785 Sunset of the Soviet Empire XII Stalin's People's War

“…… Citizens of the Soviet Fatherland, citizens of the city of Moscow! Russia is big, but we have no way back! The Motherland has reached the most dangerous moment, and the fascist bandits, armed to the teeth, have broken through the city of Moscow and are storming on Red Square! Comrade Stalin and all the members of the Politburo, the Central Committee, and the Revolutionary Military Committee who remained in Moscow have taken up arms and are fighting or preparing to fight the ferocious enemy to the end! Heroic citizens of Moscow, now take up all the weapons you can use to fight and fight to the last breath against the invading enemy! ”

On July 12, 1938, loudspeakers scattered through the streets of Moscow began to broadcast the above repeatedly. At the same time, the party secretaries, district chiefs, and other leading cadres of the various districts of Moscow personally led the mobilization of citizens to join the Red Guards in the defense of Moscow in shelters crowded with ordinary citizens...... All citizens who joined the Red Guards received a ration sufficient to fill their bellies, and those who refused to join the Red Guards were left to starve - this genius was devised by the head of the General Political Department of the Soviet Red Army, General Mehlis.

Boxes of poorly manufactured grenades were also carried to the Red Guard command posts in the various districts. Every Red Guard can get two of these grenades, and they will have to use such weapons to resist the fascist army with tanks, planes and artillery! However, not as many Muscovites were mobilized as expected, and most of them preferred to wait for Empress Anastasia to enslave them rather than leave the safety of their shelters. Most of the last mobilized were twelve or thirteen-year-old boys, who had grown up in the "honey" generation, full of hatred for the brutal Tsar and eager to realize their life values in the aggression against the fascist bandits......

"Hey! Hi! Hi! Hao Baixiong, you're crazy! Those are children, how can you fire at them with an automatic rifle......"

The voice of Lieutenant Colonel Wang Qirui, deputy chief of staff of the 52nd Division of the 18th Army, suddenly sounded in Hao Baixiong's ears. Ever since his battalion broke through the city of Moscow, from time to time groups of Soviet boys have been charging at their troops with grenades. At first, these Chinese invaders took it lightly, and they didn't take the Soviet children seriously, until those damn grenades exploded, and they didn't know what a people's war was!

"Deputy Chief of Staff Wang! You can't kill them, they have grenades in their hands! Hao Baixiong glanced back at Wang Qirui, and after explaining, he picked up the automatic rifle and began to shoot.

"What!?" Lieutenant Colonel Wang Da hurriedly picked up the binoculars and took a closer look, sure enough, these childish children, with a red rope tied around their necks, really held grenades in their hands, and rushed towards the infantry battalion commanded by Hao Baixiong, who occupied half of the street, in groups! And it is to go forward and succeed, and it is not afraid of death! Compared with the Soviet uncles I met on the outskirts of Moscow before, I am much braver, and I am really a hero out of a teenager! Chief of Staff Wang admired it in his heart, and then he remembered what was going on.

"Hao Baixiong, after killing these children, turn right in your camp, there is a straight and wide street." Wang Qirui gestured with his hand and said: "That street is called Lenin Avenue, and you will fight along Lenin Avenue all the way to the Moscow River." On the other side of the river is Red Square, and the Kremlin is there, so maybe Stalin can be caught! The 467th and 468th battalions will attack with you, and you will all be under my command for the time being. ”

As he spoke, he looked at the dozen or so German tanks in front of him and added another one. "Let these German tanks attack with you, and we will go and capture Stalin together!"

This tank company had been fighting in coordination with Hao Baixiong's infantry battalion since the day before yesterday, and it had fought all the way from the outskirts of Moscow, and the Soviet troops defeated along the way added up to at least one division!

"Okay, Deputy Chief of Staff Wang, I know! Attack along Lenin Avenue and go capture Stalin! If I catch him, I have to ask, how can he bear to let these children die? Hao Baixiong replied loudly. At this time, he seemed to have forgotten how he could have come to the capital of the Soviet Union to kill people and set fires?

