[Pooch]

Three targets were hit that day. Moscow, Stalingrad and Kiev. It it still not known what the death toll was from these attacks, made by high flying B-29s launced from Japan. The destruction of all three cities was complete.
In the field, word of the attacks filtered back to Russias fighting forces. Shock, disbelief and grief was experienced by every man and woman.
In some areas, officers rallied their men and told them that the Americans would pay. In others , the shock was too overwhelming.
Where they rallied, the Russians launched violent, suicidal offensives which destroyed entire divisions. They believed they had no homeland to return to, and that it would be better to die in battle than to return to the wasteland that had been their home, and families. One of them was General Zhukov, who died leading a tank assault that was wiped out by American jet fighter bombers.
Other units surrendered by the thousands, believing that there was no point in continuing to fight for a country and government that no longer existed.
Less than a week after the Atomic attacks, The Soviet Union ceased to be a military force.
A long ,bloody World War was over.