At a time when there is no absolute generation gap in weaponry and equipment, people are the most important factor in determining victory or defeat on the battlefield.

The great purges of the Soviet Union for many years, while clearing out Stalin's political enemies and establishing absolute authority, also caused the entire Soviet Red Army to lose most of its essence.

The old Bolshevik Red Army, experienced in war, partly died in despair of collapsing faith, and partly in the harsh Siberian labor camps.

After Chu Yunfei inflicted heavy losses on the Soviet Far Eastern Military District on the front line of the Ural Mountains, although Stalin always refused to admit it, the entire Siberian Plain was already under the control of China.

Naturally, people who were once in Siberian labor camps were also released.

The consul, Comrade Mao Yan, personally rushed to Siberia and had an in-depth discussion with these Bolsheviks about the cause of the revolutionary liberation of all mankind.

Some people, in difficult circumstances, have given up their former beliefs and only longed for a peaceful life, and these people have been properly accommodated by the relevant departments.

Some hated Stalin's cruel methods and swore revenge with hatred.

There are also those who, despite their scars, still insist that 'the proletariat can only liberate itself finally by liberating all mankind', and enshrine it as a creed of life. These people were persuaded by Mao to join the various branches of the Comintern and continue to fight for the undying faith in their hearts.

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Stalin roared angrily, and his roar could be heard throughout the corridors.

From the faces of the people in the hallway who are accustomed to it, you know that this is not an uncommon thing.

Since the outbreak of the Soviet-German war, in just 10 days, the German army has driven straight in, and the three clusters of south, north and center have broken through the Soviet Union for an average of 600 kilometers, and Stalin's roar has not stopped.

On the first day of fighting, the Soviet Red Army lost as many as 1,200 aircraft, of which nearly 800 were blown up before they could take off. However, it was not these that really aroused Stalin's anger, but the news that the Mustachioed Führer said that the Soviet Union could be destroyed in three months, which made Stalin, who thought highly of himself, very angry.

But the subsequent progress of the battle seems to confirm the prediction of the mustache Führer step by step.

On the Northern Front, the German Army Group North was responsible for attacking Leningrad (St. Petersburg), advancing 450 kilometers in two weeks, and the Soviet Union was forced to abandon the entire Baltic Sea coast, 24 Soviet divisions were completely defeated, and another 20 divisions lost 60% of their personnel and equipment, and Army Group North soon reached under the city of Leningrad.

The inhabitants of the three Baltic states, because they had long been strongly dissatisfied with the rule of the Soviet Union, launched an armed rebellion against the Soviet regime at the time of the German invasion, which hastened the Soviet Union's retreat in this region to a certain extent.

The central front was the focus of the German assault, the German Army Group Center attacked from the direction of Grodno and Brest fortresses, and completed the encirclement of the Western Military District of the Soviet Union (i.e., the Western Front) through a double-pincer offensive, the city of Minsk in the central and western regions of the Soviet Union (present-day Belarus) fell, the Soviet Union retreated 350 kilometers, 30 divisions were annihilated, and another 70 divisions lost more than 50% of their personnel.

At this time, although the Soviet Red Army urgently released a number of political prisoners in the Great Purge, the loss of a large number of labor camps in Siberia did not effectively replenish the backbone of the army, and the officer system seriously lacked war experience.

On the Southern Front, the main purpose of the German Army Group South was to capture the Soviet agricultural and industrial base in Ukraine and to obtain the Black Sea ports as supply depots.

The loss of the Siberian Plain has made the importance of Ukraine even more important, considering that the second coal metallurgical base of the Soviet Union is in the Urals-Kuzbass region. The Ural-Kuznetsk Coal Metallurgical Complex became the basis for the industrialization of the Urals and Siberia, producing more than one-quarter of the Soviet steel and steel, one-third of pig iron and almost half of coal and coke.

It can be said that without the existence of the great rear of Siberia, the Soviet Union lost Ukraine, and almost announced the death of Stalin.

Therefore, in front of Army Group South were the Kiev Special Military District (i.e., the South-Western Front) and the Odessa Military District (Southern Front), which was one of the strongest military districts in the USSR.

Due to the fact that the Soviet Red Army had a clear superiority over the Germans in terms of strength and equipment on the Southern Front, the progress of the German troops in this direction was the slowest.

But by this time, the Germans had just conquered all of Western Europe, and their soldiers were far more experienced in warfare than the Soviet Red Army, so the Germans still drove straight to the Dnieper.

Due to the rapid collapse of the Soviet Western Front, the right flank of the Soviet Southwestern Front was directly exposed to the guns of the German central cluster.

Subsequently, the two army groups of the German Army, the Central and the South, cooperated to encircle the main forces of the Soviet Southwestern Front in the Battle of Kiev.

After 10 days of bloody fighting of 70 divisions, only a few broke through, and after the war, more than 660,000 Red Army soldiers were annihilated, including the loss of as many as 60,000 officers, and many senior generals, including the commander and chief of staff of the Southwestern Front, were killed.

The astonishing results achieved on the three fronts have even made the capital forces in Germany already prepare to carve up this delicious cake in advance.

At this time, the Soviet Union can be said to have really reached the most dangerous moment, the loss of the Siberian region, not only the loss of an important coal metallurgical base, but also the Soviet Union's strategic buffer area greatly reduced, once the capital of Moscow is lost again, then the entire Soviet Union can be said to have reached the brink of destruction.

It was in this context that Truman received a call from Stalin, "Does the United States want to see a united Europe?" ”

Truman was silent, the United States certainly did not want to see a unified Europe, this is not like the Asian declaration of the Chinese Mao Yan, although Mao Yan issued the Asian declaration, but in addition to the traditional circle of influence in China, did not seek more territory.

But Germany is different, this ultra-nationalist regime, but it has actually swallowed the whole of Western Europe, and is now making great strides on the road to unifying Europe, and what is even more terrifying is that it is about to succeed!

Thinking of this, Truman knew that he had to give Stalin the determination to resist, "Our fleet and the British fleet will join the war against Germany as soon as possible!" The righteous American people will not let the evil Nazis run wild! ”

The situation of the Soviet Union was very urgent, and the successive defeats made the Soviet Union urgently short of all kinds of heavy weapons and equipment, and Truman, who had deep pockets, did not hesitate to agree to Stalin's request for military assistance, tanks, planes, steel, rubber, oil, and food!

After the two agreed, Truman hung up the phone.

'Fortunately, Germany is a traditional land country, and the navy is not strong, otherwise. Truman shook his head and dialed out a string of numbers, "Summoning the Senators!" ”

An hour later, after ending the bill on military aid to the Soviet Union, Truman pulled out another document, "According to the worst-case scenario, if Germany defeats the Soviet Union and unifies Europe......