“…It is estimated that the entire Soviet steel production in 1945 is 2 million tons, equivalent to 10.9% before the beginning of the Patriotic War; the crude oil production is 11 million tons, equivalent to 41% before the beginning of the war; coal...grain...aluminum ingots...power generation..."

Voroshilov skillfully reported a long list of numbers while flipping through the report. These numbers have been carefully counted and evaluated, so he dare not exaggerate or conceal it anymore.

Overall, when comparing the two sets of data before and after the war, the most unfavorable thing in Eastern Russia is grain output, which is only equivalent to 6% before the war, and the highest is the oil industry, which can barely maintain a proportion of 40%, other basic raw material industries maintain the range of about 10-15%, and the output rate of finished products is at 15-18%.

In other words, after three and a half years of war, the Soviet Union's industrial scale fell sharply from the pre-war Europe and the second in the world, not to mention that it was not as good as Germany, Britain, Italy, France, Japan, and even Canada and Belgium's overall industrial level now exceeds that of Eastern Russia.

However, even if it falls to this ranking, the industrial level and scale of middle-class countries such as Eastern Russia, Portugal, Spain, and the Netherlands are still a big deal, and the categories are quite complete. What’s more important is that the technical level is still appropriate. Although the Soviet Union’s level is relatively low among mainstream industrial countries, looking at the world and looking at the global perspective, the Soviet Union’s technical content is definitely not low. In this world, the industrial powers that can fully produce mainstream equipment such as aircraft, tanks, artillery, etc. are the United States, Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Japan, Belgium and Canada, only have some equipment production capacity, and the main equipment still depends on the introduction of major powers.

Therefore, after considering this factor, according to the overall ranking of industrial countries, Eastern Russia can basically rank 8th, and the seventh is another brother in trouble in Western Russia.

However, although Western Russia seems to have a better foundation and greater output than Eastern Russia on the surface, Hoffman and Stalin both know that Western Russia have a big problem - lack of scientific research capabilities.

There are currently a group of engineers in Western Russia and technicians who are resuming production and can also receive help from experts from the axis camp. However, the elites who were originally responsible for design, scientific research and academics (referring to science and engineering) were basically packaged and brought to Eastern Russia by Stalin. In the future, the technical and scientific research capabilities of Western Russia will be in a fault - only the production capacity, but no innovative research and development capacity.

Not only Stalin knew this inside story, but Vlasov knew it, but even Hoffman knew it.

However, Germany pretended not to know about this and allowed Stalin to sweep away most of the talents. First, if Stalin was not swept away, it would be difficult to sign the armistice agreement; second, if Stalin was not swept away, how could Western and Russia become an effective industrial primary processing base in the EU?

Of course, Western Russia is also a close partner of the axis, but the new 18 Eastern countries still look at him with concern, fearing that the Soviet Union will be resurrected. Therefore, allowing Stalin to obtain the Soviet scientific research heritage and Vlasov to obtain the Soviet industrial heritage became Hoffman's main magic weapon for balance and checks and balances between the two Russias.

After this war, the Soviet giant was cut in half by the German Superman. Vlasov got his limbs and Stalin got his head. Only when the two parts were recombined can they exert their power. The problem is that the organizations that master these two parts are politically and ideologically irreconcilable enemies. How difficult is it to combine? Hoffman believes that it will not be able to slow down without 20-30 years. With 20-30 years of hard work, the EU has become an unbreakable alliance, and even if the Soviet Union is resurrected again, it will not pose much threat.

Judging from the per capita indicators alone, the situation in East Russia can barely be maintained, because the current population controlled by the Bolshevik Party is only 16% before the war, and the total industrial output can roughly reach 15%, which means that the level in the per capita field has not dropped much. There are only two factors that really restrict its next development: First, there is a huge gap in light industrial products in agriculture represented by grain; Second, less than 30 million people need to supply a fully armed army, and a large number of nearly 2.5 million is a heavy burden.

