IceBreakChron II: THE NAZIS ARISE

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August 27, 1925: Efraim Sklianski (or Sklyansky) had served with distinction under Trotsky during the Revolutionary Civil War, becoming Trotsky's deputy in November 1917. Back in 1924 when Michael Frunze took over as Trotsky's deputy (soon to be his successor as Red Army commander), Sklianski was made chairman of the Mossukno state textile trust. In May 1925 he left on a tour of Germany, France, and the United States to acquire technical knowledge; but on this day he dies in a mysterious boating accident on Long Lake, in Hamilton County, New York State, along with Isay Khurgin (the first head of Amtorg Trading Corporation). So far the (brief) wiki article.


October 31, 1925: Mikhail Vasilyevich Frunze has been a staple of Communist revolution since joining the 1905 revolt. A potential successor to Lenin, he had been an Army Commander during the 1917 revolution, and had succeeded Leon Trotsky in January this year as head of all Soviet military forces. In 1921 he had been elected to the Central Committee of the Russian Bolshevik Party, and in 1924 had become a candidate member of the Politburo.

Frunze suffered from severe ulceration, and both Stalin and Anastas Mikoyan visited him in the hospital during his most recent bout, insisting -- indeed requiring (as Frunze wrote to his wife) -- that he be given surgery, which Frunze had rejected all his life even to now: but "both party representatives are requiring it."

Stalin's "daylight secretary" Bazhanov recalls that Frunze has to be placed on the operating table by force; perhaps he had an inkling that death awaited him. While there has never been any direct indication Stalin had this fellow successor to Lenin (and to Trotsky) murdered, wikipedia (from where much of this entry originates) cites an October 2010 article or book "Who Killed Michael Frunze", that he was given seven times the normal chloroform dose.

Suvorov adds that the man who arranged the operation was Grigoryi Kanner, infamous for being Stalin's "dark operation" secretary. (Mekhlis was Stalin's "twilight" secretary.) When Bazhanov hears about that, he decides Stalin has had Frunze killed (per his "Memoirs of a Former Secretary of Stalin", p.141.)

Regardless, Frunze was forever after honored by the institution of Frunze Military Academies across the Soviet Union.

On page 91 of the same memoir, Bazhanov also describes how he received the news of the puzzling death of Trotsky's other deputy Skylansky in August of this year: "Mekhlis [the other, 'twilight' secretary] and I went immediately to Kanner and unanimously said, 'Grisha, it is you who drowned Sklianksy!' Mekhlis and I were completely certain that Skliansky was drowned on Stalin's orders, and the 'accident' was organized by Kanner and Iagoda."

Kanner will be executed by a firing squad on Stalin's orders in 1937, and Iagoda in 1938, during the Great Purge.
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1926: although the Soviet invasion of Poland ended in 1920, Soviet "partisan units" comprised of secret police "Chekists" and the "State Political Directorate" (subordinate to the secret police), have been waging a partisan war in the forests of eastern Poland, continuing to murder people in the name of the worldwide workers' revolution. This year, NKVD officer Vauphsassov is recalled home from terror operations in Poland, to become a senior manager for major gulag construction projects, digging Stalin's canals in this case.

January 22, 1926: Stalin from a speech at a Comintern Executive Committee meeting, "The matter of pursuing our struggle... needs to be seen not in terms of fairness, but rather of the dictates of the political moment and the political needs of the Party at any given moment." This will be published openly in Pravda, February 18th.
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1926: near the Soviet city of Kazan, Stalin creates a tank school for the Reicshwehr. German tankers wear Soviet uniforms while there.

Stalin bridges the gap between the retiring engineers from the Kaiser era, and the newly ascending generations which shall form the Third Reich, securing the transfer of all amassed scientific and technological potential, knowledge, and experience.

Stalin gives future Panzer Generals tanks, fuel, ammunition, transport, housing, repair facilities, and a gigantic well-guarded weapons range.

In Kazan, the best Panzer Generals of the Wehrmacht Heer are bred and tranined to invent and learn the art of modern armored warfare. These generals will lead tank units to Warsaw, Paris, Belgrade, Athens, to all European shorelines of the Atlantic and Mediterranean -- and to Leningrad, Stalingrad, and Moscow. Oops!  :o #:-) :crazy2: :uglystupid2:
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1926: Vladimir Triandafillov establishes the Soviet military "operations in depth" doctrine, which will still be the foundation of Soviet military doctrine through the end of the Cold War. He later amplifies these doctrines in his 1932 "Nature of Modern Army Operations".

