"Reported to the General Secretary and Comrade Mikhail Lyovakov (Commander of the Belarusian Front) report that the Third Army, Fourth Army, Tenth Army, Eleventh Army and Hongqi Special Mechanized Cavalry Cluster have all completed all pre-war mobilizations with August 20. ↑, 16 infantry divisions, 8 cavalry divisions and 8 tank brigades belonging to the four armies and a mechanized cavalry cluster have all reached the designated locations.

Comrade Xie Miao and Timuxinge (Commander of the Ukrainian Front) reported that the Sixth Army, the Ninth Army and the Twelfth Army had completed all pre-war mobilizations with August 21. The 12 infantry divisions, 8 cavalry divisions and 4 tank brigades under the three armies had all arrived at the designated locations.

As of August 21, 28 infantry divisions, 16 cavalry divisions, 12 tank brigades, a total of 510,000 people, 3,739 tanks and 380 armored vehicles are ready to be put into combat at any time. In addition, the Red Air Force has mobilized 2,000 combat aircraft to various front-line airports in Belarus and Ukraine…”

On August 25, a few days before the outbreak of World War II, in the Kremlin, People's Defense Commissioner Voroshilov was reporting on the war preparations to Stalin and other members of the Political Bureau.

Stalin smoked his pipe and listened to Voroshilov's speech expressionlessly. The war that was about to take place was the first battle of the Red Army after the "Great Purge".

The "Great Purge" was basically over at the end of 1938. During this period, the Workers and Peasants' Red Army experienced a "transformation" change. In this movement, a total of 35,000 officers were suppressed, including 80% of senior officers, 3 of the five marshals, all military commanders and most of the army commanders and other senior military commanders, 13 of the 15 army commanders were killed; among the 85 commanders, 57 were executed; among the 159 division commanders, 110 were executed; more than 40,000 high and middle-level officers at the battalion level and above were punished to varying degrees.

Of course, the cleansing of the army is not indiscriminate. The purpose of Stalin launching this movement was to eliminate different factions in the army to achieve a pure team and unify the thinking, except for the Stalin-Voroshilov-Budonnie group, other factions in the Red Army were hit hard and no longer posed any threat.

It can be said that the current Red Army of Workers and Peasants has been united unprecedentedly and has truly become a taming tool for the Soviet D-Central with Stalin as its core.

Now Stalin can let them do anything, but can the "Soviet Blade" of the Workers and Peasants' Red Army remain sharp after "cleaning"?

Stalin was actually not 100% sure.

"Comrades, the time to realize Lenin's last wish has come!" Stalin pondered, "Just just now, German Ambassador Schulenberg officially informed us that Germany will attack Poland on September 1, which is the final decision!"

His eyes looked around the conference room. The members of the Political Bureau who came to attend the meeting were the members of the Political Bureau who had just been elected in March. The Political Bureau also underwent a "cleaning", and compared with the previous session, there were fewer Kirov, Gubishev, Orzonenikize, Kociol and Chubarmo. Two new people were added.

One of them is Khrushchev, the first secretary of the Ukrainian Central Committee. This short-sized and bare-headed comrade entered the political bureau at the 18th National Congress. He was not old, only 45 years old, and joined the Bolshevik Party in 1918. He was not the kind of old qualification who did not have much energy. It is not easy to be responsible for taking over the work of Ukraine on the Right Bank, because the Soviet Union did not occupy Ukraine on the Right Bank, but liberated Ukraine on the Right Bank.

"Comrade Khrushchev!" Stalin called out the name of the first secretary of Ukraine. "How is it? Are you sure to let the Ukrainian people on the right bank vote voluntarily to join the Soviet Union?"

"Comrade General Secretary, please rest assured." Khrushchev said in a tone with a bit of admiration, "According to your instructions, the Ukrainian Bolshevik D Central Committee has organized and trained 100,000 cadres. They will form more than 10,000 working teams and follow the Red Army to enter the right bank. At the same time, the People's Committee of the Internal Affairs has also organized tens of thousands of people and divided into thousands of teams. They will complete the social transformation task of Ukraine on the right bank with Ukrainian cadres."

"The target of the anti-counterfeiting is set at 800,000 people." Stalin smoked and issued the "enemy indicator", "I think there should be so many enemies waiting for us to suppress it."

In the Soviet Union, the "enemy" also had indicators! It can usually exceed some, but not too much.

Because Ukraine on the right bank has been ruled by White Poland for a long time, there must be many "enemy" there, such as landlords, rich peasants, counter-revolutionaries, capitalists, nobles, and this and that.

