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Originally Posted by ollie1983
myth, perpetrated by the need to keep the Cold war going
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The maritime strategy of the USSR, developed by the mid-sixties, was actually formulated as follows:
the flot of the USSR should, in any variants of conflict development, to destroy terrestrial objects on the territory of the enemy and inflict a paralleling impact on the marine nuclear power component for prevention of a nuclear strike across the USSR.
the main form of combat operations was the application of missile and nuclear missile strikes.
The first day of the 1968 campaign should look like this - the melted wreckage of the submarine against the background of a megaton nuclear explosion over the Holy-Loch base
There were no interceptions of NATO convoys. Because the war should be over in 2 weeks. And the first convoy would not come until three weeks later.
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So that Tom Clancy was, to put it mildly, fantasizing