On the Soviet-German battlefield, the situation was changing rapidly.
Since last winter, the Soviet army has taken advantage of the severely damaged German army to launch successive waves of attacks in the areas surrounding Moscow. As of the end of March, the Soviet army broke through the German-operated Plotva River defense line and advanced to
In the Central Russian Highlands, the line from Kaluga to Tula was captured. For the first time since the war began, the strategic situation had a positive change.
Kaluga is a famous river port and railway hub in the Soviet Union. Its industry is mainly machinery and steam turbine manufacturing, followed by chemical industry, instrument manufacturing and food processing. The area around Tula is rich in coal and iron resources and is a famous steel and military industry center.
The city of Tula is very famous for its coal factory, steel factory, machinery factory, weapons factory, ammunition factory, tractor factory, etc. Although the Germans moved most of the machinery and equipment away during the occupation, a small part of the production lines still remained, which is very special.
It is conducive to the Soviet army to organize production on the spot and use it in combat.
The Germans were naturally unwilling to fail and launched successive counterattacks in early April. The Soviet army was able to hold on at first, but with the arrival of German reinforcements, the strength of the line from Bryansk to Orel increased sharply from one group army to three group armies, and at the same time, additional
aviation strike force.
The pressure on the Soviet army suddenly increased, ammunition consumption accelerated, and it gradually became unable to withstand the fierce German counterattack.
At this time, the Soviet Union had assembled the effective forces of more than ten armies in the eastern area of Moscow. However, most of these troops were newly formed and had extremely poor equipment. Some companies even had several people using one rifle. They were seriously short of ammunition and lacked artillery support.
.The Soviet Supreme Command simply did not have the confidence to send such troops to the front line.
Now the "Lend-Lease Act" has been difficult to implement due to the severe decline of the United States' own national strength, and US dollar payments are not so convenient. The supplies obtained from South China are getting less and less, while the Soviet Union's own production capacity is facing a serious shortage and cannot support it at all.
Huge consumption on the front line.
In the original history, in addition to the large industrial areas around Leningrad and Moscow and the large industrial areas in Ukraine and the Donets Basin, the Soviet Union also had some industrial areas distributed in the Ural Mountains, Western Siberia, Central Asia and the Far East.
Among them, the industrial area in the Ural Mountains develops outwards from the three points of Perm, Sverdlovsk and Magnitogorsk, with a total length of hundreds of kilometers. Omsk along the Trans-Siberian Railway
, Novosibirsk, Tomsk, Krasno
There are large joint steel and military industrial enterprises in the area from Yarsk, Bratsk to Irkutsk near Lake Baikal. In Ashgabat, Samarkand, Tashkent and Almaty, which are close to the borders of Afghanistan and China
In other places, heavy industrial belts have also been built.
From a military point of view, the Soviet central government's resolution on accelerating the development of industry in the eastern region during the First and Second Five-Year Plans and establishing departments such as machine manufacturing, petroleum processing, and chemistry were of extremely great significance. During this period, the construction of industrial bases in the eastern region was of great significance.
Blast furnaces. Account for about three-quarters of all new blast furnaces. They are located in the Volga River and Ukraine.
A second huge oil base was established in the Lars, steel and metallurgical plants were established in Transbaikal, the Urals, Kemerovo in Siberia and other places, large steel plants and non-ferrous metal plants were established in Central Asia, and in the Far East
A heavy industry center was established, including automobile assembly plants, aluminum complexes, pipe rolling plants and hydropower stations.
Although on the surface, the industries in the western part of the Soviet Union supported the country's national economic foundation before the war, the existence of the eastern industrial zone provided the Soviet Union with valuable wartime industrial reserves, which provided a solid foundation for the Soviet Union after it suffered major setbacks in the early stages of the Soviet-German War.
Continuing to resist the German army provided subsequent support.
When the German army invaded the Soviet Union at lightning speed and the Soviet Union lost more than 1.5 million square kilometers of land in the west in just three months, the Soviet government accelerated the eastward relocation of heavy industrial enterprises. The eastward migration of industry was the key to the Soviet Union
Important measures for wartime mobilization, to 1941
In the second half of the year, the Soviet Union relocated equipment and a large amount of materials from 2,593 industrial enterprises from the west. In May of the following year, the transfer of enterprises in Ukraine, Belarus, and the Baltic Sea coast was basically completed. In the second phase, Stalingrad and the North Caucasus were evacuated.
Southern Regional Enterprises.
Many enterprises that relocated inland started operating at their new locations in less than two months on average, and some even partially started operations midway or in the open air. By the summer of 1942, the Soviet Union had basically completed the transition of the national economy to war, and there were 1,200 factories that had moved eastward and
850 new factories were put into operation, and the proportion of industrial output value in the eastern region rose rapidly from 28.4% in 1940 to 70%.
