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The situation in the USSR deteriorated. The Germans declared that Stalin was dead and the USSR was destroyed.

This was what happened on 10 April, and according to German sources, on this day, a detachment of German bombers got lost, and when they finally got to the vicinity of the target, they saw a secret building on the outskirts of Yekaterinburg, which was heavily defended, and bombed the building with all their bombs.

After the bombing, it took several days for the German command to realize the importance of the matter. Because the command of the Soviet Union was suddenly chaotic, and the troops suddenly lost their unified command, although the troops were still fighting stubbornly according to their own strategies, the national coordination was chaotic, and it was obvious that something had happened to the Soviet Central Committee.

With the defeat of several local battlefields of the Soviet army due to poor coordination, the Germans immediately recognized this. At this time, the intelligence of the spy confirmed this without exception.

Germany announced this conclusion on April 16.

For a few days, Stalin's voice was gone, and on April 24, the Germans again announced that Stalin had died in the bombing, that the Central Committee of the CPSU had been wiped out, and that the Soviet Union had perished. This time, they published very detailed evidence.

World public opinion was in an uproar.

In the past two years, world public opinion has generally been very supportive of the Soviet Union, the American people have sympathy for the Soviet Union, and the US Government has received a large amount of support for the Soviet Union. Britain and other Western European countries were also looking forward to the victory of the Soviet Union over Germany.

Now, Germany has declared the end of the Soviet Union, and they are the most disappointed.

Countries outside of Europe began to work closely together to discuss the situation after the fall of the Soviet Union. Just one day later, a number of countries declared neutrality and annulled the decision to declare war with Germany and other Axis powers.

At present, the only major powers fighting against the Axis powers are China, Britain and the United States, and the Soviet Union has been silent for the past few days, and the outside world has pinned its hopes on China and the United States.

The Japanese troops facing the Soviet army in Novosibirsk clearly felt the decline in the combat effectiveness of the Soviet army on the opposite side, the opposing tanks did not move, the planes did not fly, only the infantry was still fighting, however, the morale of the soldiers was very low and not as good as before.

It was a fortuitous event, a fortuitous event that changed the course of the war. It was also an inevitable event, as the Soviet Air Force lost air supremacy, and the Germans continued to bomb Soviet strategic targets.

After the German occupation of Stalingrad, they soon occupied the Caucasus and parts of Transcaucasus. Although the people and the army in the mountains of the Caucasus are still resisting, the oil fields and plains belong to the Germans.

The Germans crossed the Volga and pushed along the northern shore of the Caspian Sea towards Central Asia, where aircraft began to bomb.

Millions of Soviet troops on the east side of the Volga put up desperate resistance, and by the end of March, the Soviets had basically exhausted their stored fuel. Because the main source of oil was gone, for almost a month, the Soviet army ran out of fuel, the only means of transportation were trains, and all fuel vehicles stopped running.

The combat effectiveness of the Soviet army dropped sharply, and it was only possible to rely on the guns and flesh and blood of the infantry to defend against the German tanks, planes and artillery.

The most important thing was that the Soviet planes could not take off and completely lost air supremacy.

The Germans, on the other hand, were well fueled.

The Germans regained the effectiveness of their blitzkrieg in Western Europe, indiscriminately bombarded Central Asia, and ground forces advanced rapidly. Because Central Asia was an arid region, the roads in the spring were not muddy at all, and the German mechanized units advanced quickly and quickly occupied the capital of Kazakhstan. Aircraft used it as a base to bomb the capitals of several other union republics.

On April 24, the Soviet Union responded again, saying that Stalin was not dead, but alive. The central government is still there, and the political and political bureaus are still there. At the same time, Stalin's personal letters were published.

Earlier, after Germany announced Stalin's death for the first time, the Soviet Union Rick issued official news to clarify the facts, and Stalin was still alive.

But because they didn't let Stalin on the road, the outside world didn't believe it at all.

On April 25, the Soviet Union released a photo of Stalin.

