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I imagine the Polish gov't/military would be handing out RPG-76 Komars like candy.

I'm really surprised that neither the Soviets nor the Warsaw Pact* developed any SOF like the Green Berets to train and lead partisan units behind enemy lines in the event of a NATO invasion, especially given the important role that partisans played in resisting the Nazi occupation of large swaths of European Russia during WWII. For example, Spetsnaz doctrine and training was almost exclusively oriented towards covert and direct action offense. I understand that the post war Soviet Union's strategic mindset was one of preemption, not reaction, but it just seems weird given the USSRs almost atavistic fear of a reprise of Barbarossa 1941 that it didn't develop more of a backstop guerilla warfare capacity during the Cold War.

*Perhaps the one exception to this rule was the Romanian Patriotic Guards. They were essentially militia, not SOF, but they were trained and equipped to resist an invasion of Romania using guerilla tactics. Ironically, it was an invasion by its Warsaw Pact "allies" that the Romanian government was fearful of/preparing for, more so than an invasion by NATO.

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