I Became Stalin?! - Chapter 171:

Chapter 171

Germany wanted an orderly surrender.

Or rather, the most powerful military commander who had seized power after the collapse of the German government, Field Marshal Model, wanted that.

The will of the Führer appointed Model as the Reich President and the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, and the generals who had followed him under the title of Chief of Staff had no choice but to submit to his authority.

Model did not want any more casualties.

“If the safety of civilians and retired soldiers is guaranteed, the German Defense Forces will cease hostilities with the Soviet Union.”

The Soviet military was a group that respected honor.

Although they had been provoked by a treacherous preemptive attack without a declaration of war, the Soviet army had crossed the German territory under strict control, despite the countless war crimes committed by the Germans, and headed for Berlin.

Most regions declared themselves as open cities.

The capital of the empire, Berlin, also did not dare to resist in front of the overwhelming violence.

With the absence of the Führer, Berlin was captured in an instant under the state of siege.

The leading tank unit arrived in Berlin and seized the airport.

Thousands of special forces that poured in through the airport raided the designated places and people without fail.

“Get him! That’s him!”

“That’s the officer! Arrest him alive!”

The Soviet army arrested the high-ranking Nazi officers and the key figures of Germany who had failed to escape in an instant.

“Otto Dietrich! You’re under arrest! Don’t resist and come out!”

“…I knew this day would come.”

Quite a number of people were in despair. The people who saw the capital of the empire, which they thought would last forever, collapse with a single blast, as if the heart was torn out, accepted it as if the world had ended.

“Captain, this guy is not here?”

“Damn… Report it quickly. Anyway, the main roads and train stations leaving Berlin are all under control. We can catch them all as soon as we confirm!”

The high-ranking officials of the military and the political circles.

The directors of the munitions, steel, and chemical companies.

The heads of the secret laboratories and their core scientists.

The Soviet army was non-violent to ordinary civilians according to the harsh discipline, but they arrested all the important figures.

Hundreds of people were caught from all over Germany every day and were transported to the central airport of Berlin in sealed containers.

Woo woo woo woo woo woo woo!!

At the airport guarded by thousands of heavily armed Soviet soldiers, another transport plane took off. Each carrying dozens of ‘war crime suspects’, the transport planes headed for Moscow.

Every time the sound of the plane taking off was heard, the civilians of Berlin just closed their eyes and bowed their heads.

And during this occupation process, Hitler did not show himself.

Even the loyalists who remained a little bit were in chaos after the Führer disappeared.

“Where on earth is the Führer! We have to protect him!”

“Where is the secret underground bunker hidden? The Soviet army is all over Berlin, so we can’t even dig it up!”

National Socialism, commonly known as Nazism, had the ‘Führer principle’ as its core. It was nothing but a sloppy essay by Hitler, who was not even worthy of being called an ideology, but anyway, the Führer was their messiah and leader.

The remnants of the Führer were nothing but ragged bandits.

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“‘Big Fish’ arrived yesterday. The elite agents of the NKVD are interrogating him.”

“Hmm… How far are they going with the torture?”

“They haven’t started torturing him yet, in order to keep him alive as long as possible. If you order, we can do it right away… But ‘Big Fish’ is not that uncooperative.”

Cut it out. There’s no need for torture. He doesn’t have much to offer anyway.

It’s just something like a vent. His family died, his friends died, and the people whose homeland and territory were devastated were burning with infinite vengeance.

The Politburo controlled the hostility towards the German civilians for the sake of establishing future relations with Germany. But even the Politburo had no intention of giving up the punishment of the war criminals.

“Was the secret perfectly maintained?”

“Yes! I swear on my job. He was shivering in the underground bunker with a few operatives… As I told you… Hehe.”

“Huh, huh… I see. I’ll trust you.”

Beria smirked with a contemptuous expression. He didn’t like Beria, but this time he understood his contempt.

“Disgusting thing…”

“You said you wanted to interrogate him yourself, so I prepared a place for you. When do you think you’ll be there…?”

“Let’s go now.”

He was looking forward to it. His not-so-good heart started to beat hard.

What should I say when I meet him? Will he understand? What should I spit out in front of him to comfort the millions who died?

Of course, from the Soviet perspective, it was very grateful. From the national perspective.

Nazi Germany killed millions of Soviets and trampled on their territory, but there was no country in Europe that was not like that.

The two great powers of Europe, France and Britain, also fell and had to hand over various materials and equipment to Germany.

And we were taking them one by one.

In the future, there would be no country in Europe that could stop the Soviet hegemony.

The existing regimes were replaced by the German army and collapsed, and the Communist Party, which followed our orders, took their place.

‘From the Barents Sea to the Valles Sea! The iron curtain has fallen!’

The National Council of Resistance led by the French Communist Party took over Paris and proclaimed the Fourth Republic. Our army, which had taken over Venice and Bologna, was advancing to Rome in cooperation with the Italian Communist Party.

The Balkans were already occupied by Tito’s partisans and the ‘Red King’ Mihai I of Romania.

The vast land of Central Europe, from the Rhine to the Vistula, was all flying the red flag of our army.

Victory, victory.

But the price was too high.

Before I was aware of it, I had reached the steel door of the Kremlin’s underground interrogation room.

Two burly guards who looked taciturn at a glance were guarding the door with their eyes narrowed.

Of course, they opened the door kindly with a wicked smile that didn’t suit them when Beria and I approached.

“Salute to the Secretary General!”

