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Vasilevs basically thought that Stalin would let him explain different combat plans and reasons, and his combat plan was based on the experience of the first Battle of Rostov: between November 17 and December 2 last year, when the Moscow counterattack was gradually reaching its climax, the Red Army launched an attack on Army Group South in the form of flank outflanking, and the spearhead was directed at Rostov, but at that time only the Southern Front and the independent 56th Army were responsible for the offensive task, and the main forces of Army Group South were drawn to attack Moscow. The strength is not strong. In the face of the unfavorable situation of outflanking and cutting off the rear road, Marshal Rundstead, then commander of Army Group South, abandoned Rostov and led his troops to retreat more than 80 kilometers.

However, since Stalin was more interested in the Manstein group in the middle, he did not want to talk too much, so he only glanced at Zhukov with a blank face and began to speak according to the script, but Zhukov did not express any displeasure at this scene that should have been more embarrassing. He was certainly not a person who was insensitive to the point of indifference, in fact he had a tacit understanding with Vasilevsky, and this degree of tacit understanding existed from the beginning, and it became even deeper after he became deputy commander-in-chief. The two should have some conflict in their work, "disagreement" on key decisions and directions - whether this disagreement is real or deliberately feigned, or at least not be consistent on key issues.

This is what two clever men summed up on the basis of the successful experience of the past: if you don't want to completely become a pug and a favorite of the Supreme Leader - like Marshal Voroshilov. It is necessary to insist on one's own personal position and to fully express some distinct points of view that are different from those of Comrade Stalin, and it would be too strange if no one dissented or questioned key decisions. If a high-level person of Zhukov and Vasilevsky is of the same rank, if he often agrees with each other, has close relations, and has high prestige in the army, the threat to the supreme leader will be too great, and the reason why Marshal Tukhachevsky was killed is because his prestige in the army is too high, his henchmen are too numerous, and he has violated Comrade Stalin's taboo by speaking and doing things. What is the benefit of Tukhachevsky, who has become a marshal, to defect to the enemy and betray the country? Do you still want to be the general secretary?

The two men also clearly understood that making a war decision is a very complicated and difficult matter, and that the factors they considered and the situation they analyzed were not necessarily comprehensive and sufficient, and that there must be different opinions for the Supreme Leader to refer to and decide. To prevent the formation of a one-sided voice, the final strategic determination can only be made by the Supreme Leader, which, when there are many options to choose from, whatever Stalin chooses. In the end, if it fails, the board can't be completely hit on the person who put forward the opinion. It is still more important not to hit those who expressed their opposition or doubts in the first place, so that the status and security of other high-level leaders will be preserved -- as for whether or not they usually speak only according to Comrade Stalin's wishes, it depends on their character, and in any case, Zhukov and Vasilevsky have not yet blindly reached the point of unprincipled obedience or accompaniment.

"Since August, Britain and the United States have reduced their support for us under the pretext that the war in North Africa is tense and the fighting on the Eastern Front is stalemate and not too intense, and in the past two months they have only given us 84 planes and 121 tanks. According to the original plan, we were to be given 800 planes and 1,500 tanks. Now Guderian's offensive in North Africa has begun again, and the Americans use this as an excuse to choke out the supply of tanks to us for November. Only intended to give us a batch of howitzers, jeeps and trucks, the British did not have enough tanks themselves and desperately reached out to the Americans, Churchill only agreed to give us 100 planes, and again an outdated Hurricane. In addition to this, the supply of high-grade jet fuel has also been reduced. Jeeps and trucks are also urgently needed, but they are not as important as tanks...... The supply of supplies into the Middle East is increasing substantially, and we have received reliable information that Britain and the United States will have a large landing operation in North Africa in early November, and if they succeed, they will directly flank the German-Italian cluster in North Africa with the British Eighth Army, and strive to make a breakthrough in the North African theater first, which means that the next stage of supply will be further reduced for us. ”

