Chapter 614 Heavy Thunderstorm 2

“In view of the serious hostility of the German Empire and its affiliated states towards the Soviet Socialist Union Republic, the Council of People’s Commissars has decided to suspend the Treaty of Friendship and Mutual Assistance between the Soviet Union and Germany from now on, and makes the following demands to the German Empire:

1. The German Empire must return all the Baltic States, the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, the former Russian Poland, and Western Ukraine to the Soviet Union;

2. The German Empire must stop providing security guarantees and military assistance to the Republic of Finland;

3. The German Empire must stop providing security guarantees and military assistance to the Kingdom of Iran;

4. The German Empire must stop providing all forms of assistance to the reactionary forces in Afghanistan;

5. The German Empire must stop providing security guarantees and military assistance to the Kingdom of Romania;

6. The German Empire must stop its invasion of the Republic of Ireland and withdraw all its troops from the Republic of Ireland.

The above-mentioned six points are the Soviet Socialist Union Republic's final demands to the German Empire. If the German Imperial Government cannot accept all six demands within 24 hours, the Soviet Socialist Union Republic will be in a state of total war with the German Empire..."

Mrs. Kollontai, the Soviet ambassador to Germany and Hessmann's old friend, was standing in Hitler's office in the German Chancellery at this time. With a trembling voice, she stammered the Soviet government's ultimatum to Germany.

She was an old Bolshevik during the Lenin era and one of the founders of Soviet-German friendship. Although Soviet-German relations have been deteriorating during her more than a year as ambassador to Germany, the old lady still tried her best to maintain Soviet-German relations. But now all her efforts have been in vain, and what is most difficult for her to accept is that Germany is a socialist country after all!

Although there are many residual elements of feudalism and capitalism in Germany, the socialist revolution is not complete. But even the Soviet Union itself recognized Germany as a socialist or semi-socialist country in the past 10 years, and believed that Germany's social system was more advanced than capitalist countries such as the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan. At least the working class and peasants in Germany live a happier life under the state socialist system and are less exploited. From a global perspective, their living standards are second only to those in the Soviet Union...

Moreover, before the Mediterranean campaign, the Soviet government believed that the "colonial liberation policy" pursued by the German government, although with impure motives and a desire to "charge", was still more advanced than the colonial aggression line pursued by Britain, the United States, and Japan.

At the same time, the Soviet government and the Third International both believed that the essence of the policy pursued by Germany in Europe was "expansion of state socialism" and that it was of certain progressive significance to replace the capitalist system with a semi-socialist system.

But in the blink of an eye, the Soviet state fell out of favor at any time. The promised liberation of all mankind was gone. Germany was no longer socialist, and the European Community became a tool for aggression and expansion.

Well, even if Stalin had the foresight to see through the true face of the German Nazis. But how could the Soviet Union unite with imperialist powers like the United States and Britain to fight Germany?

Isn’t it said that “British and American imperialism will never die in its desire to destroy the Soviet Union”?

Isn’t it said that “Germany is the closest comrade and brother of the Soviet Union”?

Now the Soviet Union does not want comrades or brothers. Why are you still uniting with enemies who are determined to destroy the Soviet Union to attack your former comrades and brothers?

Is this still Comrade Lenin’s line? Is this still Marxism? Could it be that Stalin was a traitor?

"Traitor! Traitor! Traitor!"

Adolf Hitler suddenly shouted hysterically, waved his fist vigorously, and roared at the female Soviet ambassador.

"Stalin is a traitor! A traitor to international socialism! He betrayed socialism and the working people of the world! He betrayed the revolutionary line pioneered by Comrade Lenin! He betrayed the world revolution to the capitalists in London and Wall Street. He betrayed the world He stabbed us in the back when the revolution was about to win, and he saved the entire capitalist world... He used the blood and wealth of the working people of the Soviet Union to save the imperialists who hated the Soviet people from certain destruction!"

Faced with such accusations, Mrs. Kollontai, the Soviet ambassador, did not know how to refute for a while. Say Germany is not socialist? No matter how many elements of capitalism and feudalism there are in Germany, it is still more socialist than the United Kingdom and the United States, right?

If the Soviet Union had not joined forces with Britain and the United States to fight against Germany alone, there would be something to be said for it. But now that the Soviet Union has joined forces with a colonial empire like the United Kingdom and a capital empire like the United States, how can it still have the nerve to talk about world revolution and the liberation of all mankind?

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Comrade Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev, director of the Political Department of the 18th Army of the Soviet Red Army and brigade-level political commissar, learned on May 30, 1942, when he attended a meeting in the Political Department of the Southwest Front yesterday afternoon. The world revolution will break out on June 1st.

This is of course surprising and exciting news. The beginning of the world revolution is exciting. As a loyal communist fighter and a glorious member of the Bolshevik Party, Comrade Brezhnev had long known that this day would come. .

