“The Hunt for Red October'A gem of a submarine movie where Sean Connery's dignity raises the level of reality.

November 1984, the eve of the Gorbachev regime

Submarines that use nuclear reactors for power are called "nuclear submarines." The first nuclear submarine in human history was the US Navy's Nautilus, which debuted in 1954. “The Hunt for Red October'' depicts a tense drama from the perspectives of both the United States and the Soviet Union, The Day After in November 1984, 30 years later. Red October is the name of the Soviet Navy's new nuclear submarine, which is equipped with a propulsion system that produces extremely low underwater noise. When an electric current is passed through the ocean, a magnetic field is generated, and the ship moves forward due to the repulsion from the magnetic field created by the powerful superconducting magnets attached to the ship. In other words, it is a ninja submarine with silent thrust that cannot be detected by sonar.

Captain Marco Ramius (Sean Connery), who commands it, is full of affection for the Soviet Union and its society, and decides to gather his closest subordinates and defect to the United States, along with his crew. Sensing this, CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Alec Baldwin) follows Red October in an attempt to contact Captain Ramius, but at the same time, the Soviet Union also learns of his defection and becomes frantic. I was looking for him...

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In 1984, at the end of the Cold War, there was an even greater sense of tension between the United States and the Soviet Union. At the Los Angeles Olympics in the same year, the Soviet Union and more than a dozen Eastern European countries announced a boycott of the Games, demonstrating that the Eastern Bloc countries took a tough stance against the West. In November 1984, as even the festival of peace was being shaken by the Cold War, President Ronald Reagan joked during a microphone test on a national radio broadcast that he would ``bomb the Soviet Union,'' which later caused controversy. In the presidential election, Reagan won re-election with an overwhelming victory and began his second term in office.

President Ronald Reagan, known as the unblemished "President Teflon," was a hawkish Republican (hard-liner against the Soviet Union), and his administration consistently increased defense spending in order to advance supremacy over the Soviet Union. The focus is on a ballistic missile defense system called the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), commonly known as the Star Wars program. This was mentioned in Wonder Woman 1984 (20), which depicts the same era, and specifically, it was a futuristic weapon that intercepted missiles launched from the Soviet Union in orbit. However, it was deemed difficult to continue with the plan from both cost and technical perspectives, and the idea was eventually abandoned.

In the near-future world depicted in George Orwell's `` 1984' ', World War III has broken out due to nuclear weapons, and the world has been divided and ruled by three major powers, one of which is a totalitarian state. A complete surveillance society has been established that suppresses speech. However, the actual world situation has been extremely stable since 1984, and relations between the United States and the Soviet Union began to recover from that year onwards. In other words, 1984 was a turning point in the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.

In the Soviet Union in particular, following Chernenko's death, the dovish Gorbachev became General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. That was in 1985. This marked the beginning of an era of easing tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union. In 1989, democratization progressed in the Eastern Bloc countries and the Berlin Wall fell. At the end of the same year, the end of the Cold War was declared at the Yalta Conference, and the fear of nuclear war receded. In 1991, following the collapse of the Soviet Union, the changes became more intense, and ``The Hunt for Red October' was released in 1990.

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