After eliminating those opponents who could threaten him, Stalin felt refreshed and was eating well. Although the purge greatly reduced the combat effectiveness of the army, at least the army completely obeyed his orders!

The rest are die-hard loyalists who obey his words. Stalin would not like a strong but disobedient army. What he liked was an army that was completely obedient to him! As a result, the entire top leadership of the Soviet Union became Stalin's voice. He gradually sent those who dared to question him into concentration camps that he personally ordered to build, and worked hard for the economic development of the Soviet Union. They didn't need any state pension to starve or freeze to death. These poor zombie-like people laid thousands of kilometers of railway between Germany and the Soviet Union.

"Although we have some frictions with Germany on the Spanish issue, this has not affected our investment exchanges." An economic person in charge stood up to report on the economic achievements of the last quarter. "We have many factories under construction and deployment, and large-scale industrial production bases are being built in areas such as Kiev and Minsk."

Another official saw the colleague who was speaking sitting down and immediately went on to report: "Many German companies are investing in the construction of our highway and railway systems. I heard that the crown prince's favorite saying is 'If you want to get rich, build roads first.' , This has greatly improved our transportation situation, made it faster and more convenient for us to transport materials and mobilize troops, and the transportation cost has also been greatly reduced."

Convenient transportation has turned previously closed areas into new industrial cities. Because of the convenient transportation of materials and the preference of German advisory groups, the Soviet Union's heavy industrial areas began to move closer to border areas. Although Stalin intended to prevent this behavior, With little success.

If the Soviets knew why Yanik was so keen on helping them build roads, they might have to tear down all the roads they had built.

"In addition, our investment in Germany is also expanding day by day. Many German military industrial companies have our shares. It can be said that many of our officials and businessmen made war fortune during the Spanish Civil War. The bullets they produced are also The shells defeated our army." A general said with great dissatisfaction.

"That's right! Our army suffered heavy losses in Spain, and the Communist International also suffered big losses there! Although the weapons the Germans invested were not much more advanced than ours, they made up for the gap between the National Army and us in this respect!" Another The general also complained with great dissatisfaction.

"The Germans follow the route of elite soldiers. They don't have as many soldiers as we do, so they can train carefully and naturally perform better than our army. Facts have proved that the gap is not obvious. The Germans are not as powerful as we imagined." Stalin He sneered and comforted.

An intelligence obtained by Soviet spies from Vienna, Austria, showed that so far the German army had killed 771 people and injured 2,982 people in Spain; while the Soviet Union had 1,200 people killed and 3,719 injured in the Spanish Civil War. Comparing these two results, they do not seem unacceptable.

Of course, the Soviets are not fools. In fact, the low-level generals and officers all know that the Soviet Union suffered heavy losses this time: according to reliable memories of frontline soldiers, they were ordered to exaggerate their performance reports. In fact, the German losses were small. It's pitiful, but their death toll is real.

Just when they were expressing optimism about the situation in the Spanish Civil War, the door of the conference room was pushed open, and a frightened Yezhov hurried in, walked straight to Stalin, and whispered a few words in his ear. .

"What?!" Stalin's face, which had been smiling just now, instantly turned ferocious, and he said angrily. "What do you mean disappeared?!" At this moment, he was like a furious lion, his eyes wide open, his fists clenched, and his body exuded a chilling aura of violence.

The rest of the people looked at this sudden change in stunned silence, looking at each other, not knowing what happened.

After all, the gold transportation plan is top secret, and only a few high-level people know about it.

Beads of sweat broke out on Yezhof's pale face, and he glanced at everyone present in embarrassment.

Starling took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and said coldly. "That's it for today's meeting."

Everyone stood up one after another, and there was a crashing sound, and soon only Yezhov and Stalin were left in the conference room. We were not blind. Although we didn't know what was going on, we could see that Stalin was on the verge of an explosion. Everyone was afraid that if he was too late, he would get into trouble.

Stalin said sternly after everyone left. "Tell me clearly, what happened?!"

Ye Ruofu reported tremblingly. "The first thing we dug were the two carriages and the locomotive, and the bodies of Comrade Khrushchev and everyone else were found inside." The cliff the gold train fell into was not only more than 100 meters deep, but was also submerged by countless mudslides. In order to excavate, nearly three divisions of troops were used, and it took several months to excavate. "Further down is the gold train, but all the escorting soldiers were massacred and all the gold in the carriage was looted."

"How brave!" Stalin slammed the table and stood up, staring at Yezhov. "Who did this?!" Someone actually robbed gold on Soviet land? !

Ye Ruofu wiped the sweat from his face and said tremblingly. "We initially suspect that it is Orlov..."

Starling frowned. "Orlov? What do you say?" Major General Orlov has won the Order of Lenin, and his loyalty is guaranteed, otherwise he would not be sent to perform this mission.

"We counted the corpses on the train, but Orlov was missing. There was an unfamiliar corpse in the communication carriage. Preliminary inspection showed that he was killed by the correspondent who resisted." It is better to find someone to take the blame than to be scolded for doing things poorly. And judging from the situation at the scene, Orlov is indeed very suspicious.

"A strange corpse?" That was undoubtedly the robber's accomplice. "Has the body been identified?"

"There is a Jewish village more than 30 kilometers away from the town of Alexei. The corpse should be a Jewish person in the village, and all the people in the village disappeared after the robbery." Because the corpse was wearing clothes With Jewish clothing, identity is easily determined.

"These damn Jews!" Stalin roared with rage and punched the table hard, his whole body shaking with anger! The whole world disliked the Jews, and the Soviet Union was certainly no exception. After overthrowing the Tsarist Russian regime, the Jewish people and the Jewish people gained most of the power to rule the Soviet Union. Later, Stalin launched a great purge and wiped out almost all the high-level Jewish people. As for the grassroots Jewish people, things were not easy either, and the persecution was no less severe than that of Germany in the original time and space. At this time, these damn Jews actually stole 560 tons of gold? ! Damn it! !

Yezhov on the side did not dare to express his anger. He waited for a while for Stalin's anger to subside slightly before continuing to report. "And we suspect that external forces were involved in this robbery." He said and took out a few photos from the folder. "This is a submachine gun found at the scene, using 43 mm caliber pistol bullets. Everyone on the train was hit and killed by this 43 mm caliber pistol bullet."

Starling asked after taking the photo and looking at it. "Which country is equipped with this kind of submachine gun?"

Yezhov shook his head. "As far as I know, there is none, just this 43mm caliber pistol bullet..." Anyone with a little military knowledge knows that the most famous 43mm caliber pistol bullets are the American Thompson submachine gun and Colt M1911 automatic pistol.

Starling interrupted. "Don't jump to conclusions. The matter of this submachine gun must be kept secret. Sooner or later the fox will show its tail. The most important thing now is to find the whereabouts of Orlov and the gold. Also, I want every damn Jew to Know what will happen if you dare to challenge the authority of the Soviet Union!!!"

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