Chapter 353 Historical Direction (Part 2)

Looking at Stalin with a smile on his face, Zhang Xuewu felt a chill! Because the Soviet army, which was severely damaged by the purge in history, was soon embarrassed in the Soviet-Finn War in 1939. It took millions of Soviet Red Army four months to force Finland, a population of three million, to surrender to the ceasefire. The Red Army suffered more than 500,000 casualties. The result of the Soviet-Finn War directly stimulated Nazi Germany's military adventures, and made the Japanese despise the Soviet Union to the extreme, and so they took the initiative to provoke the Nomenkan incident!

If the Soviet Union really leads to the defeat, then Germany and Japan will sweep the Middle East, and the world pattern will suddenly change greatly, so will the United States still participate in the war impatiently? Zhang Xuewu was also hesitant at this moment, because the purpose of doing this was to make the Soviet Union weak to a certain extent, and then the militant self would give the Japanese a fatal blow from behind! The Soviet Union was forced to give in to the concessions to return Chinese territory. If the polar bear was not extremely weak, I believe he would not give up what had been eaten and chewed in his mouth. Therefore, Zhang Xuewu gave the Soviet people relevant plans for land cruisers and strategic missiles, which allowed the Soviet Union's huge national strength to be consumed in places where practical applications were lacking.

The Soviets' great purge had greatly damaged the Soviet Red Army. In history, the Soviets almost shed blood in the subsequent Patriotic War. Before the war, the number of Soviet soldiers and artillery was seven times higher than that of the Germans, five times more combat aircraft and four times more tanks. However, in the year and a half after the war started, the Soviet army lost 11 million troops. During the war, the Soviet Union lost one-seventh of its population and two-fifths of its territory.

Moreover, even as the tool of the Great Purgation, the People's Committee of the Internal Affairs itself was not spared. Its members were constantly renewed to maintain loyalty to the leaders or be used as scapegoats. In the early stage of the Great Purgation, Agoda, who led the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Great Purgation, was replaced by the more ruthless Yerov in September 1936 because he could not meet Stalin's requirements. He was arrested and executed in 1938. Yerov pushed the Great Purgation to the best of the ** according to Stalin's will.

He also ended up being the same. He was replaced by Beria in July 1938, and on April 1, 1940, he was executed on fire for the crime of unfounded suppression of the Soviet people.

While Zhang Xuewu was thinking about it, a Red Army general and a lieutenant general walked into the banquet hall. Except for Kirov, these two men seemed to be the only Soviet generals tonight!

Stalin kindly pulled Zhang Xuewu's hand and introduced him: "This is General Vlasov, Lieutenant General Zhukov, and they are all defenders of our great Soviets! And you, my dear friends, you are the guardians of the ancient kingdoms of the East, fighting against the evil Japanese imperialism."

Vrasov and Zhang Xuewu looked at the thin and browned Soviet general in surprise. It can be said that Vrasov was the only remaining general in the Soviet army after the fight against the anti-counterfeiting! If Vrasov had nothing extraordinary in life, he would not believe it even if he killed Zhang Xuewu.

However, Vlasov has always been a very controversial figure in Soviet history. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1930. He served as a military adviser to help the Chinese National Government train the army. He won the Lenin Medal and the Red Flag Medal in the Patriotic War. He was highly valued by Stalin for his great achievements in the Defense of Moscow. However, on June 25, 1942, Vlasov was captured. He quickly proposed to cooperate with Germany, hoping to form a Russian People's Liberation Army from the prisoner-of-war camp, eliminate the Soviet regime side by side with Germany, and ultimately establish a free Russia friendly to Germany.

When Vrasov treason, the Soviet Union was in the most difficult time. The experienced Red Army troops had been exhausted. New recruits were sent to the front line in batches, massacred and died or entered German prisoners of war camps. Almost every straw that could be used in the rear was sent to the front line. Vrasov once explained to his subordinates, isn't it a crime to shed more blood? Isn't the main enemy of the Russian nation Bolshevism and Stalin? Is it not the primary sacred obligation of every Russian to rise against Stalin and his accomplices?

In fact, if the Soviet Union had not had a vast territory, no guarantee of up to 40 million reserve troops to serve, and no huge material assistance from allies, it would be hard to imagine that the Soviet Union could drag down Nazi Germany's blitzkrieg war. Of course, perhaps the most important factor in victory was the Soviet system itself. Only in this system could a country invest all resources into the war to the greatest extent, bear unbearable casualties, and bear unimaginable suffering. The Soviet Union's victory over Germany was the system in which women and children could build fortifications and build factories in the snowy wilderness when only one potato was filled. It corresponds to the final victory of the system where German women should produce excellent offspring at home.

Hitler once claimed on June 22, 1941 that when I kicked the Soviet Union's broken house, it would collapse. Because Hitler believed that the Soviet army, which was greatly damaged by the great purge, was vulnerable. He believed that the Soviet Union, which had undergone the great purge, had long been disintegrated. Hitler's judgment was correct to some extent. In World War II, in the absence of a pseudo-government, only the Soviet Union who joined the enemy's war on a large scale, was captured.

The only one who actively asked the general to organize troops from prisoners of war to help the invaders was the Soviet Union! Such a thing happened in a sovereign state with a highly unified administrative situation is very rare in history. During the Soviet Patriotic War, the German army had nearly 200 Russians at its peak, and there were also 140 regiment-level combat units dedicated to encircling and suppressing guerrillas. The number of Soviet rebels and civilians serving the German army in volunteers was once as high as 2 million.

However, when Nazi Germany adopted a discrimination policy against the Russians, non-Russian combat troops were allowed to form larger combat units, such as the Kalmyks formed the cavalry army. In addition to maintaining public order and guarding concentration camps, the puppet troops formed by the Ukrainians also participated in the attacks against the Soviet army. The outstanding general of the Soviet army, who was as famous as Zhukov, and the commander of the Ukrainian First Front Army, Vaduddin, died due to the attacks of the Ukrainian puppet troops.

It is precisely because the Japanese saw this that they were unscrupulous in making trouble in Nomenkan, but the Japanese's ambitions were not proportional to their ability. It was too easy for the Japanese to annex the three northeastern provinces, so they always thought about how they could be without bloodshed. This is a typical example of a typical thief who was thinking about eating meat but not wanting to be beaten.

Therefore, the Japanese who were hesitant in Nomenkan were hit by the Soviets head-on. It can be said that at a certain stage, the Soviets were indeed more afraid of the landing of war than the Japanese! Because the Soviets did not want the German wolf to discover his weak weakness.

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