I Became Stalin?! Chapter 176:

Chapter 176

The Soviet Union treated Germany harshly.

The other defeated countries were also destined for harsh treatnt. But compared to France, where the Communist Resistance seized Paris and proclaid the Fourth Republic, or Italy, where the monarchy deposed Mussolini at the last minute and the Allies divided the occupation, Germany was wickedly sinful.

The world was horrified as Germanys atrocities were revealed one by one.

[Nazi Germanys cris exposed: extermination camps found in Poland]

[Germanys human experint data, a collection of inhuman experints, revealed]

The Soviet army had a very good excuse to dig up these war cris.

They maintained a thoroughly gentlemanly attitude towards the civilians who had committed less heinous cris.

On the other hand, the perpetrators of war cris, such as soldiers, scientists who were suspected of being involved in human experints, or engineers and technicians who could be accused of slave labor, were all singled out.

Search! We got a tip that hes here!

Yes! You go that way! Well break in from this side!

Many scientists tried to escape, but they all failed. The sharp eyes of the NKVD did not let these innocent civilians get away.

Wernher von Braun? Is that you?

Ah, no! Im that uh

Confused by his own alias, the middle-aged man with a fake mustache and thick horn-rimd glasses panicked when a young man in a Soviet uniform called his na in perfect German. He dropped his luggage and tried to run away.

But before he knew it, burly soldiers surrounded him and pointed their guns at him. Shaking with fear, he raised his hands high. Two agents with blue hats of the NKVD grabbed his arms.

Co on, lets go. You have so kind of charges against you, but I dont know much about them Anyway, lets go!

Ah ah please, spare .

Oh, co on, do we look like those brutal bastards who kill people indiscriminately?

Of course, they were brutal bastards who killed people indiscriminately, but von Braun couldnt say a word and just shook his head frantically.

The NKVD agent made a joke in awkward German.

Huhuhuhu, we wont eat you, so follow us. Were not that bad, you know?

As the war neared its end, the Fhrer beca obsessed with super weapons to turn the tide and invested massive resources and manpower.

The brightest minds of the German Empire received huge budgets under this policy and built their own research achievents.

Of course, these innovative research results did not lead to a trendous increase in power, and Germany eventually lost the war.

Hahahaha! Co out, everyone! Well take you gently!

Eeeek!

Oops! If you try to sabotage the data here, hmm theres a special reservation for you in the gulag near the Arctic! If you want to spend your last years comfortably in a pen, co out quietly or if you like ice a lot, you can sabotage! Do you have a lot of ice lovers in your family?

The scientists and technicians who worked in the laboratories and factories had no ti to escape as Berlin was reduced to ashes and the war ended.

And most of them were dragged away by the NKVD agents who stord in in no ti. There were various charges they could apply.

Germany was desperately short of labor in various fields, and they purged their own people by accusing them of being Jews, defeatists, and various other charges, and then mobilized the residents of the occupied territories or prisoners of war for slave labor.

Almost every research institute and factory was not free from this problem.

The Soviet Union arrested those who worked there on charges of war cris and cris against humanity.

The US army had not yet entered the German liberation zone, and the disard German army could not resist.

The officers and generals were the first to be taken away, so there was no one to command.

Wow this is amazing! Not as much as Magnitogorsk, but

No ti to admire! Hurry, hurry, move!

Yes!!

Also, the Allies, including the United States and the Soviet Union, agreed to limit Germanys industrial capacity.

The Soviet Union, which had suffered enormous human and material losses from being trampled by the German army, was ready to tear down the industrial facilities in the Ruhr region, which they considered a kind of spoils of war, to supplent their industrial capacity.

We did it in Leningrad, we did it in Western Ukraine, and well do it here too! Hahahaha!

Yeah. They probably didnt think theyd get this when they invaded.

The German workers and technicians looked at the Soviets who were dismantling the machines with a bitter smile.

The Luftwaffe fought to the death to protect Germanys industrial zone from the Arican bombers. The facilities they saved were literally devoured by the Soviet Union.

The Soviets, who had dismantled various industrial facilities in their own territory during the war and literally moved entire cities to the Ural Mountains, happily dismantled the Ruhr region one by one as if they were used to this work.

Take all the heavy industry equipnt from Germany!

The secretary-general ordered. This kind of industrial equipnt plundering work continued throughout Germany, not just in the Ruhr.

The US Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau also argued that Germanys industrial capacity should be smashed after the war so that they could never dream of another world war.

Germany should be divided into four or five parts! Germanys steel production should be limited to 3 million tons! 1,500 major factories should be destroyed! All kinds of radical statents ca out.

The Soviet Union was the one who benefited from this.

If they left only 3 million tons of Germanys steel industry, which produced 25 million tons a year, and took everything else? They could increase their own steel production, which was already scarce, by 20 million tons.

This theyre taking this

Damn it! We should have fought to the end!

Steel, chemical, chanical, electrical, and many other factories were occupied by the Soviet army. The technicians cursed.

Until they were dragged away by the Soviets, begging for rcy.

The slave laborers who were in the basent of the factory dormitory imdiately reported the atrocities they had committed to the liberators, and the technicians ended up being taken away one by one.

Theyre the ones! Theyre the ones! They whipped us and made us work all night to maintain production, and the food was

Yeah? Grab them!

Especially, the chemical industry was not free at all. The heads of chemical companies, including I.G Farben, were arrested by the NKVD as soon as the Soviet army almost occupied the city.

Karl Krauch? You are arrested for cris against humanity and slave labor.

I knew this day would co.

