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Fell off of For All Mankind for this exact plot point. In a universe where the USSR sustains itself for (so far) 20 additional years, and in one where half the world participates in global communism and in a world where clean energy is adopted in the 90s, it comes across as lazy and mean-spirited to continue depicting the Soviets as every other piece of American media does.
I mean, why would you even need to torture a single man for his entire life? Gives the impression the Soviets trained up this one engineer and they can't possibly lose him.
This is especially for a show called For All Mankind- You don't get the impression the story is actually for all mankind now. It's, in fact, quite hostile and disrespectful to most of humanity.
It cannot be without reference that, in response to the statement "you have to learn to trust people," a young Soviet woman character says "try living in the Soviet Union."
Ya, it would have been cool to see a bit of whatif timeline where the USSR was feeling secure, not being constantly on major defensive against the US. If the US got more effective pushback early on, and didn't get its claws in so deep. If they felt the need to restrain themselves more. So the USSR could have gone on confidently and comfortably. This should result is less internal subterfuge, not an infinite escalation.
It was a real disservice to the show the way soviet citizens were depicted. There are literally multiple scenes where the vivacious Americans are trying so hard to find a personality somewhere under the robotic automotaun exterior of a commie drone. I guess it is a metaphors for what happened in the writers room. Like in school if you write an essay about how difficult it is to pick a topic for your essay.
I guess if they did any research for wiritng that, it was probably material created by disaffected Soviet "refugees" to the west. But the way they are depicting a huge collection of nations, probably a billion or more people, each and every one of whom is individually and specially controlled and manipulated by a faceless state, using only the tools of misery is totally some 1984 fantasy of totalitarianism. You kind of get the sense that communism must have totally collapsed as an idea but it is not at all explained.