1986-Soviet Russia attempts expansion of influence by force

Introduction:
The tension began on September 2nd 1986 when Mikhail Gorbachev, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and General Secretary of the Communist Party came under pressure during a meeting of the Central Committee to stop the Soviet Union from collapsing. The Geneva Arms Limitation talks had made slow progress and the argricultural land of the Ukraine was yielding little with the Soviet Union having to import grain from abroad.

Europe in 1986



Countdown to War
On September 9th Mikhail Gorbachev suddenly without warning suspended his policies of "perestroika" and "glasnost" and imposed the restrictions not felt since Leonid Brezhnev had ruled the Soviet Union. The United States President Ronald Reagan abruptly cancelled the Reykjavik summit in Iceland as a statement of protest. Gorbachev ingored this and began to order high category assualt divisions to full readiness and started to deploy them in Czechoslavakia and Hungary.

Meanwhile the NATO countries next to the "Iron Curtain" such as West Germany and France began to mobilise their forces in opposition to this move. US Forces inside West Germany also mobilise wbut secretly bring Lance SRBMs along with Pershing II IRBMs to readiness. Also UK forces in West Germany numbering 20,000 made their way to pre war positions. The Territorial Army formations along with Regular Forces stationed in the United Kingdom prepared for a Soviet Landing.

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