As early as the end of 1943, the Bulgarian government, which had come to power in a coup d'état, seized several shipments of supplies in Bulgaria and imprisoned those who were carrying them. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Among these materials, there are iron ore, rare earths, and some fuels such as oil and coal.

Originally, the supplies would have been handed over to the Germans, but because Bulgaria had switched to the Soviet camp, all the supplies that had been sent to Germany were seized by the new Bulgarian government, and most of the supplies came from Bulgaria's neighbor, the Soviet/Russian feud, Turkey.

Turkey played an awkward role in World War II, providing Germany with munitions and industrial raw materials, while maintaining a neutral stance, allowing their cargo ships and supplies to reach the German-occupied territories unhindered without being attacked by any of the belligerents.

Germany is a country lacking in resources, but it urgently needs a large amount of mineral resources to meet the needs of military production during the war. Under such circumstances, a country at the crossroads of Eurasia saw this business opportunity and exported materials such as ore, munitions and fuel to Germany to meet its needs for these resources.

In return, Germany not only paid a considerable amount of money to Turkey, but also provided Turkey with advanced armaments such as FW190 fighters and BF109 fighters, which greatly improved Turkey's military strength.

However, despite the advanced armaments and generous returns, Turkey did not join the Axis camp at all throughout World War II, and later, they announced that they would join the Allied camp to fight against the German fascist forces.

After announcing its accession to the Central Powers, Turkey did not provide much help to the Central Powers, and they did not send a single soldier, but only made diplomatic gestures to help the Allies. This pointless gesture would not compensate for their previous contribution of resources to the Axis powers.

The resources provided by Turkey to Germany can be used to produce a large number of tanks and weapons, and the fuel they provide can also provide the needs of the army, which provides the impetus for their blitzkrieg and tank warfare, and makes a great help to Germany's military production and military supply.

But for the Allies, Turkey's entry was largely of little consequence, not only did they not send a single soldier, but they did not have to pay any price for their help to the Axis camp. After the war, Turkey also joined the capitalist camp, led by the United States, against the Soviet Union.

From the point of view of the Soviet Union, Turkey's behavior of both helping the Axis powers and joining the American camp against the Soviet Union was clearly not in the interests of the Soviet side, this country controlled the lifeblood of the Black Sea, and had never done anything beneficial to the Soviet Union, which was simply a scourge for the Soviet Union, at least from the 21st century, Manturov did not know what good things Turkey had done to the Soviet Union since its founding, and a lot of bad things.

As a traverser, Manturov of course knew Turkey's "future" attitude and actions towards the Soviet Union, so he planned to take the opportunity of World War II to launch a war against Turkey under the pretext of Turkey's assistance to Germany, to seize control of the straits from Turkey, to open up the Black Sea access lane, and to allow the Soviet fleet to enter and exit the Black Sea freely.

However, the current situation of the Soviet Union was not suitable for war against such a neutral country as Turkey.

Now, the vast majority of the Soviet forces are deployed on the Western Front, against the remnants of the German army. The Soviets had taken control of Poland, Slovakia, and Hungary from Germany, and had occupied Prussia, Posen, and Silesia in Germany, advancing to the Oder River, only 70 kilometers from the German capital, Berlin.

The German army mobilized a large number of manpower and formed a militia force of hundreds of thousands to take on the task of defending the capital. The main force of the German regular army deployed a defensive line along the Oder River to prevent the Soviet army from attacking Berlin.

At the same time, the real main force of the Soviet army also entered Austria and the Czech territory from Slovakia and Hungary, and since the main German army was in the vicinity of Berlin, the Austrian defense was relatively empty, with only one army group (only 40,000 men) under its command.

As a result, the six full-fledged armies of the Soviet and Bulgarian armies successfully besieged the German army in the city of Vienna, and under repeated onslaughts, the entire German army group was wiped out and the Austrian capital Vienna was occupied.

On the other hand, the main force of the Soviet army gathered millions of troops, entered the Czech territory from Slovakia, and quickly liberated Ostrava, Brno, Prague and other cities with the help of Czechoslovak partisans, and advanced westward with the Soviet army in Austria, aiming directly at the Bavarian region of Germany.

Originally, Stalin, Zhukov and others believed that the Soviet army should attack Berlin, the capital of Germany, with all its might, in order to occupy the capital of Nazi Germany as soon as possible and eliminate the Nazi German regime.

But Manturov raised objections in the High Command, arguing that Berlin was of little practical value to the Soviet Union, since Berlin itself was of low strategic value and economic value.

After all, Germany's most important military industrial enterprises are not in the Berlin area, but in the Ruhr area in western Germany, as well as Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg in southern Germany.

To this end, Manturov proposed a strategic plan of "first south and then north", suggesting that the Soviet army first take the Czech Republic and Austria, and then advance westward from the Czech Republic and Austria to occupy the German Bavaria region and the Baden-Württemberg region.

When Germany loses Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg, their most important military production bases in the country will fall into the hands of the Soviet army, and famous military enterprises such as Mauser, Messerschmidt, Mercedes-Benz, BMW, and Porsche will become the pocket of the Soviet Red Army.

At that time, the Soviet army will not only be able to obtain the most advanced German military technology from these enterprises, but will also be able to obtain the latest equipment of the German army from the factories. After that, the Soviet army could move north from southern Germany, occupy a wide area in central and western Germany, outflank the rear of Berlin, and flank the main German army in Berlin with the Soviet army along the Oder River, and destroy Nazi Germany.

Stalin and Zhukov were so appreciative of Manturov's suggestion that they finally adopted his strategy of "first south and then north". However, this plan required a large number of troops, because the Soviet army not only had to invest more than 2 million troops to attack the Czech Republic, Austria and southern Germany, but also needed to deploy 2 million troops around Berlin to contain the main German army in Berlin and prevent these Germans from going south to bring any trouble to the main force of the Soviet army in the south.

As a result, the Soviet army basically pressed most of the troops and logistics resources of the Western Front near Germany, resulting in the Soviet Union not having enough logistics resources to support Manturov's plan to attack Turkey for the time being.

Of course, judging from the current strength of the Soviet army, it is not impossible to flatten Turkey while attacking Germany, and the Soviet army has so many troops that it is enough to draw hundreds of thousands of them at will. As for the logistics of these hundreds of thousands of people, it itself will not cause too much burden on the Soviet Union, and the main reason why the Soviet Union does not fight Turkey is actually because of the opposition of the Politburo.