What is history: it is the echo of the past to the future, the reflection of the future on the past. - Hugo
As we all know, the Second World War brought great disasters to all countries, and countless people died, but in addition to the huge losses caused by the war, in fact, it also promoted the development of science and technology to a certain extent, for example, in World War II, there were many new technologies that were applied to the battlefield, and it can even be said that mastering advanced science can also gain the initiative in the war, so Japan relied on these scientific and technological advantages to dominate the entire Asian region at that time. Germany swept through Europe at that time.
In World War II, Germany's technological superiority can be compared with the United States at that time, although Japan also has certain technical advantages, but also can only be in the Asian scope, compared with the United States and Germany, Japan simply can not occupy any technical advantages, and after experiencing many technological revolutions, Germany's strength has been greatly developed, for a time, Germany with rich resources became the most developed european industrial country at that time, but how strong is Germany's military industrial strength?
In fact, in some existing data, we can see how the strength of Germany's military industry was at that time. First of all, Germany had the most advanced mass production machine tools at that time, and in the late stages of the war, Germany's production for the final victory also reached the explosion stage, although Germany also suffered a large number of air raids, but its industrial production continued to rise until the autumn of 1944, during this year, Germany's latest production of weapons were enough to meet 2 million people, including 130 infantry divisions and 40 armored divisions, which shows how terrible Germany is in industrial production.
Perhaps it is precisely because of such a production strength that Germany dares to clamor so much, but it is still a bit delusional to think of a country to fight against the countries of the world. Later, with the advancement of the war, Germany still ushered in the final defeat, for which the sinful German fascists naturally had to pay a heavy price for the war, including huge reparations. However, in the process of this compensation, there was such a small episode that it had a certain impact on the post-war world pattern.
This episode is Germany's war reparations to the Soviet Union, it is reasonable to say that the Soviet Union and Germany in World War II were a pair of endless rivals, so after Germany's defeat, the Soviet Union must have slaughtered Germany fiercely, but the Soviet Union was very unexpected to give up the 5 billion US dollars in compensation, what is the matter? In fact, the reason why the Soviet Union wanted to give up this huge amount of reparations also had a certain purpose. It turned out that the shrewd Stalin at that time had already set his sights on another place, that is, the industrial zone of Germany. In order to negotiate with the United States, Stalin preferred to give up the reparations and conducted effective negotiations with the United States on this condition, and expressed his hope that these German machinery could be moved to the Soviet Union, and in the eyes of the Americans, these machinery were also available in the United States, so he agreed to the Soviet Union's request.
These German machinery was transported back to the Soviet Union, it received great attention, in order to really make good use of these machinery, the Soviets not only studied its working principles, but also provided a lot of inspiration for future scientific and technological innovation, so that the Soviet Union in the industry has also been greatly developed, soon after, the Soviet economy has also been significantly improved, and these have made the United States unexpected Ah, so on the surface Stalin gave up 5 billion US dollars for a while some losses, But in reality, it was just a shrewd trick of his.