Happy New Year to you all.
It just so happens that the youngest member of our household got a new play table for Christmas – a layout of a small town with block buildings, railtrack and so forth.
The tranquility hides thr true nature of this heavily contested area of never-never land which locals call Kleiner Spielstadt. And in the hours before dawn on a surprisingly moonlit night in late December, rapidly moving forces from Eastern Panto tried to take control of the town.
Helicopter landing troops siezed the railway bridge …
And tanks arrived in support …
The response was instant, and Frap Pershings rolled out of the cover of the viaduct …
(an elevated setion of railway had concealed waiting enemy tanks from aerial reconnaissance)
They were immediately engaged by Soviet military advisors …
But the Western backed Frap detachment pressed home their counter-attack …
And a sharp exchange of fire drove the invaders out of the town centre …
Rather than take heavy losses, the T55s gave ground and, with daylight approaching, the mission was aborted.
The attempt to snatch Kleiner Spielstadt before the children got up had failed. The forces withdrew and peace settled over little play town almost as if nothing at all had happened.
P.B.Eye-Candy 