The War of 1989



Background
The Cold War had been raging the world since the end of the Second World War and didnt have and end in sight. When Mikhail Gorbachev came into power in the Soviet Union, most of the Warsaw Pact was beginning to teer apart by Revolutionaries and NATO supporters. Gorbachev had tried to end the Cold War when he meet with President Ronald Reagan in 1988 he proposed a Diplomatic solution to the Cold War, to Reagan it was a good solution but with most of the Warsaw Pact supporting a continuation to the Cold War. Gorbachev planned another meeting with Reagan on January of 1989. Once Gorbachev returned home he was ready to stop the Soviet Union support to other Warsaw Pact members, and was ready to reform the Soviet Union. But Gorbachev did not accomplish any of his objectives as his plane crashed off the Moscow Airport, resulting on his death. Imediatly the Soviets blamed NATO for this as they suggested the plane was deliberatly damaged so that the plane woud crash and kill Gorbachev. Soon the Soviet Union had a new ruler Vasiliev Petrokas, Petroskas was a big supporter of Stalin and supported each action the Soviet Union took. Vasiliev had lost his mother to the Germans in Leningrad working as a nurse and his father in Berlin, he was raised on Perm with his grandparents and later his Aunt. Vasiliev knew what he whanted the Soviet Union to be and was ready to put the world in flames if he had to, only to acomplish his dream.

Vasiliev whanted the Warsaw Pact to stay together, he imediatly crushed the Revolutionary feelings in Hungary and ordered firing Squad´s in Poland against the Revolutionary´s there. Soon the future looked grey for the world Vasiliev moved the Soviet forces into Warsaw Pact members and reinforced the Communist forces in those countries. He funded the creation of a wall between Bulgaria and Turkey and the creation of a defensive line between the Soviet Union and Turkey in the Caucasus. He also began seling equipment and inteligence to countries like Iraq, Syria, Iran, China, North Korea, North Vietnam, Indonesia, Jordan, and Lebanon. Soon support for Vasiliev turned around and soon conspiracy´s to kill him by the Revolutionary´s and the Government began. Vasiliev knew he woudnt leave long and that the same faith as Gorbachev woud come to him while in power, so he began to dismantle the Soviet Government turning it into somekind of a Military Council. Vasiliev was killed by Soviet Revolutionary´s just 2 months after he took office, but the damage was done the Military imediatly took control of the Soviet Uniona and the Warsaw Pact and began replacing Revolutionary sympathizers in both the Soviet Government and other Warsaw Pact members with the menace of a Military intervention.

The Introduction
The war is an immediate result of the Soviet economical crisis and the breaking of the Iron Curtain, Soviet is on a stalemate looking to solve the crisis while keeping itself and their allies together, the Soviets decided to create a reasonable plan The Bertan Plan, in which the Soviet Government would ask for money from the West assuring them they won't start a war. While the Soviet Government is find with the Bertan Plan, a few think of a Plan B. The Proposal is sent at the end of 1988, the West says no and instead boosts its military spending, the Soviet Union was crushed with no way out. defeat was at the horizon. But the Soviet solution turned away from the peaceful side of things into an aggressive stance, the Soviets decided the only solution was war. But there was a problem NATO was strong in a lot of regions, the Soviets decided to ally lesser nations and prepare them for war. Soon Jordan, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yugoslavia, and Albania joined they had their reasons, The Israelis with NATO support had beaten the Jordanians, Lebanese and the Syrians in 1983, while the Turks claimed land from Syria in an attempt to stop terrorist incursion into their territory, while Iraq was hit when Kuwaiti oil interests where damaged by Iraqi presence, Yugoslavia wanted to destroy the Italians for their presence in Trieste and their support for nationalist movements in Slovenia and Croatia, while Albania looked to kick Greece, which had stopped Albanian progressed and considered it part of its land. Soon floods of allies came to help of the Soviet Union for their own personal reasons.

