Struggle in Soviet Russia

Victor's thoughts were interrupted by the loud ringing of the phone. He turned to look at the constantly ringing phone on the table, hesitated for a while, and then reached out and picked up the receiver and put it to his ear.

"Good evening, Vega, I'm Rokossovsky," unexpectedly, the voice on the phone was not someone from Moscow, but the long-lost Comrade Rokossovsky from Czechoslovakia .

"Good evening, Kostenka," Viktor said with a smile on his stern face, switching the receiver to the other hand, "I was surprised to receive your call, of course, also very happy."

"I'm in Czechoslovakia, a little place called Milovice," Rokossovsky laughed on the phone. "There's nothing in this **** place, even the communication line just got connected today. ... by the way, how are you in Karelia, is your work going well?"

"Not bad, how about you?" Victor asked rhetorically, standing on tiptoe and resting his **** on the edge of the desk.

"It's not very good," Rokossovsky said bluntly. "All the work is complicated and always misses the point. Of course, the most troublesome are those restless Yugoslavs. It is difficult for us to force They make any concessions."

Viktor knows that Rokossovsky has now been appointed as the commander of the Soviet combat group in Czechoslovakia, and recently, according to the resolution of the General Staff, the Soviet army will continue to maintain its military presence in Eastern European countries, At the same time, large-scale disarmament work will also follow.

Moscow's opinion is to prepare to move the troops originally stationed in Romania, Bulgaria and other places to the northeast. At the same time, the garrison in Austria, northern Yugoslavia, and northern Italy will shrink in the direction of Hungary and Czechoslovakia, so as to be Czechoslovakia, With Hungary and southern Poland as the center, a large-scale strategic military cluster aimed at radiating and controlling the entire Eastern European region will be formed. .

At present, the integration and redeployment of the cluster is still in progress, and it will take a long time before the final completion.

As Rokossovsky himself said, the disarmament work is not the most complicated, and the most troubling thing is that he also needs to do mediation work between the Yugoslavs and the United Kingdom and the United States to prevent the two parties from directly fighting each other. stand up.

With the end of the war against Germany, the situation in Europe is becoming more and more complicated. Among them, the Balkans, known as the powder keg of Europe, are still the focus. In what is now the Balkans, there is not only a civil war between the Greeks, but also a sudden merger between the Yugoslavs and the Bulgarians, and a territorial dispute between the Yugoslavs and Italy.

To be honest, as a military strongman in the Balkans, after the war, Tito's ambition to build a United State of the Great Yugoslavs is becoming more and more obvious. I don't know how he did his work. Let the Bulgarians accept the decision to merge Yugoslavia with Bulgaria without communicating with Moscow. Obviously, after this news was announced, it was not only opposed by Moscow, but also opposed by the United Kingdom and the United States. Therefore, under strong international pressure, the Bulgarians had to abandon this plan.

Although Moscow secured the independence of Bulgaria and forced Sofia to finally take its side, it also led to a marked deterioration in the relationship between Yugoslavia and the Union, and as a result, Tito did not agree with the dispute over the Trieste issue. Following Moscow's advice, he was very tough in the face of British and American pressure.

Earlier this year, the Yugoslav army led by Tito first captured the Istrian peninsula in Italy, and then occupied the Italian industrial city of Trieste, and publicly announced that these two regions would be merged into Yugoslavia and become territory of Yugoslavia.

The ambitions of the Yugoslavs were strongly protested by the Italian government of Archid Gasbelli supported by the United Kingdom and the United States. The armies of the two sides faced off in the Trieste area for a time, and even created a series of military frictions, but It must be admitted that the Yugoslav People's Liberation Army, which grew up in the war against Germany, was strong in combat. Although the Italians were armed by the United Kingdom and the United States, they still suffered heavy losses in the confrontation and conflict between the two sides. In the end, the United Kingdom and the United States had to negotiate with the Yugoslavs, suggesting that Trieste should be divided into two areas, A and B. District A was temporarily controlled by the United Kingdom and the United States, while District B was controlled by Yugoslavia.

It is certainly acceptable for Moscow that the United Kingdom and the United States can make some concessions, but Comrade Tito does not think so. After all, what he needs is not half of Trieste, but the whole. The most important thing is that what he values ​​is the relatively well-preserved industrial area of ​​Trieste, and that area is basically classified in area A. As for area B, it is completely rural, so Tito cannot accept it at all. such a suggestion.

