How this war propable [WWIII] started Materials for scenerios

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Originally Posted by Aeraaa

I actually believe that in 1985 they were orders of magnitude stronger. Not just in numbers and relative quality of equipment, but also in allies and in strategic resources.

I used to think so too, but I'm more doubting now - they might have had more troops to throw forward but were they of much better quality than what we see now? Were they better at logistics back then? Would they have been all that much more competent, less problems with corruption etc...

From a historic viewpoint allies have always been important for Russian warfare, they usually don't do very well when not fighting as part of a coalition...