On Christmas Day 1945, the Red Soviets understated the most traditional festival in European countries. In a private villa on the western outskirts of Moscow, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin summoned several of the main contributors to the Soviet-German victory in the war, including the "Four Generalissimos" who had distinguished themselves on the frontal battlefield and became famous. Konstantin was a member of the Politburo of the Shaolin abbot after the 80s. Pavlovich. Marshal Beria, as well as several leading figures of the Politburo. The informal meeting was nominally a joint discussion of the upcoming New Year's address to the nation, but the atmosphere in the smoky room was very different from the relaxed and peaceful state of mind of ordinary people.

"Comrades, we have obtained extremely important information that the speed of the atomic bomb production of the American political axe has been greatly affected by the disappearance of the leading person and the main material of the atomic bomb research project, the explosion of the enriched uranium refining plant, and it was not until November that they regained possession of an atomic bomb that could be used in real combat, and so far they have no more than three atomic bombs in their hands." Stalin's opening remarks were always like opening the gates of the city early in the morning, setting the absolute main line for the rest of the topic.

This time, no one immediately continued to speak, and the members of the Politburo were waiting for the talented generals on the battlefield to speak.

A moment later, Stalin said the second sentence: "One atomic bomb for one city, comrades, the price of three cities, we should still be able to afford it!" ”

The tone of the remark was not serious, and it was sarcastic. Beria, who was not yet a controversial figure in history at this time, continued: "You can imagine how worried the people in the White House in Washington must have been throughout the month of October! ”

The marshals did not speak, but Voroshilov said with great seriousness: "If it is true that everything is as external intelligence indicates, and that the atomic weapons of the United States, the military trump card, have been greatly weakened, we should not be happy, but should cautiously return to the original question: who led the attack and why did it take the blame on us!" ”

Seeing that the two marshals were quietly glancing at him, Beria suddenly stood up from his position: "Comrades, we have indeed done our best to collect personnel and technical information on atomic research, and we have also carried out some work and harvested some results in the United States, but when you think about it, how can we risk provoking a war and take the most extreme measures on the United States soil?" ”

Stalin, with a pipe in one hand, said: "I can testify to Comrade Beria about this, we did not even have such a plan. ”

Zhukov sat motionless in his chair: "Is it really the Germans?" ”

"Rumors are not credible, Comrade Zhukov."

Field Marshal Vasilevsky, Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army during World War II, the director of the Stalingrad counteroffensive, the reconquistabilizer of Crimea, and the destroyer of Königsberg, said without malice: "In today's Germany, there are many rumors about Hitler's death and the Third Reich's secret base in Antarctica, which are all false news deliberately released by unprovoked people in order to disturb order and cause chaos, so that the German people can believe that they have not failed, and they will be ready to go to war again at any time." This is utterly stupid! ”

"Who would do that? Briton? French? Chinese? Zhukov spread his hands, and for more than two months, this question was raised more than once in Stalin's conference room, office and even at the dinner table, and the person who asked it was not a specific person, even Stalin himself had asked it out loud, but no one could answer it from beginning to end.

"I don't think any country is suspicious...... It was not a certain country that attacked the US atomic bomb base, but a group of people. Chuikov's vague words are actually on the same line as Zhukov.

"If it's really the remnants of the Third Reich and has the ability to launch a special assault on American soil." Beria, the intelligence chief of the Red Soviets, who had contributed greatly to the Soviet Union's victory in the war, said in a calm and low-key tone, "Why don't they directly attack the American atomic bomb assembly plant in order to snatch the finished atomic bomb, and is it not more direct to get hold of the atomic bomb entity than to plunder personnel and materials?" According to our analysis, only a few countries in the world with strong industrial strength have the basic conditions to build atomic bombs, and apart from the United States, we are the only ones who have Britain and France. ”

Rokossovsky, who commanded the Battle of Smolensk, the Battle of Moscow, the Battle of Stalingrad, the Battle of Belarus, the Battle of East Prussia, the Battle of East Pomerania and the Battle of Berlin, and has the reputation of "Marshal of Victory", looked at Stalin's back and said: "I also think that only those remnants of Germany who have absconded to the Americas by luck have no manpower and material resources to make atomic bombs, and even if they have gained a firm foothold in a certain South American country, they can no longer have one-third of Germany's industrial strength." Germany in its heyday could not have built an atomic bomb, let alone them! ”

