Zhukov hurriedly said: "Comrade Stalin, I am not joking, this news we think is extremely likely. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info"

Stalin laughed and said, "I think that non-commissioned officer is probably a spy for Britain or something, and now the whole world wants us to go to war with Germany... Well, it could also be a German temptation, and it occurred to me that Germany must be very worried about the attitude of our side if it wanted to make a British landing, well, it is very likely, well, it's late, so be it today. ”

Zhukov wanted to say something more, but the phone was hung up by Stalin, Zhukov looked at the phone in a daze, and then looked at the German non-commissioned officer next to him who was urgently sent by the plane and looked at him, waved his hand and said, "Pull it down, torture him, and find out whether he is telling the truth or a lie." ”

When the German sergeant saw that someone was coming to arrest him, he hurriedly said loudly, "What I said is true, we are really going to attack, really!! ”

Zhukov touched his head in annoyance, and after thinking about it, he said, "Order the border troops and strengthen the vigilance!" ”

-- Saturday, May 2, 1942, at three o'clock in the morning

Since it was Saturday and Labor Day ended, the entire Soviet Union fell into a break, and Soviet-German relations were very good for the past two years, which led to a lot of quietness on the border.

Suddenly, a dozen mortar shells were fired from the territory of the USSR and fell on the empty territory of Germany, listening to the sound of explosions in the distance, the Soviet sentinels at the border did not know what to do, the explosion occurred on the territory of Germany, do you want to report it?

At 3:10 a.m., Germany immediately and urgently activated its internal radio station, announcing that the Soviet Union had provoked Germany and killed 12 officers and soldiers on the border, including a Polish brigadier general who had come to visit, and Germany was ready to fight back in an all-out way.

At 3:30 a.m., the Axis Army was divided into three routes, under the cover of more than 1,000 planes under the command of Field Marshal Wilhelm Ritter von Loeb, Army Group North set out from East Prussia with a total strength of 34 divisions, Army Group Center under the command of Field Marshal Fedor von Bock set off from the east of Warsaw, with a total strength of 61 divisions, Army Group South commanded by Field Marshal Rundstedt pounced on the densely populated agricultural heartland - Ukraine, with a total strength of 69 divisions, and the three routes of the army advanced rapidly according to the plan, More than 15 Romanian, 5 Hungarian, 3 Italian, 6 French, 6 Polish, 3 Czech, and 2 Slovak divisions joined the battle. Another 16 Finnish and 5 Norwegian divisions attacked separately from the Finnish-Soviet border to the north. The total number of troops invested was 230 divisions, plus the military labor organizations and special units directly under the various army groups that followed the army, and the total number exceeded 6 million, of which nearly 3 million were Germans.

More than 3,500 planes plunged into battle in the first wave of the offensive, and a torrent of steel with more than 5,000 tanks and 50,000 artillery pieces on land swept through everything they encountered.

In fact, the Soviet army at this time was not weak at all, with more than 6 million troops, more than 10 million reserves, and more than 25,000 tanks, including 15,000 on the Soviet-German front, more than 130,000 artillery pieces, and more than 20,000 aircraft.

On the first day of the raid, more than 1,500 planes were destroyed by the Germans at the airfield, and countless tanks and artillery were destroyed in the barracks by the German Stuka before they could leave the base.

-- 3:20 a.m. in Moscow

Stalin took the phone and listened to the report of the Chief of the General Staff Zhukov, he thought for a moment and said: "Are you really sure that the Germans are on a full-scale offensive?" ”

Zhukov was almost vomiting blood, there were as many German planes in the sky as there were hornets, and if this was not a full-scale offensive, he didn't know what a real all-out offensive would look like.

He said anxiously: "Comrade Stalin, I dare to assure you as a soldier of the Red Army that the Germans are really on the offensive in an all-out way!" ”

Stalin still said with some hesitation: "I think this matter should be a test of the German army against us, ordering the front-line troops not to return fire, I will contact the German government first to see their reaction." ”

Zhukov listened to this order in a daze, he slammed the phone, sat down angrily, and the officer next to him asked anxiously, "Commander, how is it?" ”

Zhukov said helplessly: "Order all units to hold the barracks, and there is no need to attack without an order!" ”

"What? This... Isn't this waiting for death? Everyone said in a panic.

