Chapter 1073 1074 has no hesitation
The car started slowly, and with a slight shaking, Stalin involuntarily frowned. This car is a product from the American company Ford, and it is said that it is the most expensive American car, but after getting used to the high-end cars produced by the Mercedes-Benz Motor Company, Stalin still felt the defects in the shock absorption performance of American cars.
As the saying goes, "people have to die more than people, and goods have to be thrown away", although these American things seem to be very good, but in front of German goods, sometimes it is really a little bit worse. In Stalin's underground garage was a car given to him by the German FΓΌhrer Accardo, which he had been riding on his trip a year earlier.
Even the cars produced in Germany a year ago are more than a notch better than the Ford production cars offered by the Americans, but they are all about a step in luxury. On the one hand, the supply of goods provided by the two sides is indeed not at the same price point, and the German Mercedes-Benz cars are obviously more than a little better than the American Ford cars; on the other hand, it does prove that the German automobile production technology is more advanced than that of the United States.
Don't underestimate this subtle difference, in the entire industrial system, these subtle differences eventually lead to industrial gaps, that is the concept of world difference. Relying on this meticulous industrial belief in the civilian field, Germany gradually distanced itself from American industry, and in wartime, this distance was reflected in the shock-absorbing load-bearing system of tanks, the travel systems of all vehicles, the engines of aircraft, and the welding process of warships......
So the German tank had to save a little more fuel than the American one, so the engine power of the German tank could be a little stronger under the same conditions, so the armor that could be installed was a little thicker, so the artillery was a little bigger -- in the end, the Americans could only use the Sherman M4 tank, while the Germans used the Porsche King Tiger.
It was obviously impossible for Stalin to think of something so far away, he just suddenly realized that the car in which he was riding was not as comfortable as before. But this was something he could not complain about, after all, it was he himself who gave the order that officials should not travel in German luxury cars until the end of the war.
The ban was virtually non-existent in many places, and many officials were still limited to traveling in German cars, which were not comparable to Stalin and the top officials in Moscow, and there was no other means of transportation to replace German cars. At that time, when it was in the honeymoon period with Germany, many agencies were looking for relations to import German cars, and they were proud to be able to get Mercedes-Benz cars exported from Germany.
The streets of Moscow are very deserted, because no one likes to go out when the shells are likely to fall at any moment. More than a dozen cars sped through the empty streets, and the sound of engines had some curious children leaning on the windows to watch the departing convoy.
Behind a barricade of sandbags on a wide street is a huge camouflage net, under which is a SU-76 self-propelled anti-tank gun, and next to the cold hull, there are a dozen resting Soviet Red Army soldiers.
They watched with indifference as the sentries lifted the barricades that blocked the way, and watched with blank expressions as cars sped past in front of them. Ignoring the officers standing on the side of the road and saluting, it was as if the big men in the convoy who could only look up to them had nothing to do with them.
War is an interesting thing that can sometimes make people forget who they are. Even the most humble people, as long as they go to the battlefield, they can ignore other lives, even if the life he ignores is the king of a country that was once prominent...... Archimedes was hacked to death by Roman soldiers, but did not survive his remarkable mathematical contributions.
"Hey, I said, what kind of big man are those cars that passed by just now?" A soldier holding a submachine gun asked his comrades curiously about what kind of person could be dragged out of the convoy to show his identity at a time like Moscow.
The comrade-in-arms was obviously not very curious about this, he just carefully smoked a precious cigarette, and answered his companion's question inarticulately: "Bullshit great big man, going to the battlefield is a matter of a bullet! β
A group of veterans nodded in agreement, and said that the group of high-ranking officials in the convoy ran faster than rabbits when they fought, and then laughed among themselves. They didn't know that there was a name that had scared them so much -- Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.
After a long journey, the car finally stopped at the exit of a spacious freight station, one car after another formed a protective net around it, and one guard after another stood erect on either side of the car, vigilantly observing any wind and grass around it.
