Week 5 - The Red Menace

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the citizens of the United States were gripped by paranoia and fear of the Soviet Union. Parents warned their children against playing out on the street out of fear of soviet satellites photographing them, and possibly utilizing dangerous lasers to hurt them. Communism was considered a plague, and tensions rose to extreme levels between American families of Russian decent and their friends and neighbors. In addition to the fear of space-related technological advancement, there was rumor that the Russians were planning a silent invasion into the states, through highly trained super-human secret agents. These agents came from years of experiments that began after the First World War. Human genome experimentation was common during the beginning of the third Reich and throughout the World War II. However, the Nazis were never able to successfully complete the transformation to what they called Uber-Mensch (enhanced-human), or Uber for short. Just before WWII ended, some of the Nazis’ research was stolen by Soviet soldiers. This research, combined with the motivation to outdo the Americans, led to an abundance of Soviet volunteers who wanted to serve their nation. This initiative was later named The Red Menace. TRM was eventually able to bring the German research into actual results, creating both male and female mutants with super-human strength, a heightened metabolism that virtually stopped their aging, and an extremely efficient sense for language. The only side effect was the need for human blood to survive. The top priority mission of these soulless agents was to infiltrate key positions in the American Government and Military, and convert other powerful figures to the other side by piercing their neck with small weaponized hammers and sickles which were used to infect the victim with the U-virus, thus converting them to a Soviet-brainwashed Uber.

The plan and capabilities of these Red Ubers were known to only a handful of people in the pentagon, but were kept secret to avoid mass panic and possibly extraction of such Red agents. Instead, the Americans had their own research of an antidote based on one Red double-agent’s contribution, after falling in love with an American White House reporter. Thanks to that antidote, American agents were able to seemingly convert into Red Ubers, while keeping their loyalty to the States, and gain access to the Soviet plans. As soon as enough counter-agents were in place, a team of four American pseudo-Ubers who traveled back to Moscow was able to bring down the entire Soviet Union and end The Red Menace and the Cold War.