Chapter 427: It Can't Go On Like This
By March 1938, the German Sixth Army had expanded from 100,000 men as stipulated in "Versailles" to 60 divisions and more than 1.2 million troops. The Air Force has expanded to nearly 2,000 aircraft in the four air fleets, including 1,100 BL1o9 fighters and more than 700 Stuka fighters.
The rapid rise in the strength of German affairs has aroused the vigilance of European countries, among which Britain and the United States have reacted most strongly, and British newspapers have even raised calls for the forcible disarmament of Germany. Winston Churchill, the British Secretary of the Admiralty, even called on the European countries to unite in the House of Commons to put pressure on Germany to get Germany back on track, but this proposal was opposed by the British Secretary of State at the time, Chamberlain, who claimed in the House of Commons that we could not rule on a person who had not committed a crime, which was a violation of God's teachings.
US President Franklin D. Roosevelt submitted a bill in Congress to prepare for the construction of three new aircraft carrier fleets, which was also opposed by isolationist congressmen in Congress, whose reason was that the United States really did not need to add three aircraft carrier groups just after the economic crisis, and it was better to support more enterprises than to add this aircraft carrier.
The French were still intoxicated with the joy of the world-famous Maginot Line, which had just been built the year before last, which stretched from the Franco-Italian border on the Mediterranean coast in the south to the Franco-Belgian border on the coast of the North Sea in the north, with a total length of about 700 kilometers. The romantic, French by nature believed that this military defence, which cost five billion francs, was impassable and could bring peace to the French people for at least fifty years. A group of people led by French Marshal Petain even openly stated that with the Maginot Line, unless Germany was prepared to sacrifice the lives of three to five million soldiers, it would be impossible for the Germans to cross the Maginot Line by half a step, and now all the French had to do was to enjoy life to the fullest, and the people of France and Paris at this time were immersed in singing and dancing.
Unlike history, Stalin ended the Great Purge ahead of schedule and the successive defeats made Stalin understand that the activities of excluding dissidents should be stopped, otherwise the entire Soviet Russia would be purged. At Stalin's behest, the leader of the Suppression Committee, Adam, stopped the unrestricted purge of the Coalition, and Stalin re-promoted the generals of the army, who had no problem with this problem, to leading positions and reorganized the army. However, when Stalin counted his belongings, it was found that due to the successive purges and the confrontation with the Chahar army, the GDP of Soviet Russia had not grown at all and even showed a negative growth trend.
This report made Stalin break out in a cold sweat, and he began to re-examine the enemy in the south: "We cannot go on like this, for the task we need now is to restore domestic production, reorganize the army, and restore its combat effectiveness." Stalin said this at a high-level meeting just held.
"Yes, Dear Comrade Stalin, the economic exhibition in our country is now close to a standstill, and a large number of machinery and equipment that were originally intended to be purchased from the United States have also been preemptively purchased by Chahar, which has brought a huge obstacle to the exhibition of industrialization in our country.
"In addition, the 700,000 troops we confronted in Siberia consume a huge amount of materials every day, which has seriously dragged down our economic construction, and cannot continue like this!"
"And some of our people have listened to the propaganda of the capitalist transformer Alexei and are very sympathetic to him and the so-called "Russian protector" he leads. I heard that lately even that traitor has been shouting for that Alexei, and now their "Russian protector" has reached nearly 400,000 with the support of those Chinese capitalists who are immortal. This is a very dangerous signal that we must be vigilant against. The high-level leaders of Soviet Russia who attended the meeting expressed their worries about the current situation in Soviet Russia.
Stalin just listened silently to what everyone said, and now the situation in Soviet Russia was already very dangerous, and if the Zhukov cluster in Siberia was defeated, the chain reaction would be fatal. Soviet Russia has already lost 800,000 troops in Siberia, and now there are 700,000 troops trapped there. It has seriously dragged down the economic development of Soviet Russia, and the current Soviet Russia has not yet reached the level of the Soviet Russia, which has gone through two five-year calculations and received tens of thousands of machine tool blood transfusions from the United States, under the influence of Su Tong's little butterfly, the economy of the seemingly huge Soviet Russia has been seriously dragged down. Stalin's mind quickly made a judgment that he must negotiate with Chahar as soon as possible to free the 700,000-strong army from the silt in Siberia, otherwise if any more country attacked, Soviet Russia would be in danger of extinction.