Bulgaria, Romania, Hungary and Moldavia wanted to gain friendship with the Soviet Union to seek its help with pushing Greece and Turkey from the former Bulgarian Lands. China and North Korea Rushed to ally the Soviet Union to eliminate Japan, Hong Kong, South Korea, and Taiwan all under the USA protection, while the North Vietnamese not able to destroy South Vietnam in the Vietnam War decide to join the Soviets along with Thailand and Malaysia to fight Singapur, Indonesia, Bangladesh, the Philippines, and the Indochina defensive Alliance all under NATO Presence and support. Iran decide to join to attack Turkey. Cuba and Cyprus joined the fight for a share of the cake. The situation looked good for the Soviets stretching NATO resources across the whole of the world, but needing defence at home as the Soviets armed the United States Communists or USC and the The Communist League in Europe or TCLE. At the end of February preparations for Red Raccoon began and so did the four stages of the attack. At the end of April the drawing of Red Raccoon was finished, and the Soviet government announced a new deal with the West not mentioning the offensive stance the Soviet deal had taken. The deal was denied at the end of May. The Soviet military and its allies were ready to strike at any moment. The Soviet Union sent a final proposal that it would begin WW3 otherwise the West sent Economic Relief, the answer was announced June 4th 1989 therefore beginning WW3. NATO wouldn't have imagined the problem they had just entered and neither did the world.

There is gona be a big change to this.

Red Raccoon (Phase 1)
Planning Red Raccoon Phase One was the invasion of Berlin and West Germany by Original Iron Curtain Members. This attack was a masterpiece made by Colonel Valin Kelenko, the attack itself was simple destroy the NATO presence in Berlin while launching an offensive that would drive NATO back to the Rhine. The attack would have three major attacks and one minor attack, that later would split and attack different NATO positions, splitting the NATO resources all over Europe. The first one the Northern attack, which would attack Hamburg and Bremen and secure the western coast of Germany, also would head off to secure the Kiel Canal and its surroundings, and later the Danish homeland, this prepared the Russian invasion through land and sea into Sweden, by stopping direct NATO support into Sweden. The attack itself was made by General Volonov Karesi and would be led by him. The second attack and by far the biggest would be the Central attack, the attack would secure all of Central Germany, cutting through the defensive lines of NATO and securing the Rhine and its surrounding areas, including Frankfort and Kassel which would become key battlegrounds in he months that followed. The attack would be the spearhead of Red Raccoon and would be commanded by General Vladimir Tolenko. The third attack was the latest one to be launched, with its objectives being cutting through the German south being a derivation of the Central attack and dividing at Frankfort, while the Soviet And Czech forces attacked through the Czech border. Both forces would meet between Stuttgart and Munich which would have already been taken. Then the Czech forces would push into Austria with more force, while the original South attack moved south to cut the Italians at the Alps, while the Central attack would take Paris. This attack was designed by Albert Kelenko the brother of the designer of Red Raccoon. The minor attack was of course Berlin, the strategy would be simple smash the French sector in the north, while the attack against the Americans from the south was launched. Meanwhile, the Soviet forces crossed the Berlin Wall into the British and American sectors. The plans were magnificent and the Soviet soldiers and Commanders would be confident that just in the first month the Iron curtain would have taken all of the area between the Rhine and the Soviet border. But it's easier to plan and think than to act, and no Soviet genius could take the Red Raccoon ahead after the second phase ended. After Red Raccoon failed Valin said "It's easier to draw than to act".

The Actual Combat
As the Soviet Government waited for the proposal to be denied, Soviet and allied forces were ready, everyone knew when and where to strike, it was a waiting game. Once the proposal was denied, NATO decided to surprise the Soviets by attacking their positions in the border, also new American re-inforcements were ready and prepared for the recent conflict since the beginning of May, and had their positions well defended, this would prove key for the Battle of Berlin and the continued slaughter. On July 3rd the Soviet forces following Red Raccoon attacked the NATO positions on West Berlin, while the NATO forces on the border prepared for the next day.

