Battle of the Third Reich

"This is indeed 32 years of Bordeaux red wine, Vsevorod. Nikolayevich." Molotov reached out and pressed the bottle on the table.

The waitress standing aside was crying at the moment. She looked at the gloomy third-level national security committee member, Belia’s loyal deputy, the first deputy minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the director of the National Political Security Administration, Ph.D. Major General Shevorod Nikolayevich Merkulov.

"It's okay, you go out first." Molotov turned his face and said softly to the young girl.

"Thank you, Comrade Chief." The girl bowed carefully and walked out of the room quickly with the tray.

"You shouldn't lose your temper, Vsevorod Nikolayevich." Molotov picked up the bottle and poured Merkulov a glass of wine.

"I'm sorry, Comrade Minister, I'm just upset." Merkulov looked down at the glass.

"You have to be patient to do this job, Vsevorod Nikolayevich. Until the Germans clearly refused, everything is still hopeful." Molotov smiled and took the knife. A small piece of smoked pork was cut from a whole pig leg and placed on his plate.

"It's not always a way to wait like this, Comrade Minister." Merkulov frowned. He was really worried about the delegation's current situation.

The attitude of the new German head of state toward the Soviet Union, and whether Germany’s secret secret agreement between Hitler and the Soviet Union still counts after Germany’s victory in the European War, and whether Germany is willing to continue to implement the previous transaction agreement. What he wanted to do in one step became the question Stalin wanted to understand now.

So he specially sent a Soviet trade delegation headed by Foreign Minister Molotov. He declared that it was to conclude a new trade agreement with Germany. In fact, he was to understand the details of Germany and answer the questions that troubled him. At the same time, this delegation also shouldered the mission of collecting intelligence in various fields of Germany and restoring the Soviet spy network in Germany.

After entering the German control zone, the Soviet representatives were attracted by the scenes they saw along the way. From Poland to Berlin, the construction scene was full of fire everywhere. It is obvious that Germany is in its occupied area. Invest a lot of manpower and material resources, and launched a comprehensive infrastructure.

The intuition developed by Major General Merkulov as a longtime officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs made him vaguely feel that what is behind these projects is definitely not as simple as what he saw.

Merkulov can’t imagine what the Germans want to prepare. Usually, he doesn’t need him to use his brains at this time. He only needs to collect the information and give it to a professional analysis department. Someone will naturally find out for him. Possible answer.

It is not these problems that cause the major general of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to worry, but the German Head of State has been reluctant to meet them formally, and he knows that the Soviet mission is about to arrive in Berlin, but he does not even greet him and runs on his own. I went to Italy. It is said that I attended the funeral of the Italian dictator. The Major General of the Ministry of Internal Affairs even believed that the head of state was anxious to rush before Mussolini's entry into the earth, to look at the appearance of the loser, and send him to the end. Mocking.

If the head of state is not deliberately hiding from the Soviet mission, it can at least prove that he did not care about the friendship between the Soviet Union and Germany at all. The casual attitude shown by the young dictator had to make the Soviet envoys Feeling humiliated, the delegation is now full of resentment towards someone who has never met from top to bottom.

Another thing that worries the Director General of the National Political Security Administration is that he saw the strength of the German armed forces. He thought that the Soviet Red Army was already an invincible force, but it was different from the German army he saw this time. For example, perhaps only a few of the most elite units can fight against them. If the head of state is hostile to the Soviet Union, the Director of the General Security Administration will not dare to continue to associate.

The second important task shouldered by the delegation this time is to request Germany to fulfill the cooperation agreement signed with the Soviet Union, open Germany’s latest arsenal, and provide the Soviet Union with the latest weapons samples, including patents and production technologies for these equipment.

This is a secret clause attached to the "Soviet-Germany Non-aggression Treaty" signed by Hitler. Germany provides their latest weapon technology, and the Soviet Union uses strategic materials and resources in return. In order to paralyze the Soviet Union in history, Hitler did not hesitate to open up the Wehrmacht’s weapons inventory to the Soviet trade delegation in Germany, and he did not hesitate to provide the Soviet Union with the Navy’s latest warships, army-equipped main tanks, and new fighter samples.

The military cooperation between Germany and the Soviet Union started in the 1920s, which was still in the period of the Weimar Republic. In order to rebuild the German armed forces, Sekert and other people spent countless efforts on it.

On the other side, because of a series of wars and internal frictions after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Soviet Union's production technology at that time lags behind the entire era, and Germany has a lot of advanced technology, but because of the constraints of the Versailles Treaty, production and research on German land are prohibited.

When the Soviet and German sides started contact, this issue was almost a coincidence. The two sides signed the famous [Laglow Agreement], Germany promised to provide the Soviet Union with technology and machinery to help the Soviet Union establish a complete military system, of course at the same time Germany was also able to continue his military and industrial development on the territory of the Soviet Union, continue to train their armed forces, and at the same time secretly develop a series of advanced war weapons prohibited by the Treaty of Versailles.

