On January 3, 1938, a Junkers Ju-52 transport plane on which Zhou Elai was flying crossed the line of engagement between the Chinese and Soviet armies, and after a long-distance flight, finally flew over Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union. Through the porthole of the plane, Zhou E came to overlook the boundless land below. He clearly saw that around Moscow, a huge ring had appeared, and in this circle there were ravines, mounds used as shelters, dense trees planted diagonally in the direction of the enemy, carefully arranged crosses welded with iron beams, piles of felled trees, and hundreds of thousands of peaceful residents of the city of Moscow who were working like hard-working ants!

If you look closely at this dense labor force, you can see that most of them are women, but there are also many teenagers, young adults and adult men. Most of them are cadres of various institutions and institutions in Moscow, including cadres of GC International. Wang Ming and Bogu were also among them, but Zhou Elai couldn't see them in mid-air. The two emaciated Chinese revolutionaries and a group of tall Russian women were grouped into a labor force. They volunteered to come to the construction site to participate in voluntary work. Do your part to defend the socialist motherland of others.

Well, of course, all of them are working on a voluntary basis, and no one will receive a single ruble from Stalin. However, the whole site of the Moscow fortifications was in full swing, because it was told that the Soviet Fatherland was being invaded and that it could be saved only if everyone gave all their strength. Moreover, the party workers in Moscow, including the secretaries of the district party committees and the cadres of the Political Security Bureau, threw themselves with great enthusiasm into the leadership of the labor army...... So the results of the work are really satisfying. Less than 1 month. On the permafrost around Moscow. With their own hands, Russian women dug more than 100 kilometers of anti-tank trenches, 105 kilometers of cliffs, built 1,026 permanent fire points and civil fortifications for artillery and 2,033 machine guns, and built 868 kilometers of trunk deer villages. In addition, the city of Moscow is also ready for street fighting, because there is a high probability that the enemy will break through into the city of Moscow! They would even fight to the death with the Red Army at Lenin's Tomb and in the Kremlin.

"Mr. Colonel, what do you think of the situation below? Will the Soviet Red Army be able to hold their capital with these fortifications? Zhou Elai put down the binoculars in his hand and looked back at a thin old man in a U.S. Army uniform sitting in a row behind him. If Luo Yaoguo saw this person, he would definitely be surprised. It turned out that this person was the military attache of the U.S. Embassy in China, Joseph. Colonel Stilwell!

Of course, Colonel Stilwell did not intend to betray the capitalist motherland and throw himself into the Soviet Union, his consciousness had not yet reached this level. Although after frequent contact with the leaders of the Chinese G, Colonel Stilwell was already somewhat fascinated by the charisma of these Eastern revolutionaries (mainly Zhou Elai). In a report to Washington. I have said a lot of good things about China's GCD, and I think that China G really wants to promote China's democracy! And that Marshal Luo Yaoguo is nothing more than a Hitler who dresses himself up as a democrat.

Probably because he said too many good things about the Chinese GCD, President Roosevelt took it for granted that he had some way to get there in the GCD. When the ambitious president wanted to know how long the Soviet Union could last in this war, he asked the State Department to give the military diplomat an order to go the way of the G-G and go to Moscow "in his own name", if possible. He was also asked to meet with the leaders of the Soviet Union.

Hearing Zhou Elai's question in English, Colonel Stilwell also put down the telescope in his hand and shook his head slightly. He said: "The line of defense is very strong, but the Soviet Red Army has been defeated!" No one can hold any line of defense with a defeated army. The colonel frowned, "Mr. Zhou, I heard that the commander of the Soviet Far Eastern Front, Marshal Blyukhel, surrendered to Empress Anastasia this morning, is this news accurate?" ”

Zhou Elai nodded slightly, revealing a regretful expression. In the face of a real test of life and death, the performance of these Soviet Bolsheviks was simply astonishing. First Lieutenant General Barnov. Then Admiral Orlov, then Marshal Tukhachevsky and Politburo member Kirov, and now Marshal Blyukhel and Central Committee member Malenkov are added! Why were these Soviet Bolsheviks so afraid of death? Why can't we sacrifice our lives for ideals and doctrines?

Thanks to their demonstration and leadership, in just three months, more than 2 million Soviet Red Army troops have already surrendered to the enemy, and nearly 1 million prisoners have surrendered to the enemy. Empress Anastasia's Russian royal army. It already has a huge lineup of more than 3.6 million people! This anti-fascist war is about to turn into a Soviet-Russian civil war! Perhaps it will not be the German fascist army that will attack Moscow this summer, but the Royal Army of the Romanov dynasty! It seems that the Soviet Union is really hopeless, but why is the United States interested in this problem?

