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  💢💢💢 This is your reminder that we are now 203 days into the Trump cover-up of his being in the Epstein files. 💢💢💢 To the seven brave souls still reading this blog—thank you. You already know I’m a PC gaming devotee, and not just for the pixelated explosions. Like a good book or film, games can be portals into history, ideology, and the uncomfortable truths we’d rather not face. While the sticks-in-the-mud who are the Baby Boomers find this a shocking idea, Gen X and beyond know this to be true; hence, it is often video game franchises that command the type of fanatical devotion that popular movies once did (whither thou goest, Hollywood?).  As I watch this once great nation slip into authoritarianism, it is no surprise that I have been playing a great deal of my two favorite Cold War gone hot wargames, WARNO and Regiments .  As a child of the Cold War, I've always been interested in this period of history, one that I suspect, due to the lack of a major East versu...

  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...