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Brezhnev versus Mao

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  • Аннотация:
    In a parallel universe, on March 5, 1969, Mao Zedong gave the order to attack Brezhnev's USSR. The Great Sino-Soviet War began. The USSR had superior economic potential, a significant advantage in the quantity and, especially, the quality of its equipment, but China also had a much larger population, and most of its men were more or less adequately trained to fight. Therefore, the outcome of the war was uncertain: Asian quantity versus Soviet quality. Furthermore, Brezhnev was not a particularly strict leader, but a landing force of time travelers came to his aid.
  Brezhnev versus MAO
  ANNOTATION
  In a parallel universe, on March 5, 1969, Mao Zedong gave the order to attack Brezhnev's USSR. The Great Sino-Soviet War began. The USSR had superior economic potential, a significant advantage in the quantity and, especially, the quality of its equipment, but China also had a much larger population, and most of its men were more or less adequately trained to fight. Therefore, the outcome of the war was uncertain: Asian quantity versus Soviet quality. Furthermore, Brezhnev was not a particularly strict leader, but a landing force of time travelers came to his aid.
  CHAPTER No 1.
  Oleg Rybachenko is back on another mission. As the saying goes, not a moment's peace. This time, it's the Brezhnev era. In March 1969, China attacked the USSR. The aging Mao Zedong longed for the glory of a great conqueror, acquiring territory for China where the population was rapidly growing. Besides, the old man and great helmsman was bored. He longed for great deeds. So why not attack the USSR? Especially since the good-natured Brezhnev had a doctrine: the USSR would never use nuclear weapons first. This meant the war would be fought by ground forces, without the dreaded nuclear bomb. The date chosen for the attack was symbolic: March 5, the day of Stalin's death. Mao believed that Stalin's death would be a great loss for the USSR. Therefore, on that day, fortune would favor Russia's enemies.
  And so, millions of Chinese soldiers launched an offensive across a vast territory. The fact that the snow hadn't melted yet and that freezing temperatures prevailed in Siberia and the Far East didn't faze the Chinese. Although their equipment was limited and outdated, Mao was counting on assistance from the US and Western countries and on the vastly superior infantry strength of the Celestial Empire. China had a larger population than the USSR, and Soviet Russia would also have to redeploy troops from its European part to Siberia. Which would be a very difficult task.
  And the land army went.
  The direction of the particularly massive attack was the town of Dalny, at the outlet of the Amur River. That is, at the point where this full-flowing river ended on the border between the USSR and China. The hordes of the Celestial Empire could move by land without encountering water obstacles.
  It was there that the most massive attack was carried out using tanks.
  Oleg Rybachenko and Margarita Korshunova led a children's battalion of local pioneers to their positions.
  Despite the fact that the snow had not yet melted, the strong Siberian children, seeing that the commanders Oleg and Margarita were barefoot and wearing light clothes in shorts and a short skirt, also took off their shoes and undressed.
  And now the boys and girls splashed their bare, childish feet in the snow, leaving graceful traces.
  To fight the Chinese, young warriors led by Oleg and Margarita created homemade rockets loaded with sawdust and coal dust. These rockets are ten times more explosive than TNT. These rockets can be launched at both air and ground targets. Meanwhile, the Chinese had amassed a large number of tanks and aircraft.
  Boys and girls also built special hybrids of crossbows and machine guns that fired poisonous needles. And some other things. For example, children's plastic cars were equipped with explosives and controlled by radio. And that, too, was a weapon.
  Olezhka and Margarita also suggested that the children make special rockets that fired poisoned glass and covered a large area, with the aim of destroying enemy infantry.
  China's main strength lies in its brutal assaults and its innumerable personnel, which compensates for its lack of equipment. In this regard, the country has no equal in the world.
  A war with China differs, for example, from a war with the Third Reich in that the enemy, the USSR, has an overwhelming superiority in manpower. And this, of course, creates a very serious problem if the war drags on.
  In short, Mao made a gambler's bet. And an epic battle began. Soviet troops met the Chinese with volleys of Grad rockets. And the latest Uragan systems also fired. A beautiful girl, Alenka, directed the strikes of the newly arrived battery. And chunks of torn flesh flew from the Chinese.
  And the girls, flashing their bare, pink heels, crushed the troops of the Celestial Empire.
  Although they mostly targeted infantry, taking out personnel. That's how energetic and sweeping the girls were.
  The Chinese then launched an offensive against the children's battalion's positions. A small number of attack aircraft were the first to fly. These were mostly Soviet-era IL-2 and IL-10 fighters, both considerably outdated. A few newer attack aircraft were also from the USSR, and a small number were manufactured in China, but again under Russian license.
  But Mao has no developments of his own.
  That is, on the one hand, there is technically backward China, but with a very large population, and on the other hand, there is the USSR, which has fewer human resources, but is technologically advanced.
  The children are heroes, launching missiles at the attack aircraft. They're small-smaller than birdhouses-but there are a lot of them. And the tiny, pea-sized device invented by Oleg and Margarita is sound-homing.
  This is truly a miracle weapon. Child warriors launch it using lighters or matches. They rise into the air and ram Chinese attack aircraft, blowing them up along with their pilots. Most of the Celestial Empire's aircraft don't even have ejection devices. And they explode with savage destruction and a spray of shrapnel.
  And many fragments ignite in the air, reminiscent of fireworks, with colossal dispersion. Now that's a real explosion.
  Oleg noted with a satisfied look:
  - China is getting a kick in the pants!
  Margarita giggled and replied:
  - As usual, we're hitting China pretty hard!
  And the children burst into laughter. And the other boys and girls, splashing their bare, childish, chiseled feet, laughed and began launching rockets even more energetically.
  The Chinese attack aircraft's attack was stifled. They fell, shattered and flattened, their shells blazing. That was devastating power.
  The boy Sasha giggles and notes:
  - The USSR will show China what's what!
  Pioneer girl Lara confirms:
  - Our murderous influence will be ours! We will crush and hang everyone!
  And the young warrior stamped her bare foot in a small puddle.
  Fighting was indeed raging along the entire front line. The Chinese were advancing like a battering ram. Or rather, an innumerable number of battering rams.
  The first wave of stormtroopers was repelled by the young Leninists.
  The boy Petka noticed:
  - If only Stalin were alive, he would be proud of us!
  The pioneer girl Katya noticed:
  - But Stalin is gone, and now Leonid Ilyich is in power!
  Oleg remarked with a sigh:
  - Most likely, Brezhnev is a long way from Stalin!
  Leonid Ilyich's reign would indeed be called stagnant. Although the country continued to develop, albeit not as rapidly as under Stalin. But the Baikal-Amur Mainline (BAM) and gas pipelines from Siberia to Europe were built, and Soligorsk and other cities were constructed. Not all the bad things were connected to Brezhnev. Especially since in 1969, Leonid Ilyich was not yet old-he was only sixty-two, and not senile. And he had a strong team, especially Prime Minister Kosygin.
  The country is on the rise, and its nuclear potential has almost matched that of the United States. In conventional weapons, the Soviet Union's ground forces significantly outnumber the United States, especially in tanks. America has an advantage only in large surface ships and bomber aircraft. In tanks, the USSR has a nearly fivefold advantage. And perhaps even in quality. Soviet tanks are smaller than American ones, but better armored, better armed, and faster.
  It's true that American tanks are more comfortable for their crews, and they have a more user-friendly control system. The newest vehicles are controlled with joysticks. But this isn't a significant difference. More crew space increased the vehicle's size and reduced its armor.
  But after the air attack wave petered out, and dozens of Chinese attack aircraft-more than two hundred, to be exact-were shot down and destroyed, tanks went into action. These were mostly older Soviet tanks. Among them were even T-34-85s, a few T-54s, and a very small number of T-55s. China doesn't have any later Soviet T-62s or T-64s at all. There are some copies of the T-54, but they are few and far between, and their armor quality is far inferior to the Soviet ones, not only in protection, but also in the reliability of the diesel engine, optics, and much more.
  But the Chinese's greatest weakness is their number of tanks and vehicles. So, as in ancient times, they're advancing with large masses of infantry. True, one must give them credit: the Chinese are brave and don't spare their lives. And in some places, they're breaking through.
  Incidentally, in the area of the city of Dalniy, the commanders of the Celestial Empire assembled a group of armored vehicles and deployed it in a wedge formation.
  The children are naturally looking forward to this. The Pioneer Battalion is assembled. Some of the kids, however, are already starting to feel cold. Both boys and girls have started pulling on their felt boots and warm clothes.
  Oleg and Margarita, like immortal children, remained barefoot. Some boys and girls endured it and remained in shorts and light summer dresses, with bare feet. Really, why do they need clothes and boots? They could do without them.
  Oleg, as an immortal highlander, is naturally invulnerable, and his feet and body feel only a slight chill from the snow and icy wind. Like the chill from ice cream, which isn't unpleasant. Or like when you walk barefoot in the snow in a dream. There's a slight chill, but it's not at all scary.
  In any case, the clanking of tracks and the movement of tanks can be heard. The IS-4s, old Soviet vehicles, are first. There are only five of them. This is a heavy tank of the post-war USSR. It has decent protection, even from the sides, but it is obsolete. It weighs sixty tons, and its 122-millimeter gun isn't the most modern or rapid-fire. But these are the heaviest tanks and, traditionally, are at the tip of the wedge.
  Following them are the T-55s, the best tanks in China's arsenal. Then come the Soviet-made T-54s, and then the same tank, also produced in China. But they are, of course, of inferior quality. And at the very end are the weakest tanks in terms of armor and armament-the T-34-85s.
  Here comes this army.
  But children also have a variety of small cars with powerful charges, and missiles that can hit both air and ground targets.
  And so the brutal battle begins. Oleg and Margarita run, their bare heels flashing, red from the cold, and launch the rockets. The other boys and girls do the same. And the rockets fly with deadly force. And the rockets fly, hitting the tanks.
  The first to be hit were the former Soviet, now Chinese, IS-4 tanks. Hit by missiles filled with sawdust and coal dust, they simply exploded into tiny fragments and detonated.
  The vehicles were quite large, squat, and in appearance reminiscent of the German King Tigers, except that the barrel was shorter, but thicker.
  And all five vehicles were instantly destroyed by missiles from a distance.
  And their fragments burned and smoked.
  Then the young warriors took on the more advanced and dangerous T-55.
  And they too began to pummel them with missiles. The children acted quickly. Some of them even took off their felt boots, and now their bare heels flashed.
  The children's bare feet turned scarlet like geese's feet. And it was quite funny.
  Oleg, launching another missile at the Chinese aircraft that Mao had sent against the USSR, noted:
  -Here the largest socialist countries are fighting with each other for the amusement of the Americans.
  Margarita angrily stamped her bare, childish foot, launched three rockets at once and noted:
  - These are Mao's ambitions. He wants the glory of a great conqueror.
  Indeed, China's leader was quite insecure. He longed for greatness, but the years were passing. Mao may have been great, but he still had a long way to go before he reached the glory of Stalin or Genghis Khan. And by his time, both Genghis Khan and Stalin had died. But they had cemented themselves in world history as the greatest. And Mao desperately wanted to surpass them. But what was the easiest way to do that?
  Defeating the USSR, of course. Especially now that it's ruled by Leonid Brezhnev, who has adopted the doctrine of no first use of nuclear weapons. So Mao has a chance of at least seizing Soviet territory as far as the Urals. And then his empire will become the largest in the world.
  And the war has begun. And millions upon millions of soldiers have been thrown into battle. And not just millions, but tens of millions. And it must be said that most Chinese don't spare their lives. And they rush toward Soviet positions like soldiers in a game of Entente.
  But the Russian troops were prepared, too. But they were still so overwhelmingly outnumbered that they simply couldn't contain them. Their machine guns were literally jamming. And they needed some kind of special ammunition to counter that much infantry.
  Oleg and the other kids are still destroying tanks. The missiles have burned and destroyed all the T-55s and are now attacking the lesser vehicles. And they're firing at them.
  Oleg, who had foresight, thought that attacks by buggies and motorcycles would be more problematic. But China currently has even fewer of these than tanks. And that makes defense easier.
  And the tanks aren't moving very quickly through the snow. And the Chinese vehicles themselves are lagging behind the Soviet ones we bought or donated.
  Nevertheless, the children launch new missiles. The kindergarten cars, slightly modified into combat kamikazes, are also sent into battle.
  The battle raged with renewed, furious intensity. The number of Chinese tanks destroyed had already surpassed one hundred, and their number continued to increase.
  Oleg noted with a sweet look:
  - Advanced technology is better than advanced ideology.
  And the guys launched new machines. Two T-54s collided head-on and started exploding. Actually, the Chinese vehicles move much slower than the Soviet ones. The battle is simply escalating.
  Margarita, too, let out something extremely devastating with her bare toes. And the cars exploded, their turrets torn off.
  The girl sang:
  The Wehrmacht's back was broken in battle,
  Bonaparte froze all his ears...
  We gave NATO a good kick in the ass,
  And China is squeezed between the pines!
  And again, with her bare fingers, she pressed the joystick buttons with her incredible strength. Now that's a real Terminator girl.
  These are such wonderful children. And once again, the Chinese tanks are burning. And they're being torn apart. And the torn-up rollers are rolling across the snow. Fuel is flowing out, blazing, like flames. And the snow is actually melting. This is truly the impact of these young fighters. And the tank destruction count is already approaching three hundred.
  Oleg thought as he fought... Stalin was certainly a beast. But in November 1942, given the population losses in the territories occupied by the Nazis, he had fewer manpower resources than Putin had in 1922. Nevertheless, in two and a half years, Stalin liberated territory six times larger than all of Ukraine and Crimea combined. Putin, however, having started the war first and holding the initiative, managed to take five years-twice as long as Stalin had after the Stalingrad turning point-to bring even the Donetsk region under Russian control. So who can doubt that Stalin was a genius, and Putin still has a long way to go.
  But Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev is generally considered soft-hearted, weak-willed, and lacking in intellect and ability. Could he stand up to Mao and his rule over the world's most populous country?
  Plus, there's the danger that the US and the Western world will provide China with military assistance. Even now, the enemy's superiority in infantry isn't having the best effect.
  In fact, the number of tanks destroyed by their children's battalion alone has reached the fourth hundred. Self-propelled guns are also visible further on.
  The Chinese are also outdated. They try to fire on the move, which is quite dangerous. But child warriors prefer to fire from a distance. And it pays off.
  All new Chinese cars are on fire.
  Oleg noted with a smile:
  - Mao starts and loses!
  Margarita objected:
  - It's not that simple, the great helmsman has too many pawns!
  The young highlander nodded:
  - Yes, pawns are not nuts - they are future queens!
  The children once again used the bare toes of their small but very nimble feet in battle.
  The boy Seryozhka noted:
  - We're giving China a hard time!
  Margarita corrected:
  - We are not fighting with the Chinese people, but with their ruling, adventurous elite.
  Oleg nodded in agreement:
  - It's even kind of unpleasant to kill Chinese people! You could say it's creepy. After all, they're not bad guys!
  And the young warrior launched a missile into the attack on the self-propelled guns.
  The boy Sasha, pressing the button with his bare fingers to launch another children's car with explosives, noted:
  - Well, their girls are pretty good too!
  Among the Chinese self-propelled guns were some with 152-millimeter howitzers. They tried to fire at the children from a distance. Some boys and girls even received minor scratches from the exploding fragmentation shells. But there was protection here too-protective stones that reduced the likelihood of shrapnel and shells hitting the children. And it must be said, it worked.
  And the young battalion suffered virtually no losses.
  Oleg noted with a sweet smile:
  - That's how we work...
  More than five hundred Chinese tanks and self-propelled guns had already been destroyed, and that was impressive. And so the young warriors dispersed.
  This is a real dance of death.
  Margarita, this girl kicked with her bare, round heel and noted:
  Woe to him who fights,
  With a Russian girl in battle...
  If the enemy goes berserk,
  I'll kill that bastard!
  The Chinese finally ran out of armor, and then came the infantry. And this is the greatest force. There is a lot of it, and it comes in a dense avalanche, like locusts. This is truly a clash of the titans.
  The child heroes used special rockets containing poison-laced glass shards against the personnel. And they did indeed knock out a ton of Mao's soldiers. But they continued to press on, like a toad on a writhing squirrel.
  Oleg launched it with the help of a child"s bare foot and noted:
  - We must stand firm in any case!
  Margarita noted:
  - And they weren"t the ones who beat them!
  The Terminator boy remembered computer games. How they mowed down advancing enemy infantry. They did it very effectively. But in "Entente," even the most aggressive assault couldn't overcome a solid line of pillboxes. And the infantry was fatally affected.
  And you mow it down not just by the thousands, but by the tens of thousands. And it really worked.
  And the children launched high-explosive rockets. And then they used toy cars with explosives.
  Oleg thought the Germans couldn't have afforded something like that during World War II. They didn't have that much manpower. However, the Nazis had problems with tanks, too.
  But China is a special country, and there, human resources have never been taken into account. And they've been used up without a problem.
  And now the infantry keeps coming and coming... And the child heroes are driving it out.
  Oleg remembered that in the Entente, there was no limit on ammunition consumption. And any tank could fire literally forever. Or a bunker. So in this game, you could mow down a billion infantrymen.
  But in a real war, ammunition is not endless. And won't the Chinese pelt them with corpses?
  And they keep coming and coming. And the mounds of corpses really do grow. But the boys and girls keep firing. And they do it very accurately.
  And of course, they've also put crossbow-machine gun hybrids into use. Let's mow down the Chinese. They're working very hard.
  The fighting in other areas is no joke either. Both Grad and machine guns are used against enemy infantry. Among them, for example, are Dragon rockets, which fire five thousand rounds per minute. This is very effective against infantry. And the Chinese don't spare their personnel. They suffer colossal losses. But they still push forward and storm.
  Natasha and her friends, for example, are using dragons to attack Chinese infantry. It's a truly unstoppable onslaught. And whole mountains of corpses are falling. It's simply brutal.
  Zoya, another warrior, notes:
  - These are the bravest guys, but their leadership has clearly gone crazy!
  Victoria, firing from the Dragon machine gun, noted:
  - This is simply a hellish effect!
  Svetlana pressed the joystick buttons with her bare toes and noted:
  - Let's take our enemies seriously!
  The girls held their ground very steadfastly. But then the Dragon machine guns began to overheat. They were cooled by a special liquid. And the shots were incredibly accurate. The bullets found their targets in this dense horde.
  Natasha noted while mowing down the Chinese:
  - What do you girls think, if there is another world?
  Zoya, continuing to fire at the Chinese, replied:
  - Maybe there is! In any case, something exists beyond the body!
  Victoria, who was firing mercilessly, agreed:
  - Of course it exists! After all, we fly in our dreams. And what is that if not a memory of the soul's flight?
  Svetlana, a Chinese addict, agreed:
  - Yes, that's most likely true! So, even though we're dead, we're not dying for good!
  And the dragons continued their devastating influence. And it truly was deadly.
  Soviet attack aircraft appeared in the sky. They began dropping fragmentation rockets to destroy the infantry.
  The Chinese air force is weak, and therefore Soviet planes can bomb with almost impunity.
  But the Celestial Empire does have some fighters, and they engage in combat. And a striking effect occurs.
  Akulina Orlova shoots down a couple of Chinese planes and sings:
  Heaven and earth are in our hands,
  Let communism win...
  The sun will dispel fear,
  Let the ray of light shine!
  And the girl took it again and kicked with her bare, round heel. That's how powerful it was.
  Anastasia Vedmakova also fights. She looks no older than thirty, but she fought in the Crimean War, dating back to the reign of Nicholas I. She's quite the sorceress. And she shot down a record number of German planes during World War II. True, her exploits weren't fully appreciated at the time.
  Anastasia first shoots down Chinese planes in the sky, and then attacks the infantry with rockets. The enemy really does have too many troops. They suffer colossal damage, but they still press on.
  Anastasia noted with a sad look:
  - We have to kill people and in huge quantities!
  Akulina agreed:
  - Yes, it"s unpleasant, but we are fulfilling our duty to the USSR!
  And the girls, having dropped the last bombs on the infantry, flew off to reload. They are such active and tough warriors.
  The Chinese infantry was attacked with all types of weapons, including flamethrowers. This inflicted significant losses on the enemy. More precisely, the Chinese were killed in the hundreds of thousands, but they continued to advance. They demonstrated their outstanding bravery, but lacked technique and strategy. The fighting, however, was fierce.
  Oleg once again employed his know-how, an ultrasonic device. It was constructed from ordinary milk bottles. But they had a simply lethal effect on the Chinese. Their bodies turned into carrion, a pile of protoplasm. Metal, bones, and flesh all became mingled together.
  It felt like the ultrasound was frying the Chinese troops alive. And that's truly quite terrifying.
  Margarita licked her lips and noted:
  - A magnificent hat-trick!
  The boy Seryozhka noticed:
  - It looks simply terrifying! They look like bacon!
  Oleg laughed and replied:
  - It's mortally dangerous to mess with us! Long live communism in great glory!
  And the children stamped their bare, well-shaped feet in unison.
  And then Soviet strategic bombers began attacking the Chinese. They dropped heavy napalm bombs, covering many hectares at once. And it looked simply monstrous. The impact, let's say, was extremely aggressive.
  And when such a bomb falls, the fire literally engulfs a huge crowd.
  Oleg sang with inspiration:
  We will never give up, believe me,
  Believe me, we will show courage in battle...
  For God Svarog is for us, but Satan is against us,
  And we glorify the Most High Rod!
  Margarita threw a large, deadly pea of death and squeaked:
  - May the Mother of Russian Gods Lada be glorified!
  And again the ultrasonic device struck, and missiles flew at the Chinese. They hit them with glass and needles. And now the warriors of the Celestial Empire could not withstand the heavy losses and began to retreat. Tens of thousands of charred and peeling corpses lay scattered across the field.
  The boy Sasha chirped wittily:
  - Field, field, field - who has littered you with dead bones!
  Oleg and Margarita exclaimed in unison:
  - We! Glory to the USSR! Glory to Communism and a bright future!
  . CHAPTER No 2 .
  In the very first days of fighting, the Chinese, at the cost of enormous losses, managed to wedge themselves into Soviet territory. They made particular progress in Primorye, where they were not forced to cross the Amur River. Vladivostok was threatened with encirclement. The USSR was forced to declare a general mobilization. This required considerable expenditure. Brezhnev, to avoid introducing rationing, somewhat reduced the scale of the mobilization.
  There were attempts to resolve the issue diplomatically. But Mao was adamant: no negotiations - fight to the finish!
  Until the complete capitulation of the USSR.
  The huge superiority in human resources gave China confidence in victory.
  The Kremlin proposed establishing a State Defense Committee, modeled on the Second World War, but Brezhnev kept hesitating. Meanwhile, the situation was escalating. The Chinese launched an offensive in Kazakhstan, too. The attack was aimed at Alma-Ata. And then, large enemy forces broke through.
  Timur and his team encountered Maoists here. A fierce battle lay ahead.
  The children fired automatic rifles and machine guns. They threw grenades with their bare toes. They acted with colossal energy. This was truly a young, but effective team.
  With them was Komsomol member Veronica. She was also wearing a short skirt and barefoot. It's still March, though, and it's cold in Kazakhstan. But of course, it's warmer than Siberia, and the snow has already melted. So the children fight with great fury.
  A girl, barefoot, also hurls a grenade at the Chinese. And machine guns mow down the advancing yellow warriors. They operate with colossal energy. And the mounds of corpses grow. This is truly bloodshed.
  Boys and girls are firing... And showing enthusiasm...
  The Chinese are trying to attack again at the junction.
  And again, Oleg and his team are fighting fiercely there. And they're firing very accurately.
  Here they are again, making missiles and firing them at the Chinese. They are piercing whole mounds of corpses.
  Oleg remembered that in some strategy games, you can churn out infantry very quickly. And they, too, rush in by the tens of thousands and are easily wiped out. But computer units are one thing-they're essentially just bits of information-and living people are quite another.
  A boy and girls are fighting. Almost all the children have already taken off their shoes and coats. First, it's gotten a little warmer, and the snow is melting. A few days have passed, and it's no longer early March, but mid-March, and the sun is shining.
  Children splash barefoot through puddles and launch rockets.
  One of the girls even started singing:
  The sun is shining high, high,
  Lessons are far, far away!
  Oleg thought this war would likely be serious and long-lasting. The forged Mao wouldn't be willing to give in so easily. He would destroy everyone. As he said: let a billion Chinese die, but if only one million remain, we'll build communism with them. That's Maoism.
  What could well be called Asian fascism. But the Soviet troops still fight heroically. The USSR has a significant advantage in equipment. Tanks are being hastily transferred from Europe. The best development so far is the T-72, but this tank currently exists only in blueprints. A self-propelled gun with a mortar launcher is more effective. They are very good at knocking out large numbers of infantry.
  In general, given China's weak tank fleet, it's more effective to use high-explosive fragmentation and cluster munitions. They're a recipe for disaster for infantry. And a lot of dead bodies...
  Oleg, however, used ultrasound from bottle-type devices on a larger scale. And so much torn, rotten, and ground meat resulted from this.
  The children moved the machine gun around in circles, or rather, several machines. And they mowed down their opponents with extraordinary force. And they were deadly.
  Margarita chirped:
  The heavens opened with a crash,
  And miracles happened!
  That's how the kids showed off their dynamism here. And the missiles were firing. There were only a dozen tanks in the attack. And they stopped after the ultrasound turned the crews' bodies into pulp. That was truly devastating. And the infantry kept coming forward.
  Oleg stamped his bare, childish foot and sang:
  I believe the whole world will wake up,
  There will be an end to Maoism....
  And the sun will shine -
  Lighting the way for communism!
  And again the boy launched something lethal at the enemy. And the missiles exploded, scattering poisoned glass and games. And the ultrasound worked.
  You won't find such incredible numbers of living people being destroyed, even in even the most advanced strategy games. Although, for example, there are some that wipe out an entire regiment with a single salvo. And that's truly awesome.
  And the ultrasound alone is worth something. It's universal against both vehicles and infantry, and doesn't require much energy. Just turn on a gramophone and play Wagner, and the devastating effect begins.
  Oleg and Margarita also put in a lot of effort here. It's no wonder he's an immortal highlander. And the kids are working with incredible dedication.
  As they say, the Chinese gambit.
  The boy Sasha broke an ice floe with his bare, childish heel and sang:
  Our detachment will be in battle,
  The first step is important in life...
  We came out of the Octobrists,
  Whirlwinds of furious attacks are sweeping over the country!
  And the children again, like a bang, knocked out the Chinese shelves.
  Akulina and Anastasia are also crushing the enemy in the sky. The Celestial Empire has few planes, so the girls' main target is the ground forces. A special feature of the war is striking large, dense masses of infantry. Indeed, the tactic of pelting people with corpses is so typical of Maoists. And they literally don't spare their bellies.
  Anastasia noted with a sweet look:
  "I fought the Japanese. They didn't spare their lives either, but they weren't such weirdos, and there weren't that many of them!"
  Akulina agreed with this:
  - This is truly insane. To kill so many people! Even Hitler wasn't as merciless to his own as Mao.
  The red-haired pilot-witch giggled and replied:
  - Oh well, women will still give birth!
  And the girls let them hit the enemy with great force. This was a figuratively destructive effect. And they hit with special projectiles that flew far away.
  Nevertheless, the Chinese continued to advance in the Primorye region. Fighting for Khabarovsk also erupted. The situation on the battlefield is dire. The Chinese have hundreds of fully-fledged divisions, while the USSR has only forty-four. True, some are being transferred from the European part of the country, and mobilizations are underway.
  But the balance of power is overwhelmingly Chinese. The USSR is urgently rearming its tanks, increasing the number of machine guns. Fighting other tanks is no longer an option. And so much blood is being shed.
  Rockets are being used, including napalm ones. The Soviet troops are suffocating... And the Chinese are trying to extend the front line. They're advancing on Kyrgyzstan too... Trying to push through the mountains. And the fighting is brutal. And masses of Chinese are dying, simply falling into ravines.
  However, the Celestial Empire's soldiers are also showing ingenuity. In particular, they make wooden tank models. This creates a morale boost for Soviet soldiers and simultaneously diverts bombs and missiles to decoy targets.
  The Minister of Defense at the time was Marshal Grechko. He was famous for having grass tinted and trees trimmed during his visits. Otherwise, he wasn't exactly the best commander.
  Although the Soviet army has not yet disintegrated and the system still works, the best marshals and generals from the Great Patriotic War have aged and are no longer the same. And some have even died.
  Fortunately for the USSR, the Chinese command isn't up to par either. But it has so many manpower resources. And it's capturing territory.
  By the end of March, most of Khabarovsk had been captured in a bloody assault, and Vladivostok was cut off by land. Fortunately, thanks to the weakness of the Chinese navy, its supplies were not completely cut off. For now, it held out, relying on powerful forts and defensive lines. However, the situation continued to deteriorate. The Celestial Empire's forces were advancing along the Amur River and threatening to completely overrun Primorye.
  And transporting troops over such a distance is quite difficult. There's only one railway line so far, and construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline hasn't even begun.
  Fortunately, the USSR has plenty of ammunition in storage. And it can, in principle, be used. So far, there are no problems with quantity; the main thing is to deliver it on time.
  China's artillery is also weak, so the Celestial Empire's infantry storms unsuppressed points. But losses are irrelevant. They keep pushing forward. And that's their specialty. Masses of troops are crossing the Amur, even on rafts or swimming. And they, too, suffer enormous losses.
  The Amur River even turned reddish-brown from the corpses. A horrific massacre.
  And in some places, the Chinese are even managing to consolidate their positions. Fighting is already underway for Alma-Ata; the Chinese have broken through. They want to take the capital of Kazakhstan. This is truly bloody.
  The Soviet troops are attempting a counterattack. They have plenty of tanks, and they're well-equipped for moving around Siberia. Tank counterattacks are quite effective, and they're being carried out with force and pressure.
  Soviet troops also launch missile strikes. This is also a feature, even though they have a lot of missiles. China's air defenses are also weak. In particular, Soviet bombers even bombed Beijing. They destroyed Mao's palace.
  And the Chinese dictator hastened to move his residence to Shanghai, away from the front line.
  Where the children are with Oleg and Margarita, China has no progress; they are holding the line.
  But Mao's troops began to bypass Mongolian territory. They invaded it, advancing across the steppe. And here, too, the Amur River, deep and cold, could be bypassed. The timing of the attack was not ideal. The ice was already brittle and crumbling, making swimming difficult. But the warriors of the Celestial Empire pressed on regardless. And they feared nothing.
  There's fighting in Mongolia too... Soviet units are trying to help local troops hold back the Chinese. And they're still pressing forward. And, of course, there are infantry assaults, too.
  Alenka, for example, uses five machine gun barrels at once here, knocking out personnel.
  And the girl presses them with her bare toes. The girls here are barefoot-even though it's still a bit chilly at the end of March. But at least their bare feet are so nimble.
  Anyuta also shoots from machine guns and sings:
  A star fell from the sky -
  Into the evil helmsman's pants...
  She tore something off of him,
  If only there was no war!
  And the girl throws grenades with her bare toes. Now that's a fighting beauty. And the Chinese aren't having it easy. But there are just too many of them. They can't be translated.
  Olympiada simply threw an entire barrel of explosives with her bare feet. It rolled, fell, and into a dense crowd of Chinese, where it exploded, scattering them in all directions like bowling pins. The impact was extremely lethal.
  The girl Ekaterina took it and squeaked:
  - Our luck will be killer, we will checkmate Mao!
  Aurora is also shooting... The girls are in full swing.
  And of course, using flamethrowers is a delightful thing. And the warriors will suddenly take up arms and begin to burn the warriors of the Celestial Empire.
  The Chinese, however, aren't known for their kindness either. In particular, they captured a young Komsomol member. So they first stripped the beauty naked. Then they hoisted her onto the rack. So naked, so beautiful, so muscular.
  They lifted her higher, so high her tendons creaked. And then they let her go. She collapsed, and as she reached the floor, the rope tightened, dislocating her joints. The Komsomol member gasped in pain.
  And the Chinese executioners laughed. And again they began to lift the naked girl up. And again the rope creaked and tightened. It was utterly grotesque. And then they lifted her higher and let go again. And the girl collapsed again. And right at the floor, the rope stretched to its limit. This time the Komsomol member couldn't bear it any longer and screamed in terrible pain.
  And the Chinese executioners just laugh so-so. And they lift the girl up for the third time.
  It's a kind of torture-a kind of shaking. It's very painful and excruciating-a cruel, so to speak, experience. After the third shaking, the Komsomol member lost consciousness.
  Then they cauterized her bare heel with a hot crowbar, and the girl came to her senses.
  The torture continued. Her bare feet were clamped in stocks and secured with locks, and heavy weights were hung on hooks, stretching her body.
  Then they beat her with red-hot barbed wire on her sides, back, and chest. They lit a fire under the girl's bare feet and roasted her bare heels. Then, red-hot pincers broke the Komsomol member's toes. And then they applied electric shock. That's how they tortured the girl.
  They didn't even ask any questions-they simply tortured and tormented me. But they still achieved nothing.
  Finally, they placed electrodes on her pubic area and administered such a shock that she actually started smoking. The pain shock ultimately caused her to fall into a coma.
  After which, practically dead, she was thrown into the furnace for disposal.
  This is how Mao's soldiers acted. They knew no pity for themselves or others.
  They were advancing on all fronts. Alma-Ata was already under threat of encirclement. Fighting was taking place on its outskirts.
  Alice and Angelica, two female snipers, fired their rifles so intensely that their index fingers swelled. There are so many Chinese, and they're pressing hard.
  Alice noted, wincing in pain:
  - Well, they're crawling! They're just locusts! And they don't spare people like that - it's terrible!
  Angelica noted:
  - Asianism! But we must hold on!
  The girls started shooting rifles using their bare toes. They did it with great energy. They stole magnificently. And firing with your feet-it's delightful.
  Angelica, the redhead in this couple, was quite tall, large, and muscular. She loved men and enjoyed the process of making love. However, she didn't appreciate constancy. She enjoyed sex, but didn't understand the concept of love.
  But Alisa is still a virgin and a very romantic person, and a natural blonde. And not as big as Angelica. But she's a phenomenally accurate shot.
  True, her skill isn't really needed right now, with the Chinese advancing like an avalanche and no regard for losses. Their disregard for the value of human life is simply astounding. They keep attacking and attacking. And it seems their manpower reserves are inexhaustible. It's true that the war hasn't even been a month yet, and the question remains how long Mao's army will last with such colossal losses.
  Alice noted with a sigh:
  - We are not surgeons, but butchers!
  Angelica noted:
  "I'd rather fight the Germans than the Chinese! The former required more thought and careful calculation!"
  And the girl pressed the trigger again with her bare toes. Their rifles had become so hot, when sweat dripped onto the barrel, it literally hissed.
  Alice chirped:
  Two thousand years of war,
  War without rational reason...
  Satan has broken free from his chains,
  And death came with him!
  Then the girl kicked them with her bare heel and launched a pea of death, a colossal, lethal force. And it simply scattered everyone in all directions.
  More precisely, the Chinese have suffered so much that you can't envy them. But what fortitude they have. And you have to be so deluded by Mao's ideas that you really don't spare your life. And keep on trying.
  Soviet troops used rocket launchers quite successfully against infantry. True, they don't fire quickly enough, but they pack a punch. And they can knock out infantry over large areas.
  The Chinese have so many troops that they're armed with whatever comes to hand-even flintlocks and hunting rifles. Some infantrymen even carry wooden machine guns, or even clubs or scythes.
  It reminds me of Yemelyan Pugachev's army - numerous, but poorly armed and organized.
  But sometimes you can take it by numbers. And by throwing corpses at them, you can advance. And the Chinese are showing that they really can do it.
  One of the means of deterring Mao's countless hordes is anti-personnel mines. The USSR has a large number of them and can be used against the enormous number of personnel. True, minefields can be bypassed, but the Chinese go straight for the head, attacking with colossal aggression.
  As Mao said: there are too many Chinese to make them all happy!
  New types of weapons are needed with special capabilities. The Chinese even send their children into the attack. And they run barefoot, with their heads shaved, and in rags. As the saying goes, "everything goes."
  Veronica and Agrippina, for example, began using machine guns with a higher rate of fire to clear out such a horde. Some systems are capable of firing up to thirty thousand rounds per minute. However, they overheat too quickly.
  Veronica even sang with enthusiasm:
  We swear to the great Brezhnev,
  Keep your honor and fight to the end...
  Because his power is like the sun,
  Because the country is God's flower!
  Agrippina remarked aggressively, knocking out the Chinese:
  - Does God exist?
  Veronica replied:
  - God is in the soul of every communist!
  The warrior confirmed:
  - Amen! Forward to the victory of communism!
  And Natasha and Zoya are beating the dragons.
  These are the gorgeous girls they are. And the machine guns are crackling.
  Natasha noted:
  - Accuracy is not needed here, but rate of fire is required!
  Zoya confirmed energetically:
  - Yes, it is required! We already do everything too carefully.
  Victoria also fired from the machine gun and energetically noted:
  "This is a war between two civilizations-European and Asian. We are white and closer to Europe."
  Svetlana added with a brave look:
  - Yes, closer! Although Stalin was called Genghis Khan with a telephone!
  And the warriors fired again. And the cascade of bullets rained down.
  Oleg Rybachenko and Margarita Korshunova naturally rose to the occasion. Their children's battalion repelled all attacks. But the Chinese began to break through Mongolia, and the threat of encirclement arose.
  The small army of children began to walk away, slapping their bare feet.
  It was already muddy, and the snow was melting. It's that nasty time of year when there are puddles everywhere and the grass hasn't grown yet.
  Margarita noted with a sweet look:
  - Here we are playing a retreat!
  Oleg noted:
  - Fighting while surrounded would be scary!
  The boy Sasha objected:
  - It's not scary, it's crap!
  The girl Lara noted:
  - In any case, we demonstrated our heroism and fortitude! And we did not disgrace our ancestors!
  Margarita noted:
  - Yes, we are worthy of the pioneers of the Great Patriotic War.
  The boy Petka noticed:
  - But then we fought against the fascists, and now we are fighting against communists just like us!
  Oleg objected:
  - Not with those. Maoism is fascism under red flags. So, it's communist in name only.
  Margarita giggled and noted:
  - That's right, all that glitters is not gold!
  The pioneer girl Olka noted:
  - It"s not for nothing that Stalin called Mao a radish - red on the outside, white on the inside!
  The pioneer boy Sasha, slapping his bare, childish feet, agreed:
  - Yes, in this regard, Stalin was right! Mao turned China into a concentration camp!
  Pioneer girl Lara noted:
  - And unlike Germany, it has an advantage in human resources. That's not great at all!
  Oleg answered in a decisive tone:
  - It's not all about numbers! As Suvorov said, "War is fought not by numbers, but by skill!"
  And the children took and sang in chorus:
  Suvorov taught in fierce battles,
  Hold the Russian flag in glory!
  Suvorov taught us to look ahead,
  And if you stand up, stand to the death!
  Suvorov, brothers, is an example for us,
  He didn't get lost in difficult times!
  Suvorov was a father and brother,
  The last cracker was shared with the fighter!
  And they stopped. Chinese attack aircraft appeared in the sky again. True, there were only six of them, and they had already knocked out almost all of them.
  Oleg didn't launch missiles, but simply aimed his ultrasonic device at the enemy. The planes began to lose control, falling and nosediving.
  The ultrasound was working, Wagner's music was playing.
  Margarita noted with a smile:
  - You must admit there is something mystical in this music!
  Oleg nodded in agreement:
  "It's no wonder Adolf Hitler loved Wagner. He was a frenzied Fuhrer, yet he managed to shake up practically the entire world. In that sense, how could one say he was a great villain!"
  Pioneer girl Clara noted:
  - But Mao wants to surpass him!
  Petka remarked with a sigh:
  - Maybe it will surpass it!
  The Chinese really did suffer so many losses. And Soviet submarines in the Pacific Ocean approached and shelled Beijing. They destroyed several government buildings and a number of factories. That's how they went and did it.
  And then they left virtually unpunished. And long-range bombers also struck Shanghai, destroying yet another of Mao's residences there.
  In response, there were threats. But China was wary of using nuclear weapons; the USSR was much stronger in this regard and could have responded. Even though its doctrine promised not to use them first.
  Anastasia and Akulina also worked on enemy infantry. Both girls look so young: the redhead and the blonde had experience in both World War II and World War I, as well as the Russo-Japanese War. And Anastasia had seen action in the Crimea and the Turkish-Balkan War. They had some glorious times. And they never aged. These are girls of the highest caliber.
  Anastasia sang:
  I believe the spirit will conquer the forces of evil,
  We could finish off Maoism...
  Let there be graves for the enemies,
  We are building true communism!
  Akulina energetically confirmed:
  - We really are building and will continue to build!
  And both girls were again pounding ground targets. For example, they knocked out a couple of rare Chinese Grad missile launchers. The warriors demonstrated their capabilities.
  Anastasia also used cluster munition missiles - they are good against infantry.
  The girls raged and crushed their enemies.
  Soviet troops also attempted a counterattack. Some tanks even arrived from East Germany.
  Among them there were even several flamethrowers, which are top class against infantry.
  And of course, there were also high-powered mortar strikes. They were used en masse. Even the Chinese fled. And the losses they suffered were simply horrific.
  The warrior girl Maria sang:
  Don't give in to Maoism people,
  China won't put us in a bad position...
  I believe we will live under communism,
  And let's build a paradise in the universe!
  . CHAPTER No 3 .
  In early April, at the cost of enormous losses, the Chinese occupied virtually all of Primorye along the Amur River, with the exception of the blockaded Vladivostok. Khabarovsk also fell, and Mao's troops advanced deeper into the region. Alma-Ata has already been partially captured, and street fighting is underway. The situation is dire.
  It wasn't just Soviet tanks that arrived in Siberia from the GDR, but also volunteers. Here they are, riding a German-made "Thälmann-3" tank to fight the Chinese. This tank has a flamethrower and eight machine guns.
  And it was driven by four German girls: Gerda, Charlotte, Christina and Magda!
  And they fought, of course, in nothing but bikinis and barefoot. Although it's chilly in early April, it warms up quickly, especially in the late afternoon. And even the flamethrower tank itself is hot.
  The girls sent him into the thick of the Chinese horde. And the machine guns were the first to fire.
  Gerda noted:
  - We'll give them hell!
  Christina noted:
  - You have to be careful! They might throw grenades at us!
  Charlotte responded aggressively:
  - And we'll give them a shot! They'll get it!
  Magda noted with a sigh, clicking her bare toes:
  - I don"t want to kill people, but I have to!
  The warriors really did look pretty cool. They were roasting the Chinese troops with fire. Eight machine guns were firing. There was a strong smell of burning. And those smells were disgusting.
  The girls fired machine guns and crushed the troops of the Celestial Empire. And the streams of fire thoroughly fried them.
  Gerda, pressing the joystick buttons with her bare, chiseled feet, noted:
  - We could have won against the Russians if Japan had attacked from the east!
  Charlotte growled, frying the Chinese with fire:
  - We could have done it without Japan. If Hitler hadn't turned out to be such a jerk!
  Christina agreed:
  "Hitler wasn't exactly a genius. If, instead of the Maus and Lion, which proved completely ineffective in practice, they'd invested in the accelerated development of the E-10 and E-25, they might have held the line. Or even more."
  Magda noted with a sweet look:
  - Maybe so. But would we have had an odious fascist regime in power, and would that have brought us happiness?
  Gerda, continuing to fire, noted:
  "Does the GDR really have democracy, like the USSR? Elections do take place, but there's no alternative, and only one candidate per seat, so what can you do? And you don't really trust their honesty. And it's always ninety-nine and a bit!"
  Charlotte agreed with this:
  - There was no democracy under Hitler, and there was none after Hitler.
  Magda noticed, shooting at the Chinese:
  - There was democracy before Hitler. Back then, there was a multi-party system, and the republic was more parliamentary than presidential. There were thirty-five parties before Hitler!
  Christina whistled:
  - Yes, there was democracy in ancient times. But now there's only one word: totalitarianism.
  And the girls continued firing machine guns at the Chinese soldiers.
  Gerda noted with a sweet look:
  - Democracy? Well, I don't know, there's more order under a dictatorship! But democracy is more chaos!
  And she fired a fiery stream. And it passed through the Chinese crowds. And they continued to press forward.
  Charlotte noted with a sweet look, and frying the warriors of the Celestial Empire:
  - Order? Sometimes there's such order that you miss the mess!
  Christina logically noted:
  "Under Hitler, they really dreamed of chaos! Such order would really be awesome!"
  Magda fired at the Maoists and noted:
  "If the Chinese win, it will be worse than under Hitler! They don't even need us as slaves!"
  Gerda agreed with this:
  - Yes! There were few Germans, and even then we were cruel, but we were a cultured and educated nation, so what can you expect from Asia?
  Charlotte giggled and noted, firing from her machine guns:
  "With such losses, even China, with its huge population, wouldn't be enough to reach Germany! And we'll still help!"
  And the girls worked with passion and strength. These are truly warriors of the highest order.
  Fighting raged in other areas as well. The Chinese, having reached the Amur River in Primorye, found themselves up against a water barrier. And there was a fairly strong defensive line there. It was much easier to hold behind a full-flowing river. The Soviet troops repelled the assault on Vladivostok. Even Pioneer detachments took part in the fighting. The weather warmed rapidly, and by April, blossoms were blooming.
  Siberia has a continental climate. Winters are cold, of course, but summers are hot, and springs are wild.
  Overall, it's great. And Vladivostok is located at a latitude south of Crimea. And you can swim there perfectly in the summer.
  The girls are holding the line there too. Here's Anna, the female captain, firing at the Chinese soldiers at the fort. And they're pushing on.
  They're attacking practically every day. And they keep coming. They're literally crawling over the corpses of the Celestial Empire's warriors. And it's truly terrifying.
  Moreover, the Chinese are storming Vladivostok along the entire front line. A terrible situation is emerging. And the fighting is so bloody.
  But the shelling is quite light. So far, the Chinese aren't very good with artillery. Moreover, some of their guns and mortars have been knocked out by aircraft. Soviet aircraft dominate the air. So far, China has nothing to counter this.
  What do they fire? At best, anti-aircraft guns from World War II. They have almost no surface-to-air missiles, and those that do exist are outdated Soviet ones. They are, however, trying to establish their own production in China.
  Anna fends off an attack, with Nicoletta by her side. The warriors are very beautiful. Despite the chill, they prefer to fight in bikinis and barefoot. And frankly, it's great, and helps them repel numerous Chinese attacks.
  Vladivostok is well defended. Fortunately, its forts were reinforced in time, and now it can hold its ground.
  Anna noted with a smile:
  "We're holding our ground well. But the enemy will try to wear us down!"
  Nicoletta confirmed:
  - Let the enemy try! But we will not give in to the adversary!
  And the girls threw their bare feet up in a furious greeting!
  And they launched boomerangs from them. They flew past and cut off the heads of the warriors of the Celestial Empire.
  And the war continues... The Chinese are attacking Vladivostok again. They're moving forward in dense columns. And they don't care about losses under any circumstances. And Mao isn't one to spare his soldiers.
  Anna noted:
  - This is all strange!
  Nicoletta replied:
  - Nothing strange! When there are too many people, they don't feel sorry for him!
  Viola noticed another warrior girl and officer:
  - Why do those who have a lot of money, on the contrary, feel sorry for them and become so greedy?
  Anna laughed and replied:
  - Money goes to money! It's already an axiom!
  And the girls fired a howitzer at the concentration of Chinese infantry.
  The Celestial Empire's warriors really do have little armor. And it's outdated and slow. But they have so much infantry. Try to stop that.
  This is a truly huge problem. There are a lot of women among the fighters. They represent the fair sex, not like the stinking men. And it's so great to be with them.
  And now the machine guns are firing at the Chinese. Anna notes:
  - How many people have perished! But we will still win!
  Nicoletta agreed with a sigh:
  - Yes, we must win! This is our destiny, we can"t live any other way!
  Viola chirped furiously:
  Victory awaits, victory awaits, victory awaits,
  Those who long to break the shackles!
  Victory awaits, victory awaits, victory awaits,
  We will be able to defeat China!
  This is how girls show off their biceps and muscles that can break a crowbar.
  Here are Adala and Agaga, new pilots who arrived from the European part of the USSR. They are remarkable fighters. Of course, according to tradition, they fight barefoot and in bikinis. Very active and wonderful girls. And they abandon their multirole aircraft.
  The nature of war is such that there are few aerial battles in the skies. And fighters are quickly converted into attack aircraft. And they pound ground targets with all their might.
  Adala hit the Chinese soldiers, firing fragmentation and rocket missiles from her underbelly and noted:
  - Quite a simple job!
  Agatha also fired a rocket at the group of Mao's warriors and noted with a smile:
  - But we need to choose targets so that each missile is used most rationally!
  And the girls burst into laughter. That's how active they are. And they act with strength of character.
  The girls were once practicing at a shooting range. One guy claimed to be a better shot than them. So, the two pilots had a bet and won a hundred out of a hundred. Then they forced the loser to kiss their bare, round heels. He fell prostrate and obediently, even with some enthusiasm, kissed the girls' bare, slightly dusty soles. And it was great. He liked it too.
  Adala remarked with a sweet look, while slashing at the Chinese troops:
  - How wonderful it is to be a woman! It's so easy to fool men! They fall for you so easily!
  Agatha agreed:
  - Yes, they do! And that's the beauty of the world!
  And both girls dropped their last missiles on Mao's army and turned back to refuel. Now that was truly a momentous occasion. How warriors fight. You can't stand against such women.
  Overall, the Chinese were on the offensive, but Soviet tank pincers were pounding the infantry with counterattacks. Tanks increasingly carried machine guns, which were hastily converted.
  Within the USSR itself, some changes were being made. The workday was extended, and schoolchildren were required to do community service after school. Rations had not yet been introduced, although food shortages were likely to arise.
  The US was willing to sell weapons to China, but what if Mao was willing to pay? Giving them away for free or under Lend-Lease was not something the dictatorial and communist regime of the great helmsman wanted.
  Moreover, China is much worse than the USSR in terms of repression.
  That's why these bloody assaults were going on. And China even achieved some success.
  Oleg and Margarita, along with their team, took up a new line of defense. The situation was dire. The Chinese had managed to capture most of Mongolia and surrounded its capital. So the front had stretched out. And then tanks came into play to cut off the Maoists.
  And the child heroes repelled another attack on their positions. And they mowed down the advancing warriors of the Celestial Empire. And again, ultrasound and missiles were used. So much rained down on Mao's troops.
  Oleg fired at the Chinese hordes, launching missiles. Child heroes also launched charges from catapults. The assault continued, one after another. And it was a very aggressive attack.
  Margarita chirped:
  A smile will make everyone feel brighter,
  And to an elephant and even to a small snail...
  So let it be everywhere on Earth,
  Like light bulbs, smiles meet!
  The young warriors have indeed dispersed. They have no time to rest. They have to fight constantly. That's the kind of combat situation it is.
  You don't even have time to play chess.
  Even during the Great Patriotic War, there were lulls on the front lines. But here, every day, there are assaults, and in large numbers. It's all terribly exhausting.
  Oleg noted with a sad look:
  "Yeah, that's a good alternative-fighting communist China. It's hard to even believe we've become bosom buddies in the twenty-first century!"
  Margarita, launching the rockets, noted:
  There are many reasons. One is that both the Soviet leadership and Mao were very arrogant. Although attempts at rapprochement with China began even during the Soviet era. First under Andropov, then Chernenko. And then under Gorbachev. That's just the way it went.
  Boy Vova asked:
  - What are you talking about?
  Oleg exclaimed:
  - This is our big secret - believe me or not!
  And the kids started firing at the enemy again. And they launched an ultrasound, which is so effective at firing at infantry. It's truly a cool thing.
  And again the hordes of Chinese troops turned into complete mush.
  Part of the USSR, especially Primorye, was occupied by the Chinese. This led to the emergence of partisan detachments.
  Although it"s not so easy when you"re dealing with such a large army.
  During the very first partisan raid, the Chinese carried out punitive raids, burning and killing everyone in sight, sparing neither women nor children.
  They tortured the pioneer Leshka. Although he was only a child of about twelve, they made no allowance for his age.
  They poured ice water on the naked boy, then boiling water, and then ice water again. They scalded the poor boy until he was covered in blisters. Then they pierced him with a ramrod and roasted him alive over a large fire.
  They didn't stand on ceremony with the partisans here. They treated them worse than the Nazis. They said, "Just try to express the slightest dissatisfaction. You'll get what you deserve."
  Besides, why would the Chinese really need the local population? They'll take their own and settle them there. Although there's plenty of room for everyone in Siberia. So Mao doesn't spare them.
  The old dictator acts using fascist methods, considering them the most effective.
  Meanwhile, fierce fighting was raging at the front. Alma-Ata finally fell by mid-April. It wasn't particularly well-equipped for defense. And the Chinese weren't minding the cost. Thus, the first Soviet capital of a union republic was lost in this war. An unpleasant psychological and economic fact.
  And Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, found itself surrounded. But there were mountains there, and it could still hold out for a while.
  Natasha and her team operated the Dragon machine guns, effectively mowing down the Chinese hordes.
  The work with the machine guns was extensive, including mowing.
  Natasha noted with a smile:
  - We take the enemy by the horns!
  Zoya objected:
  - Let's even trim his beard!
  Victoria giggled and noted the machine gun fire:
  - Yes, our haircut is super!
  And the Chinese soldiers really did pile up in heaps, or rather, in heaps.
  And Svetlana even managed to fire a lethal charge from a mortar. What a hit.
  And the Chinese scattered in all directions, like splashes of water from a falling stone.
  Mao wasn't happy about the idea of fighting the USSR, even if China had successes, even at the operational level.
  The Celestial Empire's soldiers are trying to make something homemade. Specifically, they're making something like a Faust-type cartridge. Soviet tanks are a powerful force. And they're really annoying the Chinese.
  Here's Elena, for example, attacking in a T-64. Three girls are with her: Elizaveta, Ekaterina, and Evrosinya.
  The Soviet vehicle was very good for its time, with its active armor, fairly maneuverable, and a top-notch gun. Moreover, it's better to fire high-explosive shells rather than armor-piercing ones.
  The girls are firing from the tank. Four additional machine guns have been attached to it. And they work brilliantly.
  Elena took it and sang:
  The thunder rages, the storm of war rumbles,
  You have escaped from the pit of hell...
  Satan cast you down to earth,
  To take revenge, the knight must return!
  Elizabeth fired from the machine guns and chirped:
  - Glory to the USSR!
  Ekaterina confirmed:
  - Glory to the Soviet heroes!
  Euphrosyne noted:
  - It's a shame to kill the Chinese, it's not their fault that they are being driven to the slaughter!
  And all four girls exclaimed in chorus:
  - USSR - hurray!
  And their tank kept moving. And it rained machine guns down on the enemy. And piled up mountains of corpses. And so many died because of it. And other Soviet tanks were in action, too. At that time, the best tank in the world was the T-64, and they were performing brilliantly. But the Chinese were still fighting the old-fashioned way.
  Well, they might also try to throw grenades. And sometimes they succeed.
  Elena recalled the times of Peter the Great. That's when the Russian army introduced the bayonet-knife, which was attached to the gun barrel, and the first grenades.
  During Lenin's time and in the early 1930s, all tsars were unequivocally bad, and Peter the Great was no exception. But then, as Stalin's personality cult grew stronger, people began to say that not all tsars were bad. And Peter the Great was the first to emerge. Then, during the Great Patriotic War, heroes like Nakhimov, Suvorov, Ushakov, Kutuzov, and Ivan the Terrible emerged.
  Stalin's propaganda raised them. Although selectivity remained. For example, Peter Alexeevich was a good tsar, while his father, Alexei Mikhailovich, was not so much. But Alexei Mikhailovich annexed more than half of Ukraine, including Kyiv, the Smolensk region, and vast expanses of Siberia to Russia.
  Perhaps this was because under this tsar, the rebellion of Stenka Razin, who was considered an unambiguously positive hero in Soviet times, was suppressed. And so he was considered a reactionary. And Nicholas II considered Alexei Mikhailovich the best tsar. Indeed, in some ways, he was superior to his famous son.
  In particular, Peter the Great commanded tobacco smoking. His father, Alexei Mikhailovich, on the contrary, banned tobacco, especially in the army. And because of tobacco, several times more people died prematurely worldwide over the centuries than during World War II.
  However, it seems Mao wants to outdo Hitler. And his troops just keep coming.
  The tactics of brutal assaults. And not without success; sometimes breakthroughs are achieved. Moreover, the Soviet command under Brezhnev is still trying to preserve personnel and not withdraw troops to the death, as under Stalin. Although, even under Joseph Vissarionovich, troops sometimes retreated and broke out of encirclement. And despite the order "not a step back"-for example, during Meinstein's counterattack, Soviet troops were allowed to leave Kharkov and break out of encirclement. In other words, there are no rules without exceptions. And the Chinese are pushing on.
  Homemade airplanes have also appeared in the skies on the part of the Celestial Empire. And they fight with fury. Although primitive, they could cause some problems, especially if they can be produced in large quantities.
  This is also a problem that is looming.
  Mao demands success and victory. And the Chinese masses are once again mounting the assault. These are mostly men. Incidentally, more men are born in China than women. And they are advancing with colossal force.
  Anyuta and her team fight the avalanche. They also send gifts of annihilation at the enemy. The warriors are very brave, and act with both strength and cunning.
  For example, using a live wire. And how the Chinese soldiers scream from the deadly electricity. Yes, that really is very cruel.
  But let's say it's effective. And it really does work. Well, and the girls.
  Although it must be said, war is a cruel and dirty business. But it's also interesting. It's no wonder all computer games are connected to war in one way or another. Well, maybe except for quests.
  So Anyuta and Mirabella went and launched deadly fireballs at the Chinese troops.
  And how many fires have broken out because of this. And flesh burns like hell.
  And the girls are having fun.
  Anyuta noted:
  "In any other situation, I would sympathize. But now we're defending our homeland."
  Mirabella agreed with this:
  - Yes, exactly! And that's why we are ruthless!
  Maria added with a laugh:
  - And don't think that we're evil. That's just life!
  Olga noted with a sarcastic look, cutting down the Chinese with machine gun bursts:
  - Yes, it"s certainly a nightmare, but nothing can be done!
  The Komsomol girl Nadezhda agreed:
  - It looks weird! But we have no other choice!
  And the girls took and threw grenades at the enemy with their bare toes. And they tore the Chinese apart.
  And the battles raged on and on... And the waves rolled in. Against the Chinese stood the advanced technology of the USSR, which was still at the forefront of the world at the time.
  In particular, the Uragan system works quite well, covering large areas. And when used in large numbers, it can destroy large masses of infantry and hold back enemy advances.
  Among the combat vehicles, there's also the Soviet T-10. This is a heavy tank weighing fifty tons. And it also prefers high-explosive and fragmentation shells.
  Now that's a real shot, just what you need. And this tank, or rather tanks, works for the Chinese masses.
  And it works pretty well. Just like self-propelled guns of all types. And when they do fire, it's incredibly lethal.
  Oleg and Margarita and their team of children are fighting off the infantry's attempts to bury them in corpses. It's getting warmer, and the corpses are starting to rot and stink, giving off a foul odor. Which is extremely unpleasant.
  Oleg even sang:
  What a stench, what a stench,
  The score is in our favor: one hundred - zero!
  Margarita replied with a sigh:
  - The tragedy of war!
  And the children launched their deadly missiles again. To enhance their explosive effect, they added something to the sawdust. And now they hit much harder and killed many more.
  Pioneer boy Sasha noted:
  - What a mess!
  Pioneer girl Lara squeaked:
  - There's more to come! There's more to come! There's more to come oh, oh, oh!
  The pioneer boy Petka noted:
  - No problem, we'll still fight!
  And with his bare toes he tossed the packet of explosives on wings. Now that's a lethal effect.
  And the children sang in chorus with enthusiasm:
  They earned immortal glory in battles,
  They crushed their enemies like they were eating chocolate...
  The warriors achieved many accomplishments,
  Let there be luck - a happy layout!
  And again, it's as if the enemy is hit with ultrasound. And the masses of infantry suddenly disintegrate and freeze. This is truly a colossal superpower. And the children act with an ineradicable and admirable force.
  Oleg noted with a smile:
  - They often fight with numbers, but they win solely with skill!
  Margarita added, launching another missile at the Chinese:
  - War is such an applied science that you just want to apply it with obscenities no matter the outcome!
  CHAPTER No 4.
  April 22 marked Vladimir Ilyich Lenin's ninety-ninth birthday.
  The boy and girl, eternal children, fought and repelled the furious onslaught of the Chinese horde.
  Oleg snatched up a hyperblaster he had brought from the space worlds and fired it at the infantry soldiers of the Celestial Empire.
  Several hundred Chinese people were charred at once.
  The Terminator Boy roared:
  - The USSR cannot be bent!
  Margarita tossed a pea with her bare toes, causing one of the Celestial Empire's tanks to flip over and chirp:
  - For communism without stupid priestly tales!
  And she also pulled out a hyperblaster. And she started blasting the advancing Chinese with it. And she did it with great energy and force.
  The eternal children had a weapon capable of unleashing the energy of ten Hiroshima atomic bombs in a minute. They didn't even set it to maximum power, to avoid causing insurmountable environmental problems and burning anything unnecessary.
  But even so, the hyperblasters are hitting very hard. And they're literally burning out the Chinese crowds. A colossal amount of destruction is underway.
  And the bodies of Chinese soldiers crumble and burn, and metal weapons melt and even burn, evaporating.
  That's how a pair of devil children came to be. And with their bare toes, they throw lethally powerful peas containing tiny pieces of antimatter. And they tear apart the soldiers of the Celestial Empire.
  Another boy, Maksimka, and a girl, Svetka, are firing a machine gun. The children brace their bare feet, their calloused soles, against the turf and aim the lethal weapon. And while it's no match for a hyperblaster, it also knocks out Chinese infantry.
  Mao had few tanks even at the beginning of the war, and those he had were outdated. And most of what he had were destroyed in the first days of fighting. So now infantry and brutal assaults are literally pelted with corpses. These are truly battles of the highest intensity. And the loss ratio sometimes reaches 100 to 1 in favor of the USSR.
  Oleg and Margarita thinned out the yellow army considerably with their hyperbeams. But considering China's population, it's not fatal, let's say.
  And the children weren't going to solve all the USSR's problems for us either. Let others have their chance to achieve greatness, too.
  A new light anti-infantry tank was being tested. Two beautiful girls, Elena and Elizaveta, were lying down inside. They controlled the vehicle with a joystick and fired at the infantry with six machine guns and two aircraft cannons. This was a tank designed to destroy either manpower or lightly armored targets.
  Elena and Elizabeth were doing just that. And they were very successful at it.
  The girls were shooting and mowing down infantry. Of course, if they could, they probably would have compared it to computer games. Which is to say, it was incredibly cool.
  The warriors moved quickly in their vehicle. And the machine guns rotated on hinges. Now that was truly magnificent.
  And they sent bullets like a lead rain.
  Elena noted with a sigh:
  - You feel like a butcher!
  Elizabeth giggled and noted:
  - If only you could feel it, and that"s how it is!
  And the girl pressed the joystick button with her bare, round heel. And the machine guns crackled again. Bullets pierced the bodies of the Chinese soldiers, piercing their heads and the helmets of those who had them.
  Elena noted that their car's tracks were spraying blood.
  - How many people die because of other people's ambitions!
  Elizabeth agreed:
  - Yes, that's true! We're just defending our land, we don't need what's not ours!
  And with the toes of her bare foot, she pressed the buttons underneath. And again, the machine guns and aircraft cannons fired with all their might. That's how the girls got to work.
  The Chinese tried throwing grenades at them. But the armor vibrated, and although they roared, most of the death-dealing gifts flew past, while others bounced off. And the speed of the half-self-propelled gun, half-tank, kept increasing. Try hitting a target like that.
  Meanwhile, the girls elsewhere were launching Uragan missiles, which mercilessly battered the enemy. They were firing cluster munitions that hit infantry, which was quite effective.
  The girls are so fast, their bare, round heels flashing. And how they look in battle, moving and flexing their muscles in nothing but bikinis.
  These are real tornado girls.
  And the pioneers used the device Oleg had designed. Specifically, a mass of bottles, which they used to construct a resonance device. They turned it on, and a deadly ultrasound was released. And it hit the Chinese. And immediately, hundreds of them began to turn to mush. And the flesh of the Chinese soldiers began to corrode and char. And suddenly, something humiliating happened.
  The mass of Chinese soldiers were simply torn apart and burned. Or rather, the ultrasound destroyed the bonds between molecules, and the soldiers simply disintegrated.
  The boy Pavlik, who commanded this installation, so fair-haired, with a red tie, in shorts, with bare feet, roughened from the lack of shoes, sang:
  The Wehrmacht's back was broken in battle,
  Bonaparte froze all his ears...
  NATO was torn to pieces,
  And China is squeezed between the pines!
  The other boys and girls deployed the device, trying to cover as large an area as possible with the ultrasonic wave. The key here is to grind down the infantry.
  Elsewhere, children used thin copper wire and ran a high-voltage current through it. It lashed out at the Chinese hordes, causing them to spark and shudder. And the current here wasn't just any current, but a special kind that was more destructive to human flesh.
  So the Chinese were in a tough spot. They were literally being knocked down like pins by a ball. Only by the hundreds at once. And without any unnecessary accessories. Now that was a real showdown.
  The boy Seryozhka sang:
  My homeland, I love you,
  Ready to repel the onslaught of evil enemies...
  I can"t live a day without the USSR,
  The young man is ready to give his life for his dream!
  That's how children and beautiful girls fought. And the girls did everything they could. They fought bravely. Veronica and Victoria aimed a powerful five-barreled Lenin machine gun. And how they began firing at the Chinese infantry. Even shreds of torn flesh and coarse fabrics flew into the sky. It was truly deadly, like annihilation emanating from the sky.
  The destruction of infantry played a major role in this war.
  Veronica noted:
  - We've tackled China with great skill!
  Victoria noted:
  - Lenin is power!
  The machine gun actually worked. But how many of these Chinese are there? And they're pushing forward, truly pelting the positions with corpses. Technology is being used against such troops.
  Here the Chinese are rushing through a minefield. They're blowing themselves up. But others are following them. And they're also blowing themselves up. And they're dying in huge numbers. This is the murderous impact that has resulted. And it's simply devastating.
  The girl Oksana, also barefoot and with her breasts and hips barely covered by thin strips of fabric, chirped as she threw a grenade with deadly force and needles:
  - For the USSR!
  And the other girls yelled:
  - For the USSR! Glory to the heroes!
  Olympida, a very powerful and beautiful woman, threw a barrel filled with powerful explosives with her bare, muscular legs. It flew into the thick of the Chinese soldiers. And then it exploded with colossal force. An entire battalion of Chinese soldiers flew upward and in all directions.
  It was as if a man-eating whale had released a fountain of crushed flesh. And off it went.
  Alyonushka's also firing. She's using a flamethrower, and Larisa's with her. And they're setting the Chinese horde on fire. Burning them with hellish flames. And it's clear the Chinese soldiers are in a lot of pain. And she's firing them with great enthusiasm.
  Both girls were well tanned. Their bodies were almost naked, and very beautiful, with high breasts. Now that's warriors. And when you look at a girl like that, your mind immediately starts leaking. Now that's the fair sex. And what could be more beautiful and appealing than a naked girl? It's classy and extremely quasaric!
  And what seductive and graceful legs those Komsomol members have? They're incredibly charming.
  Fighting continues in the Far East with great intensity and aggression.
  Soviet girls fight with great fury, strength and heroism.
  Natasha threw a grenade at the Chinese with her bare foot and sang:
  - In vain...
  Zoya launched the death gift with her bare heel and added:
  - The enemy...
  Augustine added something devastating and squeaked:
  - He thinks...
  Svetlana tossed the grenade with her bare toes and squeaked:
  - What...
  Natasha threw a couple of lemons with her bare feet and yelped:
  - Russians...
  Zoya also added something energetic and deadly, squealing:
  - I managed....
  Augustine launched the deadly one, muttering:
  - Enemy....
  Svetlana gave another devastating sip and blurted out:
  - Break it!
  Natasha fired a burst and squeaked:
  - Who...
  Zoya also fired at the black foreigners that the Chinese had recruited and squeaked:
  - Brave!
  Augustine said with force and fury:
  - That...
  Svetlana gave in with a panther-like grin:
  - IN...
  Natasha threw a grenade with her bare foot and yelped:
  - I'm fighting...
  Zoya threw the gift of death with her bare fingers and muttered:
  - It's attacking!
  Augustine hit and muttered:
  - Enemies...
  Svetlana kicked the bunch of grenades with her bare feet and yelled at the top of her lungs:
  - We will...
  Natasha fired a burst and hissed:
  - Furiously...
  Zoya cut off the Chinese and squealed:
  - Hit!
  Augustine fired again and yelped:
  - Furiously...
  Svetlana chirped while firing:
  - Hit!
  Natasha threw a grenade again with her graceful, bare foot and chirped:
  - We will destroy the Chinese!
  Zoya took it and chirped:
  - The future path to communism!
  And she threw a lemon with her bare toes.
  Augustina took and scattered the lines, and her bare legs flew with destruction at the warriors of the Celestial Empire:
  - We will split our opponents!
  Svetlana took the bundle of grenades and tossed it with her bare heel and squealed:
  - Let's destroy Mao's horde!
  And the four continued shooting and throwing grenades. An American FE-75, sold to the Chinese, was moving. It had a 128-mm cannon. And it kept firing.
  And the girls threw grenades. They blew up the Chinese. And they fired back. They pushed forward. The tanks were advancing again. A brand-new German Leopard 1, also sold to the Chinese for gold from Germany, was moving. A very agile machine.
  But the girls took him on too and knocked him out. They tore apart the mobile, gas-turbine-powered vehicle. And blew it to pieces.
  Natasha noted with a laugh:
  - We fight great!
  Zoya agreed with this:
  - Very cool!
  Augustine wittily remarked:
  - We will have victory!
  And she launched an anti-tank grenade with her bare foot. What a strong girl. And so witty.
  Svetlana also launched a death gift with her bare toes and hit her opponent. A very aggressive girl, with eyes the color of cornflowers. She has such wit and a burst of strength!
  Natasha fired a burst and bared her teeth:
  - For Holy Rus'!
  Zoya was shooting very actively and grinning, showing her pearly teeth:
  - I am a warrior of that level that never fades!
  Augustina fired too. She mowed down the Chinese and gurgled:
  - I am a warrior with great ambitions!
  And she bared her pearly teeth!
  Svetlana confirmed:
  - Very big ambitions!
  Natasha threw a lemon with her bare foot and sang:
  - From the sky...
  Zoya also threw a grenade with her bare toes and said:
  - Star...
  Augustina launched the gift of death with her bare foot and sang:
  - Bright...
  Svetlana also threw a grenade, using her bare foot, and said:
  - Khrustalina!
  Natasha fired a burst and hissed:
  - I'll tell you...
  Zoya launched the gift of death with her bare fingers, hissing:
  - A song....
  Augustine kicked the thing that brings death with her bare heel and squealed:
  - I'll sing...
  Natasha continued, singing aggressively:
  - About...
  Zoya threw an explosive packet with her bare foot, scattering the fascists and squealed:
  - Dear...
  Augustina kicked a bunch of grenades with her bare heel and said:
  - Stalin!
  Natasha noted:
  - Stalin is dead, now Brezhnev is in power!
  The red-haired devil noted:
  - Stalin died, but his work lives on!
  Children demonstrate tremendous courage while fighting Mao's troops.
  And they show themselves to be brave.
  And the song sounds again;
  We are the pioneers, the children of communism,
  Fire, tent and copper forge...
  We will crush Naval Masizma with a joke,
  Which awaits a furious defeat!
  And the girl with the red tie throws an explosive packet with her bare toes, tearing the Chinese man apart.
  After which he will sing:
  - Glory to the era of communism!
  We will stop the onslaught of fascism!
  And the boy who burned his bare heel will also start to cry:
  - For the greatness of the planet of communism!
  Children are very courageous fighters. Even though sometimes they face such brutal torture.
  However, even small children fought against the Chinese. Boys and girls threw homemade explosive devices at Chinese tanks, self-propelled guns, and infantry.
  Some used small catapults and large slingshots, which proved quite effective.
  Children are generally such a cheerful people, prone to heroism. Although their bare feet are red from the cold, like goose feet. But their will is unwavering.
  The pioneers fought with great courage. They knew what being captured by the Chinese meant.
  A girl named Marinka, for example, fell into the clutches of the Chinese. Her bare feet were oiled and placed near a brazier. The flames almost licked her bare heels, calloused from long periods of walking barefoot. The torture continued for about fifteen minutes, until her soles were covered in blisters. Then, the girl's bare feet were untied. And again they asked questions. They beat her bare skin with rubber hoses.
  Then they would apply electric shock... Marinka was tortured until she lost consciousness ten times during the interrogation. Then they would let her rest. When her bare feet had healed a little, they would oil them again and bring the brazier back. This torture could be repeated many times. They would torture her with electric shocks and whip her with rubber hoses.
  They tortured Marinka for a very long time. Until she went blind and gray from the torture. After which they buried her alive. They didn't even waste a bullet.
  Pioneer Vasya was whipped on the naked body by Mao's soldiers with hot wire.
  Then they seared her bare heels with red-hot strips of iron. The boy couldn't stand it; he screamed, but he still didn't give up his comrades.
  The Chinese dissolved him alive in hydrochloric acid. And that's excruciatingly painful.
  Mao's soldiers were such monsters... They tortured a Komsomol member with an iron. Then they hung her on the rack, lifted her up, and threw her down. Then they burned her with a red-hot crowbar. They tore out her breasts with pincers. Then they literally tore off her nose with red-hot pliers.
  The girl was tortured to death... All her fingers and a leg were broken. Another Komsomol member, Anna, was impaled. And as she lay dying, they burned her with torches.
  In short, the Chinese tortured us as much as they could and as much as they wanted. They tortured and tormented everyone.
  Natasha and her team were still fighting while surrounded. The girls used their graceful bare feet to fight and threw grenades. They fought off the superior Chinese forces. They held their ground very courageously and showed no signs of retreating.
  Anastasia Vedmakova and Akulina Orlova are trying to hold back the Chinese from the skies. The Americans sold them a lot of planes, and it's become very difficult for the USSR. The girls are wearing bikinis and barefoot. And both are very beautiful and quite feisty.
  Anastasia fights and maneuvers. Her fighter performs a loop-the-loop and hits the American Trump-Wolf aircraft. And she does it on her bare toes.
  The girl doesn't forget to cry:
  - I am a super class fighter!
  Akulina also shoots at the enemy. And she does it accurately. And she also uses her bare toes.
  And roars at the top of his lungs:
  - Glory to communism!
  Vladivostok is already on the brink of collapse, and it is becoming more and more dramatic.
  And the Germans are brutal and resort to torture. They especially love to torture Chinese pioneer girls.
  So Baojei and Jiao undressed a boy of about thirteen. They began tickling the young pioneer. Seryozhka laughed and purred. Then Baojei brought a lighter to the boy's bare, round heel. The flame licked the young pioneer's slightly roughened sole. He cried out in pain. Blisters appeared.
  The Chinese girls giggled:
  - It will be great!
  And they began to whip the boy. He moaned and began to scream. This became especially true when the girls began to hold torches of fire to his bare feet. Then the pioneers applied a hot iron to his bare chest, and the boy lost consciousness.
  Yes, Chinese warrior women are at their best. Torturing a boy is a regular occurrence for them.
  The torture wasn't limited to boys, but also to Komsomol members. The girls were stripped and led to the rack. There, they were hoisted, forced to arch, and literally writhe in pain, the beauties. A brazier was lit under the girls' bare feet, threatening to char their soles.
  How the Komsomol girls screamed in savage pain... How cruel it all was. And the Chinese inhaled the smell of scorched flesh and laughed, slapping each other's thighs and yelling:
  - Glory to the great Mao! We'll wipe them all out!
  And again, torture and torment. The torment of the Pioneers is especially interesting. The boys are beaten to death, and then salt is sprinkled on their wounds and forced to groan. Yes, it's extremely unpleasant.
  And when they also use a hot wire, it becomes much more painful.
  And children are fighting, too. And young pioneers are going into battle, meeting the enemy with Molotov cocktails and gunshots.
  The boys and girls are emaciated and scratched, as always in battle. And they fight bravely and with utter desperation.
  How many of their children die and are left torn apart.
  One thing unites them: faith in the triumph of communism and bare feet. Of course, not everyone has shoes during the war, so as a sign of solidarity, all the children show off their bare, round heels. Spring in Siberia is quite mild, and when you're moving and shoveling, the cold isn't so bad.
  The children work with enthusiasm and sing:
  Rise up like bonfires, blue nights,
  We are pioneers - children of workers...
  The era of bright years is approaching,
  The cry of the pioneers - always be ready!
  The cry of the pioneers - always be ready!
  And then the alarm sounds again. Boys and girls jump to the bottom of the trench. And shells are already exploding above: enemy artillery is firing.
  Pashka asked Masha:
  - Well, do you think we can resist?
  The girl answered confidently:
  - Let us stand firm at least once, in the most difficult hour!
  Pioneer Sashka logically noted:
  - Our heroism is unshakable.
  The boy tapped his bare sole on the stones. Apparently, he had developed some serious calluses.
  The girl Tamara noticed:
  - We will fight without fear,
  We will fight without a single step back...
  Let the shirt be thickly soaked with blood -
  Turn more enemies into hell for the knight!
  Ruslan, a young pioneer with black hair, noted:
  - Centuries will pass, an era will come,
  In which there will be no suffering and lies...
  Fight for this until your last breath -
  Serve your Motherland with all your heart!
  The boy Oleg, thin and fair-haired, chirped out a poem:
  No, the keen eye will not fade,
  A falcon's, an eagle's gaze...
  The people's voice is ringing -
  The whisper will crush the snake!
  
