Chapter 169: Western Europe in the Smoke of Gunpowder
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Tonight London is like a return to the shadow of the Second World War when it was overshadowed by German rocket raids, and at 7 p.m., a tragic explosion occurred in the opera house where "Carmen" was staged, almost destroying the sturdy building to burning ruins. A brighter light than a fiery cloud illuminated the bleak skies of London.
At the same time, the bustling London Underground was also attacked by the IRA suicide attack, which collapsed under the rubble of the massive blast that crushed the beams and columns of the entire station, burying the fleeing people who did not have time to flee under the rubble. The dust from the subway explosion covered the entire street, and the grizzled people fled the street screaming.
Fire trucks filled the skies across London, those who survived were crying in front of the cameras about the horror of the attack, and three hours after the explosion, a video of the IRA was sent to London's major television stations. The masked IRA claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it would have enough explosives to turn the whole of Great Britain into a world of flesh.
Not only in London, but also at the French Opera, where four armed men armed with Kalashnikov rifles rushed into the opera house in a car, and the weak security guards were no match for the armed men with heavy weapons, and they were quickly killed by rifle shots. Then they stormed the Grand Theater and turned their guns on the opera-watching upper-class people, and for a moment the flames were everywhere and flesh and blood were flying.
Screams rang out everywhere, "noble people" in ceremonial dresses kept falling, and blood splashed where the bullets passed. Wait until the gunfire stops. Except for some guys who are still on the ground. The vast majority of people were killed on the spot, from start to finish, no more than three minutes.
They chose the opera house because of the entrepreneurs gathered here tonight, at least five of whom had financed Chechen militants through the intelligence service. And Yanayev used Serbian butcher's knife to remove these behind-the-scenes financiers one by one.
Then the gunmen swaggered to kill all those who were not dead, shouted Long live Serbia, swaggered out and engaged in a fierce exchange of fire with the French police, until they were killed by the GIGN men, and did not choose to surrender.
This tragedy was called the Paris Massacre. At least 100 civilians were killed and more than 20 seriously injured in the attack. The attack made headlines in French newspapers almost overnight. The day after the incident, a videotape was also received by Paris television.
"NATO brutes, listen up, this is our gift to you bastards. You bomb our fellow Serbs and slaughter innocent Serbian civilians, and we will make you suffer the price of iron and blood. This attack is only the beginning, and our means of terror will cease only if NATO completely withdraws from our war to defend dignity. ”
Paris declared martial law in the city, the highest level of security since the establishment of the Fifth Republic.
Three hours after the video was released, the Serb President of Bosnia and Herzegovina and the President of Serbia issued statements almost simultaneously. It was claimed that the attack had nothing to do with the Serbian government and that the attackers were only a civil spontaneous nationalist extremist group of Bosnian Serbs.
As for how much of it is greasy. No one knows.
London is also busy right now, and Scotland Yard received hundreds of reports of bombs almost in a day. On the one hand, the government wants to calm the mood of the people and prevent the situation from escalating, and on the other hand, it wants to strengthen martial law in the city, and if it finds anyone suspected of being a terrorist, it can arrest and examine it. Even the British Prime Minister reluctantly said that this was the darkest week in London's history.
As a result of the attack, MI6's intelligence chief submitted his resignation to the Prime Minister, a total defeat for the British intelligence service, even though a week earlier, they had made revolutionary progress against the Soviet regime. And call the events in Beslan a great victory for the free world.
At a time when Britain and France were strongly condemning the mob's actions, Moscow's newspapers were flooding the country with very different news. When the British Prime Minister saw the report in his office, he almost dropped the cup in his hand in anger. He slammed the table and roared.
"A bunch of rubbish, in the liberal propaganda offensive is not as good as a dictatorship!"
Don't get excited, this is an internal contradiction in Britain, not a violent terror, don't take this opportunity to attack the Irish people, we must correctly deal with the contradiction between the Irish Republican Army and the British authorities, we must protect the rights of the people, and we must guarantee the people's right to believe and act freely. Anyone who uses the London incident to turn it into a violent terrorist incident is an anti-human and anti-human rights person, and they must be cracked down.
The British government should think deeply about what makes the British people not afraid of death, not afraid of death, and use explosives to attack people of the same kind, and what does this mean? It shows that it is not people who are sinning, but the British system that is sinning. It is because the British system has created excesses that have caused this disaster. We need to hold each killer accountable for their unspeakable secrets, their lives of suffering, and their human rights violations by the British government. Therefore, it is necessary to denounce the criminality of the British system, and only by destroying the current system in France can this human tragedy be finally eliminated. freely
"The people should not be afraid of the government, the government should be afraid of the people" - from the Moscow Daily.
When the story was published in the Soviet Union, the rest of the world thought the Soviet government had got the script wrong.
This paragraph, written by Yanayev himself and published in the major Soviet newspapers, was enough to make the British government angry. For the day after the Beslan incident, the British press published a similar report, and this method of treating others as others did not make Britain and France speechless. In particular, the Soviet Union issued a serious statement urging Britain and France to properly deal with their own human rights issues.
At this time, the propaganda departments of the two governments had only one idea, and the combat effectiveness of the Soviet Propaganda Department was simply outrageous!
Looking at the lively third world countries, did the five permanent members of the United Nations read the wrong draft this year!
Yanayev looked at the news on TV, and the smoke of the free world finally made him smile in triumph at this moment, and he just wanted to tell those who tried to make trouble in the territory of the Soviet Union that if you annoy the red polar bear, you will lose more than you gain!
The KGB's foreign investigation department has also monitored that all the funds related to Chechen extremists have been withdrawn and that they have lost the support of overseas funds.
The Chechens are endless, but Chechen funds can be broken, and if the financiers behind them know that the result of supporting the Chechen militants is to be beheaded, then do they dare to risk their lives to do this? A group of KGB agents who dare to cross the ocean and hunt you down anywhere in the world, will you be safe for the rest of your life?
There's a superpower-backed hunting agent behind it, and it's much more terrifying than any deadly bandit.
After such a direct blow, even the intelligence services of Britain and France began to panic. Although some hawks clamored for the same retaliation on Soviet soil, the two governments rejected the idea at the top for the sake of the overall situation. No longer support Chechnya, recall or order the Caucasus involved agents to cease operations.
The reason for the cessation of action was the statement issued by the Soviet Foreign Minister, which warned the Western governments in a very subtle way that we were ready to escalate the situation, and that if you dared to take any retaliation, we would use even more drastic means to bring down the economies of Western Europe.
Cutting off all financial support, Yanayev finally had a chance to deal with the remaining Chechen armed leaders who were still dying. The Caucasian Military District dispatched most of its reconnaissance planes, bombers hovering in the mountains between the Georgian-Chechen border, and they were to continue to hunt down the last Chechen rebels hiding in the area, and then kill them one by one. This was also the directive of the highest decisive battle from the Presidium of the Soviets.
"Basayev, Khattab, Umarov, must die!" (To be continued.) )