The Soviet model is in fact the model of the wartime system. Everything must be subordinated to the needs of the state and the regime.

The Soviet Union's military strength is mainly composed of several factors: First, it can use all its national strength and state rights to go all out to deal with the war, and it can use all its resources for the war, and everything must serve the war. As long as all factories are needed by the state, they must unconditionally undertake the production of weapons and equipment or support weapons and equipment, regardless of cost; The second is that all the people must unconditionally obey the needs of the state, leave their lives to the party's arrangement, and you will have to do whatever you are asked to do, and become a screw that will never rust, otherwise you will be worse off than dead, and you will never be able to turn over politically.

The third point is that the state belongs to the "whole people" and represents the fundamental interests of the broadest masses of the people. For the sake of their own political power, they can bear the bloody sacrifice of millions of people, and they can make use of powerful "ideological and political" work and a strong state apparatus to make millions of people consciously and voluntarily sacrifice themselves for the interests of their own class and for the motherland.

This is a huge advantage over the capitalist countries that represent only a small group of exploiting classes, but they do not have any advantage over China, which is also a socialist country.

Deng Feng's research found that the Soviet army's traditional offensive tactics of large corps looked violent, but in fact, the Soviet Union was a paper tiger in the real sense, but in this world, except for a great man like the supreme leader who could see through it, the vast majority of people were frightened by this paper tiger.

It was not until the later war in Afghanistan that the Soviet Union spent 10 years, successively invested more than 1.5 million troops, spent tens of billions of dollars, and dealt with the Afghan guerrillas of less than 100,000 people, but did not achieve a military victory, and finally disintegrated itself into this superpower. Of course, there is the implicit support of China and the United States, but this support is insignificant compared to the support of the entire socialist countries for Vietnam.

From this point of view, the Soviet Union, a superpower, is far inferior to the United States in its ability to resist attacks. The United States has been fighting in Vietnam for more than 10 years, spending at least $250 billion. In the end, it was only the strong side in the Cold War that changed from the weak side. And without the final collapse.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Russian army, which inherited the Soviet army's strategy and tactics theory of campaign, exposed the essence of the Soviet Union and its successor, the Russian donkey, through the first Chechen war.

In the first Chechen war, the territory of Chechnya was not as large as Yanjing City, and this population was less than 1 million, which caused 21,718 casualties and 1,906 missing to the Russian army.

The rebels in Chechnya were beaten with resentment and swelling, and they were looking for teeth all over the ground. The Russian army understands the flaws of the former Soviet army's set of campaign and tactical theories, which are simply not possible in actual combat. After several years of reform, in the second Chechen war, the Russian army's campaign tactics have undergone great changes, and it can be regarded as regaining some face.

The Soviet army used this tactic to fight against the Chinese Far East Corps, which was doomed to failure. First of all, the saturation bombing of the Soviet army was carried out at the first moment of the war in order to destroy the Soviet command system in the Far East. The top-down destruction of the Soviet army's chain of command and electromagnetic suppression made it impossible to form an effective first wave of counterattacks against the Chinese offensive. China took advantage of the asymmetry of satellite reconnaissance and information transmission, and the advantage of air and long-range strikes, to quickly and accurately strike at the supply lines of the Soviet army, Soviet railway junctions, bridges, tunnels and culverts, and uninterrupted strikes at the supply centers and transportation routes of the Soviet army, as well as the assembly areas of the second wave of attack troops deployed in the shallow rear of the battle line, so that the Soviet army could not organize the input of the second wave of offensive troops at all.

The implementation of airborne operations in the rear of the Chinese campaign, but in the absence of air supremacy, would undoubtedly amount to collective suicide.

On the first day of the war, the Trans-Siberian Railway, on which the Soviet Far Eastern Military District and the Trans-Baikal Military District depended, was cut off by the 5th Army of the Far Eastern Corps, which was attacking on the center line, the 1st Mechanized Infantry Division from the Outer Mongolia Prefecture of the Far Eastern Province of China, which occupied the Slyudyanka region on the southern shore of Lake Baikal, and then launched an offensive along Siberia to Irkutsk in the northwest.