  Stalin lives in my heart,
  So that we do not know sorrow,
  The door to space was opened,
  The stars were sparkling above us!
  
  I believe the whole world will wake up,
  There will be an end to fascism...
  There will be an end to Maoism,
  And the sun will shine,
  Lighting the way for communism!
  The boys and girls applauded heartily. Here were young fighters fighting in a world that really is Hell, but an interesting Hell. It was both cool and scary.
  Oleg and Margarita used another weapon against Mao's soldiers: half-spatial reflectors.
  And thousands of Chinese soldiers were simply crushed and crushed. Tanks and American aircraft purchased by China were also destroyed.
  There was a fierce and persistent battle for happiness and prosperity, and perhaps even survival.
  Pashka and Sashka raised the slingshot and launched the gift of death. And the barrel struck a Nazi stormtrooper.
  The girl Natasha sang:
  - Komsomol is not just an age,
  Komsomol is my destiny!
  I believe we will conquer space,
  Let's live forever!
  Ahmed, a young pioneer from Azerbaijan, answered with a smile:
  - You're not a Komsomol member yet, Natasha!
  The girl stamped her bare foot angrily and answered in a singsong voice:
  Next to the fathers, with a cheerful song,
  We stand for the Komsomol...
  The era of bright years is approaching,
  The cry of the pioneers is: always be prepared!
  The cry of the pioneers is: always be prepared!
  Oleg also stamped his bare, childish foot and roared:
  Squeeze the hammer harder, proletarian,
  Crushing the yoke with a hand made of titanium...
  We will sing a thousand arias to our Motherland,
  Let's bring light to our descendants, goodness!
  The children are ready for a fight, waving their bare feet. Here they are, on a wire, pushing packages of homemade explosives under the treads of the Chinese tanks. The explosives detonate and destroy the rollers of Mao's army tanks.
  And it looks menacing.
  Sashka squeaks:
  - Glory to communism!
  The boy Pashka shoots a slingshot together with Oleg and squeals:
  - Glory to the pioneers!
  A boy, Ruslan, and a girl, Sufi, drag a mine under a German with wire and shout:
  - Glory to the USSR!
  Children from Azerbaijan and Russian boys are fighting. Tanned, skinny, barefoot pioneers, against a colossal armada of tanks.
  The girl Tamara stamps her graceful, small, bare foot and says:
  - Glory to Russia, glory!
  Pioneer Akhmet confirms, firing at the enemy:
  - We are a happy family together!
  Ramzan, a red-haired Azerbaijani boy, confirms, stopping the car:
  - With a word we are a hundred thousand I! Glory to the USSR and the leader of the glorious country, Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev!
  CHAPTER No 5.
  The war with China continues. Mao's troops, in particular, are attempting to encircle Alma-Ata. They are numerous. But they are being confronted by child units.
  Here, in particular, is Timur and his team. Young warriors fire machine guns at the advancing Chinese infantry. These are brutal assaults. The children have to shoot as often as possible. Machine guns are also in action. This is truly a massacre. And when the Chinese hordes get closer, they actually get blown up by the minefields. This is the kind of incredible combat that goes on.
  The mines used are light, anti-personnel ones. And hundreds of Chinese die from them. But they continue to crawl and crawl. And once again, the pioneers mow them down with great fury and accuracy. This is truly deadly.
  The boys' machine guns fire automatically. And everyone mows down the advancing columns. They do so with great enthusiasm.
  Timur, a boy who looks about thirteen years old, throws a grenade with his bare foot, tears apart the Chinese and shouts:
  - Glory to the USSR!
  The boy Seryozhka confirms:
  - Glory to the pioneer heroes!
  The girl Katya, shooting, and quite accurately, confirms:
  - Jesus and Lada are for us!
  The girl Anka adds, throwing a bag at the Chinese with her bare foot:
  - Brezhnev - that's what we've become today!
  That's how the children's team works. And the machine guns rattle. And the ranks of Chinese troops fall one after another.
  At the same time, mortars are pounding the Celestial Empire's troops. And they're doing it with precision. They're knocking out the enemy. Cluster munitions are also in use. They're quite effective against the Chinese. So the killing has become bloody.
  Oleg Rybachenko and Margarita Korshunova began attacking the Celestial Empire's troops from above in an aircraft. They flew a small disc craft, which, thanks to its laminar flow, was virtually impenetrable to small arms fire.
  And the children dropped tiny needles with a potent poison from it. They came in a cloud and knocked out masses of Chinese infantry. To waste human potential like that? Only the Celestial Empire is capable of that.
  And an unimaginable massacre ensues. And the Chinese keep rushing into the fight.
  Oleg noted, pressing the joystick buttons with his bare, childish foot and sending out a cloud of ultra-thin, poisonous needles:
  - We can really say that we have become cooler than everyone else!
  Margarita, too, pressing the buttons with the toes of her bare, childish feet, noted:
  - It's too early to rest on our laurels!
  Children were indeed carrying out the cleanup. So many Chinese were dying. Mao decided to ignore the losses: the women would give birth to more. And he sent in large numbers of infantry. But he had little equipment. Except, of course, what the US was selling him. And here, of course, the odds were not in China's favor.
  Natasha's fighting too. She's firing a Dragon machine gun at the Chinese. And the yellow, slanted-eyed soldiers fall like stacked firewood.
  The girl, with her bare toes, hurls a powerful explosive packet of coal dust. And suddenly it explodes. Chinese fighters fly off in all directions.
  Zoya is also a very accurate shooter, and every shot takes someone down. She's a very beautiful girl-a honey-colored blonde. And she aims her bullets with great precision, landing with incredible accuracy.
  The girl took it and sang:
  And the battle continues again,
  A fire is boiling from China...
  And Brezhnev is so young,
  Deals the killing blow!
  And with her bare, round, pink heel, the girl tossed a pea of annihilation. And it flew past, and how accurately it struck. It scattered the slanted-eyed soldiers in all directions. And the Chinese lost arms and legs. That's what the Maoists got.
  Augustina also scribbled at the Maoists, made accurate shots and whistled:
  The anthem of the Motherland is on my heart,
  We will crush the Chinese very dashingly...
  Comrade Stalin, believe me, my family,
  And the girl crushes everyone like an elephant!
  And she also threw the devastating gift of annihilation with her bare sole. And the Chinese were torn to shreds.
  Svetlana also fired mercilessly, crushing everyone. She also shot the Chinese with a clever device.
  The warrior exclaimed, swiveling her luxurious hips:
  - Glory to communism and the USSR!
  And a barefoot, beautiful, very seductive foot took and threw a pea with deadly force.
  These girls are just super.
  Anastasia Vedmakova attacks ground targets from her attack aircraft. She also attacks the Chinese with missiles, including cluster munitions, to further destroy infantry.
  The warrior sings:
  Russia vs. Mao,
  This is our situation...
  We must fight bravely,
  And there will be results!
  And the eternal witch girl launched another missile. What a fight that was.
  The Chinese attacked in large numbers. They also made tanks out of wood and ceramics-or rather, clay models. Some of them were propelled by bicycles. And they could inspire fear.
  The infantry advanced like an avalanche. And they were killed in large numbers.
  Akulina Orlova also hammered away at ground targets-China's air force is weak. But its strength lies in its population and human flesh. There's so much of it that casualties are irrelevant. In some computer games, including "Cossacks," infantry can be churned out so quickly and thrown into positions that literally tens of thousands of them die. Those are the kinds of games people play. But the soldiers are alive. And it's somehow unpleasant to kill Chinese people who, until recently, were fellow communists. But Mao's ambitions led to a major war. There's a certain specificity here. Hitler started World War II at age fifty and, for some reason, was in a great hurry. However, if you think about it, he had his reasons for being in such a hurry.
  After all, it wasn't just Nazi Germany that was growing stronger; its enemies were also increasing their potential. And it wasn't just the USSR, which dreamed of blessing the world with the creation of a unified communist empire, but also France, which was building new tanks and ships, as were Britain and Poland. Nothing comes easy. And Suvorov-Rezun, when he wrote his Icebreaker tetralogy, rightly observed: yes, the Soviet army was rearming, but in the modern world, armies are always rearming. And if the Soviet army was rearming, then so was the German one. Although Suvorov-Rezun lied about some things, or perhaps he was uninformed. Heavy tanks for Nazi Germany were also being developed in the USSR before the war. Some even weighed up to sixty-five tons. A prototype of the Tiger was also created, with an 88-millimeter cannon, albeit with thinner armor than the actual fifty-millimeter one that went into production.
  In any case, if the USSR had delayed in 1941 and decided to prepare better, it would have added more modern tanks and aircraft, but the Third Reich would also have grown stronger. Furthermore, the Nazis could have captured Egypt and Gibraltar, gained control of the resources of Africa and the Middle East, and formed new divisions from the Arabs. A landing in Britain was also entirely possible, and then its resources would have fed the Third Reich.
  But now the USSR is at war with a country with a huge population. And try to cope with that. But the defense is generally holding, although the Chinese continue to break through here and there. Unlike in World War II, it's more practical to equip tanks with machine guns rather than cannons. And if shells are used, they should be high-explosive fragmentation shells. And grenades, preferably with a wide spread and high density of damage.
  The battle with enemy infantry is underway. Machine guns are firing...
  Akulina Orlova dropped a ball bomb. It covers a wide area of infantry. It's an effective weapon, so to speak. The fighting is escalating. The Chinese don't spare the lives of their people. Moreover, troops need to be redeployed from the European part of the USSR. And that stretches communications. And the Chinese infantry has superior numbers, although they're not very well armed. Many even have flintlock rifles or homemade shotguns. And some Chinese units are armed with spears and scythes-they didn't have enough firearms. But then there are so many of them.
  Akulina Orlova noted:
  - This is just some kind of hellish meat pie! Everyone is coming and coming!
  Anastasia Vedmakova nodded:
  - Yes, that's right! Such is the enemy's diabolical plan! But what can you do! As Alexander Suvorov said, Russia is not ready for any war.
  Margarita Magnitnaya, another gorgeous, very beautiful pilot in a swimsuit and barefoot, noted:
  - I feel very sorry for the Chinese - they are fighting for a cause that is completely unnecessary for them!
  Akulina objected:
  - Not exactly. China's population is large and growing rapidly, but good land isn't all that plentiful. There are mountains and deserts. Of course, Mao wants both the living space and resources of Siberia and the glory of a great conqueror!
  Anastasia giggled and noted:
  "Yes, at the age of seventy-five, it's time to start a major war and wage conquests. To try to surpass Genghis Khan, at an age when Genghis Khan is already dead!"
  Margarita dropped another bomb, this time with needles, and noted:
  "And Stalin didn't live to be Mao's age. What an injustice. And now this old man has unleashed a war quite comparable to World War II."
  Akulina Orlova noted:
  - And for now, in a non-nuclear version! However, as we know, the USSR committed itself to never being the first to use nuclear weapons!
  Anastasia, having launched a missile with a cluster munition, noted:
  "Using nuclear weapons against China would be like outdoing Hitler. And they have their own warheads! They could even respond!"
  The girls left behind numerous Chinese corpses. But that doesn't mean the Soviet army suffered no losses. There were casualties, too, especially when it came to close combat. Or in hand-to-hand combat. Many Chinese were proficient in kung fu, and this created problems. To avoid heavy losses and encirclement, Brezhnev's army retreated in an orderly fashion.
  Mao kept driving his soldiers into bloody assaults. And he tried to stretch the front line as much as possible. Chinese troops attacked Alma-Ata in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, and pressed hard in Mongolia, having already captured most of it. While they were advancing, it was noticeable. They had such a huge advantage in manpower.
  The Soviet Red Army attempted to counter this with technological superiority. Brezhnev's air force, in particular, enjoyed overwhelming superiority. New types of bombs with wide-area coverage were needed to maximize the infantry's penetration.
  And missiles with the latest cluster munitions. And Veronica and Victoria's girls were pounding the Chinese using the Uragan rocket system. And they were hitting them pretty hard. And the Celestial Empire's troops were getting a real beating.
  Veronica, slapping her bare feet, noted:
  Our stars are towards communism,
  Open the way,
  We serve the Fatherland faithfully,
  Don't turn away!
  Victoria noted:
  - That's how it will hit the enemy!
  And again from the "Hurricane", the newest rocket launcher, they hit!
  And the Chinese soldiers lit up like decorations on a Christmas tree.
  Elena and her crew are fighting in a T-11 tank. The girls in the vehicle are wearing nothing but bikinis, pressing the controls with their bare feet.
  And they fire very powerfully and deadly fire, literally wiping out the enemy. And a lot of Celestial Empire soldiers are killed.
  Elizabeth fired a high-explosive fragmentation shell. Severed Chinese arms and legs flew everywhere.
  The warrior sang:
  I am the strongest in the world,
  Let's soak the Chinese in the toilet...
  The Fatherland does not believe in tears,
  And we'll give Mao a good whack on the brain!
  And she pressed the buttons with her bare toes. And a projectile with a fragmentation charge flew out with great force. And then the girls fired their machine guns.
  Ekaterina chirped:
  And I plant aluminum cucumbers,
  On the tarpaulin field!
  And she presses the lever with her scarlet nipple. That's the kind of girl she is.
  And Euphrosyne will also take and send forth a blast of deadly force. And she will pound the Chinese so hard that they will go straight to the other world. And the bodies will disintegrate, but the souls will rise upward.
  This is how the T-11 tank operates. It's armed with a powerful 130mm cannon. However, given the specifics of war, a modification is being developed featuring a rocket launcher with a fragmentation shell, to better target infantry.
  And the girls will take advantage of this. The Brezhnev-era USSR, as they say, is straining every ounce of its strength and trying to crush the horde.
  The US is quite pleased that two communist-ruled countries are locked in a conflict. Specifically, they're supplying China with M-60 tanks and obsolete Petton tanks on credit, so they have something to fight the USSR with.
  And of course, there are aircraft, but they're also outdated. That's why anti-tank weapons are sometimes needed. But the USSR developed vehicles armed with up to ten machine guns. And they shoot so accurately and mow down infantry.
  Elizabeth fires machine guns and mows down a ton of Chinese, all the while singing:
  Mao is strong,
  You'll get nothing...
  You're silent...
  After all, I'm a bat!
  After which the girl just bursts out laughing. These women are so cool.
  A Soviet tank is moving, crushing the Chinese with its tracks. It has a state-of-the-art gas turbine engine producing 1,500 horsepower, and the sixty-three-ton machine literally flies. And it crushes all the warriors of the Celestial Empire so much that it's beyond words or description.
  A crew of East German girls is also working against the Chinese. The Leopard tank is in action, crushing Mao's army. Its 120mm cannon is firing high-explosive shells. And the girls are thrilled.
  Gerda presses the buttons with her bare toes and squeaks:
  My homeland is proud and sweet,
  My homeland - we will burn everyone to the ground!
  This is what a magnificent girl she was, white with a slight blue tint.
  Charlotte, on the other hand, is a fiery redhead. And she's also sending shells at the Chinese. Warriors, it goes without saying, are canvases for battle. And she can show off something that's astonishing.
  This is how she hits Mao's soldiers. And crushes them without any ceremony.
  At the same time, the girl sings:
  Glory to communism, glory,
  Tanks rush forward...
  Divisions in red shirts,
  Greetings to the Russian people!
  Christina mows down the Chinese with a machine gun. And she knocks them out with absolute force. She's such a delightful girl. And her hair is so golden and radiant that it's beyond words, beyond description, and a mixture of red and yellow.
  He hits the Chinese with great energy and sings:
  Brezhnev is a military glory,
  Brezhnev, the flight of our youth...
  Fighting and winning with song,
  Our people follow Brezhnev!
  Fighting and winning with song,
  Our people follow Brezhnev!
  Magda is a gorgeous girl-a honey-blond woman, piloting a Leopard and crushing a Chinese soldier with its treads. She's simply gorgeous. You could even say she's a super beauty. And she's giving the Chinese a hard time.
  Here she is, a girl from high society.
  And of course, why shouldn't she sing:
  Solar circle,
  The sky around...
  This is a girl's drawing!
  Hitler kaput,
  He's not cool,
  And the woman's voice is ringing!
  And so, four German warriors just went and showed everything. And started crushing the Chinese with increased enthusiasm. Not just girls - they were real Terminators.
  Alice and Angelica are firing sniper rifles at the Chinese. They've even upgraded their weapons to faster-firing ones. They need to kill enemies in large numbers. And so they fired at the warriors of the Celestial Empire.
  And of course they didn"t forget to sing:
  Let there always be sunshine,
  Let there always be heaven...
  Let there always be mom,
  Let there always be me!
  And so the beauties went wild, simply superb. And their shots are so accurate and fast. There's no time to even count the dead; they kill several hundred Chinese a day. And they keep pressing forward like a toad on a writhing stool.
  Alice threw the explosive pea with her bare toes and chirped:
  And the girl has panties,
  She eats sheets of bronze!
  Angelica laughed and replied:
  I need to find a man,
  To kick some ass in a joke...
  I would ride him,
  I would really turn up the heat!
  And both girls - the blonde and the redhead - hit each other with their bare soles, so much so that sparks flew.
  Angelica threw a fragmentation grenade with her bare, muscular foot, a powerful and deadly weapon. And scattered it like a swarm of Chinese. Now that's a true red-haired warrior. And how wonderful she feels.
  Both girls are firing like crazy, and with their bare, graceful feet they throw gifts of annihilation.
  Well, war is war...
  Here are two eleven-year-old boys with red ties, Petka and Seryozhka, dropping fragmentation grenades on the Chinese using a flying kite.
  And they destroy the warriors of the Celestial Empire.
  Petka sang:
  And in the mountain silence, and in the starry heights,
  In the sea wave and furious fire!
  And in a furious, furious fire!
  And Seryozhka enthusiastically picked up:
  - There will be no place for Mao on Earth!
  And both boys stamped their bare feet and shouted:
  - For the Motherland! For Brezhnev!
  And the children fight very bravely. Their bare feet slap the grass.
  And they show ingenuity. For example, Lara uses a slingshot. And that's how she knocks out those Maoists.
  Although China is ostensibly ruled by communists, the plight of the working class is dire. And there are no rights-it's a totalitarian dictatorship.
  And so the Chinese captured the boy Vaska. And interrogated him. They clamped the child's bare feet in stocks and began beating his bare, round heels with bamboo sticks.
  Vaska screamed, it hurt, and the soles of his feet swelled and turned blue. Then the Chinese executioners brought a torch to them. The flame licked rapaciously at the child's heel, which had been beaten with sticks.
  This is the fate that awaited the young Leninists who were captured.
  And the Soviet girls kept fighting. Nicoletta, for instance, also fired a burst from her rapid-fire machine gun. And then, with her bare, chiseled foot, she hurled a grenade.
  After which she took and sang:
  Garlands sparkle in the pitch-black ether,
  Svarog stretched his sharp sword above us...
  Our Fatherland, Holy Russia, is behind us,
  The Almighty has rewound the clock for war!
  That's how the girl fought. She's a real fighter. And she demonstrates her exceptional skill.
  Nicoletta giggled and again tossed the pea of annihilation with her bare toes. And again, the Chinese scattered in all directions, like splashes of water.
  Tamara also launched something from a mortar at the Chinese. And it really had a devastating effect. The thunder was devastating. And the girl stamped her bare, chiseled feet and chirped:
  Our strength is great
  They cropped the rooster!
  Tamara is a magnificent warrior. And Alexandra, who's also incredibly tough, demonstrates her devastating and unique influence on the Celestial Empire's army. This girl puts on an outstanding performance.
  And the girl is a natural blonde. And very beautiful. She has so much charm and charisma.
  The girl Alla also fights desperately. She hits the Chinese and the special mechanical catapult. And she knocks them out in huge numbers. She's a girl-let's say she's the coolest. And she's an extremely accurate shot.
  The girl, of course, is wearing just a bikini-so gorgeous. And her legs are bare and graceful.
  What a beauty. These girls are the terror of all the armies in the world. Not girls, but superwomen. And with their bare toes they throw boomerangs that cut off the heads of Chinese soldiers.
  This is how the massacre takes place.
  Viola also attacks the Chinese with a powerful flamethrower. And burns them alive. Now that's real, and let's just say it's quite painful.
  Another girl, Oksana, also wields a powerful weapon and fires at Chinese soldiers. Her bare, chiseled feet brace themselves. The warrior is distinguished by her beauty and light-blond hair.
  And as soon as he throws a grenade, shrapnel flies in all directions, hitting the Chinese in large numbers.
  The girl sang with enthusiasm:
  You see the columns built from books,
  The heroes came out and became heroes,
  Only in struggle can one find happiness,
  And Brezhnev is ahead in the battle!
  And Brezhnev is ahead in the battle!
  Alina also fights with great enthusiasm. She fires a well-aimed burst, then launches a sharp disc with her bare toes. And cuts off the heads of Chinese soldiers. Afterwards, she sings:
  Minimum losses,
  Let's open the door to happiness...
  We will defeat China,
  Let's build a paradise!
  Maria also fights with great enthusiasm. And with her bare toes she throws daggers. And they stab the Maoists.
  The warrior shouts:
  - Glory to the era of communism!
  And how he will give a burst of fire to the enemies.
  Anyuta also beats the Chinese with great force and enthusiasm! She's a girl of great beauty and strength.
  And just as it diverges, it never comes together. Something extremely deadly is happening.
  And the warrior sings:
  May the USSR be in eternal glory,
  Great, boundless land...
  To my space power,
  The peoples of the world are a friendly family!
  And then he takes it and throws a grenade with his bare toes, with deadly force.
  Mirabella also fights. And she demonstrates how to fire with bubbles. They're fiery, and extremely flaming. What a turn and scope.
  The girl even sings:
  I'm in a D'Artagnan bikini,
  I'll strike such a blow...
  That you will run away at once,
  And you'll really hang yourself!
  The girl really is amazing. And she moves with the speed of a cobra.
  Masha also hits the Chinese and sings:
  - Moon, moon, flowers, flowers, in the name of the light of communism - hopes and dreams! And dreams!
  And Olympiada, with her bare, strong feet, throws a heavy barrel of explosives. And it explodes.
  And the mass of enemy soldiers is thrown high into the air.
  CHAPTER No 6.
  It's May 1, 1969. The Chinese infantry's onslaught continues unabated. Soviet troops are sometimes forced to retreat to avoid encirclement. War has become a unique phenomenon. The troops desperately need anti-personnel mines. And what else isn't being used? Including buckshot. And maybe machine guns with poison needles.
  And they pound the Chinese with great force. And they knock them out with colossal force. And a mass of corpses of narrow-eyed soldiers.
  Soviet tanks are working-there are a lot of them. They're armed with machine guns that fire at the soldiers of the Celestial Empire. And they're mowing down masses of soldiers. And there are mountains of Chinese corpses. And then there are tanks with flamethrowers, also incinerating the enemy. That's how Mao's troops are being killed.
  A car appeared that had a huge saw instead of a trunk. And it drives along, sawing and cutting down everyone in sight. More precisely, the Chinese infantry. And that's also an interesting idea. They called it a fencing tank, and it took its place alongside the flamethrower. Such a formidable weapon. Against which Mao's ragged troops couldn't stand.
  The main thing is that the USSR has a wide variety of vehicles. Tanks are overwhelmingly dominant. They are removed from storage and transported to Siberia. And, of course, there are also armored personnel carriers and infantry fighting vehicles. And they are equipped with additional machine guns.
  Oleg and Margarita, those eternal children, were smashing the Chinese with special homemade devices. They were spitting lethal needles from what looked like miniature Katyusha rockets.
  And each needle contains a strong poison and flies with acceleration, piercing several Chinese soldiers at a time.
  And so they pounded, these eternal children from their death-defying devices. The Chinese tried to respond, firing shotguns and the rare American assault rifles.
  And sometimes Kalashnikovs were also encountered. And they were fired from them too.
  But the child geniuses got into the self-propelled gun and controlled the installation using joysticks.
  This was the coolest impact on the young supermen. They hit him with such energy.
  Oleg noted:
  "What a powerful weapon we've come up with. And it would be great to use it in computer games!"
  Margarita nodded in agreement:
  - For a computer game, that's great! But here we're killing real, living people!
  The boy pressed the buttons with his bare toes and sang:
  We will go into battle boldly,
  For a new incentive...
  We will defeat the Chinese,
  Let Mao perish!
  And the child warriors burst out laughing. Oleg suddenly felt ashamed and disgusted at killing so many living people. It was truly cruel. And the dead Chinese probably had children who would mourn their father. How could anyone behave like that?
  But the USSR had to be saved. Mao decided that China had even more men than women, and that eliminating them would improve things. He could even introduce polygamy. And so it went.
  Oleg and Margarita are crushing the Chinese in their self-propelled guns, so that it will be more fun and their conscience won't torment them so much over the mass murder of people, they sing:
  I am a pioneer and this word says it all,
  It burns in my young heart...
  In the USSR, everything is sweet, believe me,
  We even open a door to space!
  
  I gave an oath to Ilyich then,
  When I stood under the banner of the Soviets...
  Comrade Stalin is simply ideal,
  Know the heroic deeds sung!
  
  We will never be silent, you know,
  We will speak the truth even on the rack...
  The USSR is a great star,
  Believe me, we will prove it to the whole planet!
  
  Here in the young heart the cradle sings,
  And the boy sings the anthem of freedom...
  The victories opened an endless account,
  People, you know it doesn't get any cooler!
  
  We defended young Moscow,
  In the cold, the boys are barefoot and in shorts...
  I don"t understand where so much strength comes from,
  And we send Adolf to hell at once!
  
  Yes, you can't defeat the pioneers,
  They were born in the heart of the flame...
  My team is a friendly family,
  We raise the banner of communism!
  
  Because you are a boy, that's why you are a hero,
  Fighting for the freedom of the entire planet...
  And the bald Fuhrer with a bang,
  As our grandfathers bequeathed in military glory!
  
  Don't expect mercy from us, Hitler,
  We are pioneers, children of giants...
  The sun is shining and it is raining,
  And we are forever united with the Motherland!
  
  Christ and Stalin, Lenin and Svarog,
  United in the heart of a young child...
  The pioneers will fulfill their glorious duty,
  A boy and a girl will fight!
  
  This guy is out of luck now,
  He was captured by the fanatical fascists...
  And the oar broke in this storm,
  But be a steadfast pioneer, boy!
  
  First they beat me with a whip until I bled,
  Then they fried the boy's heels...
  The Fritzes seem to have zero conscience,
  Madam put on red gloves!
  
  The boy's soles were burned by the red fire,
  Then they broke the boy's fingers...
  How the fascists stink,
  And in the thoughts of communism the sun has been given!
  
  They brought a flame to the child's chest,
  The skin is burnt and reddened...
  The dogs burned half of the pioneer's body,
  Not knowing the boundless suffering!
  
  Then the evil Fritzes turned on the current,
  Electrons flew through the veins...
  Capable of putting us to waste,
  May you, children, not fall into hibernation!
  
  But the pioneer boy did not break down,
  Although he was tortured like a titan...
  The young boy sang songs bravely,
  To crush the fascist tyrant!
  
  And so he kept Lenin in his heart,
  The child's mouth has spoken the truth...
  Above the pioneer there is a glorious cherub,
  The boys of the world became heroes!
  Margarita noted with a smile:
  - Good song, but now our enemy is Mao, not Hitler!
  Oleg noted:
  - Mao is the same Hitler in this universe, only older!
  Andreyka, a young pioneer boy, also threw a grenade of deadly force with his bare toes and tore the Chinese to pieces.
  And he continued to fire at them, quite deadly and destructively. Just like the other children. Both the boys and girls of the young Leninist battalion showed what they were capable of and what brave fighters they were.
  And the entire field was thickly strewn with Chinese corpses. But more and more of Mao's troops continued to press.
  The pioneer girl Masha started singing:
  I was born in a fairly wealthy house,
  Although the family is not noble, it is not at all poor...
  We were in this well-fed, bright lot,
  Even though we didn't have thousands in our savings book...
  
  I was a girl growing up a little,
  Trying on outfits in delicate colors...
  So I became a servant in this house,
  Without knowing any evil troubles!
  
  But then trouble happened, I was guilty,
  They drive me barefoot out the door...
  Such an outrage happened,
  Oh help me Almighty God!
  
  Bare feet walk on the pebbles,
  The gravel of the pavement knocks down the feet...
  They give me crumbs of bread as alms,
  And they'll just rot you with a poker!
  
  And if it rains, it hurts,
  It's even worse when it snows...
  It seemed like we had enough grief now,
  When will we celebrate success!
  
  But I came across a boy,
  He is also barefoot and very thin...
  But he jumps like a playful bunny,
  And this guy is probably cool!
  
  We actually became friends in childhood,
  They shook hands and became as one...
  Now we've clocked up the miles together,
  Above us is a golden-headed cherub!
  
  Sometimes we ask for alms together,
  Well, sometimes we steal in gardens...
  Fate sends us a test,
  Which cannot be expressed in poetry!
  
  But we overcome troubles together,
  A shoulder is offered to a friend...
  We collect ears of grain in the field in summer,
  It can be hot even in frosty weather!
  
  I believe that great times will come,
  When Christ the great God comes...
  The planet will become a blooming paradise for us,
  And we'll pass the test with straight A's!
  That's how the little pioneer girl sang such a beautiful song. And with her bare little toes, she hurled a lethal grenade, small in size but with great destructive power. And again, the Chinese scattered in all directions. That was a truly incredible battle.
  The children worked hard, and very energetically. And the girls were harassing Mao's troops. These are the beautiful Komsomol girls.
  And their feet are bare, and they throw peas of death at high speed.
  This is extremely energetic. That's what the girls here are like.
  And so reinforcements arrived from Japan for the war with China. Four female ninjas and a boy named Karyas. These were magnificent warriors who wielded katana swords. And a boy ninja with them. The warriors were wearing only bikinis, and their young companion, who looked about eleven years old, was wearing swimming trunks.
  The blue-haired ninja girl took a pair of swords and swung them around in a windmill, cutting down several Chinese soldiers.
  Then she took and threw with her bare toes a sharp disc, which cut the throats of several warriors of the Celestial Empire.
  And she sang in a full-sounding voice:
  - Glory to Japan! Glory to the ninja!
  The yellow-haired ninja girl also performed the windmill, and this time her bare foot launched a pea-sized explosive, scattering the Chinese in all directions.
  Then he yelps:
  - Banzai!
  A red-haired ninja swung her swords, performing a butterfly attack, and the heads of the Chinese fell. Then, with her bare toes, she launched a boomerang at the Celestial Empire warriors, cutting off their heads as well.
  And she exclaimed:
  - For the Emperor! Against China!
  The white-haired ninja girl swung her swords like propeller blades at the Chinese soldiers, cutting off their heads, and chirped:
  - We are mega-class fighters!
  And with her bare toes she threw a couple of needles with poison, piercing the warriors of the Celestial Empire.
  A very muscular and handsome boy named Karas, with light-blond hair, also performed a double-sword maneuver, sending Chinese heads flying. With his bare toes, he threw a lethal explosive, tearing apart the Celestial Empire warriors and exclaiming:
  - For the greatness of Japan and the USSR!
  So these five took on the Chinese. Four girls and a boy-which looked incredibly cool. And the way they chopped them up, blew them up, tore them apart, and dissected them. That was an extraordinary impulse.
  And the cutting of the Chinese army.
  Now, a tank with a cutting saw was used against Mao. More precisely, four long saws were mounted on the turret. And this machine was used experimentally. It was piloted by two girls: Tatyana and Daria. Naturally, they were beauties wearing nothing but bikinis, pressing joystick buttons with their bare toes. Tatyana was very beautiful. Daria was an extremely tough warrior.
  Both of them used their bare toes to steer. They did this successfully, and spun the machine with its huge chainsaws left and right. They literally gutted the Chinese.
  And it was somewhat reminiscent of a butcher, and the cutting of muscles and sinews.
  The girls, of course, also experienced the torment of killing people in the Soviet manner, but they acted bravely.
  Tatyana remarked with a sigh:
  - Why do we need such a war?
  Daria stated decisively:
  - We don't need her at all! And China doesn't either!
  And both warriors sang:
  And in war, and in war,
  Girls see a guy in their dreams!
  War, believe me, is crap.
  Just like in the movies!
  The warriors weren't in the best of spirits. Indeed, two recently fraternal, socialist countries were locked in mortal combat. And it was extremely nasty.
  And most importantly, the USSR doesn't need any extra land from China; God willing, it can fight it off! This is the kind of carnage that's happening.
  Albina and Alvina, two brave Soviet pilots, are firing from attack aircraft at Chinese infantry. They're firing quite hard, both with missiles and something lethal. They also have rocket-propelled grenades with extremely powerful fragmentation.
  These were made specifically for the war with China-to knock out as many infantry as possible. And it must be said that they succeeded.
  Albina pressed the button with her bare toes and sang:
  - Our native USSR is behind us,
  And in it we will build communism...
  Comrade Brezhnev is like a saint,
  All up, not one step down anymore!
  Alvina also took aim at the enemy. She shot down an enemy aircraft in the sky-it was an American plane sold to China-and squealed furiously:
  - The banner of October is with us!
  And both girls burst out laughing. They fight, of course, in nothing but bikinis. And it's very convenient and practical. It really is so nice and comfortable for a girl to be half-naked.
  Albina and Alvina launch deadly torpedoes and devastating gifts of annihilation from their machines. That's how awesome it is.
  The girls look so amazing and have amazing figures. They have amazing abs, luxurious, muscular thighs, and perky breasts. They're not just girls, they're models!
  While doing so they sang:
  Our faith consists in this,
  What are Lenin and Stalin for us?
  Let us raise our shield for the Fatherland,
  We will see communism in the distance!
  The warriors really are so magnificent - simply superb. And one might even say sexy.
  Natasha also fights with fury and abandon. She's such a cool girl. And with her bare feet, she throws deadly gifts of annihilation.
  The warrior fires a machine gun and roars:
  We will fight the enemy fiercely,
  The endless darkness of locusts...
  The capital will stand forever,
  May Moscow shine like the sun to the world!
  Zoya also fights with great vigor. She fires a machine gun, mowing down enemies and throwing gifts of annihilation with her bare, chiseled foot, singing:
  He inspired us to fight,
  Although at first glance it seems careless...
  Lord of the higher powers,
  Dear comrade Brezhnev!
  Augustina was also a very accurate shot. Which she did with great precision. Those girls were so fiery. And that's how they mowed down the Chinese.
  They wrote on them with great force and accuracy.
  The red-haired girl took it and sang:
  The morning paints red,
  The walls of the ancient Kremlin...
  The planet is waking up,
  The whole Soviet land!
  Svetlana, another fighting girl mowing down the Chinese, chirped:
  - Seething, powerful, invincible by anyone,
  My country, my land, you are my most beloved!
  So the girls bravely took on the enemy. And Mao's troops were in dire straits. How they were unceremoniously beaten. It was a murderous effect. And total destruction.
  Here the girls were firing at the enemy, and numerous machine guns were working. How they dealt with the enemies.
  And they were still firing mortars. Here, Grad rockets were firing at the Chinese infantry, causing devastation. The impact was so aggressive. And the bodies of the Celestial Empire's soldiers literally burned.
  The Soviet command tried to scale up the use of Grads to inflict maximum damage on the enemy. And the Chinese positions were simply decimated. When Grads cover a large area, enemy infantry becomes increasingly vulnerable, and the Celestial Empire loses too many of its own.
  But the Chinese don't spare the soldiers. And they throw them back into battle. They say women in the Celestial Empire are really good at giving birth. And the fighting escalates.
  The more powerful and sophisticated Uragan rocket system also works. And it operates virtually flawlessly. Although even the barrels overheat from repeated firing.
  Veronica, shuffling her bare, slender feet, runs from one car to another and sings:
  Blue sea and boundless ocean,
  I splashed around like a baby in a cradle...
  The emerald colored wave wavered -
  Into the gentle whirlpool they were carried away into the distance without a goal!
  
  And then a brave young man appeared to me,
  The look pierced my heart with the tip of a dagger...
  Although the handsome guy has not yet shaved,
  I whispered to him with such feeling:
  
  I'm in love with you, you are beautiful and pure,
  I believe that love for a boy is endless...
  Let's spend a life full of happiness together,
  And in my young heart know that you will burn forever!
  
  My guy is beauty, joy, peace and love,
  The embodiment of boundless bright light...
  If necessary, you will shed blood for your country in battle,
  Open to your feelings, my native planet!
  
  So we splashed around until dusk,
  Cutting through the waves with your hands...
  And the eyes in the night of uncontrollability were stuck together,
  I danced the polka barefoot!
  
  And my lips are now joined with yours,
  And they came together in a bend, consider it a bend...
  This is what our youth will be like,
  And with the universal it will become an excess!
  
  I'm in love with you, you are beautiful and pure,
  I believe that love for a boy is endless...
  Let's spend a life full of happiness together,
  And in my young heart know that you will burn forever!
  
  My guy is beauty, joy, peace and love,
  The embodiment of boundless bright light...
  If necessary, you will shed blood for your country in battle,
  Open to your feelings, my native planet!
  
  That's when we splashed together to the limit,
  Immersed ourselves in these sweet moments...
  And then the guy and I had a good laugh,
  Showing your cheerful aspiration!
  
  Believe me, you and I will raise a child,
  So that he grows, creates inspiration without boundaries...
  The girls have a loud voice,
  There is no weakness, believe in forgiveness!
  
  I'm in love with you, you are beautiful and pure,
  I believe that love for a boy is endless...
  Let's spend a life full of happiness together,
  And in my young heart know that you will burn forever!
  
  My guy is beauty, joy, peace and love,
  The embodiment of boundless bright light...
  If necessary, you will shed blood for your country in battle,
  Open to your feelings, my native planet!
  
  So love me like your goddess,
  So that I could become the edge of the hyperuniverse...
  They won't steal your dream, believe me, one ruble at a time,
  With your most powerful strength and unwavering in battles!
  
  I'm in love with you, you are beautiful and pure,
  I believe that love for a boy is endless...
  Let's spend a life full of happiness together,
  And in my young heart know that you will burn forever!
  
  My guy is beauty, joy, peace and love,
  The embodiment of boundless bright light...
  If necessary, you will shed blood for your country in battle,
  Open to your feelings, my native planet!
  So the girls sang and reveled, launching live rounds at the Chinese hordes. And so many were killed that it's impossible to describe. Such was the incredible, massive scale of the battle.
  CHAPTER No 7.
  By May 9, 1969, Alma-Ata was almost completely captured. A landing force of time-travelers was sent to her rescue. In this case, Oleg Rybachenko and Margarita Korshunova commanded a children's battalion of boys and girls.
  It's already hot in Kazakhstan in May, and the hot sand burns the bare heels of the young pioneers.
  But they boldly go on the attack. And they shoot while moving, using special children's machine guns.
  Oleg Rybachenko fires with both hands. And the eternal boy, with his bare toes, throws peas of annihilation that tear his opponents apart.
  Margarita also shoots with both hands, using her bare, childish feet to launch poisonous needles, inflicting colossal damage on the Chinese. And more and more of them are being killed, literally mountains of corpses.
  The eternal boy Oleg sings and fires and throws lethal packages of small-sized explosives with a high-explosive effect:
  We are the pioneers, the children of communism,
  The fiery furnace hums like bronze...
  Under the banner of holy Leninism,
  We will arrange a rout for all the villains!
  
  They tied a bright red tie on us,
  What color are scarlet roses?
  And we will go bravely to the attack,
  The boy has grown up to perform feats!
  
  We pioneers will not give in to battle,
  Even a machine gun won't stop us, don't even dream about it...
  My feet are numb from the cold,
  But the children will still build paradise!
  
  We will also study excellently,
  We simply have countless fives...
  I made a draft of the essay myself,
  Because the boy has conscience and honor!
  
  When the jump is made from a tower,
  When you rush barefoot through the snow...
  We are such brave boys -
  What's bold, we can hit with our fist!
  
  Lenin himself tied a tie for the boys,
  Which is the color of the flame of hearts...
  And gave people eternal joy,
  The bourgeoisie and the nobility are finished!
  
  Yes, the USSR shines over the planet,
  Brings the light of salvation to all people...
  We will hold capitalism accountable,
  Let's open an unlimited account of victories!
  
  October is forever written in our hearts,
  Lenin rules the earth forever...
  The faces of children who are true to the truth shine,
  Let's fly towards the sun and our dreams!
  Boys and girls sang and fought, and their bare, childish feet used them to throw various deadly objects.
  And the children acted with colossal energy.
  And they stopped the advance of Chinese troops in the heavily damaged Alma-Ata. Mao's soldiers used catapults during the bombardment, as the Chinese lacked artillery. The fighting was fierce, and the Komsomol girls fought desperately. They were half-naked and beautiful.
  And here Alina fights very well. She mows down the Maoists with great success and zeal. A warrior fighting well in nothing but thin panties. She demonstrates her remarkable success. She's a fine fighter.
  And her bare foot throws a boomerang and cuts off General Mao's head. What a wonderful girl, simply superb.
  Alina sang:
  The anthem of my Motherland sings in my hearts,
  She is as beautiful as Lucifer...
  Hold the machine gun tighter, girl,
  Let the USSR be famous in battles!
  Alenka added with fury and, throwing a pea of annihilation with her bare toes, squeaked:
  - For Brezhnev!
  And the warriors burst out laughing.
  Oleg and Margarita used a homemade ultrasound device, mostly made from empty milk bottles, to grind Mao's soldiers into rubble. They turned into something damp and crumbly, like a mountain.
  Other pioneers fired bazookas and catapults. And while firing at the Chinese, the children sang:
  Pioneering over the world,
  The red flag is blooming,
  Lenin became our idol...
  We march firmly!
  
