Chapter 585 Military Court

Upon hearing that Stalin was planning to attack Iran, the conference room fell into a brief silence.

If anyone else raised this opinion, many people would jump up and accuse him of being mentally ill. The shadow of the Finnish war has not completely dissipated in everyone's mind. Is it really appropriate to launch another war at this time?

But now it was Comrade Stalin who mentioned this matter. Everyone, look at me and I look at you. After communicating with each other for a long time, Zhukov coughed lightly and spoke cautiously. "Comrade Stalin, I'm afraid Germany will not let us send troops to Iran." Although the Soviet-Finnish War brought shame to the Soviet Union, anyone with a discerning eye knows that Germany is supporting Finland behind the scenes; if the Soviet Union attacks Iran, Germany will probably also support it. Iran.

Starlin smiled as if he had everything under control. "The capital of the United States was bombed by the Germans. How can the Americans give up? I believe that the angry Americans will launch crazy revenge, and the Germans will definitely be busy dealing with it. This is a God-given opportunity." Taking this opportunity to send troops to occupy Iran, not only expanded The strategic depth has also expanded its territorial area, which is really a multi-purpose achievement.

"..." Zhukov felt that Comrade Stalin thought of things too simply. Even if the United States retaliates crazily, how can it retaliate? Send a fleet to attack the European continent? Or send bombers to attack? As far as he knew, the Americans did not have bombers with such a long range, which was why he proposed an alliance with the United States last time. As a result, the absurd incident occurred that the US Secretary of State who came for negotiations intended to assassinate Comrade Stalin. In fact, Zhukov did not believe this argument, and he even secretly asked Molotov about it; but Molotov was tight-lipped and insisted that it was the US Secretary of State who wanted to assassinate Comrade Stalin.

Even if a million American soldiers appeared on the European continent in an instant, Germany would not necessarily be able to deal with it, not to mention that the United States and Europe are now staring at each other across thousands of kilometers of the Atlantic Ocean.

But before he could continue his persuasion, someone had already jumped in and started flattering him. "Comrade Stalin is wise. Germany and the United States fight to the death and we reap the benefits. Moreover, it is summer, which is a good time to attack."

The extremely cold weather during the Soviet-Finnish War also helped Finland a lot.

In the wilderness covered with white snow and vast forests, the Soviet tanks and heavy artillery will be trapped in a dilemma where heroes have no place to use; the huge military power cannot be displayed, but they will be attacked by the Finnish army's flexibility, causing heavy losses.

Coupled with Stalin's prejudice and distrust of the troops on the Soviet-Finnish border at that time, fearing that they might have relatives or a common cultural history with the Finns, the army participating in the Soviet-Finnish War was mainly composed of southern troops. Not adapted to the severe cold of Finland's winter, he was unable to exert even half of his usual combat effectiveness.

And it is only June, which is a good time to send troops.

Seeing more and more people agreeing to send troops to Iran, Zhukov secretly sighed in his heart, but he couldn't say much. He could only watch these people discuss the battle plan with great interest.

Just when the atmosphere in the conference room reached a climax and everyone's battle plan included the entire Middle East within the territory of the Soviet Union, the secretary hurriedly walked in, walked to Stalin, and reported in a low voice. "Comrade Stalin, the U.S. government has agreed to return more than 1,500 tons of gold to France."

"..." The corner of Stalin's mouth twitched slightly. This slap in the face must have been too fast. "Roosevelt is such a softie! How could Americans elect such a coward as president!"

Since the United States has surrendered in this way, there will be no retaliatory actions in a short period of time. In this case, if the Soviet Union rashly sends troops to Iran, it is very likely to repeat the mistakes of the Finnish battlefield.

The more he thought about it, the angrier he became, and Stalin's face became extremely gloomy. "These damn capitalist cowards!"

Americans are naturally not willing to be called cowards and cowards. To be precise, no one wants to be. But the United States has just entered the wartime system not long ago, and its war potential has not yet had time to explode. It wants ships but not ships, and it wants planes but not planes. How can they retaliate? ?

If we continue to fight the Germans under such circumstances, the capital may be bombed into rubble. In addition to the capital, the Germans will also bomb New York, Los Angeles and other major cities. If this was really bombed by them, the loss would not be compensated by 1,500 tons of gold.

They still understand the principle of a good man not taking immediate losses and leaving green hills without worrying about having no firewood, so they decided to hand over the gold to buy time; after they drastically improve their armaments, they will give these damn Germans a lesson!

Without the containment of the United States on the other side, it would have been impossible for the Soviets to invade Iran.

In desperation, Stalin canceled the combat plan against Iran and ordered the production of more aircraft and tanks as soon as possible.

The United States and the Soviet Union entered the mode of detonating troops almost at the same time, and the world also enjoyed a brief period of peace.

It's just that many people smell the smoke behind this peace, and have a premonition that this fragile peace will be severely torn apart in the near future, and the whole world will once again fall into the flames of war.

The United States and the Soviet Union were frantically deploying troops, and Germany was naturally not idle either, but in its spare time, it did not forget other things.

For example, the European Military Tribunal was held.

The first to be sent to the dock were former Polish President Mościcki and former Marshal Simigwi. The charges include massacre of civilians and war crimes.

Seeing the two people in the dock with dull expressions, as if they had lost their souls, Yannick, who was sitting in the spectators' seat, couldn't help but muttered. "What's going on with these two guys? Why do they look like they've lost their souls?"

Reinhard beside him explained in a low voice. "Your Highness, we asked them to rehearse several times before, but these guys didn't cooperate well, so we gave them a lesson, and it turned out like this."

Yannick nodded in sudden realization. "So that's how it is."

After a long reading of the charges, the two said they had no objection to the charges, and did not hire a lawyer or make any defense. The court sentenced the two to life imprisonment. The court was originally going to sentence them to death, but Yannick felt that these two guys were pitiful enough to have taken such a big blame, so he spared their lives.

The next to appear were the French war criminals. Rather than war criminals, it would be more accurate to say that they were Prime Minister Pétain's political enemies. The Germans didn't even have to worry about it, the French prepared a lot of evidence and witnesses themselves, and Yannick cursed in his heart that they were really shameless.

Of course, when it comes to shamelessness, he is also worthy of it; the European Military Tribunal is just a one-sided German court. Whoever they want to be guilty is guilty, and whoever they say is innocent is innocent.