YEAR 1982 Moscow imperial plans for Scandinavia

[Litwin]

any comments on this ?

 

[DakotaKai_fan20]

It would be almost impossible to take over that territory like they did in Ukraine.

 

[whitehall]

Scandinavia in 1982? Where do they find this stuff?

 

[Litwin]

It would be almost impossible to take over that territory like they did in Ukraine.

i see your point , but they have represented the world- Marxist empire in 1982, and 1/2 of the planet

Introduction

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[Litwin]

Scandinavia in 1982? Where do they find this stuff?

In 1957, Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Union’s four fleets and convinced Khrushchev that they could not be a superpower without declaring their oceanic interests,....
A frogman who belonged to the Baltic Fleet’s Spetsnaz unit in the middle of the 1970s (561st OMRP) confirms this conclusion when he writes in his memoirs that there were maps on the walls of the Spetsnaz training rooms that showed the locations for reconnaissance for landings. Along the operational axis in the northern Atlantic, the following targets were circled: Lofoten, Västerålen, the Faroe Islands, the Hebrides and Shetland Islands, the Bergen-Stavanger area in Southern Norway, the east and west coasts of Iceland and the southeastern coast of Greenland – a ring around the Norwegian Sea![28]
Previously the Norwegian researcher Kirsten Amundsen had stated that ‘the Soviet Union needed Svalbard, Jan Mayen, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and the Shetland Islands’ air bases for fighter and bomber aircraft, electronic warfare, warnings sensors and harbours for submarines and other vessels’.[29] The Warsaw Pact also had offensive engineer units for repairs and the rapid extension of harbours and airfields.[

Introduction

The Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security (PHP, the former Parallel History Project on NATO and the Warsaw Pact), provides new scholarly perspectives on contemporary international history by collecting, publishing, and interpreting formerly secret governmental documents. A...

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[whitehall]

In 1957, Admiral Sergei G. Gorshkov was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Union’s four fleets and convinced Khrushchev that they could not be a superpower without declaring their oceanic interests,....
A frogman who belonged to the Baltic Fleet’s Spetsnaz unit in the middle of the 1970s (561st OMRP) confirms this conclusion when he writes in his memoirs that there were maps on the walls of the Spetsnaz training rooms that showed the locations for reconnaissance for landings. Along the operational axis in the northern Atlantic, the following targets were circled: Lofoten, Västerålen, the Faroe Islands, the Hebrides and Shetland Islands, the Bergen-Stavanger area in Southern Norway, the east and west coasts of Iceland and the southeastern coast of Greenland – a ring around the Norwegian Sea![28]
Previously the Norwegian researcher Kirsten Amundsen had stated that ‘the Soviet Union needed Svalbard, Jan Mayen, Iceland, the Faroe Islands and the Shetland Islands’ air bases for fighter and bomber aircraft, electronic warfare, warnings sensors and harbours for submarines and other vessels’.[29] The Warsaw Pact also had offensive engineer units for repairs and the rapid extension of harbours and airfields.[

Introduction

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Confirmed by what? A Russian frogman?

 

[Litwin]

Confirmed by what? A Russian frogman?

[24] Danmark under den kolde krig, vol. 2, p. 615.


[25] Conversation with Colonel Plavins, February 2007.


[26] Taken from the website of the newspaper Aftenposten, dated 26 March 2001, and checked by the Finnish Admiral Jan Klenberg.


[27] Rolf Tamnes, The United States and the Cold War in the High North (Brookfield, 1991), p. 235.


[28] Aleksandr Rzhavin, Navy Spetsnaz (Stockholm: Timbro, 1989). The book was published in English under the pseudonym Viktor Suvorov (London: Hamish Hamilton, 1987).


[29] William H. Burgess III (ed.), Inside Spetsnaz, Soviet Special Operations: A Critical Analysis (Novato, CA, 1990).


[30] Conversation with colleagues of General Jonas Kronkaitis, May 2007.


[31] Michael McCgwire, Military Objectives in Soviet Foreign Policy (Washington, DC, 1987).


[32] Taken from the PHP website in the winter of 2007 (www.php.isn.ethz.ch).


[33] Hillingsø, Trusselsbilledet, p. 206.

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