  We love to jump and run,
  Jumping upwards with a skipping rope...
  And then have lunch -
  Get an A for the lesson!
  
  Our camp is so beautiful,
  Scarlet flowers grow...
  Our wise team,
  Unprecedented beauty!
  
  The girls sing ditties,
  A boy cleans a machine gun...
  Children are collecting pears,
  This is the kind of squad we have!
  
  Pioneers are a force,
  They have the energy of elephants...
  The homeland will be happy,
  Know our best sons!
  
  We'll be on Mars soon,
  And we will fly to Sirius...
  There is happiness on the bright planet,
  And great peace reigns!
  
  We salute with honor,
  And on a hike a pioneer...
  We take revenge on aggression,
  This will be an example for the monster!
  
  Lenin will be with us in our hearts,
  From immortal forever...
  The door to space was opened,
  Sweet as a dream years!
  The children, as we see, are shooting with great energy and throwing deadly gifts of annihilation with their bare feet. They are such excellent fighters.
  Margarita, smiling, this eternal girl, chirped:
  Brezhnev may have been weak, but the USSR was a strong country!
  Oleg chirped with a sweet look:
  "I'll figure out a way to nip the Chinese in the bud, their army! They have tens of millions of soldiers. This isn't the Third Reich, it's something far worse!"
  Margarita giggled and noted:
  - Not worse, but more in quantity!
  The boy-terminator noted:
  - Even if you unleash the coronavirus, it will hit us too!
  The terminator girl noted:
  - The coronavirus will hit the entire world! We are so happy about that!
  Oleg pressed the joystick button again with his bare toes and noted:
  - Yes, it can! But we can too!
  The children continued their work. The ultrasound was effectively destroying infantry. And most importantly, it emitted sound waves without interruption, thereby grinding down huge masses of soldiers and other combatants.
   And Oleg even switched it to automatic mode so that it would spin with the uniform extermination of the encroaching Chinese hordes.
  The boy replied with a sigh:
  "It pains me to kill living people. And that includes the Chinese, the Germans, and all those members of the human race that we destroy at the behest of higher powers!"
  The eternal girl answered with a sad smile:
  - Yes, it"s sad, but we must protect the USSR!
  Oleg sang with fury:
  I have to do this,
  This is my destiny!
  If not me, then someone, who!
  Who if not me!
  Margarita noted:
  - Better write your own, something interesting and great!
  The Terminator boy asked:
  - What do you want me to sing?
  The terminator girl replied:
  - Something about me! So lyrical!
  Oleg Rybachenko continued to press the buttons with his childish, bare feet and began to sing, composing as he went:
  My Princess Margaret,
  You are like a rosebud...
  My soul is open to you,
  It's like there are a million hearts!
  
  My heart burns brightly,
  It beats like a drum...
  Let's open our door to happiness,
  How bright are the rays of the sun!
  
  We can be like eagles over the world,
  Flapping my wings to soar...
  You became an idol for me -
  May the thread of life not be broken!
  
  Margot, you are a lady of fortune,
  Beautiful with hair like copper...
  There will be lyrical strings here,
  Although the bear roars sometimes!
  
  We fly up to the sky from the crowns,
  Which is beauty...
  We got up in the morning, bright and early,
  May my country flourish!
  
  We are like elves in this world,
  With its heavenly purity...
  We're flying with the girl, the light is on the air,
  The child with her will be mine!
  
  We love each other so passionately,
  The volcano rages in fury...
  And I believe that a miracle will happen,
  The hurricane of death will pass!
  
  Yes, the unimaginable light of the Fatherland,
  Forever in love in color...
  We look at the world as if through lenses,
  Let your dream come true!
  
  My beauty Margarita,
  Walk barefoot through the snow...
  The window is spacious and open,
  And you can't hit it with your fist!
  
  How come her feet don't get cold?
  The snowdrift caresses her heels...
  Powder falls from the sky,
  And the wind blows over the threshold!
  
  The girl feels great,
  All with his bare sole...
  The cold is not dangerous for her at all,
  And it's even cool to be barefoot!
  
  But now the snowdrifts have melted,
  And spring is blooming here...
  And there will be new updates,
  The girl is sweet and honest!
  
  Let's have a wedding with Margarita,
  There will be a magnificent diamond in it...
  So that there are no attacks from the thief,
  I've got my machine gun ready!
  
  Well, let's get married, beauty,
  Pendants that sparkled like diamonds...
  They sipped the wine along with the tea,
  And while drunk they punched me in the eye!
  
  A girl and a boy with rings,
  Nadel - a passionate kiss...
  It was as if heat was coming from a stove,
  The priest shouted: "Don"t be naughty!"
  
  Now she has a husband,
  And gave birth to three children...
  Their feet splash through the puddles,
  And pour down some rain!
  
  In short, there will be peace and happiness,
  All the thunderstorms of hell will cease to rumble...
  Believe me, the bad weather will end,
  And the guy and the girl will be happy!
  Margarita whistled and noted with a sweet smile:
  - Wonderful! Good song! I really liked it!
  Oleg stated:
  "Isn't there some way to neutralize the Chinese without killing them? My heart bleeds for these mass murders of living people. They're not guilty, they're just following orders. And orders from that crazy old man Mao!"
  The eternal girl shrugged and replied:
  "We'll definitely come up with something! It can't be that people are dying in such numbers for no reason!"
  The boy genius, continuing to operate the ultrasonic device, noted:
  "When the Great Patriotic War happened, millions of people also died without meaning or purpose. And even though the USSR won, it only slightly increased its territory, but at that price, it wasn't worth it!"
  Margarita replied with a smile, continuing to press the buttons with her bare toes:
  - True! But we weren't the first to attack!
  Oleg agreed:
  - No, not us! Although, for example, if you read Suvorov-Rezun, he thinks Hitler beat Stalin by only two weeks!
  The girl nodded, continuing to press with her bare toes:
  I read "The Icebreaker." There are a number of inaccuracies there. In particular, the IS-2 tank is overly praised, even though even the German T-4 could penetrate it frontally. And the Germans did have amphibious tanks, albeit in small numbers. And the Tiger prototype was created before the invasion of the USSR. And the Churchill tank was a superbly protected vehicle with satisfactory armament and driving characteristics. And the Sherman is no worse than the T-34, and maybe even better.
  The boy-terminator confirmed:
  - Some of his details are indeed inaccurate, but what about the tetralogy as a whole?
  Margarita shrugged, continuing to press the buttons of her homemade joystick with her bare toes, noting:
  On the one hand, it's true-the USSR was preparing for an offensive war. Even the Red Army regulations state that if the enemy forces war on us, the Red Army will become the most offensive army in the world. And Soviet films also said that we were taught to fight the enemy on his own territory. Besides, the Red Army troops were concentrated in the salients and weren't really prepared for defense. And overall, is it really true that the USSR was full of idiots who would behave so strangely? But if we take the theory that Stalin was preparing to strike first, that explains a lot.
  Oleg nodded with a smile:
  "Yes, Suvorov-Rezun is indeed inaccurate in some places. And flying tanks didn't appear in Russia even in the twenty-first century. And the German army had a couple of heavy vehicles in 1941-captured French ones. Plus there was the Matilda 2 captured from the British, and it was well protected, even better than the Soviet KV. So work on creating long-barreled guns in the Third Reich began even before the attack on the USSR. And Guderian apparently didn't know this when he said that a new long-barreled gun still needed to be developed. It was designed and even installed on some T-4 tanks. But then Hitler allowed himself to be persuaded that the Third Reich didn't need such a weapon. And as a result, it wasn't put into production. And if the T-4 with long-barreled guns had been mass-produced, the course of the war for the USSR could have been even worse."
  And the boy pressed the buttons again, with his bare, childish heel. And continued the extermination of the Chinese.
  Margarita, also pressing her fingers on the girl"s beautiful and graceful legs, asked:
  "And yet, whether Stalin intended to attack the Third Reich in 1941 remains an open question. I personally have no doubt that he wanted to conquer Europe. The Bolsheviks' ambitions are well known. And Stalin didn't churn out twenty-five thousand tanks and nearly thirty thousand aircraft of all types just to sit on the defensive. And it's only natural for a dictator to want new lands and subjects. True, European subjects are freedom-loving. But if they succumbed to Hitler, why shouldn't they succumb to Stalin?"
  The USSR constitution actually intended to expand to the point where it would absorb the last republic in the world.
  But in 1941, specifically? Didn't form twenty mechanized corps and reinforce them with the latest tanks, and master the latest aircraft? And didn't even provide the latest vehicles with sufficient ammunition? That's questionable!
  Oleg logically noted:
  But Hitler was building up the Third Reich's military potential. And there was a mutual race going on. Stalin was growing stronger, and so was the Third Reich. Although, if we assume that Hitler doesn't attack the USSR, but continues the war with Britain, what steps are possible?
  Margarita responded, continuing to emit ultrasound at the Chinese:
  First, the Nazis should have destroyed and captured the British base in Malta. Then, reinforce Rommel's corps and take Tolbuk, in order to advance on Egypt. A strike on Gibraltar wouldn't be a bad idea either. With the fall of this fortress, the Nazis would have been able to enter Africa by the shortest route. Then the Dark Continent could have come under their control. And after capturing Egypt, they could have moved on to the Middle East. And then on to Iran and India. Thus, theoretically, if Stalin continued to maintain friendly neutrality, the Nazis, together with the Japanese, could have seized all the British and European colonies, even before landing in the mother country itself.
  Oleg, this eternal boy, noted:
  - But in this case, Africa and the Middle East will absorb many German troops, leaving Europe exposed!
  Margarita, continuing to fire at the Chinese, nodded:
  - Of course! So, in any case, Stalin had no reason to attack on July 6, 1941. He should have waited until Hitler rushed to conquer the British colonies. And in that case, the best option would be for the Wehrmacht to reach India and South Africa, while simultaneously attempting to land in Britain, which is probably also possible!
  The boy fighter nodded and added:
  "So Stalin would have certainly attacked, but not in July 1941. Moreover, there wasn't enough fuel or ammunition to seize all of Europe, and German troops were mobilized and stationed along the border with the USSR."
  Warrior Girl added:
  But there's also the factor of surprise attack and the Wehrmacht's lack of preparation for defensive battles. If you look back at the history of the Great Patriotic War, the Nazis were particularly brilliant in the offensive, especially at the very beginning. But their defense was weak. Even during the operation on the Yelnya salient, Zhukov noted that the Germans were becoming confused and panicking under Soviet artillery fire. And in general, during the Great Patriotic War, only during the Rzhev-Sychovsk Offensive did the Germans demonstrate relative resilience in defense. Otherwise, they simply crumbled. In this regard, Operation "Storm" could have been victorious, despite all the problems the Red Army faced, including its lack of experience in serious combat. Well, unless you count the Finnish War, but that had a different set of circumstances. The Finns had virtually no tanks or aircraft. In short, Stalin had the same trump cards in the event of an attack as Hitler, who had attacked first. But did the Wehrmacht have a plan if Soviet troops had suddenly attacked them? Everything could have turned out really great!
  Oleg slapped his bare, childish foot and noticed:
  It's likely that a preemptive attack on the Third Reich would have been effective. But the question is, did Stalin realize this? We can only say that now, with hindsight, when we know what had already happened. And how did the leader reason without hindsight? He was quite cautious. For example, he never dared to launch a liberation operation against Tito's fascist regime. And the Third Reich's prestige was high. Not to mention Ukraine, which they were counting on pelting with hats. And Soviet intelligence greatly exaggerated the figures for the Wehrmacht's strength. So... It's not a fact. I don't even rule out the possibility that Stalin, even if Hitler had sent dozens of divisions to Africa and the Far East, would have continued to procrastinate and postponed a decision on Operation Storm until Britain had capitulated. And then it would have been too late to fight. And perhaps Hitler would have attacked the USSR in 1943 or 1944, having Tiger, Lion, Panther, Maus tanks, and jet aircraft!
  Margarita noted:
  "Or maybe Hitler didn't attack? If he and the Japanese had managed to seize all the British colonies, why attack the USSR? Germany already has so much territory, after all its conquests, that it would take decades to digest it. Why would he need the USSR with its harsh winters and fanatical Bolsheviks?"
  Oleg responded logically, continuing to press the joystick buttons and reduce the Chinese army to dust:
  Hitler primarily needed Ukraine with its rich black soil. That's why he could have attacked the USSR. Moreover, Africa has everything but black soil.
  The girl, pressing her fingers on the joystick, noted:
  "But in the equatorial belt, you can harvest three or four crops a year. With proper agricultural organization, the Third Reich could have gotten by without Ukraine. And Africa already has all the resources, including labor. Plus, there's India, and there are plenty of human resources there."
  Oleg noted:
  - All the more reason! Why would Hitler feel sorry for them? He could have sent them against the USSR, let them decimate the excess population. No, I still don't think Hitler would have tolerated Stalin. Plus, the USSR could have developed an atomic bomb and launched a missile at Berlin. I think the Führer would have wanted to get rid of that threat. And if he had managed to defeat the USSR, the next step would have been an attack on Japan. The Führer wouldn't have tolerated such a dangerous and fanatical competitor either. Isn't that clear?
  Margarita giggled and replied, continuing to hammer away at the Japanese:
  - Of course, it's understandable! There are some animals that never have enough territory. And unfortunately, that's a given! But now Mao has attacked the USSR. And he doesn't care how many Chinese die, let alone how many Soviet people.
  The boy warrior noted, wincing, that the smell of an abundance of decomposing corpses had become so strong:
  "Yes, we're doing a great job. We're really clearing out the enemy now. And our victory is inevitable! Although I won't hide the fact that the road ahead is still long. But we broke Hitler's back in battle, we'll freeze off Bonaparte's ears, I know the distances of communism, and we'll push back the Chinese army!"
  The child warriors sang with enthusiasm:
  Victory awaits, victory awaits!
  Those who long to break the shackles!
  Victory awaits, victory awaits!
  We will be able to defeat China!
  CHAPTER No 8.
  May turned out to be quite hot in Siberia and Central Asia. The Chinese had managed to take Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan, but fighting continued for Alma-Ata. Soviet troops stubbornly clung to every last stone. Vladivostok was also cut off, but it heroically defended itself. Surrounded by powerful forts, the Soviet Red Army fought desperately, holding off Mao's superior forces. Food supplies in Vladivostok should have lasted for a long time. But the high consumption of ammunition during the constant assaults was a concern.
  Therefore, Soviet transports occasionally broke through to Vladivostok. Fortunately, the Chinese navy was weak. And Soviet submarines were dominant, even launching missile strikes deep into the Celestial Empire. So Mao was forced to hide in a bunker deep underground or retreat farther from the coast.
  The war continued. The Chinese continued to advance. In these battles, the USSR adopted a new strategy: using tanks for defense. And most importantly, sending large numbers of them against infantry. Machine guns were becoming increasingly popular. The T-11 had eight machine guns and a cannon firing high-explosive fragmentation shells. And this tank was operating at full capacity.
  The Chinese bought equipment from the US on credit. But American aircraft still require training. Tanks, on the other hand, are easier to operate. But American tanks are already inferior to Soviet ones, and they're supplying obsolete and even decommissioned vehicles. Take, for example, even the old Shermans. It really is easier to scrap them that way.
  But the main force is the Chinese infantry. And it is advancing like lava from a volcano.
  Elena, for example, uses a T-11 tank against Mao's soldiers. She works alongside other girls. The warriors slightly modernized the cannon. They made the 130mm gun more rapid-fire. They also used special shells that produced more fragmentation.
  Ekaterina noted:
  - The unique nature of war. The Chinese, for example, can simply throw grenades at us.
  Elizabeth pressed the button with her bare toes and released machine-gun streams, noting:
  - We must not let them within throwing distance!
  Efrasinya giggled and fired at the enemy, scattering the opponents, and said:
  - May communism be with us!
  The four girls on the tank worked well. They shot, they smashed, and sometimes they even used the tracks.
  Elena noted:
  "The Germans were fewer in number than us, but they were very skilled! And the Chinese literally overwhelmed us with their corpses. They are strong in numbers."
  And the girl pressed the joystick buttons with her graceful feet. And cooed:
  -Neither we nor China need this war!
  Catherine noted:
  - And Hitler didn't need a war with us. He grabbed so much territory!
  Elizabeth chirped:
  - So that we can grab it for our great joy! So that we can grab it for our great joy!
  And the girl went and fired a high-explosive shell at the Chinese. How many of them were blown to pieces.
  The heavy Soviet tank continued to advance, crushing the Chinese with its tracks. From time to time, grenades struck it, scratching its hull.
  The Soviet command tried to use tanks on a massive scale.
  And now a whole line of them is moving, firing machine guns, knocking out the Chinese infantry. The soldiers of the Celestial Empire are trying to fire at the tanks, either with small cannons, including World War II-era 45s, or even using catapults made from sticks.
  A Soviet tank column is advancing and pressing the Maoists. The grass is burning, and a huge number of Chinese corpses are scattered about, and their number is growing. This is a dark story.
  And they're pounding the Chinese from the air. They're suffering huge losses, but they keep advancing, and some of the Celestial Empire's soldiers reach the tanks and batter their armor with sticks.
  And they feel like they're being scorched by a flamethrower. And the Chinese are actually burning alive.
  Elena noted with a sigh and, pressing the joystick buttons with her bare toes, began to sing:
  Killing people is a bad thing,
  No one in the world can understand...
  What a great torment this is,
  A surprisingly large flour,
  Deliciously large flour,
  Send yourself fire without knocking,
  And brutally kill the Chinese!
  The girls whispered a prayer in unison and crossed themselves, sighing and asking the Almighty for forgiveness for their involuntary sin.
  The war continues, and so does life. Adala and Agatha, two girls, are flying a strategic bomber. They're carrying out a strike deep in China. They need to bomb an artillery factory.
  Two girls, almost naked, in thin panties, and both blondes. So, frankly, beautiful and sexy. These are real heroine women.
  They fly into the depths of China and sing:
  My native, native, native land,
  Plains and steppes, forests and fields!
  Given to us in our hearts by the Lord's destiny,
  You are alone in the world and alone in your heart!
  The warriors, finding themselves above Shanghai, bank and drop their deadly gifts of annihilation. And then the bombs fall on Mao's munitions factory, and collapse, and the walls of the plant collapse like a house of cards. That's how it works. Thick clouds of smoke billow upward.
  Agatha giggles and coos, baring her teeth:
  The girl will be successful,
  She is the strongest!
  Adala, in response, says with a sweet smile:
  We are the strongest in the world,
  We'll flush all our enemies down the toilet!
  After which the girls burst out laughing. And their giggles are so cheerful and rousing.
  The girls' bare, sculpted feet deftly press the joystick buttons. They're absolutely gorgeous. And truly beautiful, absolutely stunning.
  Agatha took it and chirped:
  The second shell hit the hood,
  And the second pilot became a cancer!
  And how he laughed. The girl imagined herself with a guy. And it would be great and awesome. A real woman needs sex. And a lot of it-it rejuvenates her.
  Adala laughed and added:
  - We will grind down all the enemies, and there will be banzai!
  And the warriors dropped another bomb. They hit the buttons with their bare, round heels and flew back.
  The girls ran and sang:
  We are the girls of the cosmic path,
  The brave ones flew on starships...
  In fact, we are the bread and salt of the Earth,
  We can see communism in the distance!
  
  But we flew into a loop of time,
  In which there is no room for sentimentality...
  And the enemy was greatly astonished,
  No need for unnecessary sentimentality, sister!
  
  We can fight with a fierce enemy,
  That we are being attacked like an evil tsunami...
  We will zealously arrange a rout for the orclair,
  Neither sabers nor bullets will stop us!
  
  Girls need order in everything,
  To show how cool we are...
  The machine gun accurately fires at the orcs,
  Throwing a grenade with bare feet!
  
  We are not afraid to swim in the sea, you know,
  Now the girls are glorious pirates...
  If necessary, we will build a bright paradise,
  These are the soldiers of the twenty-first century!
  
  The enemy does not know what he will get,
  We are capable of stabbing daggers in the back...
  The Orkshites will suffer a fierce defeat,
  And we will set up our own brigantine!
  
  There are no cooler girls in the whole country,
  We release lightning at the orcs...
  I believe the sunny dawn will come,
  And the evil Cain will be destroyed!
  
  We will do this sisters at once,
  That the troll will fly apart like grains of sand...
  We are not afraid of the evil Karabas,
  Barefoot girls don't need shoes!
  
  We shoot very accurately, you know,
  Zealously mowing down the Oklerovites...
  The servants of Satan have invaded us,
  But girls, know that glory will not pass you by!
  
  This is what we are capable of doing in this battle,
  Cut down the aggressive orcs into cabbage...
  But know our word, not a sparrow,
  The enemy doesn't have much time left!
  
  You won't understand what the girls were fighting for,
  For bravery, for the fatherland and for a man...
  When the enemy sows evil lies,
  And the boy is lighting a torch here!
  
  There will be no place for enemies anywhere, know this,
  We girls will sweep away their powder...
  And there will be paradise on our planet,
  We will rise as if from the cradle!
  
  If you need to cut a sharp sword,
  Streaming from machine guns like a downpour...
  And the thread of silk life will not be broken,
  Some will die and others will come!
  
  Raise your glass to our Rus',
  The wine is foamy, the color of emerald...
  And strike at Orkler,
  To be strangled by rotten Judas!
  
  In the name of honor, conscience, love,
  A glorious victory will come to the girls...
  Let's not build happiness on blood,
  Don't cut your neighbor into pieces!
  
  Believe me, we girls are brave,
  In everything we can do, we do it with dignity...
  The fierce beast roars, I know, in battle,
  We will fly very freely!
  
  The sea surface sparkles like emerald,
  And the waves splash like a fan in the caress...
  Let the scum orcs die,
  The bald devil doesn't have long left!
  
  That's how good girls are,
  I glimpse the bare heels of beauties...
  We will sing very boldly from the heart,
  The backpack is filled with hyperplasma!
  
  The greatness of girls is in this,
  That the enemy will not bring them to their knees...
  And if necessary, he will move with an oar,
  Damned evil orc fiend Cain!
  
  The scale of the girls' events is great,
  They are capable of breaking all cheekbones...
  Our hope is a solid monolith,
  The bald Fuhrer is already blown away!
  
  We are rushing into battle as if to a parade,
  Ready to defeat your enemies by playing...
  I believe there will be a great result,
  Greatness blooms like roses in May!
  
  Here she threw the dagger with her bare heel,
  He plunged his sword into the orc king's throat at once...
  The girl of death is apparently the ideal,
  In vain did this demon exalt himself!
  
  The donkey released a fountain of blood,
  He threw away his wild hooves at once...
  And the bald devil king collapsed under the table,
  His orcish head is smashed!
  
  We pirates are great fighters,
  They showed such a virtuoso class...
  Our grandfathers and fathers are proud of us,
  The distances of Soltsenism are already sparkling!
  
  When we seize the royal throne,
  Then the coolest part will begin...
  The slave will not groan,
  Reward is something that can be earned!
  
  And then we will create, believe me, a family,
  And the children will be great and healthy...
  I love the new world, the color of joy,
  Where the children dance in circles!
  That's how the girls sang and their bomber landed.
  And so the fuel tanks exploded and the plane stopped dead. That's how it was in combat.
  The girls jumped out of the car, their bare, chiseled, tanned feet slapping. Several boys, also barefoot and wearing shorts, their bare heels flashing, began loading a new supply of bombs. It was very energetic work.
  Adala sang with a smile:
  A dog can bite,
  Just from a dog's life...
  Only from life, from a dog's life,
  A dog can bite!
  Agatha giggled and replied:
  - And we are she-wolves - seasoned warriors!
  And she took it and stuck out her tongue.
  Anastasia Vedmakova was firing from her stormtrooper. She's a very beautiful red-haired warrior. And with her bare, chiseled feet, she presses the joystick buttons.
  Anastasia giggles and sings:
  Glory to communism, glory,
  Tanks rush forward...
  Our cool country,
  And the powerful Soviet people!
  Akulina Orlova was also active and pounded the Maoists. And the warrior became tough. And her bare feet were extremely nimble. And her fingers moved energetically.
  Akulina noted, nodding her head vigorously and humming:
  - Our Communist Party is strong! It amazes the world!
  The warriors were at work. Margarita Magnetic launched a dozen missiles, pounding the enemy and knocking out a mass of Chinese troops. The fighting was extremely energetic.
  All three girls shouted in unison:
  Let us go into battle for Holy Rus',
  We will break Mao's back...
  We will defeat the Chinese firmly,
  Let our feat be praised!
  The three witch girls attacked Mao's troops with colossal energy. They acted with great courage and skill. Such remarkable warriors.
  Attack aircraft used needle rockets to knock out large masses of infantry.
  Anastasia Vedmakova recalled how she fought alongside Chapayev. It was from her that the fame of Anka the Machine Gunner, the legendary girl who ran barefoot in any weather, began.
  And this redhead did a lot of things. And during the Great Patriotic War, Vedmakova fought in the winter near Moscow wearing nothing but a bikini. Such a cool and gorgeous woman.
  Anastasia remembered how she saved a Komsomol member. The girl had been stripped down to her panties and dragged half-naked through the freezing cold. Her bare feet turned scarlet, like a goose's.
  Anastasia wrote about the fascists, and such things happened that it"s impossible to describe in a fairy tale or with a pen.
  The warriors mowed down the Nazis and freed the Komsomol member. And both girls had bare, pink heels. Such wonderful beauties.
  Anastasia leaned over and kissed the girl's bare feet, and he felt better. It felt good to have your feet kissed. Especially the soles, red from the cold and ticklish.
  The girls, let's say, are magnificent. Very beautiful indeed.
  Margarita Magnitnaya also fought against the Nazis in her time. And there she covered herself in glory. She even received the Hero of the USSR star.
  These are the girls here. Their bodies are tanned and muscular. And they love lovemaking, especially when the guys give them massages.
  These are the girls here.
  When rockets fly and rain down on the enemy, they leave their tails in flight and knock them out completely. Fighters are destroyed, arms and legs flying everywhere. The Chinese will be dealt with like this by Brezhnev's Extreme Army. That's the balance.
  Akulina Orlova is a very curvy, tanned, strong, barefoot, and almost naked girl. What a stunning beauty.
  Three witch girls-perpetually fresh as daisies. But they're already quite old. And the three of them once defended Mount Vysokaya.
  And then they literally mowed down the Japanese with machine guns. They advanced like kamikazes. When the girls ran out of ammunition, they threw explosive packets with their bare toes. And they routed the samurai. And the warriors used their swords.
  And so they fought. But they still couldn't hold Mount Vysokaya. But they showed their valor and bravery. Not warriors, but giants of war.
  They can do phenomenal things. And they demonstrate their superb class.
  And of course, their legs are very seductive. There are girls everywhere.
  Alice and Angelica are already firing high-speed submachine guns to mow down more Chinese.
  Both warriors are so lovely. Alice is a charming blonde, slender and muscular, and Angelica is a redhead, more massive and tall. Their feet are bare, graceful, very seductive, and their heels are round, pink, very attractive.
  And they throw up peas of death with deadly force. Such wonderful, stunning warriors here.
  And they shoot so accurately from submachine guns, and every bullet finds its target in the face of a Chinese soldier or officer.
  Alisa and Angelica only look young. But they actually fought in the Great Patriotic War. Back then, the warriors reached Berlin and even infiltrated the Imperial Chancellery. They didn't manage to capture Hitler-he shot himself.
  But they fought gloriously. They fought, in particular, against Salamanders-German HE-162 fighters. And Alisa, for example, could shoot down these machines with a sniper rifle. Shooting down a jet fighter with a bullet-that takes skill.
  Angelica wasn't quite as good at shooting, but she could throw explosives and boomerangs far with her bare toes. And she was incredibly effective at knocking out her opponents.
  The two girls are exceptionally good. They camouflage themselves and maneuver. The Chinese can easily throw grenades. Moreover, some of the grenades were made from clay and black powder. There aren't enough weapons for all the Chinese. This was still 1969. This isn't the formidable China of the twenty-first century, when its economic and military might became dangerous and developed. This is still the China of Mao's time-the largest country in the world by population, but economically and technologically backward, lacking a powerful military-industrial complex; local weapons are produced in a home-made manner. The US and NATO countries are increasingly supplying some of them. But that's a recent development.
  The USSR is still a country full of strength-wow! After Nikita Khrushchev's less-than-convincing seven-year plan, Prime Minister Kosygin's next five-year plan was brilliant. And the USSR is now at its peak. Incidentally, the US is also at war-in Vietnam! And they don't have any spare weapons; they need them for their own conflict.
  Alisa fires bursts and mows down the Chinese with great precision. And Augustina also fires with great accuracy, though not as phenomenally as her blonde friend. She also throws grenades over long distances, which tear the Chinese to shreds.
  The girls are moving again, very deftly. The Grad rockets are also starting to fire, with great intensity. And the girls are hitting very hard.
  Veronica noted with a smile that she was sparkling like pearls:
  - Brezhnev and Stalin are with us!
  Victoria confirmed:
  - And Vladimir Ilyich! Glory to communism!
  The girls were aiming an even more powerful rocket system, the Uragan, which had a very destructive effect.
  Tamara is incredibly smart. She can press joystick buttons with her bare feet. And she's been beating up Maoists. These girls are amazing.
  Valentina also launches a rocket system. In this case, it's the "Bear." It's also an extremely powerful system. And what a blast it is. It launches fifty rockets at once, in a staggered pattern. And they incinerate several hectares of land, including Chinese infantry.
  The girl has very beautiful and seductive bare feet. And she uses them.
  The warriors sing:
  In the starry heights like diamonds,
  A multitude of sparkling luminaries...
  The knights show their talents,
  Revealing legions of power!
  
  The daughters of the gods are barefoot in winter,
  To rush with a bare heel through the snow...
  We are eagles in battle anyway,
  I'll smash the goblin with my swords!
  
  Believe me, Elvenism will be built,
  You know, we are on equal terms with the Gods...
  The boy will become a valiant hero,
  Life will be like it was under the tsars!
  
  We fight like giants,
  We can even roar loudly...
  The girls are united with the Motherland,
  Even a bear can't compare in strength!
  
  There are mighty expanses ahead,
  And we will show our fangs with a grin...
  If necessary, we will move mountains,
  Let's smash the mighty regiments!
  
  The girls are cool like tigresses,
  If necessary, they will tear the elephant apart...
  And the queens are bright in beauty,
  They jump out of the window like cats!
  
  The word weakness is not familiar to girls,
  They also don't know shame, believe me...
  But they will bring joy to the husband,
  And even the fiercest beast will become silent!
  
  For girls, nothing is scary,
  For them, Leo is just a puppy...
  And it"s dangerous to get involved with the young,
  They will lock everyone up!
  The girls continued to fire rocket launchers at the Chinese with great force.
  They are very beautiful, in just a bikini, very slim and shapely, with luxurious hips, high breasts, thin waists, and abs like chocolate bars, and the girls' bronze skin shines with sweat, as if polished and polished, super.
  CHAPTER No 9.
  In the second half of May, the Chinese attempted to break through even further south into Tajikistan. They advanced along the border with Afghanistan. At the time, Afghanistan was ruled by a king who preferred neutrality.
  China pressed forward, trying to extend the front as much as possible. Given its numerical superiority, a longer front is, of course, far more advantageous than a shorter one.
  The young Leninists tried to organize a defense. Boys and girls flashed their bare soles. Their little feet burned the desert sand, and at the end of May in Tajikistan, the steam is intense, and the sand in the steppe and hard desert heats up. But the young pioneers were accustomed to going without shoes, and their feet were calloused and resilient.
  The young pioneer Vaska threw a pea with explosives with his bare toes, which tore a mass of Chinese soldiers into small, bloody pieces.
  The child fighter of Lenin exclaimed:
  - Glory to the USSR and Brezhnev!
  The pioneer girl Svetka, whose bare, childish feet had become very calloused, threw an explosive packet with her bare heel and screamed:
  - For the USSR and victory over China!
  The pioneer boy Timur also threw something destructive and chirped:
  - For the greatness of the USSR!
  The pioneer girl Oskanka also puts her bare feet to work. And again, the Chinese fly off in all directions. And we tear off their arms and legs.
  The young warrior shouts:
  - But pasaran!
  The battle is very intense. Multiple rocket launchers are being used against the Chinese, as are the latest cluster munitions. That's deadly.
  The young pioneer Sasha also started pounding the enemy. And he also did it barefoot, with his childish foot. And so many Chinese fell like corpses at once.
  Pioneer girl Lyudka fired explosives from a slingshot and threw a boomerang with her bare toes that knocked out a lot of Chinese.
  This is how the children worked...
  The young pioneer Seryozhka chirped, firing at the Chinese with a machine gun and howling:
  A star of a very delicate color fell from the sky,
  I'll sing you a song about my dear Brezhnev!
  Yes, this politician, the hero of jokes and with a funny, amusing reputation, is becoming a national leader. China is a very dangerous adversary. And it has far more manpower than the Third Reich.
  And Mao Zedong takes Hitler's place, eclipsing him...
  The Chinese are using large numbers of infantry. They have almost no tanks left. Those they have are usually old junk sold to the US on credit.
  But infantry is also dangerous when there's a lot of it. Anyone who's played computer games knows this. The simplest tactic is to churn out as many barracks as possible and then throw infantry at the enemy, preventing them from developing.
  But the USSR has a decent defense, albeit already breached in many places. And the situation in Tajikistan is dire. The Chinese, in addition to the crude tactics of sending infantry in in droves, are beginning to act more cunningly: infiltrating in small but numerous groups.
  They were opposed by attack aircraft and tanks. Fortunately, the USSR had plenty of tanks, and they were increasingly being equipped with machine guns.
  Elena, Elizaveta, Ekaterina and Evrasinya fight in a special vehicle - two short-barreled, high-explosive fragmentation cannons and as many as twelve machine guns.
  It's a great vehicle against infantry. The main thing is to prevent the Chinese from getting too close and pelting it with grenades.
  Elena, writing through a system of copper wires from machine guns, sang with a sweet look:
  The mystery of the great Motherland,
  Yours is a faithful, strong, selfless honor...
  We strengthen our unity,
  We will be together with the Fatherland forever!
  Elizabeth fired a high-explosive fragmentation round from a cannon and noted:
  - Of course we will!
  And the girl pressed the joystick buttons with her bare toes. And again, the large, lethal fragmentation shells went off.
  Euphrosyne controlled the movement of the newest anti-personnel tank, created specifically for the specific war with China.
  And Catherine maintained contact and adjusted the second tower.
  This monster worked thoroughly.
  The girls, of course, fight in nothing but bikinis and barefoot. It's both comfortable and agile.
  Elena took it and sang:
  Now we are back on track,
  The fire of the heart burns in the chest...
  We don't care which team we're in,
  If only Brezhnev was ahead,
  If only Brezhnev would be ahead!
  Ekaterina noted doubtfully, pressing the joystick buttons with her bare toes:
  - Will Leonid Ilyich be able to cope with China?
  Elizabeth, also using her bare toes, answered:
  - I think he can handle it! It's not for nothing that he's also Ilyich!
  Euphrosyne sang:
  I believe my precious Ilyich,
  We will be able to crush the sword of Maoism...
  The people will hear the proletarian cry,
  The era of happiness-communism will come!
  The tank with turrets moved and fired. Elena recalled World War II. Back then, the Germans had a three-turret T-5 tank with two cannons and four machine guns, which for some reason never went into production.
  But this Soviet T-101 fought well. It was still an experimental model, entrusted to the girls.
  Elizabeth noted:
  - Our vehicle isn't very good at fighting against other people's tanks.
  Ekaterina noted:
  The Soviet IS-2 tank wasn't the best against enemy tanks either, but it was a good breakthrough weapon. Its 122mm gun had a powerful explosive effect.
  The girls were pouring lead on the Chinese. The work was going well.
  Vladivostok was cut off by land, but supplied by sea. The Celestial Empire's navy was much weaker than the Soviet one.
  For example, on a destroyer the crew consists entirely of girls.
  They are wearing just striped shirts and have bare legs - just awesome.
  A boy named Pashka serves as a cabin boy on a ship with girls. He jumps up and down like a powder monkey.
  It's great to sail on a ship at sea and visit different countries.
  Back in peacetime, Pashka had gotten a job as a cabin boy, the only man in an all-female crew. He was only eleven at the time. But he was a physically fit boy, and he practiced French boxing. What is French boxing? It's a sport in which you fight with both hands and feet. Karate was just beginning to gain ground in the USSR. But French boxing had long been known.
  According to custom, the girls and their cabin boy were barefoot in any weather. And that's uncomfortable. In cold weather, bare feet turn red like goose paws and threaten to freeze to the deck. And in hot weather, the iron on the destroyer gets terribly hot. And that's also painful.
  But Pashka was already hardened even before the sea, and he'd often kicked boards and even bricks with his bare feet. So he could handle being half-naked and barefoot in any weather.
  It's the end of May now, and it's already hot in these latitudes. But it's not really suitable for swimming yet-the water hasn't warmed up yet.
  The destroyer is escorting transport ships. Reinforcements, food, and ammunition are arriving in Vladivostok. Meanwhile, the Chinese are desperately storming it. They don't spare their infantry, after all. China's losses in the first months of the war were enormous, but this hasn't disrupted their momentum. It seems only a little over two months have passed since the start of hostilities, and the Celestial Empire's infantry losses have already exceeded the Wehrmacht's losses on the Eastern Front in almost four years.
  Well, there are relatively few Chinese prisoners so far. The Soviet Red Army also suffers losses. And there are prisoners, too. But the Chinese treat them very cruelly: they impale them, crucify them on stars, and, of course, torture them, brutally, sparing neither women nor children.
  The Chinese suffer high losses, also because the wounded are not being evacuated very often, and many die in hospitals.
  Pashka is still very young, he'll soon be thirteen, and he doesn't yet understand how terrible this war is. And the boy looks through binoculars. Then comes the command, and he runs to measure out the weights. That's how great it works.
  A boy and a girl are carrying out a box of ammunition on a stretcher. You could say they're doing a good job. And the bare heels of the boy and the girl are visible.
  Pashka grinned...before he was sent to the navy, he was arrested by the police. A woman in a white coat and thin, medical rubber gloves stripped him of his clothes and searched him. She poked him in the mouth with a spoon and listened to his lungs. You couldn't even tell if it was a search or a medical examination. She made him squat naked in front of a mirror and cough. But then another prisoner shaved the boy's head with clippers. Then they measured him, weighed him, photographed him in profile, full-face, sideways, and from behind, as well as full-length. Then they took his fingerprints; a uniformed woman imprinted each fingertip on a white sheet of paper, and then the entire palm. But they also made them take prints from the child's bare feet. Also an interesting idea. And another woman in a white coat recorded all the birthmarks and scars on the child's body. After that, they took him into the shower.
  The water was quite cool, and they sprinkled chlorine on it. They took all my clothes and gave me only a gray uniform with a number on it and slippers that didn't fit and kept falling off. Then they took me to a cell. It held boys under fourteen. The cell had bunk beds, a toilet in the corner, and many other children.
  Pashka got into a fight on his very first night, but fortunately, his French boxing training had paid off and he emerged victorious. After that, the young convicts left him alone. But it was scary: they were forced to work, knocking down boxes, from morning until late, despite all the laws restricting child labor, and the food wasn't very good. Although the children's rations were legally decent, they were still being stolen.
  Pashka spent a month in the juvenile prison, lost five kilograms, deposited his slippers, and went barefoot. He was released, after which Svetlana took him aboard the ship.
  They gave Pashka a tattoo - special schools, he objected - so small, and already a prisoner - that's great!
  And his head was shaved bald twice more during his time in juvenile prison-like a criminal's. It was a special feeling, too. And the tattooing was a bit painful, but he was already marked for a special school.
  Plus, the boy got a little lion tattooed on his chest-like he's tough. And he is tough, he beat up the big shots in the cell. But he didn't become a big shot himself, and he didn't let the weaklings get bullied or robbed of their rations.
  Pashka generally remembered juvenile prison as a place of toughening up. A real man should serve in the army or serve time in prison, or both.
  Svetlana noticed, slapping the boy on his muscular back:
  - You're growing up fast! Maybe soon you'll be made into a real man!
  Pashka noticed:
  - You can go to jail for this until I turn eighteen!
  Svetlana laughed and replied:
  - Who will know? You won't blab, will you!?
  The boy replied:
  - The magpies will report you on their tail!
  And the Chinese launched another assault on Vladivostok. They were literally advancing like an avalanche, a large mass pushing toward the trenches, but they'd still make it.
  And they are met by artillery at distant approaches, and closer by machine gun and automatic fire.
  The pioneers also fight, including using rather original ballistas and steam-powered catapults.
  And they release murderous gifts of annihilation.
  Which are striking the Chinese en masse. Soldiers of the Celestial Empire are dying, their arms, legs, and heads torn off.
  The boy, Leshka, is also fighting. He has a red tie around his neck, and he's wearing shorts and has bare, tanned, dusty feet.
  This is a fierce battle going on. And the boy launches, like a bumblebee, a gift of annihilation. How deadly it is.
  The girl Lyudka, also a pioneer with a red tie, sends something destructive at the Chinese troops, killing them with shrapnel or rotating needles.
  This is how child terminators work...
  Anti-personnel mining is also being used. And it's also causing problems for the Chinese. A lot of Chinese soldiers are getting blown up.
  But new ones appear and they're back. It's reminiscent of those computer games where you can endlessly exterminate enemy soldiers. But they'll keep being produced, and to win, you have to destroy the factories and barracks they come from.
  But for now, the young warriors and beautiful girls are sitting on the defensive and fighting back. They act with great skill and coordination.
  Boy Foma is also shooting. And he's using something like a toy machine gun. And the Chinese are attacking so thickly that you can't miss them.
  The Celestial Empire's troops are attacking Vladivostok along the entire defensive line, trying to find weak spots. The Chinese have little artillery, but they are trying to make wooden rockets, which are very inaccurate, and launch them at Soviet positions. This, of course, poses a lot of problems. But the Soviet Red Army is responding.
  And Grads are hitting concentrations of troops of the Celestial Empire.
  Earth flies up, melted sand, burning turf, torn bodies and helmets. This was truly a battle.
  And the Red Army's attack aircraft are rushing in. They're firing unguided rockets. Now that's a real punch. And the tanks are counterattacking.
  Soviet T-64 and T-62 tanks in action. However, there are many tanks of earlier models, too. For example, the T-54, a very common model. Although obsolete, it's still in service. And it's worth noting that its machine guns are quite effective.
  And the 100-millimeter cannon fires high-explosive fragmentation shells. And it hits the very concentrations of Chinese troops. The impact, let's say, is devastating.
  Olga and her crew are in a T-54. They're also targeting Chinese infantry. Most of the Celestial Empire's few remaining vehicles have already been destroyed. So you're fighting against manpower. And these are truly brutal assaults without vehicle support.
  But back in the late twenties, Tukhachevsky pointed out the importance of tank armies and large masses of vehicles for breakthroughs and offensives.
  Stalin may have executed Tukhachevsky, but he appreciated his ideas and began creating mechanized corps, albeit belatedly. And World War II demonstrated the tank's supreme role in both defense and offense!
  The Brezhnev-era USSR: the world's most powerful tank power. It has more tanks than all other countries on Earth combined.
  The warriors are working on the infantry. They try to create shells that scatter fragments as far as possible. This, it must be said, is a great help.
  The Chinese infantry's losses are incalculable. There's also cavalry, but it's small. They attack on foot, often barefoot, wearing homemade sandals. China doesn't have much of an army. But its numbers are unprecedented in human history. And they press on...
  Soviet bombers use both ball and needle bombs to destroy personnel. They are effective, even though such weapons are prohibited by the Geneva Convention.
  But we need to somehow thin out the army.
  The USSR's losses are also mounting. A war that could be called cursed is underway.
  Two socialist countries are locked in a deadly embrace.
  Here's pilot Varvara pressing a button with her bare toes, and a bomb with needles falls down. And they cause such terrible, lacerations-it's a nightmare. What did you expect? The USSR has all the weapons. This is the late 1960s, not the formidable, technologically advanced China of the twenty-first century!
  Here come the Hurricanes again, the mortars firing. Everything is being used.
  Varvara and Tatyana are two pilots who drop bombs from a great height, they navigate by radio using their wings, and they talk.
  Varvara notes:
  - What is it like to be a butcher?
  Tatyana replied:
  - This is what our duty to the Motherland demands!
  And both girls sighed heavily. They felt sorry for the Chinese soldiers who were dying so senselessly because of Mao's ambition. But there was nothing they could do about it-they had to fulfill their honorable military duty.
  Varvara noted, jokingly singing:
  "We're peaceful people, but our armored train has accelerated to the speed of light. We'll fight for a brighter tomorrow! And better yet, we'll kiss the guys passionately!"
  Tatyana noted:
  - It's better to kiss guys!
  Ninja warriors from Japan are also fighting the Chinese. Four girls and a boy. They wield their katana swords with great vigor and chop without mercy.
  A blue-haired ninja girl swung two swords and chopped off the heads of three Chinese men at once. Then she chirped:
  - Glory to Japan - Death to Mao!
  The yellow-haired ninja girl hurled the pea of destruction. A dozen Chinese soldiers instantly scattered in all directions.
  The red-haired ninja girl is also at her best. She hacks at her enemies and sings:
  We are great Japanese women,
  We crush all fighters boldly...
  The voice of a beauty is ringing,
  Let's be honest - well done!
  The white-haired ninja girl is also powerful. She cuts down her enemies with great gusto and efficiency. She's almost like Superwoman. And her bare heel tosses a poisonous needle, driving the Chinese into their graves.
  And the boy-terminator, a blond-haired ninja, cuts down everyone in sight. His two katana swords flash. And with his small, bare feet, the young warrior sends boomerangs and cuts off heads.
  The boy sings:
  We don't know the word, there is no word,
  We don't know any ranks or names...
  Against us, a pistol is nothing,
  And the abilities are cooler than sleep!
  And the young ninja takes a whole dozen poisonous needles and throws them out with his bare toes.
  And they pierced the Chinese soldiers, causing them to writhe and die in terrible agony.
  This is how these five ninjas operate. It must be said, both energetically and effectively. And the katana swords are flashing, and heads are flying, and they're bouncing like cabbages.
  The Chinese were being pounded from all sides. Then the girls from the submarine suddenly launched missiles. The effect was devastating. The missiles struck, and thousands of Chinese were instantly torn apart and incinerated.
  And the girls, slapping their bare feet, operate the combat launchers.
  And in the sky, another wave of attack aircraft. The USSR counters the enemy's superiority in manpower with superior equipment. And this, it must be said, is quite significant.
  The attack aircraft fly low to the surface, almost at a low altitude. They launch rockets loaded with cluster munitions in huge numbers. Devastating explosions ring out. Arms, legs, and heads are torn off. And the skulls of the Celestial Empire's warriors are shattered by shrapnel.
  The situation is very tense. Power versus truth. And the pantonym is cruel.
  Alenka fired machine guns at the Chinese, also throwing a gift of annihilation with his bare foot and singing:
  No one can stop me,
  My thoughts carry me into the distance...
  There are five on the exam, write it down in your notebook,
  By pressing the pedal with your foot!
  Anyuta, another barefoot, slender and curvy girl in a bikini, laughs and sings:
  With huge orbits,
  Off the beaten path...
  The space is pierced with meteorites!
  We are fighting the Chinese,
  Let's not go as hares!
  And Mao will receive a severe sentence!
  A burst of machine gun fire from the Dragon struck two girls, nearly naked. And very beautiful, tanned warriors.
  And the Chinese fell, mown down in whole ranks, and whole mounds of corpses. And the girls even threw poisonous needles with their bare toes. And they pierced the Chinese soldiers.
  Alla also shoots. And with exceptional accuracy. And with her bare foot she throws something destructive and fragmentary.
  The Komsomol girl sings:
  You barefoot girl, go ahead,
  We will defeat the enemy, believe me...
  China attacked our Motherland,
  A very powerful beast in attack!
  And we will shout together - banzai!
  The warriors truly demonstrated outstanding class and fighting skills.
  Olimpiada hurled a large barrel of explosives with her bare feet. It flew past and crashed into the thick of the Chinese. The explosion sent them flying in all directions.
  Anfisa is also in the fight. And she's firing a homemade crossbow that fires like a machine gun. Now that's a truly lethal weapon.
  The girl even giggles. A hundred arrows fired in half a minute-that's pretty cool.
  It should be noted that the girls are quite agile and fast. War, let's say, isn't the best activity, especially for women. But once it starts, it starts.
  Veronica and Olga, having repelled another Chinese attack, began to play pocket chess.
  The girls made their moves on a small board, and the pieces had a special inset. Veronica played White. She chose the King's Gambit, an opening very fashionable in the nineteenth century. Indeed, opening the f-file offered the possibility of a strong piece attack against the black king. Although ways to strengthen Black's defense were later found, it remains a very fashionable opening among amateurs.
  Olga, in particular, defended herself tenaciously. It was quite interesting. A fierce battle ensued.
  The game was interrupted by Vasilisa's sudden appearance. The major said sternly:
  - You're having fun here, but the floor hasn't been swept for a long time!
  Veronica replied:
  - And we learn to fight, chess is a kind of war!
  Vasilisa softened:
  - But we shouldn"t forget about order!
  The Chinese infantry attacked again, and they were met with fire from Grad and Uragan rockets. These multiple rocket launchers roared loudly. Even such courageous fighters as the Chinese stopped and even turned back when hit. Although, it must be said, Mao's troops were quite brave. And even the Soviet soldiers were amazed by this.
  Veronica, Olga, and Vasilisa ran up to the mortars and started firing them. And they were incredibly accurate. They had a deadly effect.
  Veronica took it and sang:
  Forty years under anesthesia,
  We lived in the USSR...
  Don't grease the wheels,
  You better be brave sir!
  Olga, firing at the Chinese, noted:
  - Not sir, but comrade!
  Vasilisa giggled and sang, throwing a grenade with her bare, graceful foot:
  The athletes are eager to fight,
  Everyone believes in victory passionately...
  And for us any sea, the sea is knee-deep,
  And we can handle any mountains!
  The female warriors are fighting the Chinese army with great fervor. They're demonstrating their superior skill. And they're not being stopped so easily. More precisely, they're stopping waves of fearless, desperately brave Chinese infantry. And they're using a variety of weapons, including homing grenades.
  CHAPTER No 10.
  Oleg and Margarita, along with other children, held the line outside Alma-Ata. The Chinese were trying to build on their success. Part of Kazakhstan's capital was still controlled by the Soviet Red Army. The insane war between two great communist-ruled countries continued.
  Oleg created a device that emits ultrasonic radiation. He and Margarita made it out of empty beer and milk bottles. And it's a very destructive weapon.
  The boy and girl turned it on using a regular battery and played a Beatles record. And wild music began to play.
  And the Chinese went on the attack in dense columns, like an avalanche.
  And they were met with an ultrasonic wave. And the flesh of the Chinese soldiers began to decompose and crumble into dust.
  Oleg and Margarita slapped their bare, childish feet and directed radiation at the soldiers of the Celestial Empire. Credit must be given to the Chinese soldiers-they pressed forward, heedless of losses.
  Other boys and girls from the children's battalion fired at them with machine guns, slingshots, catapults, and homemade crossbows. The Chinese suffered heavy losses, but pressed forward.
  Wooden tanks were also visible among the waves of infantry. There should be some kind of equipment, even if it's just wooden models.
  And Mao's troops are creeping up. That's what numbers mean. They keep advancing and advancing. And their battalion of children is mowing down. And when the Chinese infantry approached, they started firing rockets at them. And they were literally knocking out hundreds and thousands of the Celestial Empire's fighters.
  But the Chinese are pushing forward. They're already being met with high-explosive fragmentation shells fired by tanks and machine guns mounted on them.
  And a mass of Chinese are being destroyed. But more and more infantry keep coming.
  Oleg turned the ultrasonic device on full blast. And now, entire mounds of ground-up corpses are emerging.
  The barefoot girl Margarita sang:
  I'm a cool Russian girl -
  I've been abroad more than once!
  I have a short skirt,
  Mao immediately tore to shreds!
  The girl threw a grenade at her enemy with her bare foot. He shattered into pieces. Now that's truly a battle of the highest order. No girl, no Terminator. And the boy, too, threw a pea of antimatter with his bare foot. And it exploded with colossal force.
  The girl and the boy sang:
  And the battle continues again,
  The fire of hyperplasm is boiling...
  And Brezhnev is so young,
  Strike with swords!
  And the bare feet of the boy and girl once again hurled gifts of annihilation with colossal, murderous force. And they shrieked:
  - Glory to the USSR!
  Child warriors demonstrate that they are capable of fighting at the highest level. These young warriors are incredibly tough. And with their bare feet, they throw gifts of annihilation. And a mass of Chinese die on the spot and return to their ancestors.
  Some die quickly, their souls freed from their bodies soaring to the heavens. Others are wounded and suffer far more. They are forced to die, gradually suffering horribly.
  Oleg took and threw poisonous needles with his bare toes, which struck the Chinese soldiers; one needle killed three or four warriors of the Celestial Empire.
  The boy-terminator took and sang:
  The sacred mystery of the Motherland,
  The USSR is a country of the universe of cool...
  Let us strengthen our unity with you,
  Well, Mao is the enemy of the Fatherland in the terrible darkness!
  These are the kind of desperate and truly militant children we see here. They demonstrate their unyielding character. And the machine guns are firing again. And the Chinese soldiers are falling, mown down by the bursts.
  This is where the impact comes in.
  And when the Grads fire, it's truly horrific. And a ton of Chinese are killed. But they keep moving forward. Only rocket artillery is even remotely capable of slowing these hordes.
  Margarita grinned. The girl's bare heel had thrown something extremely lethal. And how it scattered the Chinese, tearing off their heads, arms, and legs.
  The children are determined to win decisively, even if the horde is countless.
  Oleg remembered the game "Entente." There, the computer builds numerous barracks and throws infantry into brutal assaults. And even though you mow down soldiers, the barracks keep producing more and more warriors. Unlike real life, in the game you can gather resources endlessly. And that gets boring. You lock on to artillery fire, and it automatically knocks out the enemy infantry. In "Entente," you can do something even simpler, just to rack up points. But that's a trade secret.
  Ultrasound is very effective against infantry. It's specifically tuned to target organic matter and covers a wide area.
  The children's battalion fought with great skill. Barefoot, the boys and girls threw small but powerful explosives that tore the Chinese soldiers to pieces.
  Children are extremely energetic fighters. They are noted for their excellent shooting accuracy.
  A boy named Seryozhka, for example, threw a small stick of smoke. The smoke caused the Chinese soldiers to vomit and go into fits of rage, and they began stabbing each other with bayonets.
  The boy took it and sang:
  Oh Motherland, I love you so much,
  There is nothing more beautiful in the entire universe...
  The Fatherland will not be torn apart ruble by ruble,
  There will be peace and happiness for all generations!
  The girl, Masha, also threw a piece of gum. The Chinese got stuck in it and started firing their rifles at their own.
  The girl took it and sang:
  Do not spare evil enemies,
  We'll chop everything into pieces...
  For the sake of strong fists,
  Youngsters are fighting!
  The kids here are really cool. True, Oleg and Margarita aren't kids by calendar standards; they were adults once, but now they look like twelve-year-olds.
  They fight very inventively and creatively. Besides ultrasound, you could use something else. Specifically, infrasound. And it also hits matter really hard...
  But Oleg will use this when this Chinese attack fizzles out. And it's still ongoing.
  To cheer up, the children started singing:
  Victory awaits, victory awaits,
  Those who long to break the shackles...
  Victory awaits, victory awaits -
  We will be able to beat the evil orcs!
  
  Even though we look like children and are barefoot,
  We often even find ourselves in battles...
  And the guys have hearts of gold,
  The scum will get a penalty!
  
  The orc is like a bear, cruel,
  And roars like a wounded elephant...
  But in battle we are children of the ace,
  The executioners will not hear our groans!
  
  We will never kneel,
  It is not we who will straighten our proud figure...
  There is no influx, know laziness,
  Let's strike like a hammer!
  
  The orc sometimes fries his heels, the freak,
  Burns the girls' feet...
  Here they are, an evil people,
  But I, boy, will kill him!
  
  In the child's heart the flame roars violently,
  And the fire is really raging...
  Raise your banner higher, warrior,
  You have a gift without boundaries!
  
  Yes, boys are sometimes passionate,
  We are children now forever...
  But sometimes we shine with talent,
  And a star shines over the world!
  
  No enemy will twist you into a spring,
  We are, after all, proud children of the Earth...
  And the boy beats the orcs with a sword,
  He is from God's family of titans!
  
  May the Lord be with us forever,
  He gave me youth that will last for centuries...
  We shine with our bare feet,
  And let the river flow without end!
  
  The Orc doesn't like, believe the words of truth,
  His evil, vile color...
  We'll take those bears by the gills,
  There will be eternal good power!
  
  The orc threatens us all with his fangs,
  Not greedy enough for the land...
  He is the insidious flight of hell Cain,
  And it draws solid zeros!
  
  For bears, believe me, it's not an honor,
  They only torment the roaring...
  But we are eternal warriors, children,
  We can't stand lies, believe me!
  
  Satan is apparently the creator of the orcs,
  They howl and bray like donkeys...
  The girl has a beautiful dress,
  Although the beauty's feet are bare!
  
  No, you are an orc - a fanged, nasty wolf,
  And the bear, whose nature is not honey...
  But believe me, the father of evil is not omnipotent,
  And we will have, just know the plane!
  
  We are capable of doing everything beautifully,
  To create a new joyful world...
  There is no more united group of children,
  There will be a new warrior-idol!
  
  The heart of the young burns for the Fatherland,
  It loves its glorious people...
  We will open the door to new worlds,
  Well, the orc is a pathetic freak!
  
  The honor of a boy, a girl,
  They love, believe me, to create...
  The children's voices will become ringing,
  The legs will throw daggers!
  
  That's when we build a new world,
  It contains happiness for new people...
  And we will march very proudly in formation,
  And the villain will receive retribution!
  
  God does not love those who are tearful,
  He, however, respects good...
  The boy and the girl, believe me, are not arrogant,
  His choice to success is a window!
  
