Chapter 264
This war, which has lasted for several years, has brought too much damage and losses to all participating countries. At present, the Soviet People's Commissariat of Defense has made statistics on the Soviet Red Army's troop losses in the past few years.
According to this statistic, the Soviet army has suffered losses of more than 27 million troops so far, including more than 6.5 million killed in action, nearly 4.3 million captured or missing, and more than 16 million injured. Among the injured, the rate of disability is as high as 82%.
The loss of troops meant a decrease in the male population. It should be noted that the Soviet Union's pre-war population was only 180 million. Such a large loss of male population would inevitably lead to a serious imbalance in the ratio of men to women after the war. For the Soviet Union, which has a vast territory and a sparse population, population is an extremely important resource. In order to restore the population, the People's Committee has begun to formulate relevant policies to encourage childbirth.
In addition, according to statistics from the Council of People's Commissars, in the past few years of war, the Germans have caused the Soviet Union more than 200 billion US dollars in economic losses. This economic loss is an extremely heavy burden for the developing Soviet Union. Most importantly, the economic losses mentioned here only refer to the losses caused by the war, and have not yet counted the resources and national strength invested by the Soviet Union to win the war.
There will always be a time when war
In the first few years of the war, the war spread across the Soviet Union. As the Soviet Red Army was defeated, the Germans, as the victorious party, did whatever they wanted on Soviet territory, burning, killing, looting and committing all kinds of evil. They plundered resources, captured people, and seized food, using Soviet resources to support their war. Now that the Germans have declined and the battlefield has moved to Germany, it doesn't seem too much for the Soviets to re-enact everything they did in the Soviet Union before, right? Isn't this "give and take"? It's fair.
Therefore, even though Yuri was not happy with what the Soviet soldiers did in Germany , he did not mention the need to enforce military discipline. That was the business of the Military Committee and the Political Department, and it would be an overstepping of authority for him to make decisions.
Not only did he not intend to enforce military discipline, but he was also preparing to propose another way of plundering Germany. The plunder of Germany should not be limited to wealth and resources. The most important thing was the plunder of talents. Yuri believed that this was the most important part of the work.
In addition, there are a series of city names on Yuri's looting list, including Vienna Neustadt, Regensburg, Halching, Klagenfurt, etc. in Austria, and there are even more such cities in Germany.
To be honest, if possible, Yuri would prefer that the Second Belarusian Army could quickly defeat the German "Vistula" Army Group and then quickly advance westward. If they could seize the Ruhr Industrial Zone before the British and American Allied Forces, it would be perfect.
But Yuri also knew that this was simply impossible. As the Soviet army advanced to the Oder River line, the Germans were rapidly transferring their main forces to the Eastern Front to strengthen the defense in the direction of Berlin. Because the grievances between the two sides were too deep, the Germans would rather be defeated by the British and Americans than by the Soviets.
News from the Western Front stated that with the Soviet Army's advance on the Eastern Front, the crisis faced by the British and American Allied Forces in the direction of the Meuse River had been completely resolved. They were rapidly advancing towards the Rhine River. At the same time, they were quickly deploying troops and preparing to force a crossing of the Rhine River in order to seize the Ruhr industrial area and completely annihilate the German Ruhr Army Group.
According to intelligence, all German forces in the Ruhr are currently under the command of Model, who has only 29 divisions under his command, and these 29 divisions are empty shells, with some divisions lacking as much as 50%. As for combat aircraft, there are less than 1,700 of them added together.
The British and American Allied forces deployed on the Rhine front had as many as 100 divisions, with as many as 4,000 combat aircraft alone. In Yuri's opinion, this battle should not be lost even if it was commanded by a pig.
In other words, the Soviet army certainly did not have the ability to seize the Ruhr industrial area, where the German industrial power was most concentrated, before the British and American Allied Forces.
For the Germans, Landsberg is also a very important city. Not to mention anything else, there are as many as 11 Jewish concentration camps built here. Moreover, these concentration camps are different from the Auschwitz concentration camp. The prisoners here are specially selected from Auschwitz and are relatively strong.
