The personal antagonist was “Captain Cho”, a minor functionary. Jed and Matt watched as Cho blew their father away, so it got personal.
There was a cameo appearence of a Russian Spetznaz officer, but we only saw him twice.
Mustn’t offend the enemy, you know...
Thanks, that is too bad, in the old one the officers mentioned, added much to the overall complexity and depth of the movie and the background of, and the reason for the movie.
People forget that under that flag waving shoot-em up genre of the original, this was the real situation of the time, a true, life and death situation, that we all lived in true and justified fear of.
Thank God for Ronald Reagan.