I have a pretty good handle on it. The mid 80s, were the glastnost period. Brezhnev died in 82 if I recall..You would have gone on alert for that event. Change of leadership is a big deal in Russia. The new guy is usually a unknown quantity and they don't take any chances. But the concerns expressed by your leadership was only precautionary.
But Gorby took his place. You know....the guy with a map on his head. The smiling joker.
The cold war was so cold it was hard to find. Maybe you should do a little reading.
LOL, I told you I was alerted in 1973, not 1982.
Brezhnev died and was replaced by Yuri Andropov, after he died, he was replaced by Konstantin Chernenko, when he died by 1985, Reagan had closed the frightening window that those of us in the MI community feared so much, and the soviets faced reality with a mistake called Gorbachev, who's clumsiness didn't find a way to deal with Reagan's surging West, but instead led to the end of the empire.