Posted on 12/04/2005 4:34:32 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
A top secret map for a 1979 Warsaw Pact war game -- titled "Seven Days to the River Rhine" -- was released at a press conference that marked the opening of the Poland's heretofore secret communist-era military intelligence files.
It was chilling. The map showed large red mushroom clouds along a line from the Danish border through Germany and Belgium to the French border. They blotted out such cities as Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich, Antwerp and Brussels.
Massive SS-20 missiles were being planted in Eastern Europe and aimed at Western cities. (The red mushroom clouds show their destinations.) "Peace rallies" throughout Western Europe, partly funded by the KGB, were frightening governments into rejecting installation of America's deterrent missiles. A world-class Soviet navy was being built up. The Kremlin, about to invade Afghanistan, boasted that the international "correlation of forces" was tipping in its favor. And U.S. President Carter was still bemoaning our "inordinate fear of communism."
A NATO invasion of Eastern Europe therefore was not really thinkable. The Warsaw Pact's "counterattack" looks very much like a plan for a first-strike invasion of Western Europe. One tipoff: Neither Britain nor France is attacked in the war game. This is a plan for a lightning dash to the Rhine followed by a cease-fire, an offer of negotiations, and a "peace settlement" allowing the Soviet Union to swallow all Germany and dominate a nominally independent Franco-British rump of NATO.
That it never happened is partly because three extraordinary people -- a Polish pope, Britain's first woman prime minister, and a Cold Warrior from Hollywood -- all arrived in power to rebuild Western strength and morale and to give hope of liberation to "captive nations" behind the Iron Curtain.
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may history tell such a great story about our battle with evil unmasked.
"'Peace rallies' throughout Western Europe, partly funded by the KGB, were frightening governments into rejecting installation of America's deterrent missiles."Yes, the enemies of freedom and of the United States still use the same tactics. They obviously succeed, to some extent, in manipulating the unintelligent. Otherwise, such tactics would have been abandoned. Fools are their insturments and their enablers.
"U.S. President Carter was still bemoaning our 'inordinate fear of communism.'"Anyone unintelligent enough to give serious attention to this dimwit can be expected to be manipulated by the malevolent.
"Thus we had a narrow escape."Yes. And, if we escape the machinations of the Fools and Scoundrels of today, our escape will be every bit as narrow.
The Left is the movement of Scoundrels and the Fools they manipulate. The Democrat Party is their political machine.
Right out of Red Storm Rising, well kinda.
Could this drive Jimma Cottah to suck wind and and explode?!
Bullshxt. Two of the other pivotal players were not US folks.
Do try to be rational about historical fact.
The media never puts these idiots on the wrong page of history.
It was a sobering (and frightening) moment. Fortunately history took a different turn, although the threats facing us today may be every bit as serious.
The reason is that Communism never went away. It just went underground. As O'Sullivan suggests a commission to expose Communism's past our academics and media are actively rewriting history to make them the heroes and us the evil ones.
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