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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Ask/Tell > Ask/Tell us about the Soviet Union!
 
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goatsestretchgoals
Jun 4, 2011

Zak2k12 posted:

Do you have any knowledge as to what degree were the other Warsaw pact countries included in the USSR's battle plans, in case a land war erupted in Europe? Did the WarPac have an effective command structure, akin to NATO, and were their armies capable of working together, or were the Soviets just banking on using their allies as cannon fodder until the Red Army came in to do the heavy lifting?

Corollary to this question, since the entire point of the Warsaw Pact was to give Russia proper some breathing room in the case of NATO aggression: To what degree did the actual Russians think we had the same plan? Give some European ground, to give the USA time to reinforce the UK?

Also how did ordinary Russians view the rest of the USSR/Warsaw Pact in that sense? Did they view Eastern Europe as comrades in arms, or as useful bumpkins to be sacrificed, or somewhere in the middle?

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