The solemn "Internationale" sounded in the streets and alleys of Moscow, and people who were on the road or busy with their work all stood up in unison, watching the loudspeakers one by one, holding their breath, and waiting for the broadcast after the "Internationale" ended. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

On March 31, 1944, TASS reported that "a solemn male voice sounded after the end of "The Internationale", sounding as if announcing the death of a great leader, "the struggle of the heroic Leningrad Army Group had basically ended yesterday afternoon." The overwhelming majority of the commanders, fighters, and political workers of the Leningrad Army were brave and fearless in the face of the fascist bandits, who were absolutely superior in numbers and weaponry, and put up the most resolute resistance, inflicting heavy casualties on the fascist bandits. However, they also suffered huge casualties, lost all their personnel and equipment, and most of the commanders, fighters, and political workers, including the commander and political commissar of the Leningrad Army, all died heroically, and the organized resistance ended yesterday afternoon, and the city of Leningrad fell to the ......"

Hearing this, all the people on the street opened their mouths wide, and many people were sobbing quietly.

What the hell is going on with the fall of the second capital of the great Motherland, the destruction of the heroic Leningrad Front?

Don't...... Is the cause of GCISM really going to fail?

Just when everyone was feeling panicked and flustered, a voice with a Georgian accent sounded that reassured them.

"Soldiers of the Red Army and the Red Navy, commanders and political functionaries, male and female workers, collective farm men and women, intellectual laborers, brothers and sisters in the rear of the enemy, temporarily trapped under the oppression of bandits! Our glorious partisan men and women who are destroying the rear of the Germans!

On behalf of the Soviet Government and we, the Bolshevik Party, I appeal to you: for the sake of our great Soviet Fatherland and the ideals of GCISM, unite and overcome difficulties, fight all fronts, including the front, behind enemy lines, at sea, in the air and on the fronts of labour and production, overcome all difficulties and deal the heaviest blow to the enemy......

In the end, victory will be ours, there is no doubt about it. Because my country has had times that are even more critical than the current situation. Recall the situation in 1918. At that time, three quarters of our territory was in the hands of foreign armed interventionists. We temporarily lost Ukraine, the Caucasus, Central Asia, the Urals, Siberia and the Far East. At that time we had no allies, no Red Army - we were just beginning to create the Red Army - there was not enough food, there were not enough weapons, there was a shortage of clothing. At that time, fourteen countries were besieging our country. But we have not been discouraged, nor have we been discouraged. At that time we organized the Red Army in the flames of war and turned our country into barracks. At that time, the great spirit of Lenin inspired us to go to war against armed interventionists. The result? We routed the armed interventionists, regained all lost ground, and won the victory.

We are in a much better position today than we were 26 years ago. Our country is many times richer than it was 26 years ago, both in terms of industry, food and raw materials. We now have the Allies united with us against the German aggressors. We now have the sympathy and support of the peoples of Europe, who were oppressed by the Nazi tyranny. We now have a sophisticated army and navy to stand up to defend the freedom and independence of the motherland. We do not feel a serious shortage of food, weapons or clothing. Our whole country, our people of all nationalities, have unanimously supported our army and navy and helped them to crush the invading bandit army of the German fascists. Our personnel backlog is endless. Now the spirit of the great Lenin and the banner of his victory, too, inspire us to fight the Great Patriotic War, as they did twenty-six years ago......"

There was a soft "click", and a radio donated by the United States in Stalin's office in the Kremlin was turned off.

Stalin turned around and looked at his son Yakov, who had just made a detour from Petrograd to Turkey to answer Moscow. He sighed softly and said, "I'm probably about to become a joke in the eyes of the enemy, right?" I really thought that the Leningrad Army Group fought to the end......"

"Father......" Yakov. Dzhugashvili tried to persuade, but did not know how to speak.

Stalin waved his hand and stopped his son's words. A "glorious funeral" for the Leningrad Army Group is a must!

Otherwise, the Leningrad Army Group will turn into a shaky domino, and the Warsaw, Crimea, and Minsk armies will follow one by one.

However, even if Stalin pinched his nose and recognized the identity of the "martyr" of the Leningrad Army, the truth could not be concealed for long. At least the generals of the besieged Warsaw, Crimean and Minsk armies will soon know what is really going on.

In particular, the Warsaw Army Group has been trapped for too long and will run out of supplies. At that time, even if Vasilevsky was determined to be a martyr, it would be impossible for the hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers below to starve to death with him.

