Since the General Intelligence of the Red Army was now under the de facto control of Alexander, since he, the General Political Commissar of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, held the intelligence agencies of the entire Soviet Union in one hand, Colonel-General Jan Karlovich Berzin became the de facto supreme leader of the Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army and the Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Behind closed doors, Berzin had several other pieces of information to report this time - Stalin and others already knew the information sent back from Berlin, Lin Jun did not yet know - this was only Alexander's opinion, and Lin Jun could not say it: he knew Hitler.

After listening to Berzin's report, Lin Jun said to Alexander, who had a serious face: "Comrade General Political Commissar, you are now Hitler's top priority target to eliminate him, but you must protect yourself." ”

Alexander smiled, he did not care at all about Hitler's threats: Hitler demanded the complete elimination of political workers in the Red Army in the war against the USSR, and Alexander became the "highest target" besides Stalin.

This order was formulated by Hitler in Berlin at the beginning of last month, when he summoned the heads of the three armies of the Third Reich and the important field commanders of the army, and set this rule: "Because of the realities of the war against Russia, no war can be waged in a knightly manner, and this struggle is a struggle of ideological and ethnic differences, which must be carried out in an unprecedented, merciless and harsh manner." All officers must abandon outdated ideas! ”

Hitler knew that the necessity of waging war in this way was incomprehensible to many of his generals, but Hitler absolutely insisted: his generals must carry out his orders without disobedience! The political commissars of Soviet Russia were the propagators of ideologies that were contrary to National Socialism, and therefore the political commissars in the Red Army were to be eliminated.

Hitler decreed that the army should forgive German soldiers who had violated international law, because Russia was not a party to the Hague Convention and therefore could not enjoy any rights under this Convention.

The Hague Convention was worthless in Hitler's eyes, he did not respect it much in the war on the Western Front, and he had no intention of practicing any humanitarianism in the Soviet Union: to use German artillery to fight for land for German ploughs, and the fertile soil of Eastern Europe was the best option. In Poland, the Nazi extermination program had already begun to be carried out, and now it was to be used on a larger scale in the Soviet Union, and the political workers of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army would be the first targets.

To this end, Hitler secretly issued the so-called "Political Commissar Order". Should the German generals obey the Chancellor's orders to commit war crimes, or should they act according to their own conscience?

Some of the generals were so angry at this order that they protested to their commander-in-chief, Brauchitsch. But the spineless field marshal promised that he would "oppose the form of order issued." But it is clear that Brauchitsch did not have the right to cancel this order directly. ”

Before the war began, Germany had drawn up an elaborate plan for the largest conquest in its history: first, the European part of Russia would be divided into so-called imperial regions, the former Western Ukraine and Western Belarus would become a German protectorate called Ostland, Ukraine would become "an independent state in alliance with Germany", the oil-rich Caucasus would be ruled by a German "plenipotentiary", and the three Baltic states and Belarus would form a German protectorate ready to be directly incorporated into the Greater German Empire.

Different dominations were carried out in terms of "historical and ethnic conditions": the Germanization of the Baltic peoples, who were ethnically assimilable, and the "exililation of undesirable elements". In Latvia and Estonia, mass deportations will be carried out, and those deported will be replaced by Germans, preferably veterans - the Baltic Sea must become the inland sea of Germany!

The second part of the intelligence was a "plan of treatment" for the Soviet civilian population: Hitler believed that for the work of feeding the German people, at the top of the list of German claims to the East, the southern territories of Russia had to serve to feed the German people!

Hitler saw absolutely no reason why Germany was obliged to feed the Russian people with the products of this rich region as well, and that the Russians would be very sad in the years to come, and that the Germans were deliberately plotting to starve millions of Russians to death!

Last month, Goering, the fat man who ran the economic power of the Third Reich, made a plan that was much more detailed than Hitler's: his Eastern Economic Office issued a directive that surplus grain from the black soil belt of southern Russia must not be transported to the Soviet people in the industrial areas, where industry was to be destroyed. The workers and their families in these regions will have to wait to starve to death - or, if they can live, they will move to Siberia, where they will have to ship the large quantities of grain produced in Russia to the German people!

Any attempt by the Industrial Strategic Zone to save the inhabitants from starvation by transporting surplus food from the Black Earth Belt would affect the supply of Europe, weaken Germany's staying power in the war, and undermine the strength of Germany and Europe to resist the blockade.

