The happy life of GCISM was short-lived for the GCIST fighters of the Soviet Red Navy. Pen %Fun www.biquge.info a thriving city, free big fish and big meat (in addition to 3 meal coupons, every day the working people of the United States organized by USO give free big fish and big meat to the Red Army soldiers on Chelsea docks), sumptuous gifts, and of course, warm American chicks, will become part of the fond memories and accompany them through the difficult years to come.

On November 28, 1942, after spending more than ten days in New York, four Soviet-class battleships and two Kronstadt-class battlecruisers were equipped with American sea-searching radars and communications equipment. Now the ships of the Atlantic Fleet of the Red Navy will join the ships of the American Atlantic Fleet and the British Home Fleet to form the Allied Atlantic Combined Fleet.

And on the 29th, it was time for the Allied Combined Atlantic Fleet to escort the NR21 fleet (New York-Reykjavik) to the sea. The NR21 fleet is the largest convoy since the beginning of the World War, with a total tonnage of more than 250 10,000-ton freighters, cruise ships and oil tankers. These ships carried more than 800,000 tons of cargo and carried as many as 108,000 US officers and soldiers.

According to the plan, the NR21 fleet will sail northeast immediately after leaving New York Harbor, reaching the windy and dark Arctic Circle route, and then sailing directly to the port of Reykjavík in Iceland. Then the fleet will split in two, one part will sail to the port of Murmansk in the USSR; The other stayed in Reykjavik and then traveled to Belfast in Ireland and Fort William in Scotland.

The reason for this arrangement was that both Belfast Harbour and Fort Wilhelm were under the control of German aircraft, and that the nights were now only long and the days were short, not to the extent of "polar night". If the Americans did not want their steamer to be sunk in the harbor by the Germans with remote-controlled gliding bombs, they had to watch the sky sail - to sail into Belfast Harbour and Fort William when the weather was not very good.

Of course, "watching the sky and sailing" is only a stopgap measure. In the list of goods destined for Britain this time was a large amount of high-octane jet fuel and P-38, P51 and P47 fighter jets that had just begun to be equipped with the US military.

As long as these fighters are deployed in place, even if they cannot regain air supremacy over the entire battlefield, it is still enough to cover the two ports of Belfast Port and Fort William.

Therefore, this NR21 flotilla can be said to be extremely critical for the ongoing war in Europe.

Taking into account the capabilities of the German spy network and the effectiveness of German reconnaissance submarines, the probability that the NR21 fleet will not be detected by the Germans is almost equal to zero. Therefore, there was no other way to ensure the safety of the fleet than to send the main fleet to escort it.

So Comrade Bulganin, a proletarian revolutionary of the older generation, can finally breathe a sigh of relief for the time being, at least until he returns triumphantly from Murmansk to New York, without worrying about the re-education of the GCIST fighters by capitalism.

However, when the Allied Atlantic Combined Fleet sailed to the Arctic Circle, something that gave Comrade Bulganin another headache appeared.

This time it was the "American political commissar" McCarthy who gave him a problem.

"What!? The priest is going to get on a Soviet ship? Absolutely not allowed! "Bulganin, hearing the request of Comrade McCarthy relayed by Gromyko, almost did not immediately order the comrades of the Special Division to arrest him - the priest is an anti-gimma! How could anti-gauntlets get on Soviet ships? What is this trying to do? Is it blatantly propagating anti-glossary ideas?

"Comrade commissar, it is necessary for the priest to get on the Soviet ship." McCarthy, the reactionary, was not at all afraid of Bulganin, but said with a stir, "because there is a high probability of engagement on this voyage, and given the strength of the German fleet, it is very likely that American or British ships will be sunk." And once this happens, will the Soviet ships take part in the rescue? ”

"Of course I'm going to join the rescue." Bulganin replied without hesitation.

Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union are now allies! How can you see death and not save it?

"So what about the wounded who are rescued and are seriously injured and difficult to treat?"

What to do? Die! Bulganin said in his heart: It is inevitable that people will die in battle......

"What about the soul?" McCarthy asked with a smile. "What about the soul?

Soul?

It's a question that touches the soul!

When Bulganin heard Gromyko's question, he was stunned and didn't know how to answer. As a materialist, Comrade Bulganin, of course, did not recognize the immortality of the human soul. This is feudal superstition!

But the Americans believe it!

McCarthy had a sacrosanct expression on his face, as if he were a priest, and said: "The body dies, but the soul is immortal, and the priest can guide the souls of the dead to heaven and return to God Almighty." ”

"But we Bolsheviks do not believe in God and in the immortality of the soul!" Bulganin pointed out calmly.

