For more than 40 years, like the participants in the war game, they have prepared to deal with Soviet aggression.
The Soviet aggression of 1939 disrupted the football life in the region and all of the clubs were disbanded.
The idea of containment was to match Soviet aggression with force wherever it occurred while not using nuclear weapons.
In the end the prickly question of what really deters Soviet aggression is as unanswered as ever.
Consequently, the United States had no choice but to proclaim that its response to any Soviet aggression, anywhere, would be a nuclear attack.
They view themselves purely as victims of "Soviet aggression".
This disapproval of Soviet aggression was an exception among the Western communist parties.
America's current force posture was designed, for example, to protect us and our allies from Soviet aggression.
Following German and Soviet aggression on Poland, the weekly ceased to exist.
During the 1960s, France pursued a policy of nuclear armament, to deter Soviet aggression.