Ok, historically seen not all is correct, they don´t have Russian accents? and some info is missing. All true. But the sense of the situation, the era and the enormous difficulties they faced, I really understood.

I was 20 years of age back then and had no clue, neither comprehension or interest in what was going on there. But still I do remember those days because in the back of my head I (apparently) knew something was well wrong.

This is, more or less, the sense I got while watching the series. Something was well wrong, nobody told you so to avoid mass panic, so they all, east and west alike, decided to cover it up.

This is what I felt while watching, a grey power struggle over something that could have "influenced" half the western world.

I think it´s pretty well done and fairly close to the truth as we possibly can know it. And very happy about the absence of the accents because you either speak Russian or ...