First Dawn
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Find It Fuck It Forget It Look People judge and they outcast what they don't understan…
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I Love You So Much Ett, två He-ey, checka in, yeah Länge sen jag cut a lane,…
Introduction Welcome to No Love Love Four Letter Word I have none of that…
Living In a Daydream Sharks in my living Waking up I'm so confused I'm scared Wa…
Shit For Brains Take a walk on the why side, A fast ride,…

Sweat And Sour I never knew... I never knew Sweat and sour sweet and…
Wrecked My bloated bloody blinding lies Baptize a bruised and broken…

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Comments from YouTube:

KomodoDad

5y↑6K

All these comments about "who would attack a school" and no one paying any respects to the first victim of World War III: Mr. Teasdale.

RIP Mr. Teasdale.

MMI 2046

5y↑326

SavageLycan Mr. Teasdale was everything a teacher should be. They don’t make them like that anymore

JulioVonSpit819

5y↑72

LOL what's goin' on my friend XD

Mohammad Noor Iman

5y↑24

Yeah true...

Kriegter

5y↑24

Yosh Shmenge

5y↑76

Most educated man in the school.... just not that smart.

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Chad Stallings

5y↑5.6K

Russian Officer: "Attack that high school!"
Russian Sergeant: "But Comrade, they out-gun us!"

ThatIndianaFan TIF

5y↑108

Chad Stallings nooo, i was scrolling up and i realized what this means.

Prizm

5y↑47

That's if North Korea attacked

Danny Gonzalez

5y↑9

I don’t please help

ggt

5y↑115

Danny Gonzalez because American high schools keep getting shot up so he’s saying there are more guns at the school then the troops had

WhoKnows&WhoCares?

5y↑22

And then World War III ended in a week

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Enclave here.

3y↑211

You know what I really love with this movie? They didn’t waste your time. They didn’t take 30 or 40 minutes setting up the events, they give you the basic/essential knowledge you need of the characters in the first 10 minutes and then you see the Russians invade

blehmeh98

2y↑7

Actually, even less than that! I had the luxury of purchasing a DVD of this movie and the 2012 remake for $5 recently, and I watched the timemark from the start of the movie (including opening credits and logos) to the first sighting of the paratroopers. The history professor drifts off from his lecture to wonder what's going on outside almost exactly at the 5 minute mark. Keep in mind that's not even 5 minutes of characterization because at least 2 of those minutes were just logos and opening credits. All they needed was a 2 minute discussion about football and a 1 minute lecture about Ghengis Khan to get you invested in the characters.

NK8432

1y↑5

Except the Russian paratroopers are way more competent than in real life...

H1OB

1y↑1

@NK8432 Well, but firing into a school building full of civilians (children) is not what I´d expect from a professional soldier....

Brent D

52w↑2

I just watched this movie for the first time ever, and that was my exact thought as this scene was unfolding…

Sean L.

50w↑1

@NK8432 LOL. Someone's trolling.

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Jordan Williams

3y↑211

All criticism aside the first glimpse of parachutes falling from the sky is so eerie and intense. Imagine the confusion and fear you would feel

Samuel Luria

1y↑5

Yes. As an adolescent at the end of the Cold War, it was chilling.

Que Terian

1y↑1

the teacher was probably thinking this is some kind of training

Humpty Dumpty

44w↑1

You mean how Iraqi’s felt when we invaded?

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Cybermat47

5y↑7.4K

“Sir, what should we do with our limited supply of anti-tank weapons?”

“Blow that wooden high school door up, then destroy the empty bus.”

EDIT: turns out this is an accurate depiction of Russian military competence.

Shabby Ken

5y↑546

"Listen here comrades, as an inavsive force we should get unlimited supplies so the first things i want you to do is to magdump thoose evil capitalist windows"

"Vasily don't forget to use an rpg on the capitalist doors, since as an airdropped force we have sooo much anti tank capabilities"

A

5y↑13

😂😂😂😂

Juan Elorriaga

4y↑53

@Dav Serban big time violation of the Geneva Convention but hey it’s RUS they don’t care

eric777100763

4y↑7

Lol

Michael Tubbs

4y↑58

Dillon Duncan Not so much the balls but the inability to get a sizable enough force across either the Atlantic or Pacific without being seen and destroyed first.

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Rocktown501

3y↑26

Such an iconic scene which was etched into my memory as a child when I first saw the movie, and it still carries that same weight for me now 30+ years later.

Samuel Luria

1y↑1

Same here. Those parachutes quietly floating down was so chilling as a kid.

dave Mustaki

3y↑1.9K

Imagine how many high schoolers back then imagined this happening and them saving the world lol

dave Mustaki

3y↑7

@why bother I wouldn't!

WhoKnows&WhoCares?