The Battle in Berlin
The Battle in Berlin was one-sided on the French sector, the Americans and British were able to hold back the Soviets, but at the cost of heavy casualties, and massive damage to the British Sector. On the 4th while NATO forces launched the Norkon Offensive, the French sector was destroyed, with the last French presence being on the British Sector, but on the 5th a heavy push from Polish forces on the south forced the Americans to retreat from supporting the defense of the British Sector, this left the British with no direct support and thee sector was taken over by midnight, with small holdouts all over their sector. The Soviet strategy had worked as they had taken over the French and British Sector, and closing in on the Americans slowly. The Americans being surrounded and outgunned, received help from the West Berliners, who had escaped East Berlin and were not please to hear that there former life would come back. Slowly but surely the Americans were pushed back, on the 8th Valin ordered that a hole assault was launched against the Americans as time had been quite thin because of the Norkon Offensive, the attack left the streets of the American Sector destroyed, and with dead all over them. The attack was a bloodshed for both sides, as many civilians were killed, but its objective was complete the 3rd American Division was almost destroyed, and on the 9th it was shattered, with the surviving Resistance members and American soldiers formed small holdouts all over the sector. The Battle of Berlin was completely a Soviet victory, forcing NATO the next day to cancelled their offensive and retreat to better positions not doing anything useful. But the Americans and the Resistance couldn't hold for ever, and the last formal hold out with proper supplies, men, and command structure was destroyed, the Battle of Berlin was over and so did the Warsaw Pact armies, as the Soviets put direct Soviet control over them, turning them from Polish into pure Soviet, this would prove key for the Soviets at the beginning of the war, but positive to NATO later in the war.

The Norkon Offensive
The Norkon Offensive was an improvised Offensive by NATO, this offensive prove ineffective and did not accomplish any goal what so ever, the Norkon offensive received a large amount of critics as NATO had enough time to prepare a strategy even before the final proposal was sent or denied. The offensive was a combined military attack with German, French, Belgian, Spanish, Portuguese, and British troops and resources. The real objectives were to relieve pressure from the Berlin, and to capture Schwerin which later became target of another offensive, and to take Magdeburg. The offensive only accomplished the first objective slightly, but failed on the other two. The offensive suffered from bad coordination, and the real lack of a central command structure. The attack surprised the Soviet forces on the border, and in the first two days almost accomplished its objectives, but a Soviet counterattack in the North pushed the Spanish and Belgian forces in there almost pushing them back to the starting point. The only place the offensive proved effective was on the south, where Portuguese forces almost reached Leipzig, but lack of general support the attack was called off on the 7th. The real push with the combined British and German forces was in the center, where they barely reached the outskirts of Magdeburg. But were pushed back into there starting positions the 9th of June, with the offensive called of the next day. the 11th the real threat had launched itself against NATO with the first of the three main attacks being launched on the Center and the second one up north a day later, this attacks rocked the NATO positions so hard that if Ilmenau river hadn't happened the war would have ended for NATO.

American-Danish Defense
The Americans had been the only NATO member along with Denmark to prepare and carry out a coordinated attack and defense strategy in Schleswig-Holstein. The American 5th and 6th Armored Divisions were being sent on there way to Denmark before the Proposal was denied, they landed the 5th of June on Northern Denmark, and had made plans with the Danish military to meet in Hamburg. The combined forces meet on Hamburg on the 13th of June, the next day the Spanish and Belgian forces retreated and gave their defensive on the Mecklenburg border and retreated back into Hamburg, while the American and Danish forces prepared defensive positions along the Ilmenau river, just east and Northeast of Hamburg, there on the 16th the biggest battle after Berlin developed, American and Danish forces defended the Bridges and crossings on both sides, the fighting was a real carnage on both sides.

