Stalin has been in a very good mood recently. This is another moment of great joy since he got rid of Tukhachevsky's group of "traitors".
Not long ago, the Soviet Union, which had always been despised and excluded by Britain, France and other countries, took the lead in the naval competition that the British were most proud of, and was very happy. Led by Germany, the media reports on this matter in various countries also overwhelmingly ridiculed the United Kingdom. As this
The victor in the contest, the Soviet Union, enjoys infinite glory.
Thinking that this battleship that had brought glory to the country was on its way back home, Stalin even felt better in his appetite.
Before this, although he appeared to be calm and indifferent in front of his subordinates, he was actually worried more than once that the Germans might be reluctant to hand over the well-built warships to the Soviet Union.
After all, the Germans also lacked battleships, and others had sunk all their previous homes in Operation Rainbow. Thinking about it from another perspective, even if it was Stalin who made the decision, he would not be able to just build it without changing his face.
New warships should be handed over to other countries.
What's more, the Peter the Great showed such excellent performance in sea trials that it actually crushed the British Empire, which was known as the maritime hegemon!
However, the German head of state, who in Stalin's impression could do nothing but please people, so easily handed over the Peter the Great to the Soviet Union. According to Walevsky's report, this was still Reinha
After special consultation, priority was given to deploying high-quality warships with production capacity. And soon, two other warships with larger tonnage will also be delivered to the Soviet Navy.
It seems that those dull Germans are completely unaware that there is still a way to cheat. If you think about it carefully, the reason why Germany has not delivered goods before is probably due to their rigid spirit. They must strive for excellence.
The fussy manufacturing of weapons made the construction period far longer than that of the Soviet shipyard that started construction at the same time.
In Stalin's view, the stubborn and mean thinking of the Germans was a sign of brain damage. Besides, if there was no brain damage, how could they elect a head of state like Reinhardt?
Woolen cloth?
With a head of state who only knew how to play tricks and a group of rigid citizens, Stalin was somewhat worried about the future of Germany.
Fortunately, such a country is just suitable to be a temporary ally of the Soviet Union. When dealing with such a country that is easy to deal with, the Soviet Union only needs to send the agreed transaction goods, and can wait with peace of mind for the group of single-minded Germans to deliver the agreed upon goods.
The return has been sent.
The delivery of this first new battleship as promised was a reassurance that Stalin received.
In addition to this reassurance, the cooperation between the Soviet Union and Germany in other aspects was also smooth and pleasant.
The railway system and highway system invested and constructed by the German Rhine Group in the Soviet Union have begun to bring obvious results to the Soviet Union. While the civilian transportation situation in the Soviet Union has been improved, military material transportation and troop mobilization have also become better than before.
Faster.
With the rapid development of transportation, the trade costs between the Soviet Union and Germany have become lower and lower, and the transaction speed has greatly increased. Coupled with the assistance of German scientific and technological advisers, the Soviet Union has also used convenient transportation in the heavy industrial areas in the west to show its performance.
A good development momentum.
However, as the heavy industrial areas continue to move westward, even approaching the border area, the Soviet Union has to further mobilize troops to the border for safety reasons.
At a time when Germany is moving its troops eastward due to the Danzig Corridor issue, more and more Soviet Red Army troops are gathering westward, posing a two-sided threat to Poland, an intermediate country.
The original France-Germany-Poland pincer attack on Germany was suddenly supplemented by a Germany-Poland-Soviet pincer attack on Poland. This was an extremely important situation for the Polish army, which originally planned to concentrate its efforts on dealing with Germany.
blow.
According to the calculations of the Polish High Command and the French General Staff, after Germany merged Austria's 300,000 standing army, received 700,000 elite troops from Czechoslovakia, and reorganized Hungary's 100,000 second-rate army, the number of troops it can deploy on the German-Polish border
It is fully capable of more than 800,000 troops. Moreover, this is under the condition that Germany maintains a large number of remaining troops on the Siegfried Line.
In this way, the number of troops that the German army can mobilize on the Eastern Front is already equal to the total number of Polish troops. If the equipment advantages of the German army are also taken into account, the strength of the Polish army is actually far inferior to that of the German Eastern Front division.
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It has to be said that after Reinhardt made changes such as "exploiting local oil in advance", "directed trading of Soviet ore", "defrauding Spanish gold in a timely manner", etc., the current Third Reich,
There were 150,000 more Wehrmacht troops and 200,000 more armed SS troops than at the same time in history.
The unexpected merger of Germany and Hungary provided another 100,000 reserves for the German army on the Eastern Front.
As a result, the Polish government's original plan to create a numerical advantage over the two-front German army was completely in vain. The only weak advantage of the Polish army in history has now ceased to exist.
At this time, the huge Soviet Red Army continued to increase its troops to the Western Front because it wanted to protect the heavy industrial areas that were getting closer and closer to the border. So where should Poland find enough troops to defend the Eastern Front?
Difficult! Too difficult! Even if the Polish government tried its best to recruit a small number of militiamen, it would be difficult to reach half the size of the Soviet army deployed on the western front. Besides, how could the militiamen be able to fight against the Soviet regular army?
Originally, after the Polish High Command rejected the French Army's suggestion to withdraw its defensive lines, it appeared that its forces were overly dispersed in front of the German troops on the Western Front because of the even deployment of troops behind the border.
Not to mention the deployment of large troops from the already gunpowder-filled Polish-German border back to defend the Soviet army in the east. Even if the Polish high command transferred a division from the western front to supplement the eastern defense zone, it would result in the defense of a large area on the western front.
Straight down.
Now that Poland was pinned to the west by the German army, Stalin, who had no plans to attack in the short term, began to covet the empty land in eastern Poland.
The German Social Worker newspaper's exaggerated reports, which only fanned the flames of evil, even published an "objective analysis article" about the Soviet Union's westward-mobilizing troops every few days: "Shocking! The Soviet Union mobilizes troops overnight, Poland is in catastrophe", "Soviet Military
Member: Zero tolerance for Polish military deterrence", "Poland is anxious because the Soviet Union wants to wash away the shame of the Soviet-Polish war"...
In later generations, an interesting rumor is that even Stalin himself felt suddenly enlightened after reading a translated article in the German Social Work newspaper, and exclaimed: So it turns out that my dispatching troops to the west has this meaning?!
As a result, before the German army took action, Britain, France and other countries began to panic due to the sudden outbreak of the "Soviet Threat Theory" and shifted their attention to preventing Germany to the distant east.
However, the top political leaders of the Soviet Union, who were not in a hurry to send troops, instead made a false statement: Aren't they clamoring all day long that the Soviet Union was going to attack Poland? They might as well just follow the wishes of the European media and destroy Poland.
Anyway, there are not many troops in the east of Poland, and the west has to face the containment of German friends. Where is the opponent of the Soviet Lion?
