Chapter 186: The League of Nations in Action

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The League of Nations, abbreviated as the League of Nations, was an international organization formed after the signing of the Treaty of Versailles by the victorious Entente group.

This seemingly huge multinational alliance was founded on one of the humiliating days in German history, the day the Treaty of Versailles officially entered into force on January 10, 1920. The first part of the Treaty of Versailles was even included in the Covenant of the League of Nations.

At that time, not to mention that Reinhardt had not crossed yet, even if he crossed at that time, it would not change the emergence of this alliance. It would be hellish to say that the Germans would willingly accept such an element of coalition management in the League of Nations, which was officially established under the auspices of US President Wilson, and all the countries that declared war on the Axis powers in the Great War and the newly formed countries were its founding members.

Fortunately, President Wilson failed to compete with Britain and France for leadership, resulting in the United States not joining the League of Nations. As a result, the U.S. Senate refused to ratify the Treaty of Versailles and the League of Nations Covenant, and vetoed membership in the League of Nations.

Of course, the above measures of the United States also reduced the role of the Treaty of Versailles, which really helped Germany a lot.

So far, the League of Nations has originally designated the United States, Britain, France, Italy, and Japan as the five permanent members. The United States withdrew early on, followed by Japan and Italy in 1933 and 1937. Historically, Germany should have joined the League of Nations in 1926, because Reinhardt was obstructed by it, and it never had the slightest connection with the League of Nations.

In this way, the so-called League of Nations is now nothing more than a tool for the two permanent members of the United Nations and France to realize their own interests, and there is no fairness at all.

At this moment, the League of Nations under the operation of Britain and France has made new moves.

"We, the League of Nations, should never bow to force! Every member of the League of Nations should unite under the banner of Britain and France to defend the glory and freedom of the League of Nations........." a British speaker spoke eloquently from the podium.

"However, it is absolutely intolerable for one of our internal member states to bully and invade another ally at a time when we need unity the most!" The British speaker first squinted his eyes and looked around, and then sharply said: "The Soviet Union, the country that we were originally going to choose as a new permanent member of the League of Nations, is actually the culprit in the invasion of Poland. ”

The British delegate with fluffy blond hair seemed to be righteous: "I don't know what kind of mentality the Soviet Union, a member of the League of Nations, was in that state of mind to provoke a war with another member state. All I know is that this act itself is already a great contempt and pollution of our League of Nations! Within our League of Nations, there must be no room for such black sheep! ”

As soon as the British delegate finished his speech, he was immediately echoed by the French delegates: "That's right, the French delegate hereby proposes to permanently expel the Soviet Union from our League of Nations!" ”

"Reconsideration!" The representative of the United Kingdom was sympathetic.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that this is a move by Britain and France in order to squeeze out the behemoth of the Soviet Union within the League of Nations and further maintain their dominant position.

The representatives of Britain and France apparently knew all this. It's just that they don't say anything about the distribution of power, and only point the finger at the mistakes of the Soviet Union.

But in fact, as long as the opportunity is taken to expel, the Soviet Union, the only remaining big country in the League of Nations that can compete with Britain and France, the leading power of the League of Nations will not be firmly in the hands of Britain and France.

The League of Nations was originally an international organization promoted by Britain and France in order to realize their own national interests. In this organization, Britain and France could not have allowed the Soviet Union, a behemoth whose ideology was completely opposed to theirs, to exist. The expulsion of the USSR from the League of Nations, they had long had this intention, and what was missing was only a reason.

And now the USSR gave them this reason!

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If there is an example to trust ants on a hot pan, then Khrushchev and Yezhov at this time are very suitable.

The two fronts of Kovalev and Timoshenko fought for more than 20 days, but they still stayed around the border line. In order to urge the two generals to go all out, Stalin decided to send two political cronies, Khrushchev and Yezhov, to strengthen the political and ideological consciousness of the Soviet troops at the front, with the intention of inspiring the troops to fight more bravely.

Unfortunately, it backfired, and Khrushchev and Yezhov, two political experts, blindly gave guidance as soon as they arrived at the front, forcing the two generals, Timoshenko and Kovalev, to pile up many troops with insufficient ammunition on the front line, hoping that the soldiers would crush the Polish defense line with the tactics of crowds.

It's not okay for Kovalev and Timoshenko to disobey, and if they dare to say a word more, they may immediately be labeled as cowardly. In this way, perhaps the fault of the unfavorable attack some time ago was pushed to them by the two politicians.

Well, they can't open the situation anyway, it's better to shut up and let Khrushchev toss around, anyway, the responsibility for their defeat will not be on their own heads.

As a result, tens of thousands of Soviet troops, as stipulated in the Polish army's training manual, clumsily attacked the Polish army's fortifications again and again under the leadership of a group of incompetent grassroots commanders.

In two days, the Soviet army and sea advancing on the whole line lost more than 30,000 soldiers, but the situation still did not open.

Although the efficiency was low, the Soviets still managed to inflict a lot of losses on the Polish army with a high casualty ratio. In time, after dropping tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of corpses, it is not impossible to break through the Polish defense line without reserves.

But the problem was that Stalin had just received a report this morning that the League of Nations had been expelled from the Soviet Union because of the Soviet invasion of Poland. Stalin, who was furious, ordered Khrushchev and Yezhov to tell the two generals that they must take Warsaw within three days in order to raise the prestige of the Soviet Union!

There is a reason why the order was to take Warsaw and not to break through the lines. It was not that Stalin was overjoyed and blindly set military goals, but that Khrushchev and Yezhov, in order to cover up their incompetence, deceived Stalin one day before that they had helped the Soviet generals to take all the enemy troops on the Polish border, and that the Soviet army was advancing into the heart of Poland.

Stalin, who got the news, even commended the two of them by name in public at a meeting held in Moscow on the same day.

Now, according to the reports of Khrushchev and Yezhov, the Soviet army, which annihilated the main force of the Polish army in the east, was almost about to advance around Warsaw. Stalin, who was thousands of miles away, would naturally judge from the report that it was appropriate to take Warsaw in three days.

In the end, the professional military general Timoshenko couldn't help but speak: "It's definitely too late for them to fight here." I suggest that you reply to the chairman, saying that the Polish army has brought in a large number of reinforcements from the Western Front, and that our army needs to spend some more time to destroy it. ”

Khrushchev wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and shook his head: "No, no, no! Making up another lie in order to round out one lie will sooner or later go wrong. ”

"No, it won't!" After all, Timoshenko can be regarded as a battle-hardened Soviet general, although he is much inferior to the German generals, but he is also the tallest of the short among the current Soviet generals.

Timoshenko explained to Khrushchev and Yezhov, who had no clue, the plan he had been thinking about for a long time: "Taking advantage of the time gained this time, General Kovalev and I will mobilize all the fighters we can to attack the Polish positions, and at the same time use the railroad that the Germans have built for us to bring in as much ammunition as possible during this air raid." After a few days of air raids, the troops with ammunition were transferred to charge in a concentrated manner, and nine times out of ten they could take down the already crumbling Polish defensive line! ”

After hearing this, Khrushchev and Yezhov suddenly saw hope, and hurriedly said gratefully to Timoshenko: "The general is worthy of being a famous general of our Soviet Union and a recipient of two Red Banner Medals. If we win this battle, we will definitely vigorously praise the general's commanding talent in front of the chairman! ”

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