Stalin knew very well that Cheng Gong was not belittling the industrial and technological level of the Soviet Union when he said this, but that it was so.

The USSR has been planning to create aircraft carriers since 1920, but for various reasons, this program has been put on hold.

It was not until the Royal Air Force of the Donghua Empire used aircraft to kill the British Royal Navy's aid to Australia, the Japanese Navy's aircraft carrier battle group wiped out the British Far East Fleet, and all countries in the world began to attach importance to aircraft carriers, that Stalin made up his mind to build aircraft carriers.

In today's aircraft carrier technology in all countries in the world, the Donghua Empire is undoubtedly the first in deservedly.

Therefore, when Soviet intelligence officers from Japan worried that the Donghua Empire still had a sliding-deck aircraft carrier that did not need a steam catapult to take off, Stalin did not hesitate to decide to buy this aircraft carrier that the Japanese did not want for the time being from Cheng Gong.

Before coming to Donghua, Stalin learned through Soviet experts that the aircraft carrier steam catapult was not at all something that the Soviet Union could currently manufacture. Even if a large aircraft carrier is purchased from Donghua, the repair and maintenance of the aircraft carrier's steam catapult device still has to rely on the professional team sent by the Donghua Empire to be responsible.

As an aircraft carrier battle group as a strategic and tactical strike force, there were technicians from the Donghua Empire stationed in it, and Stalin felt unhappy just thinking about this.

Who dares to guarantee that there must be no hidden spies among these professional and technical personnel of the Donghua Empire?!

This was intolerable for Comrade Stalin, who had always paid attention to the purity of the Soviet Red Army.

Now suddenly a new aircraft carrier without a steam catapult has appeared, and Stalin, of course, did not want to miss it.

It's just that Stalin now understands that Cheng Gong, a cunning little fox, will definitely not nod so easily.

Thinking that Cheng Gong would rather dismantle the 016 ship as scrap metal and return it to the furnace than sell it to the Soviet Union happily, Stalin felt aggrieved and uncomfortable.

The Soviet Union must intensify the construction of the scientific and technological research and development team! The idea that science and technology are the primary productive forces must be thoroughly implemented in the practice of government work.

It seems necessary to re-examine the large number of scientific workers suspected of being Trotskyists. Stalin secretly made up his mind that when he returned, he would have to use all these intellectuals who had been sent to the Far East to be reformed through labor and let them continue to contribute to the Soviet Union.

The current international political landscape is undergoing unprecedented, profound and complex changes. Although the shadow of the world economic crisis has disappeared, the wars in Europe and Asia have made more and more countries realize that World War II is inevitable.

The center of gravity of power in the world is undergoing a historic shift, and the international strategic pattern is undergoing strategic adjustment. This was a once-in-a-lifetime historic opportunity for the Soviet Union, which had been excluded from the international community.

Now that World War II is about to become a global theme, the geo/political rivalry between the great powers is bound to continue. Under this new world pattern, the Soviet Union needed a springboard to return to the international community and participate in the struggle between the great powers.

The Donghua Empire was undoubtedly Stalin's best and only option.

Among the top leaders of the Soviets, an alliance with the East had long been proposed to counter the strategic encirclement of the Soviet Union by the capitalist world. But there are also those who believe that we should sit back and watch the tiger fight, and let the contradictions between the two camps of the Axis and the Allies be stimulated to reap the benefits of the fisherman.

However, Stalin believed that none of these ideas went beyond the thinking of "great power struggle", and failed to understand the historical premise of the development of Soviet-Eastern relations, the strategic needs of the common rise of the two countries, and the common responsibility for the global challenges of the imminent outbreak of World War II.

Therefore, before his visit to China, Stalin proposed at a meeting of the Supreme Presidium of the Soviets that relations between the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe should adhere to the strategic guiding principle of "friendship from generation to generation, equality and mutual trust, advancing and retreating together, not engaging in friction and friction, and not targeting any third party", according to the strategic needs of the rise of the two countries' powers, regard the revitalization of the other side as their own opportunity, and strive to tap endogenous driving forces to achieve common development.

It can be said that Stalin's current visit to China came with unprecedented sincerity. At the same time, he was also mentally prepared to be slaughtered by Cheng Gong.

That night, when the Imperial Palace proposed to Cheng Gong a large military purchase order of 300 C54 transport planes, 300 B29 long-range strategic bombers, 300 Qiang-5 multifunctional combat attack aircraft, and 20 Kilo-class diesel-electric submarines, Stalin originally thought that Cheng Gong would not agree. Because this means that the Soviet Union can get a complete set of production lines and related production process drawings for C54, B29 and Qiang-5 from Donghua. Unexpectedly, Cheng Gong nodded his head quite simply.

It was also because of this large military purchase order as the basis that Stalin was so eager to invite Cheng Gong to come to the Pacific Shipbuilding Industry Group together.

Based on Stalin's understanding of Cheng Gong, as long as Cheng Gong agreed to sell the unfinished 016 ship to the Soviet Union, he would definitely package a complete set of drawings of the 016 ship and hand it over to the Soviet side. Perhaps a team of Donghua experts will be sent to the Soviet Union to guide the work.

What kind of mentality Stalin was, Cheng Gong could certainly figure out how to figure out eight or nine and not leave ten.

Promising to accompany Stalin to the Pacific Shipbuilding Industry Group, Cheng Gong never thought of rejecting Stalin's proposal. It's just that this shelf has to be held when it should be held. Things that are too easy to get are generally not appreciated very much.

Whether it was Stalin's speech at the airport or Molotov's answering reporters' questions in Moscow, Cheng Gong was quite satisfied with the low profile and sincerity shown by the Soviet Union.

In order to completely defeat US imperialism in the future, in addition to letting the vicious dog of Japan act as the vanguard, it is also necessary to pull the Soviet Union together to export the proletarian armed revolutionary struggle movement in the United States and neighboring countries.

It was impossible for the Soviet Union to join the Allies, much less to turn the Soviet Union into the Axis camp. The best way is for the East and the Soviet Union to join forces and become a third power independent of the two camps of the Axis and the Allies, and then form the Paradise Island Cooperation Organization!

The idea of establishing a Paradise Island Cooperation Organization, Cheng Gong originally planned to wait for Stalin to bring it up to him on the eve of his return, since Stalin is now in such a hurry to buy the 016 ship back to start the Soviet Union's aircraft carrier program, Cheng Gong thought that maybe he could take this opportunity to have a showdown with Stalin.

After leaving the Pacific Shipbuilding Industry Co., Ltd., Cheng Gong and Stalin returned to the Imperial Palace in a Rolls-Royce Phantom VIP car.

I don't know who first revealed it, but the news that the Soviet Union was going to buy large aircraft carriers from Donghua was spread by the media and reporters of various countries on the paradise island in less than an hour.

Soon, the explosive news that Tianpan Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. and Pacific Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co., Ltd. had cooperated to build four new aircraft carriers quickly became the front page headlines of all mainstream media and newspapers around the world.

Germany ordered a new aircraft carrier from Donghua, and Japan ordered two new aircraft carriers in Donghua, and this information was quickly obtained by the military intelligence agencies of Britain, France, and the United States.

Damn the Donghua Empire! It turned out to add three more heavy aircraft carriers to the Axis powers!

We also need aircraft carriers! The senior admirals of the British Royal Navy and the French Navy simultaneously rushed to the cabinets of their respective countries.

(To be continued.) )