The Stalingrad turning point had not yet arrived, but the effects of the fall of Moscow were felt everywhere.

"Moscow has fallen!" Such news was spread by the German army and other forces, and became known to the world.

If it is said that when Leningrad was captured before, the turmoil caused by Soviet Russia was forcibly suppressed by Stalin, but now the fall of Moscow has made the Soviet Russians confused about the future and question Stalin all of a sudden.

In addition to Stalin's political enemies, there were also those who were dissatisfied with the Soviet Russian regime and those who were supported by the Germans and even Britain and the United States.

On the Stalingrad side, German spies took advantage of the opportunity to stir up a riot among the Soviet troops.

Although the huge casualties of the Soviet army brought the dawn of victory, they also brought the inspiration of contradictions.

People are people, not just cannon fodder.

The huge number of casualties in Soviet Russia was detonated by German spies under the conditions of material scarcity. The soldiers who were haunted by the spirit of war, the wounded who lacked medical care, and the people who lacked supplies became a huge destructive force, delaying the offensive of the Russian army on Christmas Day.

This was a respite for the Germans. It also allowed Manstein to take the opportunity to unite with Paulus, one to attack inward, the other to break through the Soviet interception, and to rendezvous near Karachi.

This news gave the Russians another blow to the head.

Although the combined German troops on both sides were less than 300,000, they were far inferior to the Soviet army.

But the significance is extraordinary, in addition to the obvious contrast in the increase and decrease in the morale of the two sides, the Germans in a group are more difficult to gnaw. Even Zhukov lost the confidence to crush the Germans before the onset of spring.

Morale may sound a bit illusory, but it can determine the fate of an army.

At the beginning of the Soviet-German battle, the rout of the Soviet army was not only a tactical problem, but also a decline in morale.

In the history of warfare, there are very few armies that have stood up to the last man. Often, after a certain percentage of the loss is reached, the morale of the army declines, and it collapses and collapses.

The Russians were able to hold out so long in Leningrad and Moscow. It's already an amplification of the red invincible aura.

But the crowd saw only those who persevered to the end. But they did not notice the hundreds of thousands of Soviet Russian soldiers who surrendered in these two places.

Even in the last battlefields of the German army, there was no shortage of large-scale surrenders, including the surrender of the field marshal Paulus, outside Stalingrad, with hundreds of thousands of demoralized officers and soldiers.

Now with the advantage of the cold and the superiority of numbers, the Russians had the upper hand in Stalingrad. But this is also in exchange for nearly a million casualties.

On the cruel battlefield, facing the test of life and death, being possessed by the red halo can no longer suppress the fear in the hearts of those farmers or workers who have just been pushed onto the battlefield. The machine guns in the back, as well as the liquidation of the family, maintained order at the front.

But when victory is in sight, the horror of death and the dashing of hope for the future unleash a long-standing volcano.

Although the riots in Stalingrad were quickly suppressed by Iron Blood. But wider unrest is on the verge of eruption.

Under the joint blockade of Germany and China, the Soviet Russians now receive far less Anglo-American aid than in another time and space, and the extreme lack of material resources has aroused dissatisfaction and even violent emotions among the people and even the soldiers, brewing huge pressure inside the volcano.

Stalin's power order was already full of cracks, and there was a danger of civil strife collapsing.

Even among many insiders in Red Soviet Russia, there were voices of peace.

In the face of all this, Stalin was silent.

Sometimes, iron-blooded suppression does not solve the problem, and may even intensify a larger riot. That's how the tsar fell. Dragged down the Russian economy in World War I. Falling in the anger of the people, the iron-blooded suppression could not be stopped, because even the soldiers with guns defected.

And now groups of soldiers who have been pushed to the front to die may turn their guns at any time.

This is one of the reasons why all regimes generally do not start wars lightly.

After the start of the war, the overall trend will no longer be controlled, the muzzle of the gun will be out of control, and it will hurt others as well as oneself.

Even Stalin's iron fist, after the start of the Soviet-German war, compromised numerous internal clean-ups. At this time, even some of his supporters within him were a little shaken. How could he directly and brutally use force?

In the eyes of the outside world, he was silent for three consecutive days, but he didn't know that he had been balancing the relations and interests of all parties in the past three days, and had completed Dobby's greater compromise and concession.

It wasn't until near the end of the year that he finally stood in front of the public and gave a speech to the whole country.

