A 1979 top secret limited war game exercise developed by the Warsaw Pact depicting the Soviet bloc's vision of a seven-day atomic holocaust between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces. This possible World War III scenario was released by the Polish conservative government following their election in 2005 in order to "draw a line under the country's Communist past", and "educate the Polish public about the old regime."
The plans "predicted" that NATO would launch a nuclear attack on the Vistula river valley in a first strike scenario, which would prevent Soviet bloc commanders from sending in reinforcements to East Germany in order to prevent a NATO invasion of that country. The plan expected as many as two million Polish civilians would die in such a war, which would essentially destroy the country. With options limited, a Soviet counter-strike against West Germany, Belgium, and Denmark would take place in an effort to slow an invasion.[1]
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