3y↑86

Nowadays we worry what the loner kid in school is gonna do.

dave Mustaki

3y↑124

@WhoKnows&WhoCares? instead of accepting them and making them feel welcome

Duttonzzz

3y↑2

Huh

dave Mustaki

3y↑29

@Duttonzzz don't worry go back to sleep

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PigPimp69

5y↑2.8K

In making this scene one of the paratroopers was blown a couple miles off course and was stuck in the middle of the town being held at gun point for a few hours convincing the towns people he was part of a movie and not a real paratrooper

Juan Elorriaga

4y↑662

I read that damn that poor guy but shows you how ramped up the Cold War was

TWH1956

4y↑240

Do you have a news article on this? I'd love to read it.

Michael Martin

4y↑638

They built a fake Russian tank, but it looked so realistic the FBI showed up on set demanding to know how they'd got it.

Jorge Rafael

4y↑150

Michael Martin CIA***

TWH1956

4y↑73

Reunite The British Empire
I'm the one who asked..

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Anxietywave

6y↑1K

Ah yes, the Soviet Union knew that random high schools where important strategic locations to seize.

Thezombieslayer175

6y↑20

Jordan Sipe LMAO

Nick dummythicc

5y↑1

Jordan Sipe The upside down was being opened under that school, duh.

RevDaddy69

5y↑3

@THOMAS KELLY it's called, a JOKE

Kevin Smithwick

5y↑2

@Thomas Kelly
Yeah, although the anti-Franco militias were immediately targeting universities and not rural schools. This school has no real strategic importance. Other than detaining the staff for leverage and information on the immediate community. By firing on civilians they undermined their position, granted this drama as entertainment.

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freshtendrills

2y↑54

I wish I would have had this dude for history. He's fantastic.

Amos

he really makes it come alive

bianchi1885

2y↑292

I was in 10th grade when this movie came out. Us "Cold War Kids" knew 38 years ago that the events depicted in the movie were not completely outlandish. But I never would have thought in 2022 that Russia would mount a full-scale invasion of a neighboring country.

Loki and Tucker

2y↑10

Ditto.

jessica Garcia

2y↑3

Yup

Haito Lawrence

2y↑33

IKR? That's something only Western nations have done for the last twenty years.

dukenukem345

2y↑6

Their school colors is the Ukraine flag 🇺🇦

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Kjleed13

2y↑336

Guess it’s a good time to rewatch this movie.

Catherine Gilbert

2y↑13

Yeah. It does not seem such a stretch to imagine now.

MrMJmusicLover

2y↑9

@Catherine Gilbert And that famous line everyone always says......"it's just a movie". Is it really. 😏

Ethan Potts

2y↑6

I'm so glad I'm not the only one to come back to this

Mr. Napalm

2y↑14

Russia invading America will just never happen. Still, scary times.

dukenukem345

2y↑18

Their school colors is the Ukraine flag 🇺🇦

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TEXAStooTAL L

7y↑2.6K

-Sir, the Americans are counterattacking! We can't hold them off!
-Dammit! Where are our RPGs? Where is the ammo for the machine guns?!
-Uh, we used up most of it shooting up that high school earlier.

United States of Anime

7y↑175

USSR

Lorifel0

7y↑25

Why the hell would they do it when it is so much better to eat them alive instead! :D

Arthur Rubio

7y↑69

TEXAStooTAL L and thus died the only black man in the history of Colorado

Marioag20

7y↑1

Arthur Rubio hahaha!!!

Gerardo Rodriguez

7y↑14

Arthur Rubio that racists killing a black man, KGB and Cubans have have no respect

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McDowell AFJROTC

2y↑10

I loved this movie as a teenager when it came out and probably watched it a million times. Now that I'm older, I'd love to hear more of the teacher's lecture.

Vedran Noneofyourbusiness

1y↑16

I think if there was one thing I could tell John Milius, it's that the most unrealistic part of this movie is that these kids are getting such a thorough and professional history education in the midwest in the 80s.

Driving With Don

2y↑12

Still one of my all time favorite movies!

Adeliede Wojack

2y↑75

After 38 years it turns out this movie was a prescient documentary and has inspired Ukrainians defending their homes against impossible odds.

The battle scenes are generally ineptly directed; what has given this movie staying power is that it is a tragedy. Like ‘A French Village’ or ‘Army of Shadows’, it depicts young, largely forgotten, doomed young men and women fighting against oppression: cold, starving, subject to betrayal, and unlikely to see the fruits of their sacrifice.

Freedom is never free.

xhagast

2y↑1

The day you believe it is, you are about to lose it.

Mark Cherry

41w

Solidarity Ukraine 🇺🇦

The Liamster

3y↑836

I was sad that the teacher died, he seemed like a cool guy.

Miles Cox

3y↑91

Yeah man it sucks, he didn’t even stand a chance. Then again who goes and asked What Going On My Friend? To a guy with a machine gun.