Goering demanded that the future ruling institutions of Eastern Europe must understand this clearly and completely: the whole of Eastern Europe needed to serve only the good Germans, and the inferior peoples needed to be wiped off the face of the earth.

Has any German, even a German, ever protested against the brutality of this plan, this deliberate plan to starve millions of people to death?

There was no opposition - not even the opposition of some generals to the "Political Commissar Order".

"The plan was not just the hubris, evil fantasies of delirious lunatics like Hitler, Goering, Himmler and Rosenberg, German officials were busy adding up a few figures, writing memos, coldly planning the slaughter of millions of people. This time it is to exterminate the Russian nation by starvation, and in the future there will be plans for faster and more powerful methods to slaughter millions of people! ”

Lin Jun used to think that he would only have enough hatred for the enemy's army, but the struggle in the past few years has made that concept begin to change: war, not a military goodwill mission! It is obviously unrealistic to only set the target within a certain range, and what needs to be destroyed in a full-scale war is everything of the opponent, not only the army, but also the opponent's ideology and the basis of the army - the population!

Hitler obviously wanted to take that extreme thinking to the extreme, so how did he need to deal with it?

Alexander and Berzin were not fuel-efficient lamps, and these forceful measures did not require the bothering of a military commander like Lin Jun - the Nazi officials would not want to live, and since they were thinking about how to exterminate others and commit genocide, they had to have the consciousness that they would be dealt with after losing the war. Since they believed that the USSR did not participate in the Hague Convention and that Germany could do as it pleased, it was time for the Germans to understand what "non-humanitarianism" was all about.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, Lin Jun left the Ministry of Internal Affairs in advance and went home to change his clothes. He was about to leave for the Kremlin, where a grand celebration awaited him.

The Kremlin Banquet Hall, the members of the Central ********** Standing Committee had arrived, and all the senior Soviet generals in Moscow were basically present -- the air raids planned by Lin Jun played a decisive role in the Soviet strategy and gave the Soviet Union a very advantageous position in the game with Germany.

"Well done, Andrey!" Stalin kissed Lin Jun on the cheek like a father and asked him to sit next to him.

After some routine speeches, the ceremony officially began, and Kalinin personally handed Lin Jun the box containing the Order of Lenin. Comrade Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet had a smile on his face, and the leaders of the Soviets stood on the sidelines and applauded and congratulated.

Lin Jun sat on Stalin's left side and Voroshinov on the other side of himself in the group photo - this photo also reveals the actual position of the Supreme High Command to be formed: Lin Jun will have more power than the People's Commissar of Defense.

In the recent major moves of the Soviets, Lin Jun has played the most important role, and Voroshinov, the "first marshal of the Red Army", is obviously more like the minister of logistics, which is well known to the top leaders of the whole Soviet Union. Vrosinov and Budyonny's authority was much worse than before, and although they did not lose as much power as they did in history, Lin Jun's prestige in the Red Army had overshadowed both of them.

In terms of age, Voroshinov, Budyonny and Lin Jun are not competitive in comparison, and Lin Jun has always maintained enough respect for the two marshals and never took the initiative to compete for power, and the two marshal comrades did not get along with Lin Jun.

Since it is the trend of the times, why not push the boat with the current.

In a private conversation with Budyonny, Voroshinov once discussed Comrade Andrei: with unparalleled strategic insight and, after sufficient experience, he was the best person to lead the Soviet Union in the future.

Never thinking about fighting for power is not a "quality that a leader needs", but Lin Jun can use people, and Alexander can maintain a sufficient balance of power. Never soft on their enemies, this is what the two marshals value most of Lin Jun - to lead a huge country in the future, in the eyes of Voroshinov and Budyonny, this is a necessary quality.

Lin Jun never wanted to oust Voroshinov from the post of People's Commissar of Defense, and the two marshals knew this in their hearts -- if Lin Jun wanted to do this, he could do it. Now, on the contrary, Stalin was a little anxious to give himself more power, and this time he just took advantage of the German threat to redeploy the command of the army - the "Minister of Defense" was still Voroshinov, but the real decision-making power was above him.

In the future, it belongs to young people. (To be continued.) )