McCarthy shrugged his shoulders and said, "Comrade commissar, I know that you are atheists, so the priests who got on Soviet ships would not preach to Soviet sailors. You can rest assured of this. ”

Can you rest assured?

At this moment, Gromyko suddenly remembered something and whispered to Bulganin: "Comrade commissar, it is possible that our people will also get on the Anglo-American ship!" And...... Now the hospital ships that follow the fleet are all American ships! ”

Of course, the Soviet Atlantic Fleet also had a hospital ship to follow it to New York, but Admiral Ingersoll, commander of the Allied Combined Fleet, found that the equipment on the Soviet hospital ship was too poor and the medicine was insufficient. So there was an immediate demand for improvement, of course, with the help of the United States, and the equipment and medicines were loaded onto Soviet hospital ships.

This is a good thing, Bulganin did not refuse. But the refit of the hospital ship will take some time, so there are no hospital ships among the Soviet ships that are now on strike......

Gromyko also said: "Comrade Political Commissar, our political cadres must get on the American medical ship in order to prevent the American priests from poisoning the hearts of the martyrs who will die. ”

Bulganin, this is a headache! How can a joint operation cause so much trouble? First of all, he was bombed by sugar-coated shells in New York, and finally went to sea, and then came the soul problem...... If they did not agree with the American priests getting on the ships of the Soviet Union, then most of the political workers of the Soviet Union would not be able to get on the ships of the United States. In this way, it is possible that the martyrs of the Soviet Union will be "transcended" to heaven by American priests.

This is a matter of principle involving the theory of godlessness, and it is difficult to make a mistake in the whole line!

Bulganin did not dare to make a decision on his own, so he could only send a telegram to Comrade Stalin, who was far away in Moscow.

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When Bulganin's telegram reached the Kremlin, Comrade Stalin was annoyed by things in Ukraine.

It turned out that at the beginning of the muddy season, the High Command headed by Stalin assumed that the German army would stop the offensive - in fact, this judgment was not entirely wrong, and the German offensive did stop on the battlefield in Belarus. The world's most powerful armored forces stopped near the borders before the Soviet-Polish war in 1939. The Red Army High Command then transferred troops from Ukraine and Belarus to strengthen the Kalinin Front to ensure that it could launch the Leningrad Relief in December.

However, it was not expected that the Wehrmacht, which was reorganized from the Ukrainian Defense Forces, launched an offensive in the muddy season, and as a result, the Southwestern Front was caught off guard. The commander of the Front, Timoshenko, had been removed from his post for investigation because of the successive loss of land, and the rank of marshal had also been lost. In the past two days, he has been conducting a deep examination in the small dark room of the General Political Department in Moscow.

However, Timoshenko's inspection could not stop the enthusiasm of the Ukrainians to recover their homeland, and there are still many reactionaries in Ukraine who cooperate with the Ukrainian puppet army in Germany, provide them with all kinds of logistical help, and even directly participate in the battle, so the situation on the battlefield in Ukraine is still a mess!

But Stalin now has no way to draw too many troops to support Ukraine. Because the muddy season has passed, the muddy fields of Belarus are beginning to freeze, and it is conducive to the advance of mechanized troops, so the Minsk-Smolensk front must be strengthened.

And the battle to relieve the siege of Leningrad is also on the line, it is impossible not to fight, more than 2 million people in the city of Leningrad are starving! If the siege is not lifted as soon as possible, even if you have a Leningrad hukou, you will betray the revolution. Then there will be big trouble!

Therefore, Stalin could only give the new commander of the Southwestern Front, Lieutenant General Kostenko, and military commissar Burmystenko, a strict order to keep Kiev and Nikolaev in any case, and at the same time to ensure that the Germans did not cross the Dnieper.

"Comrades, do you think the American demands are reasonable?" Stalin took out Bulganin's telegram at a meeting of the Politburo, "Can we allow religious activities to resume on the territory of the USSR?" ”

Navy ships are floating land, and if American priests can hold religious ceremonies on Soviet Navy ships, it means that religious activities have returned to the Soviet Union after many years.

But today Stalin specifically mentions the "territory of the USSR", apparently with ulterior motives!

The members of the Political Bureau and the senior generals attending the meeting as observers were all able to hear a little bit of the truth. But this issue is too sensitive, and the big guys don't dare to squeak.

"I think it's okay!" Stalin swept around the conference room with a blazing gaze, and then said lightly, "Although we Bolsheviks do not believe in religion, there are still many people on the territory of the Soviet Union, including working people." Therefore, religion is a force that can be used by us, and it can also be used by the Russian traitor Empress Olga. And my opinion is that we should unite all the forces that can be united! Including Americans and Soviets who believed in God. (To be continued.) )