Thinking of this, Zhou Elai raised his eyes and looked at Stilwell, and said tentatively: "Mr. Colonel, now that the Soviet Union is really in an isolated and helpless predicament, it is normal for some people to lose confidence and ideals, but most of the Soviet people still support the Bolsheviks and Stalin, if they can get some outside help, they may be able to sustain the war for a longer time." This is also very beneficial for Britain and France to prepare for war against fascism, right? ”

"Help?" Stilwell smiled and shook his head, "I think you know some of the national conditions in the United States, and we need to be neutral. And even if it helps, it will not be possible to transport it to Moscow through the territory controlled by Germany and your country. Speaking of this, he sighed softly, "Now, I think everyone is planning for the world situation after the fall of the Soviet Union, right?" I really hope that these Bolsheviks will be able to resist for a while......"

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Zhou Elai and Stilwell arrived in Moscow at 18:30 p.m. on January 3, 1937, and as soon as they got off the plane, they were taken to the Kremlin by Dimitrov, chairman of the GC International Executive Committee, to meet Stalin.

A few hours earlier, Stalin had just met with Soviet leaders on a small scale. Crying for the first time! In the opinion of the great leader of the Soviet Union. The situation has reached the point of complete despair. He had just received a report that nearly 1.5 million men of the Far Eastern Front, led by Blyukhel, had collectively betrayed the Motherland and swore allegiance to Empress Anastasia! Now the Empress has about 3.5 million troops and a large territory centered on Petersburg, while he, the great leader of the Soviet people, has only about 3 million troops! There was also a serious shortage of heavy weapons, many infantry corps had only two artillery regiments (one regiment plus three battalions), and most of the artillery was 76.2mm field artillery, and there were few 152mm and 122mm howitzers. Tanks and airplanes have become even more rare. Fortunately, in the past two days, the Germans finally found their conscience (at the request of Empress Anastasia) and stopped the bombing of Moscow. Otherwise, the city would not survive the Germans, and would have been reduced to ruins.

Under the panicked persuasion of the "courtiers", the great Stalin finally stopped wailing, and then he let out a long sigh. "Alas, we people have defeated everything that Lenin left behind, and now the USSR is in a precarious position, and the most dangerous enemy is the prostitute! We can only concentrate on her, if we don't get rid of this prostitute! We can all go to the gallows! In order to defeat her, we can negotiate peace with the German and Chinese fascists! With that, he wiped his tears. We give up Estonia, Belarus, Ukraine, Eastern Siberia, and Central Asia east of the Aral Sea...... In exchange for peace with Germany and China. Comrades, do you think it is possible? ”

Hearing this, all the people in the meeting room, including Molotov, Kalinin, Voroshilov, and NKVD Yagoda, stared at Stalin with wide eyes and were speechless for a long time.

"Well, I think this proposal of Comrade Stalin is feasible." Molotov was the first to react, and although the country was already in great trouble, the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars was still the same as usual. Wearing a carefully ironed dark gray suit, a white face was also carefully shaved. It's just that his face is gloomy, and the eyes behind the gold-rimmed nose glasses also reveal a little panic.

"Comrade Kalinin, what do you see?" Stalin again cast his gloomy and cold gaze on the old man Kalinin, who had a goatee.

Kalinin looked drowsy, looking very kind and old, and he wanted to pretend to be confused. However, as soon as he saw Stalin's red and fiery eyes, he was excited and hurriedly echoed in a loud voice: "I also support Comrade Stalin's wise decision!" We need to temporarily make concessions to the enemy in exchange for respite. ”

"That's right! The concessions we make now will surely be reclaimed a thousandfold and a hundredfold in the future! Voroshilov did not wait for Stalin's question before he took the initiative to speak in favor.

"Yes, we must come back a thousand times over!" Stalin was almost gritting his teeth, spitting out word by word. "But before I do that, I'll have to catch that prostitute and hang her on the flagpole on Red Square!"

Seeing Stalin's angry look, several leaders of the Soviet Union couldn't help but feel a chill down their spines, and their foreheads suddenly sweated like pulp. It is no wonder that those Red Army generals who lost the battle wanted to take their troops to Anastasia, although this empress had many shortcomings, but her temper was definitely not bad, and her heart was not vicious, and it should be easier to eat under her......

After venting, Stalin seemed to return to his former leadership style, he took his pipe from his pocket, filled it with tobacco, rubbed it on fire, took a hard breath, and spat out a circle of blue smoke.

"Well, now that the decision has been made to ask for peace, it should be quickly implemented." Stalin stood up and paced in the parlor, his thick eyebrows furrowed again. "First of all, Germany, Comrade Molotov, do we still have secret channels of contact with Hitler?"

"There are still regular meetings between our ambassador to Switzerland and the ambassador of Nazi Germany to Switzerland." Molotov reported.

"Well, let our ambassador to Switzerland make peace terms to Hitler's men! We can cede Belarus, Estonia and Ukraine to Germany! In exchange for a German truce and no longer supporting Anastasia's government. Let's put it this way first. ”

"Okay, Comrade Stalin."

"China...... Do we have any channels to communicate with them? Stalin shook his head, because Luo Yaoguo and Anastasia were too close to each other. There had been no correspondence between the Chinese Nationalist Government and the Soviet Union for a long time, at least Stalin could not think of such a channel.

