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correct in his assumptions.
November 20, 2008 00:01 local time
Forward Russian Positions
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Defense of Moscow
Late that night the weather did clear, and the temperature fell. By midnight,
under a dead calm, the temperature had dropped well below zero Celsius, and
down into the low teens Fahrenheit. Very early that morning, the morning of
the 20th, when the enemy attack came, it came from artillery and missile
launchers by the thousands that were established on a twenty-five mile front
to the east of Moscow, and on a fifteen mile front to the south. It was a
bombardment and barrage, the likes of which had not been seen before in the
history of war. Off to the east and south, the night sky literally lit up,
brighter than during the day, and stayed lit, with a pulsating, reverberating
kind of light that simply would not go away.
Short seconds later, the entire terrain in front of, along and behind the
allied lines also lit up & with thousands and thousands of explosions. Deep,
earth-penetrating blasts that shook the earth for miles, ground-level blasts
and airbursts that racked the prepared defenses with shrapnel from above.
Electronically observing it from his deeply buried forward command post,
General Andrei Nosik realized with a start and with perspiration beginning to
run down his face that the memory of his dream had come fresh into his mind.
Except this time, it was no dream plaguing his sleep, it was harsh reality.
For over two and a half years he had been filled with strong feelings of
foreboding from that dream since he had first experienced in Siberia. He had
done everything in his power to prepare his forces and his superiors for what
that dream forebode & and now, despite his every effort, here he was living it
out.
He recognized the incessant flashing lights from his dream as the flash of
this artillery and missile barrage
& and it was directed at his forces & directed at him. Like in the dream, it
went on and on, a constant reverberating light, but unlike the dream the
constant roar of the explosions, although not completely audible, was rumbling
through the structure all around him, conveyed through the earth & reaching
out, searching& wanting to destroy him and his nation.
And, like in the dream, he had already seen the masses streaming to the east
to escape the tide of death and destruction. All across the
Rodina
, from Volograd to Moscow to his own home city of St.
Petersburg, millions of people, Russian people& refugees& streaming to the west
by foot, on roads, following rivers, across country& any way they could. And no
one to help them. In the past, it was at this point that he always woke up& in
a cold sweat, shaking. Now, the cold sweat was continuing, and the shaking was
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all around him& but he was not waking up from this dream, it was harsh reality.
They all knew what was coming, and they had prepared as best they could for
it. After over eight hours of incessant pounding, at 08:20 the enemy attacked,
rolling in behind another massive barrage.
As that barrage lifted, from all across that front, not massed as they had
been in Alaska, or cramped into static defensive positions as they had been in
Israel, the enemy advanced, roaring with a yell that could be heard over the
den of combat for miles. It was the most massive single assault in the history
of mankind, over three million men and their materiel in the initial assault
wave alone, all across the front. Too dispersed for the AGM-999 missiles to
halt all along those two fronts& and now too close to the allied forces for
nuclear weapons to be used without committing mass suicide in the process.
"Perhaps that is where this leads," thought the General, "a final '
how I shall grapple with thee'
, and then death to both sides."
But the General's plan now began to be executed. The largest barrage of cruise
missiles in the history of warfare was now unleashed by Russia and her allies
against the attacking force of the CAS and the GIR.
They were not the unbelievably effective AGM-999 missiles of the Americans,
but they were every other variety of land attack cruise missile available to
the allies, from Russian, German, French, British and
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limited American stocks& and the enemy had to presume that they were the more
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