After many attempts, Manturov could not convince Stalin that the Germans would attack the Soviet Union in June 1941. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 In order to protect himself and not to anger the Iron Leader, Manturov later gave up his attempts to persuade Stalin and waited for the war to come.

If Manturov had chosen to argue with Stalin, not only would he not have been able to keep his position, but Stalin would not have believed that the Germans would invade in the summer of 1941. Even if he had persuaded Stalin, nothing could have been done in this short period of one month.

Subsequently, Stalin and the Soviet Union received a large amount of information that confirmed Manturov's prediction, but unfortunately, both Stalin and those who handled the relevant information believed that this information was only forged by the enemy in order to test the Soviet Union.

This information is not a small amount, and the sources are also extensive and reliable.

For example, at the end of May 1941, two Austrian Communists, risking their lives, reported through the Comintern that "German troops had been massed on the Soviet-German border and that the situation was very dangerous."

On June 18, 1941, the comrades of the underground party of the Communist Party of China obtained a very important piece of information from Hong Kong -- "Hitler's Germany will launch an attack on the Soviet Union in the early morning of June 22." This information, which accurately stated the specific time of the German invasion, was transmitted to the Central Committee of the CPSU through the future Premier Zhou.

However, Stalin still did not believe in this accurate information, which his comrades had obtained at the risk of their lives.

As a matter of fact, as early as February-March 1941, the Soviet intelligence service had obtained information through the military attache in Germany that the German army would attack the Soviet Union in May and June, but the then intelligence minister, General Ф-n-Golikov, erroneously denied the value of this information and wrote in his report to Stalin that it was nothing more than false information spread by British and perhaps even German intelligence services.

The navy, on the other hand, also received a considerable amount of valuable information about the German invasion of the Soviet Union.

For example, on May 6, 1941, Admiral H-G-Kuznetsov, People's Commissar of the Navy, provided Stalin with a report that read: "Report of the Navy Attache in Berlin, Colonel Vorontsov: ...... According to a German officer in Hitler's command, German troops were preparing to attack the Soviet Union from Finland, the Baltic coast and Romania on May 14.

At the same time, heavy air strikes will be inflicted on Moscow and Leningrad, and paratroopers will be sent to carry out airborne ...... in border cities"

The information in this document not only lists the time of the deployment of the German army, but also points out the direction of the main attack of the German army. Unfortunately, Admiral Kuznetsov did not agree with the facts he had enumerated, and he wrote in his report: "I consider this situation to be untrue and was designed to test the reaction of the Soviet Union to it." ”

It can be seen from this that the reports of Golikov and Kuznetsov gave Stalin a wrong understanding.

Soon after, the Soviets received a flood of false information that Germany would not attack the Soviet Union, which made Stalin even more convinced that the Germans would not attack the Soviet Union in the summer of 1941.

Although Stalin did not believe in the information that the German army would attack the Soviet Union on June 22, 1941, he always believed that sooner or later Germany would tear up the non-aggression pact and march eastward to become an enemy of the Soviet Union.

So, during this time, Stalin was actively developing the military, defense industry, heavy industry, and all related industries. Deputy Prime Minister Manturov, who is in charge of heavy industry and defense industry, also went above and beyond to fulfill the tasks assigned to him by the steel leaders.

For example, before the start of the war, Manturov established several aircraft production centers in the Urals, Siberia, Central Asia, the Caucasus, and even on the east bank of the Volga River, and expanded the original Novosibirsk and Tbilisi aircraft factories to greatly increase aircraft production.

Before June 1941, these aircraft factories produced more than 2,000 new aircraft, including the Yak-3, La-7 and Pei-2, of which eighty percent were deployed in the western region.

Both in our history and in Manturov's world, the pilots quickly became accustomed to flying the new aircraft, gained practical experience from rigorous training, and were able to exert their due results in combat, thanks to the vigorous efforts of the Soviet Air Force's leadership to train pilots to master the new aircraft.

However, while grasping the training of new aircraft, the leadership of the Air Force has slightly relaxed the combat readiness of discontinued aircraft (such as the I-15, I-16, and SB bombers). Historically, due to the shortage of new aircraft, the Soviet Air Force, which mainly used old aircraft, was not only inferior in terms of equipment, but also did not do a good job in the training of pilots, and as a result, it suffered a devastating blow in the early stage of the war.

But fortunately, Manturov sent a lot of new planes to the front, and the performance and combat capability of these aircraft were much better than those of German aircraft in the same period, and the pilots of the Soviet Air Force also received a large number of them, and the combat capability of the Air Force was greatly improved for the training of these aircraft.

On the army side, with the establishment of production lines in Novosibirsk, Urals, and Stalingrad, various tank factories produced hundreds of T-34-85 tanks within four months, but due to the obstruction of Deputy People's Commissar of Defense Kulik, many subsequent T-34 tank main guns were replaced with 76 mm caliber guns.

In addition to this, the production of radio stations has increased significantly, and the number of stations in the Western Border Military District, the Kiev Special Military District and the Baltic Coastal Military District has reached 86% of the standard number, but historically, the number of radio stations in these three military districts has reached only 27%, 30% and 52%, respectively.

More than half of the tanks and airplanes are also equipped with corresponding communication equipment, which greatly increases the efficiency of communication and command.

In addition to the production of armaments, the Soviet Red Army also made corresponding redeployments to prepare for future wars.

On May 13, the General Staff of the Soviet Army ordered the transfer of troops from the Inland Military District to the west. The 22nd Army was transferred from the Urals to the Greater Luki region; The 21st Army was transferred from the Volga Military District to the Gomel region; The 19th Army was transferred from the North Caucasus Military District to the Betselkovy region; The 16th Army was transferred from Transbaikal to the Shepetovka region of Ukraine.

The troops, which were transferred from the Interior Military Region to the western border in May, consisted of a total of 28 infantry divisions and 4 army groups. Regrettably, some divisions have only 8,000 to 9,000 troops, but they are fully equipped with the technical weapons required for their establishment and have a certain combat capability.

In order to win this war, both Stalin and Manturov made a lot of efforts, and of course, the same was true of the workers and soldiers. Whether these efforts were worth it will be known until after the war began. (To be continued.) )