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Although the People's Army Air Force significantly reduced the number of dispatches to Central Asia, East and West Siberia and other places due to the bad weather in Siberia in winter, and the current dispatches are mostly mainly reconnaissance and leaflets, and the Japanese army occupying the Far East and the German army that achieved major results on the Western Front also retreated due to weather reasons, the basic situation of the Soviet third-line combat has not been fundamentally changed.

In addition, the psychological shock caused by the fall of the capital Moscow to the Soviet people, the relocation of domestic enterprises to the east has not yet ended, and foreign aid supplies have not continued. The Soviet government, which moved the capital to Gubishev, faced a dilemma of disqualifying force, extremely scarce combat materials, and had to be distracted several times, so life became more and more difficult. How to alleviate the current tension in the Soviet Union and ensure the final victory of the Patriotic War has become the most urgent issue facing the top levels of the Soviet Party, government and military led by Stalin.

In fact, when the street battle in Moscow entered its most intense in late January, Stalin was already very clear: if the Soviet Union wants to win the final victory, it must change the unfavorable state of the third-line battle! Moreover, Stalin also realized the key to solving the dilemma, but because he was unwilling and had great expectations for street battle with the German army in Moscow in winter, things were delayed. Now that Moscow has been lost, Stalin's original expectations have completely failed, and it is time to solve the key problems.

Theoretically speaking, there are three enemies in the Soviet Union now, and there are as many as seven possible options for making peace with one or both sides or even three sides. However, based on the interests of the Soviet Union and its relations with allies, there is only one possibility that the Soviet Union will choose to make peace to change the current dilemma! That is, to agree to the conditions of the People's Party and achieve easing of the relationship between the two sides!

The conditions put forward by the Germans in the Brest Treaty in the late World War I were of course extremely harsh, but they just wanted to take advantage of the Soviet Union as much as possible, and did not have the real intention to destroy the Soviet Union. But for Germany led by Hitler, the purpose of the German invasion of the Soviet Union was to eliminate the Soviet Communist Party and then annex the entire Soviet Union! As long as the Soviet Union did not want to destroy the country, there would be no real possibility of peace with Germany!

Moreover, the Soviet Union has formed an alliance with the United States, Britain and other countries to jointly deal with the Axis Group. If the Soviet Union really wanted to make peace with Germany, not to mention that Hitler was already notorious, it is hard to believe how harsh Germany's promises and the conditions proposed by the Germans would be. The moral crisis brought about by betraying the United States, Britain and other countries and the consequences of being hostile to the allies will be by no means the Soviet Union can bear!

The purpose of peace is to get rid of war, rather than to fall into a war with a larger range and deeper degree! Although Stalin is iron-fisted, dictatorial, and stubborn, he is definitely not stupid. He will definitely not do the stupid thing that stands opposite to the Allies and is pulled by Hitler to fall into the abyss of final defeat!

Since it is impossible to make peace with Germany, Japan, which is also a core member of the Axis Group of Germany, is not considered by Stalin. Not to mention the historical grudges that Japan has formed with the Russians since the Tsarist Russian period, Japan is alone in the Sino-Japanese battlefield while taking advantage of the situation to rob the Soviet Union in the Far East, trying to divide the Soviet Union with Germany and the East, and the crazy spirit of beating Western powers in the Pacific Ocean, Stalin did not want to be buried with such a crazy small country!

After weighing the trade-offs, seeking reconciliation with the People's Party is a more suitable choice for the Soviet Union at the moment. If the normalization of relations with the People's Party can be achieved, the Soviet Union can not only temporarily reduce a confidant enemy in the abdomen areas such as Central Asia and Central Siberia, but also use the People's Party's armed forces to fight against the Japanese army in the east to stabilize the eastern front and strengthen the Soviet army on the eastern front to the western front.

However, normalization of relations with the People's Party also means that the Soviet Union will lose more than 1.5 million square kilometers of China's territory occupied by unequal treaties since Tsarist Russia, as well as the Tannu Ulianghai and Outer Mongolia under the control of the Soviet Union. Although these areas are basically deserted areas with vast land and sparse populations, Central Asia and the Far East are very important to the Soviet Union. Once lost, not only will the Turkish-Xi Railway be in isolation and cut off, but also important Far East ports such as the eastern end of the Siberian Railway and Vladivostok will also be lost. This will bring considerable disadvantage to the Soviet Union's future strategic interests, and it is also the reason why Stalin hesitated before Moscow's fall.

