Chapter 722 GCist Fighters Go to New York

"There is no way out except fighting... Well, I like this Australian Prime Minister! But will the Australians listen to him?"

In the White House, US President Roosevelt was holding a meeting in his Oval Office to discuss the issue of defending Australia, starting Operation Torch, and launching sugar-coated bullets at the heroic Soviet Red Army!

The first thing to be discussed was of course the crisis in Australia. Although Halsey's fighting in the Coral Sea delayed the Japanese landing and won more time for the Allied Southwest Pacific Command (so Roosevelt and the US Navy Department did not think Halsey had lost the battle), the situation in Australia was still extremely serious.

The invasion of the Japanese army was imminent, and the US route to support Australia was not completely interrupted, but at least 80% was interrupted. Now large-scale fleets and ordinary cargo ships have no way to go to Australia. They can only convert high-speed cruise ships into cargo ships and go to Melbourne through the Tasman Sea under the escort of aircraft carrier formations-this is only possible under the premise that Germany did not provide the two killer weapons, Ju288 and remote-controlled glide bombs, to RB.

Therefore, it has become very difficult to transport troops to Australia on a large scale. The only feasible way is to transport weapons and ammunition to Australia and New Zealand, so that Australians and New Zealanders can arm themselves to defend their homes.

"Mr. President, I think we should not underestimate the resistance of Australians and New Zealanders." General Marshall, Chief of Army Staff, replied, "The Australian and New Zealand Corps in the British Army is famous for its tenacity and good fighting skills. Australians and New Zealanders are very similar to us Americans. They have a militia tradition and are a country where everyone is a soldier... Moreover, those Australians and New Zealanders have no other way out now. If they don't fight hard, they will have no way to survive after the RB conquers Australia."

Marshall's opinion is right. Australian whites are already very fierce. Many of their ancestors were bad guys who committed serious crimes in Britain and were barbaric by nature.

Moreover, Australia and New Zealand at this time had not yet implemented strict gun control. The two colonial countries pursued the national policy of "everyone has a gun, and God is afraid of it." So every household has a gun, and everyone is a soldier (militia).

Therefore, when it really comes to fighting hard, it is still possible for Australia to mobilize a million troops. In the original history, Australia mobilized 1 million troops when facing the invasion of RB, and more than 2 million people served the army in other ways!

So Australian Prime Minister John Curtin's "7.2 million people total destruction" plan was realized in history. It was only because the RBs lost both battles in Midway and Guadalcanal and stopped in the Coral Sea that there was no tragic Australian land war...

Roosevelt listened to Marshall's words, pondered for a while, nodded and said: "Okay, then cancel the plan to send additional ground troops to Australia and instead deliver weapons and ammunition. We can't let Australians go to the battlefield with fire sticks!"

"Understood, Mr. President."

The American military generals present were relieved when they heard Roosevelt's decision. If the Pacific battlefield can rely on Australians to fight hard, then the United States can concentrate on dealing with Germany-at least before the large-scale completion of the United States' "dumpling aircraft carrier", the Pacific battlefield can be put aside.

Of course, President Roosevelt's "small goal" still needs to continue!

"Have the Soviet battleships departed from Molotovsk?" Roosevelt turned the topic to the North Atlantic battlefield.

Although the general principle of forming the British, American and Soviet joint fleet had been finalized long ago, the Soviet Red Navy's battleships had not yet departed from Molotovsk.

"Not yet." Admiral Ernest King, the Chief of Naval Operations, replied, "Now our people and equipment have just gone there, and it will take some time for the Soviets to become familiar with our command and communication. In addition, the Soviet Red Navy is still conducting ideological and political work."

"Ideological and political work?" Roosevelt frowned, "Is there still pro-German thinking in the Soviet Red Army?"

The Soviet Red Army, especially the Red Navy, has had a good relationship with Germany in the past 20 years. Many of the Soviet Red Navy's ships were built with the help of the Germans, and many Red Navy officers have studied in German naval schools. Therefore, pro-German thinking has always existed, and Roosevelt also knew this.

"No, it's not because of pro-German ideas." Admiral Ernest King smiled bitterly, "It's because we... According to Colonel McCarthy's report, the political cadres of the Soviet Atlantic Fleet have been mainly educating against the decadent ideas of the American bourgeoisie during this period."

Colonel Joseph McCarthy is not a professional soldier, but a Republican politician who was a lawyer. He was a circuit judge before the United States entered the war. After the outbreak of the war, he joined the Marine Corps and sought the rank of colonel.

