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The Buria Exercise: Recollections of Polish General Tadeusz Pióro

28 Sep 1963
Description: This is an excerpt from a memoir by General Tadeusz Pióro. He describes a 1963 Warsaw Pact (WP) exercise near Berlin that simulated an advance into Western Europe. It was envisaged that the Warsaw Pact forces would conquer all of France, with nuclear missiles clearing the path for the WP's armored divisions.

Collection: A Cardboard Castle?

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  • Polish (896 KB )
Document Type: Public Book Chapter
Language of Original Document: Polish
Number of Pages: 5
Cold War Period: 1960s
Persons: Malinovskii, Iakubovskii, Spychalski, Duszyński, Grechko
Document Source: Tadeusz Pióro, Armia ze skazą: W Wojsku Polskim 1945-1968 (Wspomnienia i Refleksje) [The Defective Army: In the Polish Army, 1945–1968 (Memories and Reflections)] (Warsaw: Czytelnik, 1994), pp. 341-348
Document Companion: Document No. 20, b)

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