Another corner of the world, Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union.

Stalin had been in a very good mood lately, so good that he was a little flustered, and he had eliminated his former comrades who were enough to threaten him. Although the anti-rebellion movement throughout the Soviet Union tended to become more and more intense, in general Comrade Stalin's leadership over the Soviet people became more and more unshakable.

Wasn't that exactly what he wanted? So the entire Soviet hierarchy became Stalin's word, and he gradually sent all those who dared to question him to the concentration camps that he had personally ordered.

The thought of the concentration camps made Stalin even more proud: 300,000 penny laborers who did not want to pay a penny worked hard for his Soviet economy to take off, starved to death and froze to death without any state pension, and these poor walking dead laid a full 20,000 kilometers of railway between Germany and the Soviet Union. And this achievement was attributed to Stalin, the culprit who sent them to the concentration camps.

"Although we have broken off some of our cooperation with Germany on the Spanish issue, there is still a lot of investment and exchange between the two countries. An economic chief stood up to report on the Soviet Union's economic achievements over the past year: "We have a lot of factories being built and deployed, and large-scale industrial production bases are being built in Kyiv and Minsk and other regions. ”

Another official saw the colleague who was speaking sit down and immediately went on to report: "Accardo's company and many other German companies are investing in the construction of our road and rail system, which has greatly improved our transportation situation, and we have made it faster and easier for us to transport supplies and mobilize troops." ”

Indeed, the improvement of the road and railway system has brought earth-shaking changes to the Soviet Union, because of the speed and simplicity of transportation, the cost of the Soviet Union's export of grain, timber, ore and other materials has been greatly reduced, which has made the Soviet Union's exports more competitive, and for a time a large number of cheap Soviet grain has become a lifesaver in the European economic crisis.

Moreover, the convenience of transportation turned previously isolated areas into new industrial cities, and because of the ease of transportation of goods and the preference of German advisers, the heavy industrial areas of the Soviet Union began to move all the way to the border areas, although Stalin tried to prevent this, but with little success.

"In addition, our investment in Germany is growing, and many of the German military enterprises have shares in us, so to speak, many of our officials and businessmen made war profits during the Spanish Civil War, and they produced bullets and shells that broke our army. A general said with great dissatisfaction.

"That's right! Our army suffered heavy losses in Spain, and the Comintern suffered great losses there! The weapons that the Germans threw in were not much more advanced than ours, but they made up for the gap between the Nationalists and ours in this respect!" complained another general, who was also very dissatisfied.

"The Germans take the route of elite soldiers, and they don't have as many soldiers as we do, so they can be carefully trained, and naturally they are better than our army, but it turns out that the gap is not obvious, and the Germans are not as powerful as we imagined. Stalin sneered and comforted.

According to an intelligence obtained by Soviet spies from Vienna, Austria, the Germans lost 1,471 killed and 5,982 wounded in Spain, compared with 3,100 killed and 719 wounded in the Spanish Civil War. Taken together, these two results don't seem unacceptable. For a time, the idea that this virtue was nothing more than this was permeated in the top echelons of the Soviet Union.

Of course, the Soviets were not stupid, in fact, the lowly generals and officers knew that in fact the Soviets had suffered heavy losses this time: according to the recollections of reliable front-line soldiers, they were ordered to exaggerate the results of the report, and in fact the losses of the German * team were pitiful, while their death figures were real.

"We have doubled the amount of grain we produced in the same period five years ago, but the living standards of the grassroots workers and the broad masses of proletarian comrades have not been fundamentally improved, half of our army is unable to pay full wages, and most of our troops do not have enough supplies and ammunition. The official in charge of the material statistics then reported.

Another official added: "We have counted this year, and we still have nearly one-tenth of the population who do not have enough food rations to survive the winter.

"Agricultural affairs are not a problem, our grain exports feed half of Europe! Only by relying on these export materials can we continue to carry out our industrialization and modernization! The Soviet Union will become a country admired by the whole world! As long as we make more efforts ourselves!" Khrushchev narrowed his eyes and said: "Long live Comrade Stalin, the leader of the Soviet Union!"