“Faithful! Servant!”

The heavy door opened with a creak. A dark corridor with only electric lights flickering, leading to the underground cell, unfolded.

Beria followed me faithfully, half a step behind me. He realized that I was lost in thought and kept quiet, looking around.

“Maybe the doctor is treating his wounds right now, but do you want to order him to be tortured?”

“Ah, yes. How serious are his wounds?”

“It’s not that bad. It’s just a scratch or so. He’s getting proper hemostasis and fluid supply. They’re disinfecting him for fear of septicemia, but…”

The ‘big fish’ found in the underground bunker, that is, Hitler, had attempted suicide.

He didn’t succeed as in the original history. He ordered his confidants, including Eva Braun, to commit suicide so that they wouldn’t fall under the ‘vile claws of the Soviet army’.

He killed them all first and then tried to commit hara-kiri to Japan.

But he had the courage to order millions to die, but not to burn his own stomach. He failed to commit suicide.

The Soviet special forces succeeded in capturing him alive, who was lying on the ground, bleeding and whimpering, with a knife in his stomach.

He was dragged to Moscow on a secret seal and immediately thrown into the Kremlin basement, where he was interrogated. Well, there weren’t many secrets of Nazi Germany that the Soviet intelligence didn’t know…

After several thick iron doors opened and closed, I was able to reach the interrogation room where Hitler was.

“Here it is, Comrade Secretary General.”

“…”

The inside of the room that opened was more ordinary than I thought.

It reminded me of a medieval dungeon with bloodstains, but it was just like a private hospital room.

Except for the four giant soldiers who were guarding inside and outside.

“You guys, step back.”

“Yes! Comrade Secretary General!”

Hitler’s eyes, hidden by the doctor, began to tremble as he saw me. The doctor quickly got up and bowed deeply to me and ran out of the room. The interpreter, Beria, and the bodyguard too.

“Comrade Secretary General, please leave this one friend for your safety…”

“Is that the friend who is deaf? I see.”

The bodyguard brought me a soft chair from somewhere. I sat on the soft chair, took a long puff of my pipe, and felt the victory as I looked at Hitler trembling.

“Well… Konnichiwa.”

“?!?!?!”

Hitler’s mouth opened wide. How did he know? His face was full of that expression. Was it like the sky had fallen?

I spoke to him in the clumsy Japanese I learned in high school and college, and Hitler shook his body and clenched his jaw.

“How did you…? Was that right after all?”

“Hmm, you guessed it, didn’t you?”

“Yo, you are from the future too?”

“That’s right. It wasn’t hard to figure out that you were from the future, or rather, Japanese.”

Of course, it would be hard to believe from the position of being dragged after losing the war.

Hitler, or Hitller, knelt down and bowed his head in resignation.

Then he raised his head and shouted.

“The empire will never fall! Yes, I heard you speak our language and realized that the empire has risen again! The Great Japanese Empire has finally ruled the world! Hahahahahahahaha!!!”

“Huh? Risen again?”

What did he eat wrong? He seemed to have taken a lot of drugs.

“What year did you come from?”

“…? In 1945, after the war ended, I and my comrades committed hara-kiri. But by the grace of Amaterasu Omikami, we came back in time…”

“Oh, I see. In 1948, Japan was destroyed.”

“!!!”

He didn’t react like that when I spoke to him in Japanese earlier, but now he looked like he had been hit by a hammer. He opened his mouth wide and showed his shock.

I felt a cruel and malicious feeling.

“You know that Japan surrendered after being hit by two atomic bombs in 1945.”

“Yes, yes.”

“And then Japan was under the US military rule, where the Japanese… tried to drive out the Americans by launching a massive uprising.”

“…”

He had a simple expression. He looked like he thought, of course, that’s how it was. I felt like I couldn’t help laughing.

“But the US suppressed the uprising by dropping more than 30 atomic bombs on Japan, destroying it. Because of the radioactive contamination, the inhabitants of the Japanese islands, who couldn’t live there, eventually went to Madagascar…”

“Wait a minute, what is this ‘radioactive contamination’?”

“Hmm?”

Oh, I said it wrong.

In the 1940s, the effects of radiation were not yet known. To begin with, the term radiation contamination would be unfamiliar.

“Where the atomic bombs fell, the land and water rotted and people died of thirst and starvation. They couldn’t live there. When major cities like Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka, and others became lands of death, about 20 million Japanese who survived…”

He looked like he couldn’t believe what I was saying. He clenched his fists and shook his body. The corners of my mouth rose involuntarily.

“That’s a lie! That’s impossible! Damn it, Japan would never do that!”

“Oh, of course it’s a lie.”

“Ha ha, you bastard…”

“Did you think I would say that?”

He lifted and dropped his jaw. He must have thought I was lying.

“No! Never, never! The Great Japanese Empire is immortal!!!”

“Well, then I have no choice but to show you.”

Until now, it was a lie to tease him, but I actually had the power to do it.

The US asked me to join them in the ‘Operation Downfall’ against Japan.

The Politburo and the military approved it for the sake of hegemony in the Far East.

“No! No! No…!”

As I walked out laughing, Hitler sensed something strange and screamed, trying to grab my legs, but the giant bodyguard held him down on the bed with his huge hand.

I left the interrogation room behind the screams.

The prepared nuclear weapons were enough to destroy the Japanese islands.

Could anyone survive in the islands that would become a hell of Agent Orange and radiation?