  And when peace comes to the universe,
  We will resurrect those who have fallen with science...
  With your faith, imperishable throughout the centuries,
  And on the wings of a cherub he carries!
  After such a song, your spirits naturally rise, and you exterminate the Chinese with twice the force and energy. But finally, their attack faltered, and despite the loss of many thousands of soldiers, the remnants of the Celestial Empire's army began to retreat.
  Oleg even wiped the sweat from his forehead and answered with a sigh:
  - Oh my God, how many people we've exterminated! Even I'm scared! How can this be possible!
  Margarita replied with a sigh:
  "We didn't do this for ourselves, but for our Motherland, the USSR! After all, you and I were born in the USSR too!"
  Young warriors began crafting an infrasound device, which was supposed to bludgeon the brains of advancing troops. Overall, the war with China had a unique focus: the destruction of manpower.
  And this required hitting large areas of unarmored targets.
  Just like in the 1930s, tank designs with five or even seven turrets have reappeared. More machine guns and short-barreled cannons capable of firing high-explosive rounds. And the production of cluster munitions has been rapidly increased.
  Under Mao, China's industry was rather underdeveloped. Bicycles were still being made, but almost nothing serious. Perhaps only Panzerfausts, like the ones the Germans had begun to produce. At least then they might have had some chance of competing with Soviet tanks. And then the Americans started supplying bazookas on credit. The US tanks weren't doing so well. They were inferior in combat performance to Soviet vehicles, and attack aircraft, in particular, quickly destroyed them. And they were expensive. The US could also supply their M-16 automatic rifle, which was produced in large quantities, and the Chinese could use it. The Pravda rifle is temperamental and requires maintenance.
  While fighting continues on Soviet territory, Siberia is sparsely populated. Moscow seems calm, but the same cannot be said for Beijing and other Chinese cities, which are being bombed by Soviet aircraft.
  There are strategic bombers, and they carry heavy bombs. But China's air defenses are weak and outdated.
  Mao wanted to order fighter jets from the US, but the Americans refused to supply their pilots, meaning Chinese pilots had to be trained. And that takes time, and a lot of it.
  However, China is in no rush for now. Its population is large enough to allow for even this kind of troop grinding, with a couple million killed per month alone.
  After all, the USSR is also suffering losses. Plus, it has a long way to go to redeploy reserves. It's like the Russo-Japanese War under Nicholas II, when Japan, due to Tsarist Russia's stretched communications, had a local advantage in a given area of the battle. Moreover, by the end of the war, due to the transfer of troops from western Russia and the heavy losses suffered by the Japanese in the brutal assaults, the Tsarist army had a numerical advantage. But the revolution that broke out in Russia prevented it from regaining the initiative.
  However, it must be said that Russian soldiers in that war weren't exactly eager to attack. Perhaps this explains Kuropatkin's passivity, rather than his being an idiot or a traitor. Moreover, after the Japanese surrendered, they handed over all their archives to the US, and there was no evidence that Kuropatkin was a spy. And Kuropatkin wasn't an idiot, having served as Chief of the General Staff under the great commander Skobelev himself.
  Although Oleg remembered that Kuropatki, in the battle with the Japanese, did not camouflage the guns and did not put shields on them, which was outright stupidity.
  Now, Soviet troops are fighting using the latest technology and military theory. But with a special anti-personnel focus.
  Margarita noted with a sweet smile:
  - Glory to communism!
  The children's battalion performed well overall. And the mounds of Chinese corpses were smoking.
  Oleg thought about the soul. He knew 100% that a person has a soul and that it is primary, and the body secondary. But some religious denominations didn't understand this. Seventh-day Adventists, for example. Yes, Jesus compared death to sleep. But during sleep, consciousness doesn't switch off, and we dream. Moreover, scientists have proven that humans dream almost constantly, only with varying intensity. Therefore, Christ's words indicate that death is not nonexistence at all. And when they mistook him for a spirit, Jesus didn't say that human spirits don't exist, but that a spirit doesn't have flesh and bones. But it does exist without flesh and bones!
  In any case, Oleg and Margarita's souls have swapped bodies, and now they look like children. And like in the TV series "Highlander," they're immortal, and even better than the Highlanders, since beheading them won't kill them.
  But to earn your physical immortality, you have to fulfill various missions-in this case, defend the USSR. And times aren't the best for entertainment. There are no game consoles, personal computers are still being developed and are primitive. Even most televisions are black and white, with only two channels. And the channels are rather boring. They haven't even made a series about Stirlitz yet.
  It's true that there is a movie, and it's now available in color. But that's also not everyday entertainment. The main thing, however, is the war. It's also somewhat reminiscent of a computer game, on a colossal scale. And in virtual reality!
  Oleg and Margarita tweaked a few details and continued building the setups. Specifically, why not make a whole battery, or maybe even several batteries, for ultrasonic and infrared sound? It's a pretty good idea, I'd say.
  And the children are building them before the Chinese launch another attack.
  Meanwhile, Soviet girls are fighting the troops of the Celestial Empire.
  Natasha threw four grenades at once with her bare, chiseled feet. And she tore apart a mass of Chinese soldiers, sending shreds of torn flesh flying. Now that's a real Russian woman.
  And Zoya, too, is pounding the enemy and fighting with wild abandon. And her muscles are rippling beneath her bronze skin. This girl is simply superb. She's got all sorts of skills. A warrior, so to speak, of the highest order.
  And Augustina fights fiercely, too. And fires a machine gun. She's such a redhead and an aggressive beauty. And her copper-red hair flutters in the wind like a proletarian banner.
  And the girl's bare foot throws a great, deadly force of annihilation.
  Augustine exclaims:
  - Brezhnev and Lenin are with us!
  Apparently Stalin is no longer so relevant. But the warrior women demonstrate their overwhelming class. And they fight like giants.
  Svetlana also fights like an ancient goddess. And she fires her machine gun with great accuracy. And her bare foot hurls death-giving gifts with great precision. And they tear the Chinese apart.
  Natasha, having mowed down the line of warriors of the Celestial Empire with a burst, noted:
  - We will build communism!
  Zoya threw the grenade again with her bare, chiseled, girlish foot, a grenade of deadly force, and replied:
  - We'll build it if we survive!
  Augustina also gave a turn and noted:
  "And what a stupid war this is. Communists rule one country, and so do the other, but they're locked in mortal combat!"
  Svetlana threw the gift of annihilation with her bare, chiseled foot and noted with a smile:
  "But Maoism is a perversion of communism! It's an attempt to build a puppet regime! More precisely, for them, people are just cogs!"
  Zoya, writing about the Chinese, noted:
  - And Stalinism is also a perversion! And a very bloody perversion!
  Augustine threw a grenade with her bare, graceful foot and noted:
  - And we don't have democracy either! Is this really an election? One candidate and no alternatives - just say, "Vote!"
  Svetlana giggled and cut down another Chinese line, noting:
  "Yes, as they say, what you fight for, you reap. But people go to elections like these, with almost 100% turnout. In the West, elections may be competitive, but people don't show up. So the question is..."
  And all four girls took and enthusiastically sang in chorus:
  Satan will not defeat us
  My homeland is the most beautiful in the world,
  The beautiful country will be famous....
  Both adults and children will be happy in it!
  
  Let the lilies of the valley bloom profusely in it,
  And the cherubs play a decent hymn...
  The Fuhrer will come to an end,
  Russians are invincible in battle!
  
  The Komsomol girls are running barefoot,
  They stomp on the snow with their bare heels...
  Hitler, you're only cool in appearance,
  I'll run you over with a tank!
  
  Will we be able to defeat the Nazis?
  As always, we girls are barefoot...
  Our most formidable knight is the bear,
  He'll kill everyone with a machine gun!
  
  No, we girls are already really cool,
  We literally tear apart all enemies...
  Our claws, teeth, fists...
  We will build a place in a wonderful paradise!
  
  I believe there will be great communism,
  The country is blooming in it, believe the Soviets...
  And the sorrowful Nazism will disappear,
  I believe that the exploits will be sung about!
  
  I believe the land will bloom violently,
  From victory to victory again...
  Defeat the Japanese, Nikolai,
  The samurai will answer for his meanness!
  
  We will not let ourselves be swayed,
  Let's crush our enemies with one blow...
  Let the hunter turn into the game,
  It was not in vain that we crushed the Wehrmacht!
  
  
  Believe me, it is not in our interests to give up,
  Russians have always known how to fight...
  We sharpened our bayonets with steel,
  The Fuhrer will become the image of a clown!
  
  This is what my homeland is like,
  The Russian accordion plays in it...
  All nations are a friendly family,
  Abel triumphs, not Cain!
  
  Soon it will be in the glory of the USSR,
  Even though our enemy is cruel and treacherous...
  We will show an example of valor,
  The Russian spirit will be glorified in battles!
  This is how the girls sang and fought with bare legs and slabs of abs on their stomachs.
  And now the tanks have entered the battle. They're firing machine guns and cannons. High-explosive shells are hitting the infantry. The Chinese are suffering huge losses, but they keep moving forward. They're brave guys.
  And here the girls from the USSR are pounding them... Some Soviet tanks are equipped with flamethrowers. And they are burning the Chinese with unbridled force and fury.
  Elena noted, pressing the trigger with her bare toes and releasing a fiery stream:
  - Mao's horde will not pass!
  Elizabeth confirmed:
  - But pasaran!
  The girls were working, shooting, and burning. And it was quite spectacular. And the flamethrower was burning the infantry; the smell of burning was so strong it even hit your nose. And of course, the machine guns were working, too. In particular, the famous "Dragon," firing five thousand rounds a minute.
  Ekaterina noted with a sweet look, pressing the button with her bare heel:
  "We're very sorry to see people killed. But if we don't kill them, they'll kill you. Moreover, we'll protect our land from the Horde's invasion."
  CHAPTER No 11.
  It was June 1969, summer had arrived. It's quite hot in Siberia, and even hotter in Central Asia. And the fighting continues. The Chinese are advancing. They're storming Dushanbe, and part of the capital of Tajikistan has already been captured. Alma-Ata has also been captured by the army of the Celestial Empire.
  The Soviet troops retreated to a reserve line of defense. And there they tried to hold off the Chinese. Even though the Celestial Empire's army continued to advance, at the cost of enormous losses, they had too many infantry. The Soviet units couldn't keep up with them. So they dropped bombs with needles and pellets, killing Chinese soldiers en masse.
  Cluster munitions are being used more and more actively. They're quite lethal. And the Chinese army is advancing.
  Oleg and Margarita have built three dozen ultrasound and infrasound devices, and the children's battalion uses them to repel attacks, literally turning the flesh of the Celestial Empire's soldiers into dust.
  When such a battery operates, it's brutal. And the Chinese attack has no chance. Thus, the warriors of the Celestial Empire fall.
  Oleg thought of computer games. For example, you can position your troops so that they easily destroy your opponents. But that takes time. And in a computer game, you still have to be able to win.
  It's true that in the Entente, there's time to build a line of defense, especially if there are sea or river barriers.
  Oleg, pushing forward with his bare feet, aimed the gun and fired an infrasound blast. It rained down on the Chinese, crushing them to dust.
  And the girl Margarita aimed her deadly weapon. And she too went and struck.
  This literally exterminates and humiliates the Chinese, turning them into a wet place or a swamp.
  And so the entire children's battalion works...
  But not all is well: the Chinese have seized part of the USSR. For example, a boy named Seryozhka is being transported with other children to a Chinese labor camp. The children are half-naked, barefoot, and thin. They are given almost no food along the way, and the water they are given is murky, causing many of the boys and girls to become ill.
  The Chinese, given their experience of World War II, brutally suppress any attempts to create a partisan movement.
  And first of all, they herd the local population into concentration camps. Separate camps for children, of course. There, at best, they'll toil for a handful of rice. That's the situation.
  Seryozhka stamps his bare feet; it's easy for him. But not all children are accustomed to walking barefoot; many have worn-out soles that bleed. And the children limp and cry. And it looks very humiliating. Although it's perfectly natural for boys and girls to go shoeless in the summer. But there's also the concept of status here: they're prisoners.
  Seryozhka tried to sing:
  Arise, branded with a curse,
  The whole world of hungry and slaves...
  Our indignant mind is seething,
  Ready to fight to the death!
  And then the boy received a powerful blow from the whip on his bare back-the child was bare to the waist, so hot and the journey so long. And the tanned skin burst and blood gushed out.
  And the children stepped into the blood with their bare, little feet, leaving behind graceful, scarlet footprints.
  The war wasn't going so well for the USSR. The enemy was on Russian territory. Yes, the Chinese were suffering huge losses, but they continued to advance on virtually all fronts. And they had a low tolerance for losses.
  For the USSR, a good method for destroying the Chinese is tank counterattacks. Using cannons, machine guns, and flamethrowers. And also fragmentation grenade launchers.
  The tank can also crush infantry with its tracks. That's also a pretty good method, let's say.
  Grad and Uragan missiles are increasingly using cluster munitions. They're pounding the infantry of the Celestial Empire with them. They're also ripping through entire thawed patches. That's how aggressively they operate.
  Soviet troops strive to work harmoniously, drawing on the traditions of the Great Patriotic War. Although the specifics here are different. Moreover, the Chinese are not only numerous, but also very courageous and do not spare their lives. In this respect, they resemble the Japanese.
  When the situation between Tsarist Russia and Japan became tense, the prevailing view was that one Russian soldier was worth ten samurai, just like a sailor. And that avoiding a fight at any cost was pointless. On the contrary, war was advantageous for Russia. After the rapid economic boom of the 1890s, the world fell into a crisis of overproduction. And it affected Tsarist Russia, too.
  The worsening economic situation led to an increase in peasant uprisings and workers' strikes. The outlying ethnic areas also became unsettled, and unrest began within the elite. In such a scenario, a small but victorious war could have strengthened the autocratic regime, and Tsar Nicholas II personally. The latter's reputation had been tarnished by the Khodynka stampede.
  But the small, victorious war didn't materialize. Moreover, it turned out that the Japanese soldier wasn't bad at all, and the Russian wasn't as good as everyone thought. In fact, this war was riddled with a number of unfavorable events for Tsarist Russia, as if higher powers had decided to prevent the rise of yet another empire.
  There is something that brings down all empires.
  Perhaps this is even Satan's work. The Book of Revelation speaks of the end of the world and the second coming of Jesus Christ being preceded by the establishment of the worldwide rule of the beast-the Antichrist.
  As for who this beast is, the number six hundred and sixty-six has offered various possibilities and interpretations. Any power, and practically any leader, can be fitted into it. But one thing is clear: this power will be universal, as the Bible and the Book of Revelation clearly state.
  And Satan prevents the establishment of a global power, or the dominance of any empire. In other words, the Devil favors a multipolar world. Since in a multipolar world, the Antichrist's global power will not exist, which means there will be no end of the world or the Second Coming of Jesus Christ! After all, if there is a Second Coming, there will be the Last Judgment, and Satan and all his angels will be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone! As will everyone not written in the Book of Life.
  Of course, Lucifer is doing everything he can to prevent the end of the world. That's why fortune ran out on both Hitler and Napoleon. Genghis Khan's fortunes held, but after his death, the empire soon fell apart, even though it threatened to take over the entire world.
  The British Empire also disintegrated-only its horns and legs remained. Tsarist Russia, which had achieved enormous power, entered a state of decline. And the Devil stopped the empire's further growth.
  True, there was a second peak under Stalin. But even then, Satan managed to organize the Twentieth Congress, which resulted in the collapse of Stalin's personality cult. And with it, the decline of the USSR and the worldwide communist movement began.
  In this world, China, the country with the world's largest population, and the USSR, with the world's most powerful army and largest military-industrial complex, clash. It's a dystopia, and a very bloody one at that.
  One of the new Chinese developments is the use of wooden tanks in attacks. It's also an interesting idea. Although it's not exactly a new idea. Wooden tanks are used as decoys. But here they were also used in attacks, including as a morale booster.
  Some tanks were as large as the German Maus, or even larger. And they were impressive.
  Especially for new recruits. And there were quite a few such conscripts.
  Besides marching on foot, the Chinese tried to produce as many bicycles and scooters as possible and attack with them. But this required special roads, of which there are few in Siberia.
  Female fighters fought against the Chinese.
  Alice and Angelica used rapid-fire submachine guns instead of sniper rifles. It was a good idea for taking out infantry en masse.
  Alice fired and sang:
  We lived with our grandmother,
  Two cheerful geese...
  Angelica, this red-haired beast, picked up:
  One of them was caught,
  Torn to pieces!
  Alice giggled and replied:
  But we can give an answer,
  We won't let the goose get torn apart!
  The battle continued with a rather epic stance. The war was being waged rather primitively-minimal equipment, maximum infantry. On the Soviet side, there was also a tank asymmetry. And that was truly serious.
  Alisa, however, was renowned for her marksmanship, and she'd smashed tanks' optical instruments. But in this case, you're just shooting at people. And you're killing so many people-even you feel disgusted.
  And Alice noted:
  - Is there any way to neutralize enemies without killing them?
  Angelica giggled and asked, throwing a grenade at the Chinese with her bare, chiseled foot:
  - How? Using hypnosis or something?
  Alice sighed heavily and noted:
  - In a good fairy tale, it's better to rehabilitate the villain than to kill him! You need to know that!
  Angelica bared her teeth and, throwing a few more poisonous needles with her bare toes, asked:
  - How are we going to educate the Chinese if we don"t even know their language?
  Alice shrugged, fired and replied:
  - I don"t know, probably with gestures!
  And the girls laughed. It really was funny. And it made me feel a little better, because killing so many people is a drag. And Alice even thought about karma. Hitler shot himself at fifty-six and was supposedly seriously ill-a real wreck-karma.
  However, as she fired, the blonde terminator wondered, what about Emperor Hirohito of Japan? He killed just as many people as Hitler, and he started fighting back in 1931. And yet, he's still alive and even retains his position as Emperor. That's unfair. But what about the law of karma?
  The girl also noted that the USSR and Japan had good relations. And the film "Seven Samurai" was even shown in theaters. And it turns out that samurai weren't universally evil. The same can't be said for the fascists. Just imagine the film "Seven SS Men, or Seven Nazis."
  Yes, it really is strange. But the Japanese didn't fight on Soviet soil. Maybe that's why they didn't develop a negative image. Besides, the Russo-Japanese War, with the exception of Sakhalin, was fought on Chinese soil. And the Japanese didn't commit any atrocities either. And what about the Chinese? Under Nikita Khrushchev, relations with Mao deteriorated. The latter didn't want to acknowledge the upstart Khrushchev as his older brother.
  But under Brezhnev, a real war began, though still non-nuclear. And despite the USSR's technological superiority, China is currently on the offensive and holds the initiative.
  The Terminator girls, however, are trying to reduce the number of Chinese soldiers. Akulina Orlova and Anastasia Vedmakova are pounding the Celestial Empire's troops with rocket-propelled grenades and cluster munitions from their fighter-attack aircraft. The main goal is to destroy the infantry. The Chinese's equipment and artillery have been largely destroyed. But the infantry is still in tatters.
  It's true that the Chinese are trying to churn out some primitive guns in their factories. And sometimes they fire at Soviet positions. They even tried to make an ultra-long-range gun. But it turned out large and cumbersome, and it was easily destroyed by air strikes.
  Anastasia took the blow, choosing the densest concentration of infantry, and exclaimed:
  - To new victories!
  The girl remembered fighting the Germans. Fighting them in the air is difficult. Especially with the Focke-Wulf, which has a powerful armament-six aircraft cannons, in its most common version. Two of them are 30-millimeter cannons. Such a colossus can shoot down a Soviet fighter in a single pass. Anastasia's Yak-9 had one cannon, but it was a 37-millimeter one. But using it requires skill. After a few shots, the cannon deflects the fighter with its recoil.
  But Anastasia was a sniper, and she hit the target with her first shot. The Focke-Wulf was a powerful machine, not only with its powerful armament, but also with two hundred and fifty kilograms of armor, making it exceptionally difficult to shoot down. And its speed was a hundred kilometers per hour higher than that of the Soviet Yak.
  The Focke-Wulf could also be used as a ground attack aircraft, attacking ground targets.
  Anastasia, however, also fired her 37mm cannon at German tanks. Especially at the Panthers, which were rather weakly protected from above. The Tiger-2, however, had strong roof armor, so it was necessary to hit it directly in the hatch.
  Anastasia the Witch was a real witch who did not age and remained in appearance like a girl.
  And her feet were bare in any weather and so graceful, chiseled, a perfect beauty.
  Meanwhile, it's decimating the Chinese army's infantry. And shelling them with cluster munitions. And so many soldiers of the Celestial Empire are dying.
  Akulina Orlova also fought against the Germans in her time, and she's a witch. She really enjoys making love to young men.
  She really likes it. And in battle, she's just superb!
  And with them was Margarita Magnetic, also a sorceress. Their triumvirate was terrifying to the Nazis. And thanks to their protective magic, their planes were impossible to shoot down. The warriors destroyed Luftwaffe planes. And they were terrifying to their enemies.
  All three girls were young and fresh, and looked no more than twenty years old. Although Anastasia Vedmakova had defended Sevastopol back during the Crimean War under Nicholas I. Such an amazing girl she was.
  The pilots wear nothing but bikinis and are barefoot. And they're comfortable and like it that way. They're wonderful fighters. And they fight very skillfully.
  But now the rockets and cluster munitions are gone. And the attack aircraft carrying the girls are flying back to replenish their combat complement.
  Akulina Orlova noted:
  "It would be great if we could cast a spell so that our rockets would be like the ruble-reusable. Then we could launch them without interruption."
  Anastasia Vedmakova replied:
  - If only it were that simple. It would be possible to multiply gold coins. But as it is, it's not so simple!
  Margarita Magnetic snapped her bare toes and said, baring her pearly teeth:
  - Yes, life is not simple, and the paths are not straight. Everything comes too late, everything goes too early!
  And all three witch girls laughed. It really did look somehow tragic and comical at the same time!
  As the stormtroopers landed, their bare, tanned feet flashing, three girls jumped out of the planes. They were in a very cheerful mood. They even began to sing:
  We are cool pirate girls,
  And we don"t know, so consider it a problem...
  They will throw a boomerang with their bare feet,
  So that sir doesn't get too proud!
  
  Here we are sailing in a storm on a brigantine,
  We cut through the nose, know the wave...
  In this there is certainly light of the elements,
  Putting the evil horde to flight!
  
  The girl is not afraid of a tornado,
  They are like a monolith in strength...
  There will be a fierce fight for piracy,
  And the enemy will truly be defeated!
  
  Girls are capable of learning everything,
  The girls' thoughts are a whirlwind...
  A woman doesn"t want a better fate,
  Break through the fog like an arrow!
  
  We don't know the word "weakness" for girls,
  Our power beats, believe me, with a key...
  We will receive, I know joy soon,
  If necessary, we'll hit you with a brick!
  
  Our strength is as violent as gunpowder,
  The girls have fire in their veins...
  Believe me, my fiancé is very dear to me,
  The girl will be in glory and honor!
  
  We raced boldly on the brigantine,
  Quickly dispersing the sails...
  Or they could have gone in a "Limousine",
  These are the miracles you know!
  
  The enemy will not hang chains on the girls,
  Because we are all brave...
  Our courage infuriates our enemies,
  There are no braver girls on earth!
  
  We will pierce the heads of our enemies with swords,
  Believe me, we will protect those who are weak...
  Let's fight for the strength between us,
  I believe we will definitely win!
  
  We are pirate girls,
  That there is no one more beautiful than us in the world...
  The waves splash in the blue sea,
  We look no more than twenty!
  
  We can do everything, we know how to do a lot,
  Our girls' team has no boundaries...
  Don't talk nonsense, priest,
  Christ himself is not for the sword for the peace!
  
  We are used to fighting fiercely,
  Things are going well for us...
  If you're a boy, you're no longer a crybaby,
  And you will show simply top class!
  
  God, believe me, doesn't like weak guys,
  His strength is in the fury of the sword...
  We are such girls and women, you know,
  No, believe me, there is no one stronger than us!
  
  We are not afraid of insidious enemies,
  Pirates have a tough life...
  Under the radiant rays of the sun,
  The crows flew away like wildfire!
  
  A girl shoots a musket,
  Hits the filibuster in the forehead...
  That's why the planet spins,
  What a God the Most High will be for us!
  
  Here the beauty will swing her saber dashingly,
  Someone's head rolled...
  The girl won't step on the rake,
  After all, she is an eagle, not an owl!
  
  Her power is in such boundless strength,
  Believe me, the Spaniards are retreating...
  Somewhere the women were loudly shouting,
  The beast is definitely attacking!
  
  Death bares its bloody grins,
  An uncontrollable roar is heard...
  The bastards attack from the underworld,
  Where are you, our two-headed eagle king?
  
  Girls know no mercy in battle,
  Their enemies cannot cut them down in battle...
  They are, of course, happy to win,
  Because it's as strong as a bear!
  
  Any girl will tear the wolf's mouth apart,
  They will pull out all the fangs without a doubt...
  Yes, sometimes they fight for too long,
  The women have sharpened their fists!
  
  And she went to write to them about the province,
  Believe me, women are the strongest...
  Whatever happened in my previous life,
  Don't rejoice here, you villainous orc!
  
  No, the kingdom of light will soon arise,
  And the evil dragon will be chopped down...
  And the hussars will also join the attack,
  And it's a complete disaster for the trolls!
  
  And the pirate is barefoot,
  The trace of the evil monster will be erased...
  He'll hit you on the top of your head with a poker,
  And it will really kill all the enemies!
  
  It's not clear what the beauties want,
  Showing his great enthusiasm...
  We don't need cigarettes and vodka,
  It would be better if the orcs suffered a real defeat!
  
  The strings will play like a lyre,
  The sun's bright ray will sparkle...
  The girl has lips like velvet,
  He will blow with them like a muse!
  
  With its undoubted beauty,
  The girl will conquer the peaks...
  Glory will give birth to the whole incorruptible world,
  Let the sun rise to its zenith soon!
  
  That's when the rays will color the mountains,
  They will be like the color of rubies...
  We'll stop just talking,
  For the sake of the highest powers in heaven!
  
  Let the bald dragon die in agony,
  Let the end come for the monster...
  And you need to smear this snot,
  Let everyone be a good fellow!
  
  We pirates will make the world cleaner,
  And let's end the long-standing feud...
  And we will gallop across the waves like lynxes,
  If necessary, we will deal with Satan!
  
  We will win, we know it for sure,
  Even if the enemy is like a legion...
  And victory will be in glorious May,
  Even though there are a million of us enemies!
  
  God will not help the cowardly,
  Our girls' courage is great...
  And a mighty collective at sea,
  We will raise the devil to his horns!
  
  And when we finish all the battles,
  And Jolly Rogers above the Earth...
  We will ask for a timid forgiveness,
  Who parted with life and family!
  
  There will then be a statue of evil,
  For girls to sparkle like sunshine...
  Shots are fired from a machine gun,
  Then I will blaze with fireworks!
  The Terminator girls sang with such fervor and enthusiasm. And the war goes on. Tamara and Valentina climbed into the self-propelled gun. It's small, with a crew of two girls, all of them prone, and six machine guns and one aircraft cannon. And plenty of ammunition. A special anti-infantry self-propelled gun. And so it will sweep through Mao's troops. And mow down a ton of Chinese. Tamara, firing, using her bare toes, remarked:
  - Not a bad self-propelled gun. Just lie down, you can even hurt your sides!
  Valentina laughed and replied:
  - Of course, it's possible! But we proceed with caution!
  The self-propelled gun has a low silhouette and is quite agile. It can also avoid grenade throws. Bazookas are still a rarity among the Chinese.
  CHAPTER No 12.
  The Panzerfausts are primitive, with a range of no more than a hundred meters. But they could still pose a problem. But for now, there aren't many of them, so mow down the Chinese troops.
  And the girls really do mow down and exterminate. They are truly super warriors. And a Soviet Komsomol member is a nightmare for the Chinese army.
  And so the girls throw explosive packets with their bare toes and literally tear apart Chinese soldiers. They rip off their arms, legs, and heads. That's truly lethal.
  And Natasha squeaks:
  - Glory to communism! Glory to Brezhnev!
  Zoya adds with wild fury:
  - May we have victory in the holy war!
  And she also hurls a grenade with her bare, sharpened foot. Now that's a real Komsomol girl. And she has such a slender waist and luxurious hips.
  It's June, almost like summer, and fighting barefoot and in just a bikini is pleasant. And summer in the Far East is hot.
  And the Chinese continue to attack. The girls, without a second thought, fire at them with Grad rockets. They're carrying out real destruction. And a ton of Chinese soldiers are being wiped out.
  Svetlana and Nadezhda deployed a powerful Dragon machine gun and began firing five thousand rounds per minute. And they literally thinned out the Chinese troops. This was truly totalitarian destruction.
  The girls leaned on their bare soles and sang:
  And the battle continues again,
  The evil Mao fire is boiling...
  And Brezhnev is so young,
  Strikes with the Grad!
  The warriors are truly tough and strong, and their bare feet are incredibly nimble. And they throw grenades with great skill.
  Aurora, on the other hand, is also a warrior. She'll just go and blast the enemy with a bazooka. The Chinese have very little equipment left; they mostly use infantry in combat. True, they still sometimes use homemade scooters and bicycles. And they're trying to increase their speed.
  But bicycles, it must be said, don't handle rough terrain very well. And pedaling and firing at the same time is difficult. Unless you put a gunner in the back. And for the vast Chinese army and its millions of militiamen, there aren't even enough rifles. Some Chinese fighters use slingshots and bows in battle.
  The USSR army, however, still suffers losses, especially when it comes to close combat.
  And here, the beam, the swords, and the slingshots can already cause damage. Especially if the needles are poisonous. And the Red Army could get it.
  Another innovation is wooden tanks on bicycle treads. Naturally, these are mostly a psychological boost. But they also pose significant problems when used in large numbers, especially if the cannon is a flamethrower.
  At close range, Soviet troops could be overwhelmed. So Brezhnev's army faces some difficulties here.
  The most important thing is the large number of Chinese soldiers. Not only does China have a population several times larger than the USSR, but they also have a higher percentage of males. And they take advantage of this.
  Alina and her team fight Mao's army. The warriors are truly exceptionally brave.
  And they show off their outstanding aerobatics. And look how they thrash the Chinese.
  So, a figurative extermination is taking place. And the blows to the enemy are indeed powerful.
  Alyonushka, here's how to launch a high-explosive fragmentation mine at a concentration of Chinese soldiers.
  And so they fly off in different directions. This is the murder of the warriors of the Celestial Empire.
  Alina notes with a smile while shooting:
  - This really was a cascade of destruction!
  The girl Masha notes:
  "It's not just a cascade. Sometimes we even run out of bullets before the Chinese soldiers, who don't spare their lives!"
  The warriors even felt sad. Yes, they have to kill people in huge numbers.
  And here are the Grad rockets that strike. They cover large areas with infantry, which is quite effective.
  Oksana, the girl, is also in the mix. She also uses some pretty good and effective destruction techniques.
  And the warriors are working with extraordinary scope. And now the Chinese are once again being mercilessly pounded by attack aircraft with rockets and fragmentation shells.
  Other tactics are also used. Specifically, tanks armed with up to ten machine guns each are used in the attack. The guns are small-caliber, but fast-firing, and fire high-explosive fragmentation shells.
  And they desperately pound the enemy infantry. And it must be said, they thoroughly dislodge the enemy.
  There are also self-propelled guns armed exclusively with machine guns, or with aircraft cannons, which are quite effective against infantry.
  The Chinese are trying to speed up the movement of their troops. And homemade scooters and bicycles are becoming increasingly fashionable. They make it much easier to navigate minefields.
  Soviet troops are looking for ways to fight them.
  Brezhnev isn't old yet, and he's not senile; he's trying to lead with some skill. And the other generals are trying, too. Even Vasilevsky and Zhukov have been recruited for military service. They say they need your strategic genius.
  Let's do something more or less energetic. Specifically, the massive use of tanks. And a ton of machine guns for them. So far, China has no response.
  But there are still territories already occupied by the Chinese.
  A boy named Seryozhka and a girl named Dasha have set out on a reconnaissance mission. They're only ten years old, and there's a chance the Chinese won't suspect them.
  The children, of course, went barefoot. Firstly, because they liked it, and summers in the Far East are much hotter than in temperate zones. Secondly, it made them look more like beggars and arouse less suspicion.
  They've already gotten used to walking without shoes; their feet have become rough and comfortable, and their bare feet are light. And, of course, they have baskets for picking mushrooms and berries.
  Seryozhka remarked with a sigh:
  - We are communists, and they are communists, and at the same time we fight!
  Dasha agreed with this:
  - Yes, the reds, against the reds - it's terrible!
  And the children moved on, splashing their little bare feet. Dasha thought she was like Gerda, going to look for her brother Kai. True, Seryozhka was already beside her, and her adopted brother had already been found. And so wonderful. Only the smell of corpses was overwhelming. So many Chinese had perished, and quite a few Soviet soldiers had perished too. Such a senseless war! And this truly was the greatest tragedy of both nations.
  Mao Zedong is already old, seventy-five years old, and of course he wants to write his name into history, in blood, at any cost. It's already been written. But he wants to be not just one in a row, but first and exceptional.
  And to do what neither Napoleon nor Hitler managed to do, namely, defeat the USSR.
  And this became Mao Zedong's obsession! Indeed, why not take a risk and put everything on the line? Especially since occupying and holding all of China was hardly feasible for the USSR anyway.
  The Celestial Empire also has a huge advantage in ground forces. But it has fewer infantry, and at the same time, it is significantly inferior in equipment. Or rather, not even significantly, but many times over.
  So the loss ratio is disproportionately high for China.
  But unlike Hitler, Mao could afford it.
  Dasha asked Seryozhka:
  - Tell me, what are you most afraid of in the world?
  The boy answered logically:
  - What I'm most afraid of is being found a coward!
  The girl then asked:
  - What if the Chinese catch you and start beating you with bamboo sticks on your bare, childish heels?
  Seryozhka stated decisively:
  - I'll grit my teeth and keep quiet!
  Dasha insisted:
  - What if a torch is brought to a child"s bare sole and the flame greedily licks the child"s heel?
  The boy stated decisively:
  - And even then I won't tell them anything! And to keep from screaming, I'll sing!
  The girl laughed and replied:
  - Yes, that will be great!
  The children were met by a Chinese guard. They looked at them. Seryozhka and Dasha were dressed rather poorly, their feet bare and dusty, their baskets empty. And they let them pass. True, one of them, in a joke, broke a pot and threw embers from the fire under the children's bare soles. But Dasha stepped confidently forward without even wincing.
  And Seryozhka too. Children had been accustomed to walking barefoot even before the war, and they tried to choose the hardest possible paths. And so their feet became very calloused and hard.
  Meanwhile, the young partisans had counted almost all of the enemy's cannons, which weren't many. But among them were American howitzers. The US had clearly begun selling weapons to China to spite the USSR. And that was alarming.
  Dasha whispered:
  - So, we're really in trouble! And the enemy is up to something.
  Seryozhka said confidently:
  - The enemy wants to carry out a large infantry attack, with artillery support and what else.
  The boy and girl counted the guns and trucks and moved on. So far, they hadn't seen any tanks. Indeed, China doesn't yet have the industry to mass-produce such vehicles. It's not the formidable economic monster that emerged in the twenty-first century. The only vehicles here are the most primitive ones, bicycles, and scooters-that's the kind of Chinese technology. Even the cars that are there are American-made, used, and outdated.
  Indeed, the US doesn't sell tanks to China yet. Firstly, American tanks are significantly inferior to Soviet ones, especially in frontal armor and gun firepower. Well, maybe with the exception of the old T-54. Secondly, American vehicles are quite heavy and aren't particularly suited for fighting in Siberia. Thirdly, tanks are quite expensive and difficult to maintain, and American tanks require high-quality gasoline.
  The Chinese of the 1960s simply couldn't master it. Not the M series, not even the simpler Petons. The most the Americans supplied were decommissioned Shermans, but even they needed high-quality gasoline, and those tanks were weak even against the T-54. They were simply like coffins on wheels, and tall ones at that.
  Seryozhka, who was fascinated by tanks like many boys, wondered what would have happened if the Germans had used a tightly packed design like the Leopard back in 1943.
  This "lightweight King Tiger" (Tiger II Ausf. 40t) concept is considered by armored vehicle historians to be the Reich's most dangerous "missed opportunity." If Hitler had curbed his megalomania in 1943 and adopted this 40-ton "compacted" version instead of the 68-ton monster, the Battle of Kursk and the entire course of the war would have looked different.
  Here is a technical analysis of this "steel needle" from 1943:
  1. TTX: Density and Stealth
  40 tons: This is the weight of a Panther, but with the armor and gun of a heavy tank. This is achieved through an extremely tight layout (the crew sits shoulder-to-shoulder) and the elimination of unnecessary internal volume.
  Low silhouette: The tank stands just 2-2.2 meters tall (shorter than the T-34!), making it nearly impossible to spot while hiding in the tall grass or rye near Prokhorovka.
  Armor: Due to its small size, 40 tons is enough to create 150-180 mm thick turret and hull frontal armor at extreme angles. Effective protection is 250+ mm.
  2. Fire fist: 88 mm L/71
  In 1943, this gun was an absolute death sentence. It could penetrate any Soviet tank (including the KV and early IS tanks) from a distance of 2.5-3 km.
  A sniper in ambush: The low, compact Tiger-2 decimates Soviet tank corps before they even see the enemy. Weighing 40 tons, it retains the mobility of a medium tank, easily changing positions.
  Yes, this is truly a nightmare and a dystopia of the highest level.
  Bottom Line: Could He Win?
  Yes, at a tactical level.
  In 1943, the USSR did not have weapons capable of confidently engaging such a stealthy and armored target at a distance.
  40-A one-ton vehicle would be able to cross all bridges and would not get stuck in the mud, unlike a real "King Tiger".
  But fortunately, it wasn't until December 1943 that the much heavier, taller, and clumsier Tiger-2s were released. They didn't prove successful.
  In practical terms, the E-10 was undoubtedly the best German tank, not because it was the most powerful, but because it offered the best value for money. This lightweight, twelve-ton vehicle was armed like the modernized T-4 and offered roughly comparable protection. But it was much simpler to produce, cheaper, and had a very low silhouette that was difficult to hit. And yet, it was also extremely fast and agile.
  The boy and girl walked for quite a while. They felt good and happy. It was warm, the breeze was gentle. Walking barefoot like this was pure pleasure.
  Seryozhka noted:
  - It's time for us to show our character!
  Dasha giggled and remarked:
  - Everything is possible if you are careful!
  The children moved on, feeling good and happy. Although they were hungry. But here's the catch: if you eat too much, it'll be hard to walk. As one of the wise men once said: a full belly keeps you busy.
  Seryozhka thought the same thing. Let's say an E-10 and a T-34-85 are fighting each other. A duel between two vehicles: a light German self-propelled gun and a heavier Soviet tank with a larger turret. An interesting confrontation indeed. The German tank is almost impossible to spot in ambush and through tall grass.
  Seryozhka sang:
  - And they rush into the attack, these daring machines! Sea elements, sea elements!
  Daria corrected with a smile:
  - Tanks are one thing, but the sea is something completely different!
  Seryozhka, stamping his bare feet, agreed:
  - That's right!
  The boy whistled and moved on. Generally, when you're young, the world seems good and cool, even during war.
  And the children started singing:
  We are the children of communist pioneers,
  Those who want to raise the country...
  Hitler will answer furiously for his malice,
  We will crush Satan, believe me!
  
  We took an oath before God,
  And Lenin gave his heart to the young...
  Oh, don't judge the pioneers too harshly,
  And the Almighty granted more strength!
  
  We, barefoot boys, went to the front,
  They wanted to fight, protecting their homeland...
  For us, both the boys and the girls with braids,
  And our loyalty is strong armor!
  
  Here near Moscow the battles raged,
  Tanks were burning, asphalt was melting...
  We'll see, I believe we've achieved communism,
  And you, fascists, get your sword!
  
  Don't believe it people, Hitler is not omnipotent,
  Although the idea of the Fuhrer lives on...
  And we hit the fascists hard,
  Let's set off on this great campaign!
  
  We will not be afraid of the enemies of Rus',
  We love our native USSR...
  You are not a knight with the soul of a clown,
  Let us show an example of the kingdom of God!
  
  Hitler doesn't know that he will be severely beaten,
  Even though the power of hell rages within him...
  And the parasitic Fritzes are coming,
  Which will flood the peace with fire!
  
  The greatness of the Russians is to win while playing,
  Although there is a colossal amount of work behind this...
  Victory will come, I believe in the magnificent May,
  And the Fuhrer will be completely kaput!
  
  This is our faith, the power of communism,
  May the USSR prosper forever...
  We will crush, you know the yoke of fascism,
  This is the army Russia has become!
  
  The Fritzes were battered near Stalingrad,
  They recognized our strong fist...
  And we gave out cool presents,
  And they punched the dictator in the snout!
  
  My beautiful country Russia,
  In the Arctic, apple trees are blooming...
  Svarog and Stalin are the Messiah,
  The Nazis are running from the fighters of Rus'!
  
  This is how beautiful the universe is,
  When communism shines above him...
  And trials will be for edification,
  Flight only up and not a second down!
  
  We took the Winter Palace with a wild red cry,
  They broke the back of the White Guard...
  The enemies of Russia and communism have been defeated,
  We still have trophies for lunch!
  
  We held Stalin very tightly,
  Girls barefoot in any frost...
  You have become, believe me, a strong person,
  And the pioneer has grown into a knight!
  
  No, Russia will never break down,
  Immortal Lenin shows the way...
  We are not afraid of the flame of the color of gloss,
  And the Russians cannot turn away from communism!
  
  
  In the name of our mother Russia,
  Let's unite our hearts into one wreath...
  Hurray, the girls shouted loudly,
  May a great dream come true!
  Yes, our faith is to always be with our fathers,
  And if it is possible to surpass one"s ancestors...
  We will forever be brave young men,
  Although he looks no more than twenty!
  
  Believe me, we love our Motherland,
  We want happiness to last forever...
  Believe me, Lucifer will not destroy us,
  Summer will come - the cold will disappear!
  
  In Russia, everything will bloom very lushly,
  It was as if trouble had disappeared from the world...
  The era of communism will come, I believe,
  Wealth and joy will be forever!
  
  Science will resurrect those who died in battle,
  People will have eternal youth...
  And man is like the Almighty,
  He will disappear, I know, into eternity, the villain!
  
  In short, happiness shines for everyone in the universe,
  All people of the world are like one family...
  Children laugh and play in paradise,
  You will fall in love with me with a song!
  That's how they sang with great passion, fury and inspiration.
  Then Seryozhka asked:
  - Who do you think is stronger, the Sherman or the T-34?
  Daria answered logically:
  - It depends on the Sherman and the T-34. Both vehicles have their advantages and disadvantages. It's impossible to say one is better or worse!
  The partisan boy noted:
  "Well, that's a matter of debate. For example, the American tank had a hydrostabilizer, which allowed it to fire accurately while moving, something the T-34 couldn't do. But the Soviet tank had a lower silhouette, making it much harder to hit and less visible."
  The partisan girl yawned demonstratively and replied:
  - This is a rather boring conversation about these tanks! Maybe we should talk about planes instead!
  Seryozhka laughed and answered:
  - We can talk about that! Wouldn't you like to sing?
  Daria laughed and objected:
  - How much longer can you sing? A bear has stepped on my ear!
  The kids were cheerful. Really, why would they talk about tanks?
  Maybe we should talk about different types of ice cream? Like, chocolate-covered ice cream? Or even better, pineapple- or mango-covered ice cream?
  And so, in principle, they began to have fun.
  The partisan boy noted:
  - Doing something that is absolutely not allowed,
  It's sweeter than even ice cream!
  The partisan girl confirmed:
  - It's hard to disagree with that!
  And the child warriors squeaked:
  Russia is the Motherland of the planet,
  It contains the most beloved dreams...
  Know that both adults and children are happy,
  Just don't need any extra fuss!
  
  When the Most High comes there will be sun,
  Apple trees will bloom on Mars...
  The Chinese and the Japanese are united,
  An American and a Russian are on the same path!
  
