Chapter 166 Socialist Camp
"If I remember correctly, your surface ship force can only have 35% of the strength of the British Navy, regardless of whether the Washington Naval Treaty or other naval treaties are in effect. In other words, you must use 1 to counter 3, And your enemies may also include the French and American navies, right?”
Stalin stood next to a BT-2 light tank, with his hands behind his back, looking at the steel body covered with rivets, and said quietly.
Ludwig von Heinsberg-Hersmann is carefully watching an M1 anti-tank gun. This Soviet-made artillery, which introduced technology and production licenses from German Rheinmetall, was placed on a cement base located in the Kremlin.
Stalin built a weapons exhibition hall in his palace and collected many army and air force weapons. When Herschmann was invited to visit the Kremlin, Stalin took him on a tour. Accompanied by Romuald Adamovich Mukelevich, Director of the Navy of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Admiral Raeder, Commander of the German Navy, and Natalie Leshinskaya - now a member of the German Army Consultant researcher of the Policy Council and researcher of the National Socialist International Policy Council.
"35% is enough for us," Hessmann laughed when he heard Stalin's question, "Aren't you also there? We are all socialists and comrades in the same camp!"
Admiral Redl, who was present, heard this and gave Mukelevich, the number one figure in the Soviet Navy, a friendly smile. In the past few years, the relationship between the Soviet and German navies has been very friendly, and both regard each other as allies. The fleets and aviation forces of the two countries regularly hold joint exercises in the Baltic Sea, and have also formulated operational plans to jointly fight against the "imperialist navy."
In these "plans", the role of the surface fleets of the Soviet Union and Germany in the decisive fleet battle was just a decoy - facing the British naval battleship force with a total tonnage of more than 500,000 tons, the surface fleets of the Soviet Union and Germany did not fight at all. Ability. Therefore, using J.30 (called SB-1 in the Soviet Union) torpedo attack aircraft and Hs-120 dive bombers to launch attacks from the air became the only way to win.
Through long-term cooperation with the Japanese Navy, the German Naval Aviation and the Luftwaffe (the current director of the Air Force is not Fatty Go but Hessmann’s old friend Major General Kesselring) have mastered many tactics for bombing the fleet, including how to fly in the middle of nowhere. Searching in the sea, large-scale dispatches of combat aircraft groups and coordinated operations of different types of aircraft - historically the Germans were simply weak in this aspect, but the Japanese were very good at it.
Therefore, the German Navy's current vision for the future decisive battle at sea is still to use the battleship force as bait to lure the British Navy's main fleet into the combat radius of the German shore-based aviation, and then concentrate more than 1,000 aircraft of various types for indiscriminate bombing!
In order to achieve this vision in the future, Germany must start from now on targeted weapons design, production and troop training. This kind of sea and air battle is actually the result of long-term accumulation. It is not just that everything will be fine just by inviting Yamamoto Isoroku to Germany.
"Comrade Stalin, we are now designing a 30,000-ton to 35,000-ton high-speed battleship," Hersman said. "It will have a speed slightly higher than the USS Hood battlecruiser and a relatively complete defense."
What is being designed is a battleship similar to the historical "Scharnhorst" class. Because Germany has not designed or built a battleship for more than ten years, and the team has long since dispersed, it is naturally impossible to pick up this technology all at once. Therefore, we can only design a battleship with outstanding speed, acceptable defense, and mediocre firepower.
In any case, no one expected to use German battleships to defeat the British Navy in 1939 or 1940.
"You want us to join?" Stalin emphasized his tone when he said "join", obviously referring to "join the world war."
"Comrade Stalin, although there are differences between us, they are differences within the socialist camp and differences between comrades." Hersman walked from the M1930 artillery to Stalin, "But the conflict between us and Britain and the United States is a matter of life and death. The contradiction between ourselves and the enemy...The Second World War will be a struggle between British and American imperialism and Soviet and German socialism!”
Although he knew there was little hope, Hersman still tried hard to bring the Soviet Union into the Axis camp - or should it be called the socialist camp!
"If we win, all mankind will be liberated!" He said in a passionate tone, "If imperialism wins, all mankind will become slaves of capital!"
How noble! I don't know how much better than Hitler's theory of race war.
"Liberate all mankind..." Stalin said with a strange expression, "You want to use national socialism to liberate all mankind?"
"Use socialism! National socialism and Bolshevism are both socialisms, they just belong to different branches." Hersman emphasized, "The differences between us are not life-and-death."
