And the Soviets fielded a lot of T-72s in addition to the ones they exported.
If I remember right, the Soviets also had a battalion or so sized SOF force who were there specifically to launch direct action missions against targets in the US if the balloon went up. With Castro's "I'll just sit this one out" approach to the war in the T2K timeline, these guys may not have done much before Div Cuba got shipped to Mexico, but their presence may help explain the battlefield successes of a mostly ad hoc unit.
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