Strategic bombing can be called strategic because the targets it attacks may have an impact on national strategy. This may be because the actual situation is different in each country, and even if the same target is bombed, the consequences will be different.

For example, bombing of civilian targets, a tactic that Germany and Britain tried in the early days of the war, but it proved that it did not bring the enemy's lower population to its knees, but instead transformed the fear of death and destruction into national cohesion and bitter hatred for the terrorists, driven by government public opinion.

Xu Jun believes that this tactic is also not suitable for use in the Soviet Union, and that any bombing of Soviet civilians is tantamount to helping Moscow to make propaganda in disguise, so that ordinary people will become the same enemy and rally closely around the Iron Father.

Historically, the United States launched an incendiary offensive against Tokyo, burning almost a quarter of the Tokyo metropolitan area, and the U.S. military deliberately avoided the Imperial Palace and government agencies in order to let these people in power witness the terrifying destructive power. But the hellish spectacle did not frighten the politicians and warlords, and the voice of the people was simply weak and pitiful in the face of the powerful state apparatus, but led to a resurgence of nationalist sentiment throughout the country, and civil society groups began to spontaneously hunt down those who parachuted out of the US bombing crews.

If the US military continued to insist on overthrowing Japan's emperor system, then the 200 million jade fragments would no longer be a slogan to fool the civilians, but would have become a fact created by a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

The first thing to cross out in the list of strategic bombing targets for the German army was residential areas, whether they were Moscow or Leningrad, and the destruction of buildings inside the cities was to be carried out by the army and the attached air forces.

And the industrial production system of the Soviet Union, from raw material mining to smelting and processing, from transportation to energy systems, all those industrial and mining enterprises that are directly or indirectly transformed into real combat effectiveness will be the hunting targets of the German strategic bomber group.

So the importance of intelligence gathering was once again in front of the Reich Head, who needed detailed information on these strategic objectives. If you don't even know what the target is and where it is, then what kind of strategic bombing campaign is there to talk about.

Germany's intelligence collection work has always been the shortcomings of the Wehrmacht, Xu Jun has a considerable understanding of this, and cannot all put the blame on the ability of German intelligence officers, of course, some of them are indeed stupid to a certain level, but considering their real opponents, whether it is the FBI or MI6, GRU or KGB, any of these agencies are more professional than the German General Security Service.

Needless to say, the British Military Intelligence Agency has a small German pistol in his hand, and he is brave and invincible James Bon, don't think that the movie is all made up, the fact is actually even more exaggerated than the movie. Very few of the spies sent by Germany to Britain lasted more than three weeks, except for problems with basic training, the most important thing is that Britain has a bunch of unwritten customs and habits, and if you don't live there for ten or eight years, you can't understand it at all, and as a result, German spies are often full of loopholes in these issues that are regarded as common sense by the British, and they add a bunch of jokes to the other side.

The problem was actually the same on the part of the Soviet Union, which had been established for more than 20 years, and many customs and habits in the country were completely different from those of the Tsarist era. Just a way of addressing each other, it is divided into superiors to subordinates, subordinates to superiors, seniority differences between each other, no seniority differences, within the department, between different departments, etc., this set of rules in the eyes of outsiders can not distinguish the difference at all, but the staff within the system is clearly distinguished. So if it were a German spy who didn't know much about it, maybe two or three greetings might be revealed.

And after the domestic purges in the Soviet Union expanded again, the eyes of the whole society widened, and everyone seemed to be on high alert, ready to detect hidden traitors and foreign spies around them. In such an environment, the kind of German intelligence officers trained in the past could not have any chance of survival.

Today, the identities of the intelligence officers officially dispatched by Germany to the Soviet Union are semi-public because of the Soviet-German non-aggression pact. Soviet spies lived in much better conditions, often holding third-country citizenship, making it difficult for the German Security Service to identify them for a short time.

The Imperial Intelligence Agency, also known as the "Eye of Odin", did not come up with many countermeasures to the special environment of the Soviet Union, the first of which was to hire spies of Russian origin as much as possible, preferably those who had lived in Russia for a period of time.

To say that the exiled White Russians should be the best choice, but in fact the White Russian ethnic groups were the most heavily infiltrated by the Soviet intelligence services, regardless of religious differences, these people are still Great Russians at heart.

Of course, Belarus is not completely untrustworthy, and many of them still harbor hostility and hatred towards the Soviet Union. However, there is no need for those who are extremely anti-Soviet among these people, because hatred has already filled their minds, and the task of spies is to gather intelligence, and calm and sober thinking is particularly important.

In addition to the descendants of the White Russians, another major source of recruitment for the "Eye of Odin" is the exiles who fled from the Soviet Union to Europe, many of whom were once in the Soviet system and are familiar with the operation of the entire system.

The Eye of Odin also recruited a group of intelligence agents from the Soviet and Russian immigrants in Germany, who had the highest personal qualities of any Russian employee, most of whom were highly educated, and some even had university degrees. Many of these Russian diasporas grew up in Germany and are almost indistinguishable from Germans other than fluent Russian.

The purpose of joining the intelligence organization varied, ranging from a desire to prove their abilities, to a purely ideological issue, to an expression of loyalty to the Empire.

After intensive training by the General Security Service, the outstanding members of them had been sent to various parts of the Baltic coast, which had just been annexed by the Soviet Union, and the locals still retained their original habits and household registration information, so as long as there were no problems with the local personnel in charge of receiving them, these people could easily obtain Soviet legal status.

At the same time, the Eye of Odin also recruited a group of Polish spies, after the "Polish government-in-exile" was united by Britain, France and Germany, the call for resistance in Poland also disappeared, the Poles were not unable to accept foreign rule, don't forget that before the Treaty of Versailles was re-established, Poland had actually perished for one hundred and twenty-three years, of course, the Poles have really jumped a few times in more than a century, but as long as the ruler is strong enough, life can go on, Ordinary Poles do not die with the elites.

Moreover, the Poles hated the Russians more than the Germans, and Poland and Russia were mortal enemies, and the feud between the two peoples had been going on for centuries.

By this time, history had changed, and most of the Polish elite in the German-occupied zone survived thanks to the intervention of a certain deputy Führer.

Among them, the hard-standing anti-German experts, scholars and officers were not persecuted by the SS, and the Germans simply handed them over to the Soviet side.

As far as Xu Jun knows, the massacre in the Ardennes Forest still happened as in history, but this time Germany used diplomatic channels to exchange some Polish officers. The Soviets, out of consideration for the relations between the two countries, did not deliberately obstruct it, but only triggered a purge of the regulatory system after the fact, and Beria could not figure out where the Germans had gotten such a detailed list.

In addition to Polish officers, Odin's Eye has recently recruited a group of Soviet Red Army officers, to be precise, former Red Army officers, current traitors, foreign spies, and enemies of the Soviet state.

Some of the unlucky ones had been put on a purge list for various reasons, and just before the arrest warrant was issued, they all received a mysterious letter. The person who received the notification had been screened before, and first of all, it could not be a slow and unresponsive fool, so when the arresting officers in the uniform of the Ministry of Internal Affairs arrived at the target's residence, they found that the target had disappeared along with the entire family. What was incomprehensible to the officers of the Insider's Commissariat was that these people, as if they had evaporated from the air, could not find any trace of their activities on the territory of the USSR.

In fact, these people had indeed left the borders of the Soviet Union, and when they reappeared, they were in a small German town thousands of miles away, and the whole family had changed their identities seamlessly.

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