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Yeah, lol...I only heard that some event happened.. During my tour, we had some interesting exchanges as well. There were some exchanged rifle fire...across the border with east Germany from time to time, and yes the Rooskies were sensitive to movements. The place was crawling with agents. I am pretty sure they telegraphed our convoy movements just to avoid misunderstandings. I was even approached at one time. I reported it..they put the place off limits...lol I think we are still crawling with agents. Some of them may be posting here on this Ukraine business. Anyway it sure seems so. The US has been a haven for foreign agents since WWII. In fact the Russians stole all the plans for out first nuke. They built their own and tested it. but they did not have any bomber big enough and with the range to deliver it.

So they stole the plans for our B-29 and that was their first intercontinental bomber.

Actually, they didn’t steal the plans for the B-29. I read about this story. A B-29 was flying over their territory on a mission and had to make an emergency landing. The crew was treated well and released. They kept the bomber (despite our requests to give it back) and reverse-engineered it. That’s why the first Soviet nuclear-capable bomber is a carbon-coy of the B-29.

Gunfire exchanged over the border? Really? I think the Germans (certainly on the West side) would’ve frowned on that most assiduously.