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Re:The Tourist: Philip Roth’s Czech KGB File by inglor_cz on Thursday April 08, 2021 @05:38AM (#26736826)
So might the Western powers. That was still the moment when Americans had the only working nuclear weapons on Earth.

The width of the possible scenarios is unsettling, one of them may be Prague turning into European Hiroshima.

Re:The Tourist: Philip Roth’s Czech KGB File by yread on Thursday April 08, 2021 @07:21AM (#26737434)
> So might the Western powers.

That would be unlikely - Czechoslovakia was in Soviet sphere of influence as decided in Yalta and the West was severely outgunned (at least in conventional weapons) by Soviets in Europe.

Re:The Tourist: Philip Roth’s Czech KGB File by Context_free on Thursday April 08, 2021 @04:31PM (#26743394)
> the West was severely outgunned (at least in conventional weapons) by Soviets in Europe.

"The west" was severely outgunned by the west - the largest political party in France in 1948 was PCF, the communist/socialist alliance in Italy almost won that year. Finland remained outside the eastern bloc simply because it was no longer seen as being part of a threat. In the UK the Labour party which tossed out Churchill while he was in Potsdam was busy nationalizing the commanding heights of England's means of production (although they were not as militant as their comrades on the continent of course).

The west was busy trying to hold onto the West, never mind intervening in Prague.

Re:The Tourist: Philip Roth’s Czech KGB File by yread on Friday April 09, 2021 @03:12AM (#26747543)
Not to mention all the troubles in Italy and Greece
Re:The Tourist: Philip Roth’s Czech KGB File by inglor_cz on Thursday April 08, 2021 @10:22AM (#26739033)
Unlikely, yes, but stranger things have happened during the early Cold War.