1945 The United States and the Soviet Union divided up the scientific and technological achievements of Germany. The United States got the father of missiles, and what did the Soviet Union get?

1944 10 10 In October, British Prime Minister Churchill sent a personal letter to Stalin. Churchill said in his letter that Nazi Germany launched 4,300 mysterious V-2 missiles at Britain from September 8 of that year, causing a large number of casualties. After reconnaissance by the Royal Air Force, these missiles were designed and developed by the Penemende Rocket Center in Germany, which happened to be located in the attack area of the Soviet Red Army. Churchill asked the Soviet side to allow British experts to enter the attack area of the Red Army in order to collect information on Nazi missiles. Out of traditional wariness against Britain, Stalin regarded Churchill's letter as an important message and immediately instructed the relevant departments to get German missiles before the Western allies.

With the signs of Nazi Germany's failure becoming more and more obvious, the Allies sent secret missions to the front line in order to obtain Germany's advanced military technology first. On June 1945 and 1, the Soviet expert group arrived in Penemende, but some German experts surrendered to the US military with key drawings of the V-2 missile, which made the Soviet side feel embarrassed. It turns out that the United States is also carrying out a top-secret "paper clip" operation, with the aim of letting all German missile experts find missile technology and equipment before the arrival of the Red Army and transport them back to the United States. Thuringia has the largest missile factory in Germany, and the US military took the lead in entering the state. Later, according to the agreement of allied partition occupation, the US military reluctantly withdrew from the location of the missile factory, taking away most valuable equipment. Just 24 hours after the Americans left, Soviet troops entered Thuringia. In the face of people going to empty factories, the Soviet expert group wanted to cry. In order to make up for the loss, Marshal zhukov decided to implement the "bread substitution" plan. Zhukov signed an order to allow the Soviet-occupied areas to open their borders unilaterally, and started all propaganda machines to appeal to all parts of Germany. As long as the Germans who have participated in missile work are willing to cooperate, the Soviet-occupied areas can provide sufficient rations and superior jobs. In Bohnhoff, a small town at the junction of the United States and the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union directly put butter and bread on the edge of the checkpoint, while hanging a slogan: "Come on, there is hope for survival here." This move really worked, and some German experts who did not follow the Americans gathered in the Soviet-occupied area one after another. Helmut Gro troup is one of the most valuable "gains". He is responsible for the research of guidance and control system at Penemende Rocket Center.

Moscow attached great importance to these German experts, and Soviet Minister of Ordnance Industry ustinov made a special trip to Thuringia. After investigation, he decided to set up the nordhausen Research Institute to resume the production of V-2 missile engines and their parts. Since the Soviets had no intuitive concept of missiles, the first step of nordhausen Institute was to let German experts recall and sort out a set of V-2 missile production and assembly processes. Under the supervision of KGB officials, Gro troup smoked his pipe every day, gesticulated with lively gesticulations at several missile structural drawings hanging on the wall, occasionally spitting out some key words in German, while the Soviet experts next to him took notes like students, and countless shorthand symbols on his notebook made outsiders simply unable to understand. Soon, Gro troup and others sorted out the V-2 missile technical manual and production specification outline. In view of the fact that both the United States and the Soviet Union are exerting the waste heat of German missile experts, the western media once fabricated a widely circulated cold war joke: when American and Soviet missiles meet in the air, they can greet each other in the same mother tongue-German.