While he rejects the battering-ram strategies of his own superior, the butcher Tukhachevsky, he agrees about the general strategy of preparing secret cadres in the target nation to rise up to help the invading Red Army with local government, and with the need to rapidly "sovietize" whole nations in 2 to 3 weeks for small countries, or 3 to 4 weeks for larger ones.

This plan will be precisely implemented when the Soviet Union invades Poland in 1939, and then over the next 10 months in the Soviet invasions of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Bessarabia, and Bukovinia. (A less refined version will be prepared for Finland first, but abandoned after the Winter War.)

Germanic Communists are being prepared at various stages for the same instant Soviet government role.


1926-1927: during this time, the first joint Soviet-German chemical weapon tests are conducted in the Moscow district of Podosinki.
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1927: this year, Stalin finally and solidly secures his place at the apex of Soviet power. He will keep the title of mere secretary to the party, so that as the humble "Comrade Stalin" he can take credit for anything good in his administration, but as the mere party secretary he can dodge blame for anything bad.

Speaking of which, as the first major example...

1927: Stalin stops Lenin's New Economic Policy, eliminating its vestiges of capitalism, and starts the first of several Five-Year Plans for industrialization. Suvorov calls it super-industrialization and mega-industrialization. Stalin called specific parts of them Hero Projects. The results by all accounts are worthy of such descriptions! ...well, some of the results.

Despite being primarily centered on building an industrial base first, the first Five-Year Plan will increase Red Army tanks from 92 vehicles (only 13 built in the Soviet Union) to at least 4538 (with 3949 domestic built), an increase of over 4933%. (See among others Meltiukhov's "Stalin's Missed Opportunity", 2002, p.511)

Yes, you read that correctly. In the next five years Stalin will build THREE THOUSAND NINE-HUNDRED AND FORTY-NINE tanks. That's on top of several hundred more tanks he buys from elsewhere. Some of those tanks will be used to train those upcoming German Panzer Generals!

During this period of mega-industrialization, few products are manufactured for Soviet peasants. They have managed by hard work to hoard a significant reserve of gold rubles during the New Economic Policy, but what good is cash if they can find nothing to buy with it? The peasants lose motivation to sell their products, and even to produce anything.

Stalin's government must choose: either direct a part of the super-industrialization to produce manufactured goods for peasants to buy with their gold rubles, or start looting and shooting the smartest and hardest working peasants, as enemies of the people, to take their gold rubles for the people.

What will Stalin's government do, based upon the constantly promoted ideological principle that property ownership is the root of all evil and must be looted with the owners destroyed, figuratively and/or literally, for the good of all people? Hmmmm.... what to do...  :dreamer: :-"

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1927: German Communist Party Politburo member Hermann Remmele, as part of his drive to bring the German Communists under full control of Stalin, openly backs the Nazis in their drive to seize power.

Why would Stalin want a competing militant socialist group trying to use force to seize the means of production in Germany?! Stalin must explain his reasoning to his fellow international socialists.

August 1, 1927, Stalin during a speech at a joint Central Committee and Oversight Committee Plenary meeting, later published in the early 50s as part of Stalin's essays (Vol.10, p 49): "The very fact capitalist countries are going fascist is precisely what will exacerbate their domestic situation and lead to workers' coming out for revolution."

Stalin is explaining why the Comintern should support the German national socialists, competing against the Russian international socialists! -- because national socialism leads to war, which will make nations weaker, including the "fascist" (i.e. national socialist) nations themselves, for international socialism to then take control of the resources and means of production instead.

Stalin says that once war starts (the second imperialist war, not the revolutionary world war of course), the USSR must preserve neutrality until "the warring parties have exhausted one another in an internecine struggle beyond their ability to cope." Which warring parties? Germany for one: "Precisely the fact that the capitalist government [of Weimar] is turning fascist, is leading to a heightening of tensions within the capitalist countries, and to revolutionary actions by workers."

September 15, 1927: Stalin from an article in Pravda, "War can upend any and all agreements."
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November 7, 1927: Stalin in Pravda #255 (written Nov 6), "It is impossible to finish off capitalism without finishing off the Social Democrats."