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The battle of Moscow, by the fourth day, had turned into a fierce street battle, Lenin Street, Stalin Street, Zaix Road, Korams Road...... Fierce battles were taking place on every major road leading to Red Square. Budyonny used all his strength to resist desperately, trying every means to delay the offensive of the Chinese and German armies. The Chinese and German armies, on the other hand, used overwhelming superiority in strength and firepower to advance steadily and steadily for the camp step by step.

Judging from the map of Marshal Budyonny's headquarters, it is several thick black arrows advancing towards Red Square from the north, west, and south! The eastern side of Moscow remained quiet, and the door to escape seemed to be open. However, the marshal who was good at commanding the cavalry knew very well that this was a conspiracy of the other side, and as long as the hundreds of thousands of defenders in Moscow abandoned the city and fled, the German mechanized corps and the air force would cooperate to wipe them all out! Just like chasing down a retreating infantry with a cavalry tail, chasing can also bring down the opponent.

"Comrade Marshal! It's almost time to leave, and the enemy is about to hit Red Square! Mehris's voice rang in Budyonny's ears. The marshal looked back, and this king of small reports did not know when, and was already standing behind him.

"Comrade Mehris," Budyonny, of course, knew the power of this king of small reports, but he was a little unwilling to abandon Moscow now. He replied with a touch of nonsense: "Do you have any latest instructions from Comrade Stalin?" Where has he been? ”

Mekhlis lowered his voice and said: "Comrade Stalin has arrived at Stalingrad, and his special train will be heading for Tbilisi tonight." ”

Budyonny sighed softly, "Hold on for two more days, and when Comrade Stalin arrives in Tbilisi, it will not be too late for us to break through." ”

Speaking of this breakthrough, it was actually Budyonny's idea, and the old marshal believed that the current news of Stalin's absence in Moscow was a secret that could not be leaked. Not only can't it be leaked now, but it can't be known to others even in the future. So Stalin should have fought in Moscow until the last moment, and then, under the persuasion of his comrades, broke through and left the capital, and later reached Tbilisi to continue leading the struggle of the Bolshevik Party.

"Two days! All right...... Just two days! "Mehris certainly knew that Budyonny's plan made sense. After all, for the sake of Stalin's prestige, of course he could not object.

At this moment, there was another rush of footsteps, and then the door of the war room was slammed open, and everyone looked up to see that it was a bald man with a short stature, who was Nikita, secretary of the Moscow Regional Party Committee and military commissar of the Moscow Front. Sergeyevich. Lieutenant General Khrushchev. Although Khrushchev was only a lieutenant general, the status of the military commissar (political commissar) was determined, and his officers were bigger than all the lieutenant generals, generals, and generals in the Moscow Front, and even bigger than Budyonny!

"What's wrong? Comrade Khrushchev. Budyonny asked.

Seeing Khrushchev's pale face, a very bad premonition hung over Budyonny's heart.

"The Urletov city council has just called, and the 386th Infantry Division, which is stationed there, has retreated to the east this morning! Is this your order? Khrushchev asked Budyonny.

"What!" Budyonny jumped to his feet. "Damn, who made them retreat! No! It's not a retreat, it's an escape, and these cowards actually fled! It's, it's really hateful. ”

"Then it was a whole division of the Red Army that fled......" Khrushchev's face turned even more pale, and of course he knew what this meant - the Moscow Front, or the entire Soviet Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, was disintegrating!

"What now?" Mehris looked at Budyonny in horror.

"What else can I do? I can only grit my teeth and fight it! Budyonny smiled wryly. We must buy time for Comrade Stalin and for the Soviet Union......"

