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.
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Hey, at least it's canon that the IRA got Thatcher in the FAM universe, that's gotta be worth something, right (it's hidden in one of the start-of-season headline montages but still)