The Rise of the Third Reich

"There is no way out but fighting... Well, I like this Australian Prime Minister! But will Australians listen to him?"

At the White House, US President Roosevelt is holding a meeting in his Oval Office to discuss the issue of defending Australia, starting Operation Torch and launching sugar-coated bullets at the heroic Soviet Red Army!

The first thing to be discussed was, of course, the crisis in Australia. Although Halsey's fighting in the Coral Sea delayed the Japanese landing operations and bought more time for the Allied Southwest Pacific Command (so Roosevelt and the U.S. Navy did not think that Halsey lost the battle), but Australia's situation remains extremely serious.

The Japanese invasion is imminent, and the US route to support Australia is not to say completely interrupted, but at least 80% interrupted. Nowadays, large-scale ship groups and ordinary cargo ships have no way to go to Australia. They can only convert high-speed cruise ships into cargo ships. Under the escort of aircraft carrier formations, they take the Tasman Sea to Melbourne - this is still without the Ju288 and remote-controlled gliding in Germany. This can only be achieved if the two major killers of bombs are provided to RB.

Therefore, it has become very difficult to transport troops to Australia on a large scale. The only feasible way is to transport weapons and ammunition to Australia and New Zealand, so that Australians and New Zealanders can arm themselves to defend their homes.

"Mr. President, I think we should not underestimate the will of the Australians and New Zealanders to resist." Army Chief of Staff General Marshall replied, "The Anzac Corps in the British Army is famous for its tenacity and good fighting skills. The Australians and New Zealanders are the same as us in the United States. People are very similar. We all have militia traditions. It is a country where everyone is a soldier... Moreover, those Australians and New Zealanders have no way out now. If they don't fight hard, they will not have a way out after the RB conquer Australia. "

Marshall is right. White Australians are inherently fierce. Many of their ancestors were bad guys who committed serious crimes in Britain, and their nature is relatively barbaric.

Moreover, Australia and New Zealand had not yet implemented strict gun control at this time. These two colonial countries pursued the national policy of "everyone has a gun and God is afraid." So every household has a gun, and all the people are soldiers (militia).

Therefore, when it comes to desperate times, it is still possible for Australia to mobilize an army of one million troops. In its original history, Australia mobilized 1 million troops when facing the RB invasion, and more than 2 million people served the army in other ways!

Therefore, Australian Prime Minister John Curtin's "7.2 million people total jade" plan has been realized historically. It was only because the RB people fought north at Midway Island and Guadalcanal Island and stopped at Coral Overseas that the tragic Australian land war did not occur...

After hearing Marshall's words, Roosevelt pondered for a while, nodded and said, "Okay, then cancel the plan to send additional ground troops to Australia, and instead send weapons and ammunition. We can't let the Australians go to the battlefield with fire sticks!"

"Understood, Mr. President."

The U.S. military generals present were relieved when they heard Roosevelt's decision. If the Pacific battlefield can rely on the Australians to fight for their lives, then the United States can concentrate on dealing with Germany - at least the Pacific battlefield can be put aside until a large number of the United States' "dumpling aircraft carriers" are completed.

Of course, President Roosevelt’s “small goals” must continue!

"Have the Soviet battleships set off from Molotovsk?" Roosevelt turned the topic to the North Atlantic battlefield.

Although the general principle of forming a joint fleet of the United Kingdom, the United States and the Soviet Union has been finalized long ago, the battleships of the Soviet Red Navy have not yet set off from Molotovsk.

"Not yet." Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Ernest King replied, "Our people and equipment have just passed, and it will take some time for the Soviets to become familiar with our commands and communications. In addition, the Soviet Red Navy is still there Carry out ideological and political work.”

"Ideological and political work?" Roosevelt frowned, "Is there still pro-German ideology in the Soviet Red Army?"

The Soviet Red Army, especially the Red Navy, has had a good relationship with Germany over the past two decades. Many Soviet Red Navy ships were built with German help, and many Red Navy officers studied in German naval schools. Therefore, the pro-German mentality always existed, and Roosevelt knew this.

"No, it's not because of pro-German thoughts." Admiral Ernest King smiled bitterly, "It's because we...according to Colonel McCarthy's report, the political cadres of the Soviet Atlantic Fleet were mainly engaged in opposition to the United States during this period. Education in the decadent ideas of the bourgeoisie.”

Colonel Joseph McCarthy was not a professional soldier, but a Republican politician with a lawyer background. He was a circuit judge before the United States entered the war. After the war broke out, he joined the Marine Corps and achieved the rank of colonel.

