Five Hundred and Nine Peace

Almost at the same time as the special envoy of the German head of state arrived in Washington, the capital of the United States, a German envoy arrived in Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union. Then he met Stalin and handed over a peace agreement from the German head of state.

This agreement does not seem to have any major problems. After all, Germany was the invaded country in this Eastern Front War. All counterattacks by the German army are just wars to defend the country, and the Soviet Union, as a shameful aggressor, naturally morally despised.

At this time, the war has reached the current stage, and the two countries are actually very embarrassed: the Soviet Union originally wanted to invade Germany, but the German army had already hit Ukraine in one breath; Germany originally wanted the war to start in 1939 , the results began in 1938.

In fact, the two countries are very uncomfortable now. One does not want to fight, and the other wants to fight but loses. Therefore, this peace agreement was thrown out by Germany at this time, which is actually extremely attractive.

Stalin wanted to end this failed invasion and to consolidate the domestic discontent that had arisen from the defeat. He was summing up the reasons for his defeat this time, and found that he actually lacked a general who could win the war by his side.

Although Khrushchev and the like are loyal and have no ideological problems, their flaws are also very obvious. Including Marshal Voroshilov and others, although these people firmly supported Stalin, they were all incompetent people. Maybe Khrushchev and Voroshilov were involved in politics or chose to stand in line. Experts, but when it comes to commanding battles, they are obviously not as reliable as Timoshenko.

Another reason Stalin wanted to end the war was that his main force was almost gone. Since the Great Purge, the grassroots commanders he has carefully selected have lost 778,000,000 in this war. The elite Soviet Red Army who obeyed his orders was annihilated by the German army and captured prisoners. Now the obedient troops in his hands are almost only those near Moscow. Obviously, the situation is not optimistic for Stalin.

Kazakhstan has already had a problem. This country was originally discussing with the Soviet Union about joining the Soviet Union. As a result, due to the defeat in the periphery of Ukraine, the negotiations on joining the Soviet Union in this region were suspended. They are waiting for the Soviet-German war to have a result, a clear the result of. Also waiting for the outcome of the war is Litaowan. They also delayed the announcement of joining the Soviet Union and waited for the outcome of the Soviet-German war. There's going to be a fuss.

Another reason is that the material assistance from the United States is not as timely as expected. The main reason is the fall of the British mainland, so most of the US transport ships bound for the Soviet Union can only sail from the west coast to Vladivostok and other places, and then transport them by land to the western part of the Soviet Union - across most of the northern hemisphere, and distribute them after reaching the front line to the Soviet Red Army.

This has led to a heartbreaking phenomenon. Some supplies in Siberia near the United States are piled up like mountains, but there are very few supplies that can be transported to the Ukrainian front in time.

As a result, the American supplies that Stalin used as a life-saving straw were not as effective as he expected.

Of course, Germany is now really unwilling to fight to the death with the Soviet Union on the Eastern Front. On the one hand, it is because the war on the two fronts has exhausted Germany's reserves. Defeat the power of the Soviet Union.

The German army that entered Ukraine only had 400,000 troops with better maneuverability, which were the left-wing Guderian's G Army and Keitel's E Army. Turns out it's not enough.

Most of the German troops had just entered the eastern part of Poland cumbersomely, and finally turned the tens of thousands of Soviet Red Army surrounded into prisoners of war and corpses. At this time, they were surprised to find that the eastern part of Poland on the other side of the border was not much better than the central part of Poland controlled by Germany.

No wonder those guerrillas were unwilling to retreat to eastern Poland, no wonder the locals in central Poland would rather be persecuted and squeezed by the German army than migrate to the eastern part of Poland controlled by the Soviet Union-this is entirely because the Soviet Union was more ruthless than the Germans and squeezed more ferocious.

But when the German generals led their huge army into the territory of the Soviet Union, they realized that compared with the world, the tens of thousands of troops are just too small to be small.

Only at this time did they realize that they still underestimated the size of the Soviet Union and the strength of the enemy. What the head of state said is correct. To win the Soviet Union, it is impossible not to carry out war mobilization. Without comprehensive war preparations and the establishment of an Eastern Front army of more than 5 million, it is impossible to succeed.