The German Social Democrats will fight if they have to, but aren't militant, and have made allies with the German pacifists. Stalin presents the problem with social-democracy in terms of Marxist-Lenin theory: the Social Democrat Party promotes stability and peace, thus they promote the interests of capitalism (because the Social Democrats are too weak at being true socialists), and thus promote the enslavement of workers by the property owners. Only war can bankrupt and shatter a nation sufficiently enough for the true worker's revolutionary war to arise and succeed! So by diverting the workers' attention to peace, the Social Democrats prevent Germany from going into a war that will shatter Germany itself into final and ultimate revolution.


Also November 7, 1927: Trotsky has been ousted from all his posts and deprived of all duties and privileges. On this day he tries to give a speech in front of a column of demonstrators headed for Red Square in Moscow, but he's pelted with empty bottles and stones. Killing Trotsky would not be a challenge, to say the least!


December 3, 1927: Stalin (unsourced by Suvorov), "War cannot be fought without oil, and whoever has the upper hand in terms of oil, has the best chances of winning the war to come."
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December 1927: this month, Tukhachevsky as Chief of Staff of the Red Army, writes a letter to Stalin proposing a military reform. In his praising essay (included in Tukhachevsky's "Selected Works in 2 Volumes", 1964, page uncited), Marshal of the Soviet Union S.S. Biruzov notes that, "The addressing of these questions by M.N. Tukhachevsky was correct and timely, but as to concrete data they need to be made more specific."

What was this military reform? Mil-wik's article suggests, by reference to Montefiore's account of the 1930 preliminary dress rehearsal for the later Great Purge, that Tukhachevsky proposed the industrialization of the military, which Stalin resisted until (after attempting to see if he could get Tukhachevsky arrested and shot) Stalin came to understand the ambitious modernity of Tukhachevsky's strategies and apologized to him, "Now the question has become clearer to me, I have to agree that my remark was too strong and my conclusions were not right at all." (cited in "Stalin: the Court of the Red Tsar", p.59)

However, back here in 1927 Stalin is already setting up the start of hyper-industrialization for military production, at scales which will destroy Russia! -- so that isn't the problem. And the previous year, 1926, Triandafillov had already started refining Tukhachevsky's military-political strategies for invading and conquering other nations so as to bring them into the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, which Suvorov (at least) presents Stalin as backing solidly even before he consolidates power finally this year, and forward ever afterward. So again, as far as can be seen (from Suvorov's account anyway), Stalin agreed with Biruzov in accepting Tukhachevsky's military-industrial theories.

(It should perhaps be noted here that Montefiore regards Stalin as not having solidified his leadership and indeed tyranny over the Party until 1929, compared to Suvorov's estimate of 1927; and Montefiore presents at least some evidence that Stalin regarded Tukhachevsky as his bitterest rival, dubbing him the "little Napoleon". Suvorov acknowledges that Stalin continued ongoing purges after this time, in order to prevent uprisings against his terror regime -- though he did not strike against the military directly until 1937. Until then, Stalin relied on Tukhachevsky to do that!)

Lieutenant-General of the Air Force V.V. Serebrianikov describes (as found in the Central Archives of the National Economy of the USSR, Fund 7297, Index 41, Case 9, Sheet 155) Tukhachevsky's proposal this month:

in 1928, Stalin should produce at least fifty-thousand tanks, or ideally more like one hundred thousand.

Not eventually across several decades; not in ten years; not in five years (Stalin will in fact produce nearly 5000 tanks during the first Five-Year Plan, as previously fore-noted); but by the end of 1928 -- which will start in less than a month.

...it's time for some gloriously sarcastic nitpicking here, which will also serve as a nice illustration of why professionals study logistics.
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Germany at this time does not have one single tank (aside from perhaps the proto-tanks they're practicing with, deep in the Soviet Union!) They are restricted to one hundred thousand military troops of all types, from generals down to cooks and courier boys; all of them infantry and cavalry (with a little coastal defense navy). Hitler is not in power, and is not even distant from coming to power.

Suvorov contradicts himself somewhat here, when he says that "Nobody could even image that he would ever come to power." According to Suvorov's own account and records, Stalin in 1927 started ordering the German Communist Party to cooperate with Hitler's National Socialists with the goal of removing the too-peaceful German Social Democrats from power, with the clear goal of having someone replace them as an aggressive instigator of war among the European nations! -- someone not the German Communists apparently! So on Suvorov's own theory, Stalin (at the very least) does already imagine Hitler coming to power!

Be that as it may: Tukhachevky is proposing in December of 1927, that by the end of 1928 Stalin should ideally have one operational tank for every single German soldier down to the last courier boy! -- but if not that many, then at least one tank for every two German courier boys!