Luis Díaz

3y↑84

The actor (Frank McRae) passed away in April 29 this year. He was 77.

covfefe2020

3y↑44

I kinda just wanted him to keep going on with the lecture lol

Him🥱

3y↑6

Same

Him🥱

3y↑5

@Luis Díaz 😞

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Antoine Saliba

2y↑80

Before the invasion of Ukraine: "ok I get they are the bad guys and supposed to be bad and incompetant but why would they waste munitions on a school"
After Ukraine: "they only wasted one RPG round on that door?"

LV LC

But the black guy still die first.

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Del

3y↑3

Saw this in the theatre. What a great movie. Can't believe Patrick is gone now.

DarwinOsh0999

2y↑723

Watching this movie in the past: “There’s no way invading Russian soldiers could be that incompetent.”

Watching this movie today: “Yeah they got it pretty much right.”

BorisSlavK01 no last name

2y↑30

Ukraine?

Cody Kernes

2y↑11

Red dawn

No one

2y↑43

@MasterT91 No, he’s talking about Russia invading Ukraine right now.

MasterT91

2y↑5

@No one oh I see

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Ethan

4y↑79

The begining classroom scene actually looks like a cool history lesson. Wish my school was like that.

Joke Bidumb

2y↑7

My history lessons were like "okay kids, today we're going to be taking a look at women's rights movements in the inter war years".

Koalas Are Cool

2y↑1

@Joke Bidumb pretty good for understanding how the world came to be tbh

Joke Bidumb

2y↑1

@Koalas Are Cool Yeh, no one came out of that understanding anything about how the world came to be.

Koalas Are Cool

2y↑1

@Joke Bidumb wacky

Tyler Phillips

@Koalas Are Cool we are not told the way the world came to be. school is social engineering.

Mary B

2y↑19

Amazing how fiction becomes real.

Bobby Ricigliano

8y↑1.6K

I love this movie. However I do not understand the strategic value in conducting a massive airborne invasion of a rural town. Those slow moving troop transport planes would have had to penetrate hundreds or thousands of miles into the interior while avoiding layers of air defense the whole way.

Robert Paulsen

8y↑241

+Bobby Ricigliano As the Powers Boothe character says in the film: "First wave of the attack came in disguised as commercial charter flights same way they did in Afghanistan in '80. Only they were crack Airborne outfits.."

That's how. No troop transport planes.

Cole Gilliam

8y↑56

+Robert Paulsen it would be cool if they did what world in combat did. Yes I know this movie is older that WIC but having Soviets invade America through transport ships like that was a cool idea and seeing that in a movie woulda been better

Matt Canon

8y↑191

"the strategic value in conducting a massive airborne invasion of a rural town"

According to Tanner, the strategic value wasn't the town itself, it was to secure the key passes running through the Rocky Mountains in preparation for the main invasion.

SassyHershsey SassyHershey

8y↑7

Recruitment film: Strategic value - VIetnam is forgotten.

TheSWFuniverse

8y↑40

Think of how much chaos the Boston Marathon Bombing manhunt caused in the rural town of Watertown, MA. Now imagine hundreds of armed soldiers instead

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Ale Broker

1y↑5

Who in their right mind could think that a Cuban/Russian army could invade the US? I loved the movie anyhow.

This account name is completely Unoriginal

2y↑27

This film aged like a fine wine.

DJ Mexicano de TX

1y↑4

I remember when I first watched this movie in Jr High. I was blown away at this beginning scene..what a way to start a film.

Lul M8

7y↑4

I remember seeing this scene at a very young age in a motel (my parents got evicted alot, moved around alot) this scene is really close to me in a weird way. I searched up the movie about 17 years later and watched the whole thing.

I like Trains

wow ik what u mean

S U

2y↑6

My history teacher showed us this movie in 9th grade and told us it actually happened. Never expected much from our high school history program ever since.

Louie Watson

5y↑2.4K

In Soviet Russia our greatest weakness is a Chevrolet pickup truck.

Ugly Bob

5y↑25

I loved that truck when I was a kid.

Baconbits Belcourt

5y↑6

🤣🤣

Ryan Industries

4y↑10

Slicker tail

4y↑36

No your greatest weakness is Finnish farmers

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JustPippaNY

2y↑13

Fun fact: the teacher was also in National Lampoon's Vacation as one of the Walley World security guards. He even says the same thing "What's going on here?" when Clark pulls the gun on John Candy.

bouse23

2y↑15

To be honest I think the Russians would have been shocked at the idea of high school students having cars. It was totally unheard of in Russia.

littleferrhis

2y↑9

How did this turn out to actually portray the Russians fairly accurately, both in terms of cruelty and ineptitude.

liftfork

2y↑107

2021: “Is it really accurate that the Russian military would just gun down civilians for no reason?”