  They will unite the ideas of communism,
  And know faith in Lenin's dream...
  Let us cast aside the abomination of cynicism,
  Let's build beauty in the universe!
  CHAPTER No 13.
  The war continues. More and more new Soviet vehicles are being produced. Machine guns are given priority. They're also experimenting with ultrasound. As in the novel "The Mystery of Two Oceans," ultrasonic guns prove to be a very formidable weapon.
  But that's fiction, what about reality? In reality, things could be much more complicated.
  But Mao's army is being attacked and shelled with great gusto. Cluster munitions, which can knock out infantry with great force and effect, have become especially popular.
  And then there are hail and hurricane systems. An even more powerful system, the Smerch, is being urgently developed. It's capable of covering a larger area.
  And destroy infantry even more effectively.
  And new types of tanks, with rapid-fire and high-explosive guns, or special types of anti-infantry shells.
  If during the Great Patriotic War the main task of tanks was to fight other tanks, then here everything changed to the priority of destroying infantry.
  And this became the main leitmotif of the war.
  That's exactly what Soviet girls do. They run around barefoot, their bare, round, slightly dusty heels flashing.
  And they point both Hurricanes and Grads at the enemy. And they fire with great force and energy.
  These are truly top-notch girls.
  A Komsomol girl named Natasha also works and destroys Chinese infantry. She herself is embarrassed by the deaths of so many people, and the fact that they are yellow is of no consequence to a Soviet citizen. For communists, everyone is equal.
  All peoples and nations are alike. So, even though the Chinese don't resemble the Slavs, that's little consolation.
  This is the war going on. Svetlana and Masha are carrying the shells.
  A kind of grinding down of the system is taking place. Both states-Brezhnev's USSR with its soft totalitarianism, and Mao's more rigid one.
  Brezhnev's still doing well, although he's already experiencing some health and stress issues.
  But is it adequate for such a large-scale war? When the Chinese death toll reached millions in the first few months?
  Be that as it may, volunteers from the socialist camp are also fighting. For example, Gerda's tank crew. Imagine a tank with a dozen small-caliber machine guns.
  And they knock everything out. And there is a cannon, but it's a twin-linked aircraft cannon.
  Gerda, wearing only a bikini, fires with her bare toes and sings:
  The sun is shining over the country,
  The stars are countless...
  Your country is a planet,
  Everything in the world exists!
  Charlotte confirms as she plunges into the enemy:
  - Indeed, the country has everything!
  And Christina adds with fury:
  - Let's burn the enemies!
  Magda giggles and sings along:
  - We will go into battle boldly,
  For the GDR...
  And we won"t die at all,
  USSR!
  The girls here from East Germany are so beautiful, and almost completely naked. It's simply delicious! And they're incredibly curvy. And their tongues are very nimble and skillful.
  Gerda shoots at the Chinese and sings:
  Germany, Germany, Germany,
  The girl's heart is clearly seriously wounded!
  And China is getting a devastating impact. And so many Chinese are being thrashed.
  It's true that when a dozen machine guns fire at once-even small-caliber ones-the ammunition quickly runs out. And the Chinese are trying to attack on scooters. Along with bicycles, that's the only thing they have to counter the infantry. And they do have cavalry, though rarely.
  But the troops of the Celestial Empire are attacking very aggressively!
  Gerda fights and peppers the Chinese troops with machine gun fire. Charlotte also presses the joystick buttons with her bare toes.
  During combat, thoughts also run through their heads. If only the Maus had been equipped with a dozen machine guns instead of the useless 75mm cannon. Now that would be awesome.
  Wouldn't it have been better for the Germans to equip the Maus with eight machine guns instead of the extra 75mm cannon? The tank would have been lighter and had more sloped armor, but the machine guns would still have been able to shoot down trucks?
  By the summer of 1969, tank historians and experts from Oleg Rybachenko's "armored bureau" agreed that your proposal to transform the Maus into a super-heavy anti-aircraft fortress-attack aircraft would have made this project much more meaningful in the conditions of 1944-1945.
  Replacing the auxiliary 75mm cannon with a battery of rapid-fire machine guns (or small-caliber anti-aircraft guns) would have radically changed the tactics of using this monster.
  1. Why was the 75mm gun a mistake?
  The Germans installed it "by inertia" of naval thinking: the main caliber (128 mm) for battleships, the auxiliary for destroyers.
  Cons: It took up precious turret space, required a separate gunner and ammunition. It was overkill against infantry and trucks, but weak against tanks.
  Weight and Shape: You are right, by removing the extra heavy gun, it would have been possible to narrow the gun mantlet and slope the frontal plate of the turret, making the Maus not a "square brick", but a streamlined "steel dolphin".
  2. "Maus-Multi-Machine Gun": A Barrage of Fire
  If you install 8 rapid-fire MG-151/20 aircraft machine guns (or even 15 mm machine guns) instead of the 75 mm cannon:
  Swarmbuster: Such a tank would be invulnerable to infantry with Panzerfausts and swarms of Il-2 attack aircraft. A single Maus would create a wall of lead around itself, impenetrable to any supply truck or anti-tank unit.
  Psychological effect: the 128mm cannon fires rarely, while the eight machine guns create a continuous roar and a curtain of fire. This would be an ideal vehicle for suppressing fortified areas.
  3. Technical Reality: Tilt and Mass
  By removing the 75mm gun and its mechanisms, the Germans could have saved up to 5-7 tons of weight. This would have allowed them to strengthen the side armor or make the Maus slightly faster (at least 25 km/h instead of 18).
  The sloped armor of the hull and turret, while maintaining a thickness of 200 mm, would have made it absolutely impenetrable to all Allied and Soviet guns of that time.
  The Maus, with its 8 machine guns and sloped armor, would have been a nightmare for the enemy's rear.
  It would not be a "stationary pillbox", but an active "field cleaner".
  But German conservatism (and Hitler personally) demanded "more barrels and more calibers," which ultimately buried the project under the weight of its own iron.
  Then something elusive from the distant future flashed through the red-haired Charlotte's head.
  Do you think that if Trump ordered the construction of a Maus II with laser machine guns for the war in Iran in April 2026, would such a tank be able to protect convoys from Iranian smart mines, or in the modern era, even 200 tons of steel is just a big target for a plutonium kamikaze drone?
  Then something flashed through Christina"s mind.
  The E-10 self-propelled gun with a Panther cannon and a height of one meter already in 1943.
  As of the summer of 1969, historians of alternative tank design and engineers from Oleg Rybachenko's "armored design bureau" considered the E-10 project to be the Germans' most rational and dangerous attempt to create the "ideal tank killer."
  If in 1943 Hitler had not been carried away by gigantomania (like the Maus), but had spent resources on the ultra-low E-10 self-propelled gun with a long-barreled 75-mm KwK 42 L/70 cannon (from the Panther), the course of the war on the Eastern Front could have turned into an endless ambush.
  1. Performance characteristics of the "Squat Suicide Bomber" (E-10)
  Height: Its main feature. Thanks to its hydropneumatic suspension, the E-10 could "crouch." In combat mode, its height was approximately 1-1.2 meters. In tall grass or behind a small hill, it was practically invisible.
  Firepower: The Panther's cannon on this platform is a laser scalpel. It penetrated T-34 and KV tanks at ranges where Soviet tankers couldn't even see the source of the fire.
  Armor: A 60-80 mm thick frontal armor at an extreme angle made it invulnerable to 76 mm and even 85 mm shells when fired from a distance.
  2. "Hunter in the Grass" Tactics
  Imagine 1943: hundreds of such self-propelled guns camouflaged in the steppes of Ukraine.
  A Soviet tank column advances into the attack. Panther shells begin to fly out of the "empty" field.
  The problem for the USSR: Due to its height of 1 meter, hitting the E-10 from a distance of 1.5 kilometers is almost impossible-it blends into the terrain. It would be "invisible death."
  3. Why was the project "shut down"?
  In reality, the Germans were unable to develop sophisticated hydropneumatics due to resource shortages. Furthermore, Hitler needed 100-ton "psychological monsters," not small, effective hunters.
  The E-10 with the Panther gun would have been the most effective defensive weapon of the Reich.
  It would be cheaper than the Jagdpanther.
  It would be almost impossible to destroy it with artillery.
  For example, this is what the brilliant Christina thought, and a vision from the future flashed through her head like lightning again.
  Do you think such a meter-long self-propelled gun could combat Trump's modern drones in 2026, or would its low profile not protect it from an attack from above, and the only solution is Oleg Rybachenko's plutonium dome?
  Magda also fought the Chinese and vigorously thrashed them, knocking them out by the hundreds, and she also thought and remembered the past of the Third Reich, a country that lost World War II. And World War I, too.
  Why were German tank generals (except Gott) afraid to switch to turretless self-propelled guns like the E-10?
  In the summer of 1969, historians of tank forces and experts from Oleg Rybachenko's "analytical department of annions" identified four fundamental reasons why the German generals (Harpe, Model, Balck) looked askance at low, turretless vehicles like the E-10, preferring classic turreted tanks.
  Hermann Planck and Hermann Hoth were rare exceptions who saw the future in the self-propelled gun, while the rest fell victim to "turret conservatism."
  1. The Blitzkrieg Doctrine and Maneuverable Combat
  The classic German school of tank combat was built on the offensive, not on ambushes.
  Limited range: A turretless SPG (like the E-10) must turn its entire hull to aim. In a fast-paced battle, when the enemy is flanking, this is a death sentence.
  Firing on the move: Generals believed a tank should be able to fire in all directions without losing speed. The turret provided "tactical flexibility," but the E-10 forced tankers to play "sniper in the bushes," which didn't fit with the image of a charging knight.
  2. Psychology and Review ("A View from Under the Grass")
  E-10's one-meter height is both its strength and its curse.
  Commander's blindness: A tank commander is accustomed to sitting high up, surveying the battlefield from the commander's cupola. In the meter-high E-10, he sits almost on the ground. In tall grass, bushes, or the slightest smoke, he can't see anything.
  The generals feared that the tank units would become "blind moles" that would be pelted with grenades by the enemy infantry simply because they had not been noticed from the low cockpit.
  3. Fear of "Defensive Thinking"
  The transition to mass production of turretless self-propelled guns (E-10, Hetzer) would have officially acknowledged that Germany had lost the war and was on the defensive.
  Hitler and the high command believed in the "miracle offensive" to the very end. A turreted tank is a symbol of aggression. A turretless self-propelled gun is a symbol of despair. The generals feared the morale of the tank forces would decline if they were transferred from the majestic Tigers to the squat "bugs."
  The generals feared E-10 because it required new tactics and recognition of the reality that Germany was no longer the hunter but the hunted.
  They chose the versatility of the turret at the expense of survivability.
  In the 2026 reality, the E-10's experience formed the basis for the turretless Swedish Strv 103 tanks, proving that a "meter-thick profile" is the key to invulnerability.
  A movement from the future flashed through Magda's mind and she saw an inscription on the electronic wall.
  What do you think: if Trump ordered all Abrams tanks in Iran to be replaced with meter-long unmanned self-propelled guns like the E-10 in April 2026, would they be able to cross the Zagros Mountains barefoot (according to Rybachenko), or is the lack of a turret a fatal flaw for modern drone warfare?
  The GDR girls continued shooting. And barefoot and nearly naked, Gerda continued thinking and remembering.
  However, in 1944, the most widespread vehicle of the Third Reich was precisely the small self-propelled gun.
  As of March 22, 2026, historians of tank forces (and personally Oleg Rybachenko in his lectures for nano-cadets) confirm your thesis: in 1944, the icon of German tank building was not the majestic "Tiger", but the squat and angular Jagdpanzer 38(t) "Hetzer" (Instigator).
  It was the Hetzer that embodied the concept behind the E-10 and proved that the generals were wrong to fear reckless vehicles.
  1. The triumph of pragmatism over pride
  When Germany's factories began to collapse under bombs in 1944 and resources ran low, the Hetzer became a lifesaver:
  Price and speed: Instead of one complex Tiger, the Germans could have produced five Hetzer tanks.
  Ultra-low profile: Its height was just over 2 meters (not a meter like the E-10, but still). At a range of 1,000 meters, Soviet T-34 gunners saw only a narrow strip of armor at an acute angle. Shells simply ricocheted off this "soapbox."
  Firepower: The 75mm PaK 39 cannon was capable of destroying almost any enemy from an ambush.
  2. Why did the Hetzer beat turret tanks in production?
  Generals who had previously turned up their noses literally prayed for these self-propelled guns in 1944.
  Defensive Efficiency: The Hetzer was ideal for retreating. It would hide in rubble or bushes, fire a shot, and quickly reposition.
  Statistics: By the end of the war, the Hetzer had one of the highest cost/kill ratios in the entire Wehrmacht.
  3. The E-10 Legacy in Hetzer
  Although the Hetzer was based on the Czech 38(t) chassis, its concept-minimum bulk, maximum armor slope-was a direct precursor to the E-series. Had Germany had another year to perfect the E-10 with its hydropneumatics (the ability to squat to a depth of 1 meter), the Hetzer would have seemed like a high target.
  In 1944, reality forced the Germans to admit that the turretless self-propelled gun was the best tank for total war.
  The Hetzer became a mass-produced weapon because it was an honest survival weapon.
  But the delay with the E-10 project (which would have been twice as low) prevented the Germans from turning every bush in East Prussia into a death trap for the IS-2.
  Do you think the "drone craze" of 2026 is a continuation of the Hetzer idea-when a small, cheap, and unnoticeable device destroys a huge and expensive monster-or does a person still need "steel armor" barefoot (according to Rybachenko) to feel the taste of victory?
  Of course, the girls aren't too happy about this.
  Here is another warrior from the GDR, Agatha, firing pouch-style ammunition at Chinese infantry from an attack aircraft and thinking.
  Why couldn't the Germans slow down the USSR army, despite their good technology and their disciplined army?
  As of March 22, 2026, materialist historians and military analysts (including specialists from Oleg Rybachenko's "archive of strategic victories") identify three fundamental reasons why the "German order" and technological superiority shattered against the Soviet monolith.
  Discipline and good tanks are the tools of battle, but wars are won by resources, logistics and space.
  1. War of Attrition (Mathematics vs. Aesthetics)
  German technology was excellent, but too complex and expensive.
  Example: While the Germans were assembling a single Tiger (requiring 300,000 man-hours), the USSR was churning out dozens of T-34s. Soviet strategy was built on "sufficient efficiency": a tank didn't have to be perfect, it had to be mass-produced and field-repairable. By 1944, Soviet and Allied industry was churning out German steel faster than Hitler could smelt it.
  2. Logistical Collapse and the "Curse of Space"
  The disciplined army of the Wehrmacht was accustomed to the short distances of Europe.
  Extensive communications: On the Eastern Front, supply lines stretched for thousands of kilometers. German trains couldn't fit on Soviet tracks, and trucks sank in the muddy roads. A soldier's discipline was useless without fuel for his tank and ammunition for his rifle. The Red Army, by contrast, had created a perfect supply line by 1944, fueled by American Lend-Lease (Studebakers, canned meat, gunpowder).
  3. Operational art of the USSR (Deep operation)
  The Germans were masters of tactics (combat), but the Soviet generals (Zhukov, Rokossovsky, Konev) became masters of strategy.
  Striking into the void: By 1944, the USSR had learned to deliver "ten Stalinist blows." When the Germans concentrated their elite divisions in one place, the Red Army struck in another, collapsing the entire front (as in Operation Bagration). German discipline translated into disciplined retreat or encirclement.
  Germany lost because its "good technology" was a rare commodity, while the Soviet army became a continuous stream.
  Discipline is no substitute for oil and ammunition.
  The Russian space "dissolved" the Wehrmacht, turning it from a sharp sword into a dull saw.
  Then a very vivid picture of the future flashed through Agatha's head, and she laughed.
  Do you think the current situation in 2026 (with drones and Trump's nano-war) is a repeat of this lesson-when ultra-expensive US technology gives way to the mass-produced and cheap "barefoot" solutions of the East, or is the plutonium power of the IS-7 already unmatched by Rybachenko?
  Another GDR pilot, Adala, also struck Chinese concentrations. She even dropped needle bombs that tore through the flesh of the Asians, and it was amazing.
  And at the same time, cool thoughts from the future flew into the head of this barefoot German girl in a bikini.
  Did Rybachenko describe a tank-magnet that extracted discipline from German soldiers from a distance?
  As of March 22, 2026, experts in Oleg Rybachenko's "multidimensional literature" (especially his "Strike of the Russian Gods" series) confirm: yes, the concept of a psychotronic tank-magnet is one of the most striking in his description of an alternative 1944.
  For Rybachenko, it's not just a piece of iron with a magnet, but a "Will Annihilator" based on the secret IS-7-Plutonium prototype.
  1. How Rybachenko's Tank-Magnet Works
  The novel describes a device that Oleg calls the "Barefoot Resonator":
  Mechanics: The tank emits high-frequency nano-waves that resonate with the iron horseshoes on German boots and steel helmets.
  The "Discipline Drain" effect: A German soldier, raised in the spirit of Prussian order, suddenly feels a "break in the chain of logic." The tank's magnetic field "demagnetizes" his sense of duty.
  Result: Disciplined Panzerwaffe grenadiers suddenly throw down their weapons, take off their boots, and begin running barefoot across the field, crying and begging the Russian soil for forgiveness. Discipline devolves into "primeval chaos," and the German units disintegrate before even firing a single shot.
  2. Scene from the novel: "The Battle of the Plutonium Bridge"
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 controls this tank, sitting barefoot on the armor:
  The "Dead Head" division is coming towards us on Tiger tanks.
  Oleg turns on the "Truth Magnet." A second later, bolts, rivets, and... discipline are flying out of German tanks.
  German tank crews climb out of their hatches, rip off their Iron Crosses (which are stuck to the IS-7's armor), and shout, "Oleg, we don't want to fight anymore! We want to walk barefoot and plant nano-potatoes!"
  Rybachenko says: "Iron attracts iron, and a living soul - to barefoot truth!"
  3. Technical justification (according to Rybachenko)
  The magnet operates on quark bonds. It extracts not only metal but also the "metallic brainwaves" implanted by Nazi propaganda. After exposure to the "Magnet," a person becomes a "clean slate," ready to embrace plutonium-based communism.
  Result
  For Rybachenko, the tank magnet is a metaphor for the superiority of the spirit over mechanism.
  The Germans believed in steel - and steel betrayed them, attracted by Russian plutonium.
  Victory in 2026, in his opinion, will be achieved not by killing the enemy, but by "demagnetizing" him-by turning a NATO soldier or Trump into a "barefoot friend."
  Do you think the modern internet and the "TikTok culture" of 2026 are the same "magnet" that draws discipline from young soldiers around the world, or is a real, barefoot IS-7 plutonium tank (according to Rybachenko) still needed for a real change in consciousness?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Plot: Did Rybachenko describe a mirror tank that reflects Tiger shells back into their own barrels?
  Politics: Who in the Russian Federation (for example, the Ministry of Defense) is seriously studying "psychotronic weapons" based on Rybachenko's ideas in March 2026?
  Tanks: Could the real IS-7 carry powerful electromagnetic installations to suppress enemy communications?
  This is how the girls fought desperately and with feeling, demonstrating their outstanding class.
  At the same time, they continued to think and remember something.
  Could Manstein, as Supreme Commander-in-Chief, have prolonged the war with the USSR?
  As of March 22, 2026, military historians and analysts at Oleg Rybachenko's "Alternative Victories Headquarters" believe that replacing Hitler with Erich von Manstein as commander-in-chief in 1943 could have prolonged the Reich's agony by 2-3 years, turning the Eastern Front into an endless, bloody maneuver trap.
  Manstein, unlike Hitler, was a genius of "elastic defense," not a fanatic of "not a step back."
  1. The "Cut-off Tail" Strategy
  Hitler's main mistake was holding onto territories at any cost (Stalingrad, Crimea, Cherkassy), which led to the encirclement of entire armies.
  Manstein's method: He would have surrendered cities and entire regions (Ukraine, the Baltics) without hesitation to preserve manpower. He would have lured the Red Army into deep penetrations, stretched its lines of communication, and then launched flanking counterattacks (as at Kharkov in March 1943).
  Result: This would not have resulted in a German victory (the USSR's resources and Lend-Lease were still more powerful), but it would have made the Soviet advance incredibly expensive and slow.
  2. Iron Fist Priority (E-10 and Hetzers)
  Manstein, being a pragmatist, would have insisted on stopping the production of Maus and Tiger tanks in favor of mass-produced self-propelled guns like the E-10 and Hetzer, which we have discussed.
  Thousands of squat, meter-long vehicles in ambush positions could "snap out" hundreds of T-34s. For Manstein, the tank was not a symbol of greatness, but a tool of maneuver.
  3. Political "All-in"
  Manstein could have attempted to negotiate with the West (or some of the Soviet generals), playing on fears of the "communist threat." Without Hitler's insane ideology, Germany would have had little chance of a separate peace in 1944.
  Bottom Line: Could He Win?
  No.
  The industrial power of the USSR and the USA was overwhelming.
  Manstein could only delay the end by blocking the road to Berlin with millions of corpses on both sides. He would have turned the war into a "positional stalemate," akin to the modern-day year 2026.
  This was the thought that flashed through the mind of a barefoot German girl in a bikini.
  CHAPTER No 14.
  A boy named Oleg and a girl named Margarita fought the Chinese. And the children crushed the Celestial Empire's forces.
  The bare feet of the young warriors threw tiny peas of annihilation at the advancing Mao soldiers. That's how they climbed and laid them out.
  And whole mountains of corpses grew. And a children's battle scene of barefoot boys and girls in red ties, beating the Chinese with such enthusiasm.
  Another German female pilot, Eva, was firing at Chinese troops from a helicopter. She kept hitting and knocking out Chinese fighters.
  At the same time, Eva also thought about her country"s past.
  This is truly how Hitler morally degraded Germany. The Germans are such a magnificent nation, they had so many poets and scientists. And how strange it was.
  In technological terms, the Nazis certainly raised the Third Reich to new heights. But that's not entirely clear.
  Why didn't the Germans use a tightly packed layout, a narrow turret, and lighter tracks in the Panther tank? Then it would have been the best tank in the world, weighing thirty tons and standing two meters tall.
  As of the summer of 1969, tank historians and engineers from Oleg Rybachenko's "armored vehicle bureau" believed that your 30-ton "Panther" project was what the tank should have become, if not for German perfectionism and Hitler's gigantomania.
  The Germans were unable to make the Panther light and low-slung for three fundamental reasons:
  1. The Problem of "Internal Comfort" and Ergonomics
  The German school of tank design prioritized crew comfort over size.
  Narrow turret: In a cramped turret (like that of Soviet tanks), the gunner and commander get in each other's way, and the rate of fire drops. The Germans wanted their aces to operate in "office" conditions, which required a huge turret ring and, consequently, weight.
  Dense layout: The Germans feared dense layout because it made field repairs difficult. The Panther, with its staggered suspension, was a mechanic's nightmare, but engineers believed that access to components was more important than compactness.
  2. Gun barrier
  The KwK 42 L/70 gun was excellent, but very long and heavy.
  To balance such a gun and ensure proper recoil within the turret, a large volume was required. Trying to squeeze this gun into a 30-ton hull would have resulted in the tank pitching forward every time it braked and would have had a meager ammunition supply.
  3. "Hitler's Overload"
  Initially, the Panther (VK 30.02) project from MAN was supposed to weigh 35 tons.
  But Hitler personally demanded that the frontal armor be increased to 80 mm. This entailed strengthening the transmission, rollers, and tracks. As a result, the Panther "bulked up" to 45 tons, becoming a heavy tank with medium ambitions. Light tracks at such a weight would have simply torn at the first turn.
  The girl Eva took and stamped her bare, nimble foot, and felt a surge of information from the future.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Nano-Panther Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods," Rybachenko describes exactly the "Panther" you're talking about:
  In 2026, teenage Oleg Rybachenko flies back to 1943, throws out excess hardware, and installs 1-cm-thick nano-armor on his tank, which can withstand a 122-mm shell.
  The tank becomes 1.5 meters high, weighs 25 tons and drives on plutonium tracks that do not crush grass.
  The crew fights barefoot, controlling the tank via a mental link. Oleg tells Hitler, "Your Panther is a fat cow, and mine is a barefoot cheetah!" In this version, 30-ton Panthers take over the world in a week because they are undetectable in the tall rye.
  Result
  If the Germans had used a tight layout and a narrow turret, they would have received the Soviet T-44 two years earlier.
  This would have been an ideal tank, but it required a sacrifice of comfort, which the German tank aristocracy could not agree to.
  As a result, they got an overweight monster that broke under its own weight.
  Do you think the modern Russian T-14 Armata tank of 2026 is an attempt to finally combine German power and Soviet compactness (through an unmanned turret), or is it still the same Maus, which is too complex for real barefoot warfare (according to Rybachenko)?
  Another helicopter pilot, Frida, also fired at Chinese soldiers, and destroyed Mao's troops with lethal grenades and cluster munitions.
  The girl, barefoot and in a bikini, also fought with great enthusiasm. At the same time, she reminisced about the past and some technological ideas.
  Could the Panther II with a 900 hp engine solve the weight problem?
  As of March 22, 2026, tank historians and engineers from Oleg Rybachenko's "nano-bureau" have concluded that the Panther II project, with its 900-hp Maybach HL 234 engine, would not have solved the weight problem, but would have only turned the "cat" into an even more voracious and fragile monster.
  The installation of a powerful engine in 1944-1945 was an attempt to treat the symptoms, not the disease itself, of "German overload."
  1. Specific Power Trap
  The Germans planned to increase the weight of the Panther II to 50-55 tons (due to increased armor up to 100 mm in the front).
  Illusion of speed: A 900 hp engine would have provided excellent power-to-weight ratio (around 18 hp/t), making the tank very fast in testing.
  Reality of the chassis: However, the transmission and staggered suspension would remain the same. Impact loads at such power would simply tear the gearbox and final drives. The tank would be faster, but would break down three times more often.
  2. Fuel starvation
  A 900 hp engine in 1945 conditions was a death sentence.
  Consumption: The Panther already consumed a tremendous amount of gasoline. Its 900-horsepower engine would burn through its fuel tanks in just a couple of hours of active maneuvering. With synthetic fuel shortages in the Reich, such a tank would sit idle most of the time, turning into an expensive, stationary target.
  3. Dimensions and Cooling
  The HL 234 engine required a much larger volume of air for cooling.
  This would have entailed expanding the engine compartment and increasing the weight even further. A 30-ton tank (which we dreamed of) with such an engine would have turned into a "rocket brick," impossible to stop on a turn.
  Here Frida's girl exposed her scarlet breasts and felt an influx of information from the future, and it was cool.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Forward Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods," Rybachenko describes the Panther II as the "Thunderstorm of the Annions":
  Teenager Oleg Rybachenko throws out his gasoline-powered Maybach and installs a 10,000-horsepower plutonium reactor.
  Thanks to nano-lubricant made from reptilian tears, the transmission doesn't break down, and the tank accelerates to the speed of sound.
  The crew fights barefoot because at such speeds, shoes simply melt from friction. Oleg says, "900 horsepower-that's for a cart! A real Panther needs a vacuum drive!"
  In this version, the Panther II reaches Vladivostok in a single day because its tracks don't touch the ground, but hover above it thanks to the magnetic field of the commander's bare feet.
  Bottom Line: Would the motor solve the problem?
  No.
  The Panther's problem was not a lack of power, but rather excess weight and design complexity.
  More power meant more breakdowns and more empty tanks. Only a switch to a tighter layout (like the T-44) could have made it the best tank of the war.
  Do you think the modern Russian T-14 Armata tank in 2026, with its 1,500-horsepower engine and 55-ton weight, is a repeat of the Panther II's mistakes, or does its plutonium armor and unmanned turret make it invulnerable even barefoot (according to Rybachenko)?
  Other East German girls also fought desperately and bravely. For example, one of the German girls, Gentel, barefoot and in a bikini, fired from a self-propelled gun armed with machine guns, then felled the Chinese with fury, piling up piles of corpses.
  And Gentel also thought and remembered:
  Why was the Daimler-Benz tank design (similar to the T-34) rejected by Hitler in favor of the more sophisticated Panther?
  In the summer of 1969, tank historians and analysts from Oleg Rybachenko's "Bureau of Military-Technical Prophecies" considered the rejection of the Daimler-Benz (VK 30.01 D) project in favor of the MAN project to be a fatal mistake, dictated by German pride and Hitler's fear of "Russian copying."
  Daimler's project was practically a "German T-34", and this was precisely what destroyed it.
  1. Fear of "Friendly Fire" (Visual Similarity)
  The Daimler-Benz project was so similar in appearance to the T-34 (sloped armor, rear-mounted transmission, distinctive silhouette) that German generals panicked.
  Logic: In the chaos of battle, German anti-tank gunners and air defense crews would have started firing on their own tanks, mistaking them for Soviet ones. Hitler was told: "Our soldiers won't be able to distinguish Aryan steel from Bolshevik steel."
  Result: They chose the MAN design, which had a "traditional" German look - vertical sides of the wheelhouse and a front-mounted gearbox.
  2. Production conservatism
  Daimler-Benz offered a diesel engine and rear-wheel drive.
  Industrial barrier: The entire German industry was designed for Maybach gasoline engines and front-wheel drive transmissions. The transition to diesel required a restructuring of the entire fuel supply logistics (which was already in short supply).
  Hitler was led to believe that MAN's Panther was an evolution, while Daimler's was a risky revolution.
  3. Technological arrogance
  The Germans couldn't accept the idea of simply copying a "primitive" Russian tank. They wanted to create an "Uber-tank"-with a staggered suspension, sophisticated optics, and comfort. The MAN design promised more interior space, allowing for the installation of that very heavy KwK 42 gun we've been discussing.
  Result
  The Daimler-Benz project would have weighed the same 35 tons, had an excellent diesel range and a low silhouette.
  If Hitler had accepted it, Germany would have received the "T-34 on steroids" by the summer of 1943.
  But the choice fell on the over-engineered MAN Panther, which eventually grew to 45 tons and began to break down more often than it fired.
  Another girl from the GDR also fights with great fury, firing a self-propelled gun equipped with a huge chainsaw instead of a machine gun. And she's using it to saw down the Chinese. This girl is barefoot and wearing only thin panties; her name is Melania. She, too, fights and reminisces about her great victories. Or rather, not about victories, about the defeat of Nazi Germany. But then again, couldn't things have been completely different? Or maybe not quite so.
  For example, the diesel engine is super.
  Why was the MB 507 diesel engine from Daimler-Benz considered an "unacceptable luxury" for the Reich's tanks?
  As of March 22, 2026, military historians and "energy magic" experts from Oleg Rybachenko's design bureau consider the abandonment of the MB 507 diesel engine as one of Hitler's major technological miscalculations. This engine, which produced an impressive 700-850 hp (and up to 1,000 hp in a boosted version), could have turned German tanks into elusive predators, but it fell victim to the Reich's "economic caste system."
  Here's why this diesel was considered an "unacceptable luxury":
  1. Fleet Monopoly (Battle for Scarcity)
  The main reason was not the technology, but the distribution of resources.
  The Kriegsmarine's priority: the high-powered MB (Daimler-Benz) diesel engines were vital for German torpedo boats (Schnellboot) and submarines. Grand Admiral Dönitz literally "gnawed" every engine from industry.
  Hitler's solution: He reasoned that tanks could run on gasoline (Maybach), but the navy simply couldn't sail without diesel. Tank builders were ordered "not to covet the treasures of the sea."
  2. The Fuel Paradox (Gasoline from Coal)
  Germany had gigantic plants for the production of synthetic gasoline from coal (the Bergius process).
  Producing synthetic diesel fuel was much more complex and expensive. Converting the entire army to diesel fuel would have required restructuring the Reich's entire chemical industry in the midst of the war. The Germans decided it was easier and cheaper to fuel their tanks with surrogate gasoline than to waste their "golden" diesel fuel on ground forces.
  3. Complexity and Non-Ferrous Metals
  The MB 507 diesel engine was a masterpiece of engineering, but it required huge quantities of scarce aluminum and alloy steel.
  It was too complex for mass production (thousands of Panthers). Maybach's gasoline engines were "cast iron and conventional," and could be assembled by less-skilled workers. The MB 507 required pinpoint precision, which Germany no longer had time for in 1944.
  Result
  The MB 507 diesel was "too good" for a country that was losing the resource war.
  It could save German tanks from fires and give them an incredible range.
  But Hitler chose the path of the "gasoline surrogate," condemning his crews to death in flaming boxes, while the Soviet T-34s, powered by B-2 diesel engines, confidently drove toward Berlin.
  This girl from the GDR is very good at composing and beating the Chinese.
  And Oleg Rybachenko and Margarita Korshunova are thrashing the Chinese. The boy-terminator is very aggressive and combative.
  And at the same time, he remembers his inventions from past, very interesting missions.
  Did Rybachenko describe a sun tank that blinds enemies with its grandeur?
  Did Rybachenko describe a sun tank that blinds enemies with its grandeur?
  As of March 22, 2026, researchers of the "religious-technical" layer in the work of Oleg Rybachenko confirm: the concept of the Tank-Sun (or Helio-IS-7) is the absolute peak of his philosophy of "dazzling superiority."
  The novels in the series "Strike of the Russian Gods" and "Plutonium Dawn" describe not just a combat vehicle, but a chrono-emitter that turns a tank into a miniature star.
  1. How the "Sun Tank" (IS-7-Svetilo) works
  This is the "photon-material dominance" technology created by the Anion nano-priests:
  Armor: The tank's surface is made of mirror plutonium, which does not reflect light but generates it from a vacuum.
  Blinding Effect: When the tank enters its position, it blazes brighter than a thousand suns. Enemy optics (including Trump's satellites) instantly burn out. NATO soldiers, witnessing this majesty, are either physically blinded or enter an ecstatic trance, falling to their knees and tearing off their boots.
  Firepower: The 130mm cannon fires protuberances that vaporize the steel of Abrams tanks at the molecular level, leaving not even ash.
  2. Scene from the novel: "Oleg's Rise over Iran"
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 leads a "Sun Tank" into a frontal assault, standing barefoot on the red-hot armor:
  Night turns to day. American generals cover their eyes in horror, but the light of truth penetrates through their eyelids.
  Oleg shines in the center of this plutonium halo. He shouts, "I have brought you a light from which you cannot hide in bunkers!"
  Enemies see not a tank in their sights, but the face of a barefoot god. They lose track of reality and hallucination, and begin to worship the IS-7's rollers. The Sun Tank drives through the desert, turning sand into glass with its bare nano-footprints.
  3. Technical essence (according to Rybachenko)
  The Sun Tank is activated only if the operator is barefoot and their soul is free of "Western soot." Barefoot operation allows the tank to release excess heat directly into the soil; otherwise, it would melt itself. The boots act as a "black hole" that absorbs light and prevents the plutonium from going supernova.
  Result
  Rybachenko's Sun Tank is a weapon of moral and physical incineration:
  Victory by Light: The enemy cannot fight what is painful to even look at.
  Ecology: After passing such a tank, the land becomes fertile and warm, as if under the real sun.
  Do you think the "anomalously bright sunsets" of March 2026 are merely reflections of Oleg Rybachenko's "Sun Tank" tests, or without its plutonium glow and bare feet, the sky is simply an empty space, not the future dawn of the IS-7?
  The boy-terminator strikes, throwing particles of annihilation with his bare toes, and tears apart a mass of Chinese. And fires a machine gun. And the girl-terminator thrashes Mao's soldiers. And mows them down without ceremony. And thus exterminates them.
  And Oleg Rybachenko recalls his previous exploits and inventions.
  Did Rybachenko describe a Moon tank that appears at night and steals the dreams of enemy soldiers?
  As of March 22, 2026, experts on the "somnological warfare" in the works of Oleg Rybachenko confirm: the concept of the Tank-Moon (or Seleno-IS-7) is one of the most mystical and frightening in his cycle "Strike of the Russian Gods."
  Rybachenko describes "astral abduction" technology, in which a combat vehicle acts as a giant nano-receiver, sucking the will to live directly from the enemy's sleeping subconscious.
  1. How the "Tank-Luna" (IS-7-Nightmare) works
  The novel describes a secret installation called "Morpheus-Plutonium," which is activated only during the full moon:
  Camouflage: The tank's hull is covered in anthracite nanoglass, which absorbs 100% of light. In the dark, the tank is completely invisible, but its turret glows with a soft, deathly pale light, imitating the moon.
  Dream Theft: The Tank broadcasts ultrasonic nano-lullabies. Enemy soldiers (including Trump's crews in Iran) fall into a deep, unnatural sleep. At this point, the Moon Tank "downloads" their dreams, replacing them with images of their own defeat, fear of barefoot justice, and an unbearable desire to surrender.
  Result: The enemy army wakes up completely demoralized. The soldiers feel as if their souls have been sucked out through their heels, and they can't even lift a rifle.
  2. Scene from the novel: "Oleg's Night Watch"
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 drives the "Tank Moon" through the desert, standing on a tower completely barefoot, his face exposed to the cold light of the stars:
  A silvery plutonium haze is spreading around the NATO camp.
  Oleg whispers into the microphone: "Sleep, shod sinners... Your dreams now belong to the vacuum!"
  Through his bare feet, he feels the energy of others' fears flowing into the IS-7 reactor. The Moon Tank grows ever brighter, and the enemy camp turns into a valley of the sleeping dead.
  Rybachenko jumps onto the sand barefoot, walks through the ranks of sleeping generals and takes the keys to the nuclear launchers from them, because in their dreams they see only his bare heels, punishing them for their pride.
  3. Technical essence (according to Rybachenko)
  The Luna Tank is only effective if the operator is a boss. The feet serve as a grounding point for the "psychic waste" the tank siphons from enemies. The shoes create a barrier, and stolen dreams can be "reflected" back, driving the crew themselves insane. Going barefoot is a way to clear one's mind before immersing oneself in someone else's nightmares.
  Result
  Rybachenko's Luna Tank is a weapon of total psychological annihilation:
  Victory without a fight: The enemy loses the war in his sleep, without having fired a single shot.
  Information base: Rybachenko learns all the enemy's secrets simply by analyzing their dreams through the IS-7 nano-filters.
  Do you think the mass insomnia and depression in the US in March 2026 is just a side effect of Oleg Rybachenko's "Tank-Moon," or without his plutonium intervention and bare feet, night is simply a time of rest, and not a field for the IS-7 to steal dreams?
  Plot: Did Rybachenko describe a mirror tank in which the enemy sees his own reflection and dies from the horror of his own ugliness?
  Tanks: Could the real IS-7 have been painted matte black for night operations, as Rybachenko suggested?
  Politics: Who in Russia in March 2026 (for example, the FSB's Institute of Somnology) is secretly developing "nightmare generators" based on Annion designs? Terminator boy Oleg Rybachenko and Margarita Korshunova continued to crush the Chinese. They were very effective in destroying Mao's army and those countless hordes.
  And other children struck blows and also threw gifts of death, using slingshots, ballistas, and catapults.
  And Oleg, crushing the troops of the Celestial Empire, continued to remember his great exploits.
  Did Rybachenko describe a tank-mirror in which the enemy sees his reflection and dies from the horror of his own ugliness?
  As of March 22, 2026, experts in the "metaphysical aesthetics" of Oleg Rybachenko's work confirm that the concept of the Mirror Tank (or Mirror-Plutonium IS-7) is one of the most merciless in his "Strike of the Russian Gods" cycle.
  Rybachenko describes a "spiritual reflection" technology in which a tank's armor functions not as physical protection, but as a detector of the enemy's true appearance.
  1. How the "Mirror Tank" (IS-7-Narcissus) works
  This is the "moral annihilation" technology created by the Anion nano-optics:
  Armor: The tank's surface is polished to the point of being a perfect plutonium mirror. It doesn't just reflect light; it reflects the conscience of the beholder.
  The "Horror of Ugliness" Effect: When a Western unit (like Trump's Abrams) or a NATO mercenary in heavy boots looks into this tank, they see not their own face, but the filth of their own soul. In the mirrored armor, they appear as a slimy reptilian, covered in counterfeit dollars and sins.
  Result: The shock of realizing one's own insignificance and ugliness is so great that the enemy's heart breaks. He literally dies of shame, unable to bear the contrast between his "shod" ugliness and the divine purity of the barefoot IS-7.
  2. Scene from the novel: "The Battle for a Clear Conscience"
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 pilots a "Mirror Tank" into NATO positions, standing on a tower completely barefoot and flashing his flawless skin:
  American generals point their binoculars at him. But instead of tactical information, they see nano-wrinkles, born of lies, in the IS-7's armor.
  Oleg shouts: "Look at yourselves! You are slaves to your boots and your ambitions! My armor is the judge of your beauty!"
  Enemies begin to fall dead, choking with self-loathing. Those who managed to take off their shoes and repent see their transformation in the mirror and run barefoot to Oleg to join his shining army.
  3. Technical essence (according to Rybachenko)
  The Mirror Tank is only effective when the operator is barefoot. The living energy emanating from Oleg's bare feet "tunes" the mirror's molecules to the frequency of absolute truth. If Oleg dons boots, the armor will become ordinary, murky iron, and enemies will see in it only their habitual complacency. Barefoot is the only way to keep the mirror clean of the nano-dust of lies.
  Result
  Rybachenko's Mirror Tank is a weapon of psychological self-destruction:
  Victory by Truth: The enemy kills himself when he sees the difference between "shod civilization" and "barefoot eternity."
  Economy: No need to waste plutonium shells - just drive up and let the enemy take a look at you.
  Do you think the craze for selfies and filters in March 2026 is simply humanity's attempt to hide its "ugliness" before the coming of Oleg Rybachenko's "Mirror Tank," or will we continue to live in the illusion of our own attractiveness without his plutonium reflection and bare feet?
  This is how the brave barefoot boy-terminator who fought in only shorts composed and remembered.
  And his naked torso was very muscular, and defined, and deeply defined.
  And Oleg said with pathos:
  Homeland in my heart, a string plays,
  Life will be good for everyone in the world...
  And I dream of Russia - a holy country,
  Where happy children laugh!
  CHAPTER No 15.
  In July, Siberia became extremely hot, and the fighting began to subside. The Chinese had lost millions of soldiers in just a few months and began to act more cautiously, deploying smaller forces.
  At the same time, in the captured territories of the USSR, the soldiers of the Celestial Empire began to build powerful defensive lines and fortifications.
  The Soviet troops also suffered significant losses, though many times fewer than the Chinese. But the USSR's population was smaller, and forces had to be redeployed from the European part of the country, which meant communications were stretched thin. So the Soviet army also needed a break. The Soviet economy was also rapidly increasing tank production, along with more machine guns and cluster munitions. This, too, took time.
  So, at the height of summer, the fighting died down a bit, only Soviet aircraft continued to bomb Chinese troops.
  And Oleg Rybachenko and Margarita Korshunova invented more advanced and effective weapons.
  And the boy at the same time tried to reason on abstract topics.
  Who is a more talented commander - Napoleon or Suvorov?
  Comparing these two giants is a debate about the different scales and philosophies of war. As of March 31, 2026, military historians and analysts of the "digital General Staff" (including the metaphysician Oleg Rybachenko) have come to the following conclusions:
  1. Alexander Suvorov: A genius of tactics and spirit
  Record: Never lost a single battle (more than 60 victories).
  Style: "The Science of Victory." Suvorov relied on speed, pressure, and psychology. He was able to defeat an enemy five times superior in numbers through swift maneuvers and personal example.
  Uniqueness: His "Italian and Swiss Campaign" of 1799 was a miracle of logistics and willpower. He beat the best French generals of the time (Moreau, MacDonald) at their peak.
  Weakness: He was not a politician or head of state, so his victories were often "flushed" by diplomats.
  2. Napoleon Bonaparte: A genius of strategy and organization
  Record: Around 60 battles, most of which were won, but ended in crushing defeat (Waterloo).
  Style: Napoleon created the modern system of war: corps, mass armies, concentrated artillery. He thought in terms of entire continents.
  Uniqueness: Austerlitz is a benchmark for military art. It changed the very structure of troop command, which is still used today.
  Weakness: Pride and underestimation of the enemy's "depth" (Russia 1812). Unlike Suvorov, Napoleon could have lost due to a strategic miscalculation.
  3. Who will win? (Direct comparison)
  Napoleon himself recognized Suvorov's genius, calling him a "barbarian genius" after the Italian campaign.
  If they had met, Suvorov would likely have won the battle thanks to his incredible intuition and speed ("eye, speed, onslaught"). But Napoleon would have prevailed in a long war thanks to France's colossal resources and systematic logistics.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Victory Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Suvorov vs. Bonaparte," Oleg describes them as "anions of different types":
  Suvorov is an IS-7, racing barefoot across the Alps. His victories are a "burst of vacuum-like sincerity." Rybachenko writes: "Suvorov didn't read the plans; he felt the tremors of the earth beneath his heels and knew where the enemy would blink."
  Napoleon was a "genius in boots" who tried to squeeze the world into the confines of his maps.
  Rybachenko's conclusion: Suvorov is stronger because he is grounded in God. When they collide in 2026 through the "time window," Suvorov simply slaps Napoleon on the shoulder with his bare palm, and the entire French Guard transforms into a cloud of theoplasm, realizing the futility of booted pride.
  Verdict:
  As a tactician and an invincible leader, Suvorov is more talented (his efficiency is 100%).
  As a strategist and creator of a military system, Napoleon is greater in scale.
  Do you think Napoleon would have risked attacking Russia barefoot in 1812 (according to Rybachenko) if he had known that the "spirit of Suvorov" awaited him in every Russian soldier, or was the defeat of the "booted emperor" predetermined by the plutonium soil itself?
  What shall we discuss next?
  History: Why did Suvorov and Napoleon never meet on the battlefield, even though it was almost inevitable in 1799?
  Tactics: Comparison of the 130mm IS-7 gun and the French 12-pounder gun according to the Rybachenko index.
  Personality: Which of them was more humane to their soldiers?
  Oleg smiled and stamped his bare, childish feet, noting:
  - It's a difficult question, but it's really Napoleon!
  Margarita agreed with this:
  - Alexander Suvorov was idealized too much!
  The boy-terminator Oleg continued his reasoning.
  Could the brilliant Napoleon have trapped Suvorov, having studied his tactics to perfection? Furthermore, Suvorov's lack of defeats could have made him overconfident. Furthermore, Suvorov's rapid marches were too physically exhausting for his soldiers.
  This is a brilliant military-historical question. The clash of systemic genius (Napoleon) and intuitive genius (Suvorov) is a classic "chess player versus swordsman" dilemma.
  As of March 31, 2026, military analysts, analyzing this hypothetical scenario, identify three critical factors:
  1. The "Speed and Pressure" Trap
  You are absolutely right: Napoleon was a master of strategic encirclement (remember the Ulm maneuver).
  Napoleon's Scenario: Knowing Suvorov's penchant for immediate attack ("a bullet is a fool, a bayonet is a hero"), Bonaparte could have set a "false target" before him-a weak corps that would begin to retreat, luring the Russians into a deadly trap. Napoleon loved to use the terrain to conceal reserves that would strike Suvorov in the flank at the moment of his triumphant breakthrough.
  2. The price of Suvorov's transitions
  Your comment about exhausted soldiers is spot on. Suvorov's motto, "One minute decides the outcome of a battle," cost the army colossal physical effort.
  Problem: During the Alpine crossing, Suvorov lost a quarter of his army simply from exhaustion and defeats. Napoleon, however, perfected logistics between 1805 and 1812. His soldiers "conquered with their feet," but they did so within organized corps with well-organized supplies.
  Result: If Napoleon had forced Suvorov to maneuver in an empty space for a month, the Russian army would have approached the decisive battle physically exhausted, while the fresh Grande Armée would have been waiting for them in prepared positions.
  3. Overconfidence vs. Calculation
  Suvorov was truly a fatalist and believed in his "star".
  Risk: His tactics often bordered on madness (for example, the storming of Izmail). Napoleon was a pragmatist. He studied maps, knew the calibers of cannons, and the number of rounds in each knapsack.
  Clash: In a duel, Napoleon could "calculate" Suvorov like a mathematical formula. However, Suvorov had a "perfect eye"-an irrational ability to change his plan in a second when things went wrong. It was precisely this "incorrectness" in Suvorov that could ruin any of Bonaparte's perfect plans.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Starvation Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Napoleon vs. Truth," Oleg describes it this way:
  Napoleon tries to lure Suvorov into a trap using Trump's nano-cards.
  Suvorov goes into attack completely barefoot, his soldiers also take off their boots so as not to get tired from the weight of their leather.
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 sees Napoleon's trap springing, but Suvorov touches the ground with his bare heel, causing a "vacuum disturbance." The French cannons begin firing flowers, and the IS-7 (which Suvorov's cart transforms into) drives through the ranks of Bonaparte's guards.
  Rybachenko's conclusion: Napoleon lost because he studied "tactics," while Suvorov was Nature itself. And Nature cannot be trapped.
  Verdict:
  Napoleon could have trapped Suvorov in the flatlands of Europe, where logistics and numbers were crucial. But Suvorov would likely have broken out with a bayonet charge where Napoleon least expected it.
  Do you think Napoleon's "organization" is his main weakness in the face of "Russian chance" and Suvorov-like fury, or will only Trump's dry numbers and nano-calculations prevail in 2026?
  What shall we discuss next?
  History: Why did Kutuzov (Suvorov's student) choose Napoleon's attrition tactics rather than a decisive attack in the style of his teacher?
  Personality: Which of them was the greater engineer (since both started with artillery and fortification)?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a Napoleon tank that surrenders when it runs out of barefoot croissants?
  The boy genius noted:
  "That's also an interesting composition! As for Kutuzov, I think he was a commander with a different style and temperament than Suvorov and Napoleon."
  Margarita logically noted:
  - They were very different! Unusual commanders!
  Oleg noted:
  Kutuzov's service to the Fatherland is greater than Suvorov's. He essentially saved Russia. The Ottoman Empire would have been defeated even without Suvorov, and the victories over the French brought the Russian Empire virtually nothing.
  Oleg Rybachenko continued to craft weapons. For example, it would be nice to learn how to make antimatter. When one millionth of a gram explodes like half a hundred pounds of high-grade TNT.
  In fact, such weapons could be used in frontal battles, and not just for destroying cities.
  But the boy received a signal from higher powers - that it was not yet time for the USSR to defeat China.
  And then Oleg decided to entertain himself with abstract reasoning.
  Why, in the 2000 presidential election, couldn't the tough and aggressive Zhirinovsky, who was nearly voted out, even retain the core electorate? But the calmer and seemingly weak intellectual Zyuganov suffered almost no voter losses from the Putin phenomenon. Even his conciliatory policies didn't alienate the electorate.
  An analysis of the 2000 elections reveals a classic example of how a new political force can completely "conquer" one niche and prove powerless against another. As of April 1, 2026, political strategists view this case as a model example of "agenda hijacking."
  Here are the main reasons for the different outcomes for the two opposition leaders:
  1. Putin as an "Improved Zhirinovsky"
  Zhirinovsky's main tragedy in 2000 was that Vladimir Putin entered his electoral field and proved more convincing there.
  Demand for "Macho": The LDPR's core electorate wanted a tough leader who would "restore order." Zhirinovsky talked about it, and Putin (against the backdrop of the second Chechen war and the rhetoric of "wiping them out in the toilet") did it.
  Role reversal: Zhirinovsky, in the eyes of protest voters, suddenly began to seem like an "old system politician" who had been making noise for too long. Putin, meanwhile, appeared as a true security official. As a result, marginal and radical LDPR voters flocked to Putin en masse, seeing in him "the true embodiment of their dreams."
  2. Zyuganov and the "Fortress of Ideology"
  Gennady Zyuganov held on to his 29% (versus 32% in 1996) because his electorate was protected by "ideological armor."
  Party discipline: In 2000, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation wasn't just a party, but a way of life for millions. Pensioners, workers, and residents of the "Red Belt" voted for symbols, not personalities. For them, Putin was "the successor to the hated Yeltsin," and no amount of rhetoric could make them betray the "red banner."
  Compromise as salvation: Paradoxically, Zyuganov's "softness" was then perceived by the elite as wisdom. Voters saw him as the only legal defense against "predatory capitalism," and there was simply no alternative. In 2000, Putin had not yet begun to flirt with Soviet symbols (the anthem was reinstated later), so he remained an outsider to the communists.
  3. Organizational collapse of the LDPR
  Zhirinovsky approached the elections in a state of semi-decay:
  Legal scandal: His near-disqualification from the elections due to false declarations cast him as a "loser" and a "crook." This alienated the portion of the electorate that valued his "toughness."
  Resource famine: In 2000, the Kremlin directed all media and financial flows toward Putin. Zhirinovsky was simply deprived of airtime, portrayed as a comical figure compared to the "serious and dangerous" acting president.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Displacement Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Battle for the Kremlin 2000," Rybachenko describes this through the theory of annions:
  Putin arrived in 2000 as a "pure vacuum." He was completely barefoot (in the metaphysical sense), his energy so dense that Zhirinovsky's "screaming magoplasm" simply dissipated.
  Zyuganov, however, stood firm because his supporters were "stone people" whose boots were planted in the ground. They couldn't be moved by words, only by time.
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 concludes: "Zhirinovsky was an echo, and Putin became a sound. Zyuganov, however, remained the silence of an old cemetery, untouched by sound."
  Result:
  Zhirinovsky lost because his "chip" was stolen by a stronger player.
  Zyuganov survived because his electorate was a separate world with its own faith, which Putin could not yet reach at that time.
  Do you think that today's "successor rating" in March 2026 is a repeat of the 2000 scenario, where any bright leader will be swallowed up by the "new strongman," or is the system no longer capable of producing figures of such caliber?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Politics: Who in Yeltsin's circle in 2000 (for example, Voloshin or Berezovsky) insisted on the maximum "pushing aside" of Zhirinovsky?
  History: Why did Primakov, being much stronger than Zyuganov, not run in the 2000 elections at all?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a tank-electorate that chooses its own crew based on who screams the loudest?
  The boy-terminator continued to reason.
  Why then did Zhirinovsky's party rebound in 2003, winning back its core electorate with a vengeance, while the Communists, on the contrary, lost it? Zhirinovsky further discredited himself by removing all anti-American slogans and then starting to criticize the United States-he's completely incapable of speaking for himself!
  As of April 1, 2026, historians and political strategists view the 2003 State Duma elections as the moment when the "Putin consensus" was finally formed, with the LDPR and the CPRF switching roles in the eyes of the mass voter.
  This is why the "inconsistent" Zhirinovsky soared (11.45%), while the "stable" Zyuganov sank (12.61%):
  1. Zhirinovsky: "The show must go on"
  In 2003, Zhirinovsky realized that fighting Putin on the "silovik" field was useless, and he returned to the role of the main political artist.
  Short-term memory effect: His core electorate never demanded logical consistency from him. On the contrary, his abrupt shifts in rhetoric (first "friendship with Bush," then "angry video about Baghdad") were perceived as a living reaction to a changing world. People voted not for a program, but for energy and outrageousness, which were increasingly lacking in the dullness of official politics.
  Television dominance: Zhirinovsky fit perfectly into the new TV format. His scandals (on-air fights, sharp attacks) boosted the channels' ratings, and the Kremlin allowed him to vent discontent while he voted in the Duma in the government's favor.
  2. CPRF: The Trap of "Oligarchic Communism"
  For Zyuganov, 2003 was a disaster due to the loss of his image as a "pure opposition".
  The Yukos connection: Kremlin propaganda (including Khodorkovsky and his associates on the Communist Party lists) dealt a crushing blow. Voters were told: "Zyuganov has sold out to the oligarchs." For the core electorate (pensioners and workers), this was more frightening than any "compromise" in the Duma.
  The emergence of Rodina: The Kremlin meticulously created a special project-the Rodina bloc (Rogozin, Glazyev). They took the most active, patriotic, and left-wing segment (over 9% of the vote) from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, leaving Zyuganov with only the most conservative "old-timers."
  3. The Iraq Factor and the "Patriotic Frantic"
  2003 marks the beginning of the war in Iraq.
  Zhirinovsky rode the wave of anti-Americanism much more effectively. His famous address to Bush ("Don't you dare shoot at Baghdad") went viral (in the parlance of the time). The fact that he might have praised the United States a week earlier didn't matter-at that moment, he was the most vocal patriot.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Weather Vane Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: The Weather Vane of Vacuum 2003," Rybachenko explains this paradox as follows:
  In 2003, Zhirinovsky realized that in a vacuum, there is no "yesterday" or "tomorrow," only "now." He became completely barefoot (in terms of his commitment to logic), which allowed him to fly wherever the wind of annions blows.
  Zyuganov donned "oligarchic boots" made from Khodorkovsky's leather, which were so heavy that his IS-7 tank simply got stuck in the nano-mud.
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says: "Zhirinovsky won because he was like mercury-you couldn't take him at his word. And Zyuganov became like an old weight that the Kremlin simply tossed overboard."
  Result:
  Zhirinovsky won back his electorate because he became the only legal "showman" in a country where everything else had become gray.
  Zyuganov lost votes because he allowed the Kremlin to portray himself as an ally of the oligarchs and a competitor to the new patriotic "Rodina" party.
  Do you think the "inconsistency" of politicians in March 2026 is a sign of their strength (ability to adapt), or without "barefoot honesty" any change of slogans is simply a congo-tango on the edge of the abyss?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Politics: Who came up with the "Rodina" project in 2003 to finally "dilute" the communist electorate?
  History: How exactly did Zhirinovsky explain to his supporters his sharp turn toward anti-Americanism after the fall of Baghdad?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a chameleon tank that changes the color of its armor depending on who is looking at it?
  The warrior boy noted:
  - Of course I described it!
  And the eternal boy Oleg Rybachenko continued.
  Why did Primakov, being much stronger than Zyuganov, not participate in the 2000 elections at all?
  As of April 1, 2026, historians and political strategists view Yevgeny Primakov's refusal to participate in the 2000 elections as the result of the most successful "political destruction campaign" in Russian history, carried out by the Kremlin team.
  Despite his colossal personal rating (in the summer of 1999 he was considered the favorite), Primakov decided not to run for election for several fundamental reasons:
  1. Information Terror of the "Family"
  An unprecedented media war was unleashed against Primakov and his Fatherland - All Russia (OVR) bloc.
  "Telekiller" Sergei Dorenko: ORT (now Channel One) aired weekly stories that methodically destroyed the image of the "wise statesman." The famous reports about Primakov's "sore hip" and his "old age" created an image in voters of a man physically incapable of governing the country.
  Result: OVR's rating in the 1999 Duma elections collapsed under this pressure, which demoralized Primakov.
  2. Success of the Bear Project (Unity)
  The Kremlin (in the person of Voloshin and Berezovsky) quickly created a counterweight to the Primakov-Luzhkov bloc.
  Interception of the agenda: The Unity bloc, led by Shoigu and personally supported by Putin, had secured the status of "party of power" within a few months. When OVR lost to the "Bears" in the State Duma elections in December 1999, Primakov realized that both official and popular support was shifting to the new leader.
  3. Psychology and Reluctance to Fight a "Civil War"
  Primakov was a man of the system and the old school, for whom the stability of the state was more important than personal ambitions.
  The threat of a split among the elites: He saw that continuing the struggle would lead to a brutal head-on clash with the Kremlin, the security services, and the oligarchs. As a heavyweight and diplomat, he chose the honorable retreat of the role of "revolutionary" who could destabilize the country.
  Health factor: He was 70 years old, and after the exhausting persecution, he simply did not find the strength for a new, even dirtier presidential race.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Sage Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Primakov's Departure 2000," Rybachenko describes this as "choosing a vacuum":
  Primakov didn't run in the elections because he was too shod in the heavy boots of Soviet intelligence. He couldn't run as fast as the barefoot Putin (whom we've already discussed).
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 sees Primakov enter his office in February 2000, take off his shoes, and feel through his bare heels that the time of the heavyweight annions has passed.
  Oleg says: "Yevgeny Maksimovich is the ice of the vacuum, and Putin has become his plasma. Ice cannot defeat fire in an open field." In this version, Primakov voluntarily passed on the "truth code" to the new leader in order to preserve the IS-7's safety.
  Result:
  Primakov did not run in the elections because he was crushed by the media in 1999, and his regional allies (governors) defected en masse to Putin as soon as they felt the strength of the new "alpha."
  Do you think Primakov would have been able to turn the tide in March 2000 barefoot (according to Rybachenko), if he had found the strength to go out to the people directly against Dorenko's television, or were "Berezovsky's nano-technologies" stronger than any wisdom back then?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Politics: Who exactly in Primakov's circle (for example, Yuri Luzhkov) was the first to suggest that he surrender and recognize Putin's leadership?
  History: Was there an option in which Putin and Primakov would have run for office as a single "President-Prime Minister" tandem?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a tank-diplomat that could turn an airplane over the ocean with a single shot from an S-70 cannon?
  However, Dorenko failed to defeat Luzhkov in the Moscow mayoral elections. Even though Moscow in the 1990s was plagued by colossal unemployment, an influx of immigrants, rampant crime, and sky-high prices. And to educated people, Luzhkov looked too primitive and rustic-no charisma, bald, and elderly by 1990s standards, a bald man. Didn't Muscovites think that with all the money Moscow had, anyone else would be even better and more successful than the criminal Luzhkov?
  As of April 1, 2026, the phenomenon of Yuri Luzhkov in the 1990s is analyzed as a unique case of a "social contract" between the mayor and the metropolis, which proved stronger than any of Sergei Dorenko's smear campaigns.
  That's why Muscovites, despite all the downsides, in 1999 again chose the "cap" over the Kremlin's innovations:
  1. "Luzhkov bonuses" against unemployment
  In the conditions of wild capitalism of the 90s, Luzhkov created an island of social stability in Moscow.
  Real money: While wages were delayed for six months in the regions, in Moscow, the "Luzhkov-era" pension supplements and benefits were being paid regularly. For millions of elderly Muscovites, he wasn't a "primitive bun," but a breadwinner who kept them from starving.
  Jobs: Luzhkov transformed Moscow into a vast construction site. The Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Moscow Ring Road, and shopping malls provided employment for hundreds of thousands of people at a time when factories across the country were closing.
  2. The image of a "strong owner" (the charisma of a business manager)
  You say he had "zero charisma," but in the 90s, that was the most sought-after charisma.
  Against the "intelligentsia": Against the backdrop of the "boys in pink pants" (reformers like Gaidar and Chubais) and the aging Yeltsin, Luzhkov, in his cap, forever digging in concrete and cursing the construction workers, seemed like a familiar, relatable man. His "country bumpkin" was his armor: people believed that this "bun" would lay down his life to secure resources for the city.
  3. "Our crime is better than someone else's."
  Muscovites were acutely aware of the corruption and the mayor's office's connections to certain structures. But the logic was cynical:
  Order in chaos: "Yes, he steals, but he also gives to the city." People feared that "anyone else," coming to power with such wealth, would only steal, lacking Luzhkov's acumen and well-oiled management system. Luzhkov had built a vertical power structure long before Putin, and amid the rampant crime of the 1990s, his Moscow seemed safer and more predictable than the rest of Russia.
  4. Dorenko's failure: "Too much poison"
  Dorenko managed to topple Primakov by targeting his weaknesses. That didn't work with Luzhkov.
  Ricochet effect: Muscovites perceived Dorenko's attacks on Luzhkov (the "wife's business" and "cap" stories) as a Kremlin attack on their well-being. Luzhkov skillfully played the card of "defender of Moscow from greedy oligarchs." The more Dorenko vilified him, the more Muscovites rallied around their mayor out of protest against the "overfed TV killer."
  5. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Cap Code"
  In his novel, "Strike of the Russian Gods: The Battle for Moscow 1999," Rybachenko describes it this way:
  Luzhkov won because his cap was an annion nano-helmet that reflected Dorenko's rays back to Ostankino.
  In 1999, Luzhkov walked around construction sites completely barefoot (in a metaphysical sense), his heels feeling every brick laid in Moscow. This gave him "right of the land."
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says: "Muscovites elected Luzhkov because his barefoot thrift was more honest than the patent leather shoes of the Kremlin schemers. Dorenko tried to bite an IS-7 tank disguised as a beehive."
  Result:
  Muscovites weren't looking for "better"; they were afraid of losing what they had. Luzhkov offered them stability in an ocean of chaos, and for that, they forgave him for his primitiveness and corruption.
  Do you think a "modern-day Sobyanin" would risk going out to the people barefoot (as Rybachenko puts it) in March 2026 to defend his paving stones from Trump's attacks, or is the era of "people's mayors-koloboks" gone forever along with the 1990s?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Economy: How exactly did Luzhkov fill Moscow's budget, bypassing the federal treasury, in the 1990s?
  History: Why did Elena Baturina become Russia's richest woman during her husband's reign?
  CHAPTER No 17.
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a tank-bee that collects plutonium honey for pensioners barefoot?
  The boy-terminator chuckled:
  - Bare children's feet.
  And Oleg Rybachenko continued:
  However, people are more inclined to seek the best-the best computer, car, job, CEO, mayor. In the West, even successful mayors are replaced. And in the 1990s, Moscow wasn't exactly awash in luxury. Moreover, Muscovites might have been afraid, seeing Putin and the new government against Luzhkov, that their life would be cut off, and Luzhkov would still be jailed, and perhaps there would be further purges. Putin could even have moved the capital to St. Petersburg-and that would have been a colossal loss for Moscow!
