Chapter 20 D-Day (3,300
Hoffmann deliberately chose D-Day as the code name for action. He remembered that in history, this was the moment when the Allies landed in Normandy. Now, Britain and the United States have to go around the coastline of Western Europe. Imagine the east and west Moscow and build the Moscow wall. It is a pity that no one understands this world, so he can only entertain himself.
The only thing he didn't know was that Churchill set a plan code for the action was also called D-Day. The time between the two sides was very close, and the meaning was close to the two D-Day plans to crash.
On June 13, Stalin, after receiving the news that Germany agreed to preserve part of the East Moscow controlled area for the Bolsheviks, was obviously very happy. Not only did he happily approve other exchanges of interests, but he also agreed to completely achieve a ceasefire. After the retreat in recent days, Stalingrad's troops and citizens had retreated more than 300,000 to Astrakhan, and the North Line Control District also transferred part of the population and army to the Ural Mountains, and everything was in order.
Two days later, Germany officially announced the news that it would soon enter into a peace agreement with the Soviet Union, and announced the recognition of the independence of the Russian Soviet National Socialist Republic (Western Russia) and establish diplomatic relations. Moscow is the capital of the Soviet Union, but the legal political center of Western Russia is in St. Petersburg.
On the same day, Stalin also published a letter to the whole party, the people of all ethnic groups in the country, acknowledging that the great Patriotic War encountered major setbacks, but after "the heroic struggle of all Red Army soldiers and the rise and struggle of the people of the whole country", he defeated the "fascist gang's ambition to eliminate the party and eliminate the communist system", and achieved peace of "no cede land, no compensation, and no other humiliating clauses" (300 million tons of oil are goods, not money), recognized that all franchise republics could declare independence based on the principle of national self-determination, recognized the independence of Western Russia, "exploring the socialist system" and expressed his establishment of a confederate regime with it, emphasizing that it was the Bolshevik regime, and the opposite was the Menshevik regime, Comrade Stalin also served as the first chairman of the Soviet Union.
It was proposed by Vrasov to make Stalin the Soviet President, and at the same time he readily agreed to the demand for East Moscow to be controlled by the other party. On the one hand, Stalin was the leader of a great power, and Vrasov was just a lieutenant general back then, and was far inferior in terms of status, reputation and qualifications. On the other hand, he did not want to compete for fame, and he valued reality more. After making these concessions, he had to make substantial concessions from East Russia to stay in place instead of forced migration.
In World War II, the Soviet Union, including the three Baltic Kingdoms, had a total population of nearly 180 million. With the independence of the republics and the major personnel losses in the war, part of Russia's population dropped to less than 110 million. If the Urals were simply demarcated, part of the population of Eastern Russia would be less than 30 million.
Although 30 million is not a small number in Europe, it is relatively small for Eastern Russia. In the era of great power struggle, population is the foundation and magic weapon. The Bolshevik Party intends to increase the population size and takes a variety of measures to do so: First, bring the Red Army back to Eastern Russia to the best age group and have service experience, which is urgently needed in the future; Second, relocate some of the populations in the currently controlled areas, such as Moscow, Stalingrad, and Astrakhan, a total of nearly 15 million people, and the composition is relatively reliable working class. At first, they want to move all these populations away; Third, they try their best to fight against Germany for the return of captured officers and soldiers. In addition to the part that has joined the Russian People's Liberation Army, Germany still has nearly 2 million prisoners.
The Bolshevik Party hopes to maintain the population above 45 million through various measures. Although the population of Western Russia is larger, Western Russia has been destroyed everywhere, and the Far East and Ural areas of Eastern Russia are still relatively complete. The gap between 45 million vs. more than 60 million is not too big.
Vlasov could not interfere with the move of taking away the Red Army, but he strongly opposed the migrant population. He believed that Stalin was murdering the Russian people. In fact, Germany also believed that Eastern Russia had insufficient grain production, and these populations would definitely face ****** after they moved, so he also expressed opposition. As for the captives, Hoffmann insisted on the principle of voluntary repatriation and was willing to defect to Vlasov's return to Russia, and to the Stalin's return to Russia. Because according to the survey, most people were still willing to stay in Western Russia.
After repeated negotiations and concessions in other aspects, Eastern Russia also made concessions and proposed the principle of voluntary migration: anyone who is willing to leave with Stalin will be taken away; anyone who belongs to the Party and League members and grassroots cadres will be moved away. At the same time, party organizations at all levels also went deep into the grassroots level and mobilized them to follow the Party Central Committee and continue to build socialism in the east.
In this way, except for Moscow, where the working class in Stalingrad has a high proportion of voluntary migration, the rural population is basically unable to carry it, everyone knows that Western Russia does not have collective farms. The Head of Vlasov also ordered the distribution of land to households, and no one could bear to leave.