The fighting was a carnage for the Americans and Danes, but were able to stop the attack, on the 20th after four days of heavy casualties, Karesi decided to attack Hamburg from the south since the Spanish and Belgian forces had been moved into the center, what Karesi didn't know was that a reserve Infantry division of the German army was established there and was ready to fight. On the 22th the Soviet forces attacked Hamburg from the south, expecting to see heavy fighting from the retreating American forces, who were reconciling their positions on Hamburg, but were seen with heavy fighting from the local people and the German Division stationed there. The attack was called of on the 25th, and in the next day with German support the Americans counterattacked the Soviets, pushing them on the 26th and 27th, with the Danish pushing the Soviets on the 27th and on the 28th pushing them back into the Mecklenburg border with heavy casualties on NATO but with even bigger ones on the Soviets. The battle left the North up for grabs for NATO, and with the American Expeditionary Force in Europe (Bahamas, Canada and Mexico) having landed in the Netherlands to serve as reserves, and with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th American Infantry divisions, having scheduled to land on Late June, the American and Danish positions would have a better chance to attack and gain land than anywhere in the front.

Northern Ice (Invasion of Finland)
The Soviets, seeing how they needed to strike NATO in another front, it needed to be Finland, on the 12th of June Northern Ice was beginning preparations to be launched by June 19th, but heavy fighting near Ilmenau forced them to move it up to the 20th as re-inforcements had to be send to Germany. On the 17th planning and drawing was over, General Bolomar Putonsi the father of the operation would lead the main attack through the border north of St Petersburg, being its objectives Imatra and Virolahti, which were right in the border, meanwhile Commander Albert Vaston would lead an Amphibious landing on Hanko, east of Helsinki. The smallest attack would be lead by General Vladimir Pulonko which would lead the biggest front stretching from the Republic of Karelia all the way to Murmansk on the Norwegian border. The attack would first destroy Finland and with an Amphibious invasion plus a direct invasion from Denmark to Sweden would crush the Swedes, while a small force headed through out Norway and would be reinforced by forces from Sweden to attack Oslo, and secure Scandinavia which would mean the end of safe water on the East of the UK.

On the morning of the 20th the Bolomar broke the defenses the Finns had put on the border. The Finnish General Adolf Arola had put forces to stop an initial attack on the North near Parikkala north of Imatra, and had plans to attack on the Soviet rear with a flanking maneuver while the Soviets attacked in the south and center, where defenses where more flexible. The Soviets broke through the Finnish lines on the first day and almost took their first objective Virolahti, but were forced to back when Adolf attacked them in the rear. On the second day the Third attack was launched with Vladimir leading the main attack on the flank of Adolf. Heavy fighting on the 3rd day as the Finns were beginning to be pushed out of their Main defensive positions in the north, Center, South and all over the Karelia border. On the 4th day after heavy fighting near Virolahti, the Finnish forces were pushed back to their Secondary positions, losing Virolahti mean while Adolf began to back from the attack and into Secondary positions. On the 5th all of Bolamar's objectives had been taken while Albert landed in Hanko, diverting Finnish forces from the South to the Capital. On the 25th all of the Finnish forces on the south were retreated back to Helsinki, with Adolf stopping the Soviet push on Elimäki east of Helsinki. Adolf was able to delay the Soviet push from the East until the 28th but at the cost of heavy casualties, Adolf had forced Albert to attack on the 28th without Bolomar's support to keep the plans going, the Finnish forces had set extensive defenses on Helsinki with support of local militias with the extra time.

