IronManBeta
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Joined: 2/25/2002 From: Burlington, Ontario Status: offline
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Does anyone have any info regarding the matter referred to in the posts below? The came off of Google / Usenet when I was trolling around yesterday. I seem to remember about it from the time but it is pretty darn hazy. It seems to me that if a genuine plan was left behind by accident the Soviets would then be bound to plant some pretty convincing info to discredit it. Alternatively, if it was a fake from the start they would try to give it credibility later. From where I sit there is no way of telling if it was ever real or not! Comments? Cheers, Rob. >> Post #1: According to Danish newspapers a few years ago (1993 or 1994?), the detailed Warsaw Pact plans for the attack on the NORTHAG and BALTAP areas had been found intact by Germany in the East German general staff archives. Is this true? If so, they have of course been studied extensively and compared with NATO's defence plans. Do anybody know the details and outcome of these studies? According to the Danish newspaper report, the Warsaw Pact would use solely East German and Polish troops against Denmark, Polish marines against Zealand and the East German army against Jutland. According to those reports the whole purpose of the Polish marine corps (and all training they received) was to capture Copenhagen on day one (the main beach for landing the Polish marines would be southern end of Koege Bugt, the large bay south of Copenhagen). According to these reports the plans included generous use of tactical nuclear weopons, specifying detailed plans (target and timing); there were NO plans for attacking NATO without the use of nuclear weopons. If I remember right, 12 nuclear weopons would be used on specific Danish targets. Do anybody (especially Danes) have more detailed information on this? Any Polish comments? >> Post #2: The Soviets planned a massive nuclear/chemical first strike against NATO in the event of war: HQ's, depots, air-bases, airports, harbours etc. TIME published part of a map with targets and areas marked out. As an illustration of the intensity of the bombardment, Schleswig- Holstein had 25 nukes earmarked for it... The goal seems to have been to put the US before an accomplished fact: "No matter what you do Europe is lost, are you prepared to commit suicide for a lost cause?" Remember that the Soviet military had inflated NATO troop levels in their reports to their political superiors.
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