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Originally Posted by Raellus
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.
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I wonder if the folks in charge of doctrine were afraid of such lessons being turned back on them, particularly after Hungary in '56 and Czechoslovakia in '68 demonstrated that not all Warsaw Pact members were wholly committed to the glorious Soviet cause.
- C.