Struggle in Soviet Russia

Chapter 456: Dresden

"Crack!"

The flash of the camera flashed under the steps in front of the cloister, recording the historic moment.

Standing in the back row of the crowd, Victor saw that Comrade Stalin had stood up from his chair and turned to shake hands with the thin, skeleton-like President Roosevelt. He silently moved two steps to the right and hid. Behind Antonov, and with the help of his figure, he quickly walked towards the palace gate.

Walking to the place where the elevator in the palace is located, a second lieutenant in the uniform of the People's Commissariat of National Security was already waiting beside the milky white elevator door. Seeing Victor coming, the second lieutenant hurriedly greeted him and handed the document in his hand to Victor. , and then gave him a military salute.

Victor didn't speak, just nodded towards the second lieutenant, indicating that the other party could leave, then opened the elevator door and stepped in.

The elevator is an old-fashioned elevator installed more than half a century ago. Tsar Nicholas II once used it. Today, although it can still operate normally, it feels a little bumpy. Of course, the reason why this old elevator was not replaced in the previous renovation was simply because President Roosevelt lived on the first floor and he would not go upstairs, so this elevator would not be used.

The elevator went up to the second floor in the bumpy ride. After the crisp bell rang, Victor opened the elevator door and walked out quickly.

There are many staff working in the corridor outside the elevator. As of today, the summit meeting of the three countries has officially ended. An hour ago, the final agreement was just signed. At the same time, the representatives of the United Kingdom and the United States will leave Yalta, and at the same time Comrade Stalin will return to Moscow by train.

Just now, Victor received a report from the previous second lieutenant, saying that there was information passed from Moscow. Therefore, after taking the final group photo, Victor couldn't wait to leave secretly.

During the meeting of the three leaders of the Yalta countries, the open and secret struggle between the alliance and the British was also ongoing.

In Persia, that is, Iran, an Iranian government force supported by the British launched an attack on the Kurdish-inhabited areas and clashed with the local Kurdish armed forces, causing casualties on both sides.

In Greece, the British army and the Greek provisional government army supported by the British army also had a series of armed conflicts with the army led by the Communist Party of Greece. Several cities under control were bombed, which further sharpened the conflict between the two sides.

In Italy, the British and American troops confronted Yugoslavia in Trieste. Tito took a tough attitude. He believed that the port of Trieste should belong to Yugoslavia, and Yugoslavia had the right to take it back. At the same time, this can also be seen as an attack on the Italian fascists. punishment. But Tito's views are obviously not supported by the United Kingdom and the United States. Therefore, the confrontation between the two sides in the Trieste area is very tense, and there is a possibility of misfires at any time.

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All in all, from Moscow's point of view, the hostility of the British to the Alliance is rapidly escalating. This old imperialism, which was once almost breathless by the Germans, but is now starting to jump, is becoming more and more restless.

In today's Moscow's external vision, the Americans are obviously friends, while the only enemies are the British, not only because of the wrong attitude of the British, but also because the United Kingdom belongs to a European country.

Yes, like the United States today, the alliance does not think that it will become one of the hegemons of the post-war world. Moscow's main focus is also focused on Europe. Of course, the Far East is also one of the issues that Moscow considers, but its important Sex is nowhere near as prominent as in Europe.

This can also be seen from the attitude of the alliance towards China. Even now, Comrade Stalin and his staff believe that dividing China into two is the safest, and Moscow has not considered the need to serve in the Far East. Seek more benefits for yourself, after all, that would mean direct enemies of the Americans.

And it turns out that the attitude of the Alliance is consistent with the attitude of the British, who also regard the Alliance as their main post-war geopolitical opponent. Yes, Churchill is not so much anti-communism as it is the Soviet Union. , against the Soviet Union, which would threaten British hegemony in Europe.

Crossing the corridor and into the white hall that was being cleaned up, Victor stopped by a floor-to-ceiling window.

He looked downstairs through the floor-to-ceiling windows. From this position, he could just see the crowd gathered downstairs. At this time, Comrade Stalin was walking side by side with Churchill on the edge of the flower bed, and beside them was Roosevelt in a wheelchair.