Eventually, Zaitsev walked to Stalin's car and stretched out his hand to open the door for the leader. Stalin got out of the car, and then he was greeted by the applause of countless officers and politicians who greeted him like a wave. Vatutin, with his adjutant, walked up to Stalin, stood up and saluted: "Everything is ready, the herald has just reported that the train on which Comrade Marshal Zhukov is traveling will enter the station in fifteen minutes." β
Stalin, apparently very satisfied with Vatutin's arrangement, patted the other party on the shoulder, and said: "Very good! Comrade Marshal Zhukov rushed to Moscow with his troops, and this will be a turning point in the Soviet-German war! We will defeat the German army in Moscow and win back the initiative on the battlefield." β
"That's right, Leader Comrade Stalin! I also believe that we can win back the initiative in the war!" Vatutin replied to Stalin in a loud voice: "As long as we hold out in Moscow for five months, the weather will once again be favorable to us, and then we will have a respite, and at that time we will have three months to replenish and recuperate." β
Vatutin's words satisfied Stalin very much, and what he wanted to hear now was nothing more than the generals, from a professional point of view, to conclude that there was still hope for the Soviet Union. Even if this conclusion sometimes seemed overly optimistic, he liked to hear it.
"Very good! Very good!" Stalin took the lead in satisfaction and walked to the platform of the station, where there were already representatives of various departments to greet Marshal Zhukov, and everyone was applauding and cheering, cheering for Stalin's arrival. You must know that Stalin has not left the Kremlin for a long time, and these officers and politicians who are not strong enough have not been able to see this leader in the Soviet Union for a month.
But while these people were applauding, two men in suits in the corner were biting each other's ears and talking. One of the men kept wiping the sweat from his forehead with the white handkerchief in his hand, and his voice was a little trembling: "This matter, it must be foolproof, are you sure you can kill the target?"
The other man was visibly more nervous, and he looked around with an alert eye as he shuddered to answer the other's question: "I've done experiments, and I'm in normal ...... ...... Below, this ...... Detonating device...... Still, still...... Very reliable. β
This era is not like the 21st century, where you can just buy a telephone or get an electronic watch, which can be used as a bomb detonating device, and it is even more impossible to make an alarm clock as a timekeeping device like in the anti-Japanese drama -- if you want a time bomb with a small volume, then the detonation time is very unstable, which is the limitation of the times and cannot be changed.
As the two men spoke, they shifted their eyes to the crowd from time to time, and the two handbags they were holding, in order to ensure that they could kill Stalin, an important target, each of them carried a bomb, and used double insurance to compensate for the hidden danger caused by the instability of the bomb fuse.
The bigwigs in Chelyabinsk promised that if they could take out Stalin, the stumbling block to peace, the Soviet-German war would end immediately, their families in Moscow would escape the war, and the two of them would have a good position in the new Soviet government. Think about the children at home, think about the wife who squatted in the bomb shelter and waited for the shelling to end, and they agreed to this crazy plan.
As it turned out, the war had reached this point, and Stalin's rule was not monolithic. There were also voices of opposition within the Soviet Union, although they were still very weak and the means used were not bright, but they still existed - and this seemed to be enough for the edifice of the Soviet Union.
These weak forces hoped to end the Stalin era with assassinations, and then replace them and peacefully conclude an armistice with the Third Reich. The leaflets secretly distributed by German spies and the occasional Reich News on the radio repeatedly proved that Germany was seeking peace, and that the only obstacle was Stalin.
It's a pity that Stalin almost never left his lair, the Kremlin, so these weak forces had no chance to attack at all. This time to welcome Marshal Zhukov back to Moscow can be said to be a golden opportunity, if the operation is perfect, you can even buy one get one free to kill Zhukov. So they came, carrying bombs without hesitation, and walked onto this platform where Stalin would come in a moment.
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