But after retreating to Gubishev, Stalin had to consider resolving the relationship with the Popular Party in the face of multi-line combat, insufficient troops and shortage of supplies, proposals from the British, and reports submitted by the evacuation committee led by Shwelnik and Kosykin.

"Because the Pacific War is unfavorable, the United States, Britain and other countries cannot realize our previous proposal to open a second battlefield in Europe this year, which means that we will still bear huge pressure from the Axis Group this year! However, the Churchill government also put forward a suggestion worth considering. The British believe that we should reach a reconciliation with the People's Party to remove the threat from Central Asia and Mongolia, and use the armed forces of the People's Party to deal with the threat from the Japanese army on the Eastern Front, and at the same time, we will mobilize the Outer Baikal Military Region and the Far Eastern Front to strengthen the troops to

Western Front. In addition, the British also proposed to open new material channels through India, and the People's Party controlled areas to Central Asia in my country to increase material assistance to us. As for the current situation, we must also change the current state of fighting on the third line." At the meeting of the Supreme Command of the Soviet Union, Stalin, who was obviously much thinner and had white hair, looked at the congregation and asked with a serious expression, "Everyone talk, is it feasible for us to achieve reconciliation with the People's Party?"

If it is a common problem, Stalin rarely solicits everyone's opinions in his current style, but reconciliation with the People's Party involves the issue of ownership of more than 1.5 million square kilometers. Think about the obstacles and criticisms that Lenin encountered when signing the Treaty of Brest. He did not want an opposition within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and pointed the finger at himself. In short, Stalin acted like this to bring the Supreme Command to endorse the Soviet Union's subsequent territorial transfer, and use collective decisions to avoid the personal responsibility of being destined to be criticized in the future!

However, at this time, Temuxingo and Zhukov were sent out. Voroshilov, Budonnie, Kulik and others were demoted because of the previous operations. In addition, Stalin, as the Supreme Commander, also served as the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the People's Committee of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the National Defense Committee, and the People's Committee of the National Defense. He was able to attend the meeting only Kalinin, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, Molotov, Chief of the Soviet General Staff Shaboshnikov, Deputy Chief of General Staff Huasilevsky, and the Chairman of the Evacuation Committee responsible for the Soviet industrial migration, Shvirnik, Vice Chairman Kosigin and others were invited to attend.

After Shaposhnikov exchanged glances with Huasilevsky, Huasilev took the lead in speaking: "From a military perspective, if we can ease the relationship with the People's Party and block the Japanese Far East forces from the People's Army, then not only will the two departments of Kurochkin, who are blocked in the Outer Baikal region, but Apanashenko, can be successfully transferred to the Western Front, but even the Siberian Military Region and the Central Asia Military Region used to prevent the People's Army from advancing west, can also draw a part of the troops used by our troops to prevent the People's Army from advancing west. If we are also detained by the People's Army, there will be more than 700,000 troops to be transferred to the West. The General Staff believes that after the strengthening of this force, we will not only make the Western Front more stable, but also make a difference with the German army in the battles of this spring and summer, and can also win valuable time for the formation of new troops, thus laying a solid foundation for the final victory!"

Kalinin frowned and asked, "If the Outer Baikal Military Region and the Far Eastern Front are transferred to the west, wouldn't East Siberia be equivalent to giving it to the Japanese and the People's Party? This loss is too great, right?"

"Our army retreat west will indeed cause a blank area of ​​power in East and West Siberia, but in the long run, we will not suffer much loss, and it will still be Soviet territory in the future!" Shaposhnikov explained, "When the Far East has been lost, our army's troops stranded in Outer Baikal are not only in a state of enemy on both sides, but will also play a role in isolating the People's Army and the Japanese ships, so that East and West Siberia will reach a strategic balance. But if our country reaches a reconciliation with the People's Party and our army retreats west, then this balance will definitely be broken.

The People's Party armed forces have never taken in any Japanese prisoners in the previous battle against Japan in China. They are already mortal enemies with the Japanese army! Whether it is the Japanese army advancing westward or the People's Army expedition in the east, a major war will inevitably occur between the two sides!

In other words, by easing the relationship with the People's Party and provoking irreconcilable conflicts between the People's Party and the Japanese by temporarily withdrawing from the Baikal region, we can eliminate the two major enemies in the central and eastern regions in one fell swoop!