After the United States and the Soviet Union reached an agreement on the establishment of a combined fleet, because the combined fleet would set up a political commissar, the U.S. Atlantic Fleet would of course also have corresponding figures to deal with Comrade Bulganin.

Roosevelt originally liked Senator Truman, but some people pointed out that Truman was a congressman, not a soldier, and was not suitable for military service unless he resigned as a senator. Of course, Truman was unwilling to resign as a senator, so Roosevelt had to find someone else.

At this time, Secretary of War Stimson, who was a Republican, recommended McCarthy, who was serving in the Marine Corps. According to Stimson, McCarthy was a comrade who was very sensitive to political and ideological work and would never let Soviet political cadres destroy the brains of American soldiers.

So Roosevelt made him the "chief chaplain of the headquarters" of the Atlantic Fleet.

Some time ago, Director McCarthy went to Molotovsk as a representative of the political cadres of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet Command. His task is to discuss with his nominal superior, Political Commissar Bulganin of the Allied Atlantic Combined Fleet, how to cooperate and how to avoid conflicts.

However, after spending some time in the icy and snowy Molotovsk, Director McCarthy discovered that the political cadres of the Soviet Atlantic Fleet are now very unfriendly to the United States and are spreading irresponsible anti-American remarks every day!

"Mr. Military Commissar," Joseph McCarthy once again made a strong protest in the political commissar's office on the battleship Soviet Union, "Today my people found someone carrying out anti-American propaganda again. I really doubt that this is not the Soviet Red Navy. Fleet, but the High Seas Fleet of the German Empire!"

McCarthy spoke English that Bulganin did not understand, but he did not need a translator to understand what the other party was talking about - nothing more than a protest against the propaganda of the fleet's political cadres about the "corrupt American bourgeoisie."

In fact, this kind of propaganda is really not anti-American, but to inoculate the people below, so as not to be confused by the feasting and entertainment of the United States.

Since the Red Navy Atlantic Fleet will use New York, the United States, as its second home port (New York is the starting point of the North Atlantic route, and there are many docks available there, where Soviet ships will be equipped with American radar and communication equipment), so many The ship will stay in New York for a long time, and the Red Navy commanders and fighters will definitely come ashore, and there will be many opportunities to contact the Americans.

So the question arises, what about the promised dire straits? Why do all Americans look like rich men? Where are the legendary oppressed and breathless working people in the United States?

Why is the productivity of the United States so developed? Isn’t it said that socialism can greatly liberate productive forces? Why is it that it is difficult to buy things in stores in the Soviet Union, where productivity has been greatly liberated, and everything has to be paid for, while in the United States, where productivity is not very developed, everything is available?

Therefore, after Comrade Bulganin served as the Military Commissioner of the Atlantic Fleet, he found that there were too many problems to deal with!

Moreover, the political cadres below found that it was difficult for them to explain the revolutionary principles clearly even if they were talking too much.

Therefore, Bulganin suggested postponing the departure date, and at the same time hired Comrade Andrei Gromyko, who had served as the Director of the American Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and a counselor at the U.S. Embassy for several years, as Deputy Political Department of the Atlantic Fleet. Minister, specializes in studying countermeasures.

But the arrival of Comrade Gromyko not only failed to solve the problem, but found more problems!

For example, why don’t there be New York household registrations and HSD household registrations in the United States? The American working people who are in dire straits can move freely to work as workers in the prosperous and affluent New York, but what about the farmers in the Soviet collective farms who cannot go to Moscow and Leningrad?

Another example is why working people in the United States can buy guns and ammunition! ? Aren’t the capitalists who rule the United States afraid of people with guns revolting? By the way, why don’t the working people of America with guns make a revolution? How is this going?

For another example, bourgeois America also has fake elections and union activities. Although these activities do not truly represent the wishes of the American working people, simple Soviet Red Navy soldiers may still be deceived...

Also, will some Red Navy soldiers take advantage of their stay in the United States to defect? Will someone take advantage of the opportunity to stay in the United States to work and make money? Will some handsome guy from the Red Navy hook up with an American woman?

In short, there are a lot of problems, and there is no good way to prevent them other than carrying out anti-American propaganda. However, the Americans sent a thoroughly reactionary Pastor McCarthy (actually McCarthy was not a pastor, but just a pastor), claiming to be the "American political commissar" to coordinate the political work of the Combined Fleet with Bulganin. As a result, this "American political commissar" didn't do anything serious and just found trouble and protested all day long. And Bulganin couldn't let the people from the Special Branch arrest him as someone who was against the Communist Party of China (it wouldn't be unfair if he really wanted to be arrested), and he had to explain it with a smile on his face. This thing is ridiculous even if you think about it!