I am curious as well. I always believed Crimson Tide had a fascinating backstory. In the wake of the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union, there was a "We're Not Out of the Woods Yet" atmosphere in that folks feared that a Russian civil war would erupt and bring about consequences not much different from World War III erupting a decade or two earlier. Even as late as 2002, you saw that fears of a fractured former Soviet Union erupting in warfare were still prevalent, as evidenced by films such as The Sum of All Fears. I feel as though it is only within the last ten years that those fears have legitimately subsided.
Crimson Tide definitely had a backdrop that was the sign of the geopolitical times.
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