Battle of Helsinki
Finland had been part of Russia for most of the 19th century and a little of the 20th Century, and had fought hard to keep themselves independent in World War 2, know former veterans of the Winter War grabbed their guns and prepared to defend their homeland once more. Albert attacked Espoo just West of Helsinki there was heavy fighting on the 28th and 29th, the Finnish forces defended their positions but had to withdraw forces to support the defence of Vantaa North of Helsinki against Bolomar. The attack on Helsinki itself would be a two-way assault with Albert launching the main assault, while Bolomar circled the city from the north. The Finnish forces held both towns on the 30th at heavy casualties, and when the bloodiest month in the last decade changed from June to July, the Finnish forces still held the towns and Helsinki. Bolomar facing extreme fighting decided to launch an Amphibious invasion on Helsinki itself, the attack would be bloody as heavy militias defended the coastline, but it had to be done. On the 2nd of July Naval Admiral Athanasius launched an Amphibious invasion in the harbor, it was met with heavy fighting, but with naval and aerial support the harbor was taken. The Finnish forces seeing this threat retreated from Espoo to defend Helsinki itself, while Adolf's forces defended the bulk of the north. On the 4th Adolf was pushed from Vantaa and retreated to Muro leaving Bolomar to launch extensive attacks against the Helsinki, on the 5th the Center of Helsinki was captured by Albert, and in the 6th the Finnish forces were almost pushed out of Helsinki. Adolf with no option called for a general retreat from Helsinki into the secondary lines up north. On the 7th the Finnish capital was all under Soviet control, with the retreat almost being cut off in Muro due to a heavy attack by Bolomar. On the 9th Adolf launched a counter-attack that let the Finnish forces escape on the 10th. All of the Finnish military capabilities were retreated to the secondary Defence positions. This was the third time a Capital of a NATO member was taken by a Warsaw Pact member. The Swedish and Norwegian forces had began moving to the secondary defence line on the 7th and were ready to support the Finnish in the defence of their defensive line.

Invasion of Austria
The Soviet war machine had been stooped by the Americans and the Danish in llmenau, and the chances of a quick conquest of Germany quickly went away, the Soviet high Command had to think quick, they decided to launch a part of the initial Red Raccoon (Phase 2), and launch it before it was planned. Yugoslavia had been preparing forces along the Austrian Border and the Italian and was ready to take the initiative. The Czech weren't fully prepared only being able to launch a small attacks in the North, while Hungary was involved in helping the Yugoslavian´s, that forced the Soviets into diverting forces from the South attack to support the Czech and their attacks in Northern Austria. The initial attack would take place on the 3rd of July but was moved to the 29th. The operation lacked a central command structure as well as preparation for the attack as many Czech forces who engaged did not have their full equipment or were border guards badly armed, another problem was the lack of coordination with the initial Czechoslovakian push and the Soviet reserves, who were the main fighting force of the attack, this proved catastrophic for the Czechs as they lacked well trained and equipped Soviet forces.

On the morning of the 29th Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia officially joined the war along with Romania and Hungary. The Czech pushed the Austrians out of the border without much Soviet Support and decided to take the lead leaving the Soviets behind. Meanwhile the Yugoslavians and their allies didn't have much success as the Italians had created and supported defensive positions on the border in 1987 preparing for a possible Yugoslavian invasion. But soon those defenses would lose their advantages as the Italians would soon retreat forces to their border, and the Greeks stationed their to defend their country leaving the bad suited Austrian Army for itself. On the second day of the push the Czechs pushed so fast and efficiently the Soviets were left 15km behind the Czech lines. On the 3rd day and 1st of July the Austrians decided to launch an attack on Zwettl on the rear of the Czech push to stop them from coming into the Danube, but the Soviets quickly attacked the Austrians who were pushed out of the city easily by Czech forces but without knowing the Soviets kept bombarding the city, until Czech and Soviet forces began fighting on the streets, and fighting stopped when Czech soldiers rose Soviet flags. The incident caused over 250 hundred Czech losses and a 100 Soviet losses both sides quickly blamed the other. The Austrians began a new strategy with most of their small army deployed in the North, they decided to hold the Czechs in the Danube especially in Linz to the West and Melk to the Center. On the 4th day the Czechs arrived in the Danube and heavy fighting erupted in Melk and Linz followed, by the next day the Czech forces had moved and taken positions the other side of the Danube, but by the 4th of July the Austrians began pushing the Czechs out they began to lack ammunition, artillery support, and aerial superiority, but most importantly Soviet support. The Soviets had been for the past two days 10 km behind the Czech lines as they thought the Czechs had it all under control. By the 5th of July the Czechs began getting kicked out of the South of the Danube, and Austrians forces had began to land on the north of the river. The Czech lines got crushed on the 6th and began losing ground quickly, if it weren't for a quick Soviet counterattack on Loja that saved the Czechs from getting destroyed and losing land on the North side of the Danube. Soon the attack was called off on the 7th the day, the same day th Hungarians and the Romanians retreated to support the Yugoslavians down south with most of their forces withdrawing from the Austrian border. The attack had only opened more fighting between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.

