3/1/42 to 3/8/42

[Preuss]

Two weeks of limited success amid snows...not blizzards... have led Comrade General Preussanovsky, head of the Sovjet General Staff, to render to Comrade Stalin a pessimistic outlook for the new year.
With consecutive weeks of failure at Tihkvin in the north and the Dneiper Bend in the south, Gen. Preussanovsky's future in command...not to mention his life...look bleak.
To quote Comrade Stalin: "Comrade Proschanovsky (he can never pronounce my name!) you saved Moscow in 1941. If I see Panzers from the Kremlin walls again, I can't save your life...the blessings of heroism don't outlast my favor!"
Returning to Stavka, Gen. Preussanovsky can only hope that General Winter has done a better job of gutting the German Army than he has.

[Preuss]

Rumours abound, the most realistic of which is that as an award for sterling generalship, Generalfeldmarschall von Techex will be named as Gaulieter Neue-Friederichstadt (Moscow) at the cessation of hostilities.