Chapter 1018 What Can I Do to Save You, Dear Stalin?
"Prime Minister, your worries are unnecessary." Hessman said this, but he was really unsure in his heart.
Things like civil war cannot be measured purely from a military perspective. Political factors must also be considered. And Olga, Her Majesty the Queen, is obviously a master at playing "sugar-coated bullets".
Maybe with one "gun and silver bullet", the Red Army that ran to the icy and snowy Siberia was defeated...
Moreover, Russians have always recognized Moscow and Petrograd. Siberia has never been an orthodox place in the minds of Russians.
"Moscow is not that easy to capture," Hessman said, shaking his head. "The German army will not participate in the offensive and will only provide fire support with the French army."
"Marshal Reich, I don't think so," Hitler waved his hand, interrupting Hessmann. "I have also fought in the war. I spent several years in the trenches during the last world war, and I know what a critical battle is like. The key is It's artillery, enough artillery, 150mm caliber, 170mm caliber, 210mm caliber, 305mm caliber or even larger caliber artillery. As long as there are enough, we can level Moscow to the ground. Now we and the French can bring out as many of them as possible. Large caliber artillery?"
"There are nearly 20,000 doors with a caliber of 150mm or above," Hersman replied.
"Enough!" Hitler said, "As long as that woman Olga shows determination, Belarus can take Moscow within three months! Manstein's army group will take the Volga-Urals at the same time... And the Japanese There is also the possibility of taking advantage of the situation. Over the past few days, Oshima Hiroshi has been discussing Japan’s attack on the Soviet Union and the blockade of the North Pacific shipping lanes. Do you know what this means?”
It means despair! And despair means collapse and defection. If the Bolsheviks in Siberia and Central Asia see no hope of maintaining their position, it is not impossible for Olga to completely seize Russia's eastern territories in the coming months.
And Germany seemed powerless to do anything about it... The Bolsheviks couldn't be allowed to rebel against the party, right?
"I will tell Model," Hessmann said thoughtfully to Hitler, "Moscow cannot be taken within six months."
It is mid-May now, and it will be mid-November in six months. If it is delayed any longer, the army will spend the winter under Moscow. Moreover, Hersman also planned to conquer the United States in 1945, so the war against the Soviet Union must come to an end in 1944.
“This is not enough,” Hitler lowered his voice and told Hersmann. “If we want the Soviet Union to maintain its presence east of the Ural Mountains, we must allow the Soviet Union to retain a strong leader. Stalin... cannot die in Moscow!
In addition, a strong Soviet army must retreat to Central Asia, Siberia and the Far East. Otherwise, once the Japanese get hot-headed, we will be in big trouble. Moreover, the people who made up the Soviet Red Army were all young adults, mainly men, but also some women. If a few million of these people retreat east of the Ural Mountains, the future Russian Empire will lose 10 or even 20 million people. Do you understand it? The key now is population. We must ensure that the Germans will be the largest ethnic group in the European Community in the future. "
Since there was no way to starve the Russian men to death, Hitler could only consider driving away as many people as possible.
In addition, Hitler's government is still considering many "quick-shot" population growth developments. For example, the "Aryan War Orphans Raising Method" - of course, there are not really many Aryan war orphans to raise, but young orphans are collected from Poland, Ukraine, Belarus and Russia, and they are raised by German orphanages or families. Raised Germanic people.
There is also the "Aryan Motherhood Law", which encourages Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian girls to give birth to children for blond Nazis...
And the Kanito thing is different from those crooked ways of increasing the number of Germanic people, because this is not something that Germany alone can decide. There is a Japanese Empire on the other side of the world that can explode at any time. What if Emperor Showa was mistaken and wanted to go north, and someone turned the Soviet Union into Russia, and Comrade Hitler would still be pissed to death by Hirohito? So Hitler thought it would be good to leave more troops for the Bolsheviks, at least to scare the Japanese.
"Moreover," Hitler paused, then added, "We still have to give Stalin enough time to evacuate the population of the Volga-Ural region. Although they are inferior Slavs, they are still nobler than the barbarians in Central Asia and Siberia. , should have a certain living space.”
Hessman nodded. Of course he knew that the living space in Central Asia could still support many people. If the Russians who believe in communism and the Orthodox Church (the Soviet Union has now liberalized the Orthodox Church) had not taken over the territory, it would be "green" there.
