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Europe by Norman Davies, pg. 1109: "The ailing Brezhnev put the Soviet Army into motion, then hesitated, and left the job to the Polish army."

Let's say someone who is eager to intervene, like GDR leader Honecker or Czechoslovak leader Husak, manages to convince Brezhnev otherwise and the three conduct a joint invasion of Poland. What happens? Is it a relatively smooth suppression like in or does it turn into a serious conflict with devastation and major loss of life and there's the question of how the Polish army responds. Polish leader Stanislaw Kania feared a national uprising should the Warsaw Pact invade? Besides that, what kind of international political and economic sanctions would be imposed on the USSR?
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