2022: “Yes.”

[Insert Name]

2y↑6

Russians: da

lauri oho

These arent russians, theyre soviet internationalists

jeck jeck

1y↑2

@John Griswold
But most of them are:/

Formalist

1y↑1

@jeck jeck and why’s that?

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_Sausageman _

2y↑142

Watching this movie before: “I don’t think the Russians would randomly shoot a bunch of civilians”
Watching this now: “Yeah, seems about right”

_Sausageman _

2y↑2

@Холст Масло Cry about it

Wolfus

2y↑2

i think normaly no they wouldn't but american civilians would be different, alot of them do carry guns. so everyone is a potential threat!

Driving With Don

You beat me to it! I was just thinking "Pretty much a normal day now in Ukraine"

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Spaceboi Scapahandre

8y↑805

Oh man, so many war crimes portrayed in this one scene.

Pro File

7y↑10

DrScaphandre well not really.

yomaster12345

7y↑13

Ain't Soviets, these are Cubans/Nicaraguans

griz312

7y↑9

DrScaphandre it's just a movie but far as what is seen and depending on politics. For one shooting and killing non-combatants, and if this was a surprise attack without a declaration of war it is also a war crime.

yomaster12345

7y↑20

Well it states later in the movie that Russia nuked several cities so its not like killing civilians is out of their ROE

Lorifel0

7y↑10

But... doesn't it sound more like American than Russian way of waging wars?

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The Sociopathic Charmander

4y↑194

1:59 - 2:02
That awkward moment when a kid magically appears dead hanging on the window when everyone ducked.

Oddish43

3y↑27

Probably some producer's kid, getting a cameo in.

Nykrev

2y↑2

@Oddish43 but he Just Appeared out of nowhere

Oddish43

2y↑4

@Nykrev True. Poor directing, I guess.

vijesh kumar

2y↑1

He had desync issues

SomeGuyOnYoutube

2y↑125

This movie nailed the killing civilians part. That’s so historically accurate for the Russian military

Холст Масло

2y↑13

Any military, really. War is war.

High Capa

2y↑1

Soviet*

MiG-21 Fishbed

2y↑16

Because that totally doesn't happen in any other war or for any other military. Like My Lai, Nanjing or Biscari wasn't a thing.

SomeGuyOnYoutube

2y↑2

Guy’s it’s not a contest, just a comment

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Charles Saint

2y↑2

Two things about this scene, the Russian officer, with the blue beret and waving a pistol, is the film's military advisor, Fred Rexer. He is a former US Army Special Forces member who also advised for Apocalypse Now.

Second, when filming this scene, several of the paratroopers got blown way off course. One landed in a tree. It caused a scare with the locals as the paratrooper tried to convince them he wasn't a real Russian soldier.

Justin Majors

1y↑4

RIP MR Teasdale. You were a great history teacher

Lenin Luna

1y↑1

Ukrainians: we will avenge him! Slava!

Hunter Newsome

2y↑45

So everyone’s asking “Why would the Russians attack a rural high school?” Well the answer is pretty simple.

The town was a rural but it had 3 strategic places that we know of. It has an airfield, the school, and the town itself. We can assume this town also has a lot of roads, bridges or even highways leading in and out(Kind of like Gettysburg or Bastogne which makes it ideal for troop movements or tanks). This would be perfect for launching further attacks on towns surrounding it or moving troops out/through the Rockies. And since the school was likely along one of these roads taking it was vital to taking the town. If they didn’t take it then US forces could occupy/fortify the school and control one of the roads.

It also could have been a goal to capture as many young men and women such as students in case they were to launch rebellions. This of course is exactly what happens and the Russians predicted it because each of the kids were unaccounted for by the KGB and were wanted.

Pavia 1525

2y↑4

The reason is that is part of the script about children partisans.

wagahagwa

in irl terms
the town is bucha and the airfield is hostomel
the civilians dying to vdv is true as well

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Aye Co Breeze

4y↑1.8K

This looks like the worst military I’ve ever seen portrayed in a movie. They were just running around like call of duty.

Leon

4y↑76

russians

F L

4y↑196

The 80s

The Potato Of 42

4y↑159

Haven't seen the film yet but why the hell would they want to kill schoolteachers or children? Even if the school had some strategic advantage geographically, why need to kill the faculty? Trained military personnel wouldn't kill children man (unless ordered).

Leon

4y↑54

@The Potato Of 42 THey are not trained profesionals they are russains.

The Potato Of 42

4y↑90

@Leon I believe both Soviet and Murikan soldiers knew that a war is best off to be avoided. Soviets were actually sweating bullets during both Cuban crisis and the shooting down of some plane that they thought was intruding their territory in the 80s. No soldier would want to kill unarmed civilians.

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Mister Schubert

3y↑4

Frank McRae...one of the finest character actors of the 80s...!

