Chapter 563: Irresistible Factors
To be a qualified politician is to be an opportunist, and there is no doubt that Khrushchev is a typical figure among them.
Needless to say, how he got his fortune before, and in recent years, Khrushchev's infinite scenery is, of course, obtained by patting Stalin's ass and offering chrysanthemums to Stalin.
Khrushchev had always been a strong advocate of Stalin's line, and by getting acquainted with Stalin's wife, he managed to impress Stalin, gradually climbed through the ranks, and became the secretary of Moscow.
After that, the Great Purge broke out, Khrushchev was excited, this was his chance to perform!
He was able to fulfill all kinds of quotas, saying that if tens of thousands of people were captured, he would be able to arrest them, and at the same time, he also assisted in the arrest and elimination of his own colleagues and friends.
For example, of the 38 high-ranking officials of the party organization of the Moscow municipal and provincial party committees, only three were spared. Out of a total of 146 party secretaries in other cities and districts of the Moscow region, 136 were suppressed. All by Khrushchev.
At that time, according to the procedure, the purge had to obtain an arrest warrant issued by Khrushchev, which shows how great Khrushchev's power really was.
Up to now, the Great Purge of the Soviet Union is still going on, and this time, Khrushchev, as Stalin's commissioner, came to Berlin, and naturally he was also coaxing.
He had been in serious protest with the German Foreign Minister for several days, so Ribbentrop could only delay and could only report to Ciric.
"Khrushchev?" Ciric shook his head, he couldn't treat such a person with a pleasant face.
"Tell him that protests are useless, that we are now at war, that our first task, which is to defeat France, that our domestic factories, the temporary suspension of the construction of aircraft carriers ordered by the USSR, are irresistible elements in the contract, and that we are not in breach of contract." "Let the Soviets wait!" ”
Ciric's words made Ribbentrop immediately understand.
At the beginning, when signing the contract, Ciric proposed to add an irresistible factor to it, and personally explained, for example, that it encountered an ocean storm, which caused the slipway to be unable to be constructed, etc., deliberately emphasizing that it was under natural conditions, and as a result, Tukhachevsky, who led the team at that time, signed the contract without any doubts.
After that, the cooperation between the two sides was also intermittent, and the Soviets stopped supplying iron ore halfway, which led to a delay in the progress, and until now, the aircraft carrier built for the Soviets has only completed the construction of a hull, without outfitting and without stuffing the power system into it, it is just a shell.
Since the beginning of the war, the work at the shipyard has stopped, and the Soviet military representatives, quite dissatisfied with this, have repeatedly reacted to Moscow, as a result, Stalin sent Khrushchev.
"I want to see your Führer, I want to protest to him personally!" Khrushchev was quite tough when he faced Ribbentrop.
According to the original agreement, the aircraft carriers ordered by the Soviet Union should have begun to be outfitted, and the 406-mm naval guns ordered from Germany should also be loaded onto ships, transported to the Soviet Union, and installed on Soviet-class battleships, and now, they are all delaying!
Khrushchev's toughness on the outside represented an inner urgency, and before he was sent, Khrushchev made up for his knowledge, and although he was an agricultural expert, he understood the difficulties faced by the Soviet Union.
When the Soviet Union was established, it was still a backward agricultural country, and it was not uncommon for the Soviet Union to lose World War I, and the Soviet Union under serfdom had no possibility of winning at all.
The Soviet Union succeeded in becoming an industrial country through a five-year plan, but there was still a big gap compared to other countries, and the Soviet Union had to catch up.
Looking at the world, the warships of other countries were too threatening to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union could not wait to have large warships.
Stalin asked several times, and finally, Tukhachevsky, after investigation, determined that the Soviet Union only needed to provide ore for ordering aircraft carriers from Germany, which was a quite suitable plan for the Soviet Union.
Do not put all your eggs in the same basket, the modern defense of the USSR will not be completely dependent on Germany, and at the same time as ordering aircraft carriers from Germany, at the same time as the USSR, Stalin also made the decision, building Soviet-class battleships.
This is a super battleship with a displacement of 60,000 tons, which shows the great leap forward of the Soviets, which is also quite terrifying, you know, before that, the Soviets had built a 10,000-ton Kirov-class cruiser.
If nothing else, the Soviets could not satisfy the steel used in warships alone.
At the beginning of this year, after the start of official construction of the Soviet-class, it was planned to ask the Zhdanov Inola plant and the Maripov steel plant in Leningrad to supply 10,000 tons of armor steel, but, by now, half a year has passed, and they have not supplied even a thousand tons.
For example, in terms of power system, they want to build high-horsepower steam turbines, and now they don't have any eyebrows.
During the purge, a large number of officers were purged, and Khrushchev even went to prison and asked several representatives of the navy, and their opinion was surprisingly unanimous, without the help of Germany, the Soviets simply could not have completed the construction of the aircraft carrier.
When Khrushchev came, he came up and put on a score, just to press the Germans with an aggressive posture, telling the Germans to hurry up and complete their aircraft carriers, and at the same time, in order to make up for the losses to the Soviet Union, they would export tens of thousands of tons of steel to the Soviet Union!
It is also ironic enough that the Soviet Union exported iron ore to Germany, and then asked Germany to give the manufactured steel to the Soviet Union, in addition to showing that the Soviet Union was industrially underdeveloped, what other reason could there be?
Germans, must agree! Khrushchev was also confident, after all, before he came out, Moscow, a couple of British diplomats came.
Khrushchev's ability to mix well politically is inseparable from his keen political sense, and the current Germany must curry favor with the Soviet Union!
Now, seeing Ribbentrop come out, but there is no Shirek, Khrushchev is stunned, why didn't Shirek come out? According to his request, he asked Ciric to give him an explanation, after all, when the contract was signed, Ciric was the representative of the German side, regardless of whether he was the Führer or whoever.
"Where's your Führer?" Khrushchev asked with a dark face.
"The Führer is deliberating on an urgent military situation and has no time to meddle with these matters." Now that he had received Ciric's authorization, Ribbentrop's attitude became cold: "The Führer asked me to inform you that it is the time of war, which is an irresistible element in our contract, and that we have not violated the agreement, and if you have nothing else to do, then I will leave." ”