennoy Bezopasnosti). ... Sam Neill (born Nigel John Dermot Neill), OBE (born 14 September 1947) is a New Zealand film and television actor, and owner of the Two Paddocks winery in Central Otago. ... On the cover of Playboy, April 1982 Mariel Hadley Hemingway (born November 22, 1961 in Mill Valley, California, USA) is an American actress. ... Armin Mueller-Stahl (born December 17, 1930) is a German film actor. ...

Major female characters in addition to Ballard include Peter Bradford's wife, Amanda (played by Cindy Pickett), Devin Milford's ex-wife, Marion (played by Wendy Hughes), and most notably, Devin's sister Alethea (played by Christine Lahti), who at the outset is prostituting herself to the local occupation leader. In subsequent episodes, Alethea finds her bearings and self-respect. "Alethea is the center," noted Donald Wrye. "She is a metaphor for America – not just phonically – and it is she who discovers her moral core through(out) the course of the series." Lara Flynn Boyle played Bradford's teenage daughter, Jackie. Cindy Pickett (born April 18, 1947 in Sand Springs, Oklahoma, USA), is an actress best known for her role in the comedy movie Ferris Buellers Day Off as Matthew Brodericks characters mom, as well as playing the mother of a boy who was kidnapped for several years... Wendy Hughes (born 29 July 1952 in Melbourne, Australia) is an actress. ... Christine Lahti (born April 4, 1950) is an American actress. ... Lara Flynn Boyle Lara Flynn Boyle (born March 24, 1970) is an American actress born in Davenport, Iowa, of mostly Irish descent and raised in the working-class suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. ...

The human drama of these characters intersects with the political intrigue of the Soviet plans for the breakup of America. Bradford, the pragmatist, clashes with Milford, the idealist; Bradford's wife is Milford's ex-girlfriend, who finds she still has feelings for Milford upon his release from the prison camp; Denisov appoints Milford's ex-wife, a powerful magistrate (and General Samanov's mistress), to serve as Bradford's deputy/assistant in Heartland; and Kimberly's renewed sense of American pride ultimately affects her relationship with Denisov.

Backstory

In the late 1980s, as the U.S.S.R.'s economic and political decline puts it in danger of losing the Cold War, the Soviet leadership makes a desperate gamble to rearrange the global balance of power. Four huge thermonuclear weapons are exploded in the stratosphere over the United States. The electromagnetic pulse (or EMP) of these weapons destroys the nation's military and commercial communications and computer systems, electrical grid, and, indeed, any piece of equipment that relies on computer technology, such as most late-model automobiles. With America's ICBMs inoperative, and the National Command Authority unable to contact U.S. military forces abroad to counterattack, America is forced to accept Soviet terms for surrender. The United States quickly falls under Soviet military occupation - and the President of the United States and Congress become figureheads for their Soviet overseers. Soviet redirects here. ... The Cold War was the period of protracted conflict and competition between the United States and the Soviet Union and their allies from the late 1940s until the late 1980s. ... Balance of power is a central concept of realist theories of international relations. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, in 1945 lifted nuclear fallout some 18 km (60,000 feet) above the epicenter. ... Atmosphere diagram showing stratosphere. ... Example of an electromagnetic pulse, in this case caused by the electrical discharge required to fire the Z machine. ... A Minuteman III missile soars after a test launch. ... The term National Command Authority (or NCA) is used in United States military and government circles to refer to the ultimate lawful source of military orders. ... Look up surrender in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The presidential seal was used by President Hayes in 1880 and last modified in 1959 by adding the 50th star for Hawaii. ... A congress is a gathering of people, especially a gathering for a political purpose. ...

The subsequent takeover of the U.S. is tamely dubbed "The Transition". The miniseries details the final phase of the transition – the breakup of the United States ten years after its defeat.