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"Throne! Look, it's St. Basil's Cathedral! ”

Huang Wei's military headquarters has now been relocated to a sturdy building in Moscow, from which several round roofs can be clearly seen in the distance. At this time, a young staff officer pointed to the dome and shouted: "The Kremlin should be next to it!" We're really getting in! ”

Huang Wei raised his binoculars and took a look, the iconic red pentagram didn't know where it went? Maybe it was blown up in an air raid, right? The oddly shaped roofs of St. Basil's Cathedral are still there, and before the battle, the Germans had given the 18th Army a batch of postcards with the main buildings of Moscow, as well as photographs of the main leaders of the Soviet Union...... Although he knew that it would be difficult to catch them, Feng . General Bock still wants to try, what if he can catch Stalin?

"Where is it now?" Huang Wei put down the binoculars and asked Fang Tian, the chief of staff beside him.

"The 52nd and 53rd Divisions are now advancing along Lenin Avenue towards the Moskva River. Now the morale of the Soviet Red Army is low, many units are on the verge of collapse, and it looks like Stalin is really not in Moscow anymore! Fang Tian's face also showed a trace of regret.

Huang Wei smiled faintly: "If you're not there, you're not there!" Our squadron can break into the capital of an imperialist power...... When we were young, we couldn't have imagined it, but this is already good, really good! ”

Huang Wei was slightly stunned, looked at the fireballs rising from time to time in the distance, and said, "That's the Soviet army destroying the bridge over the Moscow River, right?" It looks like they really don't have much fighting spirit, and in a week at most, we can take Moscow. ”

"With Moscow defeated, it's time for the war to end, right?" Fang Tian leaned into Huang Wei's ear and said in a low voice, "The brothers are a little homesick. ”

"The end of the war?" Huang Wei put down the telescope in his hand and smiled faintly, "I'm afraid it's still early, right?" This war has just begun! ”

"What? Just getting started? Fang Tian was stunned and stunned, and looked at Huang Wei who was serious, "Junzao, is there any news?" ”

Huang Wei smiled noncommittally and said, "I'll talk about it later, but now the most important thing for us is to fight this battle." Order the 54th Division to go up as well, and advance to the Moscow River with all its might, our 18th Army will be the first to rush into the Kremlin this time! ”

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Stalin's special train was running on the railway to Tbilisi, and although he was in the car, his heart was still in the Kremlin and in the office where he had commanded the whole Soviet Union. The past few months have been a never-ending nightmare for this GCIST dictator! His empire, a powerful socialist power that had once been so powerful that it made the bourgeoisie of the whole world tremble, was thus destroyed...... There are still some embers, but God knows how long!

"It seems that in the past few years the entire Bolshevik Party has pursued a certain deviation in its line!" Stalin thought to himself. "Otherwise, how could such a powerful country come to this point? Therefore, we must have made a mistake in the line, especially the party's military line...... Tukhachevsky, a traitor and traitor, is to blame for this, and it is precisely because of this erroneous line that the Bolshevik Party has come to this point. ”

Stalin let out a long sigh, took out his carved pipe, loaded it with tobacco, rubbed it on fire, and smoked it slowly. In his heart, he continued to think about the party's line. He thought: "Tukhachevsky's line is pure military adventurism, that is, to use the military power of the Soviet Union to fight a tough battle and fight for attrition!" And the power of imperialism far surpassed that of the Soviet Union. Not to mention the half-hearted Britain, France, and the United States and Poland, which was weak, but also the imperialists and German fascists among the most dangerous enemies of the Soviet Union, China had 10 million tons of steel production before the war, while Germany had 18 million tons. Together, the two are 28 million tons, but what about the USSR? The Soviet Union had only 5 million tons, which was only about one-sixth of that of China and Germany!

