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Originally Posted by headquarters
I recall there was an uproar in Poland some time ago , when the military contingency plans for repelling a Nato attack on the USSSR were made public. In the event of a situation where the Soviets were forced to retreat and the borders of the USSSR themselves were threatened, a Nato ground assault through Poland would be stopped by the liberal use of Soviet nuclear weapons on key Polish communications and population centers as well as on field formations of NATO tropps in Poland. These plans of course -were without the Poles knowledge. This way the USSSr hoped to crush the military advance using nukes but at he same time leaving the ball in NATOs court regarding the possible full scale retaliation with nukes targeted at Russian / US / Western European territory. Technically the USSR had not attacked NATO soil with nuclear weapons in this scenario.
A dangerous - and cynical gambit - worthy of evil masterminds hiding in deep cold war bunkers imo.
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All too true! But the Soviet use of WMD on NATO formations would invite the same.
The whole Soviet policy was, IMO, designed with two objectives in mind, the more obvious one of defeating NATO, and the more subtle one of insuring that there would never be a strong threat from the nations along its borders.