Thunders (south–westward), early 1945 CE
Marshal Zhukov’s Soviet Army artillery divisions inexorably blast their way through Nazi lines westward across Russia, then through Poland and into Germany… ROLLING THUNDER… they blast their way westward across Germany, then into Berlin itself – and plant the Red flag on the roof of the infamous Reichstag, May 2, 1945… trumpeted “Thousand Year Reich” fails to meet “forecasts”… falls short by 988 years… Russia loses about twenty million dead during WWII to the Nazis (aside from about another 20 million Russian dead directly or indirectly at the hands of their own “leader” Stalin 1925–1945)… Within the onslaught of Zhukov’s campaign towards Berlin, all German town mayors and SS troops rounded–up are summarily executed…