On the western outskirts of Moscow, near Stalin's Kontsevo dacha, on a huge, seemingly empty meadow, many high-ranking generals and high-ranking party cadres in straight uniforms had gathered at this time. All the people in the pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info surrounded by a diminutive fatherly leader with a mustache, a green tweed uniform, and a pipe in his mouth.

Suddenly, a shrill motor roar came from nowhere. The father's leader looked toward a road that passed from near the meadow. I saw a puff of black smoke rise, and then there was the sound of crawlers crushing the ground. The black smoke drew closer, and in a few moments, the Fatherly Leader saw a figure of a soldier in a green uniform, with a strange hat and his hands seemingly resting on something. With the bumps, the tank under this soldier also appeared in Stalin's sight. The first to appear was a large-caliber artillery gun with a black hole. Mounted on top of a large, somewhat unspoken steel turret painted green. Then the steel hull under the turret appeared in Stalin's eyes!

"Comrade General Secretary, you see the most powerful tank in the world - the KV-2 type!"

Marshal Voroshilov also stood beside Stalin, his back hunched in order to make himself look as short as Stalin's. With a smile on his face, he said to Stalin in a respectful tone: "This tank has a combat weight of 52 tons, is armed with a 152mm cannon, and has armor up to 30-110mm thick. Its firepower is fiercer than any other tank in the world, and its armor is strong enough to withstand any known foreign anti-tank gun......"

What is being shown is a KV-2 heavy tank! It and the equally sturdy, but slightly less powerful KV-1 heavy tank, were the work of Voroshilov's son-in-law, Kotin, the chief designer of the design bureaus of the Kirov Plant, the Voroshilov Plant and the Bolshevik Plant.

"Is it more powerful than the two tanks that the Germans are secretly developing?" Stalin squinted at the tanks driving in front of him and asked leisurely.

The No. 5 and No. 6 tanks, which the Germans were secretly developing, were secret, but they could not be hidden from the psychievous Stalin. However, Stalin only knew that Germany was going all out to develop tanks of the 45-ton and 55-ton classes, and as for the specific technical data and development progress, he did not know.

What Stalin didn't know, Voroshilov certainly won't know, the People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR thought about it and replied: "At least it's comparable, but these two tanks of theirs are still under development, and they won't be finalized until next year at the earliest." It was probably not until 1943 that the troops were actually put into production and massively equipped. And our KV-1 and KV-2 should have produced 2000 units by that time......"

"3,000 cars!" Stalin said in an accentuated tone, "By August 1, 1942, it must be completed!" Among them, the number of KV-2 vehicles shall not be less than 600 vehicles. ”

"Okay, I will definitely convey your supreme instructions to the Kirov plant, the Voroshilov plant and the Bolshevik plant."

Voroshilov hurriedly patted his chest and reassured. Of course, he knew what August 1, 1942 was, the planned "World Revolution Day", the day when the world revolution began!

According to the "Thunderstorm Plan" drawn up by the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR, 5 million Soviet Red Army troops will embark on the journey of liberating all mankind in the early morning of that day. They will launch the fiercest offensive on the vast battlefield from the Baltic to the Black Sea, supported by 15,000 tanks, assault artillery and 15,000 aircraft of all kinds.

The KV-1 heavy tank and KV-2 heavy tank, as well as the T-34 medium tank, were among the key factors in the success of Project Thunderstorm.

"In addition, the MiG-3, Lager-3, Yak-1, Il-2, PE-8 and MiG-5, which are high-performance fighters and bombers, must also become the main force of the Red Air Force before August 1, 1942."

Amid the loud roar of the KV-2 tank motor, Stalin gave the second supreme directive on the upgrading of the equipment of the Air Force.

Now the USSR already had several high-performance fighters and bombers. Among them, the MiG-3 is a high-altitude fighter, which, according to the idea of the Red Air Force, can be used to restrain the BF-109 and FW-190. The Rag-3 and Yak-1 focused on medium and low altitudes against the Fokker Zero. The Il-2 was responsible for ground attacks, striking German armored clusters from the air. The PE-8 was a heavy bomber responsible for long-range bombing of German oil facilities in the Middle East, Romania and other places, destroying Germany's war potential. The MiG-5 is a long-range fighter that escorts the PE-8 throughout the process.

There are KV-1 and KV-2 and T-34 on the ground, a large number of advanced aircraft such as MiG-3, Yak-1, Lager-3, PE-8, Il-2 and MiG-5 in the sky, and powerful Soviet-class battleships and Kronstadt-class battlecruisers at sea. Stalin felt that the great Soviet Red Army had enough strength to liberate all of humanity...... However, the strength of imperialism is still very strong, and if Britain, the United States, Germany, Italy, and Japan join forces, this cause of human liberation will be a little suspenseful.

