After the parade, in addition to Manturov, Stalin's office was attended by Vyacheslav Molotov, Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR (Prime Minister of the Soviet Union) and People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"Comrade Manturov, why do you think that the Germans will attack us this summer?" Before Stalin sat down, the topic began.

"Comrade Stalin, now the German army has amassed a large number of troops on the Soviet-German border, including a large number of armored units, under the command of experienced and competent generals.

The forces they invested on the Soviet-German border, far more than in North Africa, and on the Western Front, were most likely used to attack our country. "Manturov truthfully explained to Stalin what he knew.

"The reason why they deployed their forces in Eastern Europe was because they wanted to stay out of range of British bombers." It is clear that Stalin has fallen for the trick of the Germans.

Prior to this, Stalin had actually received information from the British that "the German army would invade the Soviet Union in the summer", but he believed that this was a false information that Britain deliberately designed to make the Soviet Union and Germany go to war, and did not face it squarely.

At the same time, the German government's argument also convinced Stalin further, and they revealed to Stalin that the German troops were only moved away from the range of the British bombers, so that Stalin mistakenly believed that Germany was free to deal with the British.

"I think," said Stalin, taking a puff on his cigarette, "that the Germans could not have attacked less than two years after the Molotov-Ribbentrop Treaty was signed, and that they would certainly not be able to open up a new battlefield until they had destroyed the British."

As for the British intelligence about the German attack on the USSR, it was nothing more than a hoax. They intend to get us into the war as soon as possible.

They hoped that our accession would relieve the pressure on the British army at the front, and even eliminate our socialist regime through the hands of the Germans.

These conspiracies will never succeed! Because we've already seen through these conspiracies. ”

In the case of Manturov, he may not have believed the intelligence of the British. British politicians represent positive assets, they are scheming, insidious and treacherous, they have always been hostile to the socialist Soviet Union, unreliable, distrustful.

However, while the British provided intelligence, some information held by the Soviet army also more or less confirmed the authenticity of British intelligence. For example, the frequent large-scale movements of the German army, as well as the intensive flight of German reconnaissance planes over the border to conduct reconnaissance, are also strong evidence.

"Comrade Stalin, since the completion of the construction of the radar array, we have been able to detect the frequent activity of German aircraft. According to a report by the Air Defense Forces, in recent months the German army has been sending reconnaissance aircraft over our borders to carry out reconnaissance activities. Manturov presented this fact as proof of his point.

"I have all the information you said. They simply crossed the border by accident and did not conduct any effective reconnaissance operations inside the Soviet Union. ”

What Stalin said is indeed true. Just after Manturov completed the construction of radar arrays and communication facilities, the German reconnaissance planes had no chance of exploiting loopholes at all, and almost every time they crossed the border, they were intercepted by Soviet planes, so naturally they could not carry out any effective reconnaissance operations.

However, in history, due to the lack of early warning and communication support of the Soviet army, German reconnaissance planes were able to drive straight into the country and carry out in-depth and effective reconnaissance activities.

Through a series of reconnaissance, they mastered the location of Soviet warehouses, barracks, airfields, and even headquarters, and when the war broke out, they dispatched bombers to raze all these places to the ground.

"But Comrade Stalin, it seems to me that we had better prepare for war. The scale of the German movement in Eastern Europe is significant, and we should gather enough forces in Belarus and Ukraine to deal with them. In Manturov's impression, although the Soviet army had a numerical advantage for most of the war, at the beginning of the war, the Soviet Red Army deployed more than a million fewer troops on the Western Front than the German army.

"Please rest assured, we have deployed 170 divisions and 2.7 million troops on the Western Front. In the event of a war, we will not only be able to resist the German attack, but we will also have the ability to attack the Germans, liberate Poland, and even liberate Central and Western Europe from the Germans. When Stalin said this, Manturov suddenly remembered the "Great Thunderstorm Plan".

Historically, before the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, the Soviet army had already concentrated 170 divisions and 2.7 million troops in the western region. However, all indications show that the deployment of these 2.7 million troops is not for defense, but for offense.

These forces, especially those deployed in Poland, were very weak in depth, lacked defensive deployments, and did not build sufficient fortifications. Moreover, the soldiers of the Red Army in the western region were not equipped with a map of the defensive areas, but with a map of the German occupation zone, which, no matter how you look at it, looks like an army that is about to attack.

There are even descendants who believe that the deployment of the Soviet army was prepared for the active attack on Germany, and some people have "made public" a file of the General Staff of the Soviet Army. It is said that this file was drafted by the General Staff of the Soviet Army and the "Great Thunderstorm Plan" that took the initiative to attack Germany on June 12, 1941.

Whether this plan exists or not remains a mystery in the universe in which we live, and it is difficult to distinguish between truth and falsehood. But what is certain is that in Manturov's parallel universe, this plan did not exist, and it was a fact that the Soviets were on the offensive.

This was due to the fact that Stalin overestimated the combat capabilities of the Soviet Red Army. He believed that the Soviet Red Army had the strength to attack Germany, and planned to attack Germany after the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, liberate the whole of Eastern Europe and even the whole of Central and Western Europe from Germany, and establish a powerful red hegemony. Therefore, he did not make any preparations for defense, but made a lot of preparations for the attack on Germany.

However, at the diplomatic and political level, Stalin did not have a preemptive plan, so he did not come up with a "thunderstorm plan" to attack Germany on his own initiative.

His plan was for the Soviet Red Army to attack Germany after Germany had initiated the war, rather than before Germany tore up the non-aggression pact.

By doing so, the Soviet Union will not only be able to demonstrate its national strength and expand its sphere of influence to the outside world, but it will also be able to achieve this lofty strategic goal without attaching the notorious name of a war of aggression and violating the non-aggression pact.

Such a goal is indeed ambitious, and once achieved, the Soviet Union will undoubtedly become the most powerful superpower in the world, and whether the Soviet Union will have enough strength to achieve this goal is another matter.

For Manturov, the most important thing at the moment was not to prepare for an attack on Germany, but to guard against a German invasion, to avoid the tragedy of Operation Barbarossa, and to reduce millions of unnecessary casualties. (To be continued.) )