Gorbachev’s choices in the months and years to come - calling a moratorium on nuclear weapons testing, meeting Ronald Reagan for a summit in Geneva, implementing the Perestroika reform movement - opened what would ultimately prove to be the Cold War’s final chapter. That dread didn’t end in March of 1985, when Mikhail Gorbachev became leader of the Soviet Union. Through newspaper headlines, feature films, TV movies, and hit pop songs, the threat of nuclear annihilation loomed over everyday life. Yet while the series’ version of 1985 unfolds in a world refracted by the introduction of superheroes, it also bears a striking resemblance to the 1985 of our universe, and a dangerous moment in our then-recent past: the culmination of a half-decade of Cold War tension. The landmark limited series comic, written by Alan Moore, with art by Dave Gibbons, takes place in an alternate universe freighted with parallels to ours with a story set between Oct. Watchmen already felt like the product of another time when it arrived in July 1986.
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