Therefore, the final population is expected to be more than 70 million in Western Russia and 35 million in Eastern Russia. The food gap of more than 70 million in Western Russia has been arranged. The transfer from Ukraine in the form of IOU is the second year after Ukraine's land division. Not only will the grain output be greatly increased, but other production will also be fully restored, and there is more excess effort to supply grain. With the basic completion of the Mediterranean oil pipeline and the end of the large-scale war on the Eastern Front, the energy supply to Western Europe has also begun to increase. At least taxis and gasoline in the capitals of Western European countries can be guaranteed.
Germany completely stopped coal-to-oil projects, all excess coal was used to generate electricity, and the super bomb project was fully operated. With the gradual truce of the Eastern Front, Sperer adjusted the power consumption ratio and prepared to dispatch a large amount of army equipment to super bomb and naval projects.
With the improvement of food supply in Eastern Europe and the influx of agricultural products and other products in the Americas, not only did Germany's domestic food become increasingly abundant, but also the material guarantees of Western European countries have become abundant. All countries are stepping up to cure the trauma of war. There are almost no traces of war damage in Germany and France (mainly caused by British and American air strikes), and Belgium and the Netherlands have also recovered most of them.
Hoffmann didn't know how Stalin could use to overcome the difficulties, but this was no longer a question that the German head of state should consider.
Naturally Stalin could not sit still and wait for death, and he also had countermeasures to the food problem:
One of the countermeasures is to disband the female soldiers. Except for some technical branches, the vast majority of female soldiers in the rear are all disbanded. As for the female soldiers confronting the German army on the front line, they will be disbanded in the next stage, which has suddenly reduced more than 600,000 troops, and all of these troops are transferred to the production sequence;
The second countermeasure is to lead some troops to the Baikal area to launch military camps. On the one hand, they should speed up the use of summer land reclamation, and on the other hand, they should strengthen the fishery in Lake Baikal. Most of the troops in the military camps are third-line or even fourth-line troops, most of which are uncles in their 40s, and many of them are even nearly 60 years old. If they can’t fight, they will still be careless in their military camps;
The third countermeasure is to implement the new economic policy. In order to overcome the difficulties, the practice of land reclamation near the Ural Industrial Zone was formally ratified, and to protect individuals' "planting rights" for 20 years were not waver, and some individuals with outstanding land reclamation were commended;
The fourth countermeasure is to send Budunny to lead a machine gun grain collection team to Mongolia to collect cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock. At the same time, he contacted the CCP to see if industrial machines could be used, and some equipment could be exchanged for grain. Even if he had to pay to Japan tokens, he would admit it.
In fact, the connection between the Communist Party of China and the Soviet Union can be opened through the Xinjiang, Gansu and Hexi Corridors, but the transportation is inconvenient, so the transportation of bulk materials is far from being shipped to Manchuria and then transported by Japan via railway, so the toll is paid.
But Stalin never expected that now the Japanese are not only staring at the toll, but also coming to grab the island!
In the early morning of June 16, the robbers, Kakuda and Nishimura, led their fleet and army forces to break into North Sakhalin Island, landed as quickly as possible and started to seize. When Moscow received the exact news and responded, the Japanese army had basically completed the landing and controlled the situation.
The furious Stalin immediately attracted the Japanese ambassador to the Soviet Union. The other party was shocked and hurriedly said: "I will reply to you after I verify it. Please give me 2 hours!"
In another 2 hours, the situation was verified clearly. North Sakhalin Island was also firmly occupied by Japan, and the Red Army stationed in the island did not even have time to destroy the oil field facilities.
"It's true, Mr. Stalin, we did carry out preventive landings, but this is not a war against your country. On the contrary, we have to take measures to prevent the island from being occupied by the United States as a base against us..."
Stalin didn't want to listen to this kind of robber logic.
But the Japanese ambassador's subsequent words made people stunned: "We have no intention to annex the island. We only request a lease for 99 years. Given your country's current food shortage, we agree to give 100,000 tons of grain annually as a rental fee."
"Just, 100,000 tons of grain? Oil alone is worth 1 million tons a year."
"We can only give so much, sorry, but we really have no intention of war."
After the Japanese ambassador left, the Supreme Command held a meeting, and everyone was full of indignation. Some even advocated using heavy bombers to blow up the island's oil facilities. But Kutsnetsov believed: "At most, Japan cannot get oil, and we cannot get it. The island is lonely overseas. The Pacific Fleet is not an opponent of the Japanese Fleet, so the counterattack may not be possible."
"Why use airborne?"
Kutsnetsov shook his head and said, "The airborne can't stop the naval gun."
Stalin had a gloomy face: "What do you mean?"
"Since it is a fait accompli, let's rent the island to Japan and ask us to share 300,000 tons of grain every year." Kutsnetsov gritted his teeth, "We will rest and settle the score with the Japanese in the future."
After some arduous negotiations, the two sides finally sold 200,000 tons of grain, and Japan reduced the Soviet toll ratio to 33% in the future.
When the news came out, Tokyo was full of joy, and the Kwantung Army was also very satisfied with this and suppressed the idea of advancing north. However, the red deer immediately put forward a second wish to ask the base camp to ask the Germans to buy railway guns to enrich the border defense line, because after settlement, it was found that buying was cheaper than making it by themselves!
Chapter completed!