Chapter 1117: The Kingdom of Servants (1) (Gal. 9)
Spain.
In the city of Madrid, today is a tense atmosphere, and almost everyone has heard the terrible news that Germany and the Soviet Union have entered a state of war!
The conflict between Germany and the Soviet Union was definitely not the first time, but the first conflict between the two sides broke out in Spain.
Spain at that time, although it was a civil war, gradually evolved into a terrible international dispute, the Soviet Union wanted to control Spain, supporting the Spanish GC party, while Germany and Italy, supported the Spanish Falangists, and in this way, the two sides fought fiercely.
In the end, the GC International failed, not because of how strong the support of Germany and Italy was, but because of their internal strife, when Franco's army besieged Madrid, the armed forces in the city were attacking each other for their so-called beliefs, and such an army had no combat effectiveness.
However, Franco did not have the last laugh, he was ambushed by the Soviets in the air, was killed, and in the end, General Mora led the entire army, and finally won the Spanish Civil War, and General Mora also became the dictatorship of Spain.
And now, General Mora is cordially receiving the German ambassador who has arrived.
"In our Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union shamefully instigated international columns to come to our land to do evil, and we are not thinking about revenge all the time, and now, since the German chariot has driven on the soil of the Soviet Union, then we in Spain must also do our part to make our own contribution to the extermination of the evil Soviet Union." General Mora spoke almost immediately.
Mora clearly remembered how Franco had died and how he had escaped danger, so he had no choice but to echo Germany.
Moreover, Spain and the USSR did have an enmity, and now that there is this opportunity, why not take revenge?
"We, Spain, can send 100,000 troops, one armored division, four infantry divisions." Moura continued: "Let us fight side by side with our German friends, just as we did in Spain. ”
Mora was very generous, sending out 100,000 troops, which is indeed interesting enough.
Historically, Spain remained neutral, but after seeing the great victory of Germany, it couldn't help but want to snatch the fruits of victory, so it organized a volunteer division, called the Blue Volunteer Division, a total of 18,000 people, to go to the Soviet Union to snatch the fruits of victory together.
As a result, after the Battle of Stalingrad, they found that Germany was going to be finished, so they quickly withdrew, and continued to maintain their true colors as a neutral country.
And now, the Mora government maintained cordial relations with Germany, or rather, with Ciric, and Spain was responsible for the war.
At present, Spain has only two armored divisions in total, and it has supported one, which makes the German ambassador very satisfied: "We will not let our Spanish friends fight for us in vain, and when we take Moscow, we will distribute it according to the merits of the war, and Spain will definitely get a piece of Soviet land." ”
It was only after the end of World War II that the people of the various colonies gained their independence one after another, and it is quite desirable to have their own colonies in this day and age.
The USSR was too large and had to dismember it, so give Spain a piece of land, and that would be absolute.
General Mora was even more overjoyed: "Our soldiers will definitely fight as bravely as they did during the civil war." ”
Such scenes are constantly being played out in various places.
There is no love for no reason, there is no hate for no reason, in this world, there is no such thing as justice and evil, there is only profit.
Romania is one such country.
The huge Soviet Union, which has never disliked the size of its territory, has been constantly expanding outward, annexing the three Baltic states and claiming territory from Finland.
These are just a few of them, and in the southwest, the Soviet Union coveted Romanian territory.
Romania and Ukraine are in close proximity, less than a hundred kilometers from the important Soviet city of Osad.
Therefore, the Soviets were very dissatisfied, believing that Romania was a serious threat to the security of the Soviet Union, just as Finland was a threat to Leningrad.
The Soviet Union demanded land from Romania, and the Romanian king at that time, a soft egg, was frightened by the Soviets and ceded the provinces of Bessarabia and Northern Bukovina to the Soviet Union without any military resistance.
This, naturally, provoked serious discontent in the country, especially the head of the army, Minister of War Jan Antonescu.
The veteran, who had come from the battlefield, was adamantly opposed to this treason, and he asked the king to authorize him to form a new government.
He was a soft egg on the outside, but the king was not soft on the inside, and immediately arrested him.
At this time, Germany appeared, and after a series of diplomatic pressures, the king finally granted Antonescu full powers to form a cabinet. (I was going to write about this history earlier, but I have to write dozens of chapters, but you may have been tired of reading it recently, and in order to quickly transition to the war in the Soviet Union, this history has not been written, so I will explain it here first.) )
Carol II was an absolute master of maneuvering, and he also counted on the friendly relations between Antonescu and Germany, as well as the Iron Guard and the leadership of the National Liberal Party and the National Peasant Party to maintain his monarchical dictatorship, but unfortunately, he failed, and less than 24 hours after Antonescu was granted full powers, he united with the heads of various parties, such as Julius Manuel and Constantine Bratianu, to demand that the king abdicate the throne, and the throne passed to his son Mihai I, and then left Romania to go into exile again.
This is 40 years old, and King Mihai succeeded to the throne, giving Antonescu, the self-proclaimed leader of the country, dictatorial rights.
At this time, Romania was already a broken mountain and river.
A third of Romania's territory had been ceded to the Soviet Union, Hungary and Bulgaria. The Soviet Red Army stationed troops on the border and plotted to further control Romania, Antonescu was not the cruel dictatorship that later history said, he was for the interests of Romania, he had no choice.
It's just that, unlike history, Germany did not station troops in Romania and attacked the USSR from the Romanian direction, which, of course, was for the sake of secrecy.
At the beginning of this year, with the support of Ciric, Antonescu purged the Iron Guard, an ultra-violent gang, and seized military and political power. Following the dictatorships of Germany and Italy, he declared Romania a "legion state", abolished the constitution, banned political parties, and established a dictatorship in the country.
He actively carried out army building, because he also smelled something, and the opportunity to restore the country's mountains and rivers has finally arrived.
Now that Germany has finally gone to war against the USSR, how can Romania not fight to regain its territory at such a moment?
"Prepare a special plane, I'm going to Berlin." Compared to the leaders of other countries, Antonescu is more direct, he wants to go to meet Ciric in person and express his loyalty, the Romanian army, will fight with the German army!