This shows that the strength of heavy industry in China and Germany is six times that of the Soviet Union! The Soviet Union simply did not have the capital to fight with them for weapons and consumption. In addition, China has a population of 600 million, and Germany is close to 90 million after annexing Czechoslovakia, Austria, Latvia, and Lithuania, and the total of the two is almost 700 million! And the Soviet Union had only 1670 million, almost a quarter to a fifth of them. Therefore, the Soviet Union was facing an enemy several times stronger than itself, and in the face of such a strong enemy, the Soviet Union's military line was to pin its hopes on fighting a decisive battle with the Red Army with the superior enemy. If you want to use a decisive battle to defeat an enemy who is several times stronger than yourself, the only way to defeat is naturally the only way! Even if one's military command is impeccable, the final result will not be any different, because war is not just fought by relying on the brains of military strategists, but is a contest of comprehensive national strength between the two sides of the war. Therefore, the defeat of the Soviet Union this time was not a mistake in military command, but a mistake in the general line, and if we want to save the Soviet Union, we should first change the military line of the Bolshevik Party and guide it in the right direction! And the correct direction is to give full play to the strengths of the Soviet Union and the Bolshevik Party, and only by fighting the enemy with their own strengths and not their weaknesses can it be possible to achieve the final victory! But what were the strengths of the Soviet Union and the Bolsheviks? The vast territory of the Soviet Union and the harsh natural conditions made it a very serious challenge for any invader. And the organization and leadership of the Bolshevik Party over the Soviet people is unimaginable by any other political force......"

Stalin's thoughts were interrupted by a sudden knock on the door, and in the door came Molotov and Yagoda, both of whom had bad looks on their faces, and it was clear that there was bad news again.

"Comrade Stalin, I have just received an urgent telegram from Moscow that the German fascist army of the Chinese Congress has entered the city of Moscow! Now the Red Army soldiers and the citizens of Moscow are engaged in street battles with them. Yagoda reported to Stalin in some frustration the war report he had just received.

Molotov continued: "Budyonny also reported in the telegram that Moscow would be lost in a week at the earliest, and he asked us to speed up the rush of important supplies......"

"A simple retreat will not save the fate of the motherland!" Stalin's answer left Molotov and Yagoda a little confused, but the GC dictator ignored the two subordinates and talked about it on his own. He said: "At the moment we can't just think about escaping, we can only think about transferring, we also have to find a way to attack!" he said. It is necessary to spread the flames of war to the enemy's domination zone, and to mobilize the working people of all Russia against the dictatorship of Empress Anastasia! ”

"Comrade Stalin, you call that prostitute ......" Yagoda asked with a look of surprise on his face.

Stalin waved his hand, "No matter how erosive her private life is, it doesn't matter to the Russian people, and it doesn't do much to attack her with this, so there is no need to call her a prostitute in the future!" After a pause, he added: "The main task of the underground party organization lurking in Russia henceforth is to lead and unleash the workers' movement in Russia, to organize the workers and toiling masses of all Russia to fight against the reactionary politics of the Empress!" Yagoda, do you understand? ”

"Okay, I got it." NKVD replied. Stalin nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "It's not that we Bolsheviks haven't fought against the Romanov dynasty, there's nothing to be afraid of, we can defeat them again!" He glanced up at Molotov again and said: "In the name of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR, a circular was issued announcing the abrogation of the "Soviet-German Zurich Treaty" and the "Soviet-Chinese Wuhan Treaty", and at the same time announcing that the Soviet government agreed to the independence of eight countries, including Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan and Turkmenistan!" ”

"What?" Molotov and Yagoda exclaimed at the same time.

Stalin smiled deeply: "Instruct the underground party organizations of the Communist Party lurking in the eight countries mentioned above, and ask them to participate in or initiate the independence movement in these countries!" Guerrilla units were formed to wage an armed struggle against the imperialists who occupied them. He sneered twice: "I want Hitler and Luo Yaoguo to taste what is called a people's war and a national independence movement!" In addition, it is necessary to instruct the Central G, asking them to use all their forces to support the national independence of the five Central Asian countries! In addition, they were told that the Soviet Union was ready to establish diplomatic relations with the Far Eastern Socialist Republic. ”

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