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SOVIET TROOPS MOVE TO POLISH-GERMAN BORDER!
Moscow denies hostile intent as second armoured division moves towards Baltic.
Speaking at a press conference in Berlin today Colonel-General Manfred Griem of the Oberkommando der Reichswehr annouced that the 8th Panzer Division and the 2nd Luftangriff Division will be deployed to Eastern Poland, while an extra infantry brigade is sent to reinforce East Prussia's existing defences.
The planned deployments will bring the number of German division stationed in Poland to eight, doubling the number regularly based in the country under the European Defence Inititive. France and Great Britain are also expected to announce reinforcements to their standing forces in Eastern Europe within the next few days.
Today's moves are just the latest in a series of events that has seen tensions and military expenditure rise through Europe. In Feburary this year Poland announced it intended to purchase a further 150 AMX 98 tanks from France and 60 Fairey Scorpion helicopter gunships, while both Romania and Finland have ordered Supermarine Osprey fighter bombers.
In related news Communist deputies in the Italian lower house have tabled a motion to abrogate the Warsaw Treaty and withdraw from what one described as "A pact of imperialist warmongers bent on started a world war!". While the current Italian coalition government is dominated by parties from the centre and the right of the political spectrum left wing and communist parties have been gaining ground since the collapse of the Fascist regime and the return of full democracy in the 1970's.