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When we talk about the warsaw pact and the cold war, there is no way to not touch the NVA. The Nationale volksarmee was argably the strongest army in the warsaw pact after the soviet army
but still, east germany was dependent on the soviet occupation, as we saw in 1953, and as soon the soviet troops were not able to continue occupying it, the country collapsed
my question is: in a world war III scenario, taking place in 1976, just after the NVA received their new T72 tanks, how the NVA would fight? Would their troops simple desert and surrender to the west, or they would put some fight, but not as good as the bundeswehr, or they would fight even better than the bundeswehr? Maybe to the same level as the american and the soviet army?