John Daniels

3y↑1

This scene always spooked me as a 12 year old kid. And any kid that lived near a woods was playing Red Dawn in those woods right up until they started getting their drivers license!

🖤Emily🖤

2y↑15

This movie is super accurate tactics wise on the Russian side

F¡re Fox

6y↑6

I think I understand the strategic value of taking rural towns before major cities.
If you were to invade a big country, you'd first need a staging area, so take the small towns for staging areas. If you took a major city, well that's too much ground to cover. Also, schools would make for good comms centres and barracks.

Phil Swain

2y↑64

Based on a true story, 38 years into the future in a place called Ukraine.

Christian Arman

4y↑4.5K

School shooter: Shows up
Russian officer: We weren’t expecting special forces.

cptTK421

4y↑176

That's the point, Sooka.

Dante202

4y↑4

Litenin Mckwin 😂🥺

Zulmansyah

4y↑5

What reference is this?

ACID FALL

4y↑39

@Zulmansyah star wars battlefront 2

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The Tripped Up

5y↑467

"Comrade, these Americans build their airfields in very strange way."
"Ah, comrade. You are tricked by Yankee psyops. They make it look like civilian target."
"I see now, comrade, it is made very well. The GI's even look like children!"
"Yes, yes. Good thing they are not. They're gathering by the window, fire!"

H.

5y↑20

Gamma Raygun is it bad that you read this like your a guy named Sergei wearing track pants??

Geroge Gerog

4y↑2

Meanwhile me the smart paratrooper:wait they are kids and I don’t think this is an airfield

JoJo P

@Geroge Gerog bro this seems so unintentionally funny

Geroge Gerog

@JoJo P that guy:comrades why does this airfield have no planes

Herbet

@Geroge Gerog Officer : "errr comrades i think we dropped off into a civillian school" Sees a butt ton of school shooters "ANUU BLYAT THE AMERICANS HAVE USED GUERILLA TACTICS ON US" Tactical retreat achieved

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Jonathan Garcia

5y↑268

You have to admit.......

His lesson about Mongols was interesting

Tomahwk

3y↑9

I was inspired to some day use it if I ever became a teacher and taught about the Mongols...well I teach about the Mongols every year, and shed a little tear for Mr. Teasdale...RIP

Cheese

he was talking about mongols?

Tomahwk

@Cheese yes, watch it again where he is talking about the Mongols as the clip starts with a picture of Genghis Khan among other mentioning's of the Khan and Mongols.

Cheese

@Tomahwk ughhhh letters.....

Tomahwk

@Cheese but Mr. Teasdale also said, "...the Mongols..." lol

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Bobua

2y↑8

This scene aged well

Johnny Sunday

5y↑1

The school was not the primary target (but it is a government building within the bounds of the target location), but served an open area where troops could easily land and regroup. The goal was to capture the town and there by capture the location as an West to East transit hub over the Rockies.

Joe 💈

2y↑25

In light of recent events the VDV acting that ridiculously over the top and incompetent isn't all that unlikely after all 🥸

And Rest In Power to that dutiful educator trying to look out for his pupils. "What's going on here my friends?", Mr. Teasedale's last words 😢 (19??-1984) the first confirmed American causality to Soviet forces. He called them his friends 😭even! They could never win hearts and minds after murdering Teasedale.

Ian Berg

2y↑19

Shout out to everyone watching this clip in 2022 after Russia invaded Ukraine, attacking its largest cities Kyiv and Kharkiv.

Ethan

5y↑3K

When you bully the Russian kid at school

TheGreenGuy

5y↑58

This comment is underrated.

Legendary Explorer

4y↑4

😂

Baron Von Mott

4y↑34

* SOVIET ANTHEM STARTS PLAYING IN THE DISTANCE *

no0bgaming

4y↑6

Dad get ur friends on him!

Yo Yo.

4y↑4

They not russian they cubans

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Dorkmax

7y↑167

Oh, the 80s. Back when we thought Russian Spetsnaz's battle plan included a high school.

Jaime

6y↑2

Coda Mission They landed all over the town.
They capture the town to secure key passages through the rockies which could be used as an american counter attack

I like Trains

6y↑5

Random Nerd Remembre when 'merica came to germany, my proud homecountrie, and bombed Kassel, Darmstadt, Pforzheim, Dresden, Hamburg during the second WW? Urban bombing to frighten the german people... Merica actually did this, compared to a fictional movie where some russians are attacking a highschool

Mobius 708

Yep, we didn't use the airborne divisions though.

