In the USSR, in Moscow, in the Kremlin, Stalin was with his henchman Nikita Khrushchev.

"Don't you know what kind of catastrophic consequences such a purge will bring to the entire Soviet Union? You are wrong! I know these consequences better than anyone else! But I still have to do it!" Stalin glanced at Khrushchev, who was full of bewilderment, and said softly: "Comrade Khrushchev! You are still too young." ”

He pointed to the Red Square outside, raised his chin and said proudly: "This is the broadest country in the world! We have a vast territory that many countries do not have! We can use the resources of these territories to do things that many countries cannot do!"

"For example, the German Führer Accardo, he must have envied us that we had such a good hand from the start, and we could develop what we needed at a loss. Stalin said as he walked to the window: "If it weren't for the fact that we have a lot of resources, the Germans would have given us so many technologies?"

"But Comrade Stalin, is this necessarily related to our large-scale purge?" Khrushchev asked puzzled.

"I'm in a race for time! Comrade Khrushchev! I'm in a race against Accardo! If I finish clearing out the political enemies that constrain us first, then we will first complete our plan, and then the Soviet Union will be unprecedentedly strong, with the world-class technology provided by Germany, and a huge territory unified by decree and ban, and then we will be able to dominate the world!"

Stalin pointed to the map on the wall and said: "If Germany is slow, we can take Finland, Poland, Romania and other countries in one fell swoop, and become the hegemon of Europe! At that time, we can even take Germany and become the most powerful country in the world." Even the United States can't compete with us!"

"But what if we lose? what if the Germans are faster than us?" asked Khrushchev eagerly.

"With Poland as a buffer, we have a long time to prepare ourselves! So we can't be slower than the Germans! As long as we speed up our internal clean-up and finish our plans before the Germans start the next war!" Stalin said firmly.

"So what should we do next? Arrest a few old comrades in the party, and now those elders are already very dissatisfied with our behavior, and if we continue like this, we will lose supporters. Khrushchev asked.

"Then we're going to find a way to get rid of a big guy! Show the self-righteous idiots, and they'll shut their mouths in amusement. Stalin snorted and said: "My idea is very simple, the Soviet Union only makes sense to become the first power under my leadership, and if I am gone, even if the Soviet Union is invincible in the world, it will not do me any good." ”

"I see! Long live Comrade Stalin, the great leader of the Soviet Union!" said Khrushchev, bowing his head, his tone full of hesitation.

"I know you don't believe what I'm saying. Stalin turned around, walked to his desk, picked up a form and handed it to Khrushchev: "Look at this, you will understand." ”

Khrushchev picked up the text suspiciously, and after a few glances, he was stunned by these numbers, here is the expansion and development plan of the Soviet army, which records in detail the development and expansion of the Soviet armed forces.

In 1920, the Soviet Union had only 117 tanks, a figure similar to that of Poland, and it can be said that the Soviet heavy weapons and equipment at this time could only be regarded as "ornaments". However, only two years later, the Soviet Union had 700 replicas of Renault tanks and 400 P-1 tanks supplied by Germany. By 1926, the Soviet Union had begun to design and equip itself with more advanced weapons and equipment.

Up to now, the Soviet Union has more than 2,600 T-26 tanks, counting several old other models, the number of tanks can be called the world's first, and the total number of tanks as many as 3,000 dwarfs France, which is known as the largest army power in Europe. After satisfying their own development needs, Soviet tanks were even sent to Spain and China to help potential allies.

The growth of the navy is even more exciting: with the launch of the USS Soviet, the Red Army has the courage to compete with the world's naval powers. Immediately following the Soviet battleships, like dumplings, one after the other sailed from the dock into the sea.

The names that made the British spies tremble and made the British Royal Navy sleepless appeared one by one on the documents submitted to them: the USS Soviet, USS Belarus (the warship was originally called "Soviet Belarus", and this article has since referred to them as abbreviations), USS Ukraine, and USS Russia.

Although the main guns of the Ukraine have not yet been installed, and although the Russian is still in the house, the Soviet Navy has never had such a powerful moment, which makes Khrushchev feel that his blood is spurting.

The Germans cunningly used the chain of interests to tie many countries to the chariot of revival*: the boilers on the battleship Russo, which had been procured from Swiss companies, had made the Swedish company Brown Bofarian incredibly profitable under a £500,000 contract.

