How can the current critical situation in the Soviet Union be resolved?

Marshal Voroshilov asked himself: "In my opinion, our Far Eastern Military District and the Trans-Baikal Military District must first withstand, even if there is only the last person left. Then the Siberian Military District was mobilized to attack eastward from the west of Lake Baikal and the post-Baikal Military District to the east and west, and open up the Trans-Siberian Railway. At the same time, the Central Asian Military District launched an all-out attack on China's Xinjiang Province and China's newly occupied Outer Mongolia and the Tuva People's Republic in the west. Give somebody a taste of his own medicine. If the Chinese are fighting in the east, we will fight in the west, completely disrupting the deployment of the Chinese. In the end, they forced the Chinese to cease fire and resume negotiations with us. ”

"Marshal Voroshilov, if the negotiations had been resolved, would this battle still be fought? What can be achieved by negotiating now? Andropov asked: "Didn't we always find a better way to solve the problem of the territorial dispute on the Sino-Soviet border, and now we have found it?" If we can't come up with a plan that will satisfy the Chinese, will the Chinese talk to us? ”

"Indeed, the Chinese have made such a big determination that they will not give up easily." Voroshilov said: "I just said that through our Soviet counterattack to force the Chinese to ceasefire, as long as there is a ceasefire, renegotiate with us, no matter what the outcome, after all, it can buy us some time to readjust our deployment." ”

"I said Fu Lao, you better go home and retire, you think the Chinese are as stupid as you." The 40-year-old chairman of the National Security Council, Sherepin, said disrespectfully to Voroshilov, an old guard who opposed Khrushchev: "The Chinese will never stop if they do not come up with a result this time." Did you know? ”

Marshal Voroshilov, who was robbed of by Sherepin, yelled at Sherepin like thunder: "You stinky hairy child, you know a fart, you don't know where the fuck when Lao Tzu was in politics?" ”

Those who are the Lord and the faction can't help but shake their heads, why fight a battle when they could have solved a problem that could have been solved at the negotiating table? Why is it so hard to make an effort to resume negotiations now?

Soviet Defense Minister Zhukov believed that Marshal Voroshilov's proposal was a better plan from a military point of view, but he had no confidence in the consequences of its implementation.

Although he said that he was one of the formulators of the Soviet Army's mechanized attack with a large corps of large depth, high speed, and wide front, supplemented by airborne operations behind the enemy's front and coordinated with the frontal offensive. But by this time he had already had doubts about the validity of this overall campaign idea.

In the Sino-Soviet war that just took place, there was not the slightest hint of such a clear tactic written in the regulations. As soon as the Soviet army and the Chinese offensive forces came into contact, the front-line troops had already collapsed. At the same time, the second-line troops were also hit, and the casualties of the second-line troops were as high as 10-20%, especially the high-level command personnel. In order to rebuild their combat effectiveness, it is necessary to readjust and supplement the structure of these units. And can the Chinese Air Force, which has completely mastered air supremacy, allow the Soviet troops to be dispatched by rail transport?

Without air supremacy, the ground forces are just a dish on the table, and people can eat it whenever they want. Also, how did China's fast and accurate intelligence report get it? Why is China's long-range strike firepower so accurate? The [***] team is like a huge mystery, and there are still many unknown factors in this mystery. Before these too many unknowns are unraveled, the Soviet army may be as many troops as they can throw.

However, it will not work if you don't throw it away, and this issue cannot be considered entirely from a purely military perspective, because the military should stress politics, and this is the need of politics. Who can say surrender and return the Chinese territories occupied by the USSR to the Chinese? Political considerations remain paramount.

This kind of work that you know you can't do, but you have to do it, is really hard to do. In any case, the only thing that can be done now is to resist it first, then study a ceasefire, and then strive for negotiations. Let's see how Comrade Khrushchev arranged.

After recuperating on the seashore of Cape Pizonda, on the tree-lined path in the ancient pine forest, Khrushchev really had a clear idea of how to deal with the serious tensions with China.

The war between China and the Soviet Union should not be underestimated. For the Soviet Union, if there was a real war with China, it would definitely be a nightmare for the Soviet Union, but it could not be avoided. The fundamental cause of the border war between China and the Soviet Union was the irrational allocation of resources. The pressure of China's huge population base and China's fast-growing economy have a wolf need for the vast resources of untapped Siberia.

War requires the determination and courage of a country's leaders, and the determination and will of the whole nation to fight the enemy to the end.

Khrushchev knew that he still had the determination and courage to do this, and through powerful "political and ideological" work, the determination and will to make the whole country hate the same enemy and fight a bloody war with China to the end can also be done, at least in a short period of time.

However, in addition to this, war also requires a good relationship with international alliances and the overall strength of a country.

In international relations, he demonized Stalin by exposing and attacking the mistakes of Stalin's so-called Great Purge in a secret report to the 20th National Congress of the Soviet Union. Whether this action was right or wrong, it actually shook the legitimacy of the institutions and ideologies that had been stereotyped in the Soviet Union and in Eastern Europe during the Stalin era. This anti-Stalin campaign led to a loss of faith and confusion in the ideological sphere, and the signs of upheaval in Eastern Europe and even in the Soviet Union itself became more and more apparent. The complete repudiation of Stalin caused a serious rift in the entire socialist camp, and the development of events in Eastern Europe was even more beyond the scope of one's imagination and control. Although he has put the brakes on himself, the evil consequences have already been formed. At this point, it is really thanks to China's strong support that it can be regarded as holding a stable position. The 'satisfactory settlement' of the Polish-Hungarian incident depends on the full assistance of the [***] leaders, otherwise the Hungarian incident will cause a complete collapse of the socialist camp like dominoes, and at the same time greatly improve China's position in the socialist camp.

