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I have just tidbit - that Vienna, the capital of a neutral country Austria, was one of the first Soviet targets for nuclear strike: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/

• surfingdino 3y ago
  I guess the Soviets' thinking was that if the nuclear war breaks out nobody needs their favourite spy city anymore.
  • euroderf 3y ago
    Neutral Helsinki had its airport targeted by the West because of treaty obligations to the commies.
    • yencabulator 3y ago
      The Nordic countries all know their airports will be gone in the first 2-3 days of any kind of war, nuclear or conventional. The Swedes are essentially specialists in mobile fighter jet operations using highways, and Finland builds select roads wider than needed just to prepare for that...