30 miles from LeHavre, France

July 3rd, 1946
30 miles from LeHavre, France
HQ of the Northern Group of Forces
11:23 hours

Well Fillipi old Bagragramyan did his job as he was told and we now have Denmark to present to Stalin. It was very fortunate that it happened without complications...now how can he complain? What was done with few casualties, in a few days and it shuts the door on the toy boats of the British and American fleets. A new country joins the Soviet Republics in a matter of a week.

Well Marshal you have not received a command to report to Moscow so all must be well.

Yes it seems we have dodged a possible bullet. Stalin probably is thinking like I am that this was a major failure of Soviet air forces and that arrogant con man Novikov. If I had not been blind I would have avoided the whole affair. How can you not know that there is a massive fleet just off the coast. It was a ridiculous display of ineptitude.

Get that clown on the phone and find out what he is going to do about those boats so we can finish this phase of the operation and get those troops out of Paris. Paris and Soviet discipline do not go together well.