"Comrade Stalin. This afternoon. The leader of the Chinese G, Zhou Elai, will come to Moscow, and with him will be the military attache of the US Embassy in China, Joseph. Colonel Stilwell. He came to Moscow under a personal name. Molotov reminded.

"Oh, that's right." Stalin was stunned for a while, and then said: "The Central G and the Kuomintang are connected, you can let them test it, we cede the east of the Yenisei River, Central Asia...... All the lands seized by Tsarist Russia from the Manchus were returned to China. Demand that they cease fighting and stop supporting Anastasia's government. Then he suddenly thought of something and turned his head to look at Molotov. What did you just say? The military attache of the U.S. Embassy in China also came to the Soviet Union with Zhou Elai? This week, E is really powerful! ”

At present, China, Germany, Britain, France, Japan and Italy and other capitalist powers have declared war on the Soviet Union! The exception was the United States, which was a neutral country and did not declare war on the Soviet Union, but it did not maintain diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. Now the U.S. government is recognizing the Russian Imperial Government of Empress Anastasia. So, this Stilwell visit was a very unusual event! It may well mean that the attitude of the Western world towards the Soviet Union has changed somewhat, perhaps they were frightened by the fierce performance of the two fascist countries on the battlefield, China and Germany, so they needed the Soviet Union to contain China and Germany!

"Shall we receive this American?" As if asking himself, Stalin continued: "A little colonel-military attaché, still in his own name, it seems that the Americans are still cautious about dealing with us Bolsheviks." He thought for a moment. Still nodded, "Okay, let's go meet this Colonel Stilwell, and see Zhou Elai together, didn't he come in his personal name?" Then let Zhou Elai take him to the Kremlin in the name of an advisor. ”

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At 7:30 p.m. on January 3, 1938, Zhou Elai, Zhang Wtian, Wang Ming, and Zhou Elai's adviser Stilwell, led by Stalin's assistant Boskrebeshev, entered a luxurious office in the Kremlin. Stalin and Molotov, with expressions of wholehearted welcome, shook hands with the guests and invited them to sit down at the table. And then. A delicate and seductive waitress pushes a tall trolley into the office with a few cups of strong tea and some plates with biscuits and candies. She placed them all on the long table where the guest and host were seated.

"Comrade Stalin, we in China GCD consider fascism to be the common enemy of humanity, therefore. We are ready to give all possible assistance to the Soviet Union in its war against Germany. We will not be able to fight the Chinese Wehrmacht on the Eastern Front, but we will continue to lead the anti-war movement in China to help the Soviet Union in its anti-fascist war. Zhou Elai put forward his opinions straight to the point. After a slight pause, he opened the purse he had brought with him, took out a list from it, handed it to Stalin, and said: "This is the help that our party is ready to provide to the USSR: including sending volunteers, mainly experienced infantrymen; Donations, although not much, are better than nothing; Helping the Soviet Union evacuate important personnel ......"

After reading the list, Stalin transferred it to Molotov and glanced at Zhou with a somewhat excited look. "The Chinese comrades extended a helping hand to the Soviet Union in its most difficult times, and the Soviet people and the Bolshevik Party will never forget. However, at present, the Soviet Union is already facing the test of life and death, and it is no longer possible to save the motherland of the working class of the whole world by ordinary methods! At this, Stalin's tone was somewhat gloomy, but soon he raised his voice again and appeared confident. He said: "The Politburo of the Central Committee of the Communist Party discussed the current predicament facing the Soviet Union this afternoon and decided to propose conditions for peace talks to Germany and China...... The Soviet Union was to cede East Siberia east of the Yenisei River to China, and it was also to plan for the Central Asian lands that Tsarist Russia would seize from China. And what China wants to do is only to stop the war and stop supporting Anastasia, the war of the Russians should be fought by the Russians themselves! All foreign countries should not interfere. I hope that China and G will inform the Chinese government of the Soviet Union's conditions and make every effort to promote peace on these terms. ”

Hearing Stalin's peace conditions, Zhou Elai and Zhang Wtian were shocked, the two looked at each other, and Zhou Elai said: "Comrade Stalin, I will definitely inform the Nationalist Government of your request, but we cannot guarantee that they will agree to such peace conditions, and ...... The reactionaries in our country are not particularly trustworthy, and they often do things that are not trustworthy, and even if they agree to the terms of peace, most of them will not abide by them. They will still do everything possible to help Anastasia win the war. ”

Stalin didn't seem to hear Zhou Elai's reminder, but turned his head to look at the American Stilwell. "I know that you have come to Moscow in your personal capacity, so please remind President Roosevelt on a personal basis that Anastasia will never be Catherine, and that the Russian Empire under her leadership will be a raw material base and buffer state that poses no threat to Germany and China. You can't count on her to contain Hitler and Luo Yaoguo. ”

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