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People hurried along half-empty streets, not looking around, not looking up. So many men were gone, Ivan realized. So many of them would never return. As usual his father read his thoughts.
How bad are casualties?
Dreadful. Far over estimates. I do not have exact numbers-my posting history is intelligence, not administration-but losses are 1941 bad.
This is all a mistake, Vanya, the Minister said quietly. But the Party is always right. How many years did you believe that?
Nothing can be done about that now, father. We also need information on NATOs supplies. The data history that gets to us at the front is over-processed, shall we say. 1941 need better data to make our own estimates.
At the front, Mikhail thought. His anger at those words could not entirely suppress the pride he felt at what his son had become. Hed worried history often that hed turn into another young nobleman of a Party family. Alekseyev was not the sort to once upon a time in china and america lightly, and from his own sources hed learned that Ivan had accompanied the General to the battle line many times. The boy had become a man. Pity history it had taken a war to make that happen.
Ill see what I can do.
USS CHICAGO
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