Until the late sixties, the socialist camp was basically on the defensive in the confrontation with the capitalist bloc, and it was only with the help of the powerful strategic nuclear missile forces of the Soviet Union that it was able to recover its decline. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

The geographical and technological inferiority caused the Soviet Union to keep catching up with and overtaking the United States, and the side effect was the serious deformed development of the country's overall functions -- anyone who drives a car knows that it takes 100 yards to catch up with a car in front of him at 80 kilometers per hour, and that he is prone to danger, because a small movement of the car in front of you can make you spend much more energy than he can deal with.

The United States will soon be able to dominate the seas, and it is only by virtue of the barrier of the seas that it has obtained a secure strategic environment that no one else has, while the Soviet Union does not have this advantage. The history of Eurasia is a history of warfare, and no one has been able to rule the continent for long, from Alexander's army to the Mongol cavalry. Why is that?

No nation wants to be enslaved by others. "Comrade Stalin, Hitler dreamed of building a thousand-year-old empire of the ancient Roman style, but it is impossible for the world today to have a thousand-year-old empire of the ancient Roman style. It is impossible to rely on Roman-style conquest by force for a long time, only ideology can make people of different countries and nationalities become comrades-in-arms and brothers-in-arms. ”

"Hitler clearly didn't understand this." Stalin also looked at the world map on the wall, "Let all the countries of Europe become members of the Socialist League, and let the Americans have no allies and no foothold on the European continent." Andrey, such a strategic outlook is something that only you can see. ”

Stalin was a sincere admirer of the strategic vision of the generals: the Soviet Union's strategic focus had been on Europe for decades, the cradle and base of world capitalism had been so stubborn, and now the opportunity had finally come.

"Comrade Stalin, if it weren't for the fact that Hitler had muddied the big game, I would not have come up with such a strategic idea. The inherent order of the European continent has been completely disrupted by Germany, and the deep-rooted capitalist ideology is not worth mentioning in front of the German tanks. As long as we defeat Germany, we can reshuffle the whole of Europe, and we should be glad that the Comintern has done enough preliminary work. ”

"There were socialist Communists all over Europe, and when the Red Army spread across Europe, we would be able to establish Soviet power in every country. Andrey, if you don't consider the military issue for a moment, it will be difficult to change the ideology. ”

Stalin was not a blind optimist like Hitler, and the sense of private ownership that had been accumulated over the centuries could not be easily removed: it was probably more difficult to get the French aristocracy and landlords to abandon their ancestral vineyards than to kill them. ”

"Comrade Stalin, revolution is not about entertaining guests to dinner, not making a fuss, not painting and embroidering, not so elegant, so calm, so polite, so gentle and frugal. A revolution is an insurrection, a violent action by a class to overthrow a class. It was not an ordinary difficulty to express the words of the great man in Russian, and it took Stalin a few seconds for him to deeply understand the meaning of Lin Jun's words: any enemy of the Soviets can only be ruthlessly destroyed!

Since it is a global strategy, it is necessary to look at the whole world. It was a bit unrealistic to think that the entire earth would shine under the light of the sickle and hammer flag in a short period of time, it was a long-term goal, but making the entire Eurasian continent turn red was an opportunity in front of Lin Jun.

"Comrade Stalin, Kemal of Turkey had a political last word before his death: Britain has won the final victory in every European war for the past two hundred years, so Turkey must stand in the camp of Britain in a possible European war in the future. There is some truth in his words, but he ignores a phenomenon in which Kemal himself was one of the creators, that is, he himself drove the invading British army into the Mediterranean. ”

Lin Junyi pointed to the Middle East: "From Turkey to the east to the south, and to the Indochina Peninsula in the east, they are all colonies of the British. Now Britain, the suzerain, has taken care of itself, and Japan to the east has long been eyeing the Indochina Peninsula and India's resources. The French have negligible influence in those areas, and these colonies will soon break out into independence movements in the foreseeable future, certainly after the world war in front of them. ”

"It's hard to say that this part of India is oriented, because although it has a large population and a large area, it is still basically a rudimentary agricultural society, and that people can be said to be unreliable. Comrade Stalin, after the defeat of Germany, the entire Middle East west of Turkey and the Arabian Peninsula to the south are what we need to strive for, if possible. Regardless of ideology, at least let there be a friend of the Soviets. ”

During the time of Peter the Great, he hoped to have access to the sea in the south, and Lin Jun said that the opportunity was really imminent - to take advantage of the decline of the British power to establish an independent regime in those areas, so as to obtain at least one or two reliable naval bases in the Arabian Gulf.

"It can be said that the people in those areas are living in great difficulty, thanks to the British Empire, and the revolutionaries there will be happy to accept our assistance in the future, and of course it is impossible to ask them to believe in communism, and this historical reason is difficult to solve." The only helplessness, Lin Jun is a fairy, and there is no way.