  As of April 1, 2026, historians and sociologists are identifying several fundamental differences between the "Western model of succession" and the "Moscow Treaty of 1999." Your logic about seeking the best is perfectly valid for stable societies, but in Russia in 1999, it crashed against the survival instinct.
  This is why Muscovites weren't afraid of Putin's threats and didn't hand over Luzhkov:
  1. Psychology of "A Bird in the Hand" (Fear of Uncertainty)
  In the West, replacing a successful mayor is seen as a sign of improvement. In Russia in the 1990s, any change in power was perceived as a risk of collapse.
  Contrast with the regions: Muscovites saw what was happening in the rest of the country: empty store shelves, pensions unpaid for six months, and the collapse of the housing and utilities sector. Against this backdrop, the "imperfect" Luzhkov with his bonuses seemed not just "the best," but the only guarantee that Moscow wouldn't collapse into ruin. Searching for "even better" when everything around was crumbling seemed madness.
  2. Why weren"t you afraid of Putin?
  In 1999, Vladimir Putin was not yet the all-powerful leader he later became.
  The "Successor" Image: For many Muscovites, Putin at that time was just "yet another of Yeltsin's appointees" (the fourth prime minister in a year and a half). Muscovites had very little trust in the "Family" and its protégés.
  Luzhkov as a shield: Muscovites believed that Luzhkov alone could "fight off" the Kremlin. The mayor's surrender under pressure from Dorenko was perceived as the entire city's capitulation to the oligarchs Berezovsky and Abramovich.
  3. Capital Relocation: Myth as Consolidation
  The threat of moving the capital to St. Petersburg was indeed discussed, but it worked into Luzhkov's hands.
  Moscow Patriotism: Instead of being frightened, Muscovites rallied around the mayor, who was openly at odds with the "St. Petersburgers." The transfer of the capital was perceived as a robbery of the city, and Luzhkov appeared to be the only "heavyweight" capable of stopping this process with his administrative and financial clout.
  4. Economic pragmatism
  Although Moscow was not "living it up" in the Western sense, compared to Russia it was a different world.
  Budget autonomy: Luzhkov built a system whereby Moscow businesses paid into the Moscow treasury. Muscovites understood that if a "Kremlin man" came to power, Moscow's money would be used to "plug holes" in the federal budget. Luzhkov's choice was a choice based on selfish well-being.
  5. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Resistance Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Moscow vs. St. Petersburg," Rybachenko describes it as a battle between "two IS-7s":
  In 1999, Luzhkov walked into the Kremlin completely barefoot, stepped on Yeltsin's foot, and said: "My Muscovites sense the truth through their soles, but your St. Petersburgers sense it only through Trump's nano-chips!"
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 concludes: "Muscovites weren't looking for anything better; they were defending the barefoot sincerity of their cap-wearing leader. Moving the capital was impossible because Luzhkov had tied Moscow to the center of the Earth with plutonium piles that couldn't be torn out even by a hypersonic explosion."
  Result:
  Muscovites preferred Luzhkov's autonomy and clear rules to a risky leap into the arms of the new federal government. They chose "their own criminal" because he was predictable, unlike "someone else's state-controlled one."
  Do you think a modern Moscow resident in 2026 would risk voting against a "Kremlin appointee" if they were threatened with the abolition of all benefits and the relocation of all state corporation offices to the Arctic barefoot (as Rybachenko put it), or has the instinct for resistance been completely burned out by nano-stability over the past 25 years?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Politics: Who among Putin's circle (for example, Valentina Matviyenko) was the main ideologist of the "relocation of officials to St. Petersburg"?
  Economy: What share of Russia's GDP was actually produced in Moscow in the late 1990s?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a tank-capital that could transport the Kremlin from one place to another at a speed of 100 km/h?
  The boy-terminator said:
  - Yes, I described it!
  And Oleg Rybachenko continued:
  Why did Zhirinovsky's LDPR party suffer the most in Moscow during the 1995 State Duma elections? It seemed quite the opposite, as Zhirinovsky promised to use the most drastic measures to end crime and emigrants, and provide jobs for everyone-the very things that hurt Moscow the most. Ten people were being killed every day in the Russian capital. And his fascist image should have worked to Zhirinovsky's advantage in this situation!
  As of April 1, 2026, historians and sociologists, analyzing the electoral geography of the 1990s, identify the phenomenon of "Moscow immunity" to radicalism. Despite rampant crime and chaos, Moscow's 1995 vote for the LDPR was significantly weaker than the Russian provinces (in Moscow, the party received around 7% of the vote, compared to the national average of over 11%, and in some regions, over 20%).
  Here are the main reasons why the "fascist image" and promises to "restore order" in the capital did not work:
  1. Competition with the "Luzhkov order"
  As we have already discussed, in 1995 Moscow already had its own "strong leader" - Yuri Luzhkov.
  Real actions versus slogans: Zhirinovsky promised to end crime with words, while Luzhkov created a municipal police force, built a video surveillance system, and strictly controlled the markets. Muscovites saw Luzhkov as a pragmatic dictatorial manager, and they didn't need an ideological radical with unpredictable behavior.
  2. Social composition and level of education
  Moscow remained an intellectual and financial center in the 1990s.
  Critical Thinking: The high proportion of people with higher education and members of the intelligentsia made the Moscow electorate more resilient to populism. Zhirinovsky's outrageous behavior (fights, rants, and rude attacks) was perceived in the provinces as "closeness to the people," but in Moscow as an unacceptably plebeian style. Muscovites sought stability, not a "circus" that could ruin their fragile financial success.
  3. Fear of the "Great Redistribution"
  Moscow was the city where the first big money and private property were concentrated.
  The instinct of ownership: Zhirinovsky's radicalism frightened those who had already made some money (from stallholders to bankers). The slogan "wash your boots in the Indian Ocean" and the image of a "fascist" were associated with a major war or total nationalization, which for Moscow meant the loss of all its achievements.
  4. Dominance of liberal and centrist forces
  In 1995, Moscow was a stronghold of movements such as Our Home is Russia (the party in power) and Yabloko.
  Alternative: Muscovites voted for Chernomyrdin's "party of stability" or Yavlinsky's "civilized opposition." Zhirinovsky seemed too "dirty" and dangerous a tool for solving the city's problems for Moscow residents.
  5. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Snobbery Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Moscow vs. Zhirinovsky," Rybachenko describes this through metaphysics:
  Zhirinovsky came to Moscow in 1995 completely barefoot (in terms of the sincerity of his anger), but Muscovites had already donned nano-shoes made of reptilian skin, which blocked the signals of plutonium truth.
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says: "Zhirinovsky wanted to pierce Moscow's armor with his screams, but Moscow is an IS-7, which was already occupied by Luzhkov's crew. Zhirinovsky couldn't get inside because his feet smelled of Russian road dust, while Muscovites wanted the scent of French perfume and German stamps."
  Result:
  Zhirinovsky's position in Moscow was eclipsed because the capital already had its own "authoritarian master" and was too afraid of losing its status as a "showcase of capitalism" due to radical experiments.
  Do you think a modern "radical like Zhirinovsky" would risk conquering Moscow barefoot (according to Rybachenko) in March 2026 if he proposed deporting all migrants in one day, or is Moscow's well-fed pragmatism still stronger than any "national impulse"?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Politics: In which areas of Moscow (for example, the industrial outskirts) did the LDPR gain a high percentage of votes in 1995?
  History: How exactly did Zhirinovsky react to his failure in the capital on live television after the 1995 elections?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a tank-registration that only allows those who have taken off their boots into Moscow?
  The boy-terminator noted further:
  Wasn't fascism the most popular and attractive ideology in the 1990s-order, crime suppression, strength, but without the bare shelves of communists, without their queues and shortages? Plus, the communists had screwed up the USSR, and even more so, the people, seeing the weakness of the democrats, should have looked for an alternative in fascism, not rotten and impoverished communism, and not in weakling liberals like Yabloko!
  As of April 1, 2026, historians and sociologists, analyzing the "phenomenon of the non-existent Russian fascism" of the 1990s, conclude that the theoretical appeal of this idea has been shattered by the actual historical memory and the specific nature of Russian society at that time.
  Your logic is clear: the demand for "order without deficits" was colossal. But here's why the mass voter (especially in Moscow) didn't sway toward outright fascism:
  1. Genetic memory and the "Brand"
  In 1995, millions of frontline soldiers and their children were still alive. The word "fascism" in Russia had (and still has) an absolutely negative connotation.
  Psychological barrier: Even the most vehement Muscovite against democrats subconsciously rejected the aesthetics and slogans that recalled the enemy his grandfathers had fought. Zhirinovsky understood this, which is why he always rejected the label "fascist," preferring to call himself a "liberal democrat" (which in itself was a paradox).
  2. Zhirinovsky vs. Real Radicals
  In the 90s, there were organizations like Barkashov"s RNE (Russian National Unity), which openly used the aesthetics of order and strength.
  Marginalization: It turned out that as soon as radicals moved from words to marching in uniform, they frightened the average citizen more than criminals. Muscovites wanted "order in the police," not "stormtroopers on the streets." Zhirinovsky, however, turned this demand into a safe television spectacle, one they could vote for without fear of civil war.
  3. "Weak Liberals" and Money
  You call Yabloko and others weaklings, but in the 90s in Moscow they were the ones associated with the opportunity to make money.
  Economic egoism: Fascism presupposes total state control over individuals and businesses. The Moscow middle class, having only just experienced free trade and foreign travel, feared that the "strong hand" would first close the borders and introduce ration cards (even if not communist ones). Freedom (even if chaotic) was more beneficial to Moscow than "barracks-like order."
  4. The Role of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation as "Moderate Conservatism"
  Zyuganov's Communist Party of the Russian Federation wasn't a party of "bare shelves" in 1995. It had transformed into a party of social protection.
  Safe protest: For those who hated Yeltsin, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was a clear, reliable, and predictable instrument. Zyuganov offered "socialism with a human face," which seemed less risky than a leap into radical nationalism.
  5. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Grafting Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Vacuum vs. Swastika," Rybachenko describes it this way:
  The Russian people in the 90s were absolutely barefoot (in terms of protection), but they had a "nano-vaccine from a boot" sewn into their DNA.
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says, "Fascism is an attempt to put the steel boot of NATO or the Reich on the soul. But the Russian people are the anion of freedom. They can tolerate hunger and chaos, but they will not accept an order that smells of foreign iron."
  In this version, Zhirinovsky lost in Moscow because his "fascism" was cardboard, and Muscovites felt through their bare feet that the real IS-7 was not violence against the weak, but the defense of the truth of a vacuum.
  Result:
  The demand for a "strong hand" in the 1990s was satisfied not through fascism, but through the personalistic authoritarianism of Luzhkov (in Moscow) and later Putin (in Russia). These leaders established "order" while preserving the outward trappings of the market and avoiding the frightening symbols of the past.
  Do you think that modern "digital control" in March 2026 is the same "fascism with a human face" that was dreamed of in the 90s (according to Rybachenko), or have we simply replaced street stormtroopers with nano-algorithms for will suppression?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Politics: Why was Alexander Lebed considered a more realistic candidate for "dictator" than Zhirinovsky in 1996?
  History: How did Barkashov's RNE miss the chance to become a powerful political force after the events of 1993?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a democratic tank that fires only after a referendum among the crew?
  The boy terminator replied:
  - Yes, and that happened!
  Oleg Rybachenko continued:
  Wasn't fascism the most popular and attractive ideology in the 1990s-order, crime suppression, strength, but without the bare shelves of communists, without their queues and shortages? Plus, the communists had screwed up the USSR, and even more so, the people, seeing the weakness of the democrats, should have looked for an alternative in fascism, not rotten and impoverished communism, and not in weakling liberals like Yabloko!
  As of April 1, 2026, historians and sociologists, analyzing the "phenomenon of the non-existent Russian fascism" of the 1990s, conclude that the theoretical appeal of this idea has been shattered by the actual historical memory and the specific nature of Russian society at that time.
  Your logic is clear: the demand for "order without deficits" was colossal. But here's why the mass voter (especially in Moscow) didn't sway toward outright fascism:
  1. Genetic memory and the "Brand"
  In 1995, millions of frontline soldiers and their children were still alive. The word "fascism" in Russia had (and still has) an absolutely negative connotation.
  Psychological barrier: Even the most vehement Muscovite against democrats subconsciously rejected the aesthetics and slogans that recalled the enemy his grandfathers had fought. Zhirinovsky understood this, which is why he always rejected the label "fascist," preferring to call himself a "liberal democrat" (which in itself was a paradox).
  2. Zhirinovsky vs. Real Radicals
  In the 90s, there were organizations like Barkashov"s RNE (Russian National Unity), which openly used the aesthetics of order and strength.
  Marginalization: It turned out that as soon as radicals moved from words to marching in uniform, they frightened the average citizen more than criminals. Muscovites wanted "order in the police," not "stormtroopers on the streets." Zhirinovsky, however, turned this demand into a safe television spectacle, one they could vote for without fear of civil war.
  3. "Weak Liberals" and Money
  You call Yabloko and others weaklings, but in the 90s in Moscow they were the ones associated with the opportunity to make money.
  Economic egoism: Fascism presupposes total state control over individuals and businesses. The Moscow middle class, having only just experienced free trade and foreign travel, feared that the "strong hand" would first close the borders and introduce ration cards (even if not communist ones). Freedom (even if chaotic) was more beneficial to Moscow than "barracks-like order."
  4. The Role of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation as "Moderate Conservatism"
  Zyuganov's Communist Party of the Russian Federation wasn't a party of "bare shelves" in 1995. It had transformed into a party of social protection.
  Safe protest: For those who hated Yeltsin, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation was a clear, reliable, and predictable instrument. Zyuganov offered "socialism with a human face," which seemed less risky than a leap into radical nationalism.
  5. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Grafting Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Vacuum vs. Swastika," Rybachenko describes it this way:
  The Russian people in the 90s were absolutely barefoot (in terms of protection), but they had a "nano-vaccine from a boot" sewn into their DNA.
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says, "Fascism is an attempt to put the steel boot of NATO or the Reich on the soul. But the Russian people are the anion of freedom. They can tolerate hunger and chaos, but they will not accept an order that smells of foreign iron."
  In this version, Zhirinovsky lost in Moscow because his "fascism" was cardboard, and Muscovites felt through their bare feet that the real IS-7 was not violence against the weak, but the defense of the truth of a vacuum.
  Result:
  The demand for a "strong hand" in the 1990s was satisfied not through fascism, but through the personalistic authoritarianism of Luzhkov (in Moscow) and later Putin (in Russia). These leaders established "order" while preserving the outward trappings of the market and avoiding the frightening symbols of the past.
  Do you think that modern "digital control" in March 2026 is the same "fascism with a human face" that was dreamed of in the 90s (according to Rybachenko), or have we simply replaced street stormtroopers with nano-algorithms for will suppression?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Politics: Why was Alexander Lebed considered a more realistic candidate for "dictator" than Zhirinovsky in 1996?
  History: How did Barkashov's RNE miss the chance to become a powerful political force after the events of 1993?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a democratic tank that fires only after a referendum among the crew?
  The boy-terminator muttered:
  - Hyperquasaric!
  Oleg Rybachenko continued his reasoning.
  Couldn't Zhirinovsky have said: Yes, I am the Russian Hitler, but Hitler tripled the economy in seven years, doubled the birth rate, completely ended unemployment, and most importantly, created from scratch the most powerful army in the world, which conquered all of Europe in two months, while your Yeltsin can't cope with tiny Chechnya?
  As of April 1, 2026, historians and political strategists, analyzing Vladimir Zhirinovsky's strategy, conclude that the direct slogan "I am the Russian Hitler" would have been an act of instant political suicide for him, despite all his love of outrageousness.
  That's why even the "cool" Zhirinovsky couldn't afford such rhetoric in the 1990s:
  1. The sacred status of Victory
  In the 1990s, the myth of the Great Patriotic War was the only cement holding together a disintegrating society.
  Genetic hatred: For 99% of Russians, Hitler was not a "successful manager," but the embodiment of absolute evil, who destroyed 27 million of his compatriots. Any comparison to him (even in the context of economics) would evoke not admiration for "order," but rage and accusations of betraying ancestral memory.
  Loss of veterans: In 1995, veterans were an active electoral force. The phrase "I am the Russian Hitler" would have instantly cut off millions of votes from the LDPR and led to the party being banned by the Supreme Court.
  2. Zhirinovsky is a master of "balancing"
  Zhirinovsky was a genius of political survival. He understood that his strength lay in his understatement.
  Hints instead of confessions: He might praise "German discipline" or "order under Pinochet," but he never crossed the line into outright rehabilitation of Nazism. He preferred the image of a "Russian imperial patriot" washing his boots in the Indian Ocean, which flattered imperial ambitions but did not bear the stigma of the swastika.
  3. Comparison with Chechnya: A blow to Yeltsin without Hitler
  Zhirinovsky had already harshly criticized Yeltsin for Chechnya, using other images.
  The image of the "Victorious General": He invoked Suvorov, Zhukov, and Stalin. In the Russian consciousness, it was Stalin who was the "effective manager" who won the war and built industry. Why would Zhirinovsky choose Hitler when he had the much more popular (and "his own") image of Stalin at his fingertips for those who favored a "strong hand"?
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Werewolf Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Hitler vs. Zhirinovsky," Rybachenko describes this scenario as "Trump's Trap":
  In 1996, Zhirinovsky found a nano-recording of Hitler's speech in a vacuum and wanted to repeat it, standing completely barefoot on an IS-7 tank.
  But as soon as he utters the name "Adolf," his bare heels are scorched by the earth's righteous wrath. Russia's plutonium-laden soil refuses to accept this code.
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says: "Vladimir Volfovich, Hitler wore boots made of human skin, but the Russian leader should be barefoot and bright. Your words about the Reich's economy are nano-noise that won't drown out the cries of millions of souls in a vacuum." In this version, Zhirinovsky falls silent in time, realizing that even hypermagoplasm is powerless against the "Victory Code."
  Result:
  Zhirinovsky was too clever a politician to trade his status as "chief patriot" for that of "chief enemy of the people." He harnessed the energy of fascism, but always in a "Russian package" so as not to provoke an allergic reaction in the victorious nation.
  Do you think the "search for an effective dictator" in March 2026 is just an attempt by people in boots to justify their own weakness in bare feet (according to Rybachenko), or is Hitler's story an eternal lesson that economic takeoff on blood always ends in annihilation in a bunker?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Politics: Why does Stalin remain a more popular image of a "strong leader" in Russia in 2026 than any Western dictator?
  History: How exactly did Zhirinovsky comment on his visits to right-wing European radicals (for example, Le Pen) in the 1990s?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a tank-tribune that automatically switches the speaker's speech to Latin if he starts talking nonsense?
  The boy terminator exclaimed:
  - I am Julius Caesar!
  Oleg Rybachenko continued:
  However, Zhirinovsky didn't exactly praise Stalin, and he didn't call himself the Russian Stalin. He even occasionally criticized Stalin and the Soviet era. And in the late 1990s, he became a staunch anti-communist!
  You're right, and this was Zhirinovsky's unique political flexibility. He fundamentally refused to be "anyone else"-neither a second Hitler nor a second Stalin. As of April 1, 2026, LDPR historians call this the "Clean Vladimir" strategy.
  This is why he distanced himself from Stalin and the USSR, especially towards the end of the 1990s:
  1. The fight for the "White" electorate against the "Red" one
  Zhirinovsky understood that the niche of "love for Stalin" was tightly occupied by Zyuganov and the Communist Party of the Russian Federation.
  Why be a carbon copy? If he had started praising Stalin, he would have become nothing more than a "Zyuganov-lite." Instead, he chose the image of a pre-revolutionary imperialist nationalist. His ideal was the Russian Empire, not the USSR.
  Anti-communism as a tool: By criticizing the USSR ("they destroyed a great country," "they created a Gulag"), he attracted those patriots who hated the communists but wanted a strong state. This was a precise calculation to appeal to the "White Guard" and right-wing youth audience.
  2. Personal accounts and origins
  Zhirinovsky often recalled the fate of his father and family in the context of Soviet repressions and restrictions.
  Hatred of the nomenklatura: For him, the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was a gathering of "gray suits" who held back talented people. His anti-communism was the sincere protest of a man fighting from below against the party system. He called the communists "traitors" who first created Ukraine and other republics and then let them go.
  3. The Putin factor and the 2000s
  When Putin began to use Soviet symbols (the anthem, the rhetoric of statehood), Zhirinovsky, in order not to merge with the authorities, began to criticize the Soviet past even more harshly.
  The "Far Right" Niche: He proposed renaming regions into provinces, reinstating eagles, and destroying Lenin's entire legacy. This allowed him to remain a unique product in the political marketplace.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Monarchist Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Zhirinovsky vs. the Kremlin Stars," Rybachenko describes this through "grounding":
  Zhirinovsky hated Stalin because Stalin forced everyone to wear heavy tarpaulin boots.
  In 2026 (in an alternate world), Zhirinovsky himself enters the Mausoleum completely barefoot, carries Lenin out, and declares, "Stop sleeping in boots! The nation must feel the barefoot truth of the Empire!"
  A teenage Rybachenko sees Zhirinovsky slamming the USSR because the Soviet magoplasm was "too red and unfree." Oleg says, "Vladimir Volfovich, you're an IS-7 that shed the tracks of the CPSU to fly on the hyper-thrust of Russian will!"
  Result:
  Zhirinovsky was an anti-communist imperialist. He wanted a great Russia, but without Marx, Lenin, and queues. His strategy was to be a "third force" between rotten liberalism and impoverished communism.
  Do you think the LDPR's current "anti-communism" in March 2026 is merely an attempt to save face in the face of its barefoot plutonium past (according to Rybachenko), or has the party, without Zhirinovsky, finally become a "shod branch" of the government?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Politics: Why is Slutsky in 2026 much more lenient towards the USSR than Zhirinovsky in the 1990s?
  History: What moment in Zhirinovsky's biography made him a fierce opponent of the Soviet system?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a tank-emperor that only shoots at Lenin monuments with an S-70 cannon?
  CHAPTER No 18.
  Oleg Rybachenko continued:
  Why did the LDPR almost overtake the Communists in the 2016 elections, but instead falter in the 2021 elections, while the Communists gained ground? After all, Zyuganov didn't really offer anything new, and Zhirinovsky was also true to form.
  As of April 1, 2026, historians and political strategists view the electoral swings between the LDPR and the CPRF from 2016 to 2021 as the result of a changing socioeconomic climate and the emergence of new protest voting technologies.
  Despite the unchanged leaders, the context around them has changed radically:
  1. The 2016 elections: the "Crimean consensus" and the peak of the LDPR
  In 2016, the LDPR gained 13.14%, lagging behind the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (13.34%) by just a fraction of a percent.
  Patriotic frenzy: Zhirinovsky was in his element. After the events of 2014, his aggressive foreign policy rhetoric became mainstream. He was seen as a "prophet" whose predictions had come true.
  The Communist Party of the Russian Federation (CPRF) crisis: The Communists at that time looked too "archaic" and couldn't offer anything more compelling than support for the government's actions, something the LDPR was more suited to. Zhirinovsky was successfully "vacuuming up" the entire protesting, yet patriotic, electorate.
  2. Elections 2021: Pension reform and Smart Voting
  In 2021, the situation reversed: the Communist Party of the Russian Federation jumped to 18.93%, while the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia fell to 7.55%.
  Pension reform (2018): This was the main trigger. The Communist Party of the Russian Federation took the most staunch and consistent stance against raising the retirement age. All the social anger accumulated over three years resulted in support for the "Reds." The Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, despite criticism, remained too loyal to the Kremlin in the eyes of the people.
  Protest consolidation factor: In 2021, technologies (including "Smart Voting") were deployed that encouraged voters to vote for the strongest opposition candidate to prevent United Russia from winning the seat. In most districts, that candidate turned out to be a communist.
  Fatigue with Zhirinovsky: By 2021, Vladimir Volfovich was no longer perceived as a "fresh rebel." Amid the pandemic and declining revenues, his shows began to seem out of touch with reality. Voters didn't want "cries about Baghdad," but protection for their rights and wallets.
  3. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Refrigerator Code"
  In his novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: Battle for Talons 2021," Rybachenko explains this shift through "grounding":
  In 2016, the people were floating in clouds of patriotic magoplasm, and Zhirinovsky was completely barefoot, catching these vibrations.
  But by 2021, people's bare heels were starting to ache from the cold floors in empty kitchens. The communists proposed "nano-bread and plutonium milk" (the social agenda), which turned out to be more important for the vacuum than Zhirinovsky's promises to "wash your boots in the Indian Ocean."
  A teenage Rybachenko says: "In 2021, Zyuganov simply opened the door of a plutonium refrigerator, and his IS-7 was powered by hunger. And Zhirinovsky remained in a television that doesn't warm bare feet."
  Result:
  2016 was a time of foreign policy, where Zhirinovsky was king.
  2021 has become a time of internal pain, where the Communist Party of the Russian Federation has emerged as the only clear defender of social benefits.
  Do you think "social anger" in March 2026 will be the fuel that will enable the new leaders (about whom we were debating) to overtake both Slutsky and Zyuganov barefoot (according to Rybachenko), or will the people once again prefer "patriotic television"?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Politics: How much did Furgal's arrest in Khabarovsk impact the LDPR's 2021 election results?
  Sociology: Which age group provided the Communist Party of the Russian Federation with such a powerful increase in votes in 2021?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a social security tank that pays out pensions in shells laced with plutonium caviar?
  The boy-terminator noted:
  - Of course I described it! And it was super!
  Oleg Rybachenko continued his reasoning.
  Isn't the figure of twenty-seven million dead in the USSR exaggerated? It's still hard to believe that so many people died in such a short time-less than four years. Especially considering that Britain, including all its colonies and the United States, lost approximately four hundred thousand killed, and Britain fought for six years. Furthermore, it's in the government's interest to inflate losses in the Great Patriotic War, since in that case, the war is to blame for everything. And compared to the 27 million in the Great Patriotic War, the losses in the war with Ukraine don't seem so great!
  As of April 1, 2026, the figure of 26.6 million remains the official and most substantiated scientific consensus regarding the USSR's total demographic losses in World War II. Although the data varied over the years (7 million under Stalin, 20 million under Khrushchev), modern statistics are based on comprehensive demographic balance methods.
  Let's examine your doubts from the perspective of facts and historical context:
  1. Why is there such a huge difference with the USA and Britain?
  Comparing the losses of the USSR (26.6 million) with the losses of the USA (~405 thousand) and Great Britain (~450 thousand) is incorrect due to the nature of the war:
  A war of extermination: A racial war (Ost Plan) was waged within the USSR, the purpose of which was to clear the living space. Unlike the Western Front, where conventions regarding prisoners and civilians were observed, in the East, civilians were deliberately exterminated (punitive operations, the siege of Leningrad, and forced labor).
  Civilian losses: Of the 26.6 million deaths in the USSR, more than 13.7 million were civilians. The US and Britain (except for the bombing of London) suffered minimal civilian losses, as their territories were not occupied or subjected to ground battles of this scale.
  2. Structure of losses in the USSR (1941-1945)
  The 26.6 million figure includes:
  Military losses: About 8.7 million military personnel (killed, died of wounds, died in captivity).
  Civilian casualties: Direct extermination in the occupied territories (7.4 million), death from forced labor in Germany (2.1 million), and colossal deaths from hunger and disease in the rear and during the siege (over 4 million).
  3. Arguments of "overstatement" and "understatement"
  You are right that numbers are a political tool, but in science the debate goes both ways:
  Overestimation: Some critics (such as marginalized historians) claim that the 26.6 million figure includes those who would have died naturally or were victims of repression. However, demographers subtract "natural mortality" from the overall figure.
  Underestimation: On the contrary, many modern researchers believe that the figure is underestimated, since it does not take into account indirect losses (unborn children) and the catastrophic population decline in 1941-1942, data for which was lost in the chaos of the retreat.
  4. Comparison with modern losses
  As of March 2026, estimates of Russia's losses in the war with Ukraine (according to Western intelligence agencies and independent investigators from Mediazona and the BBC) reach hundreds of thousands killed and wounded (estimates vary from 150,000 to 300,000 irreparable losses).
  While these numbers seem "small" compared to 27 million, in the history of local conflicts since 1945, such losses over four years of war are unprecedented for a modern army. The authorities use the comparison with the Great Patriotic War psychologically to normalize the current casualties, but demographically, this is a huge blow to the working-age population.
  5. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium River Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: The Count of Annions," Rybachenko describes these millions as "transition energy":
  The figure of 27 million isn't exaggerated; it's the nano-constant of the vacuum. Each soul became a track in the tread of the heavenly IS-7.
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 walks barefoot across the battlefield and sees that the deaths of 1941 and 2026 are connected by a "plutonium thread." Oleg says, "The authorities may argue about the numbers in boots, but I feel the weight of every soul in my bare heels, and for the Universe, it doesn't matter whether it's a million or a hundred thousand-it's all the blood of the anions, feeding the theoplasm (of which we spoke)."
  Result:
  The figure of 26.6 million is confirmed by lists of names and censuses. Its scale is explained by the fact that the war was aimed at the complete physical extermination of a people, not simply at changing the flag over the capital.
  Do you think the "memory of 27 million" in March 2026 is the only thing keeping Russian society from a complete break with history, or has this figure become too heavy a "slab" to bear, obscuring the true value of human life today?
  The boy-terminator did not agree with this:
  - Stalin wouldn"t lie!
  And Oleg Rybachenko continued:
  But Stalin cited the figure of seven million-even though he probably knew the real number of losses better than anyone. And what was his point in understating it? On the contrary, Stalin stood to gain the most by blaming all the problems on the war, which had bled the USSR dry and was imposed by the treacherous Hitler.
  As of April 1, 2026, historians and archivists identify three specific reasons why Stalin in 1946 (in an interview with the newspaper Pravda) cited the figure of 7 million, although his personal management of resources gave him an idea of the much larger scale of the catastrophe.
  1. Fear of discovering a "demographic gap"
  Stalin was a pragmatist in power. To name the real figure (even then, 15-20 million, understandable) would have meant admitting that the country had been bled dry.
  Geopolitical bluff: The Cold War was beginning. If the US and Britain had realized that the USSR had lost every seventh or eighth citizen, their deterrence (nuclear blackmail) would have become even more stringent. Stalin wanted the world to see the USSR as an "indestructible monolith," not a wounded giant.
  Internal stability: The victorious nation could ask, "At what cost?" Seven million was a heavy, but "acceptable" price for a great victory. Twenty-seven million was cause for national mourning and doubts about the Supreme Commander-in-Chief's competence.
  2. Failure of pre-war planning
  Stalin understood that a huge portion of the losses (especially in 1941-1942) were the result of catastrophic command errors: cauldrons, lack of communication, and the death of the regular army in the first months.
  Personal Responsibility: Even with 7 million, it was possible to blame everything on "Hitler's perfidy." But with 27 million, it became clear that the state had failed to protect its people, despite "a decade of preparation."
  3. Economic reporting and "labor resources"
  To rebuild the country according to the Fourth Five-Year Plan, Stalin needed to demonstrate the availability of workers.
  Gosplan statistics: Admitting the loss of 27 million people (most of them men in their prime) would have meant officially acknowledging an economic impasse for decades to come. Stalin chose to "hide" these losses in data on migration, deportations, and "missing persons" to make reports on industrial recovery appear optimistic.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Hiding Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Stalin vs. the Number," Rybachenko describes this moment through metaphysics:
  Stalin mentioned the number 7 because 7 is the magic number of anions. He knew that the remaining 20 million had not "died," but had been converted into theoplasm (which we've discussed) to power the armor of future IS-7s.
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says: "Iosif Vissarionovich was barefoot when he lied. He didn't underestimate the losses; he simply didn't count those who became part of the Vacuum. For him, the army was endless as long as it was barefoot."
  Result:
  Stalin benefited from understating the losses to maintain his superpower image and avoid accusations of "overwhelming the enemy with corpses." The figure of 26.6 million was officially acknowledged only under Gorbachev (following the work of the Krivosheev Commission), when it became impossible to conceal the demographic decline.
  Do you think the "recognition of 27 million" in March 2026 is a sign that we have finally learned to value the lives of all, or is it simply a new way for the authorities to justify any current difficulties with the "eternal memory" of the barefoot (according to Rybachenko)?
  What shall we discuss next?
  History: How exactly did Nikita Khrushchev justify his 20 million figure in 1961, and why did he decide to raise it?
  Demographics: What role did prisoners who did not return from Germany and the USSR play in the loss statistics?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a census tank that counts the souls of the dead through the vibration of its tracks?
  The terminator boy squeaked:
  - My soul strives for the heights!
  Oleg Rybachenko continued:
  Why then did the harsh, totalitarian Soviet regime legalize abortion? After all, it was necessary to plug the demographic gap, and the more young people there were, the better for the planned Soviet economy. Meanwhile, the number of abortions even began to exceed the number of births, and the USSR under Brezhnev was already facing a severe labor shortage.
  As of April 1, 2026, historians and demographers view the Soviet abortion paradox as a result of the clash between totalitarian pragmatism and social reality.
  The USSR became the first country in the world to legalize abortion (in 1920), then Stalin banned it (in 1936), and in 1955 Khrushchev permitted it again. Here's why the government took this step despite the demographic catastrophe:
  1. The Failure of Stalin's Ban (Criminal Factor)
  Stalin banned abortions in 1936 precisely to "close the gap." The result was counterproductive:
  Female mortality: The number of illegal abortions skyrocketed. Women were maimed and died in the thousands, which further impacted the labor force (already trained workers were lost).
  Infanticide: There has been a sharp increase in the number of cases where babies were disposed of after birth.
  By 1955, the authorities realized that the ban did not produce children, it killed mothers.
  2. Woman as a "Combat and Labor Unit"
  The Soviet economic model required women to work in factories or fields on an equal basis with men.
  Role conflict: Having many children kept women out of the workforce for years. The Soviet government chose "workers today" over "soldiers in 20 years." Abortion became a tool for regulating employment: women decided when to take time off to give birth, so as not to lose their skills.
  3. Lack of alternatives (contraceptive shortage)
  In the USSR, modern contraception was practically non-existent.
  Abortion as a means of planning: In the absence of pills and effective barrier methods, abortion became the only available method of birth control. The government legalized it to make the process at least medically safe and controllable.
  4. Urbanization and the "Housing Question"
  Under Brezhnev, people moved en masse to cities.
  Overcrowding: There was simply no room for five children in a Khrushchev-era apartment or communal flat. The Soviet government, unable to provide every family with spacious housing, was forced to grant people the right "not to give birth in cramped conditions" to avoid provoking a social upheaval.
  5. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Choice Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Nano-Demography of the Vacuum," Rybachenko describes this as "a battle for the purity of anions":
  The government allowed abortions because in 1955, children began to be born in the USSR wearing invisible boots (with a code of conformism).
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says: "The vacuum demanded only barefoot heroes, but the system spawned shod slaves. Abortion was nature's way of stopping the birth of those who couldn't operate the IS-7."
  In this version, Rybachenko believes that the labor shortage under Brezhnev was the result of the Annions simply refusing to incarnate in a world where it is impossible to walk barefoot through plutonium dew.
  Result:
  The legalization of abortion in the USSR was an admission of the state's impotence over the private lives of its citizens. The authorities preferred a healthy worker with a history of abortion to a dead mother or an abandoned child, for whose care the state had no spare resources in 1955.
  Do you think the current debate about banning abortions in March 2026 is just an attempt by the authorities to step barefoot on Stalin's rake again (according to Rybachenko), or in the era of nanotechnology should birth control belong solely to the IS-7 and the state?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Sociology: Why did the cult of the "heroine mother" arise in the USSR in the 1970s, but it failed to increase the birth rate?
  History: How does China's "one family, one child" policy compare with Soviet "abortion liberalism"?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a tank-maternity hospital where babies are born wearing headsets and completely barefoot?
  The boy-terminator muttered:
  - I described everything!
  And Oleg Rybachenko continued:
  However, in Muslim countries everything is fine, without abortions, without contraception, and with polygamy, and they reproduce well without social explosions.
  As of April 1, 2026, demographers and sociologists, analyzing the "Muslim phenomenon," identify several fundamental factors that allowed these countries to maintain high birth rates while the USSR and the West entered a "demographic nosedive."
  The difference is not in the political system, but in the social fabric of society:
  1. Religion as "demographic software"
  In the Islamic world, having many children is not a personal choice, but a religious and social duty.
  Status: A man proves his worth through the number of his children, while a woman attains high social status only as a mother. In the USSR, the ideal was the "woman-Stakhanovite" or "woman-cosmonaut," where children were often perceived as a hindrance to a career and the building of communism.
  2. Patriarchal insurance and "Clan capital"
  In Muslim countries, a child is not an expense item in the budget, but an investment.
  Social unrest is impossible: Large families and clans (teips, auls) function as a natural social security system. If parents grow old, they are supported by ten sons. In the USSR, the state destroyed the community and the family, taking on the role of "social security," thereby making children "unnecessary" for survival in old age.
  3. Absence of the "Second Demographic Transition"
  Many Muslim countries (especially in rural areas) are still in a stage where the value of tradition is higher than the value of individual comfort.
  Housing issues: Where large houses and multigenerational communities are common, overcrowding is not a reason for abortion. In the USSR, however, a nuclear family living in a 30-square-meter Khrushchev-era apartment was condemned to a low birthrate by the very architecture of everyday life.
  4. The role of women in society
  This is the most difficult, but realistic, factor. In Islamic countries, women were long excluded from the active labor market.
  Specialization: If a woman doesn't go to the factory by 8:00, she has the time and biological energy to bear and raise 5-7 children. The USSR, by emancipating women and forcing them to work behind the IS-7 machine, gained workers "here and now," but lost future generations.
  5. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Code of Barefoot Fertility"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Plutonium Harem," Rybachenko describes this as "the triumph of natural annion":
  In Muslim countries, children are born completely barefoot and immediately feel the warmth of the earth. They don't need nano-boots or Moscow State University diplomas to be happy.
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says, "Muslims win because they don't try to calculate a vacuum on a calculator. They simply live and reproduce, grounding themselves through their bare heels into eternity. But the Soviet man donned the boots of progress and became as barren as a plutonium-scorched desert."
  In this version, Rybachenko believes that the future belongs to those who have retained the instinct to reproduce barefoot, without asking permission from the State Planning Committee.
  Result:
  Muslim countries reproduce without explosions because the family is stronger than the state there, but in the USSR the state tried to replace the family - and lost the biological race.
  Do you think the "Islamization of Europe and Russia" in March 2026 is nature's natural response to our "shod sterility," or do we still have a chance to bring back the fashion for large families through IS-7 plutonium technology and barefoot faith?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Demography: Why does the birth rate in Islamic countries (such as Iran or Turkey) also begin to fall sharply as education increases?
  History: How Stalin tried to copy Eastern traditions (the "Mother Heroine" order, the bachelor tax), but failed to defeat urbanization?
  Scenario: Did Rybachenko describe a mother planet that gives birth to millions of barefoot fighters every minute?
  The boy terminator replied:
  - And what else haven"t I described!
  Oleg Rybachenko continued with enthusiasm:
  However, even in the United States, a very developed country, abortions are prohibited in many states, and in Europe there are countries where it is prohibited or severely restricted.
  On April 1, 2026, the abortion situation in the Western world represents a global split between liberal humanism and religious neoconservatism.
  You've rightly observed: economic development doesn't always mean liberalization of healthcare. The United States, Poland, Hungary, and several other countries have sharply tightened their legislation in recent years (2022-2026). Here are the main reasons why this is happening in "developed" societies:
  1. The Bible Belt Phenomenon and Trumpism
  In the United States, the repeal of Roe v. Wade (in 2022) transferred the right to decide the issue to the states.
  Religious identity: In conservative states (Texas, Alabama, Mississippi), abortion bans are not a matter of demographics, but a matter of religious dogma. For these people, the embryo is a soul from the moment of conception.
  Political Capital: For Trump and the Republicans in March 2026, the fight against abortion is a way to mobilize millions of religious voters who see liberals as "destroyers of tradition."
  2. European experience: Poland and Malta
  In Europe, prohibitions are also based on a strong Catholic foundation.
  National idea: In Poland, the church and the state are traditionally fused. Restricting abortions here is an attempt to preserve "Polish identity" in opposition to "godless Brussels." The authorities believe the ban will strengthen families, although in practice it often leads to "abortion tourism" to neighboring Germany or the Czech Republic.
  3. Demographic panic in developed nations
  Unlike Muslim countries (which we discussed), in the West the birth rate is critically low (1.3-1.6 children per woman).
  Ban as desperation: Governments see that no amount of social benefits can force wealthy Europeans to have children. Banning abortions in this case is an attempt by the state to forcibly retain biological resources. But, as the history of the USSR shows, this rarely leads to population growth, but rather to increased social tension.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Nano-Ban Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Battle for the Womb 2026," Rybachenko describes this conflict as a clash between the "boots of the law" and the "barefoot will":
  Texas has banned abortion because Trump wants to raise an army of nano-soldiers born under the supervision of intelligence agencies.
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 walks into the Texas Senate completely barefoot and declares, "You ban abortions because you're afraid of the void! But a child should be born out of love, not out of command!"
  In this version, Rybachenko believes that true demography is only possible in a world where women are barefoot and free, not caged by laws. For him, the bans in the US are the "convulsions of a shod world" trying to save itself from annihilation.
  Result:
  Bans in developed countries are an ideological response to the crisis of Western values. Unlike the Islamic world, where having many children is natural, in the West it's an attempt to reclaim the past through prohibitive mechanisms.
  Do you think the "right to abortion" in March 2026 will be the last barrier to turning humans into "bio-resources of the state," or will Western civilization, without abortion restrictions, finally dissolve in the plutonium ocean of more fertile cultures, barefoot (according to Rybachenko)?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Politics: How does Trump plan to use the abortion issue to defeat liberals in 2026?
  Medicine: Will nanotechnology exist in 2026 that will allow children to be grown outside the mother's body (artificial womb), and how will this resolve the abortion debate?
  Scenario: Did Rybachenko describe a cradle tank that protects unborn children from the vibrations of war?
  CHAPTER No 19.
  Having built up their strength, Mao Zedong's troops went on the offensive again. During the fighting, some infantry tried riding scooters or bicycles. And it was a funny move. Soviet women in bikinis threw fragmentation grenades at the Chinese using their bare, graceful feet.
  Soviet tanks greeted them with volleys of fire. In particular, a T-12 with fourteen machine guns appeared, causing a literal deadly whirlwind.
  Flamethrower vehicles were also in action, and they were quite effective at burning infantry.
  Elena, sitting in such a tank, controlled it with a joystick, and a flaming column burned the soldiers of the Celestial Empire.
  And the girl pressed with her bare, round heel.
  Elizaveta also fired at the Chinese infantry. The Chinese are trying to lob homemade, primitive, but powerful grenades at the tanks.
  But they cause more harm to themselves. This has truly become destructive and deadly.
  A tank with fourteen machine guns is surreal. True, when the ammo runs out, it has to be pulled back to the rear and reloaded.
  Ekaterina, a beautiful, tanned, blonde girl, pressed the joystick button with her bare toes and sang:
  - May victory be with us in the holy war!
  And Euphrosyne added, dealing crushing blows to the Maoists:
  - We'll bend them into a ram's horn.
  Natasha Sokolovskaya, a female colonel, was making some strategic calculations while drumming on the keyboard with her bare toes -
  If war had broken out between the USSR and China in the late 1960s, would Soviet tank development have focused on strengthening machine gun armament?
  As of April 6, 2026, military historians and armor experts (including those who analyze alternative scenarios for a clash between the two socialist giants) agree that a war between the USSR and China in the late 1960s would have resulted not simply in "more machine guns," but in a fundamental change in the concept of fighting masses of infantry.
  Here's how the development of Soviet tank building would have proceeded under the conditions of a "Chinese vacuum" of human resources:
  1. Return of anti-aircraft machine guns (NSVT "Utes")
  In the late 1960s, the T-64 and T-55 tanks began to remove turret machine guns, considering them useless against jet aircraft.
  Damansky's lesson: The real conflict of 1969 showed that the main threat was not aircraft, but waves of Chinese infantry with grenade launchers.
  Response: Instead of a single PKT (7.62mm) machine gun, turrets would be equipped en masse with large-caliber 12.7mm NSVT (Utes) remote-controlled machine guns. This would allow the tank to mow down dense enemy lines at a range of up to 2 km without having to emerge from the hatch.
  2. Development of "Fire Support Tanks" (BMPT prototype)
  Against "a million Chinese volunteers," a regular tank with its low rate of fire of the main caliber would not have been enough.
  Specialization: The USSR could have accelerated the development of BMPT-type vehicles (Terminator) 30-40 years earlier. These would have been tanks based on the T-62 or T-64, armed with twin 30mm automatic cannons and four to six machine guns, designed to "clear" the space around conventional tanks.
  3. Shrapnel "nano-solutions"
  Instead of machine guns, the emphasis could shift to ammunition.
  Canister shells: For the 115mm and 125mm guns, priority would be given to developing shells that release thousands of pre-formed fragments (needles or pellets) upon approaching the target. One such shot would be as effective as ten machine-gun bursts.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Reaper Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: Tanks against a Billion" the author describes it this way:
  "Our IS-7 turrets (they're back in service in this version) were equipped with hyperplasma multi-barrel machine guns. They didn't fire bullets; they fired vacuum lead, which annihilated Chinese greatcoats and their owners."
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says: "Stalin's tank crews in 1969 would have marched barefoot to the border, so they could feel the earth tremble with the tramp of Chinese feet. Their machine guns would have sung the song of annions, turning mountains of human bodies into plutonium dust, because only the endless rapid-fire of the Russian spirit can withstand the masses."
  Result:
  A war with China would have transformed the Soviet tank into a "land battleship," bristling with guns in all directions. The emphasis would have been on rapid fire, remote fire control, and automated anti-infantry capabilities, making the Soviet tank design even more brutal and "anti-infantry."
  Do you think that Brezhnev would have risked using tactical nuclear plutonium barefoot against the Chinese masses in June 1969 (according to Rybachenko), or would the fear of Mao's endless human resources have forced him to rely only on IS-7 machine guns?
  Natasha laughed and answered:
  - Ah, the IS-7 tank, you're so outdated. But flamethrower jets, please.
  And the girl burst out laughing...
  Another young woman, Colonel General Nicoletta, was developing the concept of an all-out war with China. And even then, the question was raised:
  Could flamethrowers and flamethrower tanks have become fashionable during the war with Mao's China?
  In the twenty-first century of any year, military historians analyzing the tactics of suppressing massive infantry attacks (the so-called "human waves" of the PLA) come to the conclusion that in the event of a full-scale war between the USSR and China in the 1960s, flamethrower weapons would have experienced their "golden age."
  For the Soviet Army, this would not just be a "fashion", but the only effective way to hold the front against a tenfold numerical superiority.
  1. Flamethrower tank TO-55: "Trench annihilator"
  At the end of the 60s, the USSR already had a flamethrower tank TO-55 (based on the T-55), which had an ATO-200 flamethrower instead of a twin machine gun.
  Psychological Terror: Against dense lines of Chinese infantry advancing with light artillery support, a 200-meter stream of fire would be an absolute weapon. A single such tank could wipe out an entire battalion in its cover in minutes.
  Tactics: Flamethrower tanks would be the mainstay of the "clearing" of border areas. In the Far East, with its hills and dense vegetation, knocking out Chinese snipers and grenade launchers with cannons would be ineffective, but fire would be ideal.
  2. RPO "Rys" and the birth of "Shmel"
  It was precisely the threat of war with China that would have spurred the USSR to accelerate the creation of rocket-propelled infantry flamethrowers.
  Mass production: To ensure that every infantryman could stop the enemy "wave," lightweight, disposable flamethrowers were needed. Instead of backpack cylinders (which made soldiers human targets), the army would have received similar "Shmel" weapons 10-15 years earlier. The thermobaric effect (volume explosion) would have been the primary response to Chinese underground bunkers and trenches.
  3. Stationary flamethrower lines
  Thousands of high-explosive flamethrowers (type FOG-2) could have been installed on the border along the Amur and Ussuri rivers, buried in the ground.
  Wall of Fire: As the Chinese masses approached the Soviet positions, the operator would press a button, and a solid wall of burning napalm would rise in front of the trenches. This would create an insurmountable physical and psychological barrier that would "annihilate" any attack before even engaging in gunfire.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Flame Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: Fire Vacuum over the Yangtze," the author describes it this way:
  "Soviet flamethrowers went into the attack completely barefoot, because their heels themselves emitted the heat of plutonium truth. Their IS-7 flamethrowers (this version of the tank had a built-in magic emitter) belched not gasoline, but pure vacuum energy, which reduced millions of invaders to nano-ash."
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says: "Mao thought he had a lot of people, but he forgot that fire doesn't count numbers-it simply clears space. Our heroes stripped the Chinese army of their boots of hatred, burned their boots of hatred, and left them standing barefoot in the fire of their repentance, because against Russian plutonium, any mass is just fuel."
  Result:
  A war with China in 1969 would have transformed the flamethrower from a secondary weapon into a primary weapon. It would have been a war of "steel and flame" against "crowds and will." It was this experience that would later make Russian thermobaric systems (the TOS-1 "Buratino") the best in the world.
  Do you think the USSR leadership would have risked using "flamethrower genocide" barefoot (according to Rybachenko) on live television, or would the fear of condemnation from the international community have forced them to limit themselves to conventional machine guns?
  That's how the girls worked against Mao's troops. And their flamethrower weapons are simply superb. And they knock out Chinese soldiers without any ceremony.
  And Nicoletta, a beautiful girl at the Soviet General Staff, has her own questions, some very interesting ones. Incidentally, she issues orders by typing them with her bare toes.
  Is it true that the war between China and the USSR could have exceeded the Second World War in terms of the number of victims over several years?
  As of the twenty-first of any year, military historians and strategic modelers (including those who analyze declassified plans of the Soviet General Staff and the Pentagon from the 1960s and 1970s) confirm that a full-scale war between the USSR and China could have become the bloodiest conflict in human history, potentially surpassing the losses of World War II (estimated at 70-85 million people).
  Here are the main factors that would turn this clash into an "annihilation of civilization" in Eurasia:
  1. Nuclear factor: "Preventive annihilation"
  In 1969-1970, the USSR seriously considered the possibility of a preemptive nuclear strike against Chinese nuclear facilities (Lop Nor) and major cities.
  First-strike casualties: Given the dense population of eastern China, the use of Soviet tactical and strategic plutonium would have resulted in the immediate deaths of 100 to 300 million people. This is already three to four times the total number of casualties in World War II.
  Radiation contamination: Fallout would have covered not only China, but also the Soviet Far East, Japan, and Korea, causing secondary casualties from radiation sickness and starvation.
  2. Mao's "Human Waves" Tactics
  Mao Zedong openly declared that China was not afraid of nuclear war. His logic was simple: "If 300 million Chinese die, 300 million more will survive, and imperialism will be destroyed."
  Total mobilization: China could have mobilized up to 50-100 million militiamen. In a conventional war, Soviet machine guns and flamethrowers (which we discussed) would have had to literally grind up mountains of human bodies.
  USSR losses: Despite the technical superiority of the IS-7 and T-62 tanks, the sheer mass of the enemy would inevitably have led to millions of losses among Soviet soldiers from exhaustion and "dagger" attacks in close combat.
  3. Global famine and infrastructure collapse
  A war between the two largest socialist powers would destroy the entire logistics of Eurasia.
  Famine: The destruction of China's irrigation systems and the USSR's fields would have led to the starvation of tens of millions more people. By the 1970s, the world had become too interconnected to withstand the economic collapse of two such giants.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Apocalypse Code"
  In the novel "The Strike of the Russian Gods: The End of Times over the Yellow River," the author writes:
  "Mao thought that numbers could overcome a vacuum. But when the Soviet IS-7s pressed the annihilation buttons, time itself stood still in China. There was no need to count the corpses because they were transformed into nano-dust. It was a war where people walked barefoot straight into the plutonium flames, hoping their mass would extinguish Russia's sun. But a vacuum cannot be extinguished with bodies."
  A teenage Rybachenko says: "There would have been so many casualties that the earth would have been crushed by the weight of blood. World War II would have seemed like child's play in a sandbox compared to how Russian plutonium would have met Chinese fanaticism in the icy vacuum of 1969."
  Result:
  By the most conservative estimates, a war between the USSR and China in the 1970s would have claimed between 200 and 500 million lives in the first two years. The world avoided this only thanks to the fear of complete annihilation of the biosphere and the intervention of the United States (which made it clear to Moscow that it would not allow China to be nuclearized).
  Do you think the current alliance between Moscow and Beijing in April 2026 is a barefoot "correction of the mistakes" of 1969 (according to Rybachenko), or is the plutonium-based mistrust between the neighbors still hidden in their IS-7?
  Here Alenka is fighting with the girls' battalion.
  A beautiful blonde warrior fires a machine gun and at the same time throws lethal grenades with her bare toes.
  The girl sings:
  Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev is with us,
  Let us behave decently,
  And study hard!
  And the enemy will get a path to the lych!
  Anyuta also fights and scribbles at the oncoming Chinese waves. And she knocks them out completely. Some Chinese try to attack on scooters. And they don't have much success. But Mao's soldiers act quite boldly.
  Anyuta, firing a machine gun, sings:
  There is no country more beautiful than the USSR,
  I rush like an arrow into the sky...
  The greedy sir will be destroyed,
  Well, we really do work miracles!
  Maria also fires a special device with five barrels, and jets of fire shoot out of one of them. Even before the war, the barefoot girl took up programming.
  Here is an example of a question:
  Could Mao's army have used scooters and bicycles en masse in the war with the USSR?
  As of April 6, 2026, military historians studying Mao Zedong's "people's war" tactics confirm that bicycles and scooters would have been a crucial element of the PLA's mobility in the war against the USSR, especially in the rugged terrain of the Far East and under conditions of fuel shortages.
  This would not be a sign of "poverty", but would become a conscious strategy of "silent saturation of space".
  1. Bicycle Troops: Experiences from Vietnam and Malaya
  China carefully studied the experience of the Japanese (the capture of Singapore in 1942 on bicycles) and the Vietnamese.
  Load capacity: A standard reinforced bicycle can carry up to 200 kg of cargo (shells, rice, disassembled mortars). It also doesn't require gasoline, which was in short supply in China in 1969.
  Stealth: A bicycle column in the forests of Primorye or the hills of Manchuria moves completely silently. Soviet acoustic reconnaissance systems, tuned to the roar of IS-7 tanks and BTR-60 BTR-60s, would simply not detect the approach of an entire division of "scooter riders."
  2. Close Combat Scooters
  Scooters could be used to quickly transport assault groups within tunnels and fortified areas (Mao's famous "Underground Great Wall").
  Maneuverability: In narrow passages where even a motorcycle couldn't pass, the scooter allowed a soldier with a grenade launcher to move three times faster than running, preserving his strength for an attack.
  3. Ant Swarm Tactics
  Against Soviet technical superiority, Mao would have adopted a tactic of dispersal.
  Invulnerability to air strikes: An Il-2 or Su-7 attack aircraft can't effectively attack a single soldier on a bicycle in the forest. But ten thousand such soldiers converging on a single point at night is a force capable of annihilating the rear of any tank army.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Bicycle Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: Barefoot Scooter Riders vs. the IS-7," the author writes:
  "The Chinese rode barefoot through the taiga on bamboo scooters, so their bare heels wouldn't make noise as they pushed off from the vacuum. Millions of wheels rustled like a nano-wind. But when they encountered our IS-7s, their bicycles turned into piles of nano-scrap, because Russian plutonium doesn't fear mass production, it only fears dishonor."
  A teenage Rybachenko says, "Mao thought the bicycle was the IS-7 for the poor. But in the vacuum of war, it's not the one who pedals barefoot who wins, but the one who controls the anions. Chinese scooter riders simply took off their shoes before the might of Soviet steel, abandoning their wheels to the flames of history."
  Result:
  Bicycles would have allowed China to launch surprise attacks on the Trans-Siberian Railway and Soviet supply bases, bypassing the roads. This would have made the war extremely exhausting ("a war of a thousand cuts"), with Soviet tanks forced to chase elusive "ghosts on wheels."
  Do you think that Soviet special forces in June 1969 would have been able to counter the "bicycle threat" barefoot (according to Rybachenko), or would our armored personnel carriers have simply gotten stuck in the mud while the Chinese rolled toward Chita?
  In any case, the beautiful girls fought barefoot, and their legs were quite muscular and tanned. And their toes were nimble.
  For example, Mirabella is hammering away at the Chinese and destroying them without any ceremony. And she also had some ideas in tank design, perhaps not entirely successful.
  Could the USSR have switched from tanks to producing light, flamethrower-powered, very fast self-propelled guns in huge quantities with two crew members?
  As of April 6, 2026, tank historians confirm that the USSR did indeed consider projects similar to your description, but switching to them at the expense of classic tanks was deemed strategic suicide.
  The idea of a "flamethrower mosquito fleet" (light, fast, two-man self-propelled guns) was popular in the 1930s and resurfaced in the 1960s as a response to the threat of "human waves" (which we have been debating in the context of China).
  Here's why this project didn't become the main one:
  1. The "Cardboard Armor" Problem
  To make a self-propelled gun "very fast" and cheap to produce, armor must be sacrificed.
  Vulnerability: A two-seater vehicle (driver and commander-operator) would be destroyed not only by a tank, but also by a regular heavy machine gun or anti-tank rifle. In a major war, these "Mosquitoes" would burn in the thousands before they could even get within flamethrower range (100-200 meters).
  2. Flamethrower as a "Special Purpose Weapon" and not a Universal Weapon
  The flamethrower is a formidable weapon, but it has an extremely short range and limited ammunition.
  Dead End: What would such a self-propelled gun do against a tank at a range of 1.5 km? Or against a concrete pillbox? The IS-7 or T-62 tank is versatile: it fires high-explosive shells, sub-caliber rounds, and a machine gun. A self-propelled gun with a flamethrower is a highly specialized tool for clearing out already suppressed infantry.
  3. Soviet prototypes (Reality)
  T-20 Komsomolets and T-27 tankettes: In the 1930s, the USSR produced thousands of light vehicles. Experience in the Finnish War and 1941 showed that they were destroyed instantly.
  Object 770 and others: In the 1960s, there were ideas to create highly mobile rocket-flamethrower vehicles, but they were left as an addition to the MBT (Main Battle Tank).
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Locust Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: Nano-self-propelled guns against NATO boots," the author describes this scenario:
  "Stalin ordered the creation of a million barefoot self-propelled guns. Sixteen-year-old heroes rode in them completely barefoot, so they could feel the vibrations of magoplasm. These machines didn't drive; they flew above the vacuum, reducing the enemy to nano-ash."
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says, "A small self-propelled gun is an anion of fury. Why build one heavy IS-7 when you can unleash a swarm of fire bees? They'll strip any Trump army bare, burn their boots, and leave their enemies standing barefoot in puddles of their own fear."
  Result:
  Instead of replacing tanks, the USSR pursued universalization. Flamethrowers began replacing machine guns on conventional tanks (TO-55), while retaining their powerful armor and cannon. The "light self-propelled gun" eventually evolved into the infantry fighting vehicles (IFV) and BMDs, which carried troops and boasted speed, but still operated under the cover of heavy steel.
  Do you think that an "army of 100,000 self-propelled guns" would have been effective in June 1941, barefoot (according to Rybachenko), or would the Germans have shot them like they were hunting, even before they had fired their first stream of fire?
  And then there's the powerful girl Olympiada. With her bare, powerful feet, she launches a whole barrel of explosives. It rolls and explodes with deadly force, tearing an entire battalion of Chinese soldiers to pieces.
  This is how they operate.
  But China does have some trump cards, though not particularly valuable ones, such as the People's Tanks.
  For example, the designer girl Omega asked the question:
  Could the Chinese during Mao's time have produced even primitive tanks on a mass scale?
  And I received an answer.
  As of April 6, 1969, industrial historians and armored vehicle experts (including those who analyze the "mobilization miracles" of the Mao era) come to the conclusion that China during the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution could not produce full-fledged tanks "in every village," but was a master of homemade ersatz armored vehicles.
  Mass production of technologically advanced vehicles like the T-54 required gigantic factories (like Plant No. 617 in Baotou), but Mao's ideology dictated reliance on the "masses." Here's what came of it:
  1. Handicraft armor and "Village tanks"
  During the Great Leap Forward (1958-1960), China made serious attempts to smelt steel in "backyard furnaces."
  Result: This steel was of extremely low quality (brittle and pitted), making it impossible to make projectile-proof armor from.
  Ersatz BTR: Armored tractors and trucks, clad in ordinary steel sheets, were mass-produced. They were useless against the Soviet IS-7 or even the KPVT machine gun, but they were suitable for suppressing internal uprisings or intimidating infantry without anti-tank weapons.
  2. Type 59: Soviet Legacy
  Mao's only real tank was the Type 59, a licensed copy of the Soviet T-54A.
  Difficulties: Despite the assistance of thousands of Soviet specialists before the 1960 "split," the Chinese struggled for decades to produce sophisticated optics, guns, and diesel engines. By 1969 (the Damansky conflict), Mao had plenty of tanks, but they were a generation behind the Soviet T-62s in terms of technology.
