stevep
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Post by stevep on Mar 27, 2019 9:22:53 GMT
The other question if the Soviets weren't offering support and there was serious unrest being brutally suppressed by the regime what would NATO and/or W Germany do? I rather suspect that if the Soviets were no longer a threat the west Germans at least are unlikely to stand on the sidelines and do nothing.
Invade? There remained huge numbers of Soviet troops in East Germany up until 1994. So if the West Germans go in, even declaring peaceful intent, they would have to consider that an accident might occur with Soviet forces... and that, I am sure, would stop them and anyone else going in. The whole country was teeming with Soviet forces and while possibly avoidable, it is a big ask and would mean making sure accidents don't happen when, by the nature of them, accidents do happen.
Good point but things would get very tense if the authorities were slaughtering protesters and opponents in large numbers and the Soviets were doing nothing to stop it.
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