After the United States and the Soviet Union reached an agreement on the establishment of a joint fleet, because the joint fleet had to establish a political commissar, the US Atlantic Fleet must of course have a corresponding person to deal with Comrade Bulganin.

Roosevelt originally liked Senator Truman, but someone suggested that Truman was a congressman, not a soldier, and was not suitable for a military position unless he resigned from the senator's position. Truman was of course unwilling to resign as a senator, so Roosevelt had to find someone else.

At this time, the Republican Secretary of the Army, Stinson, recommended McCarthy, who was serving in the Marine Corps. According to Stinson, McCarthy was a comrade who was very sensitive to political and ideological work and would never let the Soviet political cadres brainwash the American soldiers.

So Roosevelt made him the "Chief Chaplain of the Command" of the Atlantic Fleet.

Some time ago, Director McCarthy went to Molotovsk as a representative of the political cadres of the US Atlantic Fleet Command. His task was to discuss how to cooperate and avoid conflicts with his nominal superior, Bulganin, the political commissar of the Allied Atlantic Combined Fleet.

However, after staying in the snowy Molotovsk for a while, Director McCarthy found that the political cadres of the Soviet Atlantic Fleet were very unfriendly to the United States and were spreading irresponsible anti-American remarks every day!

"Mr. Military Commissar," Joseph McCarthy once again protested strongly in the office of the political commissar on the Soviet battleship, "Today my people have found someone carrying out anti-American propaganda. I really suspect that this is not the fleet of the Soviet Red Navy, but the high seas fleet of the German Empire!"

McCarthy spoke English that Bulganin could not understand, but he did not need a translator, he could also know what the other party was saying - it was nothing more than protesting the political cadres of the fleet about the "decadent and decadent American bourgeoisie".

In fact, such propaganda is really not anti-American, but to give people below a shot of prevention, so as not to be confused by the lights and wine of the United States.

Since the Red Navy Atlantic Fleet will use New York, the United States as its second home port (New York is the starting point of the North Atlantic route, and there are many docks available there, and Soviet ships will be equipped with American radar and communication equipment there), many ships will stay in New York for a long time, and the officers and soldiers of the Red Navy will definitely go ashore, and there will be many opportunities to contact Americans.

Then the question is, what about the promised dire situation? Why do all Americans look like rich people? Where are the oppressed American working people?

Why is the productivity of the United States so developed? Isn't it said that socialism can greatly liberate productivity? Why is it difficult to buy things in Soviet stores where productivity has been greatly liberated? Everything needs to be purchased with tickets, while American stores where productivity should not be very developed have everything?

So Comrade Bulganin found that he had to deal with too many problems after serving as the military commissioner of the Atlantic Fleet!

And the political cadres below found that they could hardly explain the revolutionary principles even if they were full of mouths.

So Bulganin suggested postponing the departure date, and at the same time found Comrade Andrei Gromyko, who had served as the director of the American Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and served as a counselor at the US Embassy for several years, to serve as the deputy director of the Political Department of the Atlantic Fleet to study countermeasures.

But the arrival of Comrade Gromyko not only did not solve the problem, but found more problems!

For example, why does the United States not have New York and HSD household registration? Why can the American working people, who are in dire straits, move freely to the prosperous New York to work as workers, while the peasants in the Soviet collective farms cannot go to Moscow and Leningrad?

For example, why can the American working people buy guns and ammunition! ? The bourgeoisie that rules the United States is not afraid of the rebellion of the armed people? By the way, why don't the armed American working people revolt? What's going on?

For example, there are also fake elections and trade union activities in bourgeois America. Although these activities do not truly represent the will of the American working people, it is still possible for the simple Soviet Red Navy soldiers to be deceived...

Also, will there be Red Navy soldiers who take advantage of the opportunity to stay in the United States to defect? ​​Will someone take advantage of the opportunity to stay in the United States to work and make money? Will there be handsome Red Navy men who hook up with American women?

In short, there are a lot of problems, and there is no good way to prevent them except anti-American propaganda. But the Americans sent a reactionary pastor McCarthy (in fact, McCarthy is not a pastor, but just a pastor), who insisted that he was the "American political commissar" and wanted to coordinate the political work of the combined fleet with Bulganin. As a result, this "American political commissar" did nothing but protest all day long. Bulganin could not let the special department arrest him as a counter-revolutionary (it would not be unfair if they really wanted to arrest him), and he had to explain with a smile on his face. This was ridiculous!