Struggle in Soviet Russia

In fact, for the current Viktor, whether to marry or who to marry is not his special concern. If it is described in a hypocritical cliché, it means that he has dedicated his life to the great proletarian revolution. The cause, dedicated to the Soviets, dedicated to the Bolshevik Party. If he is telling the truth, it is that he has experienced enough women that he can use the little relationship between men and women, and there is not much left. If it is not because he is worried about Comrade Stalin's unhappiness, he even I would rather find a random woman out of the few women around me and get married.

As the saying goes, "Once upon a time, the sea was difficult to become water, except that Wushan is not a cloud". After experiencing too many splendid red dust, the so-called love has become a dispensable embellishment. There is a great career ahead, who will do it again. What kind of love do you want?

"It seems to be Comrade Zhukov," Varenka, who was driving in front of him, suddenly said when Victor was bored looking at the photos, "Is the girl next to him his daughter?"

Hearing this, Victor subconsciously raised his head and looked out at the street through the car window.

At this time, the car just turned from the Red Square and went to Tver Street... Of course, this street is not called "Tver" now, but "Gorky Street". In addition, it is also far away. Not as bustling and lively as later generations.

"On the left," Varenka reminded Viktor when he saw Viktor turn his head to look out the right window, "they seem to be going to that bakery."

Victor turned his head and looked at the car window on the other side. Sure enough, he soon found Zhukov in military uniform on the side of the road. At this time, beside the comrade Marshal, there was another man with a slightly fat body. A little girl who is about fifteen or sixteen years old.

Although the relationship with Zhukov was not very good, Victor still knew something about the family situation of the marshal comrade. He knew that Zhukov had two daughters, and the one walking beside him at this time should be the eldest daughter Ella.

Comrade Zhukov also clearly recognized Viktor's car. His pace slowed down a bit, and he deliberately turned his head and looked in the direction of the car.

Victor didn't ask Varenka to stop the car. As mentioned earlier, he didn't have a good relationship with Comrade Zhukov, or at least they didn't know each other very well. Of course, he wasn't interested in stopping the car specifically to chat with him.

The car quickly drove past Zhukov and his daughter. After a while, Victor turned his head and looked out the rear window. At this moment, the figures of the father and daughter were blurred.

Turning around again, Victor pursed his lips, but he was thinking about Comrade Zhukov.

As one of the closest people to Comrade Stalin, Victor knew long ago that Comrade Stalin and Comrade Zhukov did not have a good relationship. In Viktor's view, the reason why the relationship between the two is not good is that they are both people with strong personalities. Comrade Zhukov always contradicts Comrade Stalin and insists on his own position on certain military decision-making issues. Moreover, during the several years of war, with the brilliant victories in successive battles, Comrade Zhukov became more and more arrogant, more and more arrogant, and more and more contemptuous of others.

During the war, Comrade Stalin certainly needed to maintain a restrained attitude towards such a subordinate, but the more restrained he was, the deeper the contradiction between the two would be. burst out.

In addition, in Viktor's view, in addition to being arrogant and looking down on people, Comrade Zhukov has the biggest problem, that is, he doesn't know what restraint is, and he can't control his mouth. As a soldier , he doesn't know what kind of issues he can have a say in, and what kind of issues he should keep silent.

Earlier, when the Germans signed the letter of unconditional surrender, the comrade Marshal was interviewed by a reporter from the Associated Press. When he spoke, he did not get permission from the People's Committee for National Defense or the People's Committee for Foreign Affairs at all.

Some people may say that Britain and the United States did provide a lot of assistance to the Soviet Union during the war.

But it must be emphasized that this statement itself lacks political awareness. First of all, on the issue of "military aid", Moscow has a completely different position from that of the United Kingdom and the United States. The reason for this is that, on the one hand, Moscow does have The intention is to cheat on the issue of aid. On the other hand, it is also because of the mistakes of the United Kingdom and the United States that Moscow was caught.

