Chapter 1282: Victory Day in Europe
On both sides of the 50-kilometre-long east-west axis of Berlin, which has just been completed, it is already full of citizens dressed in festive costumes and all kinds of old military uniforms. This east-west axis www.biquge.info one of the twin axes of Berlin's four-ring transport network planned in Germania. It runs from Worcestermark in the western suburbs of Berlin to Arméstrasse, Adolf. Hitlerplatz, Kaisershae, Bismarckstraße, Kneplatz, Technical Institute Berlin, Charlottenburgstrasse, Hersmannplatz, Brandenburg Gate, Unter den Linden, Frankfurt Gate and Frankfurt Boulevard.
All of these roads were widened and renovated, and work began in 1935 before being interrupted by the outbreak of the Second Time War. By 1944, before the armistice on the Eastern Front, construction began again, and a large number of "Russian workers" were recruited to participate in the construction. With sufficient labor and machinery and equipment, the project progressed quickly and was basically completed by May 1945. The widened road is wide and smooth, with a width of more than 100 meters. On both sides of the road, evergreen trees with good growth are also transplanted, and the view is extraordinary.
At the same time, the 120-meter-wide north-south axis of Berlin is also being constructed. At either end of the axis are the new Berlin North and South railway station, and in front of the South station is a huge triumphal arch that was originally built to commemorate the First World War (the Arc de Triomphe was built after the defeat, but now it has been changed to commemorate the victory in the Second World War! Designed for its 117-metre-high and 170-metre-wide triumphal arch, the Arc de Triomphe will be engraved with the names of all European memorials of World War I and World War II (as many as millions) and decorated with a plaque designed by the famous sculptor Arnold. Statue created by Blake. After the outbreak of World War II, the Arc de Triomphe project was suspended for a time, and it was not resumed until 1944, when the armistice on the Eastern Front was restarted. Now that the main body of the Arc de Triomphe has been completed, the work of engraving the name is not yet complete.
At the intersection of the east-west axis, there is the new urban center of Berlin - according to the Germania plan, the area of Berlin will be greatly expanded, and the west of Berlin's north-south axis will basically be a new district - here will be the new Berlin landmark Great Hall, which will be more than 200 meters high and 250 meters in diameter, 16 times larger than St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican; When completed, the Assembly Hall will have a capacity of 150,000 to 180,000 people, and will also be the largest enclosed space in the world.
Now the construction of the Great Hall of the People has begun, and thousands of laborers from distant Russia are busy all day long, under the command of German engineers, contributing to the great miracle of National Socialism.
But today, on the day of victory in the world war, on this triumphant day belonging to the people of all Europe, the builders from Russia, together with the citizens of Berlin and the people of various European countries who work and study in Berlin, gather on both sides of the roads and squares of Berlin's east-west axis, with various moods, waiting for the victors and the arrival of a new thousand-year empire.
Zoya, an exchange student from St. Petersburg State University. Kasmodementemyanskaya was also standing in front of the construction site of the Great Hall of the People at this time, with mixed feelings. As an exchange student sent by St. Petersburg State University to Humboldt University's Faculty of Law, she undoubtedly belonged to the elite of the future Russia - everyone knew that Her Majesty did not trust the officials of the former Soviet Union, and that the "old white men" who followed her were of little use except loyalty, and that they did not know much about the situation in the Soviet Union, and that many people were still thinking in the old imperial era. What can really serve her empire is a new generation of people like Zoya who not only understand the old Soviet Union, but also receive education in the new ideas of National Socialism.
However, the division of the Russian Motherland (the Soviet Motherland) into two made her feel very painful. In the summer of '44, she went back to Moscow, which had just been "recovered", and found that it was almost empty. The area around the house where she used to live and the school she used to attend were all empty and empty. It turned out that when the Bolsheviks evacuated Moscow, they took all the city's residents and soldiers to Siberia and Central Asia, including Zoya's mother and younger brother...... Of course, it is not excluded that they have already died in a brutal war!
On the one hand, his own future is bright, and on the other hand, his relatives are separated and the country is divided. Naturally, this Zoya and the "new Russians" like her have mixed feelings about the upcoming United States of Europe, both expecting and helpless.
