Operation Furious Noon

After almost expelling the enemy from Soviet soil (in the north, only part of the Baltics and half of Belarus remain under the occupiers’ control), the Stavka of the Supreme High Command begins an operation to invade the Balkans. It all starts with a combined strike: a frontal breakthrough of the front along the Prut, and a strategic airborne landing into Bulgaria—while at the same time turning Bulgaria to the side of the second anti-Hitler coalition.

As in previous historical moments, the leading edge of the blows is occupied by parts of the Russian expeditionary corps. The tank tracks of the twenty-first century trample Romanian land, and there is no force capable of stopping their onslaught. By rotating personnel again and again, the Russian command seeks to maximize the number of officers and contract soldiers who have real combat experience.

Shock and fear from such speed spreads to nearby countries, and even reaches far-off Great Britain. The Russians are moving—they are already in the Balkans, and no one knows where this steel Russian-Bolshevik flood will stop, as it strives toward the Last Sea the way it did in the times of Genghis Khan.

But still, the key events must unfold not on the battlefields of the Great Patriotic War, but in the twenty-first century, in Eastern Europe. Once everything destined has come to pass, the world will change irreversibly and will never be the same again.