"If I'm not mistaken, your surface ship forces are only 35 percent of the strength of the British Navy, regardless of whether the Washington Naval Treaty or any other naval treaty is in force. In other words, you have to fight 3 with 1, and your enemies may have to add the French and American navies, right? ”

Stalin stood next to a BT-2 light tank, with his hands behind his back, looking at the steel body covered with rivets, and said quietly.

Ludwig. Feng. Heinsberg-Hersmann takes a closer look at an M1930 37mm anti-tank gun. The Soviet-made gun, which was licensed with technology and production license from the German company Rheinmetall, was placed on a cement base in the Kremlin.

Stalin built a weapons gallery in his palace and collected many weapons from the army and air force. When Hersman was invited to visit the Kremlin, Stalin brought him on for a visit. He was accompanied by the director of the Navy of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, Romouald. Adamovich. Muklevich and the commander of the German Navy, Admiral Raeder, and Natalie. Leshinskaya - She is currently a Consultant Fellow at the German Army Policy Council and a Fellow at the National Socialist International Policy Council.

"35% is enough for us," Hersmann laughed when he heard Stalin's question, "isn't there still you?" We are all socialists, comrades of one camp! ”

Admiral Raeder, who was present, heard this and smiled kindly at Muklevich, the number one man in the Soviet Navy. Over the past few years, relations between the Soviet and German navies have been very friendly, both of which have seen each other as allies. The fleets and air forces of the two countries regularly hold joint exercises in the Baltic Sea, and they also draw up operational plans for jointly confronting the "imperialist navy".

And in these "plans," the role of the Soviet and German surface fleets in the decisive battle of the fleets was only a decoy -- in the face of the battleship forces of the British Navy, with a total tonnage of more than 500,000 tons, the Soviet and German surface fleets were not capable of a war at all. The use of J.30 (SB-1 in the Soviet Union) torpedo attack aircraft and Hs-120 dive bombers to attack from the air became the only means of victory.

Through long-term cooperation with the Japanese Navy. The German naval aviation and the Luftwaffe (the current director of the air force is not Fatty, but Rear Admiral Kesselring, an old friend of Hersmann) have mastered a number of bombing fleet tactics, including how to search in the open sea, how to make large-scale sorties of combat aircraft groups, and the coordinated operation of different types of aircraft—historically the Germans have been weak in this area, while the Japanese have been very adept.

Therefore, the German Navy's plan for a decisive battle at sea in the future is still to use the battleship force as bait to lure the main fleet of the British Navy into the combat radius of the German shore-based aviation, and then concentrate more than 1,000 aircraft of various types to bomb indiscriminately!

And in order to achieve this vision in the future. Germany must now carry out targeted weapons design, production and troop training. This kind of naval and air battle is actually the result of long-term accumulation, and it is not that everything will be fine if Yamamoto Isoroku is invited to Germany.

"Comrade Stalin, we are now designing a high-speed battleship of 30,000 to 35,000 tons," said Hersman, "which will have a slightly higher speed than the battlecruiser Hood and a relatively complete defense." ”

What is being designed is a battleship similar to the historical "Scharnhorst" class. Because Germany has not designed and built battleships for more than ten years, the team has long since dispersed, and it is naturally impossible to pick up this technology at once. Therefore, I can only design one with outstanding speed and acceptable defense. Battleships with mediocre firepower.

In any case, no one expected to knock down the British Navy with German battleship forces in 39 or 40.

"You want us to join?" Stalin especially accentuated the tone when he said "join", apparently referring to "joining the world war".

"Comrade Stalin, although there are differences between us, they are differences within the socialist camp, differences between comrades." Hersmann walked up to Stalin from the side of the M1930 gun, "But our contradiction with Britain and the United States is a life-and-death contradiction between us and foe...... The Second World War will be a struggle between Anglo-American imperialism and Soviet-German socialism! ”

Knowing that there was little hope, Hersmann tried to draw the Soviet Union into the Axis camp - or should it call it the socialist camp!

"If we win. All humanity can be liberated! "If imperialism wins," he said in a passionate tone. All mankind will become slaves of capital! ”

How lofty! Compared with Hitler's theory of race war, I don't know how much more sophisticated.

