Regiments: The Evacuation of Bischofroda
Chapter 56 Ivan Feels the Heat By late summer, it was clear to the Soviet high command that the war was not going well. Despite endless propaganda articles in Eastern Bloc periodicals, as well as select Western outlets sympathetic to the Soviet invasion of West Germany, it was clear to serious analysts that the Pact armies were beginning to lose the initiative. This was made abundantly clear when Soviet forces began a surreptitious evacuation of occupied Bishofroda. "We were told that our forces' success on the battlefield required...how did they put it? Oh yeah. That it 'necessitated a redeployment of forces from Bischofroda to other areas to cement our great communist victory,'" remarked Sławomir Milko with a sardonic smirk on his face. A former colonel in the armed forces of Poland, Milko has been an outspoken critic of the USSR's ill-fated attack in the post-war years. "So, with victory all but certain, my men were given the job of defending the