"As long as there is a Russian with a weapon standing on the territory of Soviet Russia, there will be no peace!" At the end of the speech, this sentence is very familiar to Soviet Russians, adapted from the words of Alexander I of Tsarist Russia. It touched a large number of Soviet Russians.

Napoleon had conquered Moscow all the way to Moscow, and even captured the heart of Russia. But the Russians set fire to the city, and a fire burned Moscow, and a new era began, which directly led to the decline of Napoleon's empire, which was invincible throughout Europe.

This time, Stalin's speech reawakened the self-confidence and bravery of the Russians with the spirit of resisting foreign invasion at all costs.

At this time, Britain and the United States bore huge losses and sent a large amount of aid to the scarce territory of Soviet Russia, giving the Russians a little hope and material relief.

In the past three days, Stalin not only made a dozen internal compromise promises, but also made a tough general to Britain and the United States: if the British and American support materials are not in place, then he will put aside his stall and go directly to the Germans to negotiate peace.

This caused great panic in Britain and the United States.

Not to mention that after the Germans took over Soviet Russia, many of the German elite troops with a murderous spirit on the battlefield were withdrawn to kill Great Britain, and not to mention that the reversal of Soviet Russia was likely to cause a series of changes in the direction of other wait-and-see forces in the world, and the news of Soviet Russia's surrender alone was enough to deal a heavy blow to the morale of Britain and the United States.

It can be said that the Soviets and Russians are likely to make the world situation a decisive one.

What happened in Soviet Russia, Britain and the United States also understood, and what Stalin said was not a lie.

Even if the Russians did not negotiate peace, a series of internal frictions brought about by the unstable regime of Stalin would be enough to give the Germans the upper hand.

The British, who were worried that the Russians would make the Americans retreat, were the first to be anxious.

They worked hard in Great Britain and needed manpower, but it was difficult for the colonies to send a lot of supplies and wealth to the mainland, and even a lot of supplies were transferred to Canada to accumulate strength for the new nest.

At this time, in order to win over the Russians, a large amount of supplies were shipped from Canada, through the icy North Atlantic and the frozen Arctic Ocean shipping lanes, through the blockade of German submarines and torpedo boats and other large surface warships, and some of the aid was sent at the cost of most of the damage.

Then air assistance from the Americans also arrived.

The Americans were also worried that the defeat of the British would be caused by the Russians, and that the whole of Europe would belong to the Germans, and even the Americans would find it difficult to cross the Atlantic to fight a protracted war with the Germans who had the power of Europe.

Roosevelt knew that once the Russians and the British were on the front of them, the casualties of the shirtless Americans would be enough to make the American people resist the war. If, at this time, the Germans concede a little more of the interests of the European single market to compromise, I am afraid that even the American predators will abandon him.

In view of the fact that the strong interception forces of the Germans in the North Atlantic and Arctic Oceans caused great losses to the Americans' sea support routes, the Americans, relying on their air superiority, strengthened the delivery of air transport routes.

The Arctic route from Canada and even from Alaska across the Arctic Ocean to Soviet Russia became a link between the two sides.

At this time and space, there was no Hump route for the Americans to support China, the distance to support Australia was too far, the supply mainly relied on ships, and the transport planes produced were mainly used in Europe, one was the British mainland, and the other was Soviet Russia.

Following Roosevelt's instructions, a large number of American transport planes were directly transferred to Soviet Russia, and even some transport planes to Britain were also transferred, in an effort to get the Russians out of this crisis as soon as possible and once again devote themselves to the great cause of dedicating themselves to world peace.

It was precisely because of the large amount of material support from Britain and the United States that Stalin had the confidence to persevere to the end.

With carrots in one hand and a stick of iron-blooded repression in the other, Stalin quickly put down the crisis.

But the hands of time have already pointed to the middle of January '43.

German reinforcements from Stalingrad had arrived, and the two armies had re-confronted each other at Stalingrad, holding out on to the numerical superiority of the Russian army.

However, the situation elsewhere was not good, and after the fall of Moscow, the Germans continued to move east and south, directly encircling Novgorod.

And Army Group A in the South also occupied half of the North Caucasus and hit near Grozny.

It was not only the bad situation in Soviet Russia, but the Allies were full of bad news when the new year came.

The Japanese had already invaded the city of Sydney in Australia, and officially engaged in street fighting with the United States and Australia.

The Germans also captured most of the city of London, and they also planted Nazi flags on the top of the pyramids in North Africa.

At the beginning of the new year, the prestige of the Germans in the capitals of the Lenk countries has also climbed to the top of the world pyramid.