My German Empire - Chapter 55:

While Wilhelm was playing the role of a pimp with all his strength, in the Kremlin, the heart of the Soviet Union, Stalin was looking at the content of the telegram sent by Tukhachevsky from Germany.

“In other words, in order to get rid of their economic crisis, Germany needs to increase labor and employment. Therefore, the Germans are willing to export advanced weapons and equipment to us, and even they will help us design and build a 40000-ton battleship?” Stalin was muttering to himself. “And what we need to pay is a lot of minerals and raw materials and we also need to pay the funds?”

“Yes, this is the progress made by General Tukhachevsky in the negotiations today.” The secretary said respectfully: “General Tukhachevsky asked, whether we want to go ahead in the next step of cooperation with the Germans or not. ”

Smoking his beloved big pipe, Stalin looked at the data of the “Super Battleship” in thought.

When the tobacco in the pipe was exhausted, Stalin finally made a decision. “We can start early cooperation with the Germans to build Dezezinski-class frigates and Tashkent-class destroyers. At the same time, the Germans are required to submit the design plans and drawings of the 40,000-ton battleship to us for review. If it goes well, then we will proceed with the Soviet-class battleship plan.”

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The next morning, as Wilhelm walked into the restaurant, Monica with a weird face rushed in and whispered to report. “His Royal Highness, two of the four prisoners are dead, and the other two are in a near death condition. Do you want me to send them to the hospital for treatment?”

“Huh?” Wilhelm was surprised. “Is Natasha okay?” His first reaction was that those condemned prisoners were playing tricks, trying to escape or kidnap Natasha. After all, they were all sentenced to death. What can’t they do?

Natasha will be an important internal response during the German-Soviet war in the future. It would be a pity if something went wrong now. And Natasha is one of the Soviet members on this trip, if something happens here, it will be more or less troublesome.

Unexpectedly, Monica’s next words left him speechless. “Miss Natasha is okay. The prisoners are covered in wounds all over. It seems that they were tortured to death.”

“…” Fuck! Fortunately he arranged some death row inmates not someone else.

As for their treatment? Wilhelm shook his head very simply. “They are prisoners on death row. Treatment is not necessary. You can take them directly to the crematorium. Please ask Miss Natasha to come over for breakfast.

After a while, Natasha changed into new clothes and came to the restaurant with an apologetic smile. “Let you laugh, I heard that those people are all prisoners sentenced to death, I hope it didn’t cause you any trouble…”

Of course there is nothing troublesome, but what makes Wilhelm very curious is the reason why she killed those men. “No trouble, but why did you torture them like that? Do you know them?” He didn’t believe that these people could have any collusion with the Soviet Union. They should have never met before.

Won’t she be a psychopath if she tried to kill someone she didn’t know for no reason? Fortunately, I never thought about sleeping with her.

Natasha explained. “I was not targeting them. Since the time my whole family was persecuted, I have much anger suppressed within my heart, and I have to vent it from time to time , otherwise I feel like I will go crazy.”

“…” This is understandable, her whole family died tragically, and she still has to pretend to be loyal to their executioners. “Then how did you vent in the Soviet Union?” He even admired the girl a bit, who had spent so many years in such an environment unharmed without being noticed by anyone.

Natasha smiled slightly. “There were quite a few prisoners in the Intelligence Service who needed to be interrogated. I am the top interrogation expert in the Intelligence Service, and I got the nickname ‘Witch’.”

“…” What you need is a psychiatrist.

Speaking of psychiatrists Wilhelm could not help but think of ” Post Traumatic Stress Disorder”.

According to common sense, everyone who has survived the battlefield should thank God for his favor of letting them survive, and they should cherish their current life.

But in fact it is not. Many people who have come down from the battlefield will have some major psychological changes, so that they can’t live a normal life at all.

The reason is that they suffer from “P. T. S. D. “. Because of the cruelty of the war, they saw their comrades injured or even die on the battlefield, and they would also face the threat of injury or death at any time, which kept them in a state of high anxiety, tension, and even fear. Such a state often lasts for a long time, and finally forms a permanent wound in their hearts, and their personality is affected and changed.

So even if they are lucky enough to retreat from the battlefield, their hearts will still be affected by the shadow of war, and this influence is even lifelong and difficult to change. Because of internal trauma, many of them will be self-enclosed, alcoholic and grumpy.

In short, their life becomes a mess. Therefore, some desperate soldiers can easily choose to go to extremes because of realistic stimulation.

There are many good examples of such situations in later generations.

Since the United States sent troops to Iraq and Afghanistan, the frequency of suicide and domestic violence by American soldiers has greatly increased, and the PTSD has become a major hidden danger that plagues American soldiers. For every 100,000 soldiers, 30 committed suicide. The brutal war prevented some soldiers from getting rid of what they saw or did on the battlefield. This trauma did not end with the end of their service.

Even for veterans, domestic violence has increased by 33%, violent crime has increased by 64%, and child abuse cases have increased by 43%.

A veteran’s wife conducted a research on this and wrote in the book, “Male veterans with PTSD are two to three times more likely to commit domestic violence than healthy veterans. Survey studies have found that most mentally stressed veteran will commit domestic violence at least once after one year of service.”

In the future, the number of German soldiers will definitely exceed 5 million. After the war, god knows how many people will suffer from mental illness. Although there are chaplains in the army, there are many atheists as well.

In later generations, most people in Northern Europe, Germany, the Netherlands, Britain, France and other countries are atheists. People who believe in Christianity in these countries are generally the elderly people.

why? In fact, the decline of Christianity is a long-term trend, and it may have started since the emergence of Protestantism.

With the development of culture and science, more and more people criticize Christianity. According to Christianity, the Bible is the voice of God, but the Bible has many logical problems and it is scientifically contradicting.

It seems that he has to pay attention to this problem, he has to start training a large number of psychiatrists, and in the future, he will have to arrange at least one psychiatrist in each company. He didn’t want the imperial soldiers who had been fighting for the country for a few years to become a disaster to society because of psychological problems.

“Your Highness?” Natasha whispered when she saw Wilhelm holding a knife and fork in his hands but was lost in thought.

“Huh?” Wilhelm was relieved and shook his head. “It’s nothing, anyway, they are on death row, and they would have been shot sooner or later. Now I have saved a few bullets.”