Chapter 605 Let Churchill Go

The Political Bureau meeting unanimously passed the resolution proposed by Comrade Stalin, General Secretary of the Bolshevik Party, to "implement the Great Thunderstorm Plan and liberate all of Europe". It has been many years since anyone in this Political Bureau voted against it...

After the meeting, most of the Political Bureau members and the Central Committee members who attended left the Kremlin, but Molotov and Beria were kept by Stalin, who was in a heavy mood.

Stalin brought his two right-hand men into his office, and then stood in front of a map of Europe hanging on the wall and said: "We are going to fight a very difficult war. The Germans are very powerful. In order to defeat them, we must take some deceptive means."

Molotov had been prepared for a long time. He said: "Comrade General Secretary, we can pretend to liberate India. Now most of Afghanistan has been liberated. With the efforts of the Afghan working people and our experts, the urgent railway from Herat to Kandahar is also nearing completion. The time is ripe for further liberation of the Indian working people."

"Okay, liberating India is a good smokescreen." Stalin said, "You can discuss this issue with Germany. India should belong to the Soviet sphere of influence."

Although Soviet-German relations are becoming increasingly cold, both sides are preparing military actions against each other. However, the traditional friendship of socialist comrades and brothers has not been completely terminated. High-level visits between the Soviet Union and Germany have continued, and some military cooperation projects, such as Germany's "aided construction" of Soviet-class battleships and Kronstadt-class battlecruisers, were not officially ended until the end of May 1942.

The differences between the Soviet Union and Germany seemed to be only about differences in lines and how to divide spheres of influence. The line issue was a life-threatening problem within the Soviet Bolshevik Party, but it was a trivial matter between the Soviet Union and Germany. As for the issue of dividing spheres of influence, it seemed that it was not irreconcilable - as long as the Soviet Union did not move westward and expand in the Middle East, Germany could not do anything to the Soviet Union.

"Then I will leave immediately." Molotov said.

"Okay," Stalin nodded, "You can also discuss the Japanese issue with Hitler and Hessmann. Japan has stationed millions of troops in Manchuria and Korea, posing a serious threat to the Soviet Far East and the Soviet Union's Eastern allies. This problem must be solved, so while liberating India, the Soviet Union is ready to concentrate on uniting with the United States to solve Japan, a huge threat to human civilization!"

This sounds a bit like it, because the Soviet Union and the United States have had a very good relationship over the years. And before Japan swept across the Pacific, the Soviet Union had signs of destroying Japan together with the United States.

Now that the US Pacific Fleet has been defeated by the Japanese and has not yet risen, the Soviet Union naturally has to help to justify the benefits it has received from the United States over the years. To defeat the powerful Japanese army, it would take hundreds of divisions, tens of thousands of T-34 and KV-1 tanks, and tens of thousands of MiG, Il, and Lavochkin aircraft, right?

Moreover, the Russian tradition is not to fight on two fronts. Since we are going to go to war with the powerful Japan in the Far East, peace on the Western Front must be maintained.

"In addition," Stalin said, "we can also propose a proposal to mediate the US-German war... The future world peace should be based on the balance of power between the United States, the Soviet Union, and Germany. Germany's sphere of influence is Europe, Africa, and the Middle East, excluding Soviet territory. The islands in the Indian Ocean and southern India can also be given to Germany. The United States' sphere of influence is the Americas and the Pacific. And we, the Soviet Union, rule most of the Eurasian continent."

"Comrade General Secretary, you are so wise," Molotov said, "the Germans will definitely be fooled."

He said this, but he thought in his heart: How great would it be if this Soviet-German peace really happened? Everyone can live a more peaceful life...

"Comrade Lavrenti Pavlovich." Stalin then said to Beria, "Now many Polish and German comrades have been imprisoned in labor camps because of misunderstandings."

"Comrade General Secretary, this is a mistake made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs." Beria immediately admitted his mistake.

"It must be corrected," Stalin said, "We must restore their reputation and let Polish and German comrades come out to work."

The Polish Bolshevik Party and the German Bolshevik Party were the hardest hit areas of the Great Purge. Almost all comrades from the two parties in the Soviet Union were arrested and sent to labor reform! Even the German Bolshevik Party and the Polish Bolshevik Party themselves were banned by the Third International.

However, now that Germany and Poland are to be liberated, the hard days of the German and Polish comrades who were imprisoned in labor camps for reform are over.

"How many Polish prisoners of war are there in Starobelsk, Kozelsk and Ostashkov?" Stalin began to care about the Polish prisoners of war again. These Polish prisoners of war were captured in the war in 1939. The officers and non-commissioned officers were eliminated, but many soldiers were reformed in the labor camps in Belarus.