You must know that the first time the Soviet Union asked the United States for military assistance was just a few days after the German offensive was launched. To be more precise, it was on June 29, 1941. Comrade Tove submitted a list of applications for aid to the United States. At the time, President Roosevelt accepted the list, and in subsequent negotiations, the two sides agreed that the Soviet Union would repay the debt to the United States after the war was over.

In other words, when the two sides negotiated for the first time, the Soviet Union sought assistance from the United States in the form of war loans. The two sides even launched several rounds of negotiations for this, and finally settled on a price.

But unfortunately, in June 1941, when isolationism prevailed in the United States, the Republicans seized the opportunity of Roosevelt's attempt to aid the Soviets and launched a frantic attack on him, which eventually led to the abortion of this aid project. .

In the following months, Washington arranged for Hopkins to visit the Soviet Union, under the guise of aid, to study the war situation in the Soviet Union. At the time, Washington believed that the Soviets were on the verge of defeat, and with this in mind, George Marshall, in a report to the White House, declared that the value of Soviet resistance was to provide enough buffer time for the West. Certain military assistance to Moscow is necessary.

It is against this background that the United Kingdom and the United States came up with an "Atlantic Charter" in August, which established the intention of "joint allocation of resources" among the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union.

What is "joint allocation of resources"? To put it bluntly, the Americans will provide military assistance, and then the British will first select what they need, and then the remaining part will be handed over to the Soviets to use. In other words, what the Soviet Union can get is the British. leftover.

In this way, the first batch of aid materials began to be shipped from the beginning of 1942 to the Soviet Union, and the real military aid to the Soviet Union began only after the victory of the Battle of Moscow.

In the initial period after the war, the United States and the Soviet Union quarreled with each other over the issue of aid. Moscow’s reasons for fighting back against Washington included two aspects: first, the Soviets paid a huge price for fighting against the Germans, which also dragged Britain and the United States. The Germans were saved and their losses were avoided, so those aids from the Americans should have been free and justified compensation for the huge price paid by the Soviet Union. Second, the Anglo-American aid was unfair. What the Soviet Union received was left over by the British. Therefore, the Soviet Union was not obliged to repay the aid at the price offered by the Americans.

In general, the post-war debate between the United States and the Soviet Union mainly has two fundamental points: the Americans unilaterally exaggerated the role and strength of their aid to the Soviet Union, and denied the role of the Soviet Union in the anti-fascist war. The Soviet Union emphasized the cruelty of the Great Patriotic War and the important role of the Soviet Red Army in defeating fascist Germany, denying the role played by Britain and the United States in this war.

This is the public opinion war between the United States and the Soviet Union, and they are **** for tat with each other.

And what Comrade Zhukov said in the face of Western reporters was thrown out in this situation. There is no doubt that he agreed with the position of the Americans, slapped Moscow in the face, and then considered his identity. The peculiarity, just imagine, how could Comrade Stalin not be annoyed? To be honest, ten years ago, Comrade Zhukov would probably have been labelled a "traitor" and he would have been shot and killed. Now Comrade Stalin is just criticizing him for being arrogant. Face it.

A soldier is a soldier, an armed force that defends the country and defends sovereignty. It is not a politician who formulates major policies of the country, or a politician who speaks on behalf of the entire country. In any country, once the soldiers start to intervene in political issues, then this The country is not far from riots, because politicians can only rely on their mouths if they want to be in power, and soldiers never like to use their mouths, they like to use their guns.

In addition, from Comrade Stalin's attitude towards Comrade Zhukov, Victor can also perceive a problem, that is, in the past few years of war, several small groups have appeared in the Soviet Red Army system, which are military interest groups. It is a sign of taking shape and beginning to develop, which is not conducive to the stability of the state power. Therefore, Comrade Stalin's suppression of Comrade Zhukov is actually a suppression of interest groups in the military.

Today's Victor seems to have formed a very obscure mindset to some extent. When he considers political issues, he likes to think from the perspective of Comrade Stalin. What kind of means to solve the problem, what is his starting point, what are the means of maintaining balance, and so on.

This kind of mindset, to a certain extent, helped Viktor maintain a correct position in politics, and at the same time, it seemed to lead him in an indescribable direction unconsciously.