Extremely insightful research on former GDR Stasi (MfS) records just released that gives a strong insight to the Russian paranoia of the US trying to gain nuclear superiority over Russia then the Soviet Union and a possible US nuclear first strike on the SU now Russia which the Soviets felt would in fact happen in83/84.
An extremely important set of documents to read through as it goes to Putin's current mindset in ways not previously written about and it is from the Stasi/MfS point of view and Markus Wolf the GDR spy chief felt the documents would never see the light of day which makes them even more interesting.
All documents were found recently in the German Stasi/MfS archives and then released---they still have over 16000 file folders that have not been translated and or even reviewed for their significance.
http://wilsoncenter.org/publication/...g-nuclear-war?
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