Jiang Tao, an instructor at the National Defense University, woke up as Andrei Sokolov, a Soviet Red Army major.
The problem was, the leader of this Soviet Union wasn't Stalin. It was Trotsky.
There were no Five-Year Plans, no Great Purge, and the industrial base was a third weaker. But Tukhachevsky was still alive, the theory of deep battle was still developing, and the Red Army sensed the coming war earlier than it had in history.
In 1939, the German army invaded Poland. With more than four hundred new recruits, he stood on the border and watched a mass of tanks darken the horizon.
A year later, Moscow was under air raids, the Japanese army in the Far East was sharpening its knives, and Britain and the United States stood by.
Some said the war couldn't be won.
He simply smiled and pulled a notebook from his pocket. It contained every tactic, every defeat, and every lesson from another timeline.
Four hundred and thirty-two men held out for three days. Thirty-seven were left. Sixteen tanks fought for fourteen days. Six remained. One hundred and thirty-seven infantrymen fought to the bitter end. Eight were left.
But they held the line.
They said this falcon had taken flight from the ruins of the Soviet Union.
