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The sweet female voice sounded again from the radio horns on the train, which lifted the spirits of the sleepy Major Solzhenitsyn. He was promoted after the victory in the Battle of Smolensk (which the Germans have not yet taken), from captain to major. An order was also given to report to Building 2 on Lubyanka Square in Moscow.

There is the location of the daunting NKVD headquarters! And there is a prison inside the building...... Therefore, Solzhenitsyn has been very nervous these days, for fear that he will be arrested directly after going there.

But he couldn't go to Building 2 of Lubyanka Square, because when he received this order, his unit was resting in Kalinin, more than 100 kilometers from Moscow, which was far from the front line, and he had no chance to defect to the enemy.

Moreover, the comrades of the Political Department of the group army did not give him much time to think about his life and future, so they directly sent him, along with more than 100 other officers who had also been sent to report to Building 2 of Lubyanka Square, on a train to Moscow.

The passengers in the carriage all looked as depressed as Solzhenitsyn, and it was not known whether it was because the White Russian reactionaries had invaded Leningrad or because they might have become reactionaries themselves......

Solzhenitsyn also found that some people in the carriage were hunched down on small tables all the way writing something - presumably the material for confessing crimes!

Because the Great Patriotic War did not go well, many comrades relaxed their demands on themselves and made many mistakes in words and deeds, many of which could be convicted of anti-GM. Solzhenitsyn, of course, had said something incorrect, and had seen bones in the Katyn Forest that he shouldn't have seen, but he was reluctant to write anything to explain it...... He still has a fluke mentality, what if it is not an arrest?

If you explain it yourself, then there is nothing to say, either 5 years of labor reform or a few months in a punishment camp.

In addition to the fear of the crime being exposed, Solzhenitsyn also wondered a little in his heart, why did the radio on the train keep talking about the good of Siberia? How good is that place? If Siberia is really good, why not move the capital of the Soviet Union?

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"Comrades, according to reliable information, German imperialism and the reactionary forces of White Russia are currently massing a large number of armored forces near the Leningrad region and are clearly about to launch an attack on Moscow."

Moscow, Kremlin. The meeting of the Political Bureau was convening, and Stalin, in a heavy tone, announced a piece of bad news that had just been received.

Although the Leningrad and Pskov oblasts were now largely under the control of the Germans and the White Russians, Empress Olga also announced a seemingly lofty "integration with Europe".

But underground party members and partisans loyal to the cause of GCISM still existed, so the No. 4 tank, Tiger tank and Rhino anti-tank destroyer brought in by train could not hide from the intelligence services of the Soviet Red Army.

And the General Staff of the Red Army quickly made the right judgment that the next target for the Germans and White Russia was Moscow!

Because the battle in Leningrad was a siege of the city, not much armored forces were needed at all. And the capture of Moscow in 1943 should be Germany's only hope for a quick victory.

If this goal could not be achieved, the war would inevitably drag on until 1944, when the main German forces would be drawn on the Soviet-German battlefield, and Japan would inevitably face the main pressure from the United States alone, and it would probably collapse in 1944.

At that time, the Soviet Union will be able to rely on the support of the United States and continue to fight Germany to the end. Therefore, the success of the defense of Moscow is now directly related to the survival of the Soviet Union!

"Moscow will hold on to the end no matter what!" Stalin said coldly, "As General Secretary of the Bolshevik Party, I will personally lead the defense of Moscow!" ”

When he said this, his cold gaze slowly swept over every member of the Political Bureau present. Seeing that everyone was bowing their heads and not saying a word, Stalin withdrew his gaze.

"But the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks, the Supreme Soviet, the Council of People's Commissars and other organs could not stay in Moscow with me." Stalin continued, "Because there is a high probability that Moscow will be surrounded, and there is also a possibility that it will be plunged into a fierce battle." In this case, it could not properly perform its duties as the capital of the Soviet state. So we need to set up a wartime capital now! ”

As the chief responsible for the loss of Leningrad and large swathes of Soviet territory, Stalin knew that it was impossible for him to leave Moscow. As long as he remained in Moscow to fulfill his final duties as a great leader, there would be no major wave of opposition within the party - because there was no way for peace talks between the Soviet Union and Germany, and anyone who wanted to replace Stalin would have to face the threshold of "secretary defending the capital."