At this point, Stalin's life and death did not seem to be in question, and the restoration of order in the Soviet army also proved this. But the matter did not end, the German side published new evidence that the Soviet government was cheating, Stalin died, and now there is a stand-in, and the photo is old.

However, there seems to be some confusion in Germany, because there is also news in Germany that Stalin was indeed not dead, but wounded, and he was wounded in the bombing. This explains all the doubts.

However, the German and Japanese armies reaped great benefits on the battlefield of the Soviet Union during these ten days, battlefield victories, swing countries courting the Axis powers, the Allies hesitated, and so on. The Germans quickly occupied Yekaterinburg, and instead of troops along the railway, they rapidly advanced eastward, trying to join the Japanese army.

China has three different attitudes on this matter.

One was Nanjing, which rejoiced, and there were several Chongqing-led forces behind enemy lines near Nanjing who surrendered to the Nanjing Wang Jingwei government.

The second is Chongqing, which has a pessimistic atmosphere. On the surface, people were only worried that the Soviet Union would be able to hold on, but in private, some people had already found a way to contact Nanjing.

The last one is Yan'an, Yan'an's attitude is intriguing. First of all, they did not believe that the USSR would collapse and that the USSR would win. It is believed that Stalin died because Yan'an did not immediately deny it. Immediately, Yan'an intensified its fighting with the Japanese army.

The Japanese army did not receive much benefit from this incident.

Because the Japanese army was copied by the Northeast Coalition Army, the enemy suffered from the enemy, especially the food source was cut off, and the panic spread throughout the army. There were 300,000 or 400,000 Soviet troops in front and 200,000 troops in the northeast in the back, which was very bad.

Now, knowing that the Soviet Union is finished, he has regained his strength, is ready to attack westward, join forces with the German army, and then pull the German army back to defeat the Eighth Route Army.

The Japanese army had two choices, one was to turn back to the east, take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Northeast Coalition Army, kill them back, and reseize the railway line. One was to attack the Soviet army to the west, join forces with the Germans, and then attack the Northeast Allied Army with the Germans.

The upper echelons of the Japanese army and the upper echelons of the German army, the Japanese government and the German government, began to argue fiercely.

Information came from the lurking White Russians, and the Soviet troops on the opposite side were disheartened, and some of their troops were transferred to defend the center of the Soviet Union. In addition, in order to persuade the Japanese army to flank the Soviet army to the west, the German army intensified its offensive and wanted to join forces with the Japanese army.

In the end, the idea of attacking to the west prevailed. The reason is simple, the Soviet army in the west is dying; We had to rely on the Germans to wear down the enemy.

The Japanese offensive became fierce.

The Japanese army seemed to be in the middle of nowhere, and threw all the forces in their hands into the battlefield. Aircraft, tanks, and artillery were dispatched together, and although the Soviet troops on the opposite side resisted, because they lost air supremacy, two days later, the position was lost, and the Soviet troops, who had been annihilated by more than 100,000 people, began to retreat, and the Japanese army paid the price of 70,000 or 80,000 people. The Japanese army crossed the river and marched along the railway towards Novosibirsk.

At the same time, the Japanese Foreign Ministry also put pressure on Germany to quickly occupy Siberia and join the Japanese army.

The hearts of the people of the world have tightened.

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1. By September 20, 1945, the total value of supplies actually shipped by the United States to the Soviet Union was $10.2 billion, plus other expenses, totaling $10.9 billion ($9.8 billion according to Soviet statistics).

2. On May 6, 1941, Roosevelt officially announced that the Lend-Lease Act applied to China, and by September 3, 1945, the United States had given China $845 million in aid.

3. The Soviet side later believed that the supplies aided by the United States accounted for only a few percent of the war. But those who emphasize the role of U.S. aid argue that U.S. metal-cutting machine tools, special steels, aluminum, automobiles, automobile tires, and high-octane fuels played a key role in the Soviet Union's war against Germany.