One Thousand Seventy-Four without Hesitation
? The car started slowly, and with the slight shaking, Stalin frowned involuntarily. This car is a product from the American Ford Company. It is said that it is the most expensive American car. However, after getting used to the high-end cars produced by Mercedes-Benz, Stalin still felt the shortcomings of American cars in terms of shock absorption.
As the saying goes, "People are dead compared to people, and goods are thrown away when compared with goods." Although the American things look very good, sometimes they are really not so interesting in front of German goods. In Stalin's underground garage, there is a car given to him by the German head of state Accardo. It was a car he would definitely take when he traveled a year ago.
Even the cars produced in Germany a year ago are luxurious in all aspects, and they are more than one grade better than the Ford mass-produced cars provided by the Americans. On the one hand, the sources of goods provided by the two parties are indeed not at the same price. The Mercedes-Benz cars in Germany are obviously more than a little better than the Ford cars in the United States.
Don't underestimate this subtle difference. In the entire industrial system, the industrial gap that these subtle differences eventually lead to is a completely different concept. Relying on this meticulous industrial belief in the civilian field, Germany gradually opened up the distance with American industry. During the war, this distance was reflected in the shock absorption and load-bearing system of tanks and the walking system of all vehicles. , on the engine of the plane, on the welding process of the battleship...
Therefore, German tanks need to save a little more fuel than American ones, so under the same conditions, the engine power of German tanks can be a little stronger, so the armor that can be installed is a little thicker, so the artillery is bigger and so A little bit - 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 such a distant thing. He just suddenly realized that the car he was riding in was not as comfortable as before. But that was something he could not complain about, since he himself had ordered officials not to ride in German luxury cars until the end of the war.
This ban is useless in many places, and many officials still can only travel by German cars. After all, they are no different from Stalin and Moscow officials, and they have no other means of transportation to replace German cars. When China and Germany were in the honeymoon period, many agencies looked for connections to import German cars, and they were proud of being 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 may fall at any time. More than a dozen cars sped by on the empty street, and the sound of the engine caused some curious children to lie at the window and watch the convoy that had gone away.
A barricade composed of sandbags was piled up on an originally wide street. Behind these sandbags was a huge camouflage net propped up on one side. A su-76 self-propelled anti-tank gun was parked under the camouflage net. Next to the cold car body , also relying on a dozen resting Soviet Red Army soldiers.
With indifferent eyes they watched the sentinels raise the barricades blocking the way,
He watched the cars pass by quickly in front of him blankly. He didn't pay any attention to the officers who stood at attention and saluted by the side of the road, as if the big men in the convoy who could only look up to them had nothing to do with them at all.
War is an interesting thing, and sometimes it can make people forget their identities. No matter how humble a person is, as long as they go to the battlefield, they can ignore other lives, even if the life he ignores is a once prominent king of a country... Archimedes was hacked to death by a Roman soldier and killed None survived because of his outstanding mathematical contributions.
"Hey, let me say, those cars that passed by just now, who belonged to some important people?" A soldier holding a submachine gun curiously asked his comrades around him. He was very curious about the cars that could be dragged out of the convoy to show their identities at a time like Moscow. , What kind of character is it?
The comrade-in-arms was obviously not very curious about this, he just smoked a precious cigarette carefully, while answering his companion's question inarticulately: "You dog is a great big man, to go to the battlefield, it's just a bullet. Things! It’s probably not as good as the rookie recruits from the 2nd Battalion.”
A group of veterans around nodded in agreement, commenting on the group of high-ranking officials in the convoy who ran faster than rabbits during the war, and then laughed at each other. They didn't know that what they were muttering in obscene language had a name that once frightened them so much that they didn't dare to speak out—Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin.
After driving for a long distance, 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 upright at the car On both sides, vigilantly observing any disturbances in the surroundings.