"The price is that we will confront the entire old colonial system in the future, and there will be many opponents." Stalin knew that he would go crazy if he did the British.

"Anyway, if you want to fight, you don't care about that. Oil was discovered in the Gulf region in 1927, and more and more oil fields have been discovered in the past two years, but it is estimated that the Western world does not realize how rich the oil reserves there are. ”

"The blood of industry, Andrey, it is impossible for us to understand how much oil resources there are."

"It should be much more than we imagined." Lin Jun pointed to the location of Kuwait in the later generations and drew a big circle, "There are extremely rich oil reserves here, I asked people to query and analyze the reports brought back by some explorers during the tsarist period in the archives, and from the analysis of topography and address structure, maybe the oil reserves in the Gulf region are more than ours." ”

Stalin's expression suddenly became relaxed: "One maybe, is it worth it?" ”

"Hehe, Comrade Stalin, you know that I never make bets or anything like that, but today I would love to make a bet with you."

"I've gambled on the atomic bomb, what else would I not dare." Stalin laughed.

"In the future, the center of gravity of the world's oil may shift from the Gulf of Mexico to the Caribbean region to the Persian Gulf region of the Middle East. As long as we can effectively influence the region's oil production and transportation channels, half of the veins of the capitalist world economy will be in our hands. ”

Lin Jun was confident, but Stalin was blindly confident - love will be a magical prophet and doer, who does everything he says and does. Compared with the expansion of the army and the study of the atomic bomb, the investment in the plan, which would be implemented in a few years, was only a small one: a small investment might pay off unexpectedly, and the establishment of at least a few friendly Gulf states would be worth the cost, and Stalin would of course agree with Lin Jun's idea.

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As soon as July passed, Lin Jun took part in a joint military exercise conducted by the Kiev Military District and the Western Special Military District, and the focus of the exercise was the tactics of great depth that the Red Army had always advocated. At the end of the month-long exercises, at a summary meeting in the Kremlin, Zhukov came up with a conclusion that was difficult for most senior commanders to accept for a while: we still have troops who do not know how to defend strategically, but only how to attack.

There are many troops that can attack, but those who are good at defense are not easy to find, and the armies of the whole world are the same. In recent years, the Red Army has begun to attach importance to strategic defense, but apparently the actual situation is that the commanders still like to attack, attack, and attack again!

The guiding ideology of strategy is to attack, and it is really not easy for them to defend. Things have to be done step by step, at least the troops are already mentally prepared for how to conduct defensive battles.

Throughout September, Lin Jun and the officers of the General Staff were working out a new strategic deployment plan for the defense in depth, and the plan for how to attack had been perfected, and now it was only necessary to improve how to be beaten as much as possible.

The strategic development in the west made Lin Jun a little uneasy, and the Germans had already assembled a large number of ships in the Ermer Canal, which caused difficulties in river navigation in the German mainland and the occupied areas, but there was no major move.

The Luftwaffe and the British Royal Air Force took up fire and fought over the Channel and the British Isles. The weather has entered autumn, the weather in Moscow is getting cooler, and Lin Jun wants to scold Hitler more and more for being a fool.!

In the German plan in memory, the front of the landing attack was thirty kilometers, and the Luftwaffe was completely able to gain air supremacy and cover the large number of landing ships, and within a certain range, the British powerful Royal Navy could not enter the Channel area at all, unless they wanted to die. As soon as the German troops landed, the British did not even have enough counterattack troops.

"Didn't Hitler understand that it was impossible to completely destroy the air power of another air power with the Air Force alone, and in the end it was necessary to rely on the ground forces." Lin Jun said to Andlupf during a small talk.

"The Luftwaffe did not have the ability to completely eliminate the British Air Force, and their own losses would be even greater, and they were fully capable of achieving the local air and sea supremacy required for landing, but they fought all the way over other people's land, it was not worth it!" Andlupuf could also see the problems of the German army.

Did Hitler really want to completely solve Britain with the air force? Or do you have another idea? Perhaps there will never be a definitive answer. But Lin Jun had already received a convincing answer, and on October 1, the Germans still did not cross the English Channel.

Although the Luftwaffe's air raids on the British Isles are getting bigger and bigger, and the intelligence obtained from the German mainland also shows that Germany continues to prepare for an attack on the British mainland, Lin Jun has been able to give himself a clear answer: Hitler's hostility to the Soviet Union has made him lose his mind, and he wants the whole world to believe that the German army will attack Britain when it is ready next spring, but this is just Hitler's smoke bomb.

Next spring, or at the latest, the Germans will attack the Soviet Union, and Hitler will have to deal with the last formidable opponent on the continent. (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) (To be continued.) )