I had gone to
Minsk, on an invitation from 'Devyat' ' to go and see where the new fortifications, hardening the city, will be built. He was very enthousiastic as spending on fortifications has doubled since the start of the program, and 'Devyat' ', being a builder at heart dreams of a fully fortified border like the Maginot-line. He is ready to settle for current investment levels as the amount of units to man such a border line has not been deployed yet. As we got to the foundation of the westernmost Machine-Gun Bunker, less than a kilometer from the Polish Border, I was motioned towards a workman's shed, that had been equipped with telecommunications, a telephone call for me, again, if they need to know, they always know where to find me, it is not clear how this works, but they just do. None of us knows the true extent of the Secret Committee's network, information being, of course compartimentalised. It was 'Tri' on the telephone, and he was very cheerful:
"You will soon read about the non-aggression pact that has just been signed with Germany right here in the Kremlin. It has been dubbed the Molotov-Von Neurath Pact by the Capitalist media (named after the two Foreign Ministers who signed it). The Germans will surely attack us anyway sooner or later, but what makes me so happy today are all the secret clauses, negotiated in secret for months now. The secret part of the deals stipulates that Germany will recognise, or at least not interfere with our claims on the Baltic States, Karelia and Eastern Poland. That last one is, for now unenforceable, as Poland is a member of the Allies, but if the Germans were to take over Poland they have to give us the Eastern half, or face a 2 front war with us and the Allies at once. The Germans also promised a buffer-state between German, and Soviet Poland, but it would just be a puppet of Germany without it's own Army, so essentially a symbolic concession. We can now finally roll our muscles to take what is rightly ours and be sure to get away with it!... I'm drinking champagne right now, so should you."
I looked towards Eastern Poland, and thought to myself, that all of those forests, and a few cities behind them, would be ours sooner rather than later, and probably without a bloody war, well not for us anyway. Let us rejoice, and plan the next step now. We should wait a little not to make it seem like these claims were part of the deal. Stalin has hinted
Finland should be the first government to hand over part of their territory under threat of war...
(Hindsight laughing with it's deep, evil, laugh)
Greetings,
'Odin'
P.S.
9pm Moscow Time,
Germany is Mobilising it's Army...