Seeing Hessmann nod, Hitler breathed a sigh of relief. As long as he and Hessmann reached a consensus, nothing could be done in Germany now.
"Marshal Reich, you have to ask Natalie to go to Mrs. Kollontai and tell Stalin what we mean." Hitler said, "Let him leave Moscow early. You can go to the Caucasus first, and then take the troops to Kazakhstan through the Caspian Sea. "
It seems that Hitler was really a good friend of Stalin in this time and space, and even planned an escape route for him.
"I know," Hessman thought for a while, "I will go to Switzerland in person to discuss this matter with Mrs. Kollontai in person."
…
After Hessmann agreed with Hitler on how to save the Soviet Union and Stalin, he asked for leave from the General Staff the next day, and then took his wife Chloe, personal secretary Natalie, adjutant guard and others with him. Went on vacation to a villa in Switzerland.
Of course, vacation is just a name, and meeting Mrs. Kollontai, the Soviet ambassador to Switzerland, is the real purpose.
Before Hersman and others boarded the train to Zurich, Natalie had already spoken to Kollontai on the phone. So on the night Hersman arrived, he met Mrs. Kollontai in his and Chloe's villa.
Mrs. Kollontai, who looked very sad, sat in Hessmann's study after dinner. After listening to Hessman's words with a frown, she asked in a very skeptical tone: "Marshal Reich, what do you Germans mean?" Don’t you want to have peace negotiations with the Soviet Union?”
"It's not a peace negotiation," Hessmann smiled helplessly. "If Olga had not become the master of Petrograd, we could have reached a peace agreement. But now... the war between the Soviet Union and Germany It has turned into a civil war in Russia, and we do not want Russia to be reunified in the short term, madam, do you understand what we are thinking?"
Kollontai glanced at Hessmann coldly, nodded slowly and said: "No one wants to see a unified and strong Russia, whether it is red or white."
Hersman nodded wordlessly.
Who made the Russians the largest ethnic group in Europe now? If the entire Russian nation were swallowed up, the Germanic population advantage would disappear.
"Then in the future, will you intervene in the war between us and Belarus?"
"If the war breaks out in Europe," Hersman said, "we will definitely intervene."
Mrs. Kollontai was silent for a moment and then asked: "What if Japan attacks us? Such a thing is very likely to happen, isn't it?"
"We will try our best to persuade Japan not to take action, and if Japan does not listen to us, then... we will not provide Japan with any support."
"This is not enough." Kollontai shook his head and looked at Hersman, "Do you know what is the key to whether the Soviet Union can survive?"
"What?"
"It's supplies." Kollontai said with a wry smile. "Siberia and Central Asia lack supplies and cannot feed so many people and troops, at least until we fully develop Central Asia. And the possible sources of supplies are all in Japan. under threat.”
"Don't worry for the time being." Hersman understood Kollontai's meaning, but he could not give any guarantee on this issue. "Japan and the United States are currently at war, and according to the information we have, the Japanese can't fight Not as good as they claim. In fact... they are being defeated by the United States! Although the Japanese have been claiming victory for the past 2 months, the actual situation is that they are losing."
What is now being fought between the United States and Japan is the "Pacific War". The entire Pacific is a battlefield, and the Battle of the Hawaiian Islands is only a part of it. Although Japan continues to claim that it has severely damaged the United States on the Hawaiian Islands battlefield, Japan is suffering setbacks elsewhere in the Pacific.
As an ally of Japan, Germany is not ignorant of this. Because the EC’s own fleet running the Greater East Asia route lost a total of 11 ships in March and April, totaling 118,000 tons! This number accounts for more than 30% of the total number of EC cargo ships entering the area east of the Strait of Malacca in March and April. In addition, 10 ships were damaged. Together, they accounted for more than 50% of the total number of EC ships (excluding warships) in the Greater East Asia.
70% of all ship losses and injuries were caused by U.S. submarines, and the remaining 30% were caused by U.S. mines. Although the mines laid by the Americans sank and damaged fewer ships, they caused greater losses to production and transportation. Because a small number of mines will temporarily render waterways and ports inoperable, transport ships are forced to wait for mine clearance.
In the two months of March and April, the Malacca Strait alone was interrupted for 21 days due to mines laid by the United States (the Malacca Strait is shallow and is a good place to lay magnetic mines), which seriously affected the transfer of materials between Europe and Japan. .