USSR - Germany (inducing Nazis) military cooperation in 1918-1941

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USSR - Germany (inducing Nazis) military cooperation in 1918-1941

Belarusians make a lot of great articles , thy leaving Muscovite influence zone for sure, of cos 99% Muscovites don't even want to read about it , so what ? LOL)))

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German aces in the sky above Lipetsk. Why did the Red Army collaborate with the Reichswehr?
It is impossible to acquaint you in detail with the 550-page book by Katja Gloger "Alien Friends", which tells about the history of relations between Russia and Germany for five centuries. The story, which a well-known German journalist, who worked for many years as a correspondent for the magazine Stern in Moscow, knows very well. We decided to stop, and that's pretty concise, on one single aspect: the secret cooperation of the Reichswehr and the Red Army in the days of the Weimar Republic.
Cooperation began in prison
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Carl Radek. Photo: Wikipedia

The beginning of this "brotherhood in arms" (the author's expression) received, paradoxically, the Bolsheviks' attempt to overthrow the German government and make a revolution in the country. On the instructions of the Bolshevik Party, in November 1918, Karl Radek was sent to Germany. A brilliant agitator, a skilful diplomat, a convinced Marxist, he knew well the country in which he lived for many years in exile.

Lenin sent Karl Radek to the Germans to kindle the fire of the world revolution. But the fire did not work out, the Spartak uprising was suppressed, Radek was arrested and put in Moabit prison, where particularly dangerous state criminals were held. In fact, he was threatened with the death penalty, but very soon prominent politicians and industrialists of the Weimar Republic realized that a prominent revolutionary, Lenin's favorite, ideally suited the role of an intermediary between two rogue countries - Germany and Soviet Russia. Germany lost the First World War with all the ensuing consequences, and the Bolshevik government was officially officially recognized by no one in the world at all.

Economic and military cooperation was more important to both sides than ideological differences. Walther Rathenau, head of one of the largest German concerns AEG, a future foreign minister and a very influential figure in the Weimar Republic, easily found a common language with a fiery revolutionary who was visited in the prison cell. In 1920 Radek was released, he left home, and a year later both countries entered into a trade agreement: German investments and German technology in exchange for Russian raw materials. Earlier, we agreed with Krupp on the delivery of several hundred locomotives. The economic blockade against Soviet Russia, initiated by the United Kingdom and France, was broken.

Reichswehr's weapons for Soviet Russia
Was broken (only not publicly, but secretly) and the military blockade of actually demilitarized Germany, which was pressured by the stringent conditions of the Weimar Dictate, as they called the Treaty of Versailles with the victorious countries in the First World War. Germany lost 10 percent of its territory, pledged to pay reparations, to compensate for the damage inflicted during the hostilities to the Entente countries and individual citizens. Germany was forbidden to have many modern types of weapons: combat aircraft, tanks, warships of large tonnage ...

Sent back to Berlin in 1922, Karl Radek already negotiated specific forms of military cooperation with the Reichswehr commander, Colonel-General Hans von Seeckt. In the same year, the Weimar Republic and Soviet Russia signed an agreement in Rapallo, restored diplomatic relations, and both countries became for years major political, economic and military partners. Thanks to Siemens, Dneproges was built, the construction of the giant Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works would have been impossible without German equipment and production facilities. But, as the author of the book "Alien Friends" emphasizes, Germany became the main supplier of weapons to the Soviet Union.

Sprayed from the aircraft gas - five kilometers from homes
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Soviet and German officers in Brest in 1939. Photo: Wikipedia
In response, the Germans, bypassing the Treaty of Versailles, recruited and tested in the Soviet Union their military aircraft, tanks, heavy artillery, chemical weapons. In Fili, then the suburbs of Moscow, they decided to build the Junkers, in Lipetsk in 1925 a flying school was opened in which German pilots learned to operate in battle "Fockers", an armored school of the Reichswehr was established near Kazan, "the Kama object". According to Katya Gloger, at least fourteen cadets of this school became later, under Hitler, generals of the Wehrmacht. The equipment and maintenance of the school was paid for by the Germans, who equipped training classes, workshops and a tank training ground. Of course, tanks, declared as tractors, were also brought from Germany. The "Kama facility" was visited, in particular, by the general (during the Weimar Republic still a major), Guderian (Heinz Guderian), who in 1941 broke through to Moscow with his tank army.

In the town of Ivashchenkovo, which later became known as Chapayevsky after several renaming, a plant for the production of chemical agents was built with the participation of the German firm Hugo Stolzenberg. He worked until the very end of the USSR. At the same time, in the mid-1920s, not far from Saratov, the Tomka test site was equipped to test mustard gas, phosgene and chlorine.

Another test base of the chemical war was located very close to Moscow, in the Podosinki. The records of two German officers on the inspection visit to the Soviet Union in September 1926 remained in the archives. There, in particular, they write about their concerns about the fact that the test site is located only five kilometers from the houses, that is, the gas sprayed from the aircraft can poison the villagers. But the Soviet side was not afraid. "All our wishes are fulfilled," the author of the book, Major-General Werner von Blomberg, who visited Soviet Russia in 1928, quotes.

Of course, from this brotherhood in arms, the Soviet side also won. She received modern military equipment. Joint tests of combat aircraft and tanks, training centers in which there were Soviet cadets, participation of the high command of the Red Army in the staff exercises of the Reichswehr in Germany, all this benefited the Soviet armed forces.

The military-political cooperation of the USSR and Germany, which for some time was almost collapsed after Hitler came to power, unfolded with new force after the conclusion of the so-called Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (to be exact, Hitler-Stalin) in 1939. The USSR and Nazi Germany divided Poland, which was noted even by a joint military parade in Brest. The Soviet Union received spare parts for aircraft, engines for tanks, Zeiss equipment. Well, in response - until June 22, 1941 - in the "third Reich" came from the Soviet echelons of oil, food, strategic raw materials necessary for war.
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