I like Trains

@Mingus OG i dont think that the 2nd world war started because germany bombed a city

I like Trains

@Mingus OG you dont seem to understand what these comments were about. it wasnt about who started ww2, it was a discussion about killing civilians without a strategic intention

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Hey Blinkin

5y↑163

As a kid in the eighties, this scenario was totally plausible. Different times

fernando garcia

5y↑34

😂😂😂😂😂 murican in standard paranoid mode.

crabtrap

5y↑49

@fernando garcia Paranoid? that was a real possible scenario in the 80's....thats why the USSR spent so much on their arsenal to attack the US

Be N S O N

4y↑22

@crabtrap Not really. It was pretty much certain that any direct conflict with the USSR would be nuclear. This is why they constantly engaged in proxy wars with eachother - neither side wanted to throw a direct punch because they knew it would end the world.

crabtrap

4y↑23

@Be N S O N im not sure what transgender professor told you that...but it is not factually accurate in any way. There was much concern of a coventional conflict in 70-80s because it conserved the US resources for the USSR. A nuke conflict would not have provided any benefit to either power becuase of nuke contamination. Invasion over the bearing straight was/is a constant US concern and to a lesser extent from cuba....esentually a pincher manuver from north and south. So the concept of 'Red Dawn' was very reasonable/plausible for the time.

Klutz Specter

4y↑6

@crabtrap Nowadays, very implausible because the the US has a heavy defense network and it had only been building since after WW2 from the threat of invasion. We literally monitor worldwide flights and would've had foresight to properly prepare. Also, I'm pretty sure Nukes are a viable tactic, since it literally vaporizes entire cities. Then again nukes aren't viable right? Just ask the entire world how many nukes are in their arsenal and for what reason they have them. Then ask why US nuked Japan, because it sure wasn't viable at all? Then there's pincer attack which doesn't make sense because it's in the middle of the country and south, those forces would've been overwhelmed. One last point how implausible it is the population, during the cold war there were 2-5 million russian combat ready units, but also the US have 3 million, but the Russians had no viable aircraft carriers to transport all those troops, men, and hold back nato from launching attacks, China at the time was building up its infrastructure, but again the US control the seas with the most aircraft and ships ready to deploy. I can't forget about friendly neighborhood canadians now. It's like saying WW2 Germany invading, the UK, its just not viable and it didn't break the Uk into submission from bombings.

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AntTony

1y↑3

I love the guy who tackles the Russian when running out the door

FoxhoundAK74

4y↑133

"Sir should we shoot at the fleeing truck with our rifles?"
"Nyet! use anti-tank launcher!"
"We missed!"
"Darn, oh well no one else shoot at them they got away fair and square!"

Karlshorst Zwei

And this is why Kharkiv and Kherson are Ukrainian.

Artur Karpinski

3y↑5

Now that's what I call an 80's teen flick!!!

white shadow

4y↑317

If saw a bunch of paratroopers land outside my classroom, last thing I would do is go outside to meet them.

Miles Cox

3y↑44

Especially when there speaking another language and there running around with machine guns.

Madi

3y↑2

Exactly what I was thinking

illegalmex

3y↑1

We did not learn from what happend to that poor teacher??

Brinson Harris

3y↑4

It was at that moment Mr. Teasdale became Heisenberg.

skeetman22

3y↑8

Well you know is old movies the black guy always dies first so….you know…it had to happen this way

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Matsimus

5y↑446

This is what my high school years “should” have looked like

Fighter Pilot

4y↑12

Aren’t you the dude who says L85 is a good platform?

Athens

3y↑3

We will start a resistance

Lennart Humpf

3y↑3

@Fighter Pilot I heard the new version should be pretty good actually

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AfricanWarlord

3y↑4

All jokes aside, I like how the kids all helped each other get outta there.

Alonso Francisco

1y↑3

He was a great history teacher RIP 😢

Thunder Warrior

3y↑2

One of the 80’ greatest teen movies..god,we had it good back then. This, First Blood,Commando and Conan The Barbarian. All of which my dad took me to see at the cinema. Back then my dad got me in to see anything,even x certificates like Commando..my earliest movie memory is Gone In 60 Seconds in 1974,i was five..what a dad!

M Sab

2y↑62

"Who would attack a school" ,
Russian army in Ukraine "hold my Vodka"

King Fred

2y↑14

Tell Azov Battalion to stop hiding in schools and using unwilling civilians as human shields.

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Cannibal713

8y↑76

Growing up during the cold war, I was a bit upset when I learned as a child about the possibility of a third world war. But when I saw this flick it changed my whole feeling about it. It made what would be the end of the world into something not only survivable, but a down right blast. It inspired many a fire fight with the other neighborhood kids wanting to protect America from the ruskies. Tho a ridiculously impossible premise and ludicrous plot, it is a fun movie. Great cast of young, up and coming actors. And more than a bit of nostalgia.

jtrev492

8y↑2

World war 3 would probably be with just nuclear weapons not this

ChromiteHertz

+jtrev492 no.

