In the end, the Chinese government agreed to repay the US$1.2 billion in principal that the Soviet Union had lent to China in advance, and even the interest in the past few years (a total of approximately US$150 million) was given to the Soviet Union to use it to purchase more new products from the United States.
There are a lot of military supplies. Although the aid promised by the U.S. government cannot be provided for the time being, spending money to buy things is still
No problem, and because of the opening of the Arctic Ocean route, even now that the United States has lost sea and air control in most of the Pacific, it is not difficult for American goods to be transported to the Soviet Union. Of course, on this unconventional route
, there is still a bit of danger, especially in the coming cold winter season...
The fact that the Chinese government is so "good to the end" obviously caught the Soviets by surprise, and the Chinese only asked the Soviet government to issue a public statement to thank them before accepting this huge sum of money. The Soviet government thought this was just a Chinese tradition of saving face.
, so he agreed. However, some Japanese people who know more about Chinese culture saw the Chinese government’s intentions, and they just wanted to
As far as Japan is concerned, the fallout between China and the Soviet Union is exactly what it wants, and naturally it will not point it out. It just sits back and watches as the Soviet government's mouthpiece "Tass News Agency" publishes a passionate editorial thanking China for extending a helping hand despite the catastrophe this year.
This led to the unconscious view at home and abroad of the Soviet Union that "China no longer owes the Soviet Union anything, but the Soviet Union owes China a favor"...
Historically, New China once paid a huge price to pay off its debts early in order to "fight for a breath", but the situation in this time and space is relatively much better, because the compensation after Japan's defeat (although the proportion in hard currency is not large. But there is still
some.) and some leading products are selling well in the international market, adding
In addition to the advance payments received from hot orders from Japan and other countries and the rapidly growing domestic production of precious metals, the current Chinese government does not lack hard currencies such as foreign exchange and precious metals. Even a huge sum of US$1.35 billion can barely be scraped together.
Come out without having to use life-saving food to pay for it like in history.
And if you analyze it carefully, you will find that it is difficult for China to use the hard currency in its hands to exchange for the advanced machinery and equipment it needs from Western countries, because the sea is currently controlled by Japan, and the traffic at Nathu La Pass in Tibet is very difficult.
It is inconvenient, and if the United States and Britain buy Chinese goods there, it will still be difficult to safely transport them back to the country.
The only route was through the Soviet Union, but given Mao Zi's moral character of "plucking feathers after a wild goose passes", this trade route was not so reliable, so the Chinese government only spent money that could not be used in the first place. In fact, the trade route was not so reliable.
The price paid is much smaller than it seems. But it has successfully offloaded the heavy debt of gratitude that was originally borne. In the long run, the gains outweigh the losses.
After all, although the Soviet Union, which was severely damaged by Germany, is no longer so scary, if it has a bad reputation of "repaying kindness with hatred" because of its attack on the Soviet Union, and thus gives the Americans an excuse to intervene. In the end, it will become a public enemy of the world like Germany.
It was unbearable for the newly born China, so it would rather let the Soviet Union fail China than let China fail the Soviet Union, and use this to establish a new China
The trustworthy image of the Chinese government will be very helpful to China's future development and even war. What surprised Hu Weidong was that the ordinary people in the country all supported the central government's approach. It turned out that most Chinese during this period still maintained
He has the simple idea of "having no debt and being light-hearted", unlike in later generations, where the debtor became the uncle and the creditor became the grandson...
Moreover, Hu Weidong soon realized that the Soviets had received this huge sum of money to purchase a large amount of military supplies, and because they were relieved, they had mobilized a large number of troops from the Far East and Central Asia to assist the Western Front. This might not necessarily be able to reverse the situation of the Soviet-German War.
, and may even suffer even worse losses. Because the Soviet Union’s disastrous defeat in the early days of the war was not because of
The strength of the army is not as good as that of the enemy, but it is due to strategic and tactical problems and improper employment of personnel. As long as these two problems are not solved, no matter how much troops and advanced weapons are invested, it will only make it easier for the German army to improve their records and increase their spoils.
The trend after the Soviet-German War also confirmed Hu Weidong's views...
Although it will take time for the US$1.35 billion obtained from China to be converted into military supplies and sent to the front line, it, like the millions of troops drawn from the Far East and Central Asia, gave the Soviet high command a shot in the arm.
On a whim, he decided to
Launch a major offensive to recover some of the lost ground. However, such major decisions made on a whim are always difficult to achieve good results. Although the Soviet Army Command incredibly quickly squeezed out more than 700,000 troops from various theaters,
And there are 3000 more
Multiple aircraft and more than a thousand tanks assisted in the battle, but they were not able to quickly defeat the stubborn resistance of the German army and regain Kiev. This battle, known as the "Second Battle of Kiev" in history, inevitably dragged into the cold winter, and both sides invested
There are also more and more troops
, by mid-December 1943, the maximum number of troops on the Axis side exceeded 1.8 million, of which more than 1.1 million were German troops. The Soviet army also fought on three fronts together, with a total number of participants of no less than 2 million...
...
Although they were quite dissatisfied with the unfavorable attack, the fact that the battle was dragged into winter was not a bad thing in the eyes of the Soviets. However, they forgot one thing. The winter in northern Germany was not considered warm, although it was far inferior to that of Moscow and Moscow in the Soviet Union.
Leningrad and other northern cities, but compared with Ukraine in the south, the gap is not very big. In addition, although the German army is in an enemy country, its logistical support is stronger than that of the Soviet army. Therefore, even though the winter of 1942 was extremely cold, the German army still maintained
It has quite strong combat effectiveness.
What's even more terrible is that with the arrival of midwinter, all rivers in Poland have frozen. In this way, even if some bridges have not been repaired, German reinforcements and supply convoys can drive directly from the frozen rivers to the Eastern Front battlefield. Before
The logistical problems that had been troubling the German invaders were solved at once. Soon the newly arrived troops quickly and decisively penetrated and detoured back to the flanks of the main Soviet army, forming an encirclement...
Perhaps because of the relationship of "Each adversity leads to wisdom", the Soviet Army Headquarters promptly issued an order to retreat across the entire line. However, under the rapid and fierce pursuit of millions of German troops, the Soviet Army still suffered huge casualties, including those in the stalemate stage.
Losses included, Soviet Union killed
As many as 300,000 people were missing and missing, and more than 400,000 people were captured. The German army in pursuit of victory swept across the land of Ukraine, rushing to occupy the largest granary in the Soviet Union before the arrival of 1943...