My German Empire - Chapter 20:

“Your country can rest assured in terms of confidentiality.” Tukhachevsky assured him confidently. After the Soviet Union was founded, many customs were completely different from those of the Tsarist Russia. Just the way of addressing each other is divided into superior to inferior, inferior to superior, there are differences in seniority between each other, within the department, between different departments, etc., this makes the other countries unable to distinguish the rules at all, but the staff in the system can distinguish each other clearly. So if a foreign spy who knew nothing about the rules were to replace an official, maybe two or three greetings can get him discovered as a spy.

Wilhelm nodded and said the last condition. “Finally, I want 1 million tons of grain. This is the total price. General Tukhachevsky, you should also understand that what you get in this transaction is simply out of proportion to what you are paying. Even if I increase the price by another 2 million Tons, 3 million tons, you have to agree. But for the sake of our friendship, I only charge the friendship price this time.”

In the end, both parties ended the negotiation with satisfaction. Wilhelm remembered another question when he sent Tukhachevsky to the door. “Your Excellency General Tukhachevsky. Our trading and cooperation will be carried out in secret, on the bright side, Germany still has to fight against our enemies. Sometimes we may say something ugly, but it will not be our intention. I hope His Excellency Stalin will not mind.”

Tukhachevsky got what he wanted the most, and he was very happy and smiled heartily. “Your Excellency Wilhelm, you can rest assured. Our great leader of the Soviet revolution, Comrade Stalin, is a man of great wisdom. How can he mind such trivial matters.”

Wilhelm’s face was tense, and he finally managed to hold back a laugh, and couldn’t help but complain. “I wonder if you will say the same thing when you are being killed by such a wise man?”

In the elevator, Tukhachevsky snorted suddenly. “Is the intelligence department all a bunch of wine bags and rice bags? Which idiot came to the conclusion that Prince Wilhelm is a worthless dude? Does he look like that to them?!”

Natasha lowered her head in fear and apologized. “Sorry, general, it was our negligence. Perhaps this person is good at disguising and has been deceiving all of us.”

Wilhelm lay on the comfortable bed after sending everyone away. Although Germany will also have a secret training venue now, if Germany arranges all the personnel, it will be troublesome if they get caught by some Japanese spy. After all, Japan is also on the allied inspection mission to monitor Germany. These little devils will either demand something outrageous or stab them directly into the Allied State inspection team. The sanctions imposed on Germany will definitely increase.

And this transaction is indeed a mutually beneficial thing. At this time, the Soviet steel output was still not high, but the current production capacity of Krupp in Germany has a lot of surplus. Germany can import a large number of various minerals from the Soviet Union and export the steel products produced to the Soviet Union. Considering that the current Soviet Union does not have much foreign exchange reserves, Germany can even barter.

Uh, he can ask the Soviets for food. You must know that the main food production area of ​​the Soviet Union came from Ukraine before World War II or during the Cold War. The cash crops mainly came from the Caucasus and Central Asia. The Soviet Union due to its own geographical environment, the agricultural output is more dependent on the fertile regions of Europe, and the agricultural output value in Asian part is relatively low, and it largely depends on the weather. The gap in food production between harvest and disaster years has even reached half and half.

If he remembers correctly, the Soviet government has taken some special measures against the Ukrainian kulaks since this year, and plans to kill them.

These measures ranged from increasing taxes and increasing grain payment quotas to confiscation of all property and eventually exile. By the mid-1930s, about 100,000 families were exiled to Siberia and Kazakhstan. Large-scale collectivization began in 1929, under the coercion of party activists and the threat of economic sanctions. From October 1929 to March 1930, the percentage of collectivized farms increased from 9% to 65%, and by the end of 1935 it exceeded 90%. The masses resisted collectivization in the form of riots, the slaughter of livestock, and the destruction of machinery, and the answer was to increase the already high quota and confiscate food rations. As a result, it caused the great famine from 1932 to 1933, and the death toll reached 5 million to 7 million-an unprecedented man-made disaster in peacetime. Immigrants from Russia were resettled in deserted villages. The traditional Ukrainian countryside was basically destroyed.

It is not difficult to understand why the German army that attacked the Soviet Union in the original time and space received the support of a large number of Soviet civilians. Wherever the German army went, it was welcomed and openly supported by the Ukrainian people. Many non-Russian peoples surrendered to the German army one after another. They believed that the arrival of the German army “liberated” themselves.

A German soldier wrote when recalling their invasion of Ukraine: “In every village, people welcomed us withflowers. ”

Flowers were just a way for people to welcome German soldiers. Whenever the German army visited a village, the local villagers would enthusiastically entertain them with food and water, play music for them, and imitated the Nazi military salute to pay tribute to them: “The Ukrainian people sincerely thanks us, the liberators and brave German soldiers!”

It’s a pity that Hitler’s brutal racial policy eventually ruined this ally.

Of course, in this time and space Wilhelm would not make the same mistakes. Ukraine is known as the European granary. As long as they show the Ukrainians a little goodwill, then there is no need to worry about food in Europe. Not only do they not have to worry about food, Wilhelm can also imagine that Ukrainians who hate the rule of the russians can easily form an army to rebel.

He felt a little excited when thinking about it.

It’s a little regretful that he didn’t make it through a few years earlier and failed to contain the momentum of the Soviets’ independent research and development of tanks. Just last May, the Soviet Union completed a brand-new design plan and trial-produced a prototype tank. After a brief road test on the Leningrad annex, the plan was named “1927 MS-1 “Small escort tank” and was later officially designated as “T-18”.

Next year, that is, in 1929, the total output of the T-18 will begin to increase. However, as the requirements of the Soviet Red Army’s combat capability of the armored forces continue to increase, the T-18’s performance in all aspects will show obvious deficiencies. Later they will improve the T-20 light tank, then T-24, T-26, T -28, all the way to the famous T-34 tank! !

Once the t34 is mass-produced, the superiority of the German armored forces will be weakened. One shell of the t34 may be able to take away five valuable tank drivers, and the losses of the German armored forces will increase exponentially. It is very possible to repeat the tragedy of the original time and space and retreat all the way to Berlin. Maybe William II will be dead by then, and it should be him who hid in the basement and pulled the trigger on his head with a PPK.