In this way, the problem of Yugoslavia has not been resolved until now, and the contradiction between the two sides has become more and more acute. Of course, Washington will inevitably threaten the Yugoslavs with nuclear weapons again, claiming that if Tito's army does not withdraw, they will use it. Nuclear bombing of Belgrade - what is nuclear blackmail? This is nuclear blackmail. As long as the negotiation fails, the threat of nuclear weapons will be sacrificed immediately.

Hearing Rokossovsky's complaint, Victor smiled and said, "Don't worry too much, if nothing else happens, I think the situation may have changed in the last few days."

There was a loud noise on the other end of the phone, as if someone was talking next to him, and immediately, Rokossovsky said, "Wait a moment, a new telegram is coming."

Afterwards, Viktor heard a "click" from the phone, and it should be Rokossovsky who placed the phone on the table.

At this time, the opposite voice was not isolated, and vaguely, someone could still hear the voice of someone talking. Victor listened carefully, as if he heard someone saying "Vladimir Sviridov", "" Hungary" or something, Viktor guessed and guessed that the person mentioned on the other side should be Vladimir Petrovich Sviridov, the current vice-chairman of the Hungarian Joint Control Committee.

The so-called Hungarian Joint Control Committee was jointly established by representatives of the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom. All political and military affairs in Hungary are under the responsibility of this committee. Considering the absolute advantage of the alliance in Hungary, Sviridov is this The vice-chairman of the committee is actually equivalent to the emperor of Hungary.

After about half a minute, there was another soft click from the telephone receiver, and then Rokossovsky's voice came again: "Vega, did something happen that I don't understand? Why is the disarmament? Work was requested to be suspended? And Comrade Vladimir Petrovich Sviridov forwarded the order of the General Staff to me to hand over the Tucums armory to the Yugoslavs?"

Victor smiled and was about to say something when he heard the phone ringing suddenly in the receiver. Don't ask, it was another call from Rokossovsky's side.

"Ah, I'm sorry," sure enough, Rokossovsky didn't wait for him to speak, and then he said, "It's a call from Berlin. I'm afraid we can only go so far. Goodbye, Vega, if tomorrow I'll get back to you when I have time. I always feel like something's going to happen, hopefully it won't be a **** war."

"Goodbye, Kostenka," Viktor didn't reveal anything to the other party. If nothing else, Rokossovsky would know what happened in a while.

Putting down the receiver, Viktor sighed. He knew that the order sent by the General Staff to Rokossovsky must have something to do with the test that was underway in Kazakhstan.

As I said before, this nuclear explosion test is directly related to many policies of the alliance for a period of time in the future, and within the scope of Eastern Europe, it will directly affect the offensive and defensive posture of the Soviet army.

Yes, on the Trieste issue, Moscow did not want to support Yugoslavia; on the Greek issue, Moscow did not want to directly give strong support to the KKE; of course, on the Austrian issue, neither did the alliance. Without the ambition to enter, they willingly handed over the dominance directly to the British and American parties. In the final analysis, the most direct reason for the alliance to make concessions has nothing to do with any factor, only the nuclear bomb in the hands of the Americans. This is the answer to all questions.

In the same sentence, the two nuclear bombs dropped by the Americans on Japan really frightened Moscow. In order not to cause irritation to the Americans and avoid the direct outbreak of a catastrophic conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States, Moscow had to maintain many issues. Calmness, it can even be said to adopt a restrained attitude, while in the country's foreign strategy, it is completely defensive.

But now, the alliance's own nuclear weapons are about to be born, so the defense that was maintained before will be quickly discarded in a short period of time, and the first signs of it must be the sensitive European regions and the brink of civil war. China, and even Turkey, Iran and other southern regions around the Soviet Union.

One thing that must be seen clearly is that in terms of military potential, the alliance is always a continental country, and the Americans are a maritime country. Therefore, in terms of the overall strength of the army, the alliance occupies an absolute advantage. In today's European continent , If the Americans do not have the advantage from nuclear weapons, then the British and American allies will be at an absolute disadvantage in the issue of confronting the alliance.