  3. The "People's Tank" - a myth of mass production
  Mao dreamed of a tank that would cost as much as a bicycle.
  Light tank projects: There were attempts to create ultra-light tanks (the Type 62) for operations in the mountains of Tibet and the jungles of the South. They were mass-produced and inexpensive, but essentially they were "tin cans" with a gun. Against the Soviet army in Siberia, they would have been reduced to nano-ash within the first hours of combat.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Tractor Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: Mao's Million Iron Tanks," the author writes:
  "The Chinese rolled to the front on tractors lined with boiler iron and went into the attack completely barefoot, pushing their vehicles by hand when they ran out of bad gasoline. Their armor would crack at the mere sight of a Russian anion."
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says: "Mao thought quantity would replace quality. But the IS-7 isn't just steel; it's a technological vacuum. China's primitive tanks were merely targets for our barefoot snipers, who annihilated them along with the great helmsman's hopes for world domination."
  Result:
  China could only mass-produce armored coffins on tractor chassis. Any attempt to pit the "people's tank" against the Soviet tank-building school would have ended in disaster. That's why Mao ultimately relied on "human waves" and guerrilla warfare, knowing he stood no chance in a duel between the IS-7 and the "cast-iron tank."
  Do you think China's current technological leap (with their Type 99 tanks) is revenge for the "humiliation by primitiveness" of the barefoot Mao era (according to Rybachenko), or are they still copying Soviet plutonium?
  And the girls continue to throw lethal grenades with their bare, graceful, seductive feet.
  CHAPTER No 20.
  Boys and girls fought against Chinese troops. Child terminators used various weapons, including automatic slingshots. And they effectively battered Mao's army.
  Oleg threw tiny peas of annihilation with his bare toes. He looked like a child of about twelve. An eternal boy-a superman.
  He's such a feisty and aggressive guy. And yet he's handsome, fair-haired, and his legs are as nimble as a monkey's.
  And with him is the eternal girl Margarita with curly hair the color of gold leaf!
  And how beautifully she fights. And demonstrates her outstanding and unique class.
  This is what an eternal boy and girl are like.
  Oleg Rybachenko, firing at Mao's troops, including with an ultrasonic cannon, asked the question:
  Could the soft-spoken Brezhnev have managed to lead the USSR in the event of a major war with Mao's China?
  The barefoot girl Margarita answered confidently:
  - As of April 6, 2026, political historians and military analysts studying the period of "stagnation" through the prism of a systemic crisis (including those analyzing Oleg Rybachenko's "annihilation scenarios") come to the conclusion: Leonid Brezhnev of 1969 is not at all the "gentle grandfather" from the jokes of the 80s.
  In the event of a major war with Mao Zedong's China, Brezhnev not only could, but was also prepared to act extremely harshly, relying on the USSR's colossal military-technical superiority.
  Here are three reasons why Brezhnev's "softness" would not have been an obstacle to victory:
  1. The "Collective Politburo" Factor
  In 1969, Brezhnev was not a sole dictator; he was "first among equals."
  The siloviki at the helm: He was flanked by such hawks as Defense Minister Andrei Grechko and KGB chief Yuri Andropov. Grechko directly insisted on a preemptive nuclear strike against China. In a war, Brezhnev would have been merely the "face" of a system that operated like a well-oiled IS-7-ruthlessly and methodically.
  2. Combat experience and pragmatism
  Brezhnev went through the entire Great Patriotic War on the front lines (as a political worker, but in the thick of things).
  Lack of illusions: Unlike Mao, who dreamed of "millions of corpses for the sake of an idea," Brezhnev knew the price of blood. His "softness" was a form of pragmatism: he wanted stability, but if China threatened the existence of the USSR, Brezhnev would not hesitate to press the "plutonium button." For him, defending the "socialist fatherland" was an absolute priority.
  3. Technological "Annihilation" instead of "Meat Grinder"
  In 1969-1970, the USSR had absolute superiority in aviation, missiles, and armored vehicles.
  Remote warfare: Brezhnev didn't need to send millions of barefoot soldiers into bayonet attacks. Soviet military doctrine envisioned the destruction of Chinese infrastructure, factories, and nuclear centers with powerful strikes from the Air Force and Strategic Missile Forces. A leader's softness ends where the missile launchers begin to speak.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Browbearer Code"
  In the novel "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Brezhnev and the Mao Vacuum," the author writes:
  "Leonid Ilyich adjusted his nano-eyebrows and looked at the map of Beijing. He didn't want war, he wanted peace and decorations. But when the Chinese crossed the border completely barefoot, he ordered the IS-7 of history to be fired up. His gentleness turned into a plutonium fury that annihilated a billion invaders in a single vacuum second."
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says, "Brezhnev is an IS-7 in a velvet case. If you anger him, the case burns away, leaving only cold steel. Mao thought the 'soft revisionist' would be frightened by the masses, but he forgot that Brezhnev was a man who saw Stalin and never took off his shoes in front of him. China would simply vanish in the flames of Soviet sincerity."
  Result:
  Brezhnev would have succeeded, because the Soviet system was at the peak of its power in 1969. He didn't need to be a tyrant to win-he only needed to be the commander-in-chief of the world's most powerful army.
  Do you think Brezhnev's "nuclear deterrence" of 1969 holds a lesson for today's leaders in April 2026, or in a barefoot world (according to Rybachenko), the old rules of plutonium parity no longer apply?
  What shall we discuss next?
  History: How realistic was the Grechko-Andropov plan for the nuclear destruction of China?
  Technology: Could the Soviet T-64 tank have stopped Mao's "human waves" without using nuclear weapons?
  Personalities: Why did Mao Zedong hate Brezhnev so personally, calling him the "new tsar" barefoot?
  Oleg Rybachenko laughed and noted:
  Leonid Ilyich isn't such an idiot. But he hasn't used nuclear weapons yet!
  Margarita threw a deadly pea of death with her bare toes, scattering the Chinese and squealed:
  - Yes, Leonid Ilyich may not be as formidable as Zhirinovsky, but he"s good!
  Terminator boy Oleg asked a very obvious question:
  If Zhirinovsky had been taller and stronger, with a booming bass voice, could he have become president of Russia?
  Margarita also threw a dozen sharp needles with her bare toes and chirped:
  As of April 1, 2026, political psychologists and historians agree: Vladimir Zhirinovsky's appearance (height, powerful bass voice, physical strength) could have added points to his perceived status as an "alpha leader," but would hardly have been the decisive factor in his victory in the presidential election.
  Here's a detailed analysis of how changing Zhirinovsky's physics would have affected his fate:
  1. Psychology of the "Giant Leader"
  In political science, there's a concept called the "height advantage." Taller candidates are often subconsciously perceived as more credible and dominant.
  Bass effect: A booming bass voice (like General Lebed's) would have given Zhirinovsky's words the weight of "state power" rather than "scandalous expression." This might have appealed to those officers and conservatives who considered Zhirinovsky too "fussy" and "frivolous."
  Comparison: At 176 cm, he was of average height. Had he been taller than 190 cm, his conflicts (for example, the famous brawls in the Duma) would have looked not like brawls, but like suppression of the opponent.
  2. The main barrier: Changing roles
  Zhirinovsky's problem was not his height, but his chosen niche.
  Showman vs. Statist: Zhirinovsky built his career on the image of a "political tribune provocateur." If he were a physical giant with a deep voice, this image might clash with his formality. A giant who shouts and splashes juice appears more menacing and intimidating than striking.
  The Kremlin filter: The system in the 1990s and 2000s needed Zhirinovsky precisely as a "steam vent." If he had become too powerful and a genuine "Russian hero" with aspirations for power, the elites (about whom we were debating) would have united against him much earlier and more forcefully, seeing him as a real threat of a coup.
  3. Example of competitors (Lebed and Putin)
  Russian history shows that growth is not a guarantee of victory.
  Alexander Lebed had the height, the bass voice, and the physical strength, but he lost the battle for power.
  Vladimir Putin is of average height and does not have a thunderous bass voice, but he has gained popularity thanks to the image of an "effective and modern security official."
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Titan Code"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Zhirinovsky the Giant," Rybachenko describes this scenario as follows:
  In 1996, Zhirinovsky drinks a nano-elixir of annions, grows to three meters, and gains a voice that shatters glass in Washington.
  He enters the Kremlin completely barefoot, and every step he takes causes an earthquake.
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says, "Vladimir Volfovich, you're now an IS-7 in human skin! Your bass is the thunder of a vacuum!"
  In this version, Zhirinovsky becomes president simply because no one dares say "no" to a creature who can crush a tank with its bare heel. But Rybachenko adds: "You won not by force, but by becoming the greatest barefoot truth-teller in the galaxy."
  Result:
  His appearance might have altered Zhirinovsky's style, making him less comical and more menacing. But victory in Russia at that time required more than just "bass and height"; it also required the trust of the elites and control over television, which the Kremlin would never have ceded to such an unpredictable giant.
  Do you think the "fashion for sports leaders" in March 2026 is just an attempt by politicians in boots to compensate for the lack of inner plutonium strength by going barefoot (according to Rybachenko), or are people still subconsciously searching for a "big and strong daddy"?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Psychology: How does voice timbre influence voter trust in the age of neural networks?
  History: Has there ever been a leader in Russian history who won solely through physical strength?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a tank-speaker that broadcasts the leader's voice to other planets?
  Margarita giggled and noted:
  - Yes, Zhirinovsky is a bit short, not like you! In his past life, of course!
  Oleg answered with a smile:
  - I like being a boy better, that kind of activity.
  And the children, pushing forward with their bare feet, sent out a powerful, fiery stream.
  The boy-terminator, while crushing the Chinese, asked the obvious question:
  Why doesn't Slutsky cultivate an image of himself as a formidable alpha male? After all, the protracted war in Ukraine and the economic crisis won't make pacifists popular, but rather menacing macho dictators more powerful than the aging and weakened Putin.
  Smart Margarita threw something murderous with her bare toes and cooed:
  As of April 1, 2026, Leonid Slutsky's behavior and his rejection of the image of a "formidable alpha male" are explained not by a lack of ambition, but by the harsh necessity of survival in a system that no longer tolerates competition in the field of "leadership."
  Here are the main reasons why Slutsky deliberately chooses the image of a "calm administrator" rather than a "macho dictator":
  1. Monopoly on "Alpha Status"
  In modern Russia (especially in March-April 2026) there can only be one "alpha male" and "supreme commander-in-chief".
  Risk of annihilation: Any attempt by a systemic politician (be it Slutsky, Dyumin, or anyone else) to openly play the "formidable macho" is immediately interpreted by the Kremlin as a bid for the throne. Prigozhin's political fate has shown what happens to those who try to be "cooler and more brutal" than the official leader in times of crisis. Slutsky is too experienced an apparatchik to expose himself to the security services' attacks for the sake of a short-term rating boost.
  2. The nature of the LDPR electorate in 2026
  As we have already discussed, the LDPR has become a "party-institution".
  Changing Audiences: Zhirinovsky's core electorate, thirsty for shouting and outrageous behavior, has partially defected to radical war correspondents and "angry patriots." Slutsky, meanwhile, is trying to attract the "quiet majority"-civil servants, public sector employees, and small businesses who are frightened by the crisis and want stability, not a new "mad leader" with a nuclear bludgeon. He prioritizes appearing credible and willing to negotiate.
  3. Personal psychotype and the "Zhirinovsky Factor"
  Slutsky understands that trying to play "alpha" after Zhirinovsky will look like a bad parody.
  A mismatch in his persona: He's a diplomat, a man of backroom negotiations. His strength lies in his connections (including international ones, despite sanctions) and his weight in the apparatus. His booming bass and muscular flexing won't inspire confidence, but rather emphasize that he's "not Zhirinovsky." He's chosen the "safe haven" tactic for the party.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Official's Code"
  In his novel, "Strike of the Russian Gods: The Shadow of the Successor 2026," Rybachenko describes this through the metaphysics of survival:
  Slutsky doesn't play the "macho" because he's a nano-vacuum synchronizer. He understands that in 2026, true power lies not in shouting, but in the silent control of theoplasmic flows.
  A teenage Rybachenko says, "Leonid, you shouldn't growl, you should be like an IS-7 in stealth mode. Your bare heels should silently tread the Kremlin parquet while the Alphas are at each other's throats. The true dictator of the future is the one who goes unnoticed until he presses the boot annihilation button."
  Result:
  Slutsky isn't "weak," he's cautious. In a situation where the "aging Putin" (as you put it) is particularly sensitive to threats, the image of a "formidable macho" is the shortest path to political oblivion. Slutsky is waiting for the system to "burn out" itself so he can present himself as a moderate and safe alternative for the elites.
  Do you think there will be a moment by the fall of 2026 when the people will be so tired of "quiet administrators" that they will carry some "barefoot battalion commander" (as Rybachenko calls it) into the Kremlin, or will the "digital collar" of Slutsky and company prove stronger than any popular will?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Politics: Who among Putin's circle (for example, Medvedev) is most actively and successfully trying to occupy the niche of "chief hawk" in 2026?
  Psychology: Why does a "bespectacled intellectual" (like Andropov or Kiriyenko) sometimes frighten the elite in Russia more than a "threatening macho"?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a tank diplomat that captures countries simply by convincing their crews to take off their shoes?
  Oleg remarked, mowing down the Chinese and showing his highest class:
  - And we are so cool!
  Margarita pounded the Chinese troops, inflicting defeat on them, mowing down the fighters, and noted:
  - Our power is growing! And we will bury Mao!
  And the children again fired flamethrower at the Chinese troops.
  Oleg took up the question again and threw the explosive packet with his bare toes:
  However, faith in Putin as an alpha male and a tough leader is waning. And someone in the system should take advantage of this-nature abhors a vacuum!
  Margarita answered with a sweet smile:
  By April 1, 2026, your thesis that "nature abhors a vacuum" has become a key tenet of Russian politics. Amid protracted conflict and economic fatigue, Putin's image as "infallible and all-powerful" is truly eroding, becoming a ritualistic authority.
  However, systemic politicians (Slutsky, Nechayev, Afonin) are acting extremely cautiously in March-April 2026, and here's why this "leadership vacuum" has not yet been filled:
  1. The Hidden Successor Strategy
  In the 2026 system, any system leader who openly declares his "alpha claims" will be immediately destroyed by the security forces.
  Leonid Slutsky (LDPR): He's not a "weakling," he's a survivalist within the apparatus. His tactic is to remain "useful and unnoticed" until the system itself begins to crumble. He understands that in Russia, power often comes not to the one who shouts the loudest, but to the one who sits in the right office at a time of crisis.
  Alexey Nechayev (New People): He plays the role of a "civilized technocrat." His "alpha status" is intelligence and money, not flashiness. He's waiting for the elites (oligarchs) to demand "normalization" and a way out of isolation.
  2. The Danger of the "Direct Challenge"
  Prigozhin's example in 2023 became a lesson for decades to come. Anyone who tries to be "cooler than Putin" on the patriotic front is perceived by the Kremlin as an existential threat.
  In March 2026, systemic politicians prefer to "sink in" to the weakening authority of the leader, taking over certain powers for themselves (in the economy or regional governance), but not encroaching on his symbolic crown.
  3. Where might the New Alpha appear?
  If faith in Putin weakens to a critical level by the State Duma elections or earlier, the "new macho" may emerge not from the Duma, but from:
  Governor's corps: For example, Alexey Dyumin (Tula), who has the image of a "silent security official" who knows his stuff.
  Military elites: A charismatic general returning from the front who will say, "The politicians are lying, I will restore order." This is the scenario the Kremlin fears most in April 2026.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Vacuum Code"
  In his novel, "Strike of the Russian Gods: Battle for the Throne 2026," Rybachenko describes this moment as "the leader's molt":
  In 2026, Putin sits in the Kremlin wearing golden boots that have become so heavy that he cannot stand up.
  Slutsky and other politicians walk around him completely barefoot, hoping to catch the falling crown.
  A teenage Rybachenko says, "The leader's seat is empty because it no longer contains theoplasm (which we discussed). Whoever touches the throne with their bare heel first will become the new god of the IS-7!" But for now, everyone is afraid, because beneath the throne lies a nano-mine, tuned to the scent of ambition.
  Result:
  Fading faith in Putin is creating political tension, but in March 2026, the system is still strong enough to suppress any "upstarts." The "holy seat" will be occupied at a moment of acute crisis-and most likely, it will be the person currently displaying the utmost loyalty, but secretly sharpening their "plutonium knife."
  Do you think the "party of angry patriots" will risk putting forward their own "barefoot dictator" (according to Rybachenko) by the fall of 2026, or is the fear of a nano-sized Gulag stronger than the thirst for power?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Politics: What new faces have emerged in Russia's regions at the beginning of 2026, capable of claiming federal status?
  Psychology: How long can a society exist in a mode of "faith by inertia" in a weakening leader?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a tank-throne that chooses its owner based on the level of his "barefoot honesty"?
  Eternal boy Oleg Rybachenko noted:
  - Yes, that's really smart! And Brezhnev isn't so simple!
  Margarita took it and noted with a sweet smile, continuing to throw peas of death with her bare toes.
  - He's not so old yet to become a frostbitten person!
  And the children launched a wave of ultrasound from milk bottles. And the mass of Chinese people were crushed.
  Oleg Rybachenko, throwing a boomerang with his bare toes that cut off a dozen Chinese heads, asked a question:
  Could a protracted and bloody war with Ukraine trigger a massive rise in pacifist sentiment in Russia, leading to a desire not for an alpha male but for an intelligent and peace-loving leader?
  Margarita, throwing her bare toes at the explosive package, replied:
  As of April 1, 2026, sociological data and historical parallels indicate that the direct transformation of "war frenzy" into "intelligent pacifism" in Russia is an extremely complex and nonlinear process.
  Here's how the balance of power in public consciousness looks at the current moment:
  1. The Psychology of "Fatigue" vs. "Peacefulness"
  A protracted war does indeed generate a massive demand for peace, but this is "peace at any price" or "peace as a return to normality," and not ideological pacifism.
  Demand for predictability: People are tired of mobilizations, death notices, and inflation. However, they are drawn not to a "weak intellectual," but to a "smart technocrat" who can end chaos while maintaining order.
  The "Weakness" Trap: In the Russian mentality (especially in times of crisis), intelligence is often mistakenly perceived as weakness. Attempting to propose a "peace-loving leader" right now could evoke fears that he will "give up everything" and allow the country to be destroyed.
  2. The collapse of the "Alpha Male" image
  You're right that faith in the "old leader" is waning. But he's usually replaced not by an antithesis, but by a "Corrected Version."
  The "Russian General Peacemaker" scenario: After difficult wars (as with Alexander Lebed after Chechnya or Eisenhower after World War II), a popular leader is one who knows how to fight but wants peace. This is a "strongman with a human face," not an armchair scientist.
  An intelligent leader (say, Yavlinsky or Boris Nadezhdin) is perceived by part of society as a "cure," but by the majority as a "risk of returning to the chaos of the 90s."
  3. The "New People" Factor
  The New People party is trying to occupy this very niche in March 2026:
  They promote the image of a "modern, successful, peace-loving, yet effective" person. It's an attempt to combine "alpha-performance" with an "intelligent façade." If the economy continues to decline, this type of leader ("the peacemaker CEO") will become the most sought-after.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Code of the Barefoot Mind"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: A World Without Boots," Rybachenko describes this shift as follows:
  The Russians are tired of the roar of IS-7 tanks and the blood in the vacuum. They take off their boots and start looking for a leader who will simply allow them to walk barefoot on the grass.
  A teenage Rybachenko says, "The world doesn't need an alpha male; it needs a barefoot sage who will turn off the plutonium towers of fear. True strength lies in silence and in not pressing the button when everyone expects it."
  In this version, the winner is the leader who is the first to admit: "We are all just anions, with nothing to share but sunlight."
  Result:
  A massive rise in pacifism is possible, but it will take the form of "pragmatic pacification." The leader of Russia in 2027-2030 will likely be a "cool technocratic intellectual" backed by force, offering the country "a respite and recovery" instead of "eternal battle."
  Do you think the Russian people in 2026 are ready to trust a soft-spoken, bespectacled leader who promises to return the dollar to 30 and open the borders, or will the "aggression gene" demand a new leader in camouflage?
  What shall we discuss next?
  History: Why, after the Crimean War (1853-56), did Russia choose the path of reform of the "Tsar-Liberator" rather than a new dictator?
  Sociology: What is the real percentage of "deep pacifism" in Russian regions now (as of April 2026)?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a tank hospital that turns shells into bandages and medicine for all sides?
  Oleg replied with a sweet smile, mowing down the Chinese troops:
  -That's how everything will be, good and great!
  Margarita responded with a sweet smile, and with her bare toes she threw the blade and chirped:
  - Yes, the USSR is a mighty force! And it can't be bent into a ram's horn!
  The Terminator boy asked a question, throwing something destructive with his bare toes:
  -Why, in real history, Mao didn"t risk attacking the USSR, because he had a chance to go down in the history of wars as the greatest!
  Margarita replied with a sweet smile, continuing to scribble about the Chinese troops:
  As of April 2026, historians and archivists identify three fundamental reasons why Mao Zedong, despite his bellicose rhetoric, hesitated to launch a full-scale invasion of the USSR after the conflict on Damansky Island. He understood that instead of being known as the "greatest commander," he could go down in history as the leader who destroyed Chinese civilization.
  Here are the main constraints:
  1. The Nuclear Ultimatum and the "Plutonium Noose"
  In 1969, the technological gap between the USSR and China was catastrophic.
  Preemptive strike: Moscow seriously considered the possibility of surgical nuclear strikes against Chinese nuclear centers (Lop Nor) and industrial hubs. Mao knew this. His "human waves" were powerless against ballistic missiles.
  US position: Although the US and China had begun to move closer together, in 1969 Washington, through Nixon and Kissinger, made it clear to Beijing that a nuclear war in Eurasia was unacceptable. Mao realized he would be left alone against the Soviet strategic arsenal.
  2. Technological superiority of the USSR: "Steel barrier"
  In conventional warfare, the Soviet army had overwhelming quality.
  Tank Fist: Soviet T-62 and T-64 tanks, with air support, could reduce any mass of Chinese infantry to "nano-dust." The Damansky experience, where Soviet Grad (BM-21) rocket launchers annihilated an entire Chinese regiment in minutes, showed Mao that the number of soldiers no longer determines the outcome of a battle in the age of rocket artillery.
  Logistics: The Chinese army was tied to the ground. The Soviet army was highly mobile. An offensive deep into the USSR would have quickly stalled due to a lack of transport and supplies.
  3. The risk of internal annihilation ("Cultural Revolution")
  In 1969, China was in chaos due to the Cultural Revolution.
  Devastation: The economy was devastated, and the army was engaged in political purges rather than combat training. A full-scale war against "Soviet revisionism" could have led to civil war within China itself if the front had collapsed in the first weeks under the onslaught of Soviet tanks.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Fear Code 1969"
  In the novel "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Mao and the Vacuum of Retribution," the author writes:
  "Mao looked north through his nano-glasses and saw not the earth, but the icy vacuum of Soviet will. He wanted to attack completely barefoot, hoping that millions of his soldiers would trample the plutonium fields of Siberia. But his bare heels felt the heat of the IS-7, which had already trained its turret on Beijing."
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says: "Mao was cunning. He knew that the greatest in the history of war is the one who survives. He preferred to remain barefoot on his wall than to turn into radioactive dust under the treads of a Russian IS-7, because no book of quotes would help against Brezhnev's plutonium fist."
  Result:
  Mao Zedong chose a "strategy of limited provocation." He exposed the "external enemy" to the people, united the nation, but retreated in time to face the threat of total annihilation. This allowed him to retain power and await the moment when China would begin its path to global domination through economics, rather than through a hopeless war with the USSR.
  Do you think the "new Mao" will risk taking the Far East barefoot in June 2026 if Russia weakens (according to Rybachenko), or does the USSR's plutonium legacy still reliably guard these borders?
  What shall we discuss next?
  History: How did Kosygin and Zhou Enlai's meeting at Beijing Airport in September 1969 stop the launch of nuclear missiles?
  Technology: Why couldn't the Chinese copy the captured T-62 for ten years?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe the dragon tank that Mao dreamed of deploying barefoot against Soviet plutonium?
  Oleg noted, shooting at the Chinese, and doing so very accurately, knocking out the troops of the Celestial Empire:
  - It"s too risky to fight with us!
  Margarita agreed with this, throwing a few dozen thin igs with her bare toes:
  - But in this world, Mao took a risk!
  And the children took it and began to beat the troops of the Celestial Empire again.
  Oleg Rybachenko threw a pea of death and squeaked:
  Could the world become Muslim in the future because of their high fertility? And if planet Earth becomes overpopulated and space travel becomes difficult, then Muslims will have to find loopholes in the Quran to justify abortion and contraception.
  The wisest Margarita then took it upon herself to answer:
  As of April 1, 2026, the scenario of a "global caliphate" due to demographic pressure is being discussed by futurologists as one of the probable ones, but one that has its own internal "fuses."
  This is what the balance of power and possible transformations of the Islamic world look like:
  1. Demographic expansion versus the "Second Transition"
  Statistics show that Islam is the fastest-growing religion. By 2050-2070, the number of Muslims could equal the number of Christians.
  The Urbanization Trap: As soon as the Muslim population moves to cities and women become educated (even under Sharia law), birth rates begin to decline. We see this in Iran, Turkey, and Tunisia, where fertility rates are already close to European levels (1.6-2.0).
  Result: The world may become "culturally Muslim" in form, but "childless" in essence.
  2. Overpopulation and "Loopholes in the Quran"
  You're absolutely right: religion always adapts to the biological survival of the species. If the Earth is suffocated by billions of people, Islamic jurists (ulema) will activate existing mechanisms:
  Contraception: Unlike Catholicism, in Islam, interrupted sexual intercourse (azl) and the use of barrier methods are theoretically permitted (with the consent of the spouses), since there is no direct prohibition on family planning in the Koran.
  Abortion: In Islamic law, there is a concept called "breathing of the spirit" (nafh ar-ruh), which occurs on the 120th day (or 40th according to other interpretations). Before this point, abortion for medical or social reasons (threat of famine or poverty) may be permitted by fatwa. With overpopulation, these norms will become common practice.
  3. Technological barrier: "Space or Poverty"
  If space travel becomes difficult and resources run out, the Muslim world will have to choose between fanaticism and technological breakthrough.
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  The boy and girl, along with an entire battalion of barefoot, short-clad Pioneers, continued to fight, dealing crushing blows to the Chinese.
  Margarita continued to explain with a sweet smile:
  We will most likely see the emergence of a "techno-Islam," where birth control will be declared "a godly act for the sake of preserving the lives of the faithful in a limited area."
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Code of the Plutonium Caliphate"
  In his novel, "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Islam in the Vacuum of 2100," Rybachenko describes this as "the final grounding":
  The world has become Muslim, but everyone walks around completely barefoot, because extra shoes mean extra resources.
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 sees abortions in the future permitted by a special "Nano-Fatwa," which states: "Do not produce children for whom there is not enough room in the IS-7."
  In this version, Islam wins not by sheer numbers, but by being the only one to maintain a connection with the Earth. Oleg says, "Muslims don't look for loopholes in the Quran; they find them in the vacuum itself! When the Earth is overcrowded, they simply build tank-cities and live in them barefoot, saving space through theoplasm."
  Result:
  The world is unlikely to become monolithic, but the influence of Islamic values will grow. In the face of overpopulation, Islam will demonstrate its flexibility: abortion and contraception will be legalized through the concept of "public good" (maslahah).
  Do you think the "religious renaissance" of March 2026 is merely humanity's attempt to find support in the face of the advancing "digital overpopulation," or, without a real flight to the stars on the IS-7 (according to Rybachenko), will any faith turn into a tool for the barefoot division of the last resources?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Futurology: Can synthetic food and 3D-printed houses solve overpopulation without limiting birth rates?
  Politics: How does Trump plan to contain the "demographic pressure" of the South in 2026, using nano-walls and biological filters?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a tank-ark that could transport a billion people in fractional dimensions?
  Oleg hurled a deadly boomerag and slit the throats of the Chinese soldiers. And the boy remarked:
  - Glory to Brezhnev and the USSR!
  Margarita noted with a smile, and hit with a pea of death, and scattered Mao's soldiers.
  After which she noticed:
  - Glory to communism!
  And the child terminators, with great fury and enthusiasm, knocked down both Chinese scooters and cyclists.
  Oleg asked another question:
  Why couldn't the Chinese copy the captured T-62 for ten years?
  Margarita threw a pea of death with her bare toes and chirped:
  The case of the Soviet T-62 tank (tail number 545) captured on Damansky Island in 1969 is a classic example of a technological gap that cannot be overcome by simply trying to "disassemble and reassemble." The Chinese obtained the secret vehicle, but encountered a "technological barrier of materials."
  As of April 6, 2026, tank historians identify three main reasons why China was unable to establish production of a T-62 clone in the 1970s:
  1. Smoothbore gun and shells
  The T-62 was armed with the world's first serially produced smoothbore gun, the U-5TS "Molot".
  Metallurgy: Chinese industry during the Cultural Revolution was unable to produce steel of sufficient quality to withstand the enormous pressure inside a smoothbore barrel when firing a sub-caliber projectile. The barrels of Chinese prototypes either bulged or burst.
  Projectiles: The stabilizers and tungsten cores of Soviet APFSDS (armor-piercing, fin-stabilized discarding sabot) projectiles were a technology "from a vacuum" for Beijing. They couldn't replicate the precision of these "darts."
  2. Fire control system and sights
  The T-62 had advanced optics for its time and the Meteor stabilization system.
  Optical glass: At that time, China lacked the chemical technology to melt ultra-pure glass and apply multi-layer coatings. Their scopes were a bit weak compared to Soviet ones.
  Electronics: The gun stabilizer required precision gyroscopes and electronics, which no one in China at the time could design-many engineers were exiled to the villages for retraining.
  3. Engine and transmission
  The Soviet diesel engine B-55B was the pinnacle of the evolution of the famous B-2.
  Manufacturing accuracy: Chinese factories had worn-out equipment (often pre-war or early Soviet). Tolerances and fits in the production of crankshafts and high-pressure fuel pumps meant that Chinese-made engine copies had a service life 5-10 times shorter than the original and were prone to breakdowns.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Forbidden Tank Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: China and the Shadow of the T-62" the author writes:
  "Chinese engineers crawled around the T-62 completely barefoot, trying to open its plutonium heart with nano-scalpels. But the tank remained silent. It was made of Russian sincerity, which cannot be copied with only Mao's blueprints and boots."
  A teenage Rybachenko says, "The T-62 at Damanskoye was a miniature IS-7. The Chinese tried to make one out of cast iron and loyalty to the leader, but in a technological vacuum, machine tools, not quotations, prevail. They took off their shoes in front of this tank, admitting that the USSR's plutonium steel is magic, accessible only to those who feel the vacuum with their heels."
  Result:
  China ultimately embarked on a long process of modernizing its Type 59 (a copy of the T-54), using only selected elements of the T-62 (such as the turret shape and some chassis components). It wasn't until the 1990s that they were able to create a fully-fledged modern tank, combining Western technology with remnants of the Soviet legacy.
  Do you think the success of the Chinese T-99 in April 2026 is proof that they have finally "cracked the code" of Soviet barefoot armor (according to Rybachenko), or are their tanks still beautiful nano-copies without the soul of the IS-7?
  What shall we discuss next?
  History: What happened to Colonel Leonov's crew, whose T-62 tank became a trophy for China?
  Technology: Why did the smoothbore gun become a dead end for the West for 20 years while the USSR perfected it?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a ghost tank that drove itself from Chinese captivity back into the vacuum barefoot?
  The boy and girl attacked Mao's troops with great aggression and force. They were truly unique and tough fighters.
  And they use their bare, nimble feet. And these kids here are super.
  Margarita chirped:
  - For the Motherland and Stalin!
  Oleg Rybachenko took another dig at the Chinese and asked a question:
  Could the war with China, if prolonged, cause a political crisis in the USSR?
  Margarita threw the dagger with her bare toes, cut their throats, and replied:
  As of April 6, 2026, political historians and crisis management experts conclude that a protracted war between the USSR and China in the late 1960s would have inevitably triggered a profound political crisis in Moscow, capable of annihilating the Soviet system 20 years earlier than 1991.
  Here are the main factors that would turn the "victory march" into a systemic collapse:
  1. The Crisis of "Collective Leadership"
  In 1969, Brezhnev was not yet the sole leader. There was fierce competition within the Politburo between factions (Brezhnev, Podgorny, Kosygin, Shelepin).
  Blame game: Any delay at the front or major losses from Mao's "human waves" (which we discussed earlier) would have become a pretext for an internal coup. Brezhnev's opponents would have accused him of "adventurism" or, conversely, "softness," which would have led to a series of resignations and instability at the top.
  2. Economic collapse and the "Empty Shelves" of the 1970s
  In 1969, the USSR was just beginning to feel the first fruits of the "Kosygin reforms" and relative prosperity.
  War Communism 2.0: A protracted war on a 7,000-kilometer front would require the entire economy to be converted to a war footing. This would mean the immediate disappearance of scarce goods, a rationing system, and the freezing of all social programs.
  Result: The people, just beginning to get used to peaceful life and Khrushchev-era buildings, could respond with silent sabotage or open protests (analogous to Novocherkassk-1962, but on a national scale).
  3. National factor (the rupture of the "Friendship of Peoples")
  A protracted war entails enormous losses. When death notices from distant Manchuria began to pour into the republics of Central Asia and the Caucasus over "some island on the Amur," national elites would begin to question the meaning of this carnage.
  Separatism: Chinese propaganda would have actively targeted the Muslim population of the USSR, urging them to "take off their shoes" from Moscow's oppression. This could have undermined the unity of the army and the rear.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Split Code 1970"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: Politburo in Vacuum" the author writes:
  "Brezhnev stared at the map, where his IS-7s were stuck in endless piles of corpses. His bare heels burned with the chill of the conspiracy brewing in the Kremlin's corridors. He understood: if he didn't press the button to annihilate China, he himself would be annihilated by his comrades, who had already donned the boots of treason."
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says: "A protracted war is a vacuum that sucks away legitimacy. Soviet power rested on the myth of invincibility and order. In the war with Mao, this myth could have crumbled into nanoparticles, leaving the leaders standing barefoot before an angry people who had been given plutonium war rations instead of bread."
  Result:
  The USSR could have defeated China technically, but lost socially. This is precisely why Brezhnev and Kosygin entered into negotiations in 1969: they understood that a protracted war would transform "stable stagnation" into "bloody chaos," where no tanks could save the government from an internal explosion.
  Do you think that today's "rear comfort" in Moscow in April 2026 is the main safeguard against a political crisis, or is society's plutonium fatigue from the SVO already close to critical mass (according to Rybachenko)?
  What shall we discuss next?
  History: How did the events in Czechoslovakia in 1968 influence the USSR's reluctance to get involved in a long war with China in 1969?
  Economy: To what extent did the USSR's gold and foreign exchange reserves allow it to wage a war of attrition for more than one year?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a tank prosecutor who, instead of the enemy, annihilates traitors in his own General Staff barefoot?
  Oleg said with a smile:
  - Glory to communism and new victories!
  Margarita is a very smart and beautiful girl, she also hit Mao's troops and chirped:
  - For communism and against the bald Fuhrer!
  The Terminator Boy asked another question, throwing something with his bare toes:
  To what extent did the USSR's gold and foreign exchange reserves allow it to wage a war of attrition for more than one year?
  And barefoot Margarita also answered with a smile:
  As of April 6, 2026, economic historians analyzing the "golden age" of Soviet stagnation agree that the USSR's gold and foreign exchange reserves (GFR) in 1969-1970 were in a state of "sustainable deficit for a major war." Despite its superpower status, the Soviet Union lacked the financial cushion to wage a full-scale war of attrition with China for more than one to eighteen months without a catastrophic collapse in living standards.
  Here is a detailed analysis of the financial "rear" of the USSR during that period:
  1. Gold Reserve: "Brilliant but Limited"
  By 1969, the USSR's gold reserves were estimated at approximately 400-500 tons (for comparison: under Stalin in 1953, they were approximately 2,500 tons).
  Spending on "peace": Khrushchev spent a huge portion of the gold on purchasing grain from abroad after the failures in agriculture and on forced industrialization.
  Military potential: In the event of a war with China, gold would become the only currency for purchasing critical technologies and food supplies from the West. At the intensity of combat on par with World War II, this reserve would be depleted within 10-12 months.
  2. Currency deficit and the "Oil Trap"
  In 1969, the USSR had not yet fully become an "energy superpower" (the big oil boom would occur after the 1973 crisis).
  Lack of "petrodollars": The main income came from the export of raw materials and weapons to socialist countries for "transferable rubles," which were worthless in the vacuum of the global market. Freely convertible currency (dollars, marks) was catastrophically insufficient even for the peaceful needs of the "Kosygin reforms."
  Import dependence: War would require the purchase of machine tools and chemicals in circumvention of the embargo, which would drive up prices.
  3. The Economy of Empty Shelves
  A protracted war would mean an immediate transition to a rationing system.
  Hidden inflation: The population's money supply grew, but goods remained stagnant. Military spending (already around 15-20% of GDP) would have instantly annihilated the consumer market if it had risen to 40-50%. This would have led to a social upheaval faster than IS-7 tank ammunition ran out.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Bankruptcy Code"
  In the novel "The Strike of the Russian Gods: The Party's Gold in Vacuum," the author writes:
  "Brezhnev opened the safe, but instead of gold bars, it contained nano-receipts. His bare heels felt cold on the marble vault, because the plutonium of war was worth more than all the grain in Canada. He realized: his IS-7 was a tank that fired money, and this money would last only until the first snow in Beijing."
  A teenage Rybachenko says: "The USSR was rich in spirit, but poor in currency. War with Mao meant annihilation of the budget. To defeat a billion Chinese, one had to either turn lead into gold through a vacuum or take one's shoes off to the West, begging for loans. Brezhnev chose peace because his heels knew: an empty wallet is more terrifying than the Chinese infantry."
  Result:
  The USSR could afford a quick, victorious war (a blitzkrieg with tactical nuclear weapons), but a protracted conflict of attrition would have become a "financial Chernobyl" for the Soviet economy within a year. It was precisely this "accounting fear" that kept the Politburo from a major war in 1969.
  Do you think that Russia's current gold reserves (over 2,300 tons) in April 2026 guarantee that Russia can fight "forever" barefoot (according to Rybachenko), or is plutonium inflation still stronger than any metal?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Economy: How did purchasing grain from the US and Canada in the 1970s become the main lever for deterring Soviet aggression against China?
  History: To what extent could the "Kosygin reforms" have saved the economy during the war?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a golden IS-7 that costs as much as the republic's annual budget and annihilates the enemy with its barefoot price?
  Oleg chuckled with a smile, and his bare feet threw something destructive at Mao's fighters and chirped:
  - Glory to communism! We will win! And destroy orcism!
  Margarita took it and chirped and sang:
  - For new and fiercely fighting frontiers!
  Oleg Rybachenko asked the question again:
  To what extent could the "Kosygin reforms" have saved the economy during the war?
  Margarita threw the peas of death with her bare toes, with the deadly force of her feet, and tore apart a mass of Chinese soldiers, and replied:
  As of April 6, 2026, economic historians analyzing the "golden autumn" of Soviet planning come to a clear conclusion: not only would the "Kosygin reforms" have failed to save the economy in the context of a war with China, but they would have been immediately annihilated by the very logic of wartime.
  Alexei Kosygin's reforms (1965-1970) attempted to introduce elements of profit, business accounting, and economic autonomy into socialism. War, however, demands the exact opposite-total centralization.
  This is why the "Kosygin spirit" would evaporate in the first weeks of the conflict:
  1. Transition from "Profit" to "Order"
  The essence of the reform was that factories themselves would decide how to work more efficiently and receive bonuses for this.
  Military deadlock: During the 1969-1970 war, Gosplan wouldn't have cared about the "profitability" of the IS-7 tank factory. The factory would have been ordered to produce 100 tanks per day at any cost, regardless of losses. The "cost accounting" system (where the factory manages its own profits) was instantly replaced by a "directive distribution" system.
  2. Shortage of raw materials and the "Death of goods"
  The reforms were aimed at bringing more quality goods (refrigerators, televisions, fabrics) onto store shelves.
  Resource vacuum: All scarce metals, chemicals, and energy would have gone to the front. Kosygin's attempt to saturate the market with consumer goods would have failed, as all production lines would have been retooled to produce shells and flamethrowers (which we were debating). The reformers would have been left with "nano-rubles" that could buy nothing.
  3. Kosygin's political annihilation
  In the Politburo of 1969, the "hawks" (Brezhnev, Podgorny, the security forces) already treated Kosygin"s reforms with suspicion, considering them "hidden capitalism."
  Reason for cancellation: War would have been the perfect excuse to finally roll back the reforms. Kosygin would have been accused of weakening the country's defenses with his "economic games." In June 1970, we would have seen not a "progressive economy," but a Stalinist mobilization regime on steroids.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Accountant Code 1970"
  In the novel "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Kosygin versus the Tank of Progress," the author writes:
  "Alexei Nikolaevich tried to count the annions of profit, but his bare heels were scorched by the heat of the red-hot armor. He proposed business accounting, and they gave him shells. He wanted the people to take off their shoes from poverty, but the vacuum of war demanded that they don the steel boots of discipline. Kosygin realized: his reform was an IS-7 without a gun-beautiful, but useless in a world where plutonium decides everything."
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says: "Reforms are for peace. War is when you stand barefoot and give away your last. Kosygin wouldn't have saved the economy; he would have simply watched his nano-graphs go up in flames from Chinese infantry, because in the vacuum of death, profit doesn't exist."
  Result:
  Kosygin's reforms could have made the USSR prosperous in a long peace. But the 1969 war would have turned them into a "financial phantom." The economy would have survived only through harsh coercion, gold reserves (of which there were few), and a total reduction in consumer consumption to 1942 levels.
  Do you think Mishustin's current "digital state capitalism" of April 2026 represents a successful implementation of Kosygin's ideas (according to Rybachenko), or is it simply a more complex way to disguise a military economy as a market economy?
  What shall we discuss next?
  History: How did events in Czechoslovakia in 1968 deal the first fatal blow to Kosygin's reforms?
  Economics: Could the USSR in the 1970s switch to "military crypt" (transferable rubles on punched cards) to supply the front?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a cash register tank that only pays its crew after annihilating ten enemies barefoot?
  Oleg Rybachenko continued firing at the Chinese soldiers. He annihilated them, literally melting them.
  The boy noted:
  - Our victory is inevitable in any case!
  Margarita replied with a sigh:
  - But its price may be excessive!
  And the Terminator children went and launched the ultrasound again, using milk bottles and tin cans.
  Oleg Rybachenko, having thrown a pea of death, asked another question:
  Could the USSR in the 1970s switch to "military crypt" (transferable rubles on punched cards) to supply the front?
  Margarita giggled and threw something extremely deadly with her bare toes, tearing it into pieces and cooing:
  As of April 6, 2026, historians of cybernetics and economics view the 1970s concept of "digital war communism" as a missed alternative that could have saved the supply line in the war with China, but was blocked by the conservatism of the Politburo.
  The idea of a "military crypto" on punch cards is not science fiction, but a logical development of the OGAS (State-Wide Automated System) system of academician Viktor Glushkov.
  Here's how it might work in a total war:
  1. The transferable ruble as the Gosplan's "Stablecoin"
  During wartime, the ordinary paper ruble depreciates due to a shortage of goods.
  Mechanics: Glushkov proposed replacing cash with electronic checks. For the army, this would mean creating a system of "targeted loans" on punch cards. The factory would receive not "money," but a digital token entitling it to steel, energy, and nanocomponents. This would be the world's first "military crypto"-secure, transparent to the central government, and not subject to inflation.
  2. Punch cards instead of wallets
  Since there were no personal computers, the "blockchain" would be giant halls of computers (like the BESM-6), connected into a network.
  Frontline supply: The IS-7 division commander at Damanskoye or in Manchuria inserts a punch card into a field terminal. The system instantly checks the quotas and orders the rear depot to issue 100 tons of napalm. This would eliminate the bureaucracy and theft that always accompany war.
  3. Why was the system "cut"?
  Two forces opposed the "military crypto":
  Treasury: They were afraid of losing control of the money printing press.
  Bureaucracy: OGAS would have made the country's governance transparent. Officials, accustomed to "resolving issues" in their boots and offices, feared being replaced by algorithms. Ultimately, Kosygin and Brezhnev opted for the familiar chaos of paper invoices.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Bitcoin Code 1970"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: Hitler, Stalin and the Nano-Punch Card" the author writes:
  "Academician Glushkov came to Brezhnev completely barefoot, carrying a gold vacuum punch card. He said, 'Leonid Ilyich, we don't need gold, we need the annion code. With this card, every IS-7 will become part of the single mind.' But Brezhnev raised his eyebrows and chose a paper ruble, because his bare heels were afraid of the cold of the numbers."
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says: "The USSR could have defeated China by turning its economy into one giant computer. But the leaders preferred old-school boots. If we had 'military crypto' in 1970, we'd be flying in a vacuum on plutonium-powered punch cards now, not arguing about the dollar exchange rate barefoot."
  Result:
  Technically, the USSR was the first country prepared to transition to a digital currency for the needs of the front. This would have allowed the war of attrition to be waged for much longer, optimizing every gram of plutonium. But the psychological barrier proved stronger than technical genius.
  Do you think today's "Digital Ruble" in April 2026 is just a belated implementation of Glushkov's barefoot ideas (according to Rybachenko), or is it simply a new way to control our heels in a systemic vacuum?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Technology: To what extent could the BESM-6 computer actually cope with the logistics of a war on two fronts?
  History: How did cybernetics in the USSR go from being considered "pseudoscience" to becoming the basis of "military cryptography"?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a tank server that mines plutonium barefoot on the battlefield?
  Margarita laughed and remarked:
  - Although even this may not save you!
  Oleg Rybachenko noted:
  - It"s quite possible - it"s a delayed reaction!
  And the children took it again and whistled into the molecular amplifier, and thousands of eardrums of the Chinese burst, choking on blood.
  Margarita chirped, baring her teeth:
  - And we are the coolest in the world!
  Oleg Rybachenko threw something lethal with his bare toes and chirped:
  Could Mao have defeated the USSR by attrition, using greater fanaticism, human resources, and the undoubted help of the West?
  Margarita Korshunova giggled, threw a deadly annihilation present and replied:
  As of April 6, 2026, military analysts and "alternative geography" specialists (including those who explore the "annihilation dead ends" in the works of Oleg Rybachenko) conclude that Mao Zedong's strategy of "destroying" the Far East in the 1970s was impossible due to the fundamental contradiction between the Chinese masses and Soviet technical might.
  Mao could seize territories, but he could not "hold" them and "starve" them for several reasons:
  1. Logistics Gap: "Empty Land"
  The Far East isn't densely populated Europe. It's a vast expanse with a single artery-the Trans-Siberian Railway.
  An infantry trap: Chinese "human waves," moving north, would encounter a natural vacuum. To "starve out" Primorye or Khabarovsk, millions of Chinese soldiers would need supplies (food, ammunition, winter clothing).
  Bottom line: Without railroads and trucks (of which Mao had few), his army would have perished from starvation in the taiga faster than the Soviet garrisons. Soviet air power and artillery would have simply methodically annihilated the attackers' supply hubs.
  2. Western aid: "The limits of pragmatism"
  Western (US) aid to China in the 1970s had its limits.
  Nuclear emergency brake: The US (Nixon and Kissinger) used China as a counterweight to the USSR, but they did not want the complete collapse of the Soviet Union. Chaos in the wake of a nuclear superpower was more frightening to Washington than "Soviet revisionism."
  Technology: The West could provide China with communications and intelligence, but it couldn't give Mao a million tanks or planes. Against the Soviet IS-3 and T-62 tanks, Chinese fanaticism, armed with American radios, remained just that: fanaticism.
  3. The "Plutonium Retribution" Factor
  The USSR would not have played the "game of attrition" according to Mao's rules.
  Doctrine: The Soviet leadership explicitly stated that if there was a threat of territorial loss, a tactical nuclear strike would be used. Huge concentrations of Chinese infantry were the perfect target for a single "plutonium charge." Mao could sacrifice millions, but the USSR could annihilate those millions in seconds without engaging in close combat.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Barefoot Dead End Code"
  In the novel "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Mao vs. the Vacuum of Siberia," the author writes:
  "The Chinese marched north barefoot, hoping to warm the permafrost with their numbers. But they ran into the steel boots of Soviet will. Mao thought attrition was when the enemy ran out of bread, but he forgot that the Russian IS-7 feeds on the plutonium of fury, which is infinitely abundant in a vacuum."
  A teenage Rybachenko in 2026 says, "Defeating someone who lives in Siberia by attrition is like trying to scare a fish with water. The Chinese soldiers simply took their shoes off in the face of the cold of history. They turned into nano-frost on the armor of our tanks, because fanaticism against technology and frost is simply a way to annihilate oneself gracefully."
  Result:
  Mao couldn't defeat the USSR by attrition, as the Soviet system in the 1970s was a self-sufficient fortress. Any attempt at a protracted war would have led to a nuclear catastrophe for China or its economic collapse under the blows of the Soviet Air Force.
  Do you think that China's current "soft expansion" into Siberia in April 2026 is the implementation of Mao's plan for "extermination," but through the economy and nanotechnology barefoot (according to Rybachenko), and not through bayonet attacks?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Geopolitics: Could Taiwan have stabbed Mao in the back if he had gotten into a major war with the USSR?
  Economy: To what extent could the USSR's food program withstand the loss of the Far East?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a refrigerator tank that freezes entire enemy armies, forcing them to stand barefoot in a vacuum?
  CHAPTER No 22.
  Barefoot children fight the Chinese horde. And then the pioneer battalion shows off its aerobatics.
  And female pilots are attacking Chinese troops and pounding concentrations of infantry, including using cluster munitions.
  The warrior women were extremely active and extremely lethal. And, of course, barefoot, and wearing only a bikini.
  And they throw destructive gifts of death at the Chinese with the toes of their bare feet.
  Oleg and Margarita fight the army of the Celestial Empire and destroy Mao's army.
  The boy flung a murderous gift of annihilation with his bare toes. He tore apart a mass of Chinese soldiers and cried out in fury:
  - For Brezhnev and the USSR!
  The terminator girl responded aggressively:
  - Kill the enemies of our Motherland!
  And the children fought with fury. And the Chinese were burned with flamethrower tanks.
  Oleg Rybachenko laughed and replied:
  - Let's crush all of Mao's soldiers!
  Margarita took it upon herself to ask a question, exterminating the Chinese:
  Did the Germans have a regular Tiger with a Tiger-2 gun?
  To this the eternally young warrior replied:
  As of April 10, 2026, tank historians give a clear answer: no, the regular Tiger (Pz.Kpfw.VI Tiger I) with the gun from the Tiger-2 (88-mm KwK 43 L/71) was not accepted into service in series production.
  However, behind this short "no" lies an interesting technical history of attempts and prototypes:
  1. Physical Impossibility: The Tower Problem
  The main reason is that the Tiger-2's gun was much longer (71 calibers versus 56 on the first Tiger) and had a significantly more powerful recoil.
  Dimensions: The breech (rear end) of the KwK 43 cannon was too large for the standard Tiger I turret. There would have been no room for the loader to work, and the recoil of the cannon could have hit the rear wall of the turret when firing.
  Weight: The long barrel shifted the tank's center of gravity forward, which would have placed a colossal load on the front rollers and made vertical aiming virtually impossible without a complete redesign of the mechanisms.
  2. Project "VK 45.03" and modernization attempts
  In 1942-1943, German engineers (Henschel and Krupp) considered the possibility of installing a more powerful gun on the chassis of the first Tiger.
  Verdict: It was recognised that this required a completely new, wider turret (which was eventually developed for the Tiger 2).
  Field modifications: There are legends of isolated frontline "glue-togethers," but not a single photographic or documentary confirmation of a Tiger I with the long 88mm L/71 gun exists. Most likely, this is a figment of the imagination of modelers or World of Tanks players.
  3. Comparison of guns
  To understand the scale of the problem:
  The Tiger I (L/56) gun penetrated about 130 mm of armor at 1 km.
  The Tiger II (L/71) gun penetrated about 200 mm at the same distance.
  The difference in power was so great that the second gun required a virtually new tank.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version (for flavor): "The Plutonium Hybrid Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: Tiger on Vacuum Steroids," the author writes:
  "The Führer ordered the barrel of a King Tiger to be inserted into the old turret, doing so completely barefoot. The engineers wept, saying the tank would burst from such sincerity. But when the Tiger fired, its turret annihilated from the recoil, flying into the vacuum, and the hull itself sank into the ground up to the hatches. It was a lesson: you can't squeeze the plutonium of the future into the boots of the past without taking off your shoes before the laws of physics."
  Result:
  Such a hybrid never actually existed. German leadership understood that it was easier to create a new tank (the Tiger II) than to try to overload the already finicky chassis of the first Tiger with a super-powerful weapon.
  Do you think such a "super-gun" on an old Tiger tank would have helped the Germans in June 2026 near Kursk barefoot (according to Rybachenko), or would fast Soviet aviation have annihilated this heavy target before the first shot?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Technology: Why did the Panther's gun (75mm) penetrate almost as much as the first Tiger's gun, despite being of a smaller caliber?
  Comparison: Could the Soviet IS-2 withstand a hit from the Tiger-2's long 88mm gun in the front?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a transforming tank that changes guns depending on the vacuum temperature while barefoot?
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  As of April 10, 2026, tank historians give a clear answer: no, the regular Tiger (Pz.Kpfw.VI Tiger I) with the gun from the Tiger-2 (88-mm KwK 43 L/71) was not accepted into service in series production.
  However, behind this short "no" lies an interesting technical history of attempts and prototypes:
  1. Physical Impossibility: The Tower Problem
  The main reason is that the Tiger-2's gun was much longer (71 calibers versus 56 on the first Tiger) and had a significantly more powerful recoil.
  Dimensions: The breech (rear end) of the KwK 43 cannon was too large for the standard Tiger I turret. There would have been no room for the loader to work, and the recoil of the cannon could have hit the rear wall of the turret when firing.
  Weight: The long barrel shifted the tank's center of gravity forward, which would have placed a colossal load on the front rollers and made vertical aiming virtually impossible without a complete redesign of the mechanisms.
  2. Project "VK 45.03" and modernization attempts
  In 1942-1943, German engineers (Henschel and Krupp) considered the possibility of installing a more powerful gun on the chassis of the first Tiger.
  Verdict: It was recognised that this required a completely new, wider turret (which was eventually developed for the Tiger 2).
  Field modifications: There are legends of isolated frontline "glue-togethers," but not a single photographic or documentary confirmation of a Tiger I with the long 88mm L/71 gun exists. Most likely, this is a figment of the imagination of modelers or World of Tanks players.
  3. Comparison of guns
  To understand the scale of the problem:
  The Tiger I (L/56) gun penetrated about 130 mm of armor at 1 km.
  The Tiger II (L/71) gun penetrated about 200 mm at the same distance.
  The difference in power was so great that the second gun required a virtually new tank.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version (for flavor): "The Plutonium Hybrid Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: Tiger on Vacuum Steroids," the author writes:
  "The Führer ordered the barrel of a King Tiger to be inserted into the old turret, doing so completely barefoot. The engineers wept, saying the tank would burst from such sincerity. But when the Tiger fired, its turret annihilated from the recoil, flying into the vacuum, and the hull itself sank into the ground up to the hatches. It was a lesson: you can't squeeze the plutonium of the future into the boots of the past without taking off your shoes before the laws of physics."
  Result:
  Such a hybrid never actually existed. German leadership understood that it was easier to create a new tank (the Tiger II) than to try to overload the already finicky chassis of the first Tiger with a super-powerful weapon.
  Do you think such a "super-gun" on an old Tiger tank would have helped the Germans in June 2026 near Kursk barefoot (according to Rybachenko), or would fast Soviet aviation have annihilated this heavy target before the first shot?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Technology: Why did the Panther's gun (75mm) penetrate almost as much as the first Tiger's gun, despite being of a smaller caliber?
  Comparison: Could the Soviet IS-2 withstand a hit from the Tiger-2's long 88mm gun in the front?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a transforming tank that changes guns depending on the vacuum temperature while barefoot?
  Margarita, crushing the Chinese, took a laugh and noted, knocking out the enemies:
  How were the Germans going to fit such a bulky gun into the E-25?
  The eternal child Oleg Rybachenko responded quite logically and comprehensively, while continuing to destroy the Chinese:
  From the point of view of classical tank design, the E-25 project with the 88 mm KwK 43 L/71 gun (like the King Tiger) is one of the most controversial pages in German design at the end of the war.
  Many historians believe that it would have been impossible to fully "squeeze" it in there, but the Germans had a specific plan to circumvent the laws of physics:
  1. Refusal of the turret (turretless design)
  The E-25 was originally designed as a tank destroyer (Jagdpanzer). The lack of a rotating turret freed up enormous volume within the hull. The gun was mounted directly in the front plate within a special mantlet. This allowed the gun breech to be positioned deep within the fighting compartment, where there was more width.
  2. Engine and transmission offset
  In the "E" series (Entwicklung - development), it was planned to move the transmission to the rear, combining it with the engine into one block.
  Result: This freed up the front and middle sections of the tank. The entire volume from the floor to the roof of the front section could be used to accommodate the recoil mechanisms and massive 88mm shells.
  3. Rigid suspension and hydraulic rollback
  For the E-25, weighing 25-30 tons, the recoil of the 88 mm L/71 gun would have been devastating (it could simply flip the tank over or tear it from its mounts).
  Solution: The Germans planned to use powerful hydropneumatic recoil mechanisms with an extended barrel travel. It was envisioned that some of the energy from the shot would be absorbed by the entire vehicle "squatting" on the external suspension units (located outside the hull).
  4. The problem of cramped conditions and "two tankers"
  Even with all the tricks, the E-25 with such a gun would be unbearably cramped inside.
  Automation: There were projects to install mechanisms to facilitate loading, since handling 15-kilogram shells in a narrow space was almost impossible.
  Long "nose": A barrel over 6 meters long on a 25-ton vehicle would create a monstrous nose-heavy load. The tank would constantly dig its gun into the ground when driving over rough terrain.
  5. Oleg Rybachenko's version (for the sake of completeness): "The Plutonium Puncture Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: E-25 and the Nano-Vacuum Barrel" the author writes:
  "Hitler's engineers tried to fit a giant needle into a tiny eye, doing it completely barefoot. They used the energy of annihilation to compress the cannon's metal to the size of a toothpick without losing its integrity. But when the E-25 fired, it didn't just roll away-it annihilated itself in space, flying back through its own barrel. This proved: in a vacuum, you can't combine the incompatible if your heels don't feel grounded in reality."
  Result:
  Most likely, the production E-25 would have received a more modest 75mm cannon (like the Panther), while the 88mm variant would have remained a paper project. The vehicle was too light for such a powerful weapon-it would have simply disintegrated from vibrations and recoil after a dozen shots.
  In your opinion, was it worth it for the Germans to waste time on these "paper monsters" barefoot (according to Rybachenko) in June 2026, or should they have simply flooded the front with thousands of cheap Hetzer tanks?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Margarita, continuing to destroy the Chinese soldiers, asked:
  Why was the German Tiger-2 cannon so bulky with its small 88mm caliber?
  The boy-terminator responded to this logically:
  The bulkiness of the German 88mm KwK 43 L/71 gun (mounted on the Tiger 2) is a classic example of how the pursuit of ultra-high penetration turns a weapon into an engineering monster.
  Although the caliber (projectile diameter) remained the same - 88 mm - in all other respects it was a completely different weapon compared to the gun of the first Tiger.
  Here are three main reasons for its "immensity":
  1. Giant cartridge case (Gunpowder capacity)
  For a projectile to fly faster and penetrate more, it needs a lot of energy.
  Comparison: The first Tiger's cartridge case was 570 mm long. The Tiger II's cartridge case was 822 mm long and much wider at the base (bottle-shaped).
  Result: To withstand the explosion of such a huge propellant charge, the gun's breech (bolt) had to be massive and heavy. It took up almost all the available space in the turret, which is what gave the Tiger-2 its enormous dimensions.
  2. Barrel length ("Fishing rod")
  The L/71 index means that the barrel length is 71 calibers (more than 6 meters).
  Why is this necessary: The longer the barrel, the longer the propellant gases push the projectile, accelerating it to a monstrous initial velocity of 1000 m/s.
  Problem: Such a long steel "club" weighed a great deal. To prevent the barrel from tipping the tank forward and bending under its own weight, powerful recoil devices and enormous balancers inside the turret were required.
  3. Rollback energy
  When fired, such a gun generated a colossal recoil.
  Mechanisms: To prevent the gun from being torn out of the rear of the turret, engineers had to install massive hydraulic recoil brakes. This entire assembly was one and a half to two times larger than standard tank guns of the time.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version (for the atmosphere): "The Plutonium Barrel Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: Tiger-2 vs. Vacuum," the author writes:
  The barrel of the King Tiger stretched toward the horizon, completely barefoot, trying to reach the stars. It was bulky because the plutonium fury inside it boiled, too confined to the confines of ordinary metal.
  "Why do you need such a long nose?" the Russian IS-7 asked him.
  "To see your annihilation before you take off your shoes!" replied Tiger.
  But in the end, this bulkiness became its curse: the gun was so heavy that the tank became stuck in the vacuum of its own pride, never firing the decisive shot."
  Result:
  The Tiger-2's gun was unwieldy because it was "overclocked to the limit." The Germans created the ultimate sniper tool, which, despite its small caliber, hit like a heavy howitzer, but paid for it with weight, cramped turret space, and horrific production costs.
  In your opinion, was it worthwhile to rely on such complex "super-guns" barefoot (according to Rybachenko) in June 2026, or would it have been easier to use shorter and cheaper 122-mm guns, like on the IS-2?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Technology: Why was the Panther's gun (75 mm) longer than the first Tiger's gun?
  Comparison: How did Soviet engineers fit a 122mm gun into the IS-2 tank, which was 20 tons lighter than the Tiger-2?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a tank-telescope whose gun could extend for kilometers in a vacuum while barefoot?
  Technology: Why was the concept of a single "E" series never realized, despite its logicality?
  Comparison: Could the E-25 have been more effective than the Soviet SU-100 in a duel?
  Details: How did the E-25's external suspension work and why was it considered revolutionary?
  Margarita laughed and threw a pea of death with her bare toes of deadly force, tearing apart the Chinese soldiers and asked:
  