The above events are implied in the miniseries, although never directly explained. The description is taken from the novelization of the miniseries, Amerika: The Triumph of the American Spirit by Brauna E. Pouns and Donald Wrye (Pocket Books, 1987), based on Wrye's screenplay; Wrye is reputed to have written a 175-page treatment describing how the Soviets took over. An introduction to the miniseries explaining the downfall of America ended up on the cutting room floor prior to broadcast, and only a fleeting line by actor Sam Neill alludes to an America without communications, presumably due to the effects of the electromagnetic pulse. The loss of technology and communications, however, is effectively presented in the opening scenes: no radios are heard playing, television is shown only in the Soviet leaders' offices, one scene in a church is lit completely by candlelight, and a woman is seen using an old sewing machine operated by foot pedal.

Situation presented

A decade after its defeat, America is occupied by a United Nations peacekeeping force called the United Nations Special Service Unit (U.N.S.S.U.). The U.N.S.S.U. is comprised primarily of Eastern Bloc forces and is overseen by an East German, Major Helmut Gurtman. U.N.S.S.U. troops periodically engage in "training exercises" which are destructive in nature and highly intimidating to the local population. The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity. ... A map of the Eastern Bloc. ... For the historical eastern German provinces, see Historical Eastern Germany East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR), German Deutsche Demokratische Republik (DDR), was a Communist Party-led state that existed from 1949 to 1990 in the former Soviet occupation zone of Germany. ...

Those Americans who engage in dissent or who otherwise express their opposition to the Soviet occupation are stripped of their privileges and sent to exile camps, where they are anathema not only to the Soviets, but also to their fellow citizens. Association with (and assistance to) the exiles is generally prohibited, although a few brave souls risk the loss of their own remaining freedoms by offering humanitarian aid.

Production quotas have been imposed, and foodstuffs rationed, with the surplus presumably being shipped to the Soviet Union. Peter Bradford and other residents of the future Heartland must settle for soy cakes with molasses at the local diner. "That's what really makes you want to give up. You can't even get a good breakfast," says one character.

Against this background, Bradford ascends to the leadership of Heartland, hoping to reform the Soviet occupation from within; Milford is released from the prison camp, hoping to be reunited with his children and fight against the occupation; and Denisov hopes to "salvage as much as possible" of the old America, while realizing that the U.S. essentially must cease to exist as a nation in order to appease the "old men in the Kremlin." Kremlin (Russian: Кремль IPA: ) is the Russian word for fortress, citadel, or castle and refers to any major fortified central complex found in historical Russian cities. ...

Plot and resolution

The Soviet leaders of the occupation are faced with the dual problem of keeping America pacified and convincing the Politburo that their fears of a revitalized America are unfounded because the country is under occupation and can no longer pose a threat. The Politburo is not convinced, and even considers exploding nuclear weapons over several American cities, as a warning -- to the American people, and to the world. Samanov and Denisov, both of whom want the Soviet occupation of the United States to be a relatively humane one, are horrified by this idea. Politburo is short for Political Bureau. ... The mushroom cloud of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki, Japan, 1945, rose some 18 km (11 mi) above the epicenter. ...

At great political risk, Samanov finally convinces the Soviet leadership to accept a compromise plan: no nuclear weapons will be detonated, the United States will be divided into "client states" such as Heartland, and the U.S. Capitol building will be destroyed as a symbolic gesture of the destruction of America. At the same time, most of the members of Congress are to be killed in a "terrorist attack" after they refuse to disband their legislative body. According to the notion of client states, just as a client of a corporation remains dependent on the corporation for a continued supply of products, and just as it is in the companys interest to make expendable products which need to be replaced regularly, client states of the two... United States Capitol The United States Capitol is the building which serves as home for the legislative branch of the United States government. ... A congress is a gathering of people, especially a gathering for a political purpose. ... Terrorist redirects here. ...

After the attack is carried out – arguably the climactic scene of the miniseries – Samanov surveys the damage, and realizes the enormity of the crime that he has allowed to happen. Sitting in the Speaker's chair in the House of Representatives, he commits suicide. Denisov, who knows nothing about the attack until he is rushed to the Capitol and finds Samanov dead, is devastated by this turn of events. House of Representatives is a name used for legislative bodies in many countries. ... Suicide (from Latin sui caedere, to kill oneself) is the act of willfully ending ones own life. ...