Johnlindsey289

8y↑1

Born 82 and saw this on HBO when i was 4 and thought it was quite scary

FD S

7y↑1

"I was a bit upset when I learned as a child about the possibility of a third world war..."
A bit upset?
You're not British by any chance, are you?

Jaime

6y↑1

jtrev492 Nuclear weapons are detonated in the movie

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Chuck U. Farley

2y↑1

I never noticed the foreshadowing in this scene until now. Man, this movie is epic.

Todd Miller

2y↑2

One of the wildest opening scenes in movie history.

John Dardi

1y↑1

Going through high school in the 80’s with the thought that this was a real possibility scared the crap outta me constantly

Ken Gingrich

6y↑4

What a movie! I saw it in 1984. Great cold-war morale booster it was! Yipeeeh!!

Frauds R Not Friends

1y↑1

Notice when the missile comes through the door there is a student some teacher told to stand in the corner and is not moving. That kid has amazing discipline.

ARVIN

7y↑443

One thing paratroopers kind of lack is ammunition and weapons. So what did these paratroopers do? Waste them all on a bunch of high school kids.

Ollie Sloane

6y↑71

ARVIN It's almost as if this is basically a red scare propaganda movie.

Richardsen

6y↑11

Yeah. The weird thing is, 1980s is a bit late for a red scare.

Isaak Wang

6y↑27

Well, the Soviets were back then in Afghanistan, and the US were busy funding mujahedin who would later become Taliban... makes sense to make anti-commie propaganda.

Caelan

6y↑1

Duncan Wiggin source?

Conker117

6y↑9

Phoenix Private just look it up. United States funded those groups to fight back against the soviets and it worked but backstabbed is later

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Springbok295

5y↑1

I remember going to see this in theatres in '84. The concept of a Soviet invasion even back then was far fetched. What wasn't was the very real threat from a nuclear war beginning after the outbreak of hostilities between us and the Sovs either in Europe or Central America.

Airsoft Luke

Damn it happened

Gerku

3y↑2

Salute to that guy who helped his friends

Echoboomer1987

2y↑39

Watching Red Dawn before: Haha, why would the Russian Army shoot up a school?
Watching recent events: Oh………..

Lplp

3y↑3

I always enjoyed the description of the great hunt. I never found a book that described it so dramatically

Captain Nutsack

2y↑2

My mom was born in '63, she showed me and my friends this movie during a sleepover when I was 8 years old in 1997.....it scared the piss out of me lol. On another note how terrible a parent is my mom for letting 8 year olds watch this lmfao

Matthew Brown

7y↑1.4K

For everyone that's criticizing the Soviet troops' massacre of an innocent civilian high school, just remember that this movie was made during the Cold War. So of course the Russians are gonna be depicted as savages and ruthless monsters. It's totally intentional that they're portrayed that way for propaganda purposes

Jaime

6y↑106

Matt Brown Actually it makes complete sense for them to shoot up the Highschool seeing as how the teacher approached them and was shot and since they were all scared and unorganized they beleive they were being attacjed so they opened fire. It isnt at all unreasonable for this to happen seeing as how Soviet Propaganda depicted Americans as killers and savages. As well as the fact that in Red Dawn NATO is disbanded and no one follows geneva protocol and China is on the verge of Nuclear Holocaust.

Jonathan Tan

6y↑98

Well, the Soviets actually did shoot civilians in Ukraine, Poland, and the Baltic countries.

Bryce Hayes

6y↑14

Pretty much every movie back then had a propaganda message regardless if they were anti communist or anti capitalist

Logan B

6y↑11

Matt Brown it'd make it way more believable and compelling if one of the Russian officers was desperately trying to get things back under control to no avail.

Charlie Uniform

6y↑47

Because Russians don't kill civilians? Like they have done on purpose in Chechnya and Syria, to cite only the two latest examples?

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NorthernZeus

3y↑12

It’s nice to see Cleveland from family guy has a side hustle as a history teacher.

ThunderStruckMTB

4y↑29

Still gives this 52yr older goosebumps.

History AndHorseplaying

3y↑1

Me too, I was a freshman in HS when this came out

Aussiegranny

3y↑1

Me too and I'm even older!

Hi I'm Beautiful

2y↑1

lol lame

EQQ

2y↑2

The episodic format of this film makes it feel more suited as a TV series

What to Watch

4y↑1

One of the best 80s movies. Millius is a great writer.

CB

3y↑1

So sad to know 10 people that played good roles in this movie have passed away as of today in 2021.

Antonio Moser

7y↑322

They didn't even work as a team they were just running everywhere shooting and missing the kids.

Zion Hyman

6y↑10

There storm troopers but worser

Siiixers

6y↑6

Stone Harper after one shoots up the car and they get out, a load more just run past... Who's in charge of this operation 😅

Jon Raybon

6y↑3

They ran past them because killing civilians was not the objective, it was to secure the landing site. Panicked civilians posed little to no threat. The ones that did shoot were in panic mode.