There is also the US-led North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which has said that it will not intervene in the struggle between China and the Soviet Union, but it is obviously a fool's remark of burning newspapers on the grave. They don't do it with the last name. It is not a question of the surname of any individual leader of the United States, it is determined by the imperialist surname. Just as Zhukov said, as long as one of the two sides shows signs of defeat, they will pounce on the losing side like a wolf, and there is no doubt about this.

On the other hand, China's victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea made China a force to be reckoned with in the world, and through the disguised war reparations and the demolition of the secondary industry by the United States and Britain, plus more than 300,000 mature engineers and technicians who invaded China, as well as the countless patents that somehow came out, China has provided China with a steady stream of funds, and China has laid an industrial foundation for China to realize the modernization of the national economy through the first five-year plan. The second five-year plan is to achieve a comprehensive take-off driven by the high-tech electronic information industry. All of this has greatly enhanced China's position in the international community.

As for the Soviet Union's gross national economic output, which is about the same as China's, it is only half that of the United States, but the Soviet Union's annual military expenditure is close to the level of the United States, the proportion of industry and agriculture, light and heavy industry is seriously out of balance, and it has to rely on a large amount of imported grain every year to maintain the most basic domestic needs. This is different from World War II, when the vast Asian region was used as a strategic rear, and if there was a real war with China, it would be a two-sided enemy in Europe and Asia. Europe must not be lost. If Europe loses it, there will be no nest left.

In terms of the army, although the size of the Soviet army is definitely the first in the world. Both personnel and equipment pursued numerical superiority, which was the experience of the Soviet army from World War II, and it was also a realistic choice to be constrained by its own scientific and technological strength. The Soviet Army has maintained an army of around 4.6 million since World War II. After the end of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the size of the squadron was reduced from 6 million to 2.5 million, and the construction of military modernization began.

Over the years, they have been fighting like an aggressive rooster, but the army has always remained around 2.5 million to 3 million. The combat effectiveness is indeed extremely strong, and although the equipment is not much, it is much more advanced than the US military. Hydrogen bombs, missiles, rockets, artificial satellites, and what is even more terrifying is how many unknown weapons they have not taken out, and what methods of warfare they have made people confused.

How to fight with such an army? Can this qualitative difference be compensated for by quantity? In the face of the atomic bomb, the number of armies of the two sides no longer means anything to the real strength and the outcome of the war, whose army has more, the more cannon fodder he has! In the shadow of the atomic bomb, the army is just a pile of meat, a pile of ash, and a nuclear war must not be fought. Even in a conventional war, how much advantage can the Soviet army have? Look at India's more than 600,000 vs. 100,000 [***] teams, and it's completely finished in a week. How much stronger can the Soviet Union be than India, it can't reach the level of 6 to 1.

This war with China, no matter how it is conducted. The USSR will all end in defeat. If it is hard to fight China to the end, their own think tanks have calculated that the Soviet Union will lose more than 60 million people, and they are all the best population; The consequences of this war could lead to the fact that the USSR would cease to exist.

So how to resolve this existential crisis for the Soviet Union? Only to Suslov said, "in terms of the allocation of resources for the entire socialist camp, the Chinese territories acquired by Tsarist Russia and Stalin and their dishonorable means should also be returned to the Chinese." The territory of the USSR was already large enough, with more than 20 million square kilometers and a population of just over 100 million. And the Chinese population is nearly 500 million, which is not a problem for us and should be returned to them. ”

But will the majority-majority militants agree? Can the Soviet people understand?

If you don't agree, if you don't understand, that's fine. If you control the scale of the war in the Asian part, let the people of the main war faction toss it first, and wait until the military defeat is over, and the people will taste the bitterness, and put all the responsibility for the entire war failure on their heads, and then kill them as a matter of course. After that, if we talk to the Chinese and do what Comrade Lenin said, everything will be smooth and logical. The people will also understand and support it. In that case, I, Khrushchev, will have the mind of a great proletarian revolutionary, and will become a messenger of world peace and a savior of the Soviet people.

It's just that all this should be ventilated with the Chinese comrades at the right time, and don't smash this drama.

After the military meeting, the "Red Star" newspaper sponsored by the Soviet army published a letter to the Soviet people: "At 9:30 on February 10, 1959, Moscow time, the squadron launched a fierce all-out attack on the Soviet Union at the same second with millions of armored troops, tens of thousands of tanks, and thousands of planes from east to west on the Sino-Soviet and Sino-Mongolian borders, thousands of kilometers long

The territorial sovereignty of the Soviet Union was never allowed to be violated by anyone, and China's blatant act of aggression was naturally met with a heroic counterattack by the incomparably powerful and glorious Soviet Red Army, which severely punished the Chinese aggressors. Now the battle continues"

In order to show China the determination of the Soviet Union to break the net, and to show off the strategic deterrent power of the Soviet Union's nuclear weapons, in order to achieve the goal of surrendering the army without a fight. The Soviet Army's "Red Star" whirred a nuclear stick: "We sternly warn those "modern adventurers" in China to immediately stop this shameless act of war while it is still too late. Otherwise, it will be met with the most severe counterattack. The great Soviet Red Army, which possessed the most modern technology, effective lethal weapons, and modern means of launching these weapons, will carry out a nuclear strike destroying China's nuclear bases, China's political centers, and industrial centers, in order to resolutely and thoroughly stop China's acts of aggression. ”

Then, Marshal Zhukov, Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union, Marshal Malinovsky, First Deputy Minister, and Marshal Voroshilov also half-truthfully threatened to use a nuclear warhead with a yield of several million tons to carry out a nuclear strike on China on some "occasions," eliminate China's territorial ambitions against the Soviet Union, and remove China's threat to the Soviet Union.

(To be continued)