In the final episode of the miniseries, Heartland is about to secede from the United States, with other regions to follow. There are scenes of Americans digging up guns they have hidden for ten years. Heartland troops, along with local militia, attack the local U.N.S.S.U. compound, effectively declaring war on the Soviet occupation. One scene shows Americans raising the U.S. flag on top of a grain elevator, and there is even reference to a Second American Revolution. The miniseries ends on a downbeat note, though, with General Sittman (the leader of the Heartland Defense Force and a former Marine) shooting Devin Milford just as he is about to make a nationwide broadcast calling on Americans to resist the breakup of the United States – doing so because this is an act of unlawful resistance against the newly-established Heartland, which Sittman believes to be the best hope against continued Soviet domination. Although there is hope that the spirit of America lives on, in the end it appears that the Soviet plan to dissolve the United States will come to fruition. The first American Revolution raged from 1775 to 1783, after which the United States won its independence from Great Britain. ... United States Marine Corps Emblem The United States Marine Corps (USMC) is the second smallest of the five branches of the United States armed forces, with 170,000 active and 40,000 reserve Marines as of 2002. ...

Some sources have claimed that the finale of the miniseries was deliberately left somewhat unresolved to allow for the possibility of a weekly television series sequel; but such plans, if they indeed existed, never materialized. A sequel is a work of fiction in literature, film, and other creative works that is produced after a completed work, and is set in the same universe but at a later time. ...

The divided United States

In this fictional timeline, Congress divided the United States into several "administrative areas" in 1988, roughly one year after the Soviet takeover. As the miniseries progresses, these areas are planned to become separate nations, joined together in a new North American Alliance. A map shown onscreen reveals these administrative areas to be: A congress is a gathering of people, especially a gathering for a political purpose. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

• California Special District: California, Nevada
• Western Semi-Autonomous: Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Wyoming
• Northwest: Oregon, Washington
• Southwest: Arizona, New Mexico
• North Central: Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wisconsin
• Central: Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska (this is Peter Bradford's administrative area, and the territory which eventually becomes Heartland, with Chicago as its capital)
• South Central: Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Texas
• Southern: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi
• Mid-Atlantic: Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia
• Appalachia: Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia
• Ameritech: Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, Pennsylvania
• Northeastern: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont

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Alaska is mentioned as never having been pacified, requiring continued engagement by Soviet troops, and there are also pockets of armed resistance in the Rocky Mountains and in West Virginia. There is no mention of what happened to Hawaii, or to U.S. territories such as Guam and American Samoa. Official language(s) English Capital Juneau Largest city Anchorage Area  Ranked 1st  - Total 663,267 sq mi (1,717,855 km²)  - Width 808 miles (1,300 km)  - Length 1,479 miles (2,380 km)  - % water 13. ... Moraine Lake, and the Valley of the Ten Peaks, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada The Rocky Mountains, often called the Rockies, are a broad mountain range in western North America. ... Official language(s) English Capital Charleston Largest city Charleston Area  Ranked 41st  - Total 24,244 sq mi (62,809 km²)  - Width 130 miles (210 km)  - Length 240 miles (385 km)  - % water 0. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

The Rust Belt (presumably "Ameritech") faces its own special problems. Most of its advanced factory equipment was removed at the start of the occupation and taken to the U.S.S.R., as happened in East Germany after World War II. The region suffers 50% unemployment as a result, and its residents are not permitted to leave, except to volunteer for factory work in the Soviet Union, from which no one has yet returned. Manufacturing Belt, highlighted in red The Rust Belt, a term coined from Manufacturing Belt, is an area in parts of the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States of America. ... GDR redirects here. ... Combatants Major Allied powers: United Kingdom Soviet Union United States Republic of China and others Major Axis powers: Nazi Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Harry Truman Chiang Kai-Shek Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tojo Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead...

