Chapter 565 The Irresistible Factor

If you want to be a qualified politician, you must be a speculator, and there is no doubt that Khrushchev is a typical figure.

It goes without saying how he made his fortune in the past, but in recent years, Khrushchev's infinite beauty, of course, was obtained by patting Stalin's ass and offering chrysanthemums to Stalin.

Khrushchev has always been a strong advocate of Stalin's line. By getting to know Stalin's wife, he successfully left an impression on Stalin, and gradually climbed to become the secretary of Moscow.

After that, the Great Purge broke out, and Khrushchev was so excited that this was his chance to perform!

He was able to fulfill all kinds of quotas, saying that by arresting tens of thousands of people, he would be able to arrest them in place. At the same time, he also assisted in arresting and destroying his own colleagues and friends.

For example, only three of the 38 senior officials of the Moscow city and provincial party organizations were spared. Of a total of 146 party secretaries in other cities and regions of the Moscow region, 136 were suppressed. All of Khrushchev's handwriting.

At that time, according to the procedure, an arrest warrant issued by Khrushchev must be obtained for the purge operation, which shows how great Khrushchev's power is.

Up to now, the Great Purge of the Soviet Union is still going on, and this time, Khrushchev, as Stalin's special commissioner, came to Berlin, and naturally it was also awesome.

He had been in serious protest with the German foreign minister for several days, so Ribbentrop had no choice but to report to Cyric.

"Khrushchev?" Cyric shook his head. He couldn't be nice to such a person.

"Tell him it's no use protesting, we're in a state of war now, and our first priority is to defeat France, our domestic factories, and the temporary suspension of the construction of the aircraft carriers ordered by the Soviet Union is a contractual force majeure factor, we did not default." Cyric said: "Let the Soviets wait!"

Cyric's words made Ribbentrop understand immediately.

At the beginning, when signing the contract, Cyric suggested that an irresistible factor should be added to it, and he personally explained that, for example, he encountered an ocean storm, which made the construction of the slipway impossible, etc., deliberately emphasizing that it was under natural conditions, As a result, Tukhachevsky, who was leading the team at the time, signed the contract without any doubts.

After that, the cooperation between the two sides was also intermittent. The Soviets stopped supplying iron ore in the middle, which caused the progress to be delayed. So far, the aircraft carrier built for the Soviets has only completed the construction of one hull, without outfitting and without Putting the power system in it is just a shell.

Since the start of the war, the shipyard's construction has been stopped. The Soviet army representatives were quite dissatisfied with this, and repeatedly responded to Moscow. As a result, Stalin sent Khrushchev.

"I want to see your head of state, and I want to protest to him personally!" When Khrushchev faced Ribbentrop, he was quite tough.

According to the original agreement, the aircraft carriers ordered by the Soviet Union should start outfitting, and the 406mm naval guns ordered from Germany should also be shipped and shipped to the Soviet Union for installation on Soviet-class battleships. !

Khrushchev's toughness on the outside represents his inner urgency. Before being sent here, Khrushchev made up some knowledge. Although he was an agricultural expert, he still understood the difficulties faced by the Soviet Union.

When the Soviet Union was established, it was still a backward agricultural country. It was not unusual for the Soviet Union to lose a war. The Soviet Union under the serf system had no chance of winning.

The Soviet Union has successfully become an industrial country through a five-year plan. However, compared with other countries, there is still a big gap, and the Soviet Union must catch up.

Looking at the world, the warships of other countries are too great a threat to the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union can't wait to have large warships.

Stalin asked several times, and in the end, Tukhachevsky decided to order the aircraft carrier from Germany, and the Soviet Union only needed to provide ore. This was a very suitable plan for the Soviet Union.

Don't put eggs in the same basket. The modern defense of the Soviet Union will not be completely dependent on Germany. While ordering aircraft carriers from Germany, Stalin also made the decision to build Soviet-class battleships in the Soviet Union.

This is a super battleship with a displacement of 60,000 tons. It can be seen that the Great Leap Forward of the Soviets is also quite terrifying. You must know that before this, the Soviets only built the 10,000-ton Kirov-class cruiser.

If nothing else, the Soviets could not be satisfied with only the steel used in warships.

At the beginning of this year, after the official construction of the Soviet class began, it was planned to request 10,000 tons of armor steel from the Zhdanov Enola Plant and the Maripov Steel Plant in Leningrad, but now, half a year has passed, they have even A thousand tons were not offered.

For another example, in the power system, they want to manufacture high-horsepower steam turbines, and now there is no prospect.

During the Great Purge, a large number of officers were purged. Khrushchev even went to prison and asked several naval representatives. Their opinions were surprisingly unanimous. Without German help, the Soviets would not have It is impossible to complete the construction of this aircraft carrier.

When Khrushchev came, he just wanted to use an aggressive stance to press the Germans and tell the Germans to hurry up and complete their own aircraft carrier. At the same time, in order to make up for the losses to the Soviet Union, they wanted to export tens of thousands of tons to the Soviet Union. of steel!

It is too ironic to say that the Soviet Union exported iron ore to Germany, and then asked Germany to send the manufactured steel to the Soviet Union. Apart from showing that the Soviet Union's industry was underdeveloped, what other reasons could there be?

Germans, must agree! Khrushchev is also confident. After all, before he came out, several British diplomats came to Moscow.

Khrushchev's political success is inseparable from his keen political sense. Today's Germany must please the Soviet Union!

Now, seeing Ribbentrop come out, but without Cyric, Khrushchev is stunned, why didn't Cyric come out? According to his request, Cyric was asked to give him an explanation. After all, when the contract was signed, Cyric was the representative of Germany, no matter who he is now the head of state or who.

"Where's your head of state?" Khrushchev asked with a dark face.

"The Führer is discussing the emergency military situation, and there is no time to meddle with these business affairs." Now that he has been authorized by Cyric, Ribbentrop's attitude has also turned cold: "The Führer asked me to inform you that it is during the war and belongs to The force majeure factor in our contract, we didn't break the agreement, and if you have nothing else to do, then I'll go."