Earlier, Father Stalin was struggling to hold back millions of Axis troops, and was ridiculed by the United States for repeated failures, which regarded the Soviet Union as a great burden, and even made the United States wonder whether it was worth it to help the Soviet Union. When it came time to actually end the war on the Eastern Front and allow Germany to drain millions of troops from Russia and impose it in other directions, the pressure on the United States immediately increased.

After a series of disastrous defeats in Iceland, South America, and South Africa, the Joint Staff Committee evaluated the combat effectiveness of the Soviet Red Army even higher - not that Stalin's father could not fight, but that the Führer was too powerful. Wasn't the U.S. military, which was better equipped, more well equipped, and more well-staffed than the Soviet Union, also beaten into a ball of by the German army? The battlefield performance was even worse than that of the Russians, at least in the spring and summer of 1944, the Red Army had a good counteroffensive - defeating Turkey, recovering Central Asia, the Caspian Sea, and the Caucasus.

On the other hand, the United States has no choice but to retreat all the way, losing Iceland and Africa, and now seeing that even South America and Hawaii cannot be saved, what qualifications does it have to laugh at the Soviet Red Army?

To be honest, the Soviets completely resisted to the last moment - no country in the world inflicted more casualties on the Axis than the Soviets, and no country suffered greater casualties than the Soviet Union, and if it were not for the special system of the Soviets, Britain and the United States would have collapsed in the face of all this.

Therefore, after Dewey officially assumed the presidency, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and his henchmen repeatedly held that it was necessary for the Soviet Union to continue to liaise, especially after the United States expressed its desire to continue cooperation with the Soviet Union through secret channels and was warmly welcomed by the other side.

Continuing to work together is of course very different from the full-fledged allies of the past, large-scale deliveries of goods are impossible, and Lend-Lease no longer applies, but small-scale exchanges can. For example, the withdrawal of pilots and military personnel from China by the United States received great help from the Russian side, and the act of Father Stalin's approval of the delivery to the United States of a batch of captured German equipment, Soviet IS tanks, T-43 tanks, and related drawings and materials has brought the ties even closer.

After the successful transportation of pilots, the United States put forward three demands: First, it hoped to establish air routes between the United States, the Soviet Union, and China, with the territory of East Russia as an air transit point; The second is the hope of establishing a submarine supply base in the East Russian Far East, deploying high-power radars and long-wave radios; The third is the hope that the Soviets will send air force personnel to the United States to participate in the war in the name of individuals or volunteers, or simply blend in with the "vanguard of China's aviation to aid the United States."

Stalin's father, who was afraid of setting himself on fire, politely rejected the last two demands, but readily agreed to the first.

After the Aleutian Islands were occupied by the Japanese army, there was now only one way for the United States to reach Asia--from the United States and Canada to Alaska, from Alaska to Kamchatka Peninsula into the territory of the Soviet Union, and then to China, which was much more difficult than the Aleutian Islands route.

Molotov played an important role in the communication, and he flexibly adapted the third point, on the one hand, he communicated with Stalin that it was beneficial to let the pilots carry out the flight mission and maintain the condition, and on the other hand, he communicated with the American side about the difficulty of directly participating in the war - Japan and the Soviet Union were neutral countries after all, and now the Kwantung Army was a great threat, and Japan could not be given an excuse to provoke a war.

After his repeated mediation, Stalin made an exception and agreed to send 100-200 Russian crews to carry out transport flights on this route, but not including operations, and the US Air Force immediately happily agreed - this means that they can free up at least 100 skilled crews for other domestic routes, which is completely a relief for the US Air Force, which currently has only more than 2,000 skilled crews left, and some of them are stuck in Hawaii and cannot move.

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As a token of appreciation, the United States not only paid the Red Army pilots dollars in terms of their own military rank plus combat allowances, but also sent a batch of technical drawings, physical goods, and other goods, of which the gains in the field of radar were only a part.

As traditional Bolsheviks, the necessary vigilance against capitalist sugar-coated shells is still indispensable, and these pilots who receive dollar wages are all carefully selected, all Bolshevik party members or Komsomol members, and usually have relatives who have died - politically reliable, their dollar wages can only be kept in an account, and the actual dollar is still domestic rubles, and the dollars are all used to buy supplies that are urgently needed in the country.

In view of the economic difficulties of East Russia, in order to give the other side some additional compensation without touching the sensitive nerves of some members of Congress, Lieutenant General Clark, who is quite diplomatic, invented the Material Compensation Trade Law (also known as the Penicillin Law).