The Brandenburg Gate, east of the Great Hall site, was the center of the Victory Day celebrations, with a five- to six-kilometer-long viewing platform set up in front of and on both sides of the Brandenburg Gate, where the great names of the European Community, the Roman Empire, New Asbania, and Japan, a friendly country, appeared. Most of them had already arrived, and the representative of Japan was King Minoru Higashikunomiya, a general of the imperial army, a graduate of the French Army University and fluent in French. Right now, he is standing next to the French Prime Minister, Marshal Darlan, and is talking to Darlan in French about Japan's nuclear weapons development......
He was a central figure in the Japanese Army and certainly knew how slow Japan's nuclear weapons development process was. Although the electromagnetic separation device provided by Germany is effective, it is possible to refine uranium-235 in high abundance. But the efficiency of refining is a bit low, in grams! Although in the past few months, Japan's "Ren Solution" agency has spared no expense to build several sets of electromagnetic separation devices, and has also consumed a lot of valuable electricity, but only 10 grams of weapons-grade uranium-235 have been refined, and now it still needs about 49,990 grams of high-abundance uranium-235 before the Japanese Empire can build an atomic bomb, and according to the current progress, it will take about 2,000 years -- the electromagnetic separation device that Hersman gave to the Japanese was originally a tool for separating isotopes in the laboratory, and the output was calculated in grams, which in later generations was not at all a tool for making atomic bombs.
Oh, and if the Japanese can successfully use electromagnetic separation to assemble uranium-235 capable of making an atomic bomb, one more condition is that the Chinese Red Army is willing to return to them the only uranium mine in Hwanghae Province on the Korean Peninsula that Japan is mining...... Otherwise, if there were no uranium mines, even for 10,000 years, Yoshio Nishina would not have been able to build an atomic bomb.
The day after Germany used the atomic bomb on the battlefield, the government of Isoroku Yamamoto openly declared that Japan had found the right way to build the atomic bomb and had already begun to build it!
Yamamoto hoped to use the atomic bomb, which would not be possessed until about 2,000 years later, to bluff the three opponents of the United States, China and the Soviet Union, and to buy Japan a precious breathing time. In this way, the Japanese Empire was able to calmly digest the tremendous gains made in the war.
However, it will not be easy for Japan to digest their gains. Because this world war not only knocked out the world hegemony of the British Empire, but also defeated American imperialism. At the same time, it has also knocked out a relatively free trade environment. A barter established by Germany before the war, not aimed at accumulating surpluses, would become the main rule of international trade.
It is not really barter, but refers to the overall balance of trade between countries (or economic communities), and international settlements are carried out with the goal of balance, and deficits and surpluses are not allowed in principle.
At the same time, the flow of capital between countries (or economic communities) is also strictly regulated.
And this system is extremely unfavorable to Japan!
Arriving in Berlin with King Minoru Higashikunomiya was accompanied by a high-profile trade delegation. Prime Minister Isoroku Yamamoto sent this delegation with the aim of bringing about a trade agreement that would be beneficial to both the United States of Europe and Japan - and Yamamoto hoped that in the next 10 years, he could borrow at least 5 billion euromarks from the European Community in the name of "rubber loans" and "silk loans" (i.e., borrowing money first and then repaying it with rubber and silk) for the introduction of advanced technology and equipment.
But such a very reasonable request was rejected by the Commission of the European Communities on the grounds that the European Community was prepared to support the production of rubber and silk in India, Pakistan and Ceylon, so it could not absorb as much as 5 billion euromarks of rubber and silk.
Although peace had not yet been restored to the two British empires, India and Pakistan, the British and Indian authorities had drawn up a long-term economic development plan that would serve as a supply base for raw materials and a dumping market for commodities for Europe.
And in order for the people of India and Pakistan to have enough financial resources, they must nurture their industries! Therefore, it is impossible for Japanese silk and Southeast Asian rubber to have a fair chance to compete.
Guided by the economic theories of National Socialism and Fascism, there was no such thing as free trade and fair competition between countries.
As for the export of technology and capital, there are also heavy regulations, and there are very few things that Japan can get from the European Community.
