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"Americans" TV Show
I see where there is to be a new TV show about some Russian KGB agents in the USA. From what I read the show writers want the viewers to feel sorry for the agents. As one who has spent over 40 years working against these SPIES I feel disgusted about the premise of this show. How say you? I know the Boss and I will not be watching it.
I may be old but I ain't dead!
DPRMD
DPRMD
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Amen to all the above posts! Unless the show is some sort of back-handed comedy, the subject matter seems absolutely perverse and perverted. I do want to know more.
Nope! Ain't happening. People who watch that kind of crap have no memory of the cold war and the effects it had on America.
DPRMD
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Yeah, I wish my father in law had been able to talk about some of the stuff he did back in those days. Now that he has passed, no one will ever know what happened. He made some oblique comments about it over the years.
-Mikhail Kalashnikov
Now we know where all those sleeper agents kids ended up....
Except for that documentary The Hurt Locker.....very good info in that one.
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But, I can't really approve of a TV series that tries that hard to humanize the KGB, because it gives too many people false notions about that part of our history. It uses attractive, likeable characters to portray some of the most deadly enemies to freedom this country has ever had. It gives a perfunctory view of how the KGB turned it's agents into sociopaths, but then humanizes them by making them good parents.
I'll probably watch it, occasionally, just so I can point out whatever blatant falsehoods I can spot to anybody that seems to be taking it to heart.
So they live in suburbia? That is their cover, they have no issues using sex, violence and getting their hands quite dirty to meet their ends and then go home to their kids who are in for a very rude awakening by being uninvited participating pawns to their trade, I don't find characters such as this likable at all. They also paint some Russians as very low humans.
SPOILER...The perhaps likable part is the seed of hope they plant for them to "see the light" and become full Americans as half of the team already leans in that direction but seems that ship already sailed...
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Why this name?
Why am I not surprised!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
DPRMD
I was familiar with the reference, I am just not linking it to hockey....