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...abandoning Soviet-style socialism suddenly seemed very real, perhaps imminent. Soviet troops in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and along the Poland-U.S.S.R. frontier were reported to be on full alert. East bloc propaganda guns were blazing, repetitively comparing events in Poland with those that touched off the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia. There was a measure of understatement in the urgent message of the Polish party: "All Poles are engulfed by profound anxiety...
...crisis atmosphere eased somewhat at week's end, after leaders of the Warsaw Pact nations, including Polish Party Boss Stanislaw Kania, were summoned to Moscow for a secret summit. They later issued a rambling communiqué expressing confidence that Poles "will be able to overcome the present difficulties." The statement also noted that Poland "can firmly count on" the support of its East bloc brethren, meaning that the Soviets were still ready to step in if need...
However, Marshall Goldman, associate director of the Russian Research Center, said that current Warsaw Pact maneuvers near the Polish border were primarily an attempt to intimidate the Polish people, and may not be an indication that intervention is imminent...
...Ulam said. Additionally, he said, "The Polish people would offer some armed resistance," along with some elements of the military. Apart from the Soviets, the Polish Army is the largest in the Soviet Bloc, but its equipment is generally considered older and less sophisticated than those of other Warsaw Pact nations...
...raises. TASS, the official Soviet news agency, warned that "the threat of a general transport strike . . . could affect Poland's national and defense interests." Translation: Do not fool around with rail links to East Germany, home of 19 Soviet divisions and the front line of Warsaw Pact defenses...