Loyalty of non-Soviet Warsaw Pact forces

[dude_uk]

I think has cropped up before. But perhaps worth discussing again. How loyal are those countries who remain in the pact with the Soviets?

Budapest in '56, Prague in '68. Such things do not fade into the background.

Surrender to Tommy and Joe when they come by? Or does the abandonment by the west to Stalin still hurt. Is the Bundeswehr the old Wehrmacht?

Is it a simple case of some stay and some go?

The numbers:

Bulgaria: Regular 117,500 Reserves 472,500
Czechoslovakia: Regular 199,700 Reserves 295,000
GDR: Regular 173,100 Reserves 323,500 (Goes over to NATO 1996)
Hungary: Regular 91,000 Reserves 168,000
Poland: Regular 412,000 Reserves 505,000
Romania:171,000 Reserves:203,000 (Goes over to NATO 1997)