Travel and communications between the various zones is heavily restricted, part of the "divide and conquer" plan of the Soviet occupation. Divide and conquer (derived from the Latin saying Divide et impera) can mean either: In politics and sociology, a strategy to gain or maintain power: see divide and rule In computer science, an algorithm design paradigm based on recursion: see divide and conquer (computer science). ...

New international zones

Both the novel and miniseries leave the impression that, with the death of freedom in America, there is nowhere else in the world where it may be found. In the novel, one character muses: "The truth is, we've reached the first time in history where there's no place left to escape to. America, England, Israel, Canada, there was always a beacon of hope somewhere. Now there's just one world and it's all bad." This dialogue suggests that the Soviet Union or other totalitarian forces conquered other free countries after the U.S. coup (it can be surmised that the EMP which disabled American technology probably would have also crippled Canada and Mexico, for example, and Denisov even says at one point that "we control most of the world"). There is also a scene with two emigres from the GDR who came to the United States before the Soviet takeover and are now exiles in their new country: "It's one of life's little jokes. We escaped from East Germany to come to the promised land; now the promised land has become worse than what we left." Motto: (French for God and my right) Anthem: God Save the King/Queen Capital London Largest city London Official language(s) English (de facto) Unification    - by Athelstan AD 927  Area    - Total 130,395 km² (1st in UK)   50,346 sq mi  Population    - 2005 est. ... The concept of Totalitarianism is a typology or ideal-type used by some political scientists to encapsulate the characteristics of a number of twentieth century regimes that mobilized entire populations in support of the state or an ideology. ... Disambiguation Page Global Depositary Receipt East Germany ...

In this new world, Fidel Castro heads what is now called "Greater Cuba", embracing most of the Caribbean and Latin America, and the Chinese region of Manchuria evidently has been absorbed into the U.S.S.R., as General Samanov remarks at one point that a rebellion has happened in "our own Manchuria." A person named "Mbele" heads the "Socialist Republic of Southern Africa," "Barghout" is the leader of "Iraqistan," and Eastern Europe is described as being a "powderkeg." The Soviet/Communist occupation of the world depicted in Amerika is not a peaceful one, echoing the unrest in the occupied United States. Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (born on August 13, 1926) is the current President of Cuba but on indefinite medical hiatus. ... Manchuria (Manchu: Manju; Traditional Chinese: 滿洲; Simplified Chinese: 满洲; pinyin: MÇŽnzhōu, Russian: ) is a vast territorial region in northeast Asia. ... Look up rebellion in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Regions of Europe as delineated by the United Nations (UN definition of Eastern Europe marked salmon):  Northern Europe  Western Europe  Eastern Europe  Southern Europe Pre-1989 division between the West (grey) and Eastern Bloc (orange) superimposed on current national boundaries: Russia (dark orange), other countries of the former USSR (medium...

National symbols

The flag of the occupation is the pale blue UN flag, with crossed American and Soviet flags superimposed on the sides. The American flag is shown without its stars, and this starless flag is displayed during the "Lincoln Week" ceremonies (see below). The standard American flag is outlawed, although one scene early in the series shows a group of war veterans marching with the old American flag upside down, this being intended as a distress signal. Peter Bradford asks one of the Soviet leaders if they are going to arrest them, but they do not. The Star-Spangled Banner, America's National Anthem, is also outlawed, although this does not stop a group of citizens from singing it – haltingly at first – after the "Lincoln Week" parade. Categories: International organization stubs | International flags | United Nations ... Flag ratio: 7:12; nicknames: Stars and Stripes, Old Glory The flag of the United States of America consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white; there is a blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bearing 50 small, white, five-pointed stars... A war is a conflict between two or more groups that involve large numbers of individuals. ... A veteran (from Latin vetus, meaning old) is a person who is experienced in a particular area, and is particularly used to refer to people in the armed forces. ... Flag ratio: 7:12; nicknames: Stars and Stripes, Old Glory The flag of the United States of America consists of thirteen equal horizontal stripes of red (top and bottom) alternating with white; there is a blue rectangle in the upper hoist-side corner bearing 50 small, white, five-pointed stars... A distress signal is an internationally recognized means of obtaining help by using a radio, displaying a visual object or making noise from a distance. ... Nicholson took the copy Key gave him to a printer, where it was published as a broadside on September 17 under the title The Defence of Fort McHenry, with an explanatory note explaining the circumstances of its writing. ... A national anthem is a generally patriotic musical composition that is evoking and eulogizing the history, traditions and struggles of its people, recognized either by a nations government as the official national song, or by convention through use by the people. ...

