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...mentioned). "No matter how you slice it, Gorbachev can't make these tank cuts in these areas without seriously affecting their offensive capability," said Anthony Cordesman, a Washington-based military analyst. While the Soviets and their Warsaw Pact allies still would have some 41,500 battle tanks between the Ural Mountains and the forward NATO positions, their advantage would be reduced from a 2.3-to-1 to a 1.9-to-1 ratio. That is still a solid edge, yet the assumption of the West is that it must prepare for only a defensive war. Traditionally, military experts assert that...
...million troops deployed world-wide, including 50,000 in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Hungary. Gorbachev said the Soviets would also eliminate 5000 tanks from both Eastern Europe and the western part of Russia and would reduce Soviet forces from the Atlantic Ocean to the Ural Mountains...
Eleven hijackers commandeered the Tupolev-154 jet as it was en route to Leningrad after a fueling stop in the Ural Mountains city of Kurgan, and they told the pilot to fly to London, Tass said. It identified them as the Ovechkins, a family musical group from Irkutsk, the southern Siberian city where the flight originated...
...must be "global in scope": it must eliminate SS-20s in Asia too, since they are mobile weapons that in a crisis could be moved to threaten Europe. In May 1985, Gorbachev publicly suggested that his government would be willing to freeze its SS-20 forces east of the Ural Mountains. Shortly afterward the Soviet delegation in Geneva tabled a proposal to that effect. The General Secretary was rapidly becoming his own chief negotiator...
...Russian invasion. "People will work with the Soviets as long as we get the same cooperation in return," says Insurance Broker Chick Paris. That is the plan. The new agreement will allow an equal number of American inspectors to live in the Soviet city of Votkinsk, west of the Ural Mountains, where SS-20 missiles have been assembled...