Fortunately, imperialism is not monolithic today, and it seems that Germany, Japan and Italy are joining forces to fight Britain and the United States. This was the opportunity of the Soviet Union, and it was also the opportunity for the people of the world to turn over and become the masters, and Stalin, of course, refused to miss it.

Stalin, however, was a very cautious fatherly leader, and until the United States officially went to war with Germany, the Great Thunderstorm Plan was only a plan. And even if the United States and Germany went to war, Stalin would not necessarily lead the Soviet Union to join, because the United States and Germany were separated by the Atlantic. If Britain falls, it will be difficult for virtue to reach its opponent, and the American-German war will become a scolding battle between Roosevelt and Hitler. If the Soviet Union had joined at that time, it would have singled out Germany...... Even if it can win, it will be a stepping stone for the Americans!

Therefore, the premise for Stalin's real implementation of the "Great Thunderstorm Plan" was that in addition to the United States' entry into the war, Britain had not fallen.

In addition, before entering the war, Stalin wanted to extort a lot of money from the United States. For example, there were not enough trucks in the Soviet Union, and now there are about 1 million trucks in the country, and many of them have quality problems. If you want to secure an army of 5 million to 6 million to liberate the people of Europe, 50 to 600,000 trucks are necessary. There is no way to solve the problem of requisitioning civilian vehicles for so many trucks, because almost all civilian trucks are used for production, and if the number of trucks is reduced by hundreds of thousands at once, there will be big problems in the national economy.

And now the supply of horses in the Soviet Union is not very elastic, because it is all produced according to plan. Not a single collective farm will go beyond the plan to raise horses, this is not allowed. Therefore, in the short term, the People's Commissariat of Agriculture will not be able to produce a few million horses to replace hundreds of thousands of cars.

So these hundreds of thousands of cars can only be asked by Roosevelt...... The United States will provide at least 250,000 trucks!

And with so many planes, tanks, battleships and trucks, the wartime oil consumption of the Soviet Red Army must have been astronomical. But the oil-producing regions and centers of the oil industry in the USSR were now in danger for the Luftwaffe! The French bombing of the oil city of Batumi in 40 years was a wake-up call, and the Soviet Union could not take it for granted that it would not be subjected to a second enemy air raid.

Therefore, Stalin also decided to reserve at least 15 million tons of fuel oil before the start of the war, and at the same time accelerate the development of the second Baku. And this will also require the help of the United States...... The United States must provide sufficient oil extraction and refining equipment, and it also needs to provide a batch of high-quality fuel for the Soviet Red Air Force.

In addition to trucks, oil equipment and fuel, Stalin wanted American aircraft engines and advanced fighters and bombers to further strengthen the Soviet Red Air Force. Because the role of the Air Force in this war has reached a decisive point! And the German Air Force seems to have many very advanced fighters, and the air is actually the place where Stalin is most worried.

While Stalin was watching the KV-2 tanks, on the other side of the Atlantic, the great president of the United States, the beacon of democracy, Roosevelt, was holding a cigarette and frowning at a list of aid with a lion's mouth wide open!

This list was not sent by Churchill, but to Secretary of State Hull by the Soviet ambassador to Washington, Litvinov.

And Stalin wanted aid, not lend-lease...... Because the Fatherly Leader has no intention of paying it back! Now it is US imperialism that is begging the Soviet Union, so why should the Soviet Union "lend-lease"? This should be given away by the United States for nothing.

"250,000 trucks, 10 million tons of fuel oil, $500 million worth of oil extraction and refining equipment, and 10,000 aircraft engines...... My God! Was Stalin a robber-born? How could he do that? ”

Roosevelt was taken aback by the demands on the list -- in fact, they were only a drop in the bucket for the United States. But the problem is that Stalin refused to "borrow", but asked the United States to "give". How could the US Congress approve such a thing as giving billions of dollars to the USSR for nothing? Don't even think about it!

US Secretary of Commerce Hopkins half-jokingly replied: "President, in fact Stalin really was a robber, he used to rob cash trucks when he was young." ”

"No wonder!" Roosevelt shook his head repeatedly, "But we in the United States are not the hapless money truck, I can't give Stalin what he wants, this is not good." ”

"It's not a problem," Hopkins said, shaking his head, "Stalin will accept the name 'Lend-Lease,' and he won't pay it back anyway...... But before the Soviet Union entered the war, could we 'lend' so much to the Soviet Union? Do we have a reason to do that? (To be continued.) )