Catalan Occupation Zone

Moscow's patience with our systematic stonewalling of their efforts to increase their control over our government have now come to a head. The Soviets have unilaterally established an occupation zone in Catalonia, Valencia, and parts of Aragon, with a nominally independent government that appears to have virtually no actual power. Loyalist communist forces have flocked to this new zone, vowing their support to the pro-Moscow "government". The message is clear: obey the instructions from Moscow or further punitive action is to be expected. Though it is unlikely they will be able to much expand their influence before our plans come to fruition, it will no doubt prove challenging to dislodge this Soviet hold of our lands.