On September 9, 1939, the entire Europe was stunned by the sudden upheaval.

One of the three main bodies of the Polish Federation, also the largest and most resource-rich subject, the army of the Ukrainian Free State announced its surrender to the German army!

Hundreds of thousands of fully armed troops surrendered to the thousands of Germans who were actually surrounded by them. Foreign journalists in Lviv saw the most ridiculous and joyful surrender ever.

A war correspondent from the British Times wrote: "...About 1,000 very tall and handsome German SS soldiers in beautiful military uniforms lined up in neat rows from Lviv Airport. They were sure of the most popular invaders of all time, and were welcomed by Ukrainians along the way. Everyone held the paper German flag (10,000-character flag, which seemed to have been prepared long ago), waved desperately, shouting in German: Thank you!

It seems that these German devils are not evil invaders, but saviors who come to liberate Ukraine!

In fact, this is what most of the residents in Lviv, including Jews and Ukrainians (there are Ukrainians outside Lviv, the most Ukrainians and Jews in the city, and some Poles). When they learned that it was not the Soviet Red Army but the Germans who arrived at the airport, the whole city was celebrating, and every Ukrainian looked like a person who survived the disaster.

The Ukrainian Free State Parliament in Lviv City immediately passed the resolution to surrender to Germany, and requested the German emperor to immediately send more troops to complete the occupation of the entire Ukrainian state as soon as possible..."

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"This... are these Ukrainians crazy? Are they crazy?"

At the British Cabinet Meeting, Prime Minister Chamberlain could not believe his ears after listening to the Foreign Minister's report.

There are so many people in Europe who want to be Germans!

"Lviv was originally a German city. It was originally called Lenberg. It belonged to the Austro-Hungarian Empire and the Austrian Empire 20 years ago. Now that Germany and Austria have merged, it can also be regarded as inheriting the legal system of the Austrian Empire. Perhaps in the eyes of Lenberg's citizens, Germany is their motherland..."

Viscount Halifax tried to explain: "In other parts of the Ukrainian Free State, people may not necessarily welcome the German team like this."

It turns out that the Ukrainians in Lviv were originally Germans!

"But this is not allowed!" Winston Churchill was a little annoyed. He was still so happy after being invaded. Is Germany really that good?

"But this matter is not a bad thing for us," Churchill thought for a while and said, "Ukraine was originally a difficult problem, and now it belongs to Germany. If Stalin wants to take Ukraine, he should declare war on Germany!"

On the issue of winning over the Soviet Union to join the war, Ukraine's ownership has always been a difficult problem. Ukraine is too rich and too big. The Polish Federation cannot give up on them. They gave up Ukraine for the sake of Danze. Didn't this pick up a sesame seed and throw away the watermelon?

The Soviet Union could not give up its demands on Ukraine, and would not let Ukraine go and help Lenin's will to defeat Germany. Even Stalin would not be able to sit firmly on the throne of General Secretary.

"That's true," Chamberlain thought for a while, feeling that things weren't that simple, "What if Hitler and Stalin reached an agreement to divide Ukraine?"

"If that happens..." Churchill frowned, "We may be in trouble! Because Stalin will not only take down part of Ukraine, he will also swallow the eastern land of Polish that originally belonged to Belarus!"

"Will the Soviet Union go to war against Poland?"

Churchill nodded. Of course! If the Soviet Union took half or most of the Ukrainian free state, what reason would there be to let Poland go?

"What should we do?" Chamberlain felt a little numb. If the Soviet Union turned to Germany, it would mean that Poland would be finished soon. The German armored troops would be able to be transferred to the western battlefield soon.

"Maybe we have to consider implementing the plan to bomb the Baku oil fields!" said Winston Churchill. "Because most of the German oil comes from the large oil fields in the Baku and the Transcaucasus, if we can blow it up there, the German war machines will soon stop operating due to lack of oil."

Germany's fuel supply is now mainly three major parts: one is imported from the Soviet Union, the second is imported from Romania, and the third is domestic synthetic fuel. In addition, there are also strategic oil reserves that have been slowly hoarded since the early 1920s, and now it has as many as 20 million tons.

However, the UK does not know the true situation of Germany's strategic oil reserves, nor does it know the latest data from the strategic scam of synthetic fuels that tells Britain, France and the Soviet Union: oil reserves are 3 million tons, synthetic fuel annual output is 2 million tons, while Germany's oil (including synthetic fuel consumption is 10 million tons).