GorillaGaming

5y↑6

Seriously if I was their superior officer i would reem out those guys after that shit was over with.

They are running around like a bunch of maniacs with no regard to their limited resources or their exposed positions. Gunning down civilians with no provocation, totally unprofessional conduct for what should be one of the best divisions in the world.

Russian paratroopers to this day are well respected and highly regarded as one of the best trained and displined forces in the world.

I don't have a lick of military training, I'm some fat kid who plays too much video games. And yeah it's a movie, but LOL you can't deny these paratroopers fucked up royally here.

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Finlicity

5y↑2

I remember watching this as a kid and being in absolute shock when the teacher was gunned down.

William Dukane

5y↑3

The best history class is when you get to personally be there for the event.

Brian Smith

2y↑19

Red Dawn is the most popular movie in Ukraine right now

Shadowc1121 Z

2y↑17

I didn’t know the first time I watched this movie I was supposed to be taking notes.

caseclosed93

2y↑1

@Nick Irmen they did use paratroopers in Ukraine to seize the airfield

Caesar Seriona

@Nick Irmen Russians don't use Paratroopers? Laughs in WWII and Ukraine.

Nick Irmen

@Caesar Seriona They barely had paratrooper corps in ww2, they used most of them up in the beginning cuz Stalin was crazy in his general killing phase. They had plenty of training before the war though but never got use it lol.

Caesar Seriona

@Nick Irmen Soviet Paratroopers were used in WWII. In the early days during the German invasion and later when it was decided to reform them, the last use of them in WWII was in Manchuria.

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Zarcon

7y↑257

back in high school this was like every kids dream. to defend their town from the red menace with their friends. we would set up fort in the woods with pellet guns and pretend to be wolverines. no propaganda like entertaining propaganda.

Synthetic Dawn

6y↑4

cept the historical wolverines were afterwar nazi resistance

Donnie Montoya

6y↑4

Zarcon I thought I was the only one. After seeing this movie I just prayed that we would get invaded by Russia so I could run to the mountains and save my town.

Big Dummy

Except I prayed we'd get saved by the Russians from our corrupt government ran by the corporations.

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James Mongold

5y↑2

I love that a high school is among the first targets. Such realism!

Joseph Armstrong

This comment is ON POINT..... Not intentional but nonetheless, very ON POINT.

Kriegter

4y↑30

Little did they know this is actually a military simulation training

Kate Electric

2y↑4

Imagine just sitting in class 1 day, and outside a bunch of soviet Russian paratroopers drop down with anti tank weapons they use on the doors, and empty buses

Karlshorst Zwei

Буча приветствует вас

FreeWorldAllDay

3y↑69

When I first saw this movie in 1984, it was a powerful one.

FreeWorldAllDay

3y↑4

Mr. Bug You are right. It still is a powerful one. Unfortunately many don't learn from the past.

32shumble

3y↑9

And now it just looks stupid

SIYAC

3y↑1

1984 eh?

32shumble

3y↑2

@Crazy oilfield mechanic You are really screwed up.

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ethan eade

2y↑8

A very cold war era film.... never seen it.... but just might watch it

jacob bogner

5y↑286

1:49, you hear a student say..."I want to see their hallpass." LOL

should_kno

4y↑1

jacob bogner lol

Jon Marsh

3y↑2

No he says "he" wants to

VlaDDrakkeN

4y↑28

The only way I can imagine why these Paratroopers are using up ammo and resources on civilians like this is if they were told to assume every American has a gun. Which isn't a wrong assumption considering the invasion and invading target, but youd think with that in mind they would also be abit wiser to how they handle the occupation as well.

xxboon is bad fortnitexx

2y↑1

Yelp

xxboon is bad fortnitexx

2y↑1

True

VlaDDrakkeN

@SmolPhoenix
Urban combat requires the clearing of rooms and what not. Though the shelling and what not is deliberately seeking civilian causalities.

Also, its right next door to Russia. You realize how dangerous and not within a good supply line paratroopers are right? Its still rather wasteful and dangerous. Even if it is accurate, it only cements how doomed their invasion is.

It's easier to invade somewhere you border just on the logistics side of things.

Magtaf Cmdr

It seems targeting civilians is the Russian doctrine in real life as well.

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American Outdoorsman_1

5y↑1

Good movie for it’s time when it came out I was in elementary school in 1984. Unrealistic indeed no way would an invading enemy would be able to penetrate that deep into the US especially the area of the Rocky Mountains where there are several military bases that are located in Colorado. Also on the west coast there are many military bases like Ft Lewis in Washington State, in California there’s Fort Ord, Camp Pendleton, 29 Palms, several Air Force bases and Naval bases as well and US Navy SEALs at Coronado