Lots of moments of people looking into the camera and going "how could communism do this?" which is cringe, but otherwise it's a fantastic story of human drama and how bad shit can get. Funny, I read this morning that Gorby is now dead, weird timing.
Maybe I'm overly cynical but to me that was just the common lie regarding AES states: "the people of X nation are great! So, sad they are oppressed by brutal regime Y"; priming the public to accept efforts of intervention/warfare.