Did the Soviets actually expect much from the Poles, Hungarians and Czechoslovaks if war broke out for real? Like how the fuck did they expect these guys to be loyal and fighting alongside the USSR given the debacles with 1956, 1968, and everything pertaining to Poland's occupation postwar? What role would the WP armies outside of East Germany actually play in a conflict?
the warsaw pact's military logistics were all organized around a defensive posture, not an offensive one. if a land war had ever come it would have been western forces pushing eastward, and it's much easier to convince people to fight for their own homes than someone else's