Archer's great at fighting, but he's not very good at deciding when/where/whether to fight.

Well, obviously you're a racist.

I was worried she was going to turn out to be a major part of the episode, but then she didn't, so that was OK.

Also, Elizabeth's real name is 100% Russian, so she's either from the RSFR or she's a member of a Russian minority in some other Republic.  Either way, it means that this kind of conflict is unlikely to occur.

Well, by the time the Ukraine is independent, the USSR isn't communist, either.  Plus, do you think the show's timespan will run that long?

To me "occupation" implies more than just troops being present, they have to actively be controlling the country.  When Solidarity began to get out of hand, the possibility of Soviet occupation of the country was discussed in terms of something that hadn't happened yet, but could.

Formally, Poland was an independent country that just had a really, really good relationship with the USSR.  The average Soviet citizen would have definitely said Poland was independent.  People at the top of the Soviet power structure would probably have seen Poland as "theirs".  But calling Poland a part of the USSR…

…I might have to rewatch it, but I think he said he was part of Solidarity.  He certainly mentioned them a couple of times.

Check out the X-rays on the board behind him.

I'm going to seem like a howling pedant here, but… there is no way any Solidarity member would form a government in exile.  That is not at all what the movement was about - they were building an alternative state inside Poland, not from the safe cockpit of Paris.  Multiple Solidarity members had the opportunity to do…

Being a Jew in Poland wasn't exactly a picnic before the Nazis moved in, either.

"…because we come from a country where the lighting often stops working"

'"The Center" is getting a little sloppy if they are putting together two
deep cover agents that have a past. Too many opportunities for
something to go wrong. It may make for good drama but, bad suspension of
disbelief.'

@J.P: Actually I think at this point the leader of the USSR was Andropov.

Jesus, it's over a decade since Heathen came out.

Receiving transmission from David Bowie's nipple antenna!

I think a lot of it is down to excellent marketing.

Agreed

Wow, an American who's turned on by English stuff.  Really inexplicable.

You see, I started with Iron Council and I grew up OK