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From: lmaher@uokvax.UUCP
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Subject: Re: Re: Reagan's joke
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Date: Tue, 23-Oct-84 02:02:00 EDT
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Posted: Tue Oct 23 02:02:00 1984
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/***** uokvax:net.flame / eisx!roy / 12:05 pm  Oct 13, 1984 */
>The Russians can't do whatever they want to because if they
>strect themselves too thin, things get out of hand.  In 1980 they
>would have readily sent the Red Army into Poland, but they were
>already in a logistical nightmare supplying the forces in
>Afghanistan.  And understand, the Soviet concept of supply is
>fuel and bullets.  Food the soldier can requisition off of the
>indigenous population, or do without.

As a matter of fact the Red Army *did* attempt to mobilize in
order to move into Poland ala Hungary and Czechoslovakia, but
their mobilization screwed up so massively that they were forced
to cancel it.  Brezhnev took the opportunity to purge (meaning
retire or transfer to useless posts - the spirit of Stalin has
been tempered somewhat) some of the generals involved that
weren't in his clique.

Further details available on request, I don't want to bore the
net.

Soviet soldiers *are* not expected to forage for food - armies
have grown too big for that anymore.  On the other hand, calling
the Soviet Army provisions 'food' may be stretching the term.
Ever had Dried Fish every day for two years?


Carl
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