These Jews or prisoners of war were selected and sent to Landsberg to do hard labor. Here, there is not only the Bavarian Machine Manufacturing Plant, which is the production plant of BMW, but also three assembly plants for Me-262 fighter jets. It can be said that most of this new type of jet aircraft were assembled here.
As the Soviet army advanced rapidly on the Berlin front, when the German defenders in Landsberg surrendered, they not only failed to destroy the factories, they even did not remove the finished products that had already come off the production line but had not yet been painted. As a result, these things, along with the emaciated concentration camp prisoners, fell into the hands of the Soviet army.
To be honest, Yuri was not interested in those Jews. During this period of time, he even developed a dislike for the rescued Jews. These guys who had just escaped from hell really caused him a lot of trouble.
In Auschwitz, the Jewish prisoners released from the concentration camp by the Soviet army had established more than 30 "kibbutzim" there within a few months. They even organized representatives to apply to the new Polish government, demanding that these small societies be given absolute autonomy.
In addition, the relationship between these Jewish groups and the local people was very bad. They seemed to trust no one, whether it was the Soviets or the Poles.
Now, Yuri is ready to move all the Jews in Auschwitz to Landsberg, because according to the agreement reached between Comrade Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt, Bavaria will not belong to the Soviet Union in the future, so this damn Landsberg naturally does not belong to the Soviet Union . Yuri is ready to throw these troublesome Jews to the Americans and let them worry about it themselves.
The convoy passed through the chaotic Landsberg and went directly to the eastern suburbs through the Bavarian Gate. The previously discovered Me-262 fighter assembly plant was in the eastern suburbs. Yuri attached great importance to these factories, so he naturally had to go and see them in person.
As a city with a long history, Landsberg hides many stories. For example, Hitler was once imprisoned here, and his famous book "Mein Kampf" was written here. Before the Soviet army captured this place, the Hitler Youth would hold rallies here every year. In the eastern suburbs of this city, the small town of Landsberg, named after the old name of Landsberg, is where various military factories are concentrated.
Today, this small town with a population of over ten thousand people has been completely taken over by the Soviet army. The Soviet army implements strict military control in the town. All the Germans who originally lived here have been expelled. In order to prevent German planes from bombing, the Soviet army has built four air defense positions on the outskirts of the town.
When Yuri arrived at the town by car, a convoy consisting of dozens of trucks was driving out of the town. They would go from Landsberg all the way to Poznan, and then load all the goods onto the train and transport them all the way to the Soviet Union.
In addition, Soviet engineers were repairing the railway from Poznan to Landsberg. Once the railway was repaired, the pace of looting would accelerate.
Unlike the looting of ordinary cities, in Landsberg, there were a large number of experts who came from the Soviet Union. The dismantling and transportation of all equipment had to be carried out under the guidance of these experts, especially those precision instruments.
In Landspuch, Yuri, as the commander-in-chief of the theater, visited the production workshop of the Bavarian Mechanical Manufacturing Plant, the production plant of Junkers, and went to see the dozen or so hangars that were being dismantled.
Those aircraft that have not yet been painted but have completed the production process will continue to be completed here and then flown to the Soviet Union as complete aircraft. As for those semi-finished products that have not yet come off the production line, they will be disassembled and shipped to the Soviet Union in the form of parts.
For the Soviet military industry, what it urgently needs to master now is the relatively mature jet fighter technology of the German army that has been put into actual combat. In fact, it is mainly the Germans' advanced axial-flow turbojet engine technology.
According to the information obtained by the intelligence department, the German axial-flow turbojet engine is obviously more advanced than the British centrifugal turbojet engine. As for the turbojet engine designed and produced by the Soviet Union itself, it is not yet mature.
It is for this reason that when the Soviet army captured Landsberg and discovered the German turbojet fighter production plant in Landspuh, they mobilized so many experts here in a short period of time.
Yuri didn't understand the technical issues, so he couldn't provide more help. He came here just to see the sights. In addition, he wanted to see the BMW production workshop. It was said that there were a large number of German three-wheeled and two-wheeled motorcycles that had not yet left the factory. Yuri planned to pick one or two for his collection.