Abraham Lincoln is included with Karl Marx and Vladimir Lenin in propaganda. Indeed, the signature scene in the film is a twenty-minute, dialogue-free depiction of the celebration of "Lincoln Week" festivities (a holiday replacing the Fourth of July), with both Lincoln and Lenin displayed on banners that were most likely intended to be striking and startling to television audiences of the time. Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was an American politician who served as the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ... Karl Heinrich Marx (May 5, 1818, Trier, Germany – March 14, 1883, London) was a German philosopher, political economist, and revolutionary. ... Lenin redirects here. ... The word holiday has related but different meanings in English-speaking countries. ... These fireworks over the Washington Monument are typical of Fourth of July celebrations In the United States, Independence Day, also called the Fourth of July, is a federal holiday celebrating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in 1776. ...

A new Pledge of Allegiance is given by "rehabilitated" political prisoners upon release from the American gulags. The oath states: "I pledge my allegiance to the flag of the community of American, Soviet, and United Nations of the World, and to the principle for which it stands – a nation, indivisible with others of the Earth, joined in peace, and justice for all." It has been suggested that Pledge of Allegiance criticism be merged into this article or section. ... Gulag (from the Russian ГУЛАГ: Главное Управление Исправительно— Трудовых Л&#1072... Earth (IPA: , often referred to as the Earth, Terra, the World or Planet Earth) is the third planet in the solar system in terms of distance from the Sun, and the fifth largest. ... Peace on earth Peace is commonly understood to mean the Other definitions include freedom from disputes, silence, harmonious relations, or inner contentment and serenity, as the meaning of the word changes with context. ... J.L. Urban, statue of Lady Justice at court building in Olomouc, Czech Republic Justice is the ideal, morally correct state of things and persons. ...

While the prisoners are told that they are free to refuse to make this pledge if they so desire, the circumstances under which the oath is administered would seem to indicate otherwise.

Ratings

The first two nights of Amerika garnered huge ratings, but audience numbers dropped thereafter, and the overall miniseries averaged around 19 percent of American television households, compared to a 46 rating for The Day After. "It wasn't as big a hit as its supporters had hoped," said Ted Koppel, "but it wasn't a disaster, either." The Day After is an American TV-movie which aired on November 20, 1983 on the ABC network. ...

Although a 35 share reportedly had been promised to advertisers, Stoddard was happy with the performance of Amerika, claiming that all or part of the miniseries had been watched by 100 million people - a ratings bonanza for ABC, then in third place among the three major networks.

Influence

While The Day After may have changed the opinions of some people about nuclear war, Amerika did not appear to have affected public opinion either of Communism or of the former Soviet Union. Because of its merely average ratings performance, however, Amerika is thought by many to have brought an end to the "epic" miniseries often featured on American television in the 1970s and 1980s. Later productions were generally much shorter in length, with the notable exception of the 30-hour War and Remembrance the following year. Nuclear War is a card game designed by Douglas Malewicki, and originally published in 1966. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... The 1970s decade refers to the years from 1970 to 1979, inclusive. ... The 1980s refers to the years of 1980 to 1989. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

In February 1987, the miniseries was parodied on the NBC show Saturday Night Live as "AmeriDa", in which the U.S. is taken over by Canada. It took several cultural shots at Canada, including having Wayne Gretzky as the new president of AmeriDa, and the suggestion that Canada's army invaded using hockey sticks as weapons, a reference to Canada's perceived obsession with ice hockey. The protagonist of this skit reminisces for a country "where you don't have money that's all the colors of the rainbow," and "where you don't have to spell 'flavor' with the letter 'u'.' It has been suggested that NBC Radio City Studios, NBC Studios be merged into this article or section. ... Saturday Night Live (SNL) is a weekly late night 90-minute American comedy-variety show based in New York City which has been broadcast by NBC on Saturday nights since October 11, 1975. ... Wayne Douglas Gretzky, OC (born January 26, 1961) is a retired Canadian professional ice hockey player who is currently part-owner and head coach of the Phoenix Coyotes. ...

