In the sudden, ringing silence that followed the barrage, Aleksei stood up. His uniform was blackened, his face a mask of soot. He looked West. The road to Berlin was long, paved with the spent shells of millions, but as he signaled his men to move out, he knew the momentum of the was finally, irreversibly, behind them.
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