"That's right! We can't cut our exports! This year is a very important year! The fifth Moskva-class battleship was launched this year, and the T-26 tanks equipped by our army are not good on the battlefield, and we need to design and produce new types of tanks and equipment troops.

Not only that, but this year the Soviet Union spent a lot of money to buy more than 100 submarines from Germany, and the Soviet Union hoped to use these submarines to defend its long coastline and, if necessary, enter European waters to deal a fatal blow to the navies of hostile powers such as Britain.

The Germans did not agree to this huge purchase plan at first, but when the Soviets offered to supply Germany with 5 million barrels of oil over five years to repay part of the purchase, the Germans compromised: they were willing to provide the Soviets with 30 large ocean-going submarines and 110 smaller offshore submarines. This purchase plan suddenly made the underwater power of the Soviet Navy jump to the first place in the world, and the total tonnage of submarines has reached an astonishing 270,000 tons.

Yes, you read that right, the Soviet Union itself built a full 170 miniature submarines according to the drawings, and these gadgets with a displacement of about 500 tons allowed the Soviet Union to train its own submarine officers and men, and counting the submarines purchased from Germany, the number of submarines in the Soviet Union reached 310 - this number is more than seven times that of German submarines.

However, a number that has been overlooked, or not yet known, can be illustrated by the fact that the Soviet Union had 310 submarines totaling 270,000 tons, and at this moment, including a 2,000-ton submarine that had just been launched, there were only 70 German submarines, but they already had a total tonnage of 110,000 tons - the average displacement of each submarine exceeded 1,500 tons, and these out-of-time submarines were all equipped with air pipes and radio systems, and some were even equipped with the world's most advanced sonar......

Although these submarines are not yet able to hunt the opposing submarine underwater, although the underwater communication of these submarines is still imperfect and unreliable, and the so-called smooth communication can only be carried out at the depth of the snorkel, but these submarines have completed the initial wolf pack tactical cooperation under the command of Rear Admiral Dönitz, and the only thing they lack is only a little blood in actual combat.

Let's get down to business and return to the room where the Soviet Union is meeting. What will be decided here will affect the future course of the entire Soviet Union for several years.

At this moment, a general said helplessly and cautiously to Stalin: "The most terrible thing is the loss of officers, Comrade Stalin, we have lost almost all of the senior commanders and a third of the middle commanders, General Tukhachevsky's case has shaken the hearts of the army, although we tried our best to control the situation, and finally stabilized the situation, but I personally think that we cannot rely on such an army to repel the invaders." ”

"Yes, I know! So I decided to promote some of the political commissars and appoint them to lead the Soviet Red Army, which had no commanders! Stalin replied disappreciatively. Although the position of political commissar had previously existed within the Red Army, this time he appeared as a leader, which did exceed his previous authority.

Of course, this kind of promotion will win over these promoted, and it seems that these promoted middle-level army cadres will definitely be more loyal to Stalin personally, and this method will also provide more opportunities for the troops to be promoted, just as Accardo did within the Wehrmacht, Stalin will have the support and support of the grassroots officers and soldiers.

However, isn't this the use of laymen to lead insiders to do things? There is certainly no problem with loyalty in this way, but the combat effectiveness of the troops cannot be guaranteed! I think so, but none of the generals present dared to say these things in front of Stalin, and the first person to oppose sending a political commissar to the army was Tukhachevsky, who had already been shot for treason......

"Agreed! That's a good idea!" A general was the first to raise his hand, and Stalin smiled at him with great satisfaction, which made the general even more flattered: "Comrade Stalin's method can effectively strengthen the control of the army and put an end to the sabotage of our construction by those traitors who oppose the Bolsheviks! I agree with his decision!"

"I also agree with this decision!" Khrushchev raised his right hand: "I think that all the decisions of Comrade Stalin, we, as members of the Soviet Union, should unconditionally support and support them!"

"I agree!" "I agree!" "Support the decision of Comrade Stalin's Party!" "I agree!" Soon all the delegates at the meeting raised their hands, and this mention was easily passed.

Stalin nodded, he liked the feeling of being in charge, and he reveled in the applause, feeling that he was indeed worthy of the title of great Soviet leader.