<P> The United States has gradually become strategically isolated after several European nations (except the United Kingdom) withdraw from NATO . At the same time, the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact partners aggressively expand their sphere of influence . In addition, the Ukrainian wheat harvest fails while a Communist coup d'etat occurs in Mexico . </P> <P> On a September morning, in the small town of Calumet, Colorado, a local high school teacher pauses when he sees Soviet paratroopers landing in a nearby field . The paratroopers open fire when the teacher confronts them . Pandemonium follows as students flee amid heavy gunfire . In downtown Calumet, Cuban and Soviet troops are trying to impose order after a hasty occupation . Cuban Colonel Bella instructs the KGB to go to a local sporting goods store and obtain the records of the store's gun sales on the ATF's Form 4473, which lists citizens who have purchased firearms . </P> <P> Brothers Jed and Matt Eckert, along with their friends Robert, Danny, Daryl, and Aardvark, flee into the wilderness after hastily equipping themselves at the sporting goods store owned by Robert's father . While on the way to the mountains, they run into a Soviet roadblock, but are saved by an attacking U.S. Army UH - 1 helicopter gunship . After several weeks in the forest, they sneak back into town; Jed and Matt learn that their father is being held in a re-education camp . They visit the site and speak to him through the fence; Mr. Eckert orders his sons to avenge his inevitable death . </P> <P> The kids visit the Masons and learn that they are behind enemy lines in "Occupied America ." Robert's father is revealed to have been executed because of the missing inventory from his store . The Masons charge Jed and Matt with taking care of their two granddaughters, Toni and Erica . After killing Soviet soldiers in the woods, the youths begin an armed resistance against the occupation forces, calling themselves "Wolverines," after their high school mascot . The occupation forces initially try reprisal tactics, executing groups of civilians following every Wolverine attack . During one of these mass executions, the fathers of Jed, Matt and Aardvark are killed . Daryl's father, Mayor Bates, is a collaborator and tries to appease the occupation authorities . Despite the reprisal tactics the occupation forces get nowhere . </P>

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