At the same time, the Soviet Union also received a large amount of British and American resources.
Among them, during the entire World War II, the United States aided the Soviet Union with 18,303 fighter aircraft, accounting for approximately 20% of the total number of fighter aircraft produced by the Soviet Union. Among them, the Soviet Naval Aviation received 2,158 American and British fighter aircraft.
After American fighter planes are disassembled, they are usually transported to the Soviet Union by aircraft carriers or other ships. There are three main routes: one to the northeast, one to the northwest, and one to the south. Among them, the most difficult route is from the United States to the
Departing from Alaska, which is close to the Soviet Union, heading to the northeastern coast of the Soviet Union, and then to the west
Krasnoyarsk in central Siberia. During World War II, this route alone transported approximately 8,000 fighter aircraft, of which 5,000 were P-39 and P-63 fighter jets, and 2,000 were A-20 attack aircraft and B
-25 bombers and 710 were C-47 transport aircraft.
In order to promote the Soviet aviation operations, the United States and Britain also provided 1.5 million tons of high-quality gasoline, which was more than the total production of the Soviet Union.
After the Soviet Union accelerated the production of combat aircraft, there was an extreme shortage of aluminum alloys used to manufacture the fuselage, which greatly affected the production of fighter aircraft. In August 1941, Stalin made it clear during a meeting with Hopkins, the special envoy of President Roosevelt of the United States:
If we assist our country with the required amount of aluminum, then we will be able to fight for another four years. By November of the following year, due to the Nazi invasion, the Soviet Union lost 60% of its pre-war aluminum production capacity. To this end, the United States provided the Soviet Union with
320,000 tons of aluminum were produced, exceeding the total produced by the Soviet Union during the entire war.
During World War II, the Soviet Union received 13,000 tanks of various types aided by the United States and Britain. The Soviet Union also used armor steel provided by the United States and Britain to manufacture many tanks. The armor steel aided by the Allies accounted for about half of the total production of the Soviet Union.
In terms of navy, the United States provided assistance to the Soviet Union with 200 torpedo boats, 77 minesweepers, 43 landing ships, and 28 "Tacoma" class frigates with a displacement of 2,270 tons.
The United States and Britain also provided 1,196 radars and 329 sonar units to the Soviet Union. In addition, Britain and the United States also provided many other combat materials to the Soviet Union, including 420,000 trucks and jeeps, 8,700 tractors, 8,218 anti-aircraft guns, and 5,800 anti-tank guns.
470 million rounds of bullets and artillery shells, 320,000 tons of gunfire, 1,981 locomotives and 350,000 machine tools, etc.
It was with the support of the Allies that the Soviet armed forces continued to grow. After the Battle of Kursk in 1943, the number and quality of equipment of the army exceeded that of the German army, and it had the ability to counterattack across the board. Since then, the Germans have never failed
Towards failure, and ultimately ushered in the complete destruction of the Nazi government.
However, this time and space is messed up.
Due to the unexpected overthrow of the Far Eastern Republic, the Soviet Union's defense construction in the eastern region before the war basically came to a standstill. As Siberia and Central Asia territory fell into the hands of the Far East Army and the Anjia Army, and Moscow colluded with the Japanese army to launch an attack on the Far East.
The invasion of the region caused the Soviet Union to actually lose its vast strategic depth and its access to the Pacific Ocean.
Especially during the more than two-year civil war in the Soviet Union, the Soviet Army and the Far East Army engaged in tug-of-war in the Ural region for a long time, which greatly consumed the Soviet Union's national power. Not only were the Ural industrial zones and energy bases basically destroyed by the war, but the population
The losses in war and material losses were also extremely staggering. The Soviet Union’s war preparations did not even meet half of the standards of another time and space.
After Germany invaded the Soviet Union, the survival of the nation became the main theme of the Russian nation. The Soviet Union and the Far Eastern Republic quickly resolved their conflicts and turned to the outside world with the same guns. At this time, the Central Committee of the Soviet Union began to organize large-scale industrial relocation to the Ural region. But it was too late.
, the industrial scale has been reduced by almost half, and the resources and population of Siberia, Central Asia, and the Far East have been lost, and the output cannot even reach one-third of the original historical level.
What is even more serious is that Japan has cut off the Pacific and Indian Ocean routes. German submarines have blocked the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean routes. In addition, the Soviet Union has lost territories in the Far East, Caucasus, Ukraine, and coastal ports in the Black Sea, Indian Ocean, Arctic Ocean, and Pacific Ocean.
The Soviet Union could only obtain aid through South China, which bordered its territory, but the amount of supplies was simply not comparable to the British and American aid at the same time in history.