"Actually, we shouldn't overlook an important detail!" Beria said at a brisk pace, "Half of Germany's top atomists had fallen into our hands by the end of the war. If the haunted Germans were intent on using the atomic bomb to rebuild their military empire, why didn't they transfer these vital personnel before the battle was over? They obviously have the time and opportunity to send a few dozen specific people to a certain part of the country. ”

Perhaps they were refuted by this indisputable fact, or perhaps they were confused from the beginning, like most insiders, and the marshals who had a good sense of the big picture and insight on the battlefield were really not powerful.

"Actually, everything points to a possibility!" Beria raised his voice and said, and only when most of the people present were focused on himself did he say with indignation: "All this is a trick played by the Americans themselves, in order to blame us for the attack on the American homeland, and to use it as a reason to start a war, to convince their Congress, to convince their people!" ”

Stalin did not turn his head to look at Beria in astonishment, but walked to the window alone. Obviously, these intelligence chiefs had reported to him in advance.

In the blank eyes of the marshals, Beria continued: "Among the four victorious powers, there is no doubt that our Soviet Union suffered the greatest losses, France was the weakest, and Britain also suffered more serious losses during the war, but the military capability of the United States increased exponentially from the beginning of the war to the end of the war. Their military bases, which stretch from Asia and the Pacific all the way to the Mediterranean and central Europe, can be said to cover two-thirds of the world, and only the Soviet Union is still a completely blank area on their globe. Comrades, remember Pearl Harbor in 1941? It aroused the anger of the entire American people, and it was only then that the United States really entered the track of war, and the whole United States was subordinate to and served the army, and arms was the most profitable industrial industry. Since the United States still has a surplus of military capabilities, and since the capitalist world has been unsuccessful in its many armed interventions and invasions of the Soviet Union since 1918, why don't they want to solve our threat once and for all? ”

Zhukov's record book is probably the most magnificent in the history of World War II, he defeated the Kwantung Army, which was known as the elite of the empire, defeated the best Wehrmacht units in Germany and the fanatical SS troops, and every opponent who openly provoked him was finally defeated. After listening to Beria's analysis, he said in a high-pitched voice: "Those evil capitalists also overestimate the strength of their army!" Even by the largest American forces in Europe before the end of the war, they were not as strong as the German [***] team in the summer of 1941, and now we are far superior in size, experience, and weapons to the state of 1941, so why should they defeat us? ”

"With the indignation of the military and civilians, the support of the allies, and their unique atomic weapons." Beria said word for word.

As one of the best generals of World War II, Zhukov's ability to strategize is outstanding, but it has not yet reached the level of defying the sky. Through the information gathered from various sources, including the results of the atomic bombings announced by the United States, every country, including the Soviet Union, was convinced of the terrible destructive power of this weapon, which could not only destroy cities, but also vaporize the troops assembled in a certain area in an instant, which was terrifying enough just to think about.

Stalin turned around, paced heavily and slowly to the center of the room, and said: "The vast majority of our intelligence officers are witty and brave heroes, but intelligence work is often a two-way street, and the adversary will sometimes deliberately put something false and wrong in the safe, so that it is very confusing and misleading. We should take into account that the fact that the United States has never publicly declared that its atomic bomb test sites and material factories have been attacked, and that it is in itself extremely unconscionable that they are constantly putting pressure on us through diplomatic channels under such circumstances. Maybe they don't have just three atomic bombs in their arsenal, maybe there are already a dozen or twenty of these special weapons stored in the United States [***] bases in Britain or Western Europe, and as soon as the war starts, they will drop heavy bombers on our heads. Comrades, we should neither despise nor ignore this. At the negotiating table, we have done not give an inch, and militarily, we should be fully prepared. The atomic bomb is not terrible, what is terrible is that we lose faith and courage. Conventional warfare is the way of fighting conventional war, and the atomic bomb war has the way of fighting the atomic bomb war, and with the faith and wisdom of the [***] people, it will still be us who will win the victory in the end! ”

(To be continued)