The Italian shipping companies took advantage of the Austrian problem to get a piece of the German trade contract, and they also reaped a lot of benefits from the Soviet battleship program, the biggest of which was that they managed to get the Soviet battleship's secondary guns to use their calibers, and to use the original Italian main gun sighting system.

This vast network of interests was woven by Accardo's German diplomats, and Germany made millions of dollars from it, and it is no exaggeration to say that half of the money used by Germany to rearm the Wehrmacht came from the Soviet Union, the Bolshevik state.

"Comrade Stalin! No one wants to see a powerful Soviet Union more than we do!" Khrushchev respectfully put the materials in his hand back on the table, and said solemnly: "I swear to you! I will firmly support you! Fight all your life to build a world number one power!"

"Comrade Kirov has left us, and this is a great loss for us!" Comrade Khrushchev!" Stalin said to himself in an official tone: "His vacant position needs to be filled by an equally great comrade!"

"Long live Comrade Stalin, the great leader of the Soviet Union!" Khrushchev said again, this time in a firm and sonorous tone.

......

In a secret military base on the outskirts of Birmingham, England.

A British weapons design expert in overalls praised with a waistcoat full of pockets: "Perfect! It's not pretty, but it's very practical. ”

"The straps on both sides are designed like shoelaces to allow room for sweating. It can also be adjusted according to the width of the person's chest and abdomen. Another engineer added: "There are seven main pockets on it, and more if necessary." A soldier can carry hundreds of rounds of ammunition without much effort. And it did not affect his activities in the slightest. ”

An intelligence officer handed over a copy to the British generals who listened: "I heard that this small pocket is used to hold a short magazine in Germany, and this rifle is still in the stage of strict secrecy in Germany, so we have no way to get detailed information. It is only known that their internal code name for this rifle is G43, and the 7 is still used. 92 caliber. ”

As he spoke, he pointed to a number on the text: "This is a batch of scrap disposal materials that Germany sent to the Soviet Union via the Polish railway, and our people have received definite news through Guò Poland, this batch of materials is the old Mauser 98K rifles that have been eliminated by Germany, about 30,000 pieces, and the destination is China." ”

"It seems that the Germans are still rational in suppressing Japan's rise in the Far East. Their interests are the same as ours, the difference is that the Germans are left and right, and we prefer Japan to be weaker than it is now. A middle-aged man standing in a British colonel's uniform held his chin and said: "But they know more about the war than I thought, and it seems that Mr. Accardo, the German Führer, who had served as a soldier at the grassroots level, had a certain influence on Germany's rearmament." ”

"And what about your conclusions? Colonel Montgomery?Oh, I almost forgot, because of your interest in the German * team and your study of tank warfare, yesterday you were promoted to major general, congratulations!" the lieutenant general said with a polite smile, "Your new uniform is probably already on its way." ”

"My conclusion is simple, the Germans are arming themselves, and they are very efficient, and it looks like their efforts have been successful, if the German * team is such a standard......" Major General Montgomery pointed to the dummy next to him: "Their combat effectiveness is already at least somewhat higher than that of our expeditionary force." ”

"After calculations and speculations, the new German G43 rifle is now equipped with about 50,000 units, and we are still investigating which units are equipped. His deputy added on the side.

Next to them, pointed by Montgomery, was a dummy full of German gear, wearing a gray-green standard Wehrmacht infantry uniform, a standard German M25 steel helmet (historical M35), a canvas tactical vest, and a standard Mauser 98K rifle. An armed belt was tied around his waist, on which hung a bayonet, a gas mask box, and a sapper shovel behind his buttocks.

"We're going to have to tighten the leash around the German dog's neck. The lieutenant general looked at the heavily armed dummy and nodded, "This watchdog who deals with * is becoming more and more disobedient. ”

Montgomery narrowed his eyes: "General, the navy's attention is now on the side of the Soviets, the empire's military spending has been tilted towards the navy, we want to make another enemy, the congress will not agree." ”

The lieutenant general sighed helplessly: "This is also something we can't do, in the whole of Britain, only a few people know that the war is about to start." ”

He turned around and patted his proud subordinate Montgomery on the shoulder, "But it's okay, what we need to do is simple, ready...... Then beat the Germans one more time, and that's it. ”