**Chapter 810: American Personality (7)**

Being able to hear the attitudes of the messengers from the two great powers, China and the United States, in succession made the General Secretary of the CPSU, Stalin, feel somewhat invigorated. The CPSU had always been very concerned about the recent war situation between China and the United States, but had never been able to obtain more specific intelligence.

Soviet intelligence agencies had achieved major breakthroughs in the United States at this stage. Under the inspiration of communist ideology, many American leftists who identified with the Soviet system provided a great deal of intelligence to the Soviet Union, including officers serving in the US Navy Staff. From this line, Soviet intelligence agencies obtained many battle reports that had not been published externally.

These reports showed that the United States was bearing immense pressure in the Pacific. In the Hawaiian Islands, where the US Pacific Command was located, the Japanese army clung to the US military like a "dog-skin plaster." As long as the US military slightly reduced its offensive intensity against Japanese-occupied Midway, the Japanese army would use Midway as a base to launch attacks on nearby small Hawaiian islands. The war of attrition between the US and Japanese forces in the Hawaiian archipelago was like a millstone, grinding up tens of thousands of fighters and the pilots on them.

In the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific, since both China and the Allied Powers had committed land, sea, and air forces, the fighting was even bloodier. The Allied Powers had consistently maintained a force of about 110,000 in the Solomon Islands; in less than three months, the Allied forces' casualties exceeded 170,000. Among the 40,000 Allied soldiers killed, 12,000 were Americans. The British Home Army and the ANZAC (Australian and New Zealand Army Corps) accounted for about 28,000.

Britain believed that holding the Solomon Islands would mean holding Australia and New Zealand, so the British side had dispatched 50,000 Home Army troops and organized a 600,000-strong ANZAC force. They had already successively sent 200,000 ANZAC troops to the Solomon Islands.

The United States, on the other hand, consistently maintained a force of 34,000. The US Navy Staff's reports were very detailed in their descriptions of the British Commonwealth forces. One report, in particular, left a deep impression on Stalin.

"...These arrogant British people have a baffling misunderstanding of the results of the 1926 Sino-British War. Especially the successors of the ANZAC, who were recognized as a criminal group by the Asian International Court; the results of the Sino-British War in their memories are jaw-dropping. Australians seemingly believe that Britain was the victor of that war.

...Our officers and soldiers only found out after communicating with the ANZAC that after the ANZAC were completely wiped out in 1926, Australia and New Zealand imposed a total news blackout. News about the ANZAC being convicted is strictly forbidden to be mentioned in Australia and New Zealand. Anyone attempting to spread this news in Australia and New Zealand is arrested and imprisoned on various charges.

Through a comprehensive news blackout and information control, ordinary people in Australia and New Zealand believe that the ANZAC were only dishonorably surrounded and wiped out, while the Sino-British War ended in a British victory.

Therefore, these colonial troops possess a baffling stupidity; they believe their white skin is a guarantee of victory. In the early stages of the war, the ANZAC's actions were extremely reckless, often launching foolish charges against the Chinese army when the battle reached a critical moment, as if the Chinese army would be so frightened by seeing their faces that they would drop their weapons and flee.

After a dozen ignominious defeats, the ANZAC finally recognized the combat power of the Chinese army, which in turn gave rise to great fear.

...Fortunately, the arrogance of these colonial troops makes them absolutely unwilling to surrender, to the point where the ANZAC can still hold their positions even when facing annihilation. They would rather be killed in the trenches than have any intention of surrendering. This stupidity has actually helped us hold the line, giving us time to dispatch reinforcements and save the positions.

Based on conversations with some ANZAC survivors after the battle, we found that the ANZAC firmly believe the Chinese army will execute prisoners without hesitation. Even surrendering British soldiers will not be shown mercy. Therefore, these ANZAC soldiers would rather die in battle.

...It is said that the ANZAC do not spare the local natives and will execute prisoners by various cruel means after the battle. The ANZAC soldiers firmly believe that Britain is the most civilized country in the world, so when facing the 'barbaric' Chinese army, they cannot expect any treatment other than execution.

The chaplains in the ANZAC repeatedly transmit a view to the soldiers: China launched an attack on the white world for the sake of Asian revenge. Therefore, China has long ago set out crimes of genocide and crimes against humanity. Britain and the ANZAC have exterminated too many tribes in Asia, so they can never receive China's forgiveness. And God will never forgive believers who surrender to an atheist army..."

