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| Tango01 | 21 Jun 2018 9:57 p.m. PST |
"By 1949 the Soviet Union had concluded twenty-year bilateral treaties of friendship, cooperation, and mutual assistance with Poland, which usually granted the Soviet Union rights to a continued military presence on their territory. According to the 1956 treaty, the Soviet military in Poland was limited to 66,000 troops, although the Soviets never fully disclosed the actual number of personnel of the Northern Group to the Polish government, and the Polish government had no right to inspect the Soviet bases. The Northern Group of Forces had several objectives. With the beginning of the Cold War, it was to act, together with other Groups of Forces, as a counterpart to the NATO forces in Europe. Later, in that regard it represented part of the Warsaw Pact forces, countering the NATO troops. All of the objectives of the Northern Group were shared with the Group of Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany in the German Democratic Republic and Czechoslovakia…."
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