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The film also had impact outside the U. S. In 1987, during the era of Mikhail Gorbachev's glasnost and perestroika reforms, the film was shown on Soviet television.

Four years earlier, Georgia Rep. Elliott Levitas and 91 co-sponsors introduced a resolution in the U. S. House of Representatives " the sense of the Congress that the American Broadcasting Company, the Department of State, and the U. S. Information Agency should work to have the television movie ' The Day After ' aired to the Soviet public.