But as soon as Stalin abandoned the city, then those who replaced him would not have to bear the responsibility of defending Moscow.

So Stalin must not leave Moscow now. But the Central Organs of the Soviet Union, such as the Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party, the Supreme Soviet and the People's Commissars of the USSR, could not remain in the dangerous city of Moscow. Otherwise, once surrounded by the Germans, it would be a net of all the people.

"Comrades, I propose to base the wartime capital of the USSR in the city of Chelyabinsk in Transurals." Stalin proposed his ideal location of the wartime capital, not the historical Kuibyshev, but the more distant Chelyabinsk.

Chelyabinsk is located in the Trans-Ural region at the southern end of the Ural Mountains, which is geographically at the confluence of the Western Siberian Plain and the Ural Mountains, with the Ural Mountains as a barrier to the west, the resource-rich and vast Great Plain to the east, and the Kazakh steppes to the south.

If the Soviet Union had made Moscow its capital after the fall of Moscow, it would not only be able to resist further invasion by the Germans and the White Russians by virtue of the danger of the Urals, but it would also be able to control the vast Central Asian region nearby.

Although the Chelyabinsk region belongs to the Siberian region, the climate is not cold. The average temperature in the coldest months of winter is between -16 degrees Celsius and -18 degrees Celsius, and in summer it is between 17 degrees Celsius and -20 degrees Celsius. Although it is a little colder than Moscow, it is still acceptable. In addition, Chelyabinsk also has a large area of black soil and abundant water resources, which are very beneficial for the development of agriculture and animal husbandry.

As for Chelyabinsk, the industrial base is also very good, since the Trans-Siberian Railway passes through the territory of the region, it has been developed to a certain extent in the pre-Tsarist era (now in the post-Tsarist era).

After three five-year plans, Chelyabinsk has become a new base of heavy industry with mining, metallurgy (smelting and processing of ferrous and non-ferrous metals) and mechanical industry (Chelyabinsk Tractor Plant) as its core.

Most of the factories that had been relocated from Kharkiv, Donetsk, Minsk, Smolensk and Leningrad were also concentrated in Chelyabinsk and further afield in Omsk, Novosibirsk and Irkutsk.

In addition, a large amount of industrial equipment "loaned" from the United States was also used in the vicinity (most of this equipment was transported from the Pacific route) for the construction of the Siberian industrial base. As a result, the process of industrial, agricultural, transport, and scientific and technological modernization in the Siberian region, with the Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, and Irkutsk regions as the core, has been further accelerated.

"Since the war with German imperialism and the White Russian reactionaries is bound to be long and arduous," said Stalin, lighting his pipe and taking a puff, "we need a large rear that will not be disturbed by the enemy, and this large rear now seems impossible to be the Volga-Ural region, but only Siberia and Central Asia." Therefore, from now on, speeding up the construction of Siberia and Central Asia should become a task as important as the military struggle. ”

Stalin spat out white smoke: "We must transfer a large number of people from the European regions of the USSR, which was being ravaged by imperialism and White Russia, to Siberia, Central Asia. A large number of well-educated, young men and women who believe in GC doctrine and love the Soviet Union and the Bolshevik Party should be mobilized to Siberia and Central Asia in order to speed up the pace of socialist modernization there and to strive to turn Siberia and Central Asia into developed and prosperous socialist homelands at an early date. And in order to achieve this, it is clear that we need more external support. ”

Speaking of which, Stalin glanced at People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov. Molotov knew that Stalin was giving orders, and he immediately responded: "Comrade General Secretary, I will go to the United States right away. ”

Stalin nodded and said: "And Japan!" We must make it clear to Tokyo that the Germans are pursuing an extremely reactionary racist line. According to the Germans, the Slavs were certainly inferior to the Aryans, but they were much more noble than the Asians. So Germany is not their real friend, and unless the Japanese can turn themselves into blonde whites, don't think about breaking away from Asia and joining Europe! (To be continued.) )