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Dmitriy Ustinov Wojciech Jaruzelski Erich Honecker Heinz Hoffmann |commander2 = Jimmy Carter |strength1 = |strength2 = |casualties1 = Would be carried out in response to a NATO first strike on Poland. Such a strike was estimated to cause 2,000,000 immediate Polish deaths near the Vistula river and possibly many East Germans. |casualties2 = If carried out, heavy losses in West Germany. |casualties3 = |notes = }} Seven Days to the River Rhine was a top-secret military simulation exercise developed in 1979 by the Warsaw Pact. It depicted the Soviet bloc's vision of a seven-day nuclear war between NATO and Warsaw Pact forces. ==Declassification== This possible World War III scenario was released by the conservative Polish 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." 〔〔 Radosław Sikorski, the Polish defense minister as of 2005,〔 stated that documents associated with the former regime would be declassified and published through the Institute of National Remembrance in the coming year.〔〔 The files being released would include documents about "Operation Danube", the 1968 Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia.〔 They also included files on an army massacre of Polish workers in Szczecin in the 1970s, and from the martial law era of the 1980s.〔〔〔 The Czechs and Hungarians declassified related documents in the 1990s, adding to this Cold War revelation. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Seven Days to the River Rhine」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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