Family history of Feldwebel Nikolai Sovok

[Sturmwind]

The heavy air and missile defense system supplied by the Alliance covering the city could neutralize most ballistic missiles and attack bombers the Coalition was about to send in, so the battle was mostly fought on the ground. Even so, the opposing force was in a chief numerical superiority, as well as being able to deploy paratroopers by fast-moving troop carrier spaceships. Due to the poor focus on establishing separate divisions, the Coalition's VDV elite paratroopers could capture the Alliance command center, which was a radio building located in the city's dead center. The Alliance units were split up, lost communications and started to perish by the bombardment conducted by the Coalition's 34th and 56th Armored Divisions.

Sasha Kuznetsov and two units of other infantrymen were assigned to guard the Alcala gate, one of the most famous landmarks of the city. The lost communications with the high command and the lack of support and coordination led them to be surrounded by two battalions of Coalition forces, who overestimated the defense of the landmark and the junction around it. The firefight fought to hold the area lasted for a few mere minutes. As Captain Rodriguez, the leader of the unit was killed by a grenade, the remaining Alliance soldiers lay down their weapons and surrendered.

Madrid, as well as all the other Spanish cities, fell by the end of the week. Sasha Kuznetsov was taken prisoner, but they didn't withdraw him from Spain for weeks. Rumor had it that the Coalition was trying to enlighten the Spanish captives regarding the teachings of communism, thus creating loyal soldiers defending their country under another flag. Sasha on the other hand, didn't receive any persuasion of that orientation yet. He was locked into the storage of a plastic factory, along with hundreds of his comrades, who seemed to mind his Russian origins more and more as days passed. He was eventually beaten up heavily by his own brothers in arms, but the Coalitionist guardsmen rescued him from death by getting him out of the storage and withdrawing him to an abandoned detached house nearby.