Moscow, 1941
The German Army Group Center has made significant progress against us.  Their lead elements of are in our suburbs.  Given everything that has happened so far to our forces, I am sure that they are confident that they will be able to take Moscow and win the war.  In some ways, they have ample reason to be.  But this time, I think that it is our turn to turn the tables.  You have several advantages of which you are no doubt well aware:  their forces, while still very strong, are facing a level of attrition that they are not used to.  The difference in our rail guages has hampered their efforts as well.  And our Russian winter is always our greatest ally.

All is in your hands, Zhukov, to spring the trap and sever their lines of communication back to the West.  Do that and also destroy their lead elements, and victory is ours.

If you don't, then your fate, and probably mine as well will be severe.  You know that Stalin is always ready to tell us that we have been negligent and purge us.  It seems so recent that General Pavlov and General Korobkov were with us.

Anyway, good luck to you.  I've released some KV-1s and T-34s for your use.  All are armed with the 76 mm gun you've seen in the BT-7s and which can penetrate 7 centimeters of armor.  But now we have tanks that have much heavier armor.  You'll see how primitive the German tanks look in comparison to ours.  I sending you some of our brave Cossack cavalry as well.  Make judicious use of them.
