Chapter 449: America

"Elder Bloom also knows how much the Soviets hate you Jews. I heard that the Jews in the Soviet Union are living a miserable life."

In the original time and space, there were incidents and practices of excluding and discriminating against Jews in the Soviet Union. After the birth of the Soviet Union, the exclusion and discrimination against Jews still existed among certain classes, nationalities and certain groups of people; Stalin was one of them.

Once, a mass incident occurred at the 30th Aircraft Manufacturing Plant. The investigation department reported to Stalin that it was several Jews who led the riot. When Khrushchev, who was also a senior official in Moscow at the time, exchanged opinions with Stalin, Stalin said: "We should organize some strong workers, let them hold wooden sticks in their hands, and beat these Jews up when they finish a day's work and get off work."

In this time and space, because 560 tons of gold (Spanish gold) were stolen, the furious Stalin vented his anger and anger on the Soviet Jews (Chapter 114). It is no exaggeration to say that the situation of Soviet Jews today is not much better than that of Germany during World War II.

Elder Bloom sighed deeply. "May God bless my fellow countrymen who have suffered so much."

Yannick continued. "So, even if I order Rommel to immediately enter the Middle East and seize Jerusalem for you to establish a country, what is the point? If the German-Soviet war breaks out, once we are defeated, won't the Jews you have gathered in Jerusalem be convenient for the Soviets to attack? If the Soviets get angry, the Jewish people on the European continent may be extinct."

"Your Highness is right, I am too impatient, please forgive me." Elder Bloom smiled awkwardly, and said with some doubts. "But now the Soviet Union can't even take over a small country like Finland, why should Your Highness worry about defeat?"

Yannick shook his head. "The Soviet Union cannot take Finland for the time being. Our strong support and the heroic resistance of the Finnish people only account for 30%, and the Soviet Union's own reasons account for 70%, or more.

You must know that the Soviet Union has just experienced a purge, and there are only one in ten commanders who are good at fighting in the country. Those newly promoted officers lack experience in commanding the enemy, and they are often at a disadvantage when facing the experienced Finnish commanders.

This war may cost the Soviet army a painful price, but there is a saying that 'war is the best teacher, learn war from war'; as long as Stalin is not a fool, he will recognize his shortcomings through this war. The Soviet army will sum up experience, learn lessons, and improve tactics.

You can imagine how terrible this will be. Once the war breaks out, how many troops can the Soviet Union, with a population of nearly 200 million, mobilize? Ten million?! Twenty million?! Or thirty million?!"

In 1930, before the start of World War II, the total strength of the Soviet Union was only about 600,000. But two years after the outbreak of World War II, by 1941, the total strength of the Soviet Union had expanded to 5 million. All 5 million Soviet troops were put into the Soviet-German War.

In the four-year Soviet-German War, the total number of Soviet deaths, captures and missing was about 20 million. At the end of the war, there were still 12.8 million Soviet troops left. So in total, the Soviet Union mobilized about 30 to 40 million people in World War II.

"And our German population is less than half of the Soviet Union. How many people do you think Germany can mobilize?"

The population of Germany is about 80 million, but this number does not refer to the Germans in Germany, but the sum of all Germans in Europe. Among them, there are 66.54 million Germans in the traditional central area of ​​Germany, about 7.06 million in Austria, 2.8 million in the Sudetenland, 730,000 in the Saarland, 2.16 million in Poland, 960,000 in Romania, 220,000 in Italy, and 1.5 million in Alsace.

At the peak of World War II, the German army had more than 15.3 million people, 80% of whom were authentic Germans, and the remaining 20% ​​came from Germany's vassal states, such as Romania, Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, France and other countries.

"The most important thing is the United States. Elder Bloom, do you think the United States will help us or the Soviet Union?"

Elder Bloom thought about it seriously. "If it were Roosevelt, he would help the Soviet Union."

"Yes, if we don't help the Soviet Union, when we defeat the Soviet Union and integrate Europe, Asia and Africa, then the United States will be excluded from the center of the world. So the United States will strongly support the Soviet Union, hoping that we and the Soviet Union will both suffer losses."

During the entire World War II, the materials provided by the United States to the Soviet Union included:

132,237 tons of explosives; 2,589,766 tons of steel; 26,110 tons of aluminum; 2,622,357 tons of oil; 631,017 tons of chemicals; 100 merchant ships; 200 torpedo boats; 77 small anti-submarine minesweepers and UMS minesweepers; 43 landing ships; 28 Tacoma-class frigates; 1,196 radars; 329 sonars; 420,000 trucks and jeeps; more than 8,700 tractors; 1,981 locomotives; 44,600 metal cutting machine tools; 8,218 anti-aircraft guns; 5,800 anti-tank guns; 8,200 tanks and self-propelled guns; 14,000 aircraft; more than 700 million rounds of ammunition, etc.

The total amount of this aid is equivalent to more than 150 billion US dollars today, accounting for more than 1/4 of the total amount of the US Lend-Lease Act.

Because the US aid mainly appeared after Britain won the Battle of Britain and the Soviet Union won the Battle of Moscow, it seemed insignificant. Especially the Soviet Union, in the face of the German blitzkrieg of "one blow, then weak, and then exhausted", being able to withstand the first wave of attacks meant that Germany was bound to lose and the Soviet Union could turn defeat into victory.

But the problem was that Germany had occupied almost all of Western Europe and almost all of the Soviet Union's industrial bases at that time. It was not worse than the Soviet Union in terms of size, and it was not a problem to fight a protracted war. In addition, the Soviet Union had almost lost all of Europe's industrial areas, and it was difficult for the industry in Siberia in the rear to restore productivity in the short term. At this time, US aid was particularly important.

It is far more important to send charcoal in the snow than to add icing on the cake. The US aid, which was used on the blade, appeared in the critical period when the Soviet Union was in a period of transition, and the help to the Soviet Union can be imagined.

Elder Bloom said. "But according to the current support rate of the American people, it is difficult for Roosevelt to be elected as the next president. And since Washington, there has been no precedent for a president to serve more than two terms." Although it is not stipulated in the Constitution, no one would be so arrogant as to think that he is greater than Washington.

That's because you don't know the historical process of the original time and space. Yannick shook his head after muttering in his heart. "Even if it's not Roosevelt, the new president can't change the strategic national policy of the United States. Maybe the new president will be more radical and warlike, and directly lead the United States to war."