Finally Zaitsev walked to the side of Stalin's car and stretched out his hand to open the door for the leader. Stalin got out of the car, and then there were waves of applause from countless military officers and politicians who greeted him. Vatutin walked up to Stalin with his adjutant, stood at attention and saluted: "Everything is ready, the orderer has just reported that the train Comrade Marshal Zhukov is on will enter the small station in fifteen minutes. "
Stalin was obviously very satisfied with Vatutin's arrangement. He patted Vatutin on the shoulder and said, "Very good! Comrade Marshal Zhukov rushed to Moscow with his troops. This will be a turning point in the Soviet-German war! We will defeat the German army in Moscow , to win back the initiative on the battlefield.”
"That's right, leader Comrade Stalin! I also believe that we can win back the initiative of the war!" Vatutin replied loudly to Stalin: "As long as we stick to Moscow for 5 months, the weather will be in our favor again, that At that time, we will get a respite, and at that time, there will be three months for us to make up for it."
Vatutin's words made Stalin very satisfied. What he wants to hear most now is nothing more than the conclusion that the Soviet Union still has hope from a professional point of view. Even though sometimes this kind of conclusion seems too optimistic, he still likes to hear this kind of rhetoric.
"Very good! Very good!" Satisfied, Stalin took the lead and walked to the station platform, which was already full of representatives from various departments to welcome Marshal Zhukov. Everyone was applauding and cheering for Stalin's arrival. You must know that Stalin has not left the Kremlin for a long time, and these officers and politicians with insufficient status have not been able to see this leader who is in charge of the wind and rain in the Soviet Union for a month.
But while these people were applauding, two people in suits in the corner were talking to each other while biting their ears. One of the men kept wiping the sweat on his forehead with a white handkerchief in his hand, and his voice trembled: "This matter must be foolproof, are you sure you can kill the target?"
The other man was obviously more nervous. While looking around at the surrounding security forces with vigilant eyes, he answered the other party's question tremblingly: "I have done experiments, and under normal... The device is... still, still... very reliable."
This era is not like the 21st century, when you buy a phone or an electronic watch, you can use it as a bomb detonator, and it is even more impossible to use an alarm clock as a timing device like in the anti-Japanese drama—I want to For a small-sized time bomb, the detonation time is very unstable. This is a limitation of the times, and a limitation that cannot be changed.
When the two people were talking, they shifted their eyes to the crowd from time to time. They placed the two handbags on them. In order to ensure that the important target of Stalin could be killed, the two of them carried a bomb respectively, and used double insurance to make up for the bomb fuze. dangers of instability.
Those big men in Chelyabinsk promised that as long as they could get rid of Stalin, the stumbling block to peace, the Soviet-German war would end immediately, and their families in Moscow would escape the fate of the war. As for the two of them, It will also have a good position in the new Soviet government. Think of the children at home, think of the wives crouching in the bombardment waiting for the shelling to end, they agreed to this crazy plan.
Facts have proved that the war has progressed to this point, and Stalin's rule is not monolithic. There are also voices of opposition within the Soviet Union. Although this voice is still very weak and the methods used are not bright, these voices still exist-this seems to be enough for the Soviet Union, which is about to collapse.
These weak forces hoped to use assassination to end the era of Stalin, and then take their place and reach an armistice agreement with the Third Reich with peace of mind. The leaflets secretly distributed by some German spies and the occasional Reich Channel news on the radio have repeatedly proved that their point of view is more correct: Germany is also seeking peace, and the only obstacle is Stalin.
It's a pity that Stalin almost never left his lair x the Kremlin before, so these weak forces had no chance to attack at all. This time welcoming Marshal Zhukov back to Moscow can be said to be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. If the operation is perfect, you can even buy one get one free to kill Zhukov. So they came, carrying the bomb without hesitation, and walked onto the platform where Stalin would arrive in a while.
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Promise everyone to make up the update today, Long Ling went to code the third update, the update will be a bit late, you can watch it tomorrow morning.