"The Warzaw Pact īs crazy plan to conquer France in a week." Topic
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| Tango01 | 29 Mar 2014 11:15 p.m. PST |
"Pretty girls, champagne and a French cafe. What more could a Russian tank crew ask for? Those might have been the fruits of victory had the Warsaw Pact's 1964 war plan had played out as intended. Within a week, armored columns supported by paratroopers were supposed to blitz across southern Germany, cross the Rhine River and occupy the French city of Lyon, about 250 miles southeast of Paris. According to documents in the archives of former Communist Czechoslovakia, Czech and Soviet forces were supposed to take the southern German city of Regensburg on the first day of the offensive, known in military parlance as "D+1."…"
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| Martin Rapier | 30 Mar 2014 12:07 a.m. PST |
This is news? We always knew they planned to be over the Rhine in a week. |
| Only Warlock | 30 Mar 2014 8:08 a.m. PST |
To be fair a lot of less well read/experienced/younger people think the US made up the whole Soviet threat. Mind-boggling. |
| Tgunner | 30 Mar 2014 8:57 a.m. PST |
I think a lot of South Koreans thought the same thing, until the Kims demonstrated otherwise. That is a very reasonable war plan IF nukes were like normal bombs (no rads) and IF NATO didn't have nukes themselves. Otherwise, it's what it is- pure madness. |
| 11th ACR | 30 Mar 2014 11:13 a.m. PST |
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| Charlie 12 | 30 Mar 2014 2:51 p.m. PST |
The plan seems to ignore the French nukes (which were in service by 1964). General idea was that, faced with imminent invasion from WARPACT, the French were more than willing to level 10+ (and that's conservative) Russian cities (and kill about 80 million Russians) in return for the for the fall of France. And, of course, that assumes that the US/UK nukes haven't already been let loose…. Interesting plan for invasion. Pure, utter fantasy, though….. |
| Tango01 | 30 Mar 2014 9:17 p.m. PST |
Yes, interesting fantasy plans for wargaming. Amicalement
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