This will not only help us concentrate our efforts to deal with the threat from the German army on the Western Front, but also weaken the strength of the People's Army and the Japanese army, and help us restore control of relevant areas in the future!"

After the Soviet Union entered the third-line combat state in August last year, the Soviet army had realized that if the threat from the People's Army was not lifted, not only would the war against Germany on the Western Front be lacking in the rear, but the Far East could also completely fall into the hands of the Japanese army.

However, at that time, the People's Army attacked Central Asia, and the Outer Mongolia had a force of more than 800,000, and it wiped out more than 500,000 Soviet troops one after another. With the gap in equipment performance between the two sides, if the Soviet Union wanted to recover Central Asia and Outer Mongolia, it would have to invest at least 1.2 million Soviet troops! And when the Western Front suffered major failures in Kiev and other wars and the Eastern Front was attacked by Japanese troops, the Soviet Union could not draw out more than one million troops to completely solve the People's Army. Stalin could only order the Siberian Military Region and the Central Asian Military Region that suffered heavy damage. The Outer Baikal Military Region expanded its strength locally to restrain and prevent the People's Army from advancing westward!

After being occupied by the Japanese army in the Far East, the Supreme Soviet Command had thought of giving up the eastern front for the time being and transferring the forces of the Outer Baikal Military Region and the Far East Front west. However, after several months of bombing, the People's Army Air Force had blown up all important sections of Udinsk, which started from the east of Lake Baikal, and to Krasnoyarsk in the Yenisei River Basin, which had reached more than 1,000 kilometers of railways and bridges on the highways! This made it impossible for the Soviet army to retreat west before the river was frozen, and after the freezing, it was difficult to trek thousands of kilometers in the Siberian cold current. Kurochkin and Apaneseko could only defend Outer Baikal and the area east.

After recruiting young and strong soldiers in the local area, the strength of the Outer Baikal Military Region has now reached 270,000. After replenishment, the Central Asia Military Region and the Siberian Military Region now have more than 200,000 troops each. The remnants of the Far Eastern Front led by Apanathenko have more than 240,000 troops when they retreat to Mogoca. If the Soviet Union can reach a reconciliation with the People's Party and receive more than 100,000 Soviet prisoners of war repatriated, the remaining forces on the eastern and central fronts can reach about 1.06 million. Even in Central Asia, Siberia leaves more than 300,000 troops to prevent the People's Army, the Soviet army's western front can still be strengthened by about 750,000 troops!

Although the force of about 750,000 is not enough to change the strategic situation on the Western Front, it is enough to make one or two major battles change conducive to the Soviet Union! This is also the reason why Stalin and the military tend to ease relations with the People's Party.

"The People's Party invaded Mongolia and Central Asia in the name of regaining lost land, and the Far East is within its scope of its claim, which is inconsistent with the current control of the Japanese army in the Far East. From the perspective of bilateral or multilateral relations, we can indeed use the Far East to promote the People's Army to fight against the Japanese army." Molotov nodded first, and then continued, "As for most parts of East and West Siberia, it is not within the proposal of the People's Party. Moreover, as long as we do not sign a contract for sale, the People's Army or the Japanese army will occupy it. When the time is ripe in the future, we can also advocate taking it back."

The analysis of the Chief of Staff and the Foreign Minister made Kalinin remember Lenin's expedient plan to sign Brest with Germany in the late World War I. At that time, the Germans asked the Soviet Union to ced more than 3.28 million square kilometers of area on territory alone. In the ceased area, there were 44% of the population of the Soviet Union, 90% of the coal mining volume, 73% of iron ore, 54% of the industry and 33% of the railway. The losses were extremely heavy! Compared with the Germans' lion openings, the People's Party now demanded to recover the lost land, although the area is quite large, but basically they are extremely underdeveloped areas in Central Asia and the Far East, with limited population and industry, which have little impact on the strength of the Soviet Union.

"The Treaty of Brest won a crucial and precious time for the stability of our Soviet regime, allowing us to win the civil war and defeat foreign armed intervention afterwards." Kalinin stretched his brow and said in a stressful tone, "As a stopgap, I think we can agree to the conditions of the People's Party!"