So Comrade Stalin issued an indicator of 800,000 people, not too many, because Stalin knew that Khrushchev worked very hard in the fight against the counter-revolution. When he was in Moscow, he exceeded the target of eliminating the enemy (the Political Bureau believes that there are 35,000 enemies in Moscow Prefecture, Khrushchev caught 41,000, and the number of people shot was 3,500 more than those required by 5,000 people)... It is estimated that Khrushchev can get a "great harvest" in Ukraine on the right bank, and at least 1 million "enemy" can be captured.

Determining the number of "enemy", Stalin then spoke in a stern tone: "Now I suggest that the Political Bureau pass a resolution to liberate the oppressed Ukrainian working-peasant class on the right bank and overthrow the colonial rule of the Polish reactionaries!"

Historically, the Soviet Union invaded Poland in the name of protecting "small people". At that time, the Ukrainians and Belarusians were Polish "small people" and the Soviet Union. However, the situation in this time and space is different. Poland is a federal state, and the Ukrainian free state is the main body of the Polish Federation, and the Ukrainians are not Poland's "small people".

So Stalin decided to regard Ukraine and Western Belarus on the right bank as Polish colonies.

"Agree! Agree! Fully agree!"

The members of the Political Bureau expressed their approval and agreed.

Stalin nodded and said, "The Germans will start war on September 1, and we can submit an ultimatum to Poland on September 2, asking them to expel the Ukrainian free state from the Polish Federation... This is Poland's last chance!"

...

"Rudolph, how about the new plane? Is it easy to drive?"

Tsoson, Heinsberg Manor, Hessman's family was sitting around the dining table for dinner. This was the last reunion for the whole family before the war began!

Hessman is now a parent of a big family. Chloe gave birth to five children for him. It is really possible, but it is very necessary. He looked at his eldest son, blonde, blue-eyed, well-proportioned, and very handsome. Rudolph, who is only 19 years old this year, wore the uniform of the German Navy Air Force. He graduated from Lichfield two years ago and then entered the Air Force School in Karlsruhe for 24 months. Hessman just assigned to the supplementary training unit in August this year and knew that he was likely to lose him in this world war!

Hessman's second son Reinhardt has now entered the Lichfield Junior Military Academy. If the war in this time and space lasts long enough, he may also go to the battlefield.

The other three children of Hessman are all girls, the eldest daughter Maria, the second daughter Elizabeth, and the youngest daughter is Amaria... They are not the suitable heirs of the Juncker officer family.

"Father, Uncle Folk's Type Zero is a very good aircraft, with very low wing loads, good stall characteristics, and extremely sensitive control at low speeds." Rudolph introduced his new aircraft to his father, a "Folk Zero" produced by the BF-FK consortium.

Although he is only 19 years old this year, he has long been an "old pilot" because he was born in Hessman's family and is Anthony Folk's nephew. He has more than 1,000 hours of flight experience. Therefore, he was assigned to the elite Naval Air Force's First Combat Aviation Regiment as a supplementary pilot. In theory, he will only go to the battlefield after completing supplementary training, but it is hard to say that it really fights.

Rudolph said: "Its plane cyclotron ability, both cyclotron radius and cyclotron rate, is first-class. It is said to exceed the b-109, and its climbing speed is also very fast. It is almost a stunt aircraft that can climb instantly. The only disadvantage is that its dive performance is poor. I think in this exercise, the air force brothers who are driving the b-109e will suffer..."

He didn't know that he was going to fight!

The army was assembled in the name of exercises, including some aircraft of the German Navy Air Force. Now more than 2,500 aircraft have been concentrated in various airports in eastern Germany.

Rudolph's troops were also transferred to a military airport near Berlin. Because the Navy Air Force's aircraft had large flights and could take off from Berlin to bomb Lviv, there was no need to compete with short-legged air force aircraft for the front-line airport.

Rudolph took a leave today and ran to his home not far from the base to have dinner with his parents. He didn't know that he was going to fight, and the commander of the First Combat Aviation Regiment of the Navy where he was located did not know. Because the troops had not yet entered the final state of war, he was allowed to add a half-day leave for pilot Rudolph.

"Okay," Hessman nodded calmly. He could not tell his son about military secrets, "You must be careful."

"There won't be any problem," Rudolph said with a smile. "I'm a veteran and can fly at the age of 16. Among all the supplementary pilots of the First Navy Combat Aviation Regiment, there is no pilot with better skills than me."

"Then I'll be relieved," Hessman paused, "but you still have to be careful not to fly too low. Type Zero has no armor and is easily hit when flying at low altitudes."

"Hit?" Rudolph was stunned, and then smiled, "I have never been hit in simulated air combat training..."

At this moment, a maid from the Hessman family suddenly walked into the restaurant quickly and said to Hessman: "Marquis, I have a phone call. I am looking for Master Rudolph, and it was called by the army!"
Chapter completed!