"Mikhail Nikolaevich, what do you think of the German tanks?"

"It's not as good as ours," Tukhachevsky said in truth. "Their No. 2 tanks have a clear gap compared to our T-26, BT-2, and BT-5. The total combat weight of the No. 2 is only more than 7 tons, while our three tanks are 10 tons and more than 11 tons. ▲∴▲∴, and the No. 2 is not powerful enough, with only a 140 horsepower engine, while our BT-2 and BT-5 both have a 400 horsepower engine, which has obvious advantages. As for the performance of the No. 3 tank that Germany has not yet established and has similar performances to the BT-7, it is not a match for the T-28 tank at all. However, their No. 4 tanks are likely to have more than the T-28 performance, and need to be paid attention to."

"No. 4?" Stalin smiled indifferently, "It only started research and development last year. According to the German speed, it would be good to be able to mass-produce in 1939, and we will have more powerful tanks at that time."

Although the Soviet-German relationship is good in this time and space, the Soviet Union is still very vigilant and always guards against Germany. As one of the few "professional students" among the highest levels of the Soviet Red Army, Tukhachevsky attaches great importance to Germany's threat.

"But the Germans' level of use of mechanized forces, and their wheeled vehicles, are obviously better than ours."

"Oh?" Stalin said casually, smokyly, "It's normal that their wheeled vehicles are better than ours. Our automobile industry is still introduced from Germany."

In this time and space, Germany's automobile industry was much stronger than in history. In 1935, Germany's automobile production exceeded 500,000 units (nearly twice as many as in history). Although it was much worse than the output of millions of units in the United States a year, it still ranked first in Europe and more than twice as many as the 150,000 units in the Soviet Union. The Soviet automobile industry was established with the help of Germany, and many models were imitated from Germany. Although it began to design independently during the second five-year plan period, it was not as good as their German teachers.

"But how could their mechanized troops be more effective than us?" Stalin asked in confusion. "We started to form mechanized troops in the civil war. In the early 1930s, we began to build mechanized on a large scale."

"Comrade General Secretary, although we started early in the mechanized army, their officers and soldiers surpassed us in technology." Tukhachevsky explained. "We built socialism on the basis of a backward country. They have always been an advanced country and are especially ahead of their education. They have many high-level schools, and the level and number of technical personnel they trained far exceed that of Soviet technicians. Therefore, their army also has many high-level technical personnel, and the level of using high-tech troops is naturally higher than that of us. Our level in this regard is very unsatisfactory. Not only are the level of technical personnel in the army poor, but even the level of engineers and technical workers in the factory is not very good, so the quality of the product is..."

It is actually said that the Soviet Union's education and engineering and technical personnel are not as good as Germany... Is this criticizing the party's intellectual policies?

Stalin frowned slightly, analyzing Tukhachevsky's words in his heart.

In fact, Tukhachevsky's complaints are not unreasonable. Because of the Soviet Union's previous anti-counterfeiting, intellectuals, especially the old intellectuals during the Tsarist period, have always been the target of severe blows. Before the "Great Purge", many "old professors" and "old engineers" in universities and factories were already unlucky as "assassinators". The internal purge of the Soviet Union did not start with the "Great Purge" in 1934.

It was only from the "Great Purge" that the leading cadres of the Bolshevik Party began to suffer a lot of bad luck. Before the "Great Purge", in addition to Trotsky elements and various spies, intellectuals were the main targets of the crackdown on the purge. The most famous of which was the "Sakht case" had nothing to do with the current president of the German Imperial Bank. It was caused by a coal mine accident in the city of Shaht, Kazakhstan. It later gradually expanded to all walks of life to attack old intellectuals. The Soviet Academy of Sciences was also referred to as the "center of counter-revolutionary activities for anti-Soviet regimes". In the autumn of 1929 alone, 650 people were purged in the Academy of Sciences.

After the "Schacht case", the "Industrial Party" case and the "Labor Peasant Party" case once again hit old Soviet intellectuals and experts in the party responsible for industry. More than 3,000 technical cadres and intellectuals were arrested in these two cases.

Although the number of arrests in the Schacht case, the Industrial Party case and the Labor Peasant Party case cannot be compared with the subsequent major purges, most of the hits were the top experts left behind in the Tsarist era. Considering that most of the scientific and technological personnel in the Tsarist era fled abroad, the number of these old experts was not large, and they were all masters in their industry. Therefore, their purge did have some adverse effects on the Soviet Union's education and technical research level.