The 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division also occupied Verdrino, east of the Trans-Siberian Railway, at the southern tip of Lake Baikal. Then followed by the 1st Reserve Division of the Xinjiang Provincial Production and Construction Corps. More than 10 sections of the nearly 100-kilometer Trans-Siberian Railway from Slyudyanka to Vedrino were dismantled.

Moreover, the eastern route lost important cities such as Hailanpao and Boli, which are important transportation hubs across the river from China, in one day, and it was impossible to mobilize and replenish them by rail.

Air supremacy on the battlefield At the first moment of the war, almost all the airfields of the Soviet army on the front line in the Far East were paralyzed. For example, the hundreds of planes of the First Army of the Soviet Far East Air Force at Boli and Hailanpao airfields were almost intact and became the combat examples of the Chinese side. Even some second-tier airfield planes took off and took off, but they only became aerial target planes of the "Falcon" J1 fighters of the Chinese Air Force, and the Soviet Union had completely lost air supremacy in the Far East.

How would the USSR react to the sudden blow of the Chinese Far Eastern Corps?

Located on the coast of the Black Sea, Pi Congda, backed by towering green mountains, facing the vast blue sea, the scenery is refreshing, the climate in this area is warm, the average temperature in winter is 5~7 °C, the mountains near the midwinter are covered with snow, and the grass and trees in the high dry recuperation area near the sea are still green cages, Pi Congda is the place where the feudal lords and nobles of Tsarist Russia take refuge in the summer and recuperate, the ancient pine forest covers an area of hundreds of hectares, is the remnant of the Black Sea plant community of the Tertiary Period, is very rare, as early as 1947 was designated as a nature reserve.

At this time 65-year-old Nikita. Sergeyevich. Khrushchev was recuperating at his seaside villa on the Pizunda Cape, and Khrushchev wanted to take a break, try to calm down, and think about how to deal with the serious tensions with China.

As night approached, after dinner, Khrushchev calmly walked along the boulevard of the Black Sea, Moscow time, at 22 o'clock, after receiving a massage, he was comfortably lying on the bed, and when he was ready to go to bed, the attendant hurriedly ran in and said: "Alexander. Nikolaevich. Comrade Sherepin, please answer the phone. Khrushchev picked up the telephone microphone on the bedside and heard Sherepin's hurried voice: "Nikita. Sergeyevich, I would like to report to you a very bad news: half an hour ago, China launched a surprise attack on us in the Far East, and our four intercontinental missile launch bases in Asia were completely destroyed by Chinese missile attacks. Marshal Nie Jielin, commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces, unfortunately died at the Tyuratam ICBM launch base. ”

"What about the nuclear warheads stored there?" Khrushchev asked eagerly.

"So far, there have been no problems. Nikita. Sergeyevich, as well as our command organs of the command of the Pacific Fleet of the USSR in Vladivostok and the headquarters of the Far Eastern Military District in Burley and the headquarters of the Trans-Baikal Military District in Chita, have been hit and have now lost contact with these units. ”

Khrushchev was completely sleepy at this time, he sat up in his pajamas, and said: "Listen, Sherepin, order your people in the State Security Council to take care of the atomic bomb. Promise not to go wrong. I'll wait until I'll fly back to Moscow tomorrow. ”

In the Vladimir Room of the Kremlin, Khrushchev convened an emergency military meeting attended by members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the USSR and commanders of major military districts to study countermeasures for a large-scale invasion by the squadron.

Marshal Zhukov, Minister of Defense of the Soviet Union, first explained the situation of the all-out attack launched by the squadron into the Soviet Far East at 21:30 on the evening of February 10, Moscow time, and the losses of the Soviet troops that were now in our hands.

After listening to Zhukov's briefing, the audience was stunned, completely surprised by the way China struck so ferociously and unheard of it, and the huