The game is set in an alternate 1989 in which the Politburo of the Soviet Union elects to take military action to sustain itself, rather than collapse.
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Sawyer, Parker and Bannon serve in France as part of a NATO counteroffensive against a Soviet invasion near Marseille, but while successful, Bannon's negligence results in the death of the French liaison, Commandant Sabatier.