Thousands of tanks of various types, tens of thousands of shells and thousands of cannons were seized. Tens of thousands of Soviet Red Army soldiers were captured-there were still so many Soviet troops blocking their way forward, and there were still densely packed soldiers.

Now Germany must make a gesture of hope for peace to appease people's resistance to war. The Germans don't want to fight anymore, they hope to restore peace - this is completely nonsense, when a country has occupied several countries, everyone hopes to be able to develop peacefully, the key is to see if other countries are willing to look at this A mighty nation rises.

So this time the German special envoy came, brought a group of reporters and propagandists, and came to Moscow in a high-profile manner. They seemed to want to tell people all over the world their desire for peace: "Germans love peace. As long as there is hope for peace, the Germans will continue to work for this hope."

"Border conflicts often occur between big countries. This kind of thing is caused by the two countries being on guard against each other and at a high level of combat readiness. We have signed a non-aggression treaty between our two countries. I believe that this treaty was not torn up by the Soviet leader Mr. Stalin ” These are the exact words of the German special envoy when facing the reporter. He did not discuss the issue of compensation, nor did he explain the various conditions of the truce, but he tried hard to interpret the decisive battle between the two countries as a border conflict.

Tens of thousands of troops have been fighting for almost a month. You say this is a small-scale conflict on the border? You go to the grave and burn newspapers—what about cheating ghosts? If this is a border conflict, tell me how many people are needed for a strategic decisive battle? 100 million? 500 million? All mankind fight? All the reporters felt that they wanted to swear, but they could only record the random words of the German diplomatic envoy with a smile on their faces.

Of course Stalin knew that Germany was struggling, but the Soviet Union he led was also struggling. If it's just that everyone is extremely entangled, then simply submitting a peace treaty can undoubtedly solve this problem.

But now the conflict of interests between the two countries is really serious: In the Middle East, Germany wants to show its right to speak and support Turkey’s expansion, which violates the border interests of the Soviet Union; It made Stalin sleepless with worry; if the interests of the Far East and the Arctic Ocean are counted, it seems that Germany and the Soviet Union are more mortal than the feud of killing their fathers.

Moreover, the content of the German Armistice Treaty was somewhat unacceptable to Stalin. The treaty stipulated that all the former Polish regions should be assigned to Germany, and Germany would only return 500,000 prisoners of war to the Soviet Union. The rest would be permanently assigned to Germany as the German population. The Soviet Union wanted to compensate Germany with 4 million barrels of oil and 30 million U.S. dollars as compensation for launching the war without authorization.

what is this? This is an unequal treaty! Cede land for compensation and confiscate prisoners of war! Did the Germans think they had won? Well, the Germans did win. But as long as he, Stalin, does not agree to this treaty, the war is not over, and the Germans have not won yet!

How could such a treaty be signed? If this is signed, what is the difference from the Qing government? Of course, Stalin would not easily accept the conditions offered by the Germans. On the one hand, he secretly ordered Khrushchev and Marshal Voroshilov to defend the southern region to make atonement; The troops here are going to fight in Ukraine, and then talk about the treaty with the Germans.

Soon, the 300,000 Soviet Red Army in the northern part of the Soviet Union, which had not suffered fatal losses, began to move south, and joined the 200,000 troops supported by the central part of the Soviet Union, and launched a mighty battle with the German army approaching Kyiv.

This time the Soviet Red Army was never harmed by leaders who did not understand warfare, because Stalin decided not to appoint supervisors to Timoshenko, and he would complete the front-line combat command operations by himself. This was also a bold attempt, marking the first time Stalin questioned the model of politicians leading military strategists.

"As long as there is one German soldier standing on the land of the Soviet Union! The Soviet people will never yield! The war will never end!" Stalin stood on the Red Square and loudly encouraged the Soviet people: "When we drive the Germans out of our homeland, come and talk to them about our peace!"

And later that day, Akado also delivered a speech to the people of the country at the Fuhrer's residence in Berlin: "Is there anyone willing to go to the Soviet Union to help me remind Stalin that he is provoking 80 million strong and unyielding German people! Germany The tanks still have a fighting chance and tell him that the German people love peace, but have never been afraid of war!"

There was thunderous applause at the scene, and the peace declared by the head of state is coming soon. Is there anything more exciting than this news? On the square in front of the Führer's residence, the cheers of long live Akado Rudolf came one after another.