“Oberstleutnant von Fersen. This is Major Belyaev of GRU Department 13. You are playing version 1.15.1. But we have already patched to 1.15.2.”

He saves the file. Closes the laptop. And never speaks of it again.

“— Fixed issue where German nuclear raid events could trigger before Soviet ‘RDS-1’ national focus completion.”

“Intel says two battalions of NKVD,” whispered his radioman, Klaus.

And Germany was about to lose the war. Desperation was the mother of invention.