"That's more than 1.5 million square kilometers!" Molotov sighed as if the news was made public, I'm afraid that many people in the party would not understand it, and even some opposition forces would jump out, and our work would be passive!"

"We are trying to save the socialist motherland! Don't worry too much!" Kalinin waved his hand and said with a trembling beard. "According to regulations, matters such as the conclusion of treaties to the outside world need to be approved by the Supreme Soviet Conference. If there are really problems in the future, I, the chairman of the Supreme Soviet Presidium, will be responsible!"

Seeing that Kalinin took the initiative to jump out and willing to take the blame, Stalin also put down his pipe and said to everyone: "If it were not forbidden to, no one would be willing to negotiate terms with the robbers who invaded our motherland, no matter what their name was! But according to the situation reported by the two comrades Shwelnik and Kosykin, it is time for us to have to negotiate with the People's Party! For the specific situation, please listen to them."

After receiving Stalin's instructions, Shwelnik said: "Let Comrade Kosykin tell me, he will be clearer." Shwelnik is an alternate member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Secretary-General of the Central Committee, while Kosykin is a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the Vice Chairman of the People's Committee. His status within the Communist Party of China is higher than Kosykin. However, Kosykin is not only knowledgeable but also has an amazing memory. He is very clear about some important information and data. Shwelnik asked Kosykin to report on the relevant situation, and avoided his own timidity when he was unable to explain some of his situation clearly.

Kosigin did not refuse. After clearing his throat, he said: "Since the establishment of the evacuation committee on June 24 last year to be responsible for the eastward migration of the industrial base, we have moved 1,523 industrial bases to the eastern region in half a year, of which more than 1,300 enterprises have resumed production. In addition, we have also expanded the crop planting area in the eastern part of the Russian Federation, central and western Kazakhstan and other places to ensure the supply of food and cash crops during the Patriotic War.

However, on March 1, the People's Army plane suddenly flew over Kurgan, Omsk and other places in Western Siberia, scattering a large number of Russian leaflets, slandering our party's relevant policies since its in power. All leaflets have been taken back and destroyed by us, and the impact of the incident is also very small and is within control.

However, the People's Army's actions show that they have the ability to launch an air strike on our industrial base eastward. Moreover, according to military comrades, the flight altitude of enemy aircraft is about 11,000 meters, exceeding the effective range of ground air defense artillery fire in our army. This means that if we do not solve the problem of relations with the People's Party, the industrial base that we have just resumed production will be bombed on a large scale by armed forces from the People's Party, but we have no power to fight back! As for the transfer of industrial base again, first, time is no longer allowed, and second, we have no more places to transfer!"

After a large area of ​​land in the west fell into Germany, the central part was hit by the People's Party and the Far East fell into the hands of the Japanese army, there was not much strategic space for the Soviet Union to rush back. The straight-line distance from Kurgan to Gubishev was less than 1,000 kilometers, which means that the People's Army Air Force could threaten the new wartime capital of the Soviet Union! In the west, the German army, which was temporarily confronted the Soviet army due to weather and other reasons, even if the evacuation committee can organize forces to relocate the industrial base again, where can it move?

Moreover, the Soviet Union had already consumed too much manpower and material resources to deal with the third-line battles, and it was now time to urgently need to be supplemented through industrial and agricultural production. If the industrial base that had just resumed production after moving eastward was bombarded by the People's Party and could not obtain sufficient supplies in the front, the Soviet Union would completely lose the possibility of winning the war!

"Comrade Stalin, we cannot hesitate anymore! For the sake of the socialist motherland, we must reach a reconciliation with the People's Party!" Kalinin said with a solemn expression, "Their conditions are indeed too much, but they are far from the level of the Brest Treaty, and we can still bear it!"

"I think so too!" Seeing that Kalinin said something that was inconvenient to say, Stalin nodded and decided with the flow, "I suggest leading a message to the People's Party through the ** side. At the same time, our ambassador to the United States will contact the Ambassador to the United States, and expressing our intentions to the People's Party through Lan Fang to finalize the relevant issues before the negotiation. As for the specific negotiations, because they involve diplomacy, military and material passage opening, I think the three comrades, including Molotov, Apanashenko, Kosigin, etc., will be specifically responsible, and other relevant institutions will cooperate closely. We must finalize all matters as soon as possible, and try to draw troops to the Western Front before the German army launches a new offensive after the beginning of spring!"

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Chapter completed!