The Shads were more like hardcore Trotskyists than slothful former Bolshevik counter-revolutionaries (peaceful cooexistence? please..) sleeping the peace of the just only in order to cadge another 10 tonnes of herring off their so-called enemies (or flog 'em cheap oil post '73), much more in keeping with the revolutionaries of the 70s than moribund executives looking out of presidential windows moaning about ducks flying to Moscow. Or heineken on the cheap to appease the masses. Cyrillic did indeed make them look like the comintern war machine though, espesh with the SovMil's foreign policy games from 79 onwards.
Anyway, I'd be more worried about

doing a

As he was Ostland born and bred how did they de-indoctrinate all the GDR hokum from him? Mindprobe in the Z Force base?
Despite Helmut and Erich loving it up it was always necessary to know one's enemy... as if those WARPAC armoured divisions were ever going to get to the channel ports in 48 hours even with Scout's help. Moreover it was necessary to study - the usual caveats allowing - Guderian's two meisterwerks in case push came to shove.
Reminds me of a joke Jonesy once told me:

"Why are there 3 UK armoured divisions in West Germany?"

"I don't know, why... "

"To stop the Germans getting to Moscow in 2 weeks!"
Meantime back in the bier-kellar

"Running dog crypto-fascist lackeys of the capitalist-imperialist counter-revolution!"

"Echt ist echt, ATT ist ATT. Punkt."