Chapter 588: Does the Colony Give It?
Relations between Britain and the USSR were not good.
Because of ideological problems, Britain has always been extremely hostile to the Soviet Union, even if it once wanted to ask the Soviet Union for help on the Polish issue, it was only on the surface, and in the heart, Britain would never agree with a country with a different system from its own.
It can even be said that even if Britain identifies with Germany, it will not identify with the Soviet Union, and the political system is quite important.
But now, Britain has no choice.
Now, it has nothing to do with ideology, and at a critical juncture of life and death for the UK, what will the UK do to survive the crisis? One of the necessary ones is to contact any power that can be contacted, such as the Soviet Union!
The Soviet Union and Germany seem to be friendly, for example, even aircraft carriers, the Soviet Union has placed orders with Germany, but the relationship between the two countries may be bad at any time.
Not to mention anything else, take the Spanish War as an example, Germany and the Soviet Union at that time each supported their forces, and even personally dispatched troops to fight a ping-pong battle in Spain.
Although on the surface the two sides are very friendly, in reality, they have already fought each other.
At the same time, the Soviet Union also had ambitions, that is, to export redism to the whole of Europe, which would just touch Germany's interests.
What should the USSR do in this situation? Continue to watch?
As long as it is provoked, the Soviet Union has the possibility of entering the war, and only when the Soviet Union holds back Germany from the east, Britain will be able to survive!
At such a time, Churchill put aside his hatred of the Soviet Union and personally sent people to the Soviet Union to liaise, hoping that the Soviet Union would see the situation clearly and act as soon as possible.
In the face of the initiative of the British ambassador Guise, Stalin was very calm: "You want to invite us, the Soviet Union, to join this war in Europe? What good did this do for us, the USSR? ”
Don't take people for fools.
Now, what good is it for the USSR to join the warband? To relieve the British siege, in the end it was the British who benefited, okay? When the Soviet Union was just founded, the European capitalist countries led by Britain and France were eyeing the Soviet Union, supporting the white bandits in the Soviet Union, and allowing the Soviet Union to fight a civil war for a long time.
Now, pretend to be a good person?
"Mr. Stalin, you are wise, you should be able to see that if Germany unifies Europe, it will definitely be the biggest enemy of the Soviets, and the essence of Germany now is to constantly expand and expand abroad, and any treaty is just a piece of waste paper for them, and now they can still have good relations with the Soviet Union, which shows that they are afraid of the Soviet Union, if the Soviet Union does not do it now, and wait until Germany does it first, it will be the same as France now!"
Guise could only constantly play up the threat of the Germans, because he really didn't have any other hole cards.
"So, if we do it, what will Britain do to help us?" Stalin suddenly changed his words and asked.
It was you, the British, who invited us from the Soviet Union to join the war group, so there must be some expression, right? If there are enough benefits, then the USSR is not impossible to consider.
This sentence is poking at Guise's soft underbelly, what can he say? Britain will be behind the scenes, waving the flag to the USSR?
After the First World War, Britain weakened, the huge army could not be maintained, and a group of people who shouted for peace constantly wanted to reduce the army and reduce military spending, or Britain would not have fought so badly.
And now, Britain has failed, and the expeditionary force is about to be lost, so the people agreed to increase military spending, but the national strength has weakened, so to speak, Britain can barely even get funds for calling up reserves and the like, and there are still a large number of weapons that need to be updated, what capital does Britain have to satisfy the appetite of the Soviet Union?
Guise was speechless, and Stalin, at last, spoke: "If you can hand over the Indian colonies to us, then we, the Soviet Union, can immediately send troops." ”
Indian colony!
Britain, once the empire on which the sun never sets, at its most glorious, colonized the whole world, ruled a quarter of the world's population, and was an absolute empire on which the sun never sets.
But now, the empire on which the sun never sets, has entered the twilight.
Britain itself does not have much value at all, and the current Britain mainly relies on blood transfusion from the colonies, and now, the Soviet Union actually wants Britain to cut meat!
Moreover, the Soviets wanted India.
Why India? Because the USSR has always wanted to get a passage to the south, and since the ancient tsarist times, it was believed that the Indian Ocean was the center of the world, and whoever occupied it would occupy the whole world!
Now it is the Soviet Union, no longer Tsarist Russia, but the ambition of Lao Maozi has never changed, if the Soviet Union gains India, then, in the Pacific Ocean, the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean, there will be the existence of the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union will rule the whole world.
Of course, Britain will not accede to such a request!
"I'm sorry, Mr. Stalin, but the colonies are an integral part of our British Empire, and we will not give up ours." Keith said.
"Then grain, how about you export 100 million tons of grain to us?"
"I'm sorry, but we're also short on food."
"What about steel, 10 million tons of steel?"
"Well, I'm sorry..."
"Then what do you plan to use to invite us to send troops?" Stalin said: "With Churchill's fallen beard? ”
Stalin's words suddenly made Guise's face change, this is absolutely a secret in the country, Churchill's health has problems, which will seriously shake their military morale, so, few people know.
Now, Stalin's sarcasm shows that there are serious omissions in his own intelligence system, and even Stalin knows about it!
"I'm sorry, Mr. Stalin, but we are now in a state of tension and we are really unable to raise funds, and if you can accept it, we can sign the agreement first, and then provide it to you when the war is over and we have the strength to spare." Keith said.
It's true that there is no one in the UK now, but you can make an IOU first and give it later.
"Are you really sincere enough, with a white strip, you want to send troops to our Soviets?" Stalin said coldly: "Tell Churchill that if you want the Soviet Union to send troops, you must cede India to our Soviet Union, this is our demand, let him see what to do, whether to give up the whole of Britain, or just give up an insignificant colony, he should have a choice!" ”
The Soviet Union, at this time, of course, is going to knock off the bamboo, and if it can really get India, then it will also have the motivation to fight this war.