But what surprised him was that the Soviet Union would actually join forces with British and American imperialism to liberate all mankind. This was really incredible... Originally, he and most Soviet people believed that the Soviet Union would join forces with Germany to liberate all mankind.

Although since last year, major newspapers such as Pravda have frequently criticized Germany, accusing Germany of being an imperialist under the guise of socialism. Moreover, as a senior political worker in the army (those above the brigade level are senior, those at the regiment and battalion level are superior, and those below the battalion level are middle-level, and there are no subordinates), Brezhnev was also instructed to expose the true face of the German Empire in propaganda.

However, Brezhnev and most of the political workers who rub shoulders with him believe that the contradiction between the Soviet Union and Germany is always smaller than the contradiction between the Soviet Union and Britain and the United States. The problem between the Soviet Union and Germany is how to divide the territory, while Britain and the United States are trying to destroy the Soviet Union.

But I didn't expect that the Soviet Union would now join forces with the enemy who wanted to destroy itself to attack its former socialist ally... As a loyal GCist fighter, of course, I must firmly support this matter!

"Down with the German Nazi fascism, liberate all of Europe, long live the world revolution! Long live the Bolshevik Party! Long live Stalin, the great teacher, great leader and great commander of the working people of the world!"

After conveying Stalin's latest and highest instructions to the regimental political commissars, battalion political commissars, captain-level political instructors and captain-level political instructors of the 18th Group, Brezhnev took the lead in raising his arms and shouting slogans, and also shouted Comrade Stalin's latest slogan - the great teacher, great leader and great commander of the working people of the world!

"Long live! Long live! Long live..."

The political cadres at all levels in the conference room were of course highly conscious and quick-reacting comrades. Although they had no ideological preparation, everyone's thoughts were highly consistent with the Party's Y as soon as Brezhnev conveyed the instructions. Everyone stood up and shouted long live with Brezhnev.

Seeing that the comrades were highly conscious, Brezhnev nodded with satisfaction. When everyone was tired of shouting "Long live", he began to arrange the next ideological and political work - not all Red Army soldiers were as conscious as political cadres.

"Comrades, although our 18th Army is not the first batch of troops to join the world revolutionary torrent, we do not have enough time to carry out ideological work in the troops. According to the plan, our troops will embark on the journey of liberating all mankind in one or two weeks. So we must seize the limited time to let all Red Army soldiers know the great significance of this war - this is a great world revolutionary war, a great war that will lead all mankind to liberation and freedom!"

Such propaganda caliber is actually what Stalin, the great leader of the world revolution, has repeatedly thought about. At the beginning, he also thought about mobilizing in the name of the "Great Patriotic War" and planned to create an illusion that Germany invaded and then was counterattacked by the Soviet Union.

But after careful consideration, he felt that this propaganda was inappropriate. The ignorant people in the rear might believe it, but how could the officers and soldiers fighting on the front line not know who was attacking whom? It is better to raise the banner of human liberation than to lie like this.

At 7 pm on May 31, 1942, when Mrs. Kollontai, the Soviet ambassador to Germany, handed Hitler an ultimatum. More than 200 divisions of the Soviet Red Army, tens of thousands of tanks/assault artillery and various armored vehicles, had already entered the departure positions near the Soviet-German border (including Poland and Western Ukraine). More than 600 regiments of artillery and nearly 20,000 cannons had been deployed at the preset artillery positions in the Soviet-German border area.

Many Soviet Red Army scouts had even crossed the border and broke into Poland, Western Ukraine and the German Baltic States!

Second Lieutenant Alexander Solzhenitsyn, the 1st platoon leader of the reconnaissance company of the 55th Artillery Regiment directly under the 4th Infantry Army of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army (belonging to the 3rd Army under the Western Front). As early as 24 hours ago, he took his acoustic detection platoon (acoustic detection is one of the means of finding artillery positions behind enemy lines) and established an acoustic detection observation station on the quietly flowing Bug River.

Comrade Solzhenitsyn, a graduate of the Department of Physics and Mathematics of Rostov University and a student of literature at the Moscow Institute of Literature, History and Philosophy, was drafted into the army in 1941 when the Soviet Union began to accelerate its preparations for war. Because of his good mathematical skills (acoustic reconnaissance requires a lot of calculations), he was assigned to the Artillery School for short-term training, and in early 1942 he was sent to the 4th Infantry Army stationed on the Soviet-German border. Before he was drafted into the army, he knew that his generation of Soviets was destined to make sacrifices and contributions to the liberation of mankind.

However, at that time, like most of the Red Army officers and soldiers who were preparing to attack Germany, he thought that he would go to liberate London and New York with the National Socialist German army and plant the red flag on the roof of the White House...