Episode discussion post: "The Great Patriotic War"

[jae]

Aired:
25 April 2018 in the U.S. and Canada

This is a discussion post for episode 605 of The Americans, intended for viewers who are watching the show on the U.S./Canadian schedule. (Feel free to dive in to the discussion even if you're coming in late--and you should also feel free to start a new thread if it seems too daunting to read through what's already been posted first. If you're reading this at a point where you've already seen subsequent episodes, though, please take care to keep comments spoiler-free of anything that comes after season six, episode five.)

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Re: Great Patriotic War

[lovingboth]

Looking, it was at the end of S1 that Elizabeth's father was supposed to have died there. That wasn't the first time the battle was mentioned either.

Obviously - to me - you trade sex for food if you're starving.

The Leningrad leadership got shot after the war because they a) it was Leningrad and Stalin never liked the place and b) he was jealous of the way they were rightly seen as heroes, to the point that someone declared their efforts during the siege were "a myth designed by anti-Soviet traitors trying to diminish the greatness of comrade Stalin."

Re: Great Patriotic War

[saraqael]

Killing them because they did a good job makes it even worse.