Although the top leaders of the Red Army have successively disbanded more than 90% of the female soldiers and sent grandfathers over 55 years old in the past five months, the armed forces under Eastern Russia are still as high as more than 3.5 million. The top leaders of the Bolsheviks will never dare to reduce the scale to 2.5 million before the German army disarmament and retreat. After all, there is still the enemy that Japan is eyeing him in the Far East.

But even the size of the army of 2.5 million is a horrifying number, which is stronger than the proportion of all-out mobilization of the United States and Germany - according to this ratio, Germany can mobilize 8.8 million troops, and the United States can mobilize 12 million troops. In fact, no matter whether it is, it is still a little far from this limit.

Therefore, the top leaders of the party have an opinion, hoping to reduce the troops to 2 million or even 1.8 million, reduce resource occupation, and free up more labor for industrial and agricultural production. Even major generals such as Huasilevsky and Zhukov also agreed with this opinion - a large number of people does not mean strong strength. The War of Patriotic Patriotic War was fought for three and a half years. Which battle was not because of the large number of Red Army soldiers? But what's the use of too many people? Isn't it still beaten to the point of being blue and swollen?

Dad Stalin originally scoffed at this view, believing that because the troops on their side are weak and have poor combat power, they need to maintain more troops. As for industrial and agricultural production, it is indeed a problem, but there are also solutions - some second-line troops can be drawn for settlement and resolved some military rations and non-staple food problems.

However, the scene of the German sweeping the Allies in the Battle of South Africa and the power of Blitz 2.0 that was constantly interpreted made him feel a little panicked: Germany's quality advantage over the Allies far exceeds the quantity advantage, and in the face of absolute performance advantages, even the huge army can only be beaten.

This view also resonated with the Red Army: many people said that the level of defense fortifications in the Ural line at the moment is not as good as that of South Africa's "Brideley Line of Defense". As for the technical and tactical level, logistics capabilities, and equipment foundation of the troops behind the defense line are not necessarily better than that of the Americans. However, such a solid and waiting for work is still mercilessly penetrated by the German army without any effort, which shows how exaggerated the German power is.

Originally, everyone had no doubt that the German army would win the final victory, but it was generally believed that the Germans would destroy several front teeth, but they could wipe out the US army in 10 days. After the record of 10,000 vs. 300,000 yuan was reported, it was so scary that people couldn't stop trembling: Not to mention 1:30, even 1:10, the Soviets can't stand it now.

Therefore, the Politburo had to hold a meeting to study and discuss the key situation. Stalin believed that simply discussing military issues was inappropriate, so he suggested discussing military issues with political issues.

Another important topic is the topic of the stability of the internal regime of Eastern Russia.

As the war ends, all issues covered up by the war: including the party's line and policy, leadership decisions, combat readiness and strategic research, and even other aspects will be found and examined seriously.

It’s okay to win—it’s all the twists and turns in the victory process, the darkness on the eve of dawn, and the dark spots on the sun.

But now that you lose, someone will have to come forward to take responsibility - it can be a mistake in the line, policy, or tactics or strategy. In short, if you don’t give an explanation to the party and the people, the legitimacy of the Bolshevik regime will be questioned.

Surprisingly, Comrade Stalin has been very modest and low-key in the past few months. In his many internal speeches, he repeatedly reviewed his series of mistakes in the mid-term before the Patriotic War, and took all the problems and responsibilities. He believed that "the entire army, the whole party, and the people of all ethnic groups in the country have done their best." The main reason is that there is a problem with the leadership of the Party and the leader has a problem. He even publicly expressed his tears at the enlarged meeting of the Central Plenary Session that he had made serious mistakes, expressed his willingness to assume all responsibilities, resign from all positions, and asked other comrades to continue to lead the Party and the people forward.

But in the end, the worst case did not happen, and his close comrades stood up one by one to defend him...
Chapter completed!