Moreover, due to the "component theory" in the Soviet education system, many students with poor backgrounds but very good academic performance cannot enter university for further studies, resulting in the quality of Soviet college students being slightly lower.

When a large number of old experts either transformed labor or stood aside, these politically reliable newcomers were naturally reused and became technical backbones in all walks of life, which caused the quality of Soviet products in this period to be a bit poor and it was very difficult to maintain. The quality of the personnel responsible for maintaining military technical equipment is often worse than the people who produce them...

"Product quality and technical personnel level cannot be improved within a period of time." Stalin interrupted Tukhachevsky, "and we have no possibility of a war with Germany now."

"Comrade General Secretary," Tukhachevsky interrupted with some concern, "We should not underestimate the threat of Germany. What Germany is implementing is a war policy. They are preparing for war, and the preparations are going very smoothly."

"I know, aren't we preparing too?" Stalin waved his hand with his pipe, "but before White Poland was wiped out, we had no possibility of war with Germany."

Tukhachevsky also wanted to speak out that he did not agree with the policy of uniting Germany to eliminate Poland, because Germany was obviously a more dangerous enemy than Poland, but Stalin was no longer interested in listening.

"Mikhail Nikolayevich," said Stalin, "Now you are assigned a mission to lead a military delegation to Germany with Comrade Berzin to visit their tank factories and mechanized forces. This time they will open without reservations and must observe carefully."

"Comrade Beerzin is also going?" Tukhachevsky was a little surprised. Beerzin is the director of the Military Intelligence Bureau and is in charge of intelligence work. He does not understand tank production and mechanization.

"Yes," Stalin nodded, "He's going with you."

...

"Jan Karlovic," Natalie Lesinskaya called out the name of the very handsome middle-aged man who was riding with her on a bus through Albat Street. "I didn't expect General Secretary Stalin to send you to the game himself."

"Why didn't you think?" The man's name was Jan Karlovic Berzin, and he smiled silently, "I have experience in this area."

Tsar Nicholas II was made by him and Yulovsky. Yulovsky has now become a Soviet hero (post-broken seal), and his full-body statue is in the Cheka headquarters at No. 2, Rubyanka Square. Beerzin escaped the pursuit and is now the head of the Red Army Intelligence Bureau.

"I thought I would send a smaller figure," Natalie Lesinskaya looked at Bellzin. "I know you must have other tasks, and Hessman will know it too... Your mission may be difficult to complete."

She came to the Soviet Union as Hessman's special envoy, and brought the "Summary Report on the "Iron Fist-1935" Military Exercise" and the drawings of the No. 2 and No. 3 tanks.

After receiving the report and drawings, Stalin did not refuse and decided to send Bolsheviks' "gold-medal killer" Berzin to personally preside over the "Slovak Incident". Hessman proposed a plan to expose the "truth of the death of Stvanik" (leader of the Slovak tribe) by the Slovak Bolshevik Party (leader of the Slovak tribe), and assassinate the Czechoslovak president and create Slovak turmoil.

Once a Slovakia incident occurs, it involves assassination of the president (whether it is a major event) and the Czechoslovak authorities will definitely suppress it. At this time, the politicians of the Slovak State Socialist Party will go to the League of Nations to "report the imperial complaint" and demand that national self-determination and achieve the separation of Czech Republic, Slovakia and Carpathians and Ukraine.

The League of Nations will accept the accusation and send an investigation team to Czechoslovakia. Of course, there is no doubt that the results of the investigation will definitely be detrimental to the Czechoslovak authorities. After the investigation is over, the League of Nations will most likely make a decision to hold a referendum to decide the future of Slovakia and Carpathians... Of course, in order to ensure the fairness of the referendum, Czechoslovakia will be temporarily occupied by German, Austrian, Polish and Hungarian troops before the referendum begins.

After losing Slovakia and Carpathians, Czechoslovakia lost half of its territory and at least 40% of its population. Since the Czechs and Slovaks live in mixed areas, the Czechs will also lose part of their population after the referendum. The Czechs may also become minorities in Bohemia and Moravia (later the Czech Republic).

In this way, Hessman can promote a new referendum in the Czech Republic to join the referendum on the Czech Republic!
Chapter completed!