Every time a plane flies from the United States, in addition to the necessary fuel and materials, it always uses the surplus capacity to carry boxes of American civilian materials -- all of which are sold to the Russian side on credit at the ex-factory cost price, and any taxes, freight, personnel salaries, and insurance premiums are all ignored and calculated only when the Russian side gets it.

The Russian side kept some of this batch of scarce materials for its own use, and most of them were sold to the Chinese market, because penicillin accounted for the absolute majority of the materials, so it was vividly called the penicillin method.

Usually the profit margin of this trade is 150-200% without freight, which is equivalent to a lot of money every time the white wolf can empty gloves in East Russia - a B-29 or C-54 is worth $1 million to 2 million dollars, to say the least. The Soviets generally kept 20% for themselves, and the rest was shipped to China for sale through secret channels.

After the US channel was cut off, German goods have become popular in the Chinese market, after all, in Shanghai, a special black market, even uranium ore and aero engines can be traded, and what other things cannot be sold? But it's more American, and many people are even surprised to find penicillin that was produced just 10 days ago – not fake, it's the real American!

In addition to penicillin, of course, there are other special goods, such as stockings, perfumes, cosmetics, imported cigarettes, high-end clothing, leather shoes, watches, etc., which are the necessities of Shanghai, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and the rich and noble families in the southwest. In particular, American watches are loved by the middle class in Shanghai - they can't afford luxuries, but watches or something are necessities, and they still grit their teeth and buy them, pocket watches are no longer popular, and it is not like a delicate lady with a pocket watch.

The Russian side likes to do these businesses very much, the goods are not heavy, there is not much risk, and there is not even a ban and shelf life, as for tariffs - can these things be shipped to Shanghai and other big cities in the eyes of the word tariff? Comrade Mikoyan, member of the Politburo, is specially responsible for intelligence, trade, and communication and liaison work with China

There are even bold Chinese underground forces asking if they can bring in some arms and opium?

Opium is not produced in the United States itself, and it involves the United States, the Soviet Union, and China, and politicians are somewhat afraid of it; As for the arms, the heavy ones are certainly not good, and the light ones are completely indispensable; Motorola walkie-talkies, radios, binoculars, and other items are also disposed of at ex-factory prices to the second-tier dealers in East Russia, and Comrade Mikoyan, who is in charge of the "special" trade, deducts 20 percent of them as usual and sells them.

Of course, the United States knows that the purchase of these things by Japan will significantly enhance the strength of the Japanese army, but it really can't take care of so much, because Japan's strength cannot be suppressed by this, and if it does not buy American goods, Japan can still buy German goods.

After the development of this line, it has become an order-based transportation, and the people who are the road can even send a request for entrustment, such as sending mail, specifying what to buy, etc., which can generally be satisfied, but the time of satisfaction is uncertain - fast and fast, it must arrive in a week, and it may take 2-3 months to slow down, but there is no problem with security and confidentiality at all. There are also seriously ill rich people who are transferred to the United States for treatment through this route - then the price is not easy to say.

For this route, the Japanese special high school and even the Gestapo actually know in their hearts, but they have not made much action for a long time, and the items on a route are very harmful to Japan, and the Japanese army can gain from it, and if Japan does not make a move, the Gestapo has no reason to make a move; Second, there are too many people involved in this chain of distribution interests, and this chain of interests not only sells American and Russian products, but also Japanese and German products.

As for transporting arms to the Kuomintang and the Communist Party, Japan does not care at all now, because the United States and the Soviet Union are not capable of large-scale transportation, and small-scale transportation cannot solve the problem of large-scale equipment for large troops.

The purpose of the German-Italian office in Shanghai is to open up the Far East market, and now a lot of German goods can be bought in the market thanks to this channel.

It is generally reported that the quality of German goods is comparable to that of American goods, but the price of German goods is often more expensive than that of American goods. The reason is actually very easy to figure out - the United States transports materials to make up for a little transportation cost, making money is not the purpose itself, you can earn more and earn less, and the air transportation fee from the United States to the Soviet Union is not included in the cost at all, at most it is to calculate the freight from the Soviet Union to Shanghai.

Germany treats it as a commercial trade, and even if it takes a cheaper sea freight, it is impossible not to take into account the freight - the sea freight from Italy to the Chinese port is quite expensive, and it has to pass through Japan in the middle - there are also 30-35% of the cost of customs duties, special fees, and service fees, which must be added to the selling price.

However, there is one thing that is good about German goods - they are large in quantity, and second-hand goods are relatively cheap, especially second-hand arms, which even Japan does not look up to.