German military experts once accounted for more than 80% of the total number of external experts of Soviet military enterprises. Germany provided the Soviet Union with much-needed large-scale military industrial production technology. It can be said that the entire generation of Soviet military products is branded with Germany. From the rough imitation at the beginning to the ability to independently develop products, the Soviet Union’s modern industrialization road cannot erase the merits of German experts.

For a whole decade, Germany and the Soviet Union established a comrade-like friendship. This period of time can be called the honeymoon period between the two countries. However, after Hitler’s Nazi Party came to power, the situation changed fundamentally. The unbarriered communication was gradually stopped, and the former comrades gradually became strange to each other as their respective political trends changed. At the time, Nazi Germany desperately needed valuable resources from the Soviet Union, so the two sides did not tear their faces completely.

In the blink of an eye, in 1939, the relationship between the two countries changed again miraculously. After the signing of a new "Soviet-German Non-aggression Treaty", the two parties joined hands and overturned the car in one fell swoop. Poland.

It is said that there is a historical tradition to kill the shoe insoles, and this is the most complete annihilation of the country, and it is also the most painful one for the Polish people. Germany and the Soviet Union joined hands to eliminate more than 80% of the Polish elite. For this nation alone, this huge injury may not be able to make up for several generations.

The topic is far away, and now return to the military cooperation between the two countries. This time the Soviet Union's appetite was so large that even Molotov had to frown. The foreign minister received an order from Moscow Since then, I never thought of being able to accomplish this mission.

The gangsters of this group of defense committees must have instilled too much vodka, causing their brains to be full of alcohol, so that they can downplay and make such a bunch of completely unrealistic requests. Molotov believes that as long as The Germans are still rational and sober, so it is absolutely impossible to agree to their own conditions.

In the memorandum to be submitted to the German head of state, the Soviet Union asked Germany to provide some of the most valuable military and civilian technologies they had seized from the United Kingdom, especially the secrets and patents of the Royal Navy and Air Force, including the British The Soviets wanted to get a copy of the important scientific and technological inventions.

At the same time, the Soviet Union also wanted to obtain British naval shipyard equipment, French military production machinery, steel plants in Belgium and the Netherlands, and a group of technical experts from various European countries. The Soviet Union also wanted Germany to provide them with samples of the newly developed No. 4 tank, plus all the production drawings, as well as the legendary new fighter aircraft, and some Royal Navy ships captured from it.

I heard that this time Germany overcame Italy again and seized the entire Italian navy. While comrade Stalin congratulated his German friends, he was also very interested in taking a slice of it.

Of course, the great Soviet Union is not a robber. It will be exchanged for materials of equal value. No matter what the conditions are, whether you want gold or oil, or those rare minerals that are difficult to mine, or even a strong labor force, as long as Germany agrees to trade, then The German head of state will truly feel how generous the Soviets will be for their friends.

Molotov believes that Germany will only agree to the conditions within the scope of the previous agreement at most, and those things beyond the scope, don't want to expect a response at all.

But what Molotov didn't expect was that when he rushed to Germany, let alone get a reply, he couldn't even see the other party's face. The Germans showed great enthusiasm. They were entertaining every day. They invited members of the delegation to the diplomatic ball for three days, but they did not tell them when they could see the German head of state.

This time with the Molotov delegation to Berlin, there was also Vladimir Kiralgievich Dekanozov who was appointed by Stalin as the Soviet ambassador to Germany.

This ambassador has always been regarded as the running dog and confidant of Beria in the circle. He once served as the People’s Committee of the Interior in the Caucasus, and gained a famous reputation as a “Baku nun” in the local area, and then served in Georgia. The deputy chairman of the People's Committee turned out that the only achievement was to make the name of the "little hand" more deserved.

This guy with no foreign work experience has worked for a period of time as the director of the Foreign Affairs Department of the People’s Internal Affairs Committee because of Bella’s fancy and support. This is a department specializing in collecting foreign intelligence. The executioner of Baku also worked in this position for a year, and then was promoted to the Deputy Soviet People's Committee of Soviet Affairs, responsible for the formulation of Soviet foreign policy and providing "professional" guidance.

It is such a guy who has never been abroad and has no diplomatic experience. He was transferred to the most important Berlin and served as the Soviet ambassador to Germany. Molotov was bitter about this kind of appointment. Not justified.

Today Dekanovsov was on a whim, ready to go to the German Ministry of Foreign Affairs, perform his duties as an ambassador, and show his presence by the way.

Molotov stayed in the embassy's room with a secret agent who worried about the country and the people.

"I'm back, Comrade Minister."

Suddenly there was a characteristic cries of the execution of the Baku executioner at the door. The hands of the Soviet foreign minister shivered so that the remaining half of the bottle of Bordeaux was spoiled.

"Do you know what good news I brought back today? You can't guess, I swear you will be surprised after hearing it." Dekanozov hurried to the table.

"Marshal Keitel, Chief of Staff of the German Command, told me that the German Head of State has agreed to our request to visit the German military R&D institution. And Keitel also revealed that the German Head of State will return to Berlin after a week, and will give priority to calling us."

The Embassy in Germany made Yiyangyang take a wine glass from the table and poured himself a large glass of vodka.

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