It can be said that Japan is facing an even worse international trade environment than it was before the war!
"Long live victory!"
"Long live the Emperor!"
"Long live the United States of Europe!"
"Hey! Hitler! ”
When the German Emperor Wilhelm III, Chancellor Adolf. When Hitler, Imperial Field Marshal Hersmann, Roman Empire Caesar Mussolini, Russian Empress Olga, Queen Elizabeth II, French President Petain and others appeared in people's eyes, the biggest cheers suddenly erupted around the Brandenburg Gate. Then, on both sides of Berlin's east-west axis, everyone fell into a frenzy at once.
Amid the cheers of the people, the phalanxes of the Wehrmacht, the SS and other countries of the European Community, which had long been assembled on the wide road of Worcester in the western suburbs of Berlin (the western starting point of Berlin's east-west axis), began to rumble to the music of the majestic German military song "Long Live Victory".
At the forefront is the phalanx of the German Wehrmacht paratroopers, from the beginning of the world war, these elite soldiers, known as the "green ** ghost", are the vanguard of the German Empire's crusade to the east and west. Until the Battle of Newfoundland, known as the last battle of the World War, a large number of German paratroopers can still be seen.
Second Lieutenant Brandt, who had just returned from the front and was still covered with the smell of gunpowder, was now among the German paratroopers. For his service on the island of Newfoundland, he was awarded a sparkling blue Marques medal and was escorted to the Wehrmacht Air Force Academy. This time he did not shirk it, because the world war had turned out so much that even he, a socialist who loved peace, freedom and democracy, had lost faith in the prospect of the defeat of National Socialism.
Maybe this empire will really exist for 1,000 years, right? Brandt, who was riding on a half-track armored personnel carrier, looked at the people on both sides of the wide street, holding the swastika flag and shouting in a carnival, and a sense of pride suddenly rose in his heart - he is also the hero of this thousand-year-old empire!
On the third floor of the Royal Library in Berlin on Unter den Linden, in a reading room facing the street, a special crowd of spectators was watching the Victory Day parade of the Germans.
They were all dressed in somewhat old uniforms, not those of the German army or any of Germany's allies, but American-style uniforms. They were all American prisoners of war, but they were not ordinary prisoners of war, but high-ranking prisoners of war who lived in the Belvedere concentration camp in Vienna.
Admiral Halsey, Lieutenant General Stilwell, and Colonel LeMay Army Aviation were now in the room, standing by the window, watching the Germans of all sorts of armored vehicles pass by, at the majestic and high-spirited Nazi soldiers standing on the half-track armored personnel carriers, at the various German warhawks whizzing in the sky. All of them came up with the same conclusion in their minds.
This is the victory of National Socialism and Fascism! This is probably the truth that the defeated United States needs!
At the same time, on the other side of the world, in Japan, it was late at night on May 28, 1945.
However, Japanese Prime Minister Isoroku Yamamoto did not go to bed now, nor did he care about the German Victory Day military parade -- the current Japanese Empire has not yet won!
He is now standing in the basement conference room of the Japanese Prime Minister's residence, waiting for the good news from the Japanese Defense General Force Command and Navy -- because they knew in advance that the bombers of the United States and the Soviet Union and China were coming, all the Defense Forces and Navy had already mobilized a large number of "Moonlight" night fighters and deployed them at the airfields on the Noto Peninsula and Niigata Prefecture, ready to intercept the invading US, Soviet and Chinese bomber groups at any time.
The "Moonlight" fighter is a twin-engine, two-seat night fighter, which is an improvement from the Japanese Navy's Type 2 land reconnaissance. It has two 20mm cannons that can fire diagonally upwards - a special gun layout invented by Nakasa Kozono of the Japanese Navy's 251st Air Force, which allows the aircraft to fire upwards in level flight. In the usual air battles, this feature is useless. However, it can help fighters with poor high-altitude performance to attack long-range bombers that fly higher than themselves (if you want to die faster, you can also attack high-altitude fighters like the P47), and it is the only weapon that the Japanese Navy can use to deal with long-range bombers like the B-17 that can fly at high altitudes.