Victor looked downstairs for a while, and when he looked back, he naturally landed on the file bag in his hand.

He put the document bag on a small flower stand by the window, groped his pocket and took out a pack of cigarettes, lit one for himself, then picked up the document bag again, loosened the seal on the mouth of the bag, and put the contents inside. Several documents and a large stack of photos were taken out.

Victor didn't look at the file first, but flipped through the thick stack of photos.

The contents of the photo will make people feel uncomfortable. Among them are either scorched corpses, or piles of corpses that are still steaming together. .

Victor just looked at a few photos, and lost interest in the rest. He put the photos back in the file bag, took the files again, and looked through them one by one.

The first document is from the Department of the Middle East, which says that the King David Hotel in Jerusalem was bombed. The attackers did not know what means to use, and secretly installed a large amount of explosives in this hotel, so that the bomb After the explosion, the entire hotel was blown up.

The reason why the foreign intelligence department paid attention to the bombing was because the King David Hotel in Jerusalem is not only a hotel, but also the administrative headquarters and military headquarters of the British Empire in Palestine. A symbol of colonial rule in Palestine.

According to the analysis of the intelligence department, the attack is likely to be planned by a Jewish radical organization. In that arrest, a large number of radicals who aspired to Zion were arrested, including Mrs. Meir, Rabin, Ben Gurion, Begin, Sharon, Moses Dayan, etc. A person of high prestige among the Jews.

Similarly, according to the analysis of the intelligence services, this attack by the Jews was not simply to fight back against the British. Their deeper purpose should be to shake the British's dominance in Palestine.

Don't think that the Jews during World War II were very weak, they were only weak in Europe, but in the United States and in Palestine in the Middle East, the Jews were also very arrogant.

Since Victor began to pay attention to the situation in the Middle East, the Foreign Intelligence Bureau has also begun to actively expand the intelligence network in the Middle East. Unfortunately, it is not easy to arrange the intelligence network in the Middle East into the Jewish "kibbutz". Therefore, so far, the informant network of the Middle East Division of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau is still mainly concentrated in the Arab group, and the sources of intelligence have been greatly restricted.

Again, Viktor's focus on intelligence issues was largely influenced by his past life memories. In Victor's view, as the war comes to an end, the work focus of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau of the People's Commissariat for National Security will naturally need to change accordingly. If the course of world history does not change, with the end of the war, the Cold War will soon end. Come, and in the state of the Cold War, the Foreign Intelligence Bureau will naturally pay more attention to the situation in those hot spots.

Historically, in the decades since the end of World War II, is there any place in the world that has been more of a hotspot than the Middle East?

As for the Palestinian area, if the course of history does not change, then with the end of World War II, the war between the Jews and the Arabs will soon break out, and the contradictions between the two sides will continue. In places like this, the alliance will expand its influence. The best choice for power.

After reading the document carefully, Victor took out a pen and made some simple instructions at the end of the document. Then he closed it again, stuffed it back into the document bag, and then put the second document picked up.

The second document is from the Berlin intelligence station-since it resumed normal operation, the activity of the Berlin intelligence station has recovered very quickly. Up to now, the information sent by the intelligence station has become more and more frequent. And it also proves that the situation in Berlin is spiraling out of control.

The previous photos were obviously sent back with this intelligence. The content involved in the intelligence was a propaganda operation being instigated by the Germans, a large-scale propaganda operation against the Allied air raid on Dresden. In order to make this propaganda action in place, Goebbels even sent reporters to those neutral third-party countries that had been dismissive.

Just two days ago, the Anglo-American Air Force launched an unprecedented air raid on the eastern German city of Dresden. During the continuous bombing that lasted for nearly two days, the Anglo-American Allied Air Force dropped nearly 4,000 tons on the city. bombs, which contained a large number of incendiary bombs.

In addition, judging from the bombing strategy adopted by the United Kingdom and the United States, it is obvious that they intend to completely wipe the city from the earth.

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