Red Dawn Re-Done

[Oberon]

Blimey Jim, the Times put you on their naughty list?

Anyway, for the benefit of the uneducated amongst us, I shall translate...

(name that film)

‘Top secret’ plan for Soviet invasion is not so illuminating in Blackpool

A map that appears to indicate a Cold War plot may have been created by a council officer

A map of the Lancashire resort, labelled in Russian, has come to light and has been seized upon as evidence of a cunning Cold War plan to attack Britain by landing the Red Army on Blackpool Pleasure Beach. A second wave of troops would have come ashore at Cleethorpes, on Humberside, and the Soviets would have sliced Britain in half within 24 hours.
The conspiracy is to be revealed in a BBC Radio 4 documentary, Balalaikas in Blackpool, this month.
But the Russian map may not be the extraordinary document that it seems.
According to Blackpudlians there is another explanation for the map, on which the seaside town’s key landmarks are identified in Cyrillic script. They include the railway, bus and tram stations, the airport, the piers and beaches and, of course, Blackpool Tower, which would apparently have become an observation post and communications mast.
Experts on the history of Blackpool illuminations say that the map was the work not of the Kremlin but of Harry Porter, the council’s press officer at the time.
The late Mr Porter is remembered as an ingenious public-relations man, an early spin-doctor whose main task every year was to generate coverage for the switching-on of the Blackpool Illuminations.
At the height of the Cold War he hit upon the idea of inviting Jacob Malik, the Soviet Ambassador, to switch on the lights. It was September 1955. Khrushchev was in power, the Warsaw Pact had just been signed and Burgess and Maclean were missing but soon to surface in Moscow. A Soviet switch-on would be controversial and headline-grabbing.
The Russians loved the idea and sent a large delegation. To help them to find their way around, Mr Porter commissioned a map which clearly marked the local landmarks, main streets and transport facilities. David Graham, a Blackpool journalist, has a copy of Mr Porter’s 1955 map.
He said: “I’ve seen the original. It was handed out to journalists and VIPs in an official pack in September 1955 which was meant to be informative and an assistance to Russian visitors who had never been to Blackpool before, and probably never returned.”
A spokesman for Blackpool Tourism said: “The Russians brought a big party of press and military attachés to what was to be a big seaside knees-up. This map was produced for them and one must have been taken back to Russia. It has reappeared years later and is now being touted as an invasion plan. If that is the case, Blackpool council were Soviet collaborators.”
The BBC claims that the Blackpool map is marked “Secret” and is one of 200 detailed maps of British cities, ports and railheads produced by the Soviets between 1964 and 1988. It is said to have been drawn in 1974. But the map marks Stanley Park as an airport, which it was in 1955. By the mid-1970s it was Blackpool Zoo.
A BBC spokesman said: “The map was one in a series of over 200 prepared by the Russians of major British cities, ports and railheads between 1964 and 1988. The director of tourism for Blackpool was a contributor to the programme and didn’t raise any concerns about the map’s authenticity.”

[August]

Maybe the Soviets just used Porters map as it served their needs in their invasion plan.

"Haha stupid capitalists. We shall use their own map against them! mwahahaha!"

[kiwi_2005]

Original Red dawn was bad, i remember getting it out on cassette video it was a toss up between Red dawn and Commando staring Arnold Schwarzenegger. Got Commando out the next day it was a far better hyped up over the top gun hoe of a movie.

[les green01]

i like both red dawn and commando i would love to see a movie where one man doesnt wipe out 5000 guys without reloading or burning thru the barrel or least warping i or running thru the jungle at full speed without triping or making a crapload of noise as far as remakes most not worth a match to burn them

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by jimbuna

It's a bloody relief they were never ordered to invade the UK then

I was going to say, you could out drink them.... okay maybe not.

They were afaid of Mr. Bean.

On a side not, could you see these guys landing in TX? That would be over in 5 min.

[Oberon]

Originally Posted by nikimcbee

On a side not, could you see these guys landing in TX? That would be over in 5 min.

I can do better than that, I can give moving pictures:

[Jimbuna]

Well....we could always 'entertain' them

[les green01]

or get some good old boys loaded up with beans and let them rip just make sure there not a open flame around

[Oberon]

Epic necro thread bump for film release.

GO GO MAGIC NORK INVASION!

[Red Brow]

If North Korea wanted to invade someone I think it would be South Korea.

[nikimcbee]

Originally Posted by Oberon

Epic necro thread bump for film release.

GO GO MAGIC NORK INVASION!

When I saw it was the NoKos invading, I thought to myself "their army would starve to death within a week of leaving NoKo.

[yubba]

Maybe if the NoKo's were backed by the Chi Comms this movie would be more pallet-able,,ha ha yubba make new word,,don't know how to spell,, or maybe the 20 million illegal immigrants decided to have their peice of the american pie called Don't Drink the Water at Dawn. WOLVERINES. or or the U.N. decided to send in their blue helmets to disarm the american people called Agenda 21 at Dawn, or, Santa Claus was to come to every home and take all our stuff and put us in work camps called This was a Wonderiful Life Till Dawn,,, god I love a great Christmas moviefor the New Red Dawn. p.s for those who don't get it, a pallet holds stuff and red dawn doesn't hold water.