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A lot of works called into question the reliability of the non-Soviet Warsaw Pact members in an offensive war against NATO. The general answer would be as long as the Soviets were successful, the loyalty of the Warsaw Pact nations would certainly be assured. Even then, the Soviets would had to take some measures to avoid the Pact from unreliability, like not having East Germans fight West Germans, having Poles fight British or American troops, and using a Soviet formation in between two Pact armies.
For those interested in that subject [https://web.archive.org/web/20140905103229/http://www.php.isn.ethz.ch/documents/ZB79_000.pdf click here], which a transcript of a conference where former senior officers from both sides discuss their war plans with each other. Additionally, one can also can some interviews [http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nukevault/ebb285/ here] to see the perspectives from Soviet officials, including members of the USSR General Staff.
Allow me to add that one of my life's greatest moments was at the viking market in Wolin 1998 where I met a former Polish para who had trained to invade the part of Denmark I was training to defend, he even knew some local village names. We quickly agreed that we were content that it never happened and shared a few beers, then a few more. The rest of the evening was hazy as we discovered that "The Other" was a young chap just like ourselves.
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