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Hi there,

My knowledge on the Cold War is relatively limited, so please be gentle.

From reading certain sites, this one in particular, it would seem the Soviets were destined to do two things if a war with the West broke out:

1. On one hand, pour every tank available though the Fulda gap in the general direction of the Rhine, and perhaps even the Channel and Atlantic coasts.

2. On the other, release every tactical nuclear, chemical and biological at hand at the enemy.

For me, these two just doesn't add up. I case of war I could understand they would want to conquer Europe. Likewise destroy it. But why try to do both at the same time? Seems awfully contra-dictionary.

Why send thousands of tanks into a burnt landscape with nothing but radiation, germs and gas pockets left in it?


Guess the same thing could be said about the Soviet navy. On one hand it was supposed to blockade Europe from US help from the sea, on the other, it was supposed to launch nuclear missiles against every port on the East Coast minutes after the war broke out?

I guess someone with a deeper understanding here could help me understand this? :)
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