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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? Short story: Have the East German NVA seize West Berlin and hold off a conventional land assault from West Germany by NATO until the Red Army arrived or the hundreds of poorly guided Russian nuclear missiles glassed Rammstein/Normandy/most of Great Britain. Then hopefully the Workers of the World would rise up and overthrow their capitalist oppressors before the Americans launched their precision-guided Atlas missiles at every single Warsaw Pact installation. As for the command structure, the East German NVA and to a much lesser extent the Romanian Army were able to stand on their own probably against a conventional NATO assault. The other nations, especially Czechoslovakia and Hungary due to their prior unpleasantness, were heavily dependent on the Red Army for "protection" and "guidance" from the decadent West. So yeah basically cannon fodder and Moscow called the shots, at least until the early 1980's.
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