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Originally Posted by Raellus
There's one more point that I would like to make based on a recent viewing of Soviet War Scare 1983 (a History Channel documentary on Able Archer and the near nuclear war that occured as a result), and that is, as a result of their historical collective experience, the Cold War Soviets had an almost atavistic fear of invasion and war. If attacked, I have no doubt that they would have fought with a patriotic furor that would have surprised the West. In the v1.0 timeline, it is the German Army who strikes first (again!).
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That's very true, and it's also worth bearing in mind that the Soviet government had total control over the news etc that the people got. Whoever actually struck first, chances are the Soviet people and soldiers would
believe it was the Germans.