[quote=Dutchbag]
Poland did not have any proper armed forces before the mid-1950's and all production of this was done in Russia and East Germany itself. Stalin had such a fixation on heavy industry the USSR didn't know what to do with all of it by the time he died.
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Poland was almost their own theater strength force before 1945 and began production of state of the art Soviet tanks in 1951.

[quote=AegonVI]
I honestly think we should just RP out wars and figure out what happens with realism in mind.
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I agree

[quote=Dutchbag]
It's hard not to powerplay when you have IS-3s.Oh, different kind of powerplay. Right.
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If you intend to rely on heavy armor this is not going to be a very fun invasion for you.

[quote=Dutchbag]
That was in the second world war. All armies shrunk during that time, and the Polish army is no exception. It had no military-industrial complex and a tiny regular army devoid of equipment proper equipment, no air force, etc. These countries were kept down so that Russia could easily roflstomp them. I can't say this for the Poles, but the East German units actually had Russian troops embedded in them.
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The Soviets based almost 100,000 men in Poland and because they had good control of the Polish armed forces as they controlled the officer corp. Poland also did shrink, down from 1 million on all fronts.