Warno (Warning Order) is set in alternate 1980’s during the final years of the Cold War where instead of the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Third World War unfolds between NATO and the Soviet-led Warsaw Pact forces.
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00:00 [Music]
00:11 1989. The world looks ahead to a brighter future, but history could have easily taken a different course.
00:19 1985, Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the new General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
00:25 His attempts at revitalizing an ailing USSR bring him into direct conflict with hardline party members and the military.
00:32 It doesn't take much to envision a Cold War turned decisively hot.
00:37 1987. A surprise coup removes Gorbachev and his allies, squashing any prospect of change in the USSR.
00:45 An old guard troika, representing the party, KGB, and military, takes over.
00:51 The Stalinist-inspired leadership wants to reclaim USSR's former glory.
00:56 Its power is militarily enforced, its dictate absolute.
01:00 Budding unrest in Armenia and the Baltic countries is crushed without remorse.
01:05 The West remains silent. Emboldened, the troika looks to tighten control over its territories and neighboring states.
01:12 Neutral Finland, in an audacious KGB-orchestrated political takeover, is forced to embrace a pro-Soviet government.
01:19 The Helsinki coup of 1987 is a watershed moment between West and East. Tensions skyrocket.
01:26 An outraged US President, Ronald Reagan, refuses to stand by idle.
01:30 He initiates a second phase of the so-called "New Cold War."
01:34 Covert ops and counterinsurgencies surge across the globe.
01:38 A flurry of armament deals tighten bonds with new and old allies alike.
01:43 Western sanctions and rising military expenditure press the Soviet Union into ever-worsening trade agreements, inflating crippling debts.
01:51 With oil reserves running low, food shortages in the USSR turn commonplace. Discontent grows.
01:59 Popular demonstrations in Poland and East Germany are violently dispersed.
02:03 Warsaw Pact's hold on power slips with each passing day.
02:08 1989. NATO plans a larger-than-ever reforger exercise for September 1989.
02:15 A paranoid troika believes conflict in Western Europe is imminent. They plan to strike first.
02:21 Moscow sees conventional war as the only recourse.
02:24 Under cover of the massive ZPAD-89 exercise in East Germany, the Warsaw Pact prepares in secret.
02:31 Full combat readiness is achieved. Political guile and maskirovka try to deceive an uneasy NATO.
02:38 Late on June 19, 1989, the sudden withdrawal of Warsaw Pact border guards puts NATO on high alert.
02:45 The warning order is issued.
02:48 [Beeping]
02:53 [MUSIC]