"To liberate all mankind," said Stalin...... with a strange expression, "you want to use National Socialism to liberate all mankind?" ”

"With socialism! Both National Socialism and Bolshevism are socialism, but they belong to different branches. Hersman emphasized, "Our differences are not life-or-death. ”

"But Adolf. Hitler was falling for capitalism! Stalin, lighting his pipe, pointed out, "He was a pro-British." ”

"But there are no real pro-Germans in Britain. Even if there were, it would not be possible to be in power. Hersman shrugged, "So his pro-British is meaningless, and he will definitely return to the pro-Soviet line in the end...... The establishment of the socialist camp is the inevitable choice for our two countries to resist the hegemony of British and American imperialism. ”

Hitler's pro-British ideas distressed Hersmann! Later generations debated the causes of the "Dunkirk Miracle" and the "Hess Madness". In Hersmann's view, both of these events were caused by Hitler's pro-British efforts - Hitler's genuine desire to enlarge the British Empire hurt Germany.

The Führer of the German Empire. It was without ascertaining who the most sinister enemy was, leading the German Empire to World War II - and Hersmann now believes that Hitler probably did not want to fight World War II at all.

"Well, that's right." Stalin glanced at Hersmann and was very distressed. Unlike Lenin and Trotsky, who were bent on liberating all mankind, he was actually a statist of "the first Soviet Union". I don't care at all about all of humanity, I only care about how much the USSR can get.

But Marxism-Leninism and the liberation of all mankind are the political correctness of the Soviet Union, and even the current Stalin does not have enough authority to violate this political correctness. To admit that National Socialism is socialism is to violate the political correctness of the Soviet Union.

So the verbal agreement between Stalin and Hersmann was "quarrel to quarrel, cooperation to cooperation" - but he knew very well that such a quarrel on the political line might not bother the National Socialists who put the national interest above their doctrine (the supremacy of the national interest was the political correctness of the state society), but it would certainly have an impact on the Bolshevik ideology.

This determined that Soviet-German cooperation could not reach the point of forming a socialist camp at all!

However, the current cooperation was still necessary and beneficial for the Soviet Union, and it was the only way to strengthen the Red Navy. Stalin weighed it and quickly made up his mind.

"I think we can sign a secret agreement on strengthening naval cooperation," Stalin smoked a cigarette and frowned slightly, "cooperation in the development of the navy will be the focus for some time to come, and we should join forces to design new types of battleships, and I hope to see at least one new type of battleship appear in the sequence of the Red Navy fleet by 1937." ”

The USSR and Germany have been cooperating in the field of shipbuilding for the past decade, and the Germans helped the USSR build a "Karl. Marx's class aircraft carriers -- unlike Hersmann's vision, the Soviet Union's first "Karl. After the launch of the Marx class, it did not continue to build aircraft carriers - he also helped the Soviet Union repair and refit four old battleships (Gangut class), and helped the Soviet Union build many submarines and destroyers. But cooperation in the construction of large surface ships, however, was carried out in the "Karl . Marx was completely stopped after its commissioning.

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"Ludwig, I told you a long time ago that Stalin would not accept the heresy of National Socialism."

On the way back to the German embassy from the Kremlin (Hersmann was staying at the German embassy this time), Natalie sat side by side with him in a Mercedes W07 limousine. Leshinskaya looked at the scenery of the streets of Moscow and said in a somewhat sad tone.

"Just because he doesn't accept it doesn't mean that we don't publicize it," Hersman smiled coldly, "and this visit to the Soviet Union was actually a success." We avoided a rupture, maintained our relations with the Soviet Union, and kept our differences at the level of polemics. ”

"And we have also reached an Agreement on Deepening Naval Cooperation," Admiral Raeder, who was sitting in the passenger seat, interjected with a smile. "This will allow us to spend half of our R&D expenses, and the money saved can be used to speed up the development of 'Atlantic-type' aircraft carriers."

Hersmann nodded, and added: "The controversy over the socialist line does not mean that the socialist camp does not exist...... the Deepening Naval Cooperation Agreement and other cooperative relations are maintained, and even the dispute over the line itself can show the world that this camp exists, and this will increase the bargaining chips in Germany's hands." ”

He turned to look at Natalie. "Natalie, you know the Bolsheviks very well, and in the future you will be responsible for all the polemics, and you can set up a special line committee, and I will approve whatever people are needed and how much budget you need." As for the scale of the polemic, which is to fight but not break, what can be debated and what cannot be debated, you must carefully consider it clearly. (To be continued.) )