Since I was in the Army during this period, it was not an academic discussion for me. I did tend to argue that the US and Allies would win, based on the response I would get to the following question.
“Would you as a USSR army commander really launch an attack on West Germany with your principal supply lines running through Poland, and your secondary ones running through Czechoslovakia?” I got the most interesting looks.
With the uprisings in Eastern Europe in the late 1950’s, I would say, “No.”. Interesting perspective, timerover51. I hadn’t thought about that before. American logistics were superior to Soviet logistics (in Europe, at least.)