Chapter Eighty-Seven: His Hero
Stalin should have been aware of Germany's role in it, but he had no conclusive evidence to accuse him of such a despicable anti-Soviet conspiracy.
The sudden disappearance of Trotsky in Mexico was no small matter, and the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs did not hesitate to activate all the internal lines lurking in the Americas, and as a result, the old Bolshevik disappeared from the land of America without a trace. This is clearly not a task that an underground organization can accomplish, and experts from the Ministry of Internal Affairs believe that there must be a state force operating behind it.
Just when the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs thought that Trotsky would never appear again, an intelligence agent sent to France discovered the traces of the revolutionary mentor in Marseille, France.
An informant disguised as a Spanish businessman, at an ordinary commercial tea party, saw a photograph taken in the port of Marseille, and the figure of an old man in the background of the photograph immediately caught his attention, the face he often saw in the newspapers, the broad forehead, and the gray but still stubborn beard, the informant recognized at a glance that the old man in the photograph was Trotsky.
The agent asked his owner when the photo was taken, and was told that it was two months ago, exactly a week after the revolutionary's disappearance in Mexico.
So the news of Trotsky's presence in France was immediately reported to Moscow, and at the same time the agents of the Ministry of Internal Affairs spent a lot of money to obtain photographs and negatives from the businessman, and finally put the picture in front of Stalin. Stalin recognized this sworn enemy at a glance, and he would not forget this face when it turned to ashes, and after a technical appraisal to confirm that the photo was not a forgery, the great loving father suffered insomnia for a month.
Trotsky's return to Europe was not something he could have done on his own, there must have been someone behind him, it could not have been France after the defeat, so there was only one suspect. Stalin was willing to bet that it must have been the Germans who were behind the tricks, they had a long history in this regard, and if it were not for their support for Lenin behind the scenes, the October Revolution would not have been possible at all.
It is clear that the Germans are ready to repeat this old trick and use Trotsky to overthrow Stalin's rule, and Stalin ostensibly scoffs at this, claiming that the Germans have miscalculated, that his iron comrade is not the dim-witted Tsar, and that Trotsky is not the Vladimir of the past. Lenin.
But then the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Soviet Union was fully mobilized by Comrade Steel, and began to strengthen the screening of the remnants of Trotsky in the country, no matter what kind of identity and position this person had, as long as it was found that he might be related to Trotsky, or complained about the great father, he would be immediately arrested, and once he was proven guilty after interrogation, the whole family was sent to the Gulag to quarry and log.
To Stalin's dismay, the activities of Trotsky's remnants seemed to have intensified, despite the fact that the Ministry of Internal Affairs had purged a large number of traitors and traitors. For almost a month, new articles written by Trotsky, as well as internal documents relating to the Fourth International, were seized throughout the Soviet Union, and a large number of anti-Stalin leaflets appeared in the three Baltic states and in the Ukrainian regions.
This proved that there was a large Trotskyist gang operating in the Soviet Union, and that the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs was unaware of it, which could well be regarded as a serious dereliction of duty, and Beria could feel the pressure of his loving father, which led to him hiding from meeting Stalin for several weeks.
He knew that there was a limit to Stalin's patience, as mentioned earlier, this comrade of steel never trusted anyone, and that Beria's trust was all based on his past merits, and once Stalin had doubts about his ability, he believed that his fate would not be half a point better than that of his predecessor Yezhov.
This time, Melkulov was sent to Germany to rebuild the Soviet intelligence network in Germany, and in addition to spying on Germany's classified intelligence, the Ministry of the Interior also wanted to find out Trotsky's gang from the Germans. As a result, from the moment the Soviet delegation set foot on German territory, it fell into the trap carefully set by the Germans.
Beria would never have dreamed that the mastermind behind this series of conspiracies was not the German intelligence agencies he believed, but the German Führer, who was enjoying the sun in the Greek courtyard.
The message Xu Jun conveyed this time was very clear, that is, the Soviet government had an internal line from Germany, which not only mastered the military secrets of the Soviet Union, but even got the actual equipment into his hands.
Xu Jun can imagine Stalin's reaction after learning the news, this iron leader who has never been compatible with benevolence, will definitely set off a tragic bloody storm, I don't know how many people will be thrown into prison, and even fall to the ground because of this incident.
Xu Jun is no longer the innocent student with a sense of justice half a year ago, he has witnessed too much evil and injustice during this time, and if he wants to survive in the midst of a group of meat eaters, he must put himself at the top of the food chain. He has lost count of the number of execution orders he has signed, including many historical figures whose names have been left in the history books. He had inherited the position of the German Führer, and he had to shoulder the responsibility of defending the country.
His hero, my enemy, Xu Jun has a new understanding of this sentence, because he is the best specimen. The heroes of the Great Patriotic War that he saw in books and on TV since childhood, Zhukov, Chuikov, Vasilevsky, Vatutin, Konev, Rokossovsky, all familiar names, have all become his mortal enemies at this moment.
War between the Soviet Union and Germany was inevitable, and Stalin's desire was insatiable, and he had always eyed prosperous Europe. The Soviet Union wanted Germany to agree to bring the Balkans under the control of the Soviet Union, but Xu Jun had clearly rejected this request, and although the Balkan group was very scummy and bad, they were the best barrier to protect Germany's flank. Moreover, the Balkan countries had all fallen to Germany, and Germany promised to provide them with armed protection, so how could it be possible to betray them to the Soviet Union again.
Stalin is not the kind of person who easily changes his determination, as long as he likes something, no matter how much it costs, he must find a way to get it, Germany has become the biggest obstacle to the westward advance of the Soviet Union, with Stalin's character, he will definitely fight with Germany and decide the hegemony of the European continent from then on.
It is foreseeable that when the Soviet-German war broke out, these Soviet heroes would lead the powerful Red Army to wage a tragic battle against the German Wehrmacht, and they would use the lives of countless German soldiers to establish their immortal feats.
Xu Jun certainly won't let the tragic history happen again, and if he doesn't want to swallow a gun on the couch in the basement of the Prime Minister's Palace, then he must win this battle.
The problem is that on the other side is the famous thug maniac, with 40 million reserve soldiers, planes like clouds, tanks like a sea, and in the face of the almost endless Soviet Red Army, relying on Germany's current strength, it really makes people not have much confidence.
Even if Germany succeeds in integrating the industrial production of European countries, it will take at least half a year to really burst out the productive forces, and I wonder if Moscow will give him that time.
So Xu Jun relied on his memory to successfully cut off part of the Soviet Union's intelligence in Europe, and at the same time began to carry out large-scale intelligence deception against the Soviet Union.
In order to weaken the Soviet Union as much as possible, he can do whatever it takes, in order not to repeat Hitler's mistakes, even if the Soviet Union is bleeding in the country, Xu Jun will not have the slightest sense of guilt.
As he told Werle, the game has just begun, and the real killer moves are yet to come, and when the "Stuffy Bear" project enters the second phase, the back-up players who have been prepared before will burst out.
The German Führer had already taken his first steps on the chessboard, and he was going to unleash a bloody catastrophe in the enemy's lair before the outbreak of war.
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