Balkans. Red Dawn

Thanks to unexpected assistance from twenty-first-century Russia, the Red Army’s losses in the summer-autumn campaign turn out to be far lower than in our reality, while the Wehrmacht loses a third of its combat strength and is irreversibly weakened. By the end of the year, the Soviet Union also completes its mobilization efforts, and the size of the active army now reaches a record twelve million men, allowing divisions on the front to be rotated while preserving their core combat strength. The Red Army not only grows in size but is also rearmed—with weapons supplied from the twenty-first century as well as those produced by the Soviet economy, which has shifted to a war footing.Rotation is also taking place within the Expeditionary Corps. Soldiers and officers who have gained invaluable combat experience return to their units in due course, and others take their places. The Russian Army contingent on the Eastern Front is once again ready to join the fighting.Having defeated Finland and secured its northern flank, the Soviet command turns its attention in the spring of 1942 to the enemy’s Army Group South. Ahead lies the spring-summer campaign—the time to finally expel the enemy from Soviet soil.