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The erstwhile Soviet Union-led Warsaw Pact forces planned massive nuclear strikes in western Europe in a bid to sideline NATO armaments, according to recently recovered documents.
Historian Petr Lunak from NATO’s information office in Brussels found the 17-page Warsaw Pact plan drafted in 1964 while sifting through de-classified Communist-era documents in Prague’s military archives.
“Russians outlined the general war plan, while the leaders of individual Warsaw Pact armies prepared precise military blueprints, with details on front lines, deployment of troops and arms,” The Daily Telegraph reported on Thursday, quoting Lunak as saying.
The text, written in Russian and entitled CSLA Plan of Action for a War Period, was signed by the then Czech Defence Minister and carried the then President Antonin Novotny’s stamp of approval.
According to Lunak, the plan was still an option until 1986, three years before the fall of the Berlin Wall. “It was shelved by Vaclav Havel in 1990 when he was elected Czech President.”
