German prisoner of war captured during Operation Yaroslavl, Boris Savinkov's invasion of Mitteleuropa, in 1941. POWs like this man would be sent to slave labor camps by the National Populist regime, which dehumanized Germans, Jews, Muslims, and even some fellow Slavs such as Poles and Czechs, who were viewed as traitors to the Master Race.
The dropping of the first nuclear bomb ever on Smolensk, 1945. Despite Russia's advance being turned back in the Miracle on the Vistula in 1942, and despite its disastrous defeat in the Battle of Koenigsberg in 1943, it still held out, and, after 2 grueling years of slow counteroffensive, the forces of Mitteleuropa(even bolstered by a small American Expeditionary force; Syndicalist opposition to the Savinkov regime was after all a key element of the Second Peace With Honor) had only managed to push back to the prewar border. The atomic bombing of Smolensk resulted in a coup against Savinkov by Marshals Wrangel, Zhukov, and Rossokovsky, and the unconditional surrender of the Russian state. However, Savinkov loyalist holdouts in Siberia would only be totally defeated by the forces of the revived Romanovs in 1948.