Invasion of Italy
Italy was a objective that the Yugoslavians had set for Red Raccon (Phase 2) and that woud be of total responsability to the Yugoslavians and the Hungarians, along with the south of Austria. But with the recent developments in West Germany the Soviet´s had been looking for opportunities, the Yugoslavians decided to the initiative in an attack on Austria and Italy, this sounded good to the Soviet High-Command as they woud only need to support the Czechs in northern Austria, with Yugoslavia and Hungary taking the rest. The Yugoslavian war plan on Italy was a masterpiece that was too good to be true with overconfident commanders and overoptimistic objectives, one of those was to capture Venice in less than 3 day´s. The Soviet High-Command knew this and thought that if the Yugoslavians pushed hard enough and with Soviet advisers the amount of Yugoslavian and allies forces woud break the Italian lines not by mind but by force and quantity. The Yugoslavians being ready on the border since the 21st of June, the attack woud take place on the morning of the 29th the same time the Yugoslavians pushed up north in Austria. Everything was set the Yugoslavian soldiers ready to push to take Italian land to become much powerful than the Austro-Hungarian Empire at it´s peak, what the Yugoslavians did not knew and woudnt have ever imagined in both Austria and Italy, is that the Italians were one step ahead of the Yugoslavians as they had set defensive postions in both the Italian and the Austrian border as a defensive precaution against any Yugoslavian aggression. The Yugoslavian intelligence wasnt able to indentify this target since it´s massive project which began in 1985 and ended in 1987, this woud prove desastrous to the Yugoslavian and allies push in southern Austria and in Italy. The first attack woud be lauch on Cormons west of the Italian stronghold Gorizia and Gradisca a second attack woud be launched against Trieste in a attampt to capture it, after the initial two attacks had acomplished their objectives a strong push against Udine in the north and against Venice in the south. Under the Command of General Branislav his two sons Boris and Branimir woud each take the remaining two attacks with Boris taking care of the north with Branimir taking the south.

At 6:15 AM of the 29th of June the Yugoslavian push was launch one hour before the Austrian push. The push against Cormons was very effective having launched 3 different attacks though the flanks and the main one down the forest in the center. The first wave was pushed without a single sweat, the second and third push only continue filling the battlefield with bodies. By the time the Italians began to give up land was at the next day at a cost of 15,000 Yugoslavian soldiers and just 550 Italian soldiers. By the morning of the 30th Boris had poroven uncapable of penetrating the Italian defenses, Branislav hoping Branimir woudnt face the same results the next day. Branimir attacked Trieste and had sucess at the beggining but the quick reaction of the Italian navy forced Branimir to retreat to a more defensive positions, there Branimir woud stay for the rest of the initial push. Branislav had began having concerns about the Italian defenses, wondering if the defences had been enhanced, to prove if his theory was correct he attacked a small Observation outpost in Bordon in the north of Udine. His biggest concerns werent anymore an assumption it was true, Branislav had two options to continue the carnage or to retreat. He decided to continue attacking with hope that some places werent well defended, Boris kept pushing but found no advances while Branimir tried to hold the ground gained in the fight, with a last idea Boris attacked Gorizia and Gradisca in a search of weak points in the defensive line. By the 5th fighting was pointless Branislav seing how his comrades found the same destiny in Austria, in a last grasp at victory retreated 80% of the Yugoslavian forces in Austria in a last attempt at launching a wide assault on the 9th, soon the just 12% of the initial Yugoslavian and allies forces were still in Austria, Branislav had to break the deadlock and push the Italians out. The heavy fighting in Cormons and Gorizia and Gradisca ended as Boris and his new forces re-grouped for a better attack against Gorizia and Gradisca and Mossa. Another pointless front had just opened and more heavy fighting woud just follow, but what NATO and the world didnt know that it was just the beggining.

