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==Plot== In a typical American town, [[barbed wire]], barricades and soldiers in Soviet uniforms are shown. [[Narrator]] [[Jack Webb]] explains that there are several places behind the [[Iron Curtain]] used for training Soviet [[espionage]] and [[sabotage]] forces prior to infiltrating America. The Donovans are a typical American family consisting of father Jerry, mother Helen and daughter Linda, whose boyfriend Bill has been invited to dinner. Jerry is missing a [[Parent-Teacher Association|PTA]] meeting to go [[bowling]], and he intends to skip his [[United States Army Reserve|Army Reserve]] training, which upsets Helen. Linda and Bill inform Jerry and Helen that they wish to marry, but Jerry replies they are too young and should wait five years. Jerry awakens to find meetings in the public square about infiltrating America to bring down [[capitalism]]. He returns home to find his daughter going to a [[Kolkhoz|farm collective]] escorted by Bill, who is now in a [[Soviet Army]] uniform. Helen informs Jerry that he will have to address the [[Parent-Teacher Association|PTA]] on the glories of [[communism]], which Jerry refuses to do, but his wife says that he has no choice. At work, Jerry's foreman tells him that he has not met his quota and must work through the lunch break to meet it. On Sunday morning, Jerry wakes to find his two youngest children being sent to a state-run communist school against his wishes. He insists that the children attend [[Sunday school]] and takes them to their church, which has been converted into a [[museum]] glorifying the [[Soviet Union]], including many inventions made by Americans that the Soviets claim to have invented. Jerry knocks the exhibits over and is arrested by troops led by a [[commissar]]. Jerry is brought to trial at a Soviet tribunal, where there is no [[jury]] nor defense attorney. Jerry demands to know the charge against him. After condemning testimony from several witnesses, including his own wife, Jerry is convicted and sentenced to death. When he is strapped into the execution chair, Jerry makes a speech about the Soviet people awakening one day to overthrow communism before he is shot in the head by the commissar (offscreen). Jerry wakes to his freedoms and apologizes to Bill and Linda. Bill says that Jerry was right about waiting to get married and that he and Linda will do so after he finishes his enlistment in the [[United States Army]].
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