"But Adolf Hitler is leaning towards capitalism!" Stalin pointed out while lighting his pipe, "He is a pro-British faction."
"But there is no real pro-German faction in the UK, and even if there were, it would be impossible to hold power." Hersman shrugged, "So his pro-Britishness is meaningless, and he will eventually return to the pro-Soviet line... and establish a socialist camp. It is an inevitable choice for our two countries to resist the hegemony of British and American imperialism.”
Hitler's pro-British thoughts troubled Hessmann very much! Later generations have disputed the causes of both the "Miracle at Dunkirk" and "Hess's madness". In Hersman's view, both of these incidents were caused by Hitler's pro-British attitude - Hitler really wanted to enlarge the British Empire, which resulted in harm to Germany.
The head of state of the German Empire led the German Empire to fight World War II without understanding who the most dangerous enemy was - and Hersman now believes that Hitler probably did not want to fight at all. World War II.
"Well, that's right." Stalin glanced at Hessmann and felt very distressed. Unlike Lenin and Trotsky, who were obsessed with liberating all mankind, he was actually a "Soviet First" nationalist. They don’t care at all what happens to all mankind, they only care about how much the Soviet Union can get.
However, Marxism-Leninism and the liberation of all mankind are the political correctness of the Soviet Union. Even Stalin does not have enough authority to violate this political correctness. To recognize that state socialism is socialism is to violate the political correctness of the Soviet Union.
Therefore, the verbal agreement reached by Stalin and Hessmann was to "quarrel to quarrel, and cooperation to cooperate" - but he knew very well that this kind of quarrel on the political line may not have any impact on National Socialism, which puts national interests before doctrine. (The supremacy of national interests is the political correctness of the state society), but it will definitely have an impact on the Bolshevik ideological system.
This determines that it is impossible for Soviet-German cooperation to reach the point of forming a socialist camp!
However, the current cooperation is still necessary and beneficial to the Soviet Union. This is also the only way to strengthen the Red Navy. Stalin weighed it up and quickly made up his mind.
"I think we can sign a secret agreement on strengthening naval cooperation," Stalin smoked a cigarette and frowned. "Cooperating to develop the navy will be the focus for some time to come. We should join forces to design new battleships. I hope we can do it in 1937 At least one new type of battleship has appeared in the Red Navy fleet. "
The Soviet Union and Germany have been cooperating in the field of shipbuilding for the past decade. The Germans helped the Soviet Union build a "Karl Marx" class aircraft carrier - unlike what Hersman envisioned, the Soviet Union built a "Karl Marx" class aircraft carrier on the first "Karl Marx" After the launch of the class, it did not continue to build aircraft carriers - it also helped the Soviet Union repair and refit four old battleships (Gangut class), and helped the Soviet Union build many submarines and destroyers. However, cooperation in building large surface ships completely stopped after the "Karl Marx" was commissioned.
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"Ludwig, I told you long ago that Stalin would not accept the heresy of National Socialism."
On the way back from the Kremlin to the German Embassy (Hessmann was staying at the German Embassy this time), Natalie Lesinskaya, who was sitting side by side with him in a Mercedes-Benz W07 limousine, looked at the people on the streets of Moscow. Scenery, said with a somewhat sad tone.
"Just because he didn't accept it doesn't mean we don't promote it," Hessman said with a cold smile. "This visit to the Soviet Union was actually a success. We avoided a break, maintained cooperative relations with the Soviet Union, and kept the differences between the two sides within On the level of debate.”
"And we also reached the Deepening Naval Cooperation Agreement," Admiral Redl, sitting in the passenger seat, interjected with a smile. "In this way, we can reduce our research and development costs by half, and the money saved can be used to speed up the development of the 'Atlantic-type' aircraft carrier."
Hersman nodded and added: "The dispute over the socialist line does not mean that the socialist camp does not exist... The "Deepening Naval Cooperation Agreement" and other cooperative relations can be maintained, and even the line dispute itself will be able to inform the whole world. "The world shows that this camp exists, which will increase the leverage in Germany's hands."
He turned to look at Natalie Lesinskaya, "Natalie, you know the Bolsheviks very well. From now on, you will be in charge of all debates. You can set up a special line committee. Who is needed? No matter what the budget, I will approve it. As for the scale of the debate, you must carefully consider what can be debated and what cannot be debated. "