Chemical engineering was a national strategic industry and was under the managent and control of the state.

Nevertheless, the businessn followed the states line that provided them with monopolistic profits.

Karl Krauch, the chairman of the board of I.G Farben, who worked as an adviser to Goerings four-year plan, followed them with a resigned face.

Cris against humanity, such as involvent in the production of poison gas, including Zyklon B, receiving slave labor from the Nazi regi, gaining huge economic benefits, participating in the war plan of the German Empire, and joining the Nazi SS, a criminal group! His charges were too many to read one by one.

What is this nonsense! This is all the work of the Soviet Union!

Are they trying to destroy the industrial capacity of this country! Cowardly bastards. You guys are all shot Ugh!

So made aningless resistance, but soon they had to taste the fists of the NKVD agents. No matter how much the Soviet intention was to dismantle the German economy, they were not innocent of the cris.

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Most of them were not convicted in real history

Transporting materials to the Far East, transporting criminals from Germany and tearing down industrial facilities, the Kremlin seed busier after the war than before.

I.G Farben, or rather, a kind of cartel group, was deeply involved in various war cris. But to confront the Soviet Union, the United States and the rest of the allies released them and dismantled the cartel.

The economic dismantling of West Germany, which was composed of the occupation zones of the allies, was eventually nullified to raise West Germany as a vanguard against the Eastern bloc.

Rather, with the Marshall Plan, the United States pumped massive aid, revived its old enemy economically, and even allowed rearmant. In 1955, West Germany was allowed to rearm and joined NATO.

The Soviet Union established the Warsaw Pact as a ans to counter this, but the Warsaw Pact was no match for NATO in terms of economic power or population size.

But this ti it was different. France, which was supposed to be a core mber of NATO, was holding its first general election of the Fourth Republic under the leadership of the Communist Party. The West Germany occupied by the allies did not exist, and the Soviet Union took Germany entirely.

Lets tear Germany into three pieces, excluding Austria, as planned.

Yes, the U.S. Secretary of State Hull approved the German partition plan.

Additionally well give Alsace-Lorraine and Saarland to France, Sudetenland to Czechoslovakia, Oder-Neisse east and East Prussia to Poland

The Soviet Union and the United States agreed on one thing for sure.

They tear Germany apart. From the state to the industrial capacity and territory. Germanys future could not escape what the U.S. and the Soviet Union agreed on.

Limit the steel production to 3 million tons. The automobile industry scale to 10% of the pre-war level. This is all we take and if the U.S. wants so, let them have it.

The U.S. is so interested in the atomic bomb that they will give us everything we ask for.

Really? Then lets act like we can give them one more if they say they enriched nuclear material.

Germany would now be an agricultural country. Before the war, Germany mainly exported heavy industrial products, but the U.S. and the Soviet Union had no intention of leaving them alone. Coal, coke, leather products and beer, wine and other beverages, and textiles?

They limited the secondary industry to light industry, produced light industrial products that the Soviet Union needed, exported them at a cheap price, and imported heavy industrial products produced by the Soviet Union at a high price. It was literally a subcontracting factory that was our German plan.

The chronic problem that always shook the Eastern bloc in real history was the lack of consur goods and food. By incorporating France, the best agricultural country in Europe, into the socialist bloc, they solved the food problem, and made Germany, an industrial country, a light industrial production base by boosting the heavy industry.

In addition, by dividing China into two and making the Peoples Republic of China an agricultural production base and a light industrial product production base, they could solve the Soviets chronic problem of heavy industry bias.

Ah! But there was a problem with the U.S. here.

Hmm? What is it?

Molotov handed out a report as if he had just rembered. The title was written in large letters on the report.

? Huh

He picked up the report and read it hastily, and it seed that what had not risen for a while might suddenly stand up.

The German navy had fortunately not lost their battleships until the end and blocked the U.S., but eventually they lost to us.

The battleships they preserved were handed over to the Soviet army without sinking like at Scapa Flow.

Of course, we deliberately did not attack them because we wanted to swallow them.

The U.S. coveted this fleet and drooled, claiming their share.

Renaming the battleship Bismarck to Leningrad or Tirpitz to Moscow and making everything Soviet was a tempting choice.

But but the romance of n was always the big ship and the big gun, but the era was the era of aircraft carriers. I knew that fact too well, so I had to make a decision.

Battleships you can give them all but bring the submarines and aircraft carriers and bring the technicians from Germany here.

Ah yes, Comrade Secretary General.

Molotov hesitated as he saw looking gloomy, but soon bowed his head. Ah, battleships

Anyway, battleships are literally sothing to have or to throw away, so just give them to the U.S. as a gesture. German, French, Italian, just all of them!

Is is that so?

They were monsters that required thousands of people and ate up maintenance costs, but they were inevitably weak against aircraft carriers.

If there were nuclear weapons, missiles, and aircraft carriers, why would they need battleships!

It was just because they were cool.

But be sure to bring the carriers and submarines. Got it?

Yes! Comrade Secretary General!

With the minimum deterrence, they developed carriers and maintained naval and air force bases across Eurasia to create a spatial barrier between the U.S. and us. It would be much better to go quietly than to provoke a competition with the U.S. if we increased our armants.

In Europe, places like Brest in France, Hamburg in Germany, Norway.

In Asia, places like Jeju Island or Hokkaido, Tonkin Bay in Vietnam, where they set up submarine bases and developed SSBNs, they could have at least so deterrence.

We should not be complacent with the power we have now and get along well with the U.S.

There is still a lot to eat.