Availability

Amerika has remained unseen on American television since its original telecast on ABC, possibly because its politics quickly became dated over the next few years with the breakup of the Soviet Union, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the reunification of Germany; perhaps also because it was not as popular as other miniseries. A VHS box set of the miniseries was released by Anchor Bay Entertainment in 1995, but no official DVD release is yet available. Portions of the soundtrack by Basil Poledouris were released on CD by Prometheus Records in 2004 (in a limited edition of 3000 copies). The novelization of the miniseries is widely available from used-book sellers and online auction sites. East German construction workers building the Berlin Wall, 20 November 1961. ... Top view of VHS cassette with U.S. 25c coin for scale Bottom view of VHS cassette with magnetic tape exposed Top view of VHS cassette with front casing removed The Video Home System, better known by its abbreviation VHS, is a recording and playing standard for analog video cassette... A box set (sometimes referred to as a boxed set) is one or more musical recordings, films, television programs, or other collection of related things that are contained in a box. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Quotes from Amerika

• When you lose and fail, it is understandable. When you win and fail, that brings madness. – General Petya Samanov
• Totalitarianism doesn't need armies. It only needs to control a couple of things – the media, and the ability to dispense privilege to some, and to withhold it from others. Of course, a weak and divided people helps. – The last, unnamed, President of the United States
• All the kids growing up now don't have any idea of the difference between the symbol of Abraham Lincoln and what he actually stood for. You can't look at those eyes and not think of what being an American has meant. Now there's an end to it. Soon, there will be no America. We'll be history, quickly lost and distorted, like Mr. Lincoln himself ... I suppose there will have to be new revolutions, with new generations who will have to discover the values which our forefathers handed down to us. If those truths stop being real, maybe it's better to let them go, to let some new generation discover, as though for the first time. Maybe freedom is just one of those things you can't inherit. – Peter Bradford, at the Lincoln Memorial
• Look at us. Here we are, who we are because our forefathers struggled through their lives – building a dream, sacrificing for it when that was what was called for, dying for it. We're the result. The dream didn't die with them. It lives in us. I can't, I won't abandon that legacy. America's not a flag, or a piece of territory – it's each one of us, in here, around the country. That's what America is. How can we give it up? – Devin Milford
• I'm not going to accept the breakup of America. I'll resist with my spirit, I'll resist with my life. I can resist because I've found the love of my children – the possibilities of their lives are more important than my own. I'll live through my children - through whatever good and true things I might have taught them, or the legacy of fear I might have left them. Each of us will find our best selves, or our worst selves – and in finding that, immortality. – Devin Milford, in the closing scenes

Similar works

Movies

• The 1952 film Invasion U.S.A. showed a Soviet invasion of the U.S. succeeding because the citizenry had fallen into moral decay, war profiteering, and isolationism. The film was later mocked on Mystery Science Theater 3000. (This is not to be confused with the similarly-titled Chuck Norris action vehicle from 1985.)
• A 1962 government-sponsored short subject, Red Nightmare, narrated by Jack Webb, imagined a Soviet-dominated America as a result of the protagonist's negligence of his "all-American" duties.
• The 1982 short film The Children's Story, which originally aired on TV's Mobil Showcase, depicts the first day of indoctrination of an elementary school classroom by a new teacher, representing a totalitarian government that has taken over the United States. It is based on the 1960 short story of the same name by James Clavell.
• The 1984 film Red Dawn presented a conventional/nuclear Soviet attack on the United States, aided by allies from Latin America, and the exploits of a group of high schoolers who form a guerrilla group to oppose them.