That is to say, without oil from the Soviet Union and Romania, the German war machine could only last for a few months at most.

Therefore, the British envoy is now lobbying in Romania with a checkbook: As long as Romania is willing to destroy the Ploiesti oil field, the UK will immediately pay $60 million! If Romania is unwilling to destroy the oil field, then the UK is willing to buy Romanian oil at a high price.

However, Romania's oil production cannot be compared with the Soviet Union at all, and the two are not of the same level. Britain naturally made a judgment that once the Soviet Union stopped supplying oil to Germany, Germany's war machines would not be able to fight for a long time.

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At this time, Stalin had already known that the Soviet intelligence agencies of Britain and France assembled bomber groups in the Middle East were still capable, even if they were subjected to a great purge.

However, Britain and France gathered bombers in the Middle East to bomb the Soviet Union. This conclusion was not dared to do, and they could not find out. This matter was basically the highest military secret between Britain and France, and only a few senior officials such as the new commander of the Eastern Army, General Wei Gang, knew about it in the Middle East.

Therefore, the General Staff of the Red Army came to a conclusion that seemed more reliable: Britain and France deployed bombers in the Central and Eastern Europe to deter pro-German Iran and Iraq, and to put pressure on Turkey, Turkey is the source of Germany's chromite, which is an important military raw material.

However, Stalin is not in the mood to consider what the British and French planes in the Middle East do, because like British cabinet ministers, he was also stunned by the drastic changes that occurred in Ukraine.

"I'm wrong!" Stalin has not admitted his mistake for many years, but when he heard that the Ukrainians were surrendering to Germany happily, he admitted his mistake at the Political Bureau meeting, "I have a serious shortage of my estimate of the counter-revolutionary situation in Ukraine on the right bank!"

Stalin reviewed in a very sad tone: "I used empiricism to deal with the Ukrainian problem without investigation and research. This is wrong! What happened in Lviv now shows that on the west bank of the Dnieper River, the proportion of various reactionary elements accounts for not 8% or 10%, but dozens of percent!"

He glanced at Khrushchev, who was also heartbroken. Khrushchev said: "Comrade General Secretary, this is not your fault. The main reason is that I, the first secretary of Ukraine, did not take good care of me. I underestimated the counter-revolutionary situation on the right bank... It is obviously the last fortress of various reactionaries in Russia, and it is a base for counter-revolutionaries!"

"Then, Comrade Khrushchev," Stalin's tone was already sank, "Do you have the confidence to destroy them?"

Khrushchev immediately stood up and said firmly: "I promise to complete the task and completely eliminate the reactionaries of Ukrainians on the right bank, without leaving any one!"

This is a very difficult task!

Stalin was very satisfied with Khrushchev's statement, but it was not possible to eliminate all kinds of reactionaries in Ukraine on the right bank, Khrushchev could not do it, even if he wanted to eliminate the various reactionaries on Ukraine on the right bank.

"Comrade Voroshilov!" The leader of the Soviet Union's loving father called out the name of the People's Committee of National Defense.

"Comrade Stalin, the Red Army's Belarusian Front and Ukrainian Front are ready to launch an attack on reactionary Poland and reactionary Ukraine at any time!"

Stalin looked at Voroshilov, "Comrade of the National Defense People's Committee, who do you think the enemy of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army?"

This is a question! Now the Polish Free State of Ukraine has happily surrendered to Germany... So is Voroshilov's Red Army going to fight against the German-Ukrainian coalition now? Look at the performance of the Germans when they beat Poland, it seems very difficult to deal with!

Can the Soviet Red Army beat it?

"Comrade General Secretary, if we want to go to war with Germany..." Voroshilov felt that the problem was a bit tricky, "We must form an alliance with Britain and France."

"Aligned with Britain and France?" Stalin snorted, "Same as Tsar Nicholas II?"

Voroshilov shivered for a moment and quickly changed his words: "Comrade General Secretary, I don't mean this... I mean that going to war with Germany is very unfavorable to us."

Stalin nodded and said thoughtfully: "We should avoid going to war with Germany...but it depends on Germany's ambition for Ukraine on the right bank. Comrade Molotov, what do you think?"

"Comrade General Secretary, I think what the reactionaries on the right bank Ukraine want to see most is that we go to war with Germany!" Molotov said in a review, "and Germany's position is currently unclear. If they insist on their original position to resolve the eastern border issue based on the Treaty of Brest, then the Ukraine issue on the right bank will be easily solved."
Chapter completed!