NATO strikes back Mecklenburg Offensive.
The Americans and the Danish were ready to push after llmenau River, but hadnt enough force to push the Soviet´s back. On June 29th the 2nd,3rd, and 4th American Infantry divisions along with 25,000 Danish reinforcements arrived in Hamburg, having the Americans landed the 28th. Soon American and Danish forces began setting plans for a push on the 3rd of July, the Germans joined along 10,000 West German forces with 15,000 Volunters were ready to support the attack. General Brandon Stuart and General Alon Albert prepared the plans and they woud carried them around, Commander Kristian Vorbock woud lead the German soldiers and the volunters under the Command of Brandon. The Danish woud take the north side of the attack they woud take and secure Wismar at the Baltic Sea, the Americans woud take Schwerin the Capital of Mecklenburg and Ludwigslut, meanwhile the Germans secured Gartow. The plans were set to begin in July 4th as resources and NATO support had to be given.

On the morning of the 4th the attack was launched, to secure the German flank in Gartow British forces in rosche launched small attacks against the Soviets to force them to move more troops from the north to the south. The Danish faced few resistance on their way to Wismar, meanwhile the Americans suffered many delays due to the large amounts of Soviet restance in front of Schwerin and Ludwigslut the Germans with the British support faced no resitance since the Soviet forces began preparing a posible offensive in the south. The next day a big Soviet shift in their lines moving more troops to the north, NATO took advantage of this and launched attacks along the frontline capturing with almost no effort Wittingen, Sassenburg, Brunswick, Goslar, Erfurt, and many other key cities and towns. The Danish entered Wismar and almost took the downtown of that city along with the Americans in Ludwigslut. On the 6th the Americans were fighting in proper Schwerin along with the Germans in Gartow, Wismar was almost taken. On the 7th Wismar fell and the Danish quickly secured the city and it´s surrondings, with the Germans almost taking Gartow the same day. On the 8th the downtown of Schwerin was secured along with the totality of Gartow. On the 9th the first Soviet Counter-Attack was launched in a desperate attempt in stoping the Americans in Ludwigslut and pushing the Germans out of Gartow, the result ended in massive Soviet losses and with a good Counter-Attack by the 4th Infantry Division at the end of the day secured Ludwigslut. With the Soviets desperatly trying to hold Schwerin decided to launch a massive Counter-Attack on the Americans in Schwerin and the Danish in Wismar on the 10th, the attack was left the Soviet forces so weak the next Schwerin was captured with nearly no American casualties. A defensive line was established on the 11th of July, the offensive was a great defeat in the Soviet high-command, with no other option the media was silenced and was told the Americans lied in Mecklenburg as flowers in Moscow. This was the first of many times the media was silenced and only Soviet newcast´s showing the changed result´s of the situation in Europe. While the Soviet forces in Mecklenburg lied in the thousands hundreds in Moscow celebrated the Soviet victory. The offensive brought back morale that NATO had lost as it´s strategic position declined and declined every day the fighting continued. But this offensive was just a small bubble flowing in a field of needles, just waiting to be pooped. The problem was that anybody neither in Germany or the USA woud have never guessed what it was coming for them, or the efforts they woud need to have the same success as the Soviet´s.

Red Raccoon (Phase 2)
I will continue this topic. Please do not remove it. I removed all of the derivations from the previous article World in Conflict (WW3). Also, I gave it a more creative name.