Zhukov scratched his brains and said in great pain: "Our people are lying in a pool of blood, but we can't fight back... Comrade Stalin, you this... Ay!! ”

When the others heard Zhukov say such things, they couldn't help but look at each other, and several staff officers wanted to say something, but they opened their mouths again, unable to speak, and they at the front knew best the pain caused by this order.

On the other side, Stalin waited until half past four in the morning, and finally waited for Molotov to return, and he immediately asked excitedly, "How is it?" Hitler never answered my calls, what did their ambassadors say? ”

Molotov said to Stalin with an indignant face: "They said that we opened fire on them first, and they have already declared war on us. As he spoke, he took a bag of papers and said, "This is Germany's declaration of war against us!" When I passed, he was about to come to us, and Germany was so shameless! ”

Stalin took the pipe, took a step back, his face was no longer the usual calm and calm, but full of fear, his hands kept shaking, and his mouth bit several times without biting the pipe.

"Comrade Stalin! Comrade Stalin!! ”

There was a commotion outside, and Stalin looked, but a group of Politburo members walked in, and Andreyev quickly stepped forward and said, "Comrade Stalin, the Germans have launched an attack on us, what should we do?" ”

Kalinin followed by the words: "Yes, Comrade Stalin, did Germany declare war on us?" We should declare war on them, right? Also, how can we explain to our comrades throughout the country the surprise attack of the German army on us? Have we always told them that Germany is our friend? ”

Stalin listened anxiously to what these people said, his hands were still shaking, he looked at everyone in a panic, and said in a trance: "War has broken out, and its development will be catastrophic." Comrade Lenin left us the proletarian Soviet state, and we ......," he said, looking at the crowd with some fear, "I resign from the leadership. ”

After Stalin finished speaking, he quickly walked out, quickly pulled his personal guard and left, and when everyone reacted, Stalin actually rushed back to his villa in his own car, closed the door, and did not want to come out.

The people of the Politburo of the USSR saw that it was not a problem, so they could only run to Stalin's dacha to find him, and Stalin heard that the Politburo and Beria were coming, and said with a pale face, "What are they coming for?" Why did Beria come? Are they trying to get me away? ”

His guards bowed their heads, not daring to speak, the closed door was slammed open, and Beria walked in briskly with the Politburo.

Stalin jumped to his feet, took two steps back, held his pipe tightly in his hand, and said, "Are you here to arrest me?" ”

Beria was blinded by Stalin's words, and the rest of the Politburo also looked at each other, not knowing what Stalin was doing, Andreyev said: "Comrade Stalin, now the Soviet Union needs you, needs you to preside over the work, the Soviet Union must have a backbone in the war against Germany, and this person is you!" ”

After Stalin heard this, the whole thing settled down, he took a hard puff of his pipe, the corners of his mouth slowly curved, the worst thing did not happen, now it was time to find a way to defeat Germany.

The name Stalin means steel, he was originally a man of extremely tough character, his initial panic was just the fear that the Politburo would remove him on the grounds of Soviet-German war, after all, the Soviet Union was still a Soviet state after all, if the Politburo everyone wanted to deal with him, he would have no power to fight back, how much of his initial evasion was out of sincerity, and how much was out of the temptation of the Politburo, no one knows.

Stalin spat out a smoke ring and said: "Comrades! The war has begun, there is only one thing we should do now, and that is to win the war, Germany has declared war on us, and we must also respond, Molotov, Molotov come here. ”

Molotov walked over, and Stalin said slowly: "At twelve o'clock at noon today, a national radio will be released, announcing to the whole country that Germany will attack us, saying that the Red Army will defend the Soviet Union until the last moment, and we will express our confidence in victory on the radio!" ”

Molotov nodded in understanding.

