Russian soldiers last week were on the march in Eastern Germany. Over the same military training fields that had once rumbled under the boots and tank treads of Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht, the Russian columns toiled and sweated in the summer sun. Officially, the Russians were just on maneuvers. But Western Europe was struck with an obvious and ominous comparison: the European country most vulnerable to the kind of Communist aggression that had struck partitioned Korea was partitioned Germany. Was the Russian rumble as ominous as it sounded? Last week, after a close...
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