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Apparently Vienna was an early Soviet target: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/1364037/Vienna-was-top-of-Soviet-nuclear-targets-list.ht

Apparently Vienna was an early Soviet target: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/1364037/Vienna-was-top-of-Soviet-nuclear-targets-list.html https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/13... But I don't think it was about the post-nuclear-war hegemony, it was more immediate. There was always the risk that e.g. Swedish airfields could be used by USA (with or without Swedish approval) to bomb e.g. St. Petersburg.

wkat4242 3y ago
That's one of the reasons why Sweden has lots of stretches of highways that can be used as makeshift airbases. Especially during the cold war there were many. https://www.mil-airfields.de/se/list.htm https://www.mil-airfields.de/se/list.htm
- euroderf 3y ago
  Same in Finland, with fuel and weapons caches AFAIK. You can find recent youtube videos where they are used in readiness exercises. They close down the motorway for a few hours.