"Alright, everyone, be quiet!" Stalin put down the huge corn pipe in his hand and knocked the ash on the table, "I have heard everyone's opinions, and the most urgent problem before us now is to negotiate with Chahar in the south and free our army from that quagmire in Siberia." I believe no one disputes this, right? Stalin scanned the attendees with his piercing gaze.
There was no objection to this, and they all nodded.
"Well, very well, then the second question is who to send to negotiate with Chahar's man now?" Until now, Stalin, who hated our Soviet commander very much, refused to call him by his first name, and directly addressed him as "that person".
When Stalin asked this question, the eyes of the participants all turned to Motolov, deputy chairman of the National People's Commissariat and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Union, the third man in the Soviet Union.
Motorov was silent for a moment and then asked, "If we want to negotiate with Chahar, where is our bottom line, and what should we do with the land that has been lost, these are all questions we should consider." ”
As soon as Motolov's words came out, the participants were silent, so far the lands east of the bird are already under the control of the Chahar and the Russian protectors, and they will definitely not spit it out easily, so how should Soviet Russia deal with it? If it is conceded to them, it will definitely not work, but the Russians have spent nearly a hundred years knocking it from the hands of the Chinese little by little, do they want to return it all to them now, Diao but if he does not give it up, according to the character of the leader of the Chahar, he would rather fight again than agree, this is from the fact that he is now fighting so fiercely with the Japanese, but he has never lost a single soldier from Siberia, it can be seen how greedy the leader of the Chahar is for the land.
"Let me say a few words." At this time, an old voice came from the side, and everyone looked at it, it turned out to be Kalinin, deputy chairman of the People's Commissariat, and he said slowly: "In view of the current situation, I think we have to make certain concessions in exchange for precious time to recuperate. My view is that during negotiations with Chahar, a decision on the ownership of Siberia could be left undecided, the existing Line of Actual Control (LAC) should be used as the boundary, both sides should withdraw their troops at the same time, and the number of troops stationed within 100 kilometres of the border should be limited to 50,000 and the number of aircraft should not exceed 100. We can tentatively set the validity period of this treaty for five years, and everyone will see how they are."
When everyone hears it, it is limited to five years. Five years later, with the national strength of Soviet Russia, there will definitely be a qualitative leap, and it will not be too late to settle accounts with Chahar at that time.
Someone asked, "Such a condition is good and beneficial to our country, but will Chahar agree to such a condition?" ”
Kalinin replied with a sneer: "Hmph, it's true that we need to withdraw our troops to catch our breath, doesn't Chahar need to draw troops to fight the Japanese?" Now that they are in a stalemate with the Japanese in the Northeast, aren't their leaders in a hurry? If they can transfer the 400,000 elite troops in Siberia back to join the Northeast Theater, then the war in the Northeast will be resolved within three months. When the time comes, with the character of the leader of Chahar, he will inevitably pursue the leading position in the country, and what else will he have to pay attention to the affairs of our Soviet Russia? As long as it takes another five years, then we can", Kalinin stopped talking about this.
However, everyone understands what Kalinin means, as long as five years have passed, when Soviet Russia has eased its breath, it will be easy to clean up Chahar.
Stalin also nodded secretly when he heard this proposal, he slowly filled his pipe with tobacco and lit it, took a deep breath before saying, "Comrade Kalinin's proposal is very good, what we lack now is time, as long as we can relieve ourselves of this critical five years, our country's economic and military strength is bound to be developed by a leap."
At that time, we will not only recover Siberia, but also Xinjiang, Mongolia, and the three northeastern provinces. Plant our red flag all over the world, so that all mankind can feel the greatness of our Social Workers' Party! ”
At this point, there was already a look of fanaticism on Stalin's face, and he had always believed that he was doing the greatest thing in the world, yes, he was convinced of it.
When the meeting was over, Stalin specially called Motorov to secretly instruct him, and the next morning, Motorov got on a plane and flew south.
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