Hitler will go into Poland later with 2980 tanks, including no floating or heavy tanks, and including practically no medium tanks (as the PzIII and IV are generally regarded). In Soviet propaganda it is clear that if Hitler has so many tanks, they are not for defense, and not even for conquering Europe, but that he plans to take over the world! (Granted, not with only 3000 tanks.) Suvorov fully agrees with this estimate: someone in 1939 who has produced nearly 3000 tanks is planning on challenging the world for dominance. So what did Tukhachevsky plan to do with 50,000 tanks?! -- much moreso 100,000!?
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In 1939, the Nazis will build 743 tanks, most of them included within the 2980 tanks that Hitler had accumulated during the prior pre-war years.

In 1940 Hitler will produce another 1515;

in 1941 (for invading Russia and keeping up the North Africa fight as well as shoring up his European conquests so far) another 3113 (not that he will have the aggregate total so far, of course -- many will have been destroyed or simply run to death);

in 1942 he will produce 4276 tanks (but no heavy tanks yet);

in 1943 he will produce 5663 tanks;

in 1944 he will produce 7975 tanks;

and last, in the first half of 1945 he will produce 956 tanks.

In total, from 1939 throughout the war, not counting whatever of the 2900 tanks he had made before 1939, Hitler will produce 24,241 tanks. Japan, by comparison, will build 5085 tanks, almost all of them light class.

The Soviet Union will certainly have a little more than fifty thousand tanks by the end of World War II, but they will have been accumulating for years, in a much more powerful industrial giant. Not all in one year with less than one month of preparation, with 1928 industrial power.

And those same tens of thousands of tanks will line up threatening to invade Europe during the Cold War! -- until the Soviet Union collapses, partly under the weight of keeping up and replacing those tanks without using them to seize control of all property and means of production, which NATO will dissuade.

Tukhachevsky in December of 1927 is proposing that Stalin should build at least this many in 1928 alone! -- ideally twice as many!
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Stalin has barely begun the first of his three Five Year Plans. The USSR has no tank factories yet (those nearly 5000 will be produced in the later parts of the first Five Year Plan).

He's trying to level up to having mega-industrial factories, including tank factories, but even if he already magically had all his eventual factories, every single one of them would have to be re-geared to produce tanks.

Aside from the time necessary to do this, which would sink the proposal at once in itself -- but assuming this could be magically done -- necessarily all other heavy machinery would cease production: automobiles, ships, locomotives, railroad cars, tractors (the equipment most like tanks), everything else.

Locomotives and railroad cars (not even counting ships) would not exist in enough numbers to move the tanks from the factories anywhere; and tanks cannot be feasibly driven from the factories anywhere useful (or not the vast majority of such tanks).
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By the standards of any army, two or three hundred tanks is a tank division. Hitler will start his quest for world domination in 1939 with only six tank divisions. Tukhachevsky wants Stalin to produce, in one year, 166 to 500 tank divisions.

The crew of one tank can be averaged as three men, depending on its size: Soviet tanks will range from two to seven crewmen each, but the strong majority will need three. Tukhachevsky's advanced idea of modern military strategy and industrial production will thus need 150,000 to 300,00 soldiers -- at an unrealistic minimum. Tank crews make up an insignificant minimum of troops in a tank division; and tanks themselves constituted an insignificant minimum of materials in such a division!

First, tanks must be constantly supplied, at the right time, with liquid fuel and lubricants. These do not spawn by magic in the engines; they need troops and trucks (and locomotives and rail cars, with operators and with all support staff on the ground) to bring them to the tanks and keep them nearby.

Tanks also need shells and cartridges, both for cannons and machine guns -- although at this time Soviet tanks would only have machine guns, but pretend they might have cannons in 1928. Too bad, no shells or their cartridges, nor their propellants, can be made, because all the factories are busy making tanks this year!

Assuming tank ammunition could magically pop into existence, troops have to carry them with railcars and trucks to the tanks, and keep them nearby -- whoops, no new trucks or railway wagons or locomotive engines to help with that this year: busy making tanks!

Also, all fuel production which might go to trucks now goes to tanks. The non-existent locomotives will need significantly more coal than is currently being produced, or rather vastly much more because all coal usage in the Soviet Union has just been dedicated to making steel and other metal for the tanks.
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Tanks tend to break down a little even when not being used; moreso if Tukhachevky intends to use them anywhere aside from nearby the factories. So they will need stationary repair shops, and also field repair shops -- which means mobile tank-repair shops and even mobile tank-repair factories -- all fully staffed with troops and supplies.

