348 East and West Contradictions

After the end of the Soviet-German war, the war in Europe had basically stopped, but the war in East Asia had not ended with the defeat of the Germans. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Japanese invading army is still entrenched in the land of China, and it continues to occupy the land of China and kill countless Chinese people.

Although the Allies made breakthroughs in Southeast Asia and Oceania, sinking many Japanese aircraft carriers and battleships, much of Southeast Asia remained in the hands of the Japanese and their ally Thailand. At this time, the situation in the East Asian theater was not optimistic, and if the war continued according to this situation, it would be necessary to wait until the US imperialists dropped the atomic bomb to end the war.

In the West, the Soviet Union seized vast amounts of land from the Axis powers, making it the most powerful power in Europe.

The rise of the Soviet Union was undoubtedly a huge threat to Britain across the Channel.

For thousands of years, Britain has made great efforts to destabilize the situation in Europe and prevent European unity.

They did not allow a powerful force to appear in Europe that could threaten Britain, so they did everything possible to stir up on the European continent, provoke contradictions between European powers, and provoke disputes between European powers.

When tensions arise on the European continent, the great powers of Europe (mainly France, Germany, and Russia) will be suspicious of each other, guard against each other, and check and balance each other.

Under such circumstances, the great powers of the European continent would focus on preventing invasion by their neighbors, rather than on Britain across the Channel.

As a result of this strategy, Europe has not had a military power capable of threatening Britain for thousands of years. Even the awesome Emperor Napoleon (Napoleon) and Hitler, who committed suicide not long ago, were defeated by the even more awesome British Royal Navy on the sea, and they did not even touch the land of the British Isles.

But there is no doubt that with the development of time and the increasing shrewdness of the leaders of various countries, this "-stirring" strategy of the British Yankees is becoming more and more ineffective.

Just before the outbreak of World War II, the British were also pursuing a policy of "bringing disaster to the east", in order to let the Soviet Union and Germany fight, and then Britain watched from the sidelines, and when the Soviet Union and Germany were almost done, they would pick peaches from the two countries.

The result? Not only did Germany not fight the Soviet Union, but also carved up France with the Soviet Union, and then fought with Britain and France, causing the French mainland to fall, and the British mainland was bombed by Germany, with heavy casualties among the military and civilians.

After the Soviet Union and Germany fought, the Soviet Union suddenly rose from the war, bursting out of a terrifying torrent of steel, all the way to the Rhine, seizing the entire Central Europe, Eastern Europe and most of Northern Europe, and even the most elite part of Italy was also included in the Soviet Union's sphere of influence, making the Soviet Union the most powerful country in Europe, sitting on most of Europe.

Britain certainly wouldn't sit idly by, and if the Soviet Union were a capitalist country, perhaps Churchill wouldn't be so disgusted, but the Soviet Union was not a capitalist country, but a socialist country, ideologically opposed to the capitalism espoused by the British Conservative Party.

The existence of the Soviet Union would not only threaten the status of Britain and France as old powers, but would also pose a great threat to the bourgeoisie of the world and the bourgeois parties that spoke for them.

Since the establishment of Soviet power in Russia, communist forces have grown stronger and stronger in many countries around the world, and even almost seized power in Germany (1919) and Spain, and the Communist Party of France has almost become the largest party.

If it weren't for Hitler's emergence and Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War, the Soviet Union's sphere of influence would have spread to the Iberian Peninsula in Spain, and France would be in danger of being caught between the Red Forces.

At that time, the British would be alone in what they did, and even if they called the American father, it would be difficult to threaten the hegemony of the Soviet Union on the European continent.

Of course, things have not yet developed to that point, and in addition to Britain and France, there are also several capitalist countries in Europe that can be co-opted, such as Spain, Portugal, Turkey, and Southern Italy. Coupled with the strength of the superpower of the American father, it can still compete with the Soviet Union.

But even so, Britain could not force the USSR to make concessions on the issue of spheres of influence in Europe and Iran for the time being.

At the insistence of the Soviet Union, the territory and sphere of influence in Europe had basically been determined, and the Soviet Union had begun preparations for the establishment of socialist regimes in Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Greece, Norway, Denmark, Austria and other countries.

The United States, as the other giant of the Allied Powers, did not oppose the move of the Soviet Union, because the American father did not want to conflict with the Soviet Union, and he also needed the Soviet Union to help the United States in the East Asian battlefield against Japan.

As for France, they were also afraid of the rise of the Soviet Union, but because they were close to the Soviet sphere of influence and worried about being pushed by the Soviet army, they did not dare to offend the polar bear of the Soviet Union and hoped to have good relations with the Soviet Union. To this end, they not only supported the Soviet Union in extending its sphere of influence to their own doorstep, but also tolerated and even encouraged the development of communist forces in France.

The British didn't have much scruples, their navy was still the most powerful among the European countries for the time being, at least the Soviet navy could not defeat them, and they could not land on British soil. Therefore, they were not afraid of offending the Soviet Union, and they could also stir up relations between the Soviet Union and the United States, France, and other Western countries without any scruples.

On issues concerning Britain's vital interests, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill would not be willing to make any concessions to the Soviet Union.

While the European problem has been resolved, the Iranian problem has not. As early as 1941, the Soviet Red Army and the British army jointly invaded pro-German Iran and overthrew the rule of the Shah (Shah) Reza Pahlavi.

Since then, Iran has been divided into two parts, the northern half, including Tehran, which is controlled by the Soviet Union, and the southern half by the British.

By January 1942, Iran had signed the Triple Alliance Treaty with Britain and the Soviet Union. In this treaty, Britain and the Soviet Union made it clear that the presence of their troops in Iran "in no way implies military occupation," while pledging to respect Iran's sovereignty, independence, and territorial integrity, and to guaranteeing a complete withdrawal from Iran within six months of the end of the war against Germany.

Before the end of the war with Germany, Iran handed over all roads, railways, rivers, airports, ports, oil pipelines, telephones, telegraphs, and radio facilities to the Allied forces, and the allies promised that Iran would not be divided between Britain and the Soviet Union in the future, but before the end of the war against Germany, Iran was actually in a state of partition and control.

In the British-occupied areas, the British, on the one hand, purged the German spies and pro-German chieftains here, and on the other hand, supported the separatist activities of various tribes in order to oppose the central government in Tehran and foster pro-British tribal forces.

In the Soviet-occupied zone, the Soviets drove out the Iranian governors of the northern provinces and replaced them with their own cronies, bringing them under their own military, political, and economic control, making the Soviet-occupied territories almost a "state within a state."

At the same time, the Soviet Union also supported the "Iranian People's Party," which was developed from the Communist Party of Iran, to develop its influence and expand its territory in the northern region, so as to create conditions for seizing power after the war.

After the end of the war, British and Soviet troops had not withdrawn from Iran. Halfway through the six-month period, the representatives of the two countries began negotiations on Iran, but the negotiations did not go well, and neither side wanted to withdraw from Iran or allow the other to gain benefits on Iranian soil.