"There are nearly 50,000 more," Beria immediately understood Stalin's intention, "each of them has undergone a soul-touching transformation, deeply realized their past sins, and turned over a new leaf."

"Very good!" Stalin smiled and nodded, "The work of the General Administration of Labor Camps is satisfactory, and we should continue to work hard to make more contributions to the cause of human liberation."

Stalin said "the cause of human liberation" instead of "the cause of Soviet construction", which shows that there will soon be many foreign human dregs that need to be reformed - provided that the invincible Soviet Red Army can catch them, which is a difficult and Dangerous mission!

"Order the General Administration of Labor Camps to hand over all Polish prisoners to the jurisdiction of the Third International." Stalin pointed out a broad road to a happy life for the Poles who were starving to build the Soviet Union - they were able to survive, and soon Soon we will all be members of the glorious Polish Red Army!

Moreover, Stalin did not want them to charge into the battle and serve as cannon fodder (for fear that they would surrender to the enemy). He only wanted them to carry the red flag and goose-step after the liberation of Warsaw, so that the working people of Poland could see their own team.

Stalin then ordered: "In addition, the internal affairs department must cooperate with the Third International to help the Bolshevik parties in European countries under the Nazis' iron heel to establish internal affairs and labor reform departments... This is a very difficult task. There are so many reactionaries across Europe. , *** elements need to be eliminated and transformed, and work in this area must be arranged in advance. "

Beria thought for a while and asked: "Comrade General Secretary, do the British reactionaries and *** elements need to be transformed and eliminated?"

"This..." Stalin thought about it seriously - this is a difficult question to answer. The British reactionaries and communists must be bad. They hate the Soviet Union extremely, and they also invented the abominable "Churchill suicide bomb vest". There are still suicide bomb attacks in Kabul and Kandahar every now and then!

"No need," Stalin thought for a moment and decided not to consider the issue of reforming Churchill for the time being. After all, Churchill was backed by American imperialism, and the issue of labor reform also depended on the background. "The United Kingdom and Ireland will not be liberated this time... Just plant the red flag in France, and let the working people of the United Kingdom suffer in dire straits for a while longer."

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The day after Stalin made the decision not to liberate Britain and Ireland for the time being, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, who did not love labor and did not want to be transformed, learned of the Soviet Union's requirements. Of course it is not a demand to liberate the working people of Europe. This matter is now a secret, and even the working people of Europe are not allowed to know about it, let alone him, the leader of the reactionaries?

The Soviet Union's request was that the British army launch a truly powerful counterattack on the island of Ireland, attracting large-scale reinforcements from the German Army, and creating favorable conditions for the Soviet Red Army to open a second battlefield on the Eastern Front.

"Well, we still need to fight hard in Ireland!" Fatty Qiu took a few puffs of his cigar with a smile and said to the cabinet members and generals in the underground conference room, "I think we have to fight this battle well. It will be a turning point in the world war."

I don't know since when, "turning point" has become Fatty Qiu's mantra. He talks about it every month and every day, but unfortunately he can't turn it around. But this time there seems to be hope, because Stalin, the great leader of the Soviet Union, finally made up his mind to fight the Germans, and the Americans also declared war on Germany not long ago.

Now it is no longer the United Kingdom that is working hard to challenge Germany alone, but the three major powers of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union are united to oppose the Nazi tyranny.

"Although we will ultimately be victors," Churchill said with a smile, "no one can defeat the combination of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union, not even Nazi Germany. But before our allies can completely crush Nazi Germany, we in Britain must show We cannot sit back and enjoy the success, otherwise we will lose the power to divide the world after the war.”

The fat man turned his head and looked seriously at the Imperial Chief of Staff, Viscount Brooke, "So I ask the army and the Royal Air Force to do their best to launch a counterattack in Ireland. Viscount, can we do it?"

"No problem," Viscount Brooke replied, "Now there are 1 armored division, 5 motorized infantry divisions, 8 infantry divisions and 6 county divisions on the island of Ireland, and 2 armored divisions are preparing to go to the island. "

"That's 22 divisions!" Churchill asked. "How many troops do the Germans have?"

"There are only 6 divisions at most, of which there are only 2 armored divisions, 1 is still an armored division composed of light tanks, and maybe 1 division is Italian troops." Viscount Brooke told Churchill, "Waiting for the Guards Armored Division and the 79th Once the armored division enters the island of Ireland, we will have enough troops to launch a counterattack and at least take back Dublin!"