our Russian hosts said quite seriously that they could never understand why anyone in the West felt threatened by the Red Army.
Ummmm, that reminds me. Not long after ceasing to work for Her Majesty, and still mindful of the stories of Regiments of Backfires and Fencers charging over UK's eastern horizon, no matter the weather, I witnessed the absolute shambles that was Sheremetyevo's ground ops on a cold icy,morning.......and have to admit wondered if the all weather aspect of the Soviet threat had been overstated.