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Now back to the Russian theater; it's early 1943.

Thanks to their great human reserves, they Soviets have been able to stop the Wehrmacht. Still lacking oil, and because their railway center Moscow is being shot at by the German artillery, they couldn't throw them back very far.

During the spring, when mud makes any offensive impossible, both sides are planning what to do next. Hitler wants to take the cities of Moscow (under constant attack), Leningrad and Sevastopol. After that, he hopes, Russia will be demoralized enough and give up. Afterwards, he plans to take everything west of the Volga - other than in OTL, he wants to take the center first, to be able to bombard the Russian factories in the Urals. Stalingrad and the Caucasus are considered less important, since the oil rigs of Baku are mostly destroyed.

But meanwhile the Americans have supplied the Soviets with some million barrels of the needed oil. During the mud period, the T-34s have been made ready. And when the mud has dried up, the attacking German troops are surprised by an unexpected Russian counteroffensive...