The collapse of Army Group Warsaw was only a matter of time...... And it won't be for long.

In addition, as soon as the Leningrad Army Group surrendered, the main forces of the German Army Group North and the White Russian army were completely liberated.

If all these armies were to be thrown into the Kalinin front, the planned counterattack of the "Red Guards" would have much less chance of victory.

Thinking of this, Stalin sighed again: "Yakov, you go to the United States immediately, and I will instruct Litvinov to arrange for you, take your wife and children with you." ”

"Father, what about you?" Yakov looked at this great father, who was not very close to him.

Stalin shook his head and smiled coldly: "I can't leave Moscow...... The cause of GCISM must be watered with blood, the blood of the enemy and the blood of the martyrs! ”

He clenched his fists and lowered his voice: "Even if the Soviet Union is temporarily destroyed, our cause has not failed. Because Hitler and Hersmann may be able to defeat us with the powerful military power of capitalist Europe, but they will absolutely not be able to solve the national and class contradictions that have intensified because of European unity. ”

Stalin paused, and then added: "The Germans have put most of Europe into a community and want to turn them into citizens of a united state. However, they ignore the contradictions that arise as a result...... Yakov, can you imagine that in the future poor Russian workers, Spanish workers, Ukrainian workers, and workers from other underdeveloped regions of Europe will be free to go to Berlin, Paris, and London to work? How many jobs will this take away? When the time comes, the capitalists will certainly take advantage of this opportunity to drastically depress wages. In this way, overproduction and economic crises will arise. Countless working class Europeans who have nothing and are hungry and cold will eventually become believers in GCISM! As long as our faith is not extinguished, there will inevitably be a day when red flags will be planted all over Europe in the future!

Do you understand? You must live to see this day! ”

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While Stalin and his son were talking about the "aftermath," Hersmann was having a somewhat difficult meeting with Prince Yusupov, chief of the General Staff of the Russian Imperial Army, in the building of the Russian Imperial General Staff near the Winter Palace, which had just been recaptured.

The talks were about the war west of the Ural Mountains - according to Hersmann, the war with the Bolsheviks should be divided into two phases.

The first stage was to drive the Bolsheviks east of the Ural Mountains and to recover all of the Russian Empire's territory in Europe.

And after the completion of the first stage of the task, Europe should have a period of recuperation and resumption of production. Because the long war has reduced half of Europe to ruins, if it is not restored and the people can live and work in peace and contentment, perhaps the Soviet Bolsheviks have not been extinguished, and the Bolsheviks from other countries on this side of Europe have risen up to make revolutions, as happened in the First World War.

While production resumes in Europe, the United States also needs to suppress it. Now that the United States and Japan are fighting in the Hawaiian Islands, the General Staff of the German Wehrmacht is deeply suspicious, although the Japanese have just held a grand celebration of victory. Very worried that the Japanese would be defeated by the United States in a few months!

According to the latest Japanese reports, the Americans have now landed on the beachhead of Niihau, and have been killed by the invincible Imperial Japanese Army...... But the losses have been heavy for almost a week, and the Americans do not seem to have been driven into the sea, which does not bode well.

And once the Americans gain a foothold on Niihau, the next thing is that the US Army Air Corps and the Japanese shore-based aviation will fight for attrition, and this will not win under any circumstances. In Hersman's memory, there is data on the losses of American pilots (crew members) in the European and Pacific theaters of World War II. Seventy-two thousand pilots (crew members) were killed or wounded in the European theater and 27,000 in the Pacific theater.

It's almost like three in Europe and one in the Pacific.

However, there is no European battlefield to bleed American pilots, although there is a Guyana-Caribbean theater, but the scale of operations in this battlefield so far is much smaller than that of the European theater in history, not one-tenth of it, and the ceiling is about 5%, and it will not kill many American pilots at all.

Therefore, the strength that the United States can use in the Pacific theater is far greater than that of the same period in history, and even if Japan occupies the Hawaiian Islands, a natural sea fortress, defeat is still to be expected.

Unless Germany switches its forces to the Caribbean theater after the initial defeat of the Soviet Union, and pulls the main American forces from the Hawaiian theater back to the Caribbean theater.

Of course, the two reasons that Hersman and Yusupov are saying now are actually excuses. What really made Germany ready to stop the offensive after helping White Russia to take the west of the Ural Mountains was that there was still no way to digest the huge population of the Russian nation.