Stalin also said: "The east of the Soviet Union is Japan, we must guard against Japan's attitude, if Japan attacks from the Far East, we will be in danger, Beria, you must find out the real intentions of Japan, and we must not make this mistake again!" ”

Beria gasped, he didn't expect Stalin to throw the matter of intelligence mistakes on his head with a push of 625, he pulled his mouth, and finally said "Yes!" Comrade Stalin! ”

Stalin continued: "Order the front-line units at once, allow them to use any means to strike at the Axis armies!" ”

People's Commissar of Defense Voroshilov nodded in understanding.

Stalin also said: "The German army is very strong, we must have friends, Britain is our natural ally, and now the German fascists have become the greatest enemy of the Red Cabinet, and the Red International has issued the following orders to the Red Parties around the world: The British Red Party must no longer criticize and attack Churchill's relevant policies, but must cooperate with Churchill; The French Red Party was supposed to organize partisans to launch a revolt against Vichy France and the German fascists, and could cooperate fully with the Gaullists; The Chinese Red Party should launch an attack on the Japanese army, contain the Japanese army, prevent the Japanese army from North China from entering Manchuria to strengthen the Kwantung Army, and then flank the Soviet Union from Siberia, order the Red Party of other countries to fight against the Axis powers in an all-round way, and use propaganda and insurrection as a means to defend the Soviet Union in their own way! ”

Since Dimitrov was not a member of the Politburo of the Soviet Union, he was not here, but was written down by someone and ready to convey it to him.

Stalin turned around a few times and said, "Finally, the embassies of various countries in the Soviet Union were transferred to Tower Hill, in case the staff of the countries remained in Moscow and could engage in espionage, and the national mobilization order for the war was announced, I understand the strength of the German army, we must use all our forces to prepare for this war, comrades, the Soviet Union has reached the most dangerous moment, but this is not the first time, the road to Geming is extremely tortuous, the former Napoleon is invincible, and finally hates Moscow, I don't think Hitler today will be stronger than Napoleon of yesteryear! ”

Stalin's movements were not slow at all, and at twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the Soviet Union officially declared war on Germany, but interestingly, there was no declaration of war between the Soviet Union and Japan. At the same time as the border war, there were many riots in the Soviet Union at the same time, among which the Lithuanian riots were the most serious, more than 30,000 people joined the riots, and in just one day, Lithuania declared its independence from the Soviet Union, and became the first Soviet power area to fall.

The news of the Soviet-German war spread throughout the world at the speed of light, even some people who had already been psychologically prepared were shocked by the news for a long time and could not calm down, no one knows what the national strength of the Soviet Union was, but the iron cavalry of the German army has no country to stop it until now, even France, which is known as the first army, has not lasted for three months, how long can the Soviet Union resist, or, will this be a turning point in Germany's expansion?

Britain's Churchill finally slept peacefully after getting the news, after all, no matter how crazy Hitler was, he couldn't carry out a full-scale attack on the east and west at the same time, and the British royal family had secretly transferred several core members to India, Australia, and Canada, and even he himself was considering whether to leave in the past few days, but now it seems that Britain will not fall. As for the question of the Gibraltar fortress, he already had a somewhat resigned feeling.

Roosevelt of the United States did not speak for a long time when he got the news, which he had been looking forward to, but he did not have much confidence in the national strength of the Soviet Union, to say who in the world knows the national strength of the Soviet Union best, so long it is the United States, in that period of close days between the United States and the Soviet Union, in addition to a large number of talents, machinery and equipment, there are many spies imported into the Soviet Union, of course, most of the spies have been cleaned up in various movements, but there are still people who remain, and they report some news of the Soviet Union to the United States from time to time, According to these information, Roosevelt got the judgment that if the Soviet Union relied only on itself, it would be a crushing victory at best, or the worst kind, and the possibility of defeat was actually greater. Roosevelt turned to Hull and said, "I suddenly remembered Mao in Yan'an, China, who once said that all forces that could be united should be united, and I think that now the Soviet Union is also a member of this force." ”