In the above illustration, a primary Soviet "blitz" through the Fulda Gap immediately confronts V Corps and the 3rd Armored Division.
Let's say that the Soviets and Warsaw Pact decides to stop at the Rhine. It tells France it will not cross the Rhine if France does not make any "threatining" moves. It moves in engineer's to start building up a defense line on the bank of the Rhine. It sends the Czechoslovakians to wall of the southern flank and the East Germans to the Denmark border. I think the next best thing for the Soviet Union is to move throught to Italy and move through with the help of the Bulgarian's and Rumanians to take strategic positions in Greece.
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