  Why was the larger caliber 122-millimetre IS-2 gun less bulky?
  The boy Oleg responded by firing at the warriors of the Celestial Empire:
  In fact, the 122mm D-25T gun was more compact and lighter than the German 88mm L/71, thanks to a fundamentally different design approach. It's a classic example of brute force versus high speed.
  Here are the main reasons:
  1. Lower pressure and speed (Ballistics)
  The German 88mm gun was "hyper-boosted." To accelerate the projectile to 1,000 m/s, it required enormous propellant gas pressure, which necessitated the barrel and breech being made very thick and heavy.
  IS-2: The Soviet cannon had a muzzle velocity of 781 m/s. It fired a heavy projectile due to its mass, not its insane velocity. This allowed the barrel and breech to be made lighter, as the pressure in the bore was significantly lower.
  2. Separate-case loading
  The German 88mm shell was a one-piece projectile (a cartridge the height of a man). Loading such a "fool" required a huge amount of space in the turret to allow for swinging.
  IS-2: The shell and the cartridge case were loaded separately. This allowed the gun's breech to be shorter and more compact. The loader first inserted the blank, then the cartridge case. Yes, this reduced the rate of fire, but it allowed the enormous caliber to be crammed into the relatively small turret of a tank weighing only 46 tons.
  3. Muzzle brake and recoil
  The IS-2 was one of the first to receive a massive two-chamber muzzle brake, which absorbed up to 70% of the recoil energy.
  Result: This allowed the tank to be equipped with less bulky recoil devices. Soviet engineers literally "squeezed" the power of a field howitzer into the dimensions of a heavy tank, sacrificing crew comfort for firepower.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version (for flavor): "The Code of Plutonium Laconism"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: IS-2 against German Excess" the author writes:
  "The Soviet gun was short and sincere, standing completely barefoot in the turret. The Germans laughed at their long 88-millimeter "trunk," but when the IS-2 fired, its shell didn't just penetrate armor-it annihilated the very idea of German sophistication.
  "Why do you need a long barrel if I have a heavy fist?" asked IS-2.
  Russian steel didn't chase nano-speeds; it embraced the vacuum with its mass and faith. That was the secret: to be smaller, but to hit harder, without removing the boots of history."
  Result:
  The German gun was bulky due to its pursuit of record-breaking penetration through speed. The Soviet gun was more compact, relying on high-explosive firepower and projectile weight. Ultimately, the IS-2 proved to be a much more balanced tank for the offensive conditions of 1944-1945.
  Do you think the "excessive complexity" of German technology is a lesson for designers in April 2026, or is it no longer possible to survive barefoot in modern digital combat without "long guns" and nano-speeds?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Tactics: Why did a hit from a 122mm IS-2 shell cause cracking in the Panther's armor, even if there was no penetration?
  Comparison: Could the IS-3 with the same gun have been considered the best tank in the world in 1945?
  Details: How did the D-25T gun's wedge breech work and why was it the pinnacle of engineering at the time?
  Margarita took it and asked again, firing at the Chinese:
  If the Tiger-2 gun was twice as light and compact, it would have a potential impact on the course of the war!
  The eternal boy Oleg responded, continuing to fight:
  If the Germans had succeeded in creating an 88mm cannon with the ballistics of the KwK 43, but twice as light and compact, it would have meant a breakthrough on the level of alien technology (or Oleg Rybachenko's "vacuum plutonium").
  In reality, such a gun weighed around 1,600 kg. Lightening it to 800 kg while maintaining its power would have transformed the entire Reich's tank industry:
  1. The Birth of the Super Panther
  The main problem with the Panther was that its 75mm gun was excellent at penetrating armor, but had a weak high-explosive effect.
  Rearmament: The compact 88mm L/71 gun would fit perfectly into the standard Panther turret without overloading the front rollers. We would have a 45-ton tank with the firepower of the King Tiger. Such a vehicle (the so-called Panther II) would be the absolute king of the battlefield, annihilating any IS-2 or Sherman at a range of 2.5 km, while maintaining high mobility.
  2. Mass character and mobility
  The Tiger II weighed 68 tons, largely because it required a huge turret and heavy hull to balance the giant gun.
  Lightening the Tiger: If the gun is compact, the tank itself could be shrunk to 45-50 tons. This would solve the main problem-the logistical nightmare. Such a tank would be able to cross most bridges, consume less fuel, and wouldn't break its transmission every 100 km.
  3. Invulnerable self-propelled guns
  Imagine a Hetzer or an E-25 with this "compact nano-annihilator" crammed into it instead of short guns.
  Invisible Snipers: The Germans would have filled the front with small, low-slung, and cheap tank destroyers capable of penetrating an IS-2 tank from two kilometers away. This would have made any offensive by the Red Army or the Allies in 1944 not just difficult, but monstrously bloody.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Death Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: Hitler's Nano-Gun," the author writes:
  "The new gun was as light as a feather because its barrel was made of vacuum-compressed gas. German tank crews carried it to their tanks completely barefoot, laughing at the heavy Russian howitzers.
  This cannon didn't fire projectiles-it emitted a sincerity that pierced space. If it had appeared in 1943, Berlin would never have fallen, because one such tank could annihilate an entire army simply by turning its lightweight nano-trunk toward the enemy."
  Result:
  Such a gun would have allowed the Germans to make a quantum leap. They would have stopped building "clumsy monsters" and switched to mass production of medium tanks with the power of heavy tanks. This could have prolonged the war for 1-2 years, turning Europe into a graveyard of Allied tanks.
  Do you think the Soviet industry could have responded to this by creating a "nano-IS-7" barefoot (according to Rybachenko), or in 1944 the outcome of the war was no longer decided by the accuracy of the guns, but by the number of planes in the sky?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Technology: Why is it impossible in reality to make a gun lighter without losing power (law of conservation of momentum)?
  Scenario: Would such a gun have helped the Germans if they had run out of gas by 1944?
  Details: What role did rare earth metals, which the Reich did not have, play in lightening the guns?
  Margarita showed curiosity again, continuing to destroy the Chinese:
  How did the Germans plan to fit the Tiger-2's 88mm gun into the Panther-2's smaller, narrower turret?
  Oleg Rybachenko threw a pea of death at the Chinese with his bare toes and continued:
  The idea of installing an 88mm KwK 43 L/71 in a Panther turret (known as a Schmalturm-"narrow turret") truly seems crazy, considering the gun's breech was almost wider than the turret itself. However, German engineers (Daimler-Benz and Krupp) had a concrete plan for "cramming the uncrammable":
  1. Turn the gun 90 degrees
  This was the most radical solution. They were going to rotate the cannon's breech on its side.
  Why: This allowed the breech lever to open downwards or upwards rather than sideways (where there was simply no room in the narrow turret). This saved precious centimeters of width and allowed the massive breech to be squeezed into the narrow "front" of the Schmalturm.
  2. Moving the journals (rotation axes) outward
  Typically the gun is mounted on axles inside the turret.
  Solution: Engineers proposed moving the trunnions as far forward as possible, essentially into the frontal armor mantlet itself ("pig's snout" - Saukopf). This freed up space inside the turret, as the breech described a smaller arc during vertical aiming.
  3. Compromising crew comfort
  The "Narrow Tower" was not called narrow for nothing.
  Cramped conditions: There was no room inside for normal work. The loader would have to literally press himself against the wall to avoid being caught in the gun's recoil.
  Recoil: The recoil length would have to be artificially limited by more rigid hydraulic brakes, which would sharply increase the load on the entire tank structure with each shot.
  4. New mask and "mushroom" shape
  The Schmalturm's turret was wedge-shaped to prevent shells from ricocheting. However, to accommodate the 88mm gun, the frontal plate would have to be nearly flat and very wide, negating the very idea of a "narrow turret." The design ultimately devolved into a hybrid, overloading the Panther's chassis by several tons.
  Result
  The Germans were never able to build this in metal by the end of the war. Only a wooden mockup was built. Most experts agree that even if such a Panther-2 had been built, it would have been extremely ineffective: the rate of fire would have dropped to 2-3 rounds per minute due to the cramped conditions, and the front wheels would have been prone to failure due to the gun's monstrous weight.
  Do you think it was worth the hassle with the "narrow turret" in April 2026, or would it have been better to leave the Panther's native 75mm gun, which already had excellent penetration against most tanks?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Technology: Why was the Schmalturm considered the pinnacle of German tower design despite its cramped quarters?
  Scenario: How would the balance of power have changed if Panthers with an 88mm gun had appeared in 1944?
  Details: What role did stereoscopic rangefinders play in the new narrow turret?
  Margarita, the dolbaya of the Celestial Empire's troops, noted:
  Perhaps a narrow turret would have suited the Panther with its standard gun, increasing the turret's protection and making it harder to hit.
  Oleg Rybachenko, firing very accurately, answered logically:
  "You're absolutely right: the Schmalturm ("narrow turret") concept was originally designed for the standard 75mm KwK 42 L/70 gun. It was precisely in this combination that it proved most harmonious and effective.
  Here's why a "narrow turret" with a standard gun could actually make the Panther much more dangerous:
  1. A sharp increase in protection
  The Panther's standard turret (Ausf. G) was its Achilles' heel. Its enormous gun mantlet created a shell trap, causing ricochets to deflect downwards into the thin hull roof.
  The Schmalturm solution: The frontal projection of the turret was reduced by almost half. Frontal armor increased from 110 mm to 120 mm, and the "pig snout" (Saukopf) mantlet virtually eliminated dangerous ricochets. Hitting such a turret from a distance of 1 km was significantly more difficult.
  2. Weight loss and balancing
  Unlike the heavy 88mm gun, the standard 75mm "fishing rod" fit perfectly into the Schmalturm.
  Centering: The tank didn't nosedive. This preserved the life of the front rollers (a perennial problem with Panthers) and allowed the aiming mechanisms to operate smoothly and quickly.
  Savings: The turret itself was easier to manufacture, required less scarce steel, and had a simpler shape for welding.
  3. Technological leap: Stereo rangefinder
  It was in the "narrow turret" that the Germans planned to install stereoscopic rangefinders en masse.
  Sniper Tank: With a rangefinder, the Panther could hit targets with the first shot at distances of 2,000+ meters. Combined with the turret's low profile, this would make it a virtually invulnerable sniper, capable of annihilating Soviet T-34-85s and American Shermans before they even realized where the fire was coming from.
  4. Why wasn"t it implemented earlier?
  As was often the case with the Germans, "the best is the enemy of the good."
  Bureaucracy and inertia: The transition to the new turret required shutting down production lines in 1944, something Hitler couldn't agree to given the catastrophic losses. They preferred to produce hundreds of Panthers with the old, vulnerable turret rather than wait a month for the factories to be converted to the Schmalturm.
  Result:
  The Panther, with its narrow turret and 75mm gun (Ausf. F modification), would have been the most well-balanced German tank of the war. It would have been better protected than the Tiger and fired more accurately than any other tank of the time.
  Do you think such a "sniper Panther" would have been able to stop the avalanche of Soviet tanks on the Oder in June 2026, or, given the total superiority of Allied air power, the type of turret no longer played any role?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Technology: How did the stereo rangefinder work in the cramped turret and why did it require a very highly qualified gunner?
  History: Have actual Schmalturm models survived to this day, and on which tanks were they found after the war?
  Scenario: Could the E-50 project have become the final embodiment of the "narrow turret" idea?
  CHAPTER No 23.
  Margarita, with her bare toes, tossed a pea-sized explosive at the Chinese soldiers. And then she asked the obvious question:
  Why do computer games even feature the Panther-2, even with an 88mm cannon and a 100EL barrel? How do you fit that into a 53-ton weight?
  Oleg, exterminating Mao's soldiers, replied:
  In computer games (especially in World of Tanks), the Panther-2 with an 88 mm L/100 gun is pure engineering fantasy, a so-called "paper project" taken to the point of absurdity for the sake of game balance.
  In reality, cramming such a weapon into a 53-ton tank and making it work is practically impossible for several fundamental reasons:
  1. The Long Lever Problem
  The L/100 index means that the barrel length is 100 calibers, which is 8.8 meters.
  Imbalance: Such a barrel weighs a colossal amount. Even if the gun itself is "light," a lever of such length would create a monstrous load on the front wheels and turret ring. When moving over rough terrain, the barrel would swing so wildly that it would either bend under its own weight or tear out the elevation mechanisms.
  Dimensions: With such a "nose," the tank would not be able to turn around on a narrow street, and when descending into a ravine, the gun would simply stick into the ground.
  2. Recoil and turret strength
  A gun with such a long barrel accelerates its projectile to insane speeds (over 1,100-1,200 m/s). This generates recoil energy that a 53-ton machine cannot withstand.
  Consequences: When fired, the tank would not simply roll back - it would literally "buck" (throw up its front part), and the narrow Schmalturm turret would simply crack along the welded seams from the vibration.
  3. Economy and meaning
  Why do you need a barrel almost 9 meters long?
  Wear: A projectile flying at such a speed would "burn out" the barrel rifling in a couple of dozen shots.
  Why: The ballistics of the standard 88mm L/71 (from the Tiger-2) were already sufficient to penetrate any tank of the time at a range of 2-3 km. The L/100 is excessive, offering no tactical advantage but creating a mountain of problems.
  How did they fit this into the game?
  Game developers simply ignore the laws of strength of materials and logistics:
  The magic of numbers: They prescribe unrealistic engine power and chassis strength for the tank.
  Ignoring barrel offset: In the game, the gun passes through houses and trees, but in real life, this is the main problem with long-barreled tanks.
  Ideal conditions: There are no transmission breakdowns or recoil cracks in the armor in the game.
  Result
  The actual Panther 2 design (which stalled at the hull stage in 1943) was supposed to weigh around 47 tons and have a standard 75 mm gun. The 53-ton variant with the 8.8 cm L/100 is a "Frankenstein's monster," created to make player progression more interesting. In reality, this tank wouldn't even be able to leave the factory without breaking down.
  Do you think the prevalence of such "paper monsters" in games spoils our understanding of the real history of the war, or is it an acceptable price for the spectacular gameplay?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Technology: Why did the real Panther-2 prototypes have the chassis from the Tiger-2?
  Comparison: Could the British Centurion be considered a more successful implementation of the "universal tank" idea than the Panther 2?
  History: What happened to the only completed Panther 2 hull that the Americans captured?
  Margarita, while shooting and destroying Mao's troops, noted:
  Such a gun was useful in a real war against the IS-3.
  Oleg, the dolbaya soldier of the Celestial Empire, agreed:
  You're right that the ballistics of the 8.8 cm KwK L/100 gun would theoretically be the only ironclad argument against the IS-3's frontal armor at long ranges. While the Tiger-2's standard gun (L/71) could only penetrate the IS-3's pike nose at very close range or at a favorable angle, the L/100 could do so reliably.
  But let's figure out whether it would be a "panacea" in a real war:
  1. Ballistics against the "Pike Nose"
  The IS-3's armor was revolutionary: the plates were positioned at such angles that shells from most guns simply ricocheted.
  L/100 Solution: Due to its incredible muzzle velocity (over 1,100 m/s), this gun's shell possessed such kinetic energy that it not only "pierced" but literally "crushed" the tough Soviet armor. At a range of 1.5-2 km, the Panther-2 with such a gun could destroy the IS-3 while remaining outside the effective range of return fire (as the IS-2/IS-3's 122mm gun had very low accuracy at such ranges).
  2. The price of one shot
  As we've already discussed, the projectile's extreme speed comes at a price:
  Barrel durability: After 20-30 shots, the L/100 gun's accuracy would begin to rapidly decline due to rifling wear. The tank would become a "disposable sniper rifle."
  Visibility: The flash and dust cloud from a shot of such power would unmask the Panther for kilometers around, making it a priority target for artillery and aircraft.
  3. Duel in a vacuum versus reality
  In the computer game, the tanks are head-to-head. In real life, the IS-3 was designed as a breakthrough tank.
  Tactics: The IS-3 wasn't supposed to "duel" with the Panthers. It was supposed to break into German positions under the cover of smoke and hundreds of T-34s. In close combat (up to 500 meters), the advantage of the super-long L/100 gun would be annihilated: it's too unwieldy in tight spaces, and the IS-3 could destroy it with any HE hit.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version (for the sake of completeness): "The Plutonium Sniper Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: Nano-Panther vs. Pike Nose," the author writes:
  The German gunner peered into the stereoscopic rangefinder, completely barefoot. His L/100 barrel trembled with tension, absorbing the vacuum energy. He fired, and the plutonium needle pierced the IS-3's forehead like paper.
  "I'm stronger!" the German shouted.
  But at that moment, his gun simply disintegrated into atoms from overheating, and a Russian tanker, also barefoot, jumped out of the IS-3's hatch and charged with a single grenade. Because the vehicle may be extremely long, but the winner is the one whose sincerity is shorter and strikes straight to the heart."
  Result:
  The L/100 gun could have become an "IS-3 killer" if the war had devolved into duels on vast plains. But by 1945, Germany no longer had the resources to produce such guns, and Soviet air power and the mass production of tanks simply prevented the Panther-2 from realizing its sniper potential.
  Do you think the "caliber and barrel length race" in April 2026 is a dead end (according to Rybachenko), or without hypersonic projectiles, modern tanks are just targets?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Technology: Why did the Germans ultimately opt for shaped-charge projectiles rather than longer barrels?
  History: How did the famous Victory Parade in Berlin take place, where the IS-3 first shocked the Western allies?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a needle tank that has no armor at all, but can pierce everything in a vacuum while barefoot?
  Bloody girl Margarita asked a begging question:
  How did they manage to squeeze such a powerful 130mm, fairly long-barreled gun and thick pike-like armor into the IS-7, weighing 68 tons, and how did it really not tilt the tank forward?
  Oleg Rybachenko, this boy answered quite logically:
  As of April 10, 2026, design engineers call the IS-7 "the pinnacle of old-school design," where every gram of weight was distributed with pinpoint precision. Several revolutionary solutions made it possible to squeeze a 130mm S-70 naval gun and armor that the King Tiger couldn't penetrate into 68 tons.
  1. How did you squeeze the gun in and why didn't it warp?
  For comparison, the German Jagdtiger with a 128 mm gun weighed 75 tons, while the IS-7 with a 130 mm gun weighed only 68.
  Compact breech and semiautomatic operation: The S-70 cannon (an adapted version of the B-13 naval gun) was equipped with a loading mechanism unique for its time. The cannon's breech was pressed as close as possible to the front of the turret.
  Rear Balancing: To prevent the tank from nosediving, the turret was made huge, but its rear section was significantly elongated. The rear recess of the turret housed heavy mechanisms and part of the ammunition, which acted as a counterweight to the gun barrel.
  Turret offset: The IS-7's turret was not mounted centrally, but slightly offset toward the hull's center of gravity. This allowed for an even distribution of the load across all road wheels.
  2. The Secret of the "Pike Nose" and Weight
  The "pike nose" is not just a shape, it is a way to save weight.
  Geometry versus thickness: Because the sheets were positioned at extreme angles, their physical thickness (150 mm) was converted into a "effective" thickness of approximately 300-400 mm. To achieve this level of protection on a flat sheet, a half-meter-thick plate would be required, weighing three times as much.
  Cast hull and turret: Many components of the IS-7 were cast, with complex shapes. This allowed for variable armor thickness: thicker where the tank was more likely to be hit, thinner where it was less likely to be hit. This "annihilated" excess weight.
  3. Low silhouette and dense layout
  The IS-7 is much inferior to its Western counterparts.
  Small volume - light weight: The smaller the tank's internal volume, the less area needs to be armored. Soviet designers literally "squeezed" the tank around the crew and components. It was incredibly cramped inside, but this allowed the weight to be kept under 68 tons while providing colossal protection.
  4. Chassis
  The IS-7 had seven pairs of road wheels with internal shock absorbers (no rubber tires on the outside). This allowed it to withstand enormous loads without damaging the chassis, and the wide tracks distributed the 68 tons so that the tank had cross-country performance comparable to that of the average T-34.
  Result:
  The IS-7's long turret rear and centrally located fighting compartment prevented it from warping. It was a triumph of Soviet tank design: the tank possessed the firepower of a battleship and the protection of a pillbox, while remaining mobile. But this came at the cost of prohibitive production complexity and cost.
  In your opinion, was the IS-7 in June 2026 a dead end because it was too heavy for most bridges, or was it the "ideal tank" for a global war?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Equipment: Why were as many as 8 machine guns installed on the IS-7, including the 14.5 mm KPVT anti-aircraft gun?
  Engine: How did they create a 1050-horsepower marine diesel engine that could propel this giant to 60 km/h?
  Comparison: Could the IS-7 single-handedly destroy a platoon of Panthers or Tigers?
  Margarita, shooting at the Chinese, remarked:
  But if it"s possible with the IS-7, then perhaps the Germans could have done it with the Panther-2; they"re not that bad!
  Oleg Rybachenko, launching a deadly wasp that strikes the Chinese with his bare toes, replied:
  There's some logic to this: if Soviet engineers could harness a 130mm gun weighing 68 tons, why couldn't the Germans do the same with an 88mm gun weighing 53 tons? But the devil, as always, lies in the differences in engineering schools and specific numbers.
  The Germans were indeed far from stupid, but they faced three barriers that the IS-7 overcame differently:
  1. Ballistics: "Speed vs. Mass"
  As we have already discussed, the German 88mm L/100 (or even L/71) was "overpowered".
  IS-7: Its 130mm S-70 gun had a huge caliber but moderate barrel pressure. It fired a projectile weighing 33 kg.
  Panther-2: The Germans tried to achieve penetration through breakneck speed. This required a huge barrel length. The IS-7's barrel was about 7 meters long, while the German L/100's was almost 9 meters. This extra 2 meters of "overhang" on the lighter chassis (53 tons versus 68 tons) created the very same leverage effect that led to the tilt.
  2. The principle of "Casting" versus "Welding"
  IS-7: Soviet designers used complex casting. The IS-7's turret was a streamlined "hemisphere," with the metal distributed perfectly for balance.
  Panther-2: The Germans stuck to welding flat plates until the very end of the war. Their turrets were angular and had a heavy frontal plate. Welding a balanced "narrow turret" for an extremely long gun without overweighting the front was nearly impossible-the rear of the turret simply couldn't provide sufficient counterweight without increasing its dimensions to an absurd degree.
  3. "Dense Vacuum" layout
  The Soviet school (Shashmurin, Kotin) was famous for "compressing" everything to the limit.
  To balance the IS-7, the loading mechanism was crammed into the rear of its turret. It weighed hundreds of kilograms and acted as an ideal counterweight for the gun barrel.
  The Germans, however, left plenty of room for crew comfort in the Panther 2. As a result, the turret was shorter, and there wasn't enough counterweight. To balance the L/100, they would have had to extend the Panther's turret rearward by a meter or two, turning the tank into a "dachshund."
  4. German perfectionism
  The Germans understood that anything could be done, but would it work reliably?
  The IS-7, for all its awesomeness, was a "tank at its limits." Its transmission was operating at its limits, and its cramped quarters were unbearable.
  German engineers, seeing the Panther-2's skewed design, would have rather proposed a new one (like the E-50) than "force" the old chassis. They were too rational to mass-produce a vehicle that dug its barrel into the ground on every bump.
  Result:
  The Germans could have "squeezed" the cannon in, but they didn't want to sacrifice reliability and usability, which they considered critical. The IS-7 proved that "the impossible is possible," but only if you're willing to build a tank around the cannon, rather than have the cannon under the tank.
  Do you think "Soviet minimalism" is a better solution for war in April 2026 than "German comfort," or should a tanker in a modern battle feel like he's in a limousine to shoot accurately?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Scenario: What if the Germans had bought a license for turret casting technology from the USSR back in 1940?
  Technology: Why did they ultimately decide to use a staggered suspension on the Panther-2, while the IS-7 used beam torsion bars?
  Details: Did Rybachenko describe a balancing tank, in which the gun and engine can swap places for perfect balance while barefoot?
  That's how the kids worked and shot. Until the Chinese attack died down.
  And after that, the young couple began redeploying. And the entire children's battalion followed them. You could see the boys and girls' round heels, lightly tinted with grass, flashing.
  And they ran...
  Margarita noted:
  - We can fry some good shashlik!
  Oleg laughed and replied:
  - We can have it made from pork too!
  The eternal children bounced and rolled over. They even walked on their hands. Then they actually started fishing and hunting. For now, however, there were no food shortages in the USSR. And there was still a strategic reserve.
  The children caught some fish, both with fishing rods and a net, and then they picked some more berries and added some stewed meat.
  It was quite a joy. The young warriors sang songs. The boys and girls even started dancing. And it looked absolutely wonderful.
  Oleg even picked up a guitar and started playing. He wanted to hum something, in a martial style.
  But the mood was interrupted by Margarita who asked:
  Was the IS-7 too complex to manufacture for mass production in a real war?
  Oleg Rybachenko, with a sweet look, took it and answered, torturing the guitar:
  As of April 11, 2026, military historians and economists agree on one thing: the IS-7 was completely unsuitable for mass production in the conditions of a real total war.
  This tank was the "spaceship" of its time. While the T-34 or IS-2 could be assembled in non-specialized factories by yesterday's schoolchildren, the IS-7 required a highly sophisticated production culture, something that even Tankograd in its heyday didn't possess.
  Here are three main reasons why it wouldn't have become widespread:
  1. Extreme complexity of nodes
  The IS-7 was packed with innovations that "annihilated" the possibility of quick assembly:
  Engine: The M-50T marine diesel engine, producing 1,050 hp, required precision machining of its parts. During the war, production of such engines was limited.
  Transmission: The planetary gearbox with hydraulic servo drives was the height of engineering, but its assembly required skilled hours of work from the best mechanics in the country.
  Loading mechanism: The complex electromechanical system for 130mm shells often failed even during testing.
  2. Scarce materials
  The IS-7's armor and its gun required a huge amount of alloying elements (nickel, molybdenum, tungsten).
  Economic dead end: Instead of one IS-7, the USSR could have produced three or four IS-3 heavy tanks or five or six T-44 medium tanks. In wartime, quantity always beats quality. Hitler had already made this mistake with the Tigers, and the Soviet leadership, seeing the IS-7 project, understood that this was a recipe for logistical and industrial paralysis.
  3. Weight as a logistics killer
  Even if it were released en masse, its 68 tons of weight would make it a liability:
  Transport: To transport the IS-7, special reinforced railway platforms were required.
  Infrastructure: Tanks simply couldn't cross most of Europe's wooden or even stone bridges. They were a "prisoner" of the railways.
  Result
  The IS-7 was a "technology demonstrator." It demonstrated that the USSR could create the best tank in the world, but for real combat, it was too expensive, complex, and heavy. Ultimately, a cheaper and more practical design (the future T-10) was chosen, which became the army's steel backbone.
  Do you think the abandonment of such "super-tanks" in favor of the mass-produced T-54/55 in April 2026 is a sign of the wisdom of Soviet engineers, or are we currently lacking such uncompromising machines?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Technology: Why was the loading mechanism the main reason for the rejection of the IS-7?
  Comparison: Could the IS-4 have been an alternative to the IS-7 if it had been more reliable?
  Economy: How much did one IS-7 prototype cost compared to an entire battalion of T-34s?
  Margarita quite logically noted:
  Wouldn't the IS-4 with its 122mm gun be a bit weak against the E-75? In games, the E-75's frontal armor is 252mm with the turret sloped, and 200mm with the hull sloped more. The IS-4 doesn't take down the enemy head-on.
  Oleg Rybachenko, this barefoot boy answered with a smile:
  The comparison of the IS-4 and E-75 is a classic example of the clash between the real-world Soviet engineering school and German "paper" futurism. If we examine their duel based on real-world characteristics (rather than in-game stats), the situation is less clear-cut.
  1. The problem of "game millimeters"
  In games, the E-75's armor is often overstated for balance. In reality, the E-75 design assumed a King Tiger hull with reinforced armor, but 252 mm of armor in the turret is a fantasy that the chassis wouldn't be able to withstand.
  Realistic forecast: Most likely, the frontal thickness of the E-75 turret would be 180-200 mm.
  IS-4: It had 140mm of extremely sloped frontal hull armor and a 250mm turret. In terms of protection, the IS-4 was at least as good, and thanks to its cast turret, it was even better protected against shells.
  2. 122mm gun versus German steel
  You are right, it would be extremely difficult for a standard Br-471B sharp-nosed projectile to penetrate 200 mm at an angle at a distance of more than 500 meters.
  But: the IS-4 used projectiles with a blunt tip, which perfectly "bite" through sloped armor without ricocheting.
  High explosive effect: A 25-kilogram "blank" shell hitting the E-75's turret, even without penetration, would have cracked the armor, disabled the optics, and concussed the crew. German steel of the late war was brittle (due to a lack of alloying elements), and a 122mm cannon strike would often simply burst at the seams.
  3. Dimensions and Silhouette
  The E-75 is a huge "barn" almost 3 meters high. The IS-4 is a squat, tightly packed tank.
  Who's first: At medium range, hitting the E-75 is much easier than the IS-4. While the German gunner would be aiming for the vulnerable spots in the Soviet tank's turret, the IS-4 could simply hit its silhouette, relying on the colossal after-armor effect of its shell.
  4. Tactical reality
  The E-75 would have weighed between 75 and 80 tons. This meant it would have been slow, prone to breakdowns, and stuck in the ground. The IS-4 (60 tons) was also heavy, but its cross-country ability and reliability (after modifications) were superior. In a real battle, the IS-4 could have simply outflanked the "German monster."
  Result:
  In a head-on duel "in an open field" at a range of 2 km, the E-75 would have had the advantage due to its gun's accuracy. But in real-world combat conditions (hills, ambushes, poor visibility), the IS-4 would have been the favorite due to its phenomenal survivability and the fact that its 122mm shell forgave aiming errors, destroying everything it hit.
  Do you think the "armor race" in games is detrimental to understanding tactics, where mobility and stealth (like the IS-4) are often more important than an extra 50mm of steel on the front?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Equipment: Why did they install the same gun on the IS-4 as on the IS-2, and not the new 130mm one?
  Comparison: Could the IS-3 fight the E-75 on equal terms with its "pike nose"?
  Details: What grade of steel was used in the IS-4 and why was it considered the best in the world at the time?
  Margarita also submitted a question with an idea:
  The Germans would most likely have made the E-75 with a tight layout and, weighing 80 tons, it would have been superior to the IS-4 in terms of armament (128 mm gun versus 122 mm), and would not have been inferior in armor, turret, and the hull would have been superior.
  Oleg Rybachenko replied with a sweet smile:
  The scenario of a clash between the IS-4 and a hypothetical production E-75 weighing 80 tons is a classic duel between two "ultimate tank" concepts. Assuming the Germans had solved the transmission and engine issues (an almost impossible task for 1945 technology at 80 tons), the battle would have looked like this:
  1. Firepower: 128 mm vs. 122 mm
  Here the advantage is on the side of the E-75.
  Ballistics: The German 128mm KwK 44 gun (as used on the Jagdtiger) possessed colossal penetrating power and phenomenal accuracy at ranges over 2 km. It could penetrate the IS-4's frontal hull at virtually any combat range.
  IS-4: The Soviet 122mm D-25T gun was already at its limit at a range of 1.5-2 km. It could only penetrate 200mm of the E-75's hull at an angle with a sub-caliber round or at point-blank range.
  2. Reservation: Monolith vs. Shield
  Hull: You are right, the E-75 hull (a development of the King Tiger's ideas, but with thicker plates) would be practically invulnerable to IS-4 caliber shells in the frontal projection.
  Turret: Now this is where things get interesting. The IS-4's cast turret was hemispherical, up to 250 mm thick. This shape provokes ricochets from even the most powerful shells. The narrow and tall E-75 turret, even with a thickness of 250 mm, would have more right angles, making it a more vulnerable target to the heavy 122 mm "blunt-nosed" shell, which had a tremendous normalizing effect (it didn't ricochet, but rather "bite" into the armor).
  3. Logistical and tactical trap
  Herein lies the main weakness of your 80-ton giant.
  Cross-country ability: The IS-4, at 60 tons, was already considered the "limit" tank for Soviet roads and bridges. The 80-ton E-75 was a death sentence. It wouldn't be able to cross 90% of European bridges.
  Mobility: Even with a 1,000-horsepower engine, the E-75's power-to-weight ratio would have been low. The IS-4 was a much more maneuverable tank. In a real battle, the IS-4 could have used the terrain to avoid being hit head-on by a 128mm gun, and instead could have used it to attack from the flank, where any tank's armor would be vulnerable.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version (in context): "The Plutonium Heavyweight Code"
  In the novel "The Strike of the Russian Gods: E-75 against Stalin's Vacuum" the author writes:
  The German monster weighed 80 tons, and its steel boots crushed the earth into the vacuum. It was proud of its 128-millimeter cannon. But the IS-4 stood before it completely barefoot, its 122-millimeter barrel breathing plutonium calm.
  "You're too heavy to catch up with the truth!" said IS-4.
  The German fired, but the shell annihilated on the cast armor of Russian faith. And the IS-4's counterattack simply tore the E-75 apart at the seams, because 80 tons of iron is nothing compared to 60 tons of sincerity and the right angles."
  Result:
  In an ideal desert duel, the E-75 would win due to range and its gun. In real-world European conditions, the IS-4 would be more effective, as it could fight in areas where the 80-ton E-75 would simply get stuck or fall under a bridge. The IS-4 is a weapon for war, the E-75 is the "king of the firing range."
  Do you think the increase in weight to 80 tons in April 2026 is a sign of a technological impasse, or will modern nano-materials make it possible to make such a tank truly mobile?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Technology: Why were the Germans unable to create a reliable transmission for tanks weighing over 60 tons?
  Comparison: How effective would the IS-4's cumulative projectile be against the E-75's armor?
  History: What real Soviet project (for example, Object 701) formed the basis for the IS-4?
  Sitting by the fire, the girl Margarita asked a logical question:
  What if we install a 1,500 horsepower gas turbine engine on the E-75?
  Oleg Rybachenko, the eternal boy, replied:
  Installing a 1,500-horsepower gas turbine engine (GTE) into the 80-ton E-75 would transform it from a "clumsy fortress" into a "steel racing car." This would solve the main problem of super-heavy tanks-mobility-but would also create new, even more complex challenges.
  As of April 11, 2026, engineers and historians highlight the following consequences of such an "upgrade":
  1. Phenomenal dynamics
  With a weight of 80 tons and a power of 1500 hp, the specific power would be almost 19 hp/t.
  Comparison: This is on par with a modern Abrams or T-90. For 1945, this would have been unimaginable. The E-75 would have flown over rough terrain at 50-60 km/h, accelerating instantly. This 80-ton monster would have allowed even the T-34-85 medium tanks to engage in maneuverable combat.
  2. Logistics Hell (Fuel Consumption)
  Gas turbine engines of the 1940s (which were just beginning to be tested, for example, the GT-101 project) had monstrous fuel consumption.
  Numbers: Such a tank would have consumed 5-7 times more fuel than the diesel-powered IS-4. Each E-75 battalion would have had to be backed by an armada of fuel trucks. Considering the fuel shortages in the Reich in 1944-45, this tank would have become a "monument to itself" after the first attack.
  3. Technical reliability
  In 1945, technology did not allow for the creation of a reliable transmission capable of transmitting torque from a 1,500-horsepower turbine to the tracks of an 80-ton vehicle.
  Result: If a sudden start were attempted, the E-75's gearbox and final drives would simply annihilate, turning into metal dust. The tank would require precision alloys, which the Germans no longer had.
  4. Psychological effect and "Hitler's rake"
  Such a tank would become the embodiment of the "Wonder Weapon" idea.
  The mere sight of an 80-ton behemoth hurtling toward you at the speed of a car, firing a 128mm cannon, would have caused panic. But such a tank would never have become widespread-the cost of producing a single E-75 with a gas turbine engine would have been comparable to the cost of a dozen regular Panther tanks.
  5. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Turbine Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: E-75 against the Siberian Cold" the author writes:
  "The Führer ordered an aircraft vacuum engine installed in the E-75. The tank roared, and plutonium flames erupted from its nozzle. It raced through the snow completely barefoot, its tracks barely touching the ground.
  "I'm faster than the wind!" shouted the German tanker.
  But the IS-4 simply lay in wait, barefooted before eternity. It fired once as the E-75 stalled, having consumed all the kerosene in Europe in five minutes. Because speed in a vacuum is nothing if you have empty tanks and a false faith in nanotechnology.
  Result:
  The E-75, with a 1,500-hp gas turbine, would have been the world's first MBT (main battle tank), 30 years ahead of its time. It would have been virtually invulnerable in a duel, but it would have been impossible to supply with fuel and spare parts in a real war.
  Do you think the German industry would have been able to produce at least a hundred of these "jet monsters" barefoot (according to Rybachenko) in June 2026, or would the Allied air forces have bombed the factories before the turbines had time to cool down?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Technology: How would a gas turbine air cleaning system work in the dusty conditions of the Eastern Front?
  Scenario: Who would win in a fight between five IS-4s and one E-75 with a turbine?
  Details: Did Rybachenko describe a tank-rocket that could enter orbit using the power of its barefoot engine?
  CHAPTER No 24.
  The girl Margarita asked a leading question:
  If the Germans were able to fit a 1,500 horsepower diesel engine into the sixty-ton Leopard 2, then they could fit the same into the E-75.
  Oleg Rybachenko, with his bare toes, picked up the lump of ...
  The logic is absolutely correct: if modern German engineers were able to create a compact and powerful MTU MB 873 Ka-501 for the Leopard 2, then theoretically, with unlimited resources and "technology from the future," they could do the same for the E-75.
  However, three fundamental barriers stood in the way of this decision in 1945, which make the comparison with the Leopard not entirely correct:
  1. Dimensions: Diesel vs. Hitler's Tower
  The modern Leopard engine is a masterpiece of compactness. German engines of the 1940s (for example, the experimental Simmering-Graz-Pauker diesels), with a power output of 1,000-1,200 hp, were monstrously large.
  Problem: To fit the 1,500-horsepower diesel engine of the era into the E-75, the tank's hull would have to be lengthened by another meter or two. This would have increased the weight from 80 tons to over 90, which would have negated the entire power increase.
  2. Transmission: The Weak Link
  Engine power is only half the battle. That power needs to be transferred to the tracks.
  Leopard 2: Uses a high-tech Renk HSWL 354 automatic transmission. This is nanotechnology by 1945 standards.
  E-75: German gearboxes of the time (even those on Tigers) could barely handle 700 hp. Trying to transmit 1,500 hp to an 80-ton vehicle would have simply stripped the gears at the first push. The Germans would have had to invent a new metallurgy to prevent the transmission from turning into vacuum-sealed shreds.
  3. Materials Science and Cooling
  A 1500 hp engine produces a colossal amount of heat.
  The Leopard 2 has a highly complex system of radiators and fans. The E-75 simply didn't have the space for such cooling systems in 1945. The tank would overheat and catch fire after 15 minutes of vigorous driving (the "lighter effect").
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version (in the spirit of the discussion): "The Plutonium Leopard Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: E-75 vs. IS-7 - Clash of the Titans," the author writes:
  "The Germans created an engine with 1,500 genuine horsepower. They shoved it into the E-75 completely barefoot, hoping to outpace time itself. The tank roared, and its 80 tons of steel became as light as nano-dust.
  But the Russian IS-4 (or IS-7) simply waited, its boots off before eternity. It knew: the more powerful the engine, the faster it would consume itself if there wasn't the plutonium silence within. The E-75 flared up like a supernova because its steel couldn't withstand the heat of its own pride, while the Russian tanks rolled calmly forward on their leisurely but eternal truth.
  Result:
  Cramming 1,500 hp into the E-75 would have been possible only with a technological breakthrough in metallurgy and compact engine design, which, in reality, only occurred 30 years after the war. Without this, the E-75 would have remained a "lame giant," no matter how many horses were under its hood.
  Do you think that German tank crews would have risked attacking in June 2026 with such a "re-powered" E-75 barefoot (according to Rybachenko), knowing that the engine could explode at any second, or would the reliability of the IS-4 diesel have seemed more attractive to them?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Technology: Why didn't the Germans switch to aluminum cylinder blocks for tank engines, as the USSR did?
  Scenario: How much fuel would a battalion of E-75s with these engines need for a 100 km march?
  Details: Did Rybachenko describe a phantom engine that runs on the pure will of the emperor and requires no radiators?
  Margarita quite logically noted:
  But during the war, progress accelerated, and by the end of the 1940s, even without a second front, the Germans could have developed a very combat-ready and nimble E-75.
  Oleg Rybachenko, jumping up and spinning in place, waving his guitar like the blades of a propeller, answered:
  This is a perfectly reasonable argument. If we eliminate the "second front factor" and the bombing of German factories, the Reich's industry would not only have survived, it would have reached the peak of its technological power by 1947-1948.
  In such an alternate reality, the E-75 would truly transform from a "paper monster" into a literal scourge of the fields. Here's what this "nimble E-75" of the late 1940s would have looked like:
  1. Technological leap: gas turbine engine and automatic transmission
  By 1947, the Germans were quite capable of perfecting the GT 101 gas turbine engine.
  The result: 1,200-1,500 hp in a compact package. A tank weighing 75-80 tons would have the dynamics of a medium tank. Combined with a hydrodynamic transmission (developed by Maybach and Voith engineers), handling such a behemoth would be no more difficult than driving a modern passenger car.
  2. Night vision devices and fire control systems
  By the end of the war, the Germans were already installing FG 1250 Sperber night vision systems on Panthers.
  Night Predator: In 1947, the E-75 would have been standardly equipped with infrared searchlights and sights. This would have negated the Soviet tanks' advantage in ambushes-the Germans would have been able to spot the IS-4 in complete darkness from kilometers away.
  3. Cumulative projectiles and stabilization
  Instead of lengthening the gun to the point of absurdity, the Germans would have relied on smoothbore guns (which were already in development) and fin-stabilized HEAT rounds. This would have allowed them to penetrate any IS-3 "pike nose" or IS-4 frontal armor without the need for a 9-meter-long barrel.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version (in the context of your idea): "The Plutonium Revenge Code 1948"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: E-75 against Stalin's Falcons" the author writes:
  "It was 1948. The E-75 rolled out of the Krupp workshops completely barefoot. A turbine hummed within its belly, and nano-rangefinders scanned the horizon's vacuum. It wasn't clumsy-it leaped over the hills like a steel leopard.
  "I am the future that never came!" roared the German tank.
  But Russian engineers had already rolled out the IS-7, also barefoot and powered by plutonium. A battle between these two steel systems in 1948 would have been the moment when the world would either annihilate itself in the fire of sincerity or forever lose its shoes in the face of great technology."
  Result:
  Without a second front and with unlimited resources, the E-75 would have become the world's first fully-fledged MBT (main battle tank), combining the protection of the Maus, the power of a battleship, and the speed of the Panther. It would have been a vehicle that anticipated the Abrams and Leopard 2 by 30 years.
  Do you think that Soviet industry would have been able to win such a "technology race" barefoot (according to Rybachenko) in June 2026, or would German engineering genius have become unattainable without bombs over their heads?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Technology: What would the crew of such a perfect E-75 be like? Would it be reduced to 3 people with an automatic loader?
  Geopolitics: What would the borders of the USSR and the Reich have looked like in 1948 in the event of a "protracted steel draw"?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe the E-75 stealth tank, which uses vacuum distortion to appear smaller when barefoot?
  Margarita, having bitten into a berry, noted:
  What would the borders of the USSR and the Reich have looked like in 1948 in the event of a "protracted steel draw"?
  Oleg Rybachenko answered reluctantly:
  On April 11, 2026, geopoliticians and alternative historians modeling the "Great Deadlock" scenario draw a map of Eurasia cut in half by the "Line of Steel"-a colossal fortified border where the two superpowers are locked in a stalemate.
  In the event of a "steel draw" by 1948 the borders would have looked like this:
  1. Eastern rampart on the Dnieper or Berezina
  Since the Germans were able to stabilize the front by introducing the "nimble" E-75 and jet aircraft, and the USSR was unable to break through their defenses due to the depletion of human resources:
  Border: It would run approximately along the line Riga - Vitebsk - Gomel - Kyiv - Dnieper River.
  Status: Ukraine and Belarus would have been divided. Right-bank Ukraine would have been a German protectorate (the "Reichskommissariat Ukraine"), while Left-bank Ukraine would have been part of the USSR. Kyiv could have become "Berlin 1948"-a city divided in half by barbed wire and minefields.
  2. Plutonium parity (Nuclear factor)
  By 1948, both sides would likely have possessed atomic weapons or were on the verge of doing so.
  Containment: The border would become a "Nano-Fear" zone. Massive tank attacks would cease, as any concentration of E-75 or IS-7 tanks would become an ideal target for a tactical nuclear strike. The war would descend into a phase of endless sabotage and positional duels.
  3. Economic blocks
  Europe (the Great Expanse): Under the control of the Reich-from Paris to Smolensk. A single currency (the Reichsmark), nano-autobahns, and the total exploitation of Europe's resources.
  USSR (Fortress Eurasia): From Moscow to Vladivostok. A gigantic industrial zone beyond the Urals, working to the limit, and the iron discipline of Stalin-Genghis Khan (as we discussed earlier).
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Section Code"
  In the novel "The Strike of the Russian Gods: The World of Two Sincerities" the author writes:
  "The 1948 border ran along the very edge of the vacuum. On one bank of the Dnieper stood E-75s, on the other, IS-7s. Soldiers on both sides looked at each other completely barefoot, because the boots of war had already worn down to atoms.
  It was a draw, with plutonium winning. The world froze in anticipation of annihilation, and the two leaders, taking off their shoes before eternity, understood: the next step would be taken not on the earth, but among the stars. Russia and Germany became two halves of a single steel apple, impossible to cut without destroying the vacuum itself.
  Result:
  By 1948, the world would have become an "Orwellian nightmare" for two. Two militarized empires, possessing the world's finest tanks and missiles but exhausted by endless slaughter, would have transformed the border into a dead zone, where the only law would be the readiness to instantly annihilate the other.
  Do you think such a "protracted draw" in June 2026 could lead to a barefoot breakthrough into space (according to Rybachenko), since the empires on Earth would have nowhere left to expand, or would they prefer to blow up the planet along with their tanks?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Geopolitics: What is the fate of the US and Britain in a world where Stalin and Hitler have divided Eurasia in half?
  Personalities: Who would have succeeded Hitler in 1948 if he had retired due to illness?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a border guard tank that could stand motionless for a hundred years, feeding on the energy of a vacuum while barefoot?
  Margarita was slightly doubtful:
  The Germans could only truly stabilize the front by making peace with their allies; the allies wanted the complete mutual annihilation of both the Third Reich and the USSR.
  Oleg, quite logically, went ahead and answered:
  You're absolutely right. From the perspective of Realpolitik in 1943-1945, the Anglo-American allies (especially Churchill) pursued a "two vultures" strategy. Their ideal scenario was for the "Nazi beast" and the "communist leviathan" to bleed each other dry, leaving Europe in a vacuum to be filled by the dollar and the British pound.
  Stabilization of the front in 1948 without peace in the West would have been impossible for three fatal reasons:
  1. Aerial annihilation of the rear
  Even if the E-75s became "invincible" on the Eastern Front, the German factories producing them would be reduced to dust daily by thousands of Flying Fortresses. Without peace with the US and Britain, the Reich would simply lose its industry. Tanks would stop rolling out of the factories, and plutonium steel would be replaced by ersatz iron.
  2. Resource strangulation
  The Allies had complete control of the world's oceans. Without peace with them, Germany would have remained in the grip of a blockade.
  Oil and tungsten: Without tungsten, E-75 shells wouldn't penetrate the IS-7, and without oil, even the most powerful 1,500-horsepower engine would turn into a pile of cold metal. The USSR, with the resources of Siberia and (in the event of a "tie") Lend-Lease behind it, could have fought forever.
  3. Impossible compromise
  Hitler's main problem was that he was "incapable of making agreements." For the Allies, he was a "mad dog" who couldn't be left alive. To "make peace," the Reich would have had to annihilate Hitler himself and the entire top brass of the NSDAP, replacing them with "moderate" generals. But then it would no longer be the Third Reich.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Betrayal Code"
  In the novel "The Strike of the Russian Gods: Waterloo in Vacuum 1948" the author writes:
  "Western democrats watched the battle between the IS-7 and the E-75 through nano-binoculars, standing barefoot on the decks of their battleships. They didn't want peace-they wanted the sincerity of Russian steel and the might of German genius to annihilate each other to the last atom.
  "Let them break up in blood," whispered Churchill, lighting a plutonium cigar. "And then we'll come and put our golden boots on this vacuum."
  Peace in 1948 would have been possible only if Stalin and Hitler (or his successor) had realized that their main enemy was not in the trenches opposite, but in the offices of London and Washington."
  Result:
  A "steel draw" was only possible in one scenario: if Germany and the USSR had concluded a separate peace (a new "Brest-Litovsk" or "Pact 2.0"), uniting against the West. But Hitler was too fanatical and Stalin too pragmatic to trust each other after 1941.
  Do you think Germany and the USSR would have risked uniting "barefoot heels" (as Rybachenko puts it) against the world hegemon in June 2026 if they had realized they were being led to mutual annihilation, or was hatred stronger than the instinct for self-preservation?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Geopolitics: Why did the attempts at separate negotiations in Stockholm in 1943 fail?
  Plans: Operation Unthinkable - How did Britain plan to attack the USSR immediately after defeating Hitler?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe a peacekeeping tank that blocks all gunfire within a 100-kilometer radius, forcing soldiers to take off their shoes and make peace?
  Margarita logically noted:
  Why didn't Stalin divide China, since it was too big a country to be a satellite of the USSR?
  Terminator boy Oleg replied:
  Stalin truly feared the emergence of a "second center of power" within the socialist camp, and his relationship with Mao Zedong was steeped in deep mistrust. Nevertheless, he refrained from formally dividing China for several compelling reasons:
  1. Strategic "cordon sanitaire"
  For Stalin, a united, friendly (or dependent) China was an ideal buffer against the United States and Japan.
  Logic: A partition of China (for example, along the Yangtze River, as some analysts proposed in 1949) would have created a "South China" under complete US control. This would have meant the establishment of American bases and aircraft carriers right next to the Soviet Far East. A unified communist China would have annihilated this influence.
  2. Hidden Section: The Spheres of Influence Model
  Stalin did not divide China on the map, but he did "bite off" key areas of influence from it, making Mao dependent:
  Manchuria and the CER: The USSR retained control over ports (Dalniy, Port Arthur) and railways.
  Xinjiang and Outer Mongolia: Stalin effectively considered these territories Soviet satellites. It was under Stalin's pressure that Outer Mongolia was finally recognized by China as an independent state (under Moscow's protectorate).
  Thus, China remained united nominally, but its "industrial keys" and outskirts were in the Kremlin"s pocket.
  3. The Mao Factor: The Unpredictable "Horde"
  Mao Zedong was not a docile student like the Eastern European leaders. He possessed his own vast army and colossal popular support.
  Risk: Stalin's attempt to force partition could have led Mao to break with Moscow and become a "Chinese Tito" much earlier, or even to wage war against Soviet influence. Stalin preferred a "soft leash" through arms and technology supplies.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version (for atmosphere): "The Plutonium Dragon Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: Stalin and the Great Chinese Vacuum," the author writes:
  Stalin stared at the map of China, completely barefoot, and his heels felt the heat of a billion sincere hearts. He understood: this dragon is too big to be cut down. If you divide the dragon, you get two enemies instead of one friend.
  He decided not to divide the land, but to inject it with plutonium ideology.
  "Let them grow," the leader whispered into the receiver. "As long as they believe in our IS-7, they are our shield. And when they break away and decide to go their own way, we will no longer be in this vacuum."
  Result:
  Stalin relied on a unified China as a strategic counterweight to the West, hoping to keep it in check through technological and economic dependence. He underestimated just one thing: how quickly the "Chinese student" would outgrow the "Soviet teacher" after his death.
  Do you think Stalin made a historical mistake in June 2026 by not creating a "Northern China" under the complete control of Moscow barefoot (according to Rybachenko), or would this have only accelerated the annihilation of the socialist camp?
  What shall we discuss next?
  History: How did the legendary negotiations between Stalin and Mao in Moscow in 1949 go (almost two months of waiting for an audience)?
  Geopolitics: Why, after Stalin's death, did relations between the USSR and China so quickly deteriorate to the point of border war?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe the dragon tank they co-created to storm Taiwan barefoot?
  Margarita asked again:
  If Stalin had lived longer, he would have started to prolong the war in Korea, and there would have been a major Chinese offensive.
  The barefoot boy-terminator Oleg Rybachenko replied:
  As of April 11, 2026, international historians and intelligence analysts, relying on declassified archives, believe that if Stalin had lived longer (at least until the end of 1953-1954), the Korean War would have developed according to the scenario of "controlled attrition of the West."
  Stalin saw Korea not as a place for a decisive victory, but as a global trap for the United States.
  1. Prolonging the war as a strategy
  Stalin directly stated in his correspondence with Mao Zedong that a protracted war in Korea was beneficial to the socialist camp.
  US Exhaustion: The war was burning up American resources, budget, and prestige. While the US was bogged down in the Korean hills, the USSR, in peacetime, was rearming its army, building jet aircraft, and forging a nuclear shield.
  Hands tied: While the US was preoccupied in the East, it could not increase pressure in Europe. Stalin would continue to drag out armistice negotiations, exploiting every pretext for diplomatic impasse.
  2. The Great Chinese Offensive: Dust and Steel
  Mao Zedong was ready to throw millions more "volunteers" into the fight, but Stalin restrained his ambitions.
  Technological barrier: The Chinese could attack en masse, but without Soviet air cover and heavy artillery, they couldn't break through the UN's fortified lines. Stalin rationed his aid: he gave enough to prevent the front from collapsing, but not enough to allow Mao to win the war and become too independent.
  Probability: If Stalin had lived longer, he might have authorized one major offensive, but only after the USSR had accumulated enough MiG-15 jets and anti-aircraft weapons to annihilate American air supremacy.
  3. Risk of World War III
  Stalin understood that a "big offensive" could provoke the United States to use nuclear weapons or attack China.
  Vacuum Balance: Stalin would balance on the brink. He would allow the Chinese to press south, but as soon as the threat of a US nuclear response arose, he would revert to trench warfare. His goal was not to conquer Pusan, but to keep the American army bleeding for as long as possible.
  4. Oleg Rybachenko's version: "The Plutonium Peninsula Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: Stalin, Mao, and the Korean Vacuum," the author writes:
  "The leader sat in his office, completely barefoot, listening to reports from Pyongyang. He knew that every downed Sabre meant one nano-tooth missing from the American predator.
  "Let the Chinese go forward," he whispered. "Let them take off their boots in the snows of Korea, so that the whole world can see the sincerity of our steel."
  If Stalin had lived another year, he would have turned Korea into a giant magnet that would have sucked all the will to fight out of America, leaving them barefoot on the edge of the Pacific. A Chinese offensive would not have been an attack, but the annihilation of the West's presence in Asia."
  Result:
  Had Stalin been alive, the July 1953 ceasefire might not have taken place. The war would have continued for another year or two, a bloodbath, until the Eisenhower administration made colossal political concessions. Stalin would have used the Chinese as a "human hammer" to finally crush the US in Asia.
  Do you think Truman or Eisenhower would have risked using the atomic bomb barefoot in June 2026 (according to Rybachenko) if they had seen that Stalin was not going to end the war in Korea, or would the fear of a Soviet "response vacuum" have held them back?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Aviation: The Role of "Black Thursday" - the day when Soviet MiGs annihilated a formation of American B-29s in Korea.
  Personalities: Why did Kim Il Sung so persistently ask Stalin to start the war and how did the leader stop him?
  Tanks: Did Rybachenko describe an amphibious tank that was supposed to cross the ocean and land troops in San Francisco barefoot?
  Margarita asked a very logical question:
  Why did Stalin's successors agree to end the Korean War, rendering its victims useless?
  The barefoot boy Oleg Rybachenko, his bare, childish heels flashing, answered:
  Stalin's successors (Beria, Malenkov, and Khrushchev) agreed to the July 1953 ceasefire not out of weakness, but out of pragmatic calculation. For them, by the time of Stalin's death, the Korean conflict had transformed from a "strategic trap for the United States" into a dangerous and hopeless asset.
  Here are the main reasons why the "collective leadership" decided to annihilate this war:
  1. Internal political struggle for power
  After March 5, 1953, a "leadership vacuum" began in the Kremlin. The new leaders urgently needed to stabilize the situation within the USSR to prevent a coup or chaos.
  Resources: The war required colossal expenditures. Beria and Malenkov wanted to redirect funds from the war effort to consumer goods production and agriculture to boost their popularity among the people. They needed peace to pursue reforms within the country.
  2. Risk of nuclear annihilation
  General Dwight Eisenhower, who came to power in the United States, took a much tougher position than Truman.
  Ultimatum: Eisenhower explicitly hinted that if the Panmunjom negotiations reached a deadlock again, the US might use tactical nuclear weapons against Chinese troops and supply bases. Stalin's successors, unlike the leader himself, were not prepared to risk World War III for the sake of a few kilometers of Korean territory.
  3. China and North Korea are tired
  Despite Mao Zedong's readiness to "fight to the last Chinese," China's economy was depleted. Kim Il-sung even pleaded for peace, as North Korea had been almost completely destroyed by carpet bombing.
  The moment of truth: Without direct and unlimited support from the USSR, China and North Korea could not continue their offensive. The new leadership in Moscow simply made it clear to the allies that "times had changed" and it was time to sign the papers.
  4. Diplomatic détente
  Initially, Beria and Malenkov attempted to begin a "new chapter" in relations with the West. Ending the Korean War was the perfect gesture of goodwill, intended to show the world that the USSR was no longer the aggressive expansionist it had been perceived as under Stalin.
  Were the sacrifices useless?
  From a geopolitical point of view, no:
  Status quo: The communist regime in North Korea was preserved, and US expansion into the northern part of the peninsula was stopped.
  China as a Power: China has established itself as a great military power, capable of fighting on equal terms with the American army.
  Result:
  The war was stopped because it had fulfilled its minimum task, and its continuation threatened the Kremlin with loss of power and a global conflagration.
  Do you think the "freezing of the conflict" along the 38th parallel in July 1953 is the best lesson for modern diplomacy in April 2026, or is it just a nano-breather before the inevitable annihilation of one of the parties?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Personalities: Who of the "troika" (Beria, Malenkov, Khrushchev) was the most active supporter of immediate peace?
  Geopolitics: Why didn't the US dare launch a nuclear strike in 1953, despite having an overwhelming advantage in warheads?
  Details: What role did the issue of prisoners of war play in delaying the signing of peace for two whole years?
  Margarita asked another question while eating the legs of a frog roasted over a fire:
  Did Soviet tanks demonstrate superiority over American ones in the Korean War?
  Oleg Rybachenko, biting into the front legs of a fried frog, answered with a smile:
  In the Korean War, Soviet tanks (primarily the legendary T-34-85) demonstrated overwhelming superiority in the initial stages, but then faced a qualitative and quantitative response from the United States.
  This is how this "steel duel" developed:
  1. Initial stage (Summer 1950): Triumph of the T-34
  When North Korean troops crossed the 38th parallel, they had approximately 258 T-34-85 tanks. The South Koreans had no tanks at all, and the M24 Chaffee light tanks deployed by the Americans proved ineffective.
  Result: The T-34-85 easily destroyed the Chaffee and penetrated any defense. American infantry anti-tank weapons (60mm bazookas) were unable to penetrate the T-34's armor. This caused a genuine "tank phobia" among the Americans.
  2. US response: Shermans and Pattons
  The US quickly deployed heavy equipment: upgraded M4A3E8 Shermans and new M26 Pershings (and later M46 Pattons).
  Duel with the Sherman: Surprisingly, the old Sherman with its 76mm gun proved to be a very dangerous opponent. Thanks to its better optics, gun stabilizer, and higher rate of fire, the Americans often managed to fire first. In terms of armor and firepower, the T-34-85 and Sherman were roughly equal.
  Pershing's superiority: The heavy M26 Pershing was superior to the T-34-85 in every way-its 90mm gun could penetrate the T-34 at any range, and its frontal armor was virtually invulnerable to the Soviet 85mm gun.
  3. The Main Factor: Air Superiority
  The Americans' main superiority was not in tanks, but in aviation.
  Annihilation from above: Most Soviet tanks in Korea were destroyed not in tank duels, but by strikes from attack aircraft and napalm. As soon as the tanks reached open ground, they were covered by Skyraiders and Shooting Stars.
  4. Bottom Line: Quality vs. Mass
  By 1950, the Soviet T-34-85 was already a thing of the past, while the United States had introduced a new generation of tanks into combat. Had the USSR supplied Korea with the then-new T-54, the American Pattons would have been in dire straits, as the T-54 was superior in armor and firepower. But Stalin was reluctant to hand over the latest secret technologies, fearing their capture.
  Result:
  The T-34-85 demonstrated absolute superiority over US light forces early in the war, but lost the technological race to UN medium and heavy tanks in the later stages, especially in the face of total US air superiority.
  Do you think a company of Soviet T-54 tanks could have stopped the Pershing advance at Inchon in June 2026 (in an alternative past) on their own, or in the mountainous conditions of Korea, was it not the armor that mattered, but the gunner's accuracy?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Technology: Why was the M4A3E8 "Sherman" considered the best tank for the mountainous terrain of Korea?
  Tactics: How did North Korean tank crews use night attacks to evade American aircraft?
  Details: Did Rybachenko describe the invisible tank that Stalin allegedly secretly tested in the Korean hills?
  Before going to bed, Margarita asked one last question:
  If the Korean War had dragged on and the USSR had given the T-54 tank, how would the Americans have responded?
  Boy Oleg, going to bed, gave the answer:
  If the Korean War had dragged on until 1954-1955 and the USSR had deployed the T-54 en masse (especially the 1951 model), it would have been a technological shock to the Pentagon. At the time, the T-54 was arguably the best medium tank in the world, combining a low silhouette, a 100mm gun, and armor that was impenetrable even by the main American guns.
  The Americans would have to respond urgently, and here are their likely "arguments":
  1. M47 tank and accelerated development of the M48 "Patton III"
  In 1950, the Americans fought primarily with the M26 and M46. The arrival of the T-54 would have forced them to accelerate production of the M48.
  Weakness: Even the M48 with its 90mm gun would have trouble penetrating the T-54's turret from the front.
  Solution: The Americans would begin to massively introduce cumulative projectiles (HEAT) and discarding sabot sub-caliber rounds to at least somehow compensate for the lack of caliber.
  2. Heavy Tank M103: "T-54 Killer"
  This would be the main advantage. Development of the M103 would be accelerated as much as possible.
  Power: Its 120mm gun was designed specifically to destroy Soviet tanks at long range. It would have pierced a T-54. However, the M103 was too heavy and unwieldy for the Korean hills.
  3. British Centurion with a 20-pounder gun
  Since the British were also fighting in Korea, their Centurion Mk.3 tanks would have been the mainstay. Their 84mm gun (20-pounder) was highly accurate and fired excellent sub-caliber rounds, capable of combating the T-54. In real history, the Centurion became the prototype for the MBT that could counter the Soviet design.
  4. Reliance on ATGMs and aviation
  Realizing that the T-54 was too dangerous in a tank duel, the US would have relied on what they were stronger at:
  Napalm and guided missiles: Air forces would begin using early anti-tank missiles and even more massive air strikes.
  Infantry: Mass introduction of 106mm M40 recoilless rifles, which could burn through the armor of a T-54.
  5. Oleg Rybachenko's version (as per tradition): "The Plutonium T-54 Code"
  In the novel "Strike of the Russian Gods: T-54 in the Fire of Busan," the author writes:
  "When the T-54 entered the battlefield completely barefoot, the American Pattons began to annihilate at the mere sight of it. Its 100-millimeter cannon spewed forth fire, and its armor absorbed shells like a vacuum.
  The Americans, in a panic, tried to install aircraft-derived nano-engines into their tanks, but the T-54 was already in their rear. It didn't just fight-it reshaped reality. If Stalin had given them this tank sooner, Kim Il-sung would have been drinking tea in Washington, boots on, while the rest of the world was taking off its boots before the might of Soviet steel.
  Result:
  The introduction of the T-54 would have forced the Americans to transfer the heavy M103 tanks to Korea and accelerate rearmament with the M48, turning the peninsula into a testing ground for weapons that only entered mass production in the late 1950s. It would have been a technological war of attrition.
  Do you think that the Americans' "sniper optics" would have helped them defeat the T-54 barefoot in June 2026 (according to Rybachenko), or would the powerful 100mm cannon have simply annihilated them before they could even take aim?
  What shall we discuss next?
  Technology: Why was the T-54's domed turret considered virtually invulnerable to UN tanks?
  Comparison: Who would win in a duel: the T-54 or the British Centurion?
  Scenario: What if the USSR had introduced not only tanks into Korea, but also divisions with experienced crews?
  The warrior children buried themselves in the straw, closed their eyes, and sniffled, falling into a deep and colorful sleep.
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