When Vasilevsky finished speaking, the others were indignant, but Stalin and Zhukov remained silent, and at Stalin's signal, he drew out a second report: "According to the reliable reports of the comrades of the secret front, the German production rate has increased rapidly, and this is also confirmed by the internal reports submitted by our working class and sympathetic revolutionary comrades in Germany and Italy. After the fascists fully transferred to the general mobilization system, the factory changed from the original one-shift system to a three-shift system, and the Germans also adopted the method of increasing the military industry in their own country and transferring the civilian industry to the occupied countries for inclined development, and the production rate in Germany in September and October was three times that of the same period in the past, and now Speer has sent a large number of German engineers and technicians to transform, integrate, and upgrade the Italian industry, and if the integration is completed, the production level in Italy will also increase by 3-4 times. After Hitler put forward the idea of the so-called 'European Union' and openly stated that he would make effective use of the industrial resources of various countries, the capitalists, especially the big bourgeoisie, in Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Sweden, and other developed industrial countries eagerly responded to it. Germany also exported a large amount of technology and licensed production, hoping to use the production capacity of various industrial countries to serve its war machine, not to mention the close military industries such as trucks, locomotives, heavy chemicals, and iron and steel. This is a very dangerous signal, although we are still ahead of the fascists in the absolute production of tanks and airplanes, the gap has been greatly narrowed, and the gap between us and the fascist army in the quality of equipment has not improved, and if Italy's industrial capacity also rises, this gap will be smoothed out by next year, which is extremely intolerable. ”

"Where did the Germans get so much money to buy arms?"

"They only need to pay a small amount of cash." People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov knew more about the situation, "Three days ago, the Germans got hundreds of thousands of tons of French warships from Petain, a traitor, on the condition of releasing prisoners of war and returning Paris and part of French land, and it is reported that there are also some economic demands, Holland and Belgium have prisoners of war in the hands of the Germans, and Hitler can use this part of the hostages in exchange for what he wants, and in addition, when attacking and occupying countries, they plundered a lot of resources, cash and precious metals, which can now be used to pay." The capitalists were the least ashamed, as long as they could make money and cooperate with the devil, and they would never refuse an olive branch thrown by the Germans - as long as Hitler pretended to be a little hypocritical, they were grateful like slaves. ”

"Détente has also recently been pursued in the territories directly occupied by the fascists, such as the mass murder of Jews in some concentration camps in Poland, which has now been replaced by forced labor." Moderate' means, a large number of enterprises, including Skoda and so on, are serving the occupation forces, our original T-34 factory in Kharkov has also been dismantled there for recovery production, at present, many T-34s in the North African battlefield are reused by the Germans after destroying our tanks, repairing and assembling the parts produced by the factory, the Czech underground resistance group told us that the factory is working around the clock, and it can repair at least 300 tanks a month, and it may be possible to directly produce complete vehicles next year. According to the battlefield report of the American military liaison, the T-34 modified with German technology is even better than the one we came out of the original factory, such as the installation of radio stations, improved driving and suspension systems, and the British and American tanks could not parry the North African battlefield......"

Although this passage sounds like a praise for the T-34, everyone's faces are hot - no wonder Britain and the United States are unwilling to vigorously aid the Red Army tanks, and those tanks that should have been sent to the Red Army have been killed by the T-34. If Hoffman hears these words, he will gasp, but facts have proved that the intelligence penetration of the Soviets is still relatively effective, and the situation observed and analyzed is quite accurate, except for a group of high-level military spies who were cleared out by him, the understanding of Soviet intelligence personnel in other secondary fields, especially in the field of industrial and agricultural production, is unmatched.

Timoshenko interjected: "Can it be bombed or destroyed?" ”

"It's hard. The Germans strengthened their air defenses, the strategic bombing of Britain and the United States was greatly weakened, and as for the destruction, our forces in the German mainland were very weak and unsuitable for such a task, and the defense of the occupied areas was very tight, and the Italian, Romanian, and Hungarian troops who had retreated from the Eastern Front looked at the rear to death, and their ferocity and cunning were even more ferocious and cunning than those of the Germans, and rash mobilization would cause irreparable losses to the underground forces. ”

"In addition......" Vasilevsky suddenly lowered his voice and said in a mournful tone, "the fascists are liquidating and measuring the land in the occupied areas of Ukraine, the Baltics, and Belarus that they occupy, and are determined to complete all the land distribution before spring sowing, and at the same time, all the public properties such as state-owned factories, infrastructure, buildings, and real estate they occupy are trying to sell them to domestic and foreign capitalists at auction prices to raise funds, and the urban poor and former workers will get part of the shares, This is a great harm to the state and socialism, and if we fail to stop it in a timely and effective manner, the future will be unthinkable, because it may cause antagonism between the party and the people, and between the people of the minority and the people of the Russian ethnic ......" (To be continued. )