To repair a tank, it must of course be towed to where it can be repaired. If the tanks are all sitting without fuel or ammo near the factory, they will even need towing to their parking lots! But if they are in a fight somewhere, they must be towed out of whatever field, or swamp, or ditch they have broken in, possibly under any amount of enemy fire. For any kind of towing, you need a specialized repair-evacuation vehicles, which do not yet exist, and which will not be produced next year (all production being devoted to tanks in the non-existent tank factories). For combat retrieval, you need some specially trained troops on top of, or at least in place of, the normal retrieval troops.

To this, add a column of trucks to each of the 166 to 500 tank divisions, with spare parts for replacement in repairs, and everything involved for that (troops and fuel for the trucks, kit and food for the troops, parts to repair the trucks, etc.)
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Tanks are almost useless in close combat, including when seizing towns of any significant size. For this purpose every tank division needs its own regiment of armored-support infantry (in German, the panzergrenadiers), and every tank corps needs its own division of such infantry. Soviet tanks are super-slow right now, so perhaps the soldiers could keep up by walking, although normally they would need to be motorized or, ideally, mechanized (on tracked APCs), but in any case they still need their own trucks of supplies, ammo, food, and fuel and spare parts (for their own trucks). They also need all their weapons and ammunition for such regiments and divisions.

This only accounts for infantry integral to tank divisions and tank corps. Tanks do not hold conquered ground very well; they are made to attack and seize ground, and perhaps to race or rumble around in emergency defense as stopgaps. The boots on the ground keep the land, and cover for an attack, and sometimes they must go into areas you might as well never send a tank nor a tank's attendant panzergrenadiers. For every tank division, at minimum you need three or four rifle divisions; so in 1928 anywhere from 847 to 3000 rifle divisions would need producing, with all the troops and artillery and equipment and supplies including repair parts and field repair capabilities (and even their own attached tank companies and battalions). Germany in 1928 has a total of twelve divisions, by the way, some infantry some cavalry.

Tukhachevky, being a strong proponent of combined arms warfare, would have to agree that tanks need to be supported by artillery fire; for this there needs to be howitzers, mortars, and direct-fire cannons, not only in equipment but with all the supplies, transport, and supporting troops (with their supplies and transport) that come with them. None of this can be produced along with a focus on one year of fifty thousand tanks, much less double that.

Tukhachevsky expects all enemy aircraft to be destroyed by a surprise invasion, but after you have done that once or twice you will never be able to surprise your future or current enemies again. So all tanks, infantry, and artillery, must have at least a minimum amount of useful anti-air. Oh, by the way, forget about literally any air force at all to crush the enemy air force on the ground or otherwise; it's all tanks all the time next year!

Perhaps with so many tanks and with so much other land support (in the classic infantry and artillery roles), you do not need to worry about enemy armor to any degree; so perhaps you will not need anti-tank cannons and all their troops and supplies and so forth. But usually you would! (Stalin will notably stop production of anti-air and anti-tank cannons before Barbarossa.)

Your tanks need to know where to go and what's ahead of them. Their attendant infantry can help provide that, but specialized recon troops and equipment and vehicles (or horses?) must be provided.
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Are we done yet? Hardly even started! -- those are only the combat troops. Only a fraction of any army (and we're talking several dozen tank armies) actually fights, and a minority fraction at that!

All the tanks and their combat support need organization and coordination. Troop command needs to have a flow of information through thousands of different channels. This is provided by communication units, which means more men and more trucks and cars and motorcyles and all the things which go with all this.

Troop command also needs command staff, and everything which goes with them. During non-emergency peacetime, a Soviet officer is trained for three years. General-ranks must by proportion go through more training as they rise up through the ranks -- though perhaps Tukhachevsky thought otherwise from his own experience!  :P

The USSR would have needed to open and staff and supply new military academies, sufficient to produce officers and staffs of no less than one hundred and fifty six tank divisions, perhaps more like five hundred tank divisions, plus all their attendant divisions and brigades and lesser units (and plus all their superior headquarters at the corps, army, and front levels.) All the officers would have graduated no sooner than 1931 with tanks finished (and starting to rot) back in 1928, all fresh with no experience -- unless training was rushed through 1928, in which case they would have been totally green with no experience!

Where would these officers have lived? Even at the time of Chief Culprit's publication, Russia could not build housing for all her officers. Would they have lived in tents? Where would they have found enough tents? Perhaps the officers would have lived in foxholes?!
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