The reason Stalin was so impressed by this report was not only that the content described contained a huge amount of information, but also that the way Britain mobilized its troops in the report was very distinctive. Britain used the terms "genocide" and "crimes against humanity," which China had developed during the Asian International Court period, to intimidate the ANZAC, and it really wasn't without basis.

In addition to these threats with a realistic basis, Britain also used the racist view of a "white world" and religious threats of going to hell after death. It must be said that Britain was truly afraid, so it used all the concepts of maintaining white supremacy.

From the American description, Stalin felt that the US military actually bought into this stuff as well. The US military's dissatisfaction with the ANZAC was not directed at the white supremacist views within the ANZAC, but rather at the combat power of the white supremacist ANZAC. That is to say, the views of American soldiers were about the same as those of the ANZAC.

In terms of the sins they had committed, the United States was not behind Britain.

The Soviet strategic analysis department believed that if China won the Pacific War and occupied the entire Pacific region, the United States would face enormous security concerns. The United States would have to move closer to the Soviet Union and request Soviet help. Stalin agreed with such a judgment, so he had considerable expectations for this visit from the US presidential envoy.

However, the content relayed by Molotov began to make Stalin's mood unpleasant. At least in Molotov's description, the Americans blithely stated that the United States was willing to help the Soviet Union ease relations with Germany.

Stalin couldn't quite understand this blithe personality of the Americans. The Soviet Union and Germany were now bordering each other; the Soviet Union had plenty of ways to ease relations with Germany, such as sending a Soviet envoy to Berlin to talk directly with Hitler. The United States and Germany were separated by an ocean, and the US had no ability to directly attack Germany. Moreover, the US Army only had 100,000 men a few years ago; even if they now had 3 million active duty and 10 million reserves, the combat power of the army could not undergo a comprehensive change in just a few years. Even if the US military landed in Germany, they would just be "delivering food." Perhaps the combat power of the German police would be enough to arrest the US military on the coast.

Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov, of course, knew the combat power of the US military. He started from the possibility of a Soviet-German war, mainly wanting to see the United States' influence within the Allied Powers. Now Britain, among the Allied Powers, was being beaten by China. Without the support of the US Navy, British influence in Asia would probably be uprooted.

However, no matter how powerful the US Navy was, it could only fight at sea. Both the Soviet Union and Germany had experience being blockaded at sea by Britain, and adding the United States would not pose a greater threat.

Seeing Stalin's expression recover from unpleasantness to calm, Molotov continued to introduce the views of the American envoy Hopkins: "Comrade General Secretary, the American government asked for our views on the 'Yellow Russia' proposed during the Tsarist era. It seems they still hope for us to go to war with China."

Stalin felt he couldn't listen anymore, and his overall evaluation of the Allied Powers fell even further. The "Yellow Russia" proposed during the Tsarist era referred to Northeast China. Russia certainly had its own ambitions for Northern China; there was nothing to be ashamed of in admitting that. But the "Yellow Russia" theory proposed by Tsarist Russia was built on the basis of the extreme corruption and decline of the Qing government. If the Qing government had been as strong as China is now, Russia would only have sought ways to maintain friendly relations with China.

The Soviet Union's Third Five-Year Plan was about to be successfully completed, and the Soviet Union's war strength had been greatly enhanced. Even so, according to the battle simulations of the General Staff of the Soviet Red Army, if the Soviet Union exerted all its strength to fight the Sino-Japanese combined forces in the Far East, the result would be certain defeat. This battle simulation was not conducted just once or twice, but multiple times.

In several of them, it was presupposed that China and Japan were completely unprepared for the Soviet Union, and the Soviet "Steel Torrent" assembled in the Far East almost ignoring physical reality, completely silently, and launched a surprise attack on China and Japan.

Under such combat conditions, China used its vast territory as a backdrop to pin down the Soviet army, and the Soviet army was ultimately unable to break through China's Yanshan Mountains. Although the Northeast was a very important industrial center for China, China's industrial centers were not limited to the Northeast. Beijing-Tianjin in North China; Yinchuan, Xi'an, and Taiyuan in the Northwest; Wuhan and Xuzhou in the center; Sichuan in the West; the Yangtze River Delta in the East; and the Pearl River Delta in the South all had industrial centers.

If the Soviet army couldn't break through the Yanshan Mountains, it would have to engage in a long-term war of attrition with China. Although the Soviet army exerted all its strength, its logistics supply lines were severely bombed by the Chinese air force and could not maintain supplies. Under impossible preconditions, even if they occupied large areas of Chinese territory, it would leave the Soviet army in a dilemma.

And the result of ending that strategic simulation was a short simulated telegram: "Germany has launched an attack on the Western Soviet Union!"