Chapter 115
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June 29, 1940
Moscow, Capital of the Soviet Union
"T-That's absurd…"
Lavrentiy Beria, the chief of the NKVD who was said to fear no one in the Soviet Union but Stalin, groaned, feeling a wave of vertigo.
As soon as he received the report that the operation in Germany had succeeded, sparking large-scale strikes and anti-war protests, he had eagerly bragged to the General Secretary, only for it to be turned into a failure by a single speech from that young bastard of a Vice-Chancellor?
Hitler and Goebbels, who had been so unpredictable they gave Beria a headache, were gone, and a government that promised to reconstruct democracy in Germany had been established.
I was inwardly relieved, thinking this government of self-proclaimed capitalists, full of contradictions, would be the easiest for Communism to shake, but does Germany only produce demagogues?
"L-Let's put this on hold for now."