About 1983
Elizaveta Listova's documentary is dedicated to one of the most tense and least known periods of the Cold War. Unlike the Cuban Missile Crisis, when the world stood on the brink of nuclear war in front of everyone's eyes, the events of 1983 developed in such a spontaneous way that humanity could perish without even realizing what had actually happened. In 1983, at the peak of a zealous political battle with its salvos of the main propaganda calibers, a whole series of random events occurs, each of which only miraculously does not become the beginning of the end of civilization. On the night of September 1, 1983, a foreign plane was shot down by the Soviet military off the Far Eastern coast, having penetrated more than 500 kilometers into the country's airspace. By all indications, the plane was an American reconnaissance aircraft - such aircraft often flew along the coast of the USSR,...