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Television

• "K" was a short-lived Philippine television mini-series that told the fictional story of the country being ruled by Communists. Made on a low budget, this series enjoyed a huge following among viewers and was even used as an educational reference on what the nation and Filipino lives might be like under Communist rule. Right-wingers and human rights activists in the Philippines objected to the mini-series, however, as they believed that K would spread Communism among the people and even spark revolts between the government and rebel forces. Politics aside, K is widely believed to be influenced by the Amerika mini-series, as it was released in 1988 (a year after Amerika's release), and shared many of its themes.

• "Sliders" was a TV show that, in its pilot episode, used the idea of an alternative reality to explore what would happen if the United States was conquered by the Soviet Union. One change depicted Nikita Khrushchev on the face of a reddish-colored one-dollar bill.

K was a short-lived Philippine television mini-series that told the fictional story of the country being ruled by Communists. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... This article is about the sci-fi television show. ... Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev (Russian: ; English: Nikita Sergeevič Hruŝëv; IPA: ); surname more accurately romanized as Khrushchyov; April 17, 1894 [O.S. April 5]–September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. ...

Books

• Invasion by Eric L. Harry features a conventional Chinese invasion into the Southern United States, while his novel Arc Light concerns an accidental limited nuclear exchange between the U.S. and the Russian Republic, followed by a conventional U.S./European invasion of Russia.
• Warday by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka takes a pseudo-documentary look at the United States five years after a limited nuclear war is fought between the U.S. and U.S.S.R. Although only a few cities are hit in the exchange, America has been turned into a Third World country because of the effect that the EMP had on its technology. The Soviet Union, however, is similarly affected and therefore is not able to occupy the United States in this scenario.
• Resurrection Day by Brendan DuBois is a fictional alternate history of the United States a decade after the Cuban Missile Crisis results in a limited nuclear war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union.

An invasion is a military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government. ... Eric L. Harry (b. ... A Techno-Thriller, Arc Light is set towards the end of the 1990s and depicts a warp between the United States of America and the Soviet Union. ... This article is about the continent. ... Warday is a novel by Whitley Strieber and James Kunetka, first published in 1984. ... Louis Whitley Strieber (born June 13, 1945) is a US writer best known for his horror novels The Wolfen and The Hunger and for Communion, which professes to be a non-fictional description of his subjective experiences with non-human entities; see alien abduction. ... ... For the Jamaican reggae band, see Third World (band). ... Resurrection Day is a novel written in 1999 by Brendan Dubois. ... Alternate history (fiction) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... USAF spy photo of one of the suspected launch sites The Cuban Missile Crisis was a confrontation during the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States regarding the Soviet deployment of nuclear missiles in Cuba. ...

Games

• The role-playing game The Price of Freedom by Greg Costikyan presents an America occupied by the USSR. The first scenario involves the player characters' reaction to the arrival of Soviet troops in their hometown.
• Freedom Fighters is a 2003 third-person/first-person tactical shooter video game that takes place in an alternate timeline where the Soviets have gained dominance during the Cold War and invade the United States, and a former plumber turned resistance fighter in New York City ultimately takes on the mantle of leadership.
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2 is a 2001 strategy game set in an alternate history world where the Soviets invade America.

A role-playing game (RPG, often roleplaying game) is a type of game in which the participants assume the roles of fictional characters and collaboratively create or follow stories. ... Greg Costikyan, also known as Designer X, is an American game designer and science fiction writer. ... Freedom Fighters is a third-person shooter in which the player takes the role of American resistance leader Christopher Stone, a former plumber who fights the Red Army, who, in an alternate timeline, invade and occupy New York City. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Tactical shooters include games of the first-person shooter (FPS) and third-person shooter genre of video games that generally simulate non-fictional, squad-based combat. ... Alternative history or alternate history can be: A History told from an alternative viewpoint, rather than from the view of imperialist, conqueror, or explorer. ...

See also

• Morgenthau Plan

The Morgenthau Plan showing the planned partitioning of Germany into a North State, a South State, and an International zone. ...

External link

• Amerika at the Internet Movie Database