Under the influence of various unfavorable factors, the equipment of the Soviet army, which advocated artillery doctrine, was completely inferior to that of the original time and space, while the Germans were stronger than in history. This resulted in the Soviet Union being in a passive defensive state from the beginning of the war.
They can only be beaten passively, even Stalingrad
It was lost, and Moscow almost fell. The capital of the Soviet Union was once moved to Kazan. Now the Soviet army finally regained the areas around Moscow and pushed the war to the south. However, it faced a strong counterattack from the Germans. Stalin, who had no other choice,
We can only hope for new assistance from South China.
It was under this situation that Malenkov was ordered to rush to Karachi and offered to join the Karachi currency system with the Chinese dollar as the core in exchange for new weapons, equipment and ammunition support from the South China government, so that the Soviet army would not be completely defeated.
After some negotiations, An Yi basically understood the Soviet Union's intentions and immediately expressed his stance: the Soviet Union was welcome to join the new monetary system, but he did not want to be linked to other conditions.
An Yi said seriously:
"After ten months of non-stop fighting, our country is now in an extremely poor state of weapons and ammunition, steel, fuel and other strategic materials. Compared with the Soviet Union, which has entered the threshold of an industrial country, our country is a newly born third world country.
The country has no foundation to speak of, and both industrial and agricultural development are at a very low level.
"At the same time, we also face threats from Germany and Japan. In the east, we are always faced with the threat of Japan's world's most powerful navy, while on the west, the Germans continue to exert pressure on our country in North Africa, Turkey, the Mediterranean and the Caucasus.
.
"At present, apart from food, our country still has some surplus, and the transfer of any other materials may weaken the strength of our army to resist aggression. If there is no reciprocal exchange of interests, as the leader of a country, I cannot agree to your request."
An Yi's answer made Malenkov very disappointed, but thinking of the current difficulties facing the Soviet Union and Stalin's instructions, he still argued with reason:
"The Soviet-German battlefield is still the most important battlefield in this world war. Our brave and tenacious Red Army is the backbone of the resistance against German aggression. It single-handedly bears more than 60% of the German troops. Once the Soviet Union fails, all the Allied Powers will
China, in particular, will inevitably be threatened by the Germans who are trying to integrate Europe!
"German racism is not limited to Slavs! It is true that your army defeated the arrogant German army in Mesopotamia and the Middle East and won the biggest victory since the beginning of this world war, but the industrial strength of the Germans is still there
, the military system it relies on to dominate the world is still there, and the terror of Nazism still hangs over Europe.
"I would like to remind Mr. Chairman that Hitler, a madman, can at any time arm himself with a more powerful armed force than the last wave of German troops attacking West Asia. Think about it, if after occupying Moscow, the four million German troops currently stranded on the Soviet-German battlefield
What will be the consequences of going south?
"Mr. Chairman is a smart man, I think we should make the right choice!"
With the existence of a large-scale killer like a nuclear bomb, An Yi did not take the threat from Germany into consideration at all. Of course, this kind of reliance could not be expressed at all. He shook his head slightly mockingly:
"I have never underestimated the power of Germany, so the armies in the Ural and Mesopotamia regions have always been the two largest strategic forces of our army. We are not afraid of a head-on collision with the Germans! Of course, I am not ignorant.
It's reasonable, anything can be discussed in this world, I think as long as you give enough benefits, we can definitely reach an agreement!"
Malenkov was stunned. For a long time, he still couldn't imagine what the Soviet Union, which was almost at the end of its rope, could use as a means of exchange.
An Yi reminded: "I heard that Comrade Stalin of your party is of Georgian origin and was born and raised in Tbilisi, Transcaucasia. However, his hometown is now under the control of our army. We still lack the legal knowledge."
Have credentials for the region. I wish…”
"Enough!"
Malenkov suddenly changed his color, stood up and said angrily: "According to Articles 1 and 2 of the Three Kingdoms Charter and Articles 1 and 2 of the United Nations Declaration, your country has not respected the rights of our people at all.
It has pursued unjust territorial expansion, failed to fulfill its responsibilities as an ally, and imposed various conditions on normal assistance. This is not the attitude that a responsible big country should have at all!"
"Sorry!"
An Yi also stood up, shrugged and said: "I really can't imagine what the now impoverished Soviet Union can offer in exchange for our precious resources. In fact, the ethnic composition of the Transcaucasus region is extremely complex and is very repulsive to outsiders.
, the cost of maintaining stability is much higher than our harvest, and I personally have a wide range of interests.
"However, if there is no such exchange of interests, I cannot explain to the people. There is no justice between us. I sincerely hope that you and the people will unite and work together to successfully resist the German attack and contribute to the victory of the world anti-fascist war.
Make your due contribution!”
Malenkov was so swallowed that he could not speak. He hummed a few words and walked away.
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