By Tobias Carroll In 1984 — a year already fraught with geopolitics and talk of totalitarianism — the movie Red Dawn hit theaters across the United States. Directed by John Milius, the film told of an invasion of the United States led by the Soviet Union — whose forces soon find themselves on hostile terrain, facing a much more focused and dangerous resistance that they’d expected. Swap in “Russia” for “the Soviet Union” and that description might sound a touch familiar right now. But it’s not just cinephiles and Cold War-era pop culture aficionados who have made that comparison. No, it turns …