To what extent might the United States spare Soviet satellite states that undergo active anticommunist unrest? After all, one of the PODs that I suggest is the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 spiraling out of control, and under the circumstances, it’s certainly possible that you could see renewed/exacerbated tensions in East Germany and Poland.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uprising_of_1953_in_East_Germany
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poznań_1956_protests
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_October
Suggested the ssme but they are still active supply lines for a very large Red Army. At least some of the CNC and rail networks are gone