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| rdfs:comment | - It was first and foremost both a show of force to both NATO and Polish counter revolutionaries. It was the largest military exercise ever to be carried out by the Soviet Union, according to both NATO and offical American sources. It involved several then new "complexes" such as the RSD-10 medium-range strategic missile (known often to the West as the SS-20 Saber) and the "Kiev" Project 1143 aircraft carrier. Exercise Zapad-81 included amphibious landings in Poland near Gdańsk,
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| abstract | - It was first and foremost both a show of force to both NATO and Polish counter revolutionaries. It was the largest military exercise ever to be carried out by the Soviet Union, according to both NATO and offical American sources. It involved several then new "complexes" such as the RSD-10 medium-range strategic missile (known often to the West as the SS-20 Saber) and the "Kiev" Project 1143 aircraft carrier. Exercise Zapad-81 included amphibious landings in Poland near Gdańsk,
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