The Rise of the Third Reich

"What? Russian National Socialist Royalists!?"

"Yes, we need a party that can fight the Bolsheviks, and it is the Russian National Socialist Royalist Party, modeled after the German National Socialist Workers' Party!"

In the reception hall of the Chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Hersmann suddenly found that both himself and Comrade Stalin were in trouble! Now the Russian Empress Olga has to take off her court dress and put on the brown uniform of a stormtrooper, and then put on some armband to play the role of the head of state! I don’t know if anyone will shout: “Hi! Olga!”

"Okay, there should be a nationalist party to lead Russia!" Adolf Hitler nodded repeatedly, "Only such a party can fight against the Bolsheviks, but... to lead a country, it is not enough to have a party and propaganda slogans. There must also be a political and economic solution to the problem.”

"Leader, we already have some ideas." Olga smiled and said, "National socialist Russia will be a member of Europe politically and will join the European Community...In fact, Germany and Russia will It will become a common monarchy in the future, so it is very natural for Russia to join the European Community.”

Hitler and Hersmann looked at each other. It seemed that there was no way to object to Olga's opinion. Her heir, Archduchess Kira, was the wife of the German Crown Prince. The future... If the Russian Empire really has a future, won't it have to be mixed with Germany? Then of course we have to join the European Community.

But in this way, the Russian plate will be too big!

“Economically,” Olga continued, “we will have the oil industry in the Caucasus and the kulaks of southern Russia as our backbone. In a way, we will continue Stolypin’s unfinished work. "

Stolypin's reforms were a major event in Russian history in the 20th century, and were also seen as a means of political and economic self-rescue for Tsarist Russia. But in fact, the reform was a mess, and Stolypin himself was assassinated by anarchists who opposed the reform.

The focus of this messy reform is to get rid of the Russian rural communes, which are a bit of a big pot, and at the same time promote the enrichment of farms. Before the reform, big-pot rice rural communes could be said to be disliked by everyone. However, once changes were to be made, many people believed that rural communes were better than kulak farms, so they firmly opposed Stolypin's reforms, making him a human being.

It can be said that half of the roots of the 1917 revolution lay in the First World War, and the other half lay in Stolypin's reforms.

Of course, it would have been impossible not to carry out reforms in 1906. Because Tsarist Russia failed in the Russo-Japanese War, it was an old Russian tradition to reform after a defeat.

"But Stolypin's reforms were very unsuccessful," Hersman kindly reminded Olga, "Any system that has taken hundreds of years to develop cannot be said to be successful through reform. of."

"The situation is different now," Olga said with a smile. "Because of the two massacres in the past 20 years and the damn 'peasant identity', not many people in rural Russia now like collectives. The farm."

Rural communes in the Tsarist Russia era were just poor, and very few people died of starvation. The famous saying of Russians is "No one died of starvation in Russia." Because this country has vast land, rich resources, and a small population, it is not easy to get rich. , it’s really not difficult to fill your belly.

Therefore, the two starving massacres from the 1920s to the 1930s did a great deal of damage to Russian farmers. Therefore, without obtaining the Moscow and Leningrad household registration, dividing the fields and working alone is still a way to survive. .

"It doesn't mean you are a rich farmer if you can divide the land and work alone," Hessman shook his head. "The efficiency of Russian agriculture has never been high. It is difficult for farmers to live a relatively prosperous life with a small amount of land."

What Hessman means is that the farmers of your fighting nation are relatively lazy. If the land is allocated too little, it won't be enough for them to live on, and if it is allocated too much, it won't seem to be enough. It's not that Russia lacks land, but that farmers from fighting nations are reluctant to go to Siberia. Petrograd and Moscow are the places they yearn for...

"We have already considered these problems," Olga replied, "so we first want to restore the empire in southern Russia and the Caucasus. The per capita land area there is large, the climate conditions are relatively mild, and there are abundant of oil resources.”

That's not bad!

Hersman already understood what Olga meant. She did not want to restore the great empire across Russia, but just wanted to establish a "little Russian empire" in resource-rich southern Russia.

There is the black land of half of Ukraine, the industries of Donetsk and Kharkiv, the steppes south of the Volga River, and the rich oil resources of the Caucasus. It is also close to the Black Sea and the Mediterranean Sea, with convenient transportation. It is also a member of the European Community and has access to European capital and markets. It is not difficult for this "Little Russian Empire" to become a wealthy and developed country, but it is impossible to unify Great Russia based on Southern Russia and the Caucasus.

Restoring the Russian Empire is probably just a politically correct sign in the hands of Olga and the Russian National Socialist Royalists. What is really possible in the end is actually a long-term confrontation between Little Russia and the Great Soviet Union!

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People's Commissar of Defense Voroshilov and People's Commissar of Internal Affairs Belya walked in the aisles of the Privy Council Building in the Kremlin with rare quickness, attracting the staff to look sideways. Seeing the two Bolshevik big shots in such a hurry, everyone couldn't help but frown.

There must have been some flaw on the front line... In the good days, there had to be some kind of world revolution, but now it seems like a hornet's nest has been stung!

Voroshilov and Beria quickly walked into Stalin's oak-decorated No. 1 office. This was an office of 150 square meters, enough to hold a careful meeting inside.

When the two arrived, Stalin was discussing in a low voice with Molotov, the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs, whether to declare war on France. The French authorities led by Pétain submitted an ultimatum to the Soviet government on August 1.

After the ultimatum, war was declared as usual, but the situation in France was a bit special. Because France now has two governments, the Pétain government in Paris and the Free French government in exile in London. Now neither Britain nor the United States has declared war on France. Instead, they do not recognize the Paris government and regard Free France as French orthodoxy.

Therefore, after learning that the Soviet Union had received an ultimatum from the French government, both the British and American governments made demands to the Soviet government "not to use Paris as an opponent." This means not recognizing the Pétain government and turning to de Gaulle's Free France as the legal government of France.

This means that in the future, after the Soviet Union defeats Germany, it cannot ask for war compensation from France, nor can it treat France as a defeated country.

In this regard, after Stalin and Molotov discussed this, they were ready to ask Britain and the United States to recognize the Democratic Germany led by Thalmann - they would also not be able to ask for war compensation from the Democratic Republic of Germany in the future.

Seeing the two people coming in, Stalin looked at them and then asked: "What happened?"

Voroshilov and Beria were not summoned by Stalin, but came to see them on their own, which often meant that something important had happened.

"Comrade Stalin, the German army has invaded the city of Pskov!" Voroshilov reported military news. "They have many people, and they also used a large-caliber self-propelled artillery similar to the B-4 howitzer. , it should be the French St-Chamond 194mm self-propelled powerful artillery... and it also adopts a fighting style similar to that of the B-4 battle group. I am afraid that the city of Pskov will not be able to hold on for too long. "

The "demolition tactics" of the B-4 battle group played a great role in siege warfare. The Soviet Red Army relied on this tactic to capture most of Warsaw. It also made the exchange ratio achieved by the German army in the city defense battle far less than that in the field battle - the two short assaults organized by Model, with the help of "Tiger" and "Panther", caused heavy casualties to the Soviet army, and the exchange ratio of tanks At least it is 1:20, and the personnel exchange ratio is also 1:10.

Now the Germans are using France's powerful 194mm self-propelled artillery to start the same "demolition war", which has also caused the Soviet Red Army to suffer the same pain.

However, the biggest risk Pskov faced was not the French "demolition artillery", but the small number of defenders. The Northwest Front of the Soviet Red Army now has a total of 3 armies, with 22 infantry divisions, 6 cavalry divisions and 6 tank brigades under its jurisdiction.

There is now one army group in Leningrad and guarding the Baltic coast; one army group in Karelia to defend against the Finns; there is only one army group in the direction of Pskov Oblast, and this army has served as the The feint attack mission had already suffered certain losses, and it was also hit hard by the German armored group. The losses were not small, and there was no strength to defend the city of Pskov at all.

"It's just a feint attack." Stalin did not look panicked. "Leningrad is our second capital. It once supported the Russian revolution, has countless outstanding sons and daughters and a glorious revolutionary tradition. It is simply not something that the Nazi army can capture. With Nazi Germany The General Staff’s understanding of our country’s situation makes it impossible to regard Leningrad as the main target of the attack.”

This judgment was completely correct, but the news that Beria later told Stalin made the wise leader of the Bolshevik Party somewhat unexpected.

"Comrade General Secretary, the flag of the Russian Empire was flown in the German-occupied town of Puchore." Beria said, "And...according to reliable intelligence, the reactionary Queen Olga is preparing to reorganize her Russian royalist party into a state The socialist royalists also recruited a large number of traitors from the German prisoner-of-war camps as their backbone!”