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Post by voiddragon on Sept 6, 2016 20:47:21 GMT
Boy, WW3 really sucked. I can't believe it's the anniversary already. What was everyone's least favorite part out of the whole thing? How is your life now? ( I left this intentionally vague to see everybody's imaginative responses.)
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Post by eurowatch on Sept 6, 2016 21:49:00 GMT
My least favourite? That's a tough one. But if I had to choose it would probably be fighting in the meatgrinder that was Heraklion. Few Things stay With you quite like watching almost Your entire regiment die within one week.
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Post by stevep on Sept 6, 2016 22:18:04 GMT
It could have been worse. At least the army corp stopped the Soviets politicos when they decided to go nuclear when they realised their attempt to overrun western Europe was failing.
Even so it was damned bloody, especially in Germany and neighbouring areas. Both the sheer firepower and the widespread Soviet use of chemical weapons. United Germany is only now really fully recovered, 30 years later. [Guessing here at the most likely period for such a war].
In Britain it was bad enough. I had been due to start my degree course but was called back to rejoin work at AWRE in helping to keep the site running. Fortunately the Soviets didn't hit it too hard, compared to the military bases and ports but everybody was bloody nervous that it was going to go nuclear. Especially after the failure of the Soviet attempts to force a Rhine crossing and then the unrest that broke out in Poland and Czechoslovakia and fortunately spread so quickly.
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Post by voiddragon on Sept 7, 2016 12:02:31 GMT
My least favourite? That's a tough one. But if I had to choose it would probably be fighting in the meatgrinder that was Heraklion. Few Things stay With you quite like watching almost Your entire regiment die within one week. The way I heard it, the entire Greek campaign was one big disaster. I'm sorry for your loss. |
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Post by voiddragon on Sept 7, 2016 12:06:49 GMT
It could have been worse. At least the army corp stopped the Soviets politicos when they decided to go nuclear when they realised their attempt to overrun western Europe was failing. Even so it was damned bloody, especially in Germany and neighbouring areas. Both the sheer firepower and the widespread Soviet use of chemical weapons. United Germany is only now really fully recovered, 30 years later. [Guessing here at the most likely period for such a war]. In Britain it was bad enough. I had been due to start my degree course but was called back to rejoin work at AWRE in helping to keep the site running. Fortunately the Soviets didn't hit it too hard, compared to the military bases and ports but everybody was bloody nervous that it was going to go nuclear. Especially after the failure of the Soviet attempts to force a Rhine crossing and then the unrest that broke out in Poland and Czechoslovakia and fortunately spread so quickly. Germany may be recovering well but I hear most of Europe is basically a toxic graveyard. Is it true the Soviets used Sarin to wipe out entire cities? |
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Post by eurowatch on Sept 7, 2016 14:46:00 GMT
It could have been worse. At least the army corp stopped the Soviets politicos when they decided to go nuclear when they realised their attempt to overrun western Europe was failing. Even so it was damned bloody, especially in Germany and neighbouring areas. Both the sheer firepower and the widespread Soviet use of chemical weapons. United Germany is only now really fully recovered, 30 years later. [Guessing here at the most likely period for such a war]. In Britain it was bad enough. I had been due to start my degree course but was called back to rejoin work at AWRE in helping to keep the site running. Fortunately the Soviets didn't hit it too hard, compared to the military bases and ports but everybody was bloody nervous that it was going to go nuclear. Especially after the failure of the Soviet attempts to force a Rhine crossing and then the unrest that broke out in Poland and Czechoslovakia and fortunately spread so quickly. Germany may be recovering well but I hear most of Europe is basically a toxic graveyard. Is it true the Soviets used Sarin to wipe out entire cities? Well, it is not really that terrible, the "toxic wasteland" and "sarin" parts are thankfully just anti-Soviet propaganda. Still not the nicest place on Earth but we Will manage. We Europeans always have. |
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Post by stevep on Sept 7, 2016 19:13:59 GMT
Germany may be recovering well but I hear most of Europe is basically a toxic graveyard. Is it true the Soviets used Sarin to wipe out entire cities? Well, it is not really that terrible, the "toxic wasteland" and "sarin" parts are thankfully just anti-Soviet propaganda. Still not the nicest place on Earth but we Will manage. We Europeans always have. I think most of the chemical and other mess has largely been cleared up within a decade or so. It was more that the devastation and chaos trashed much of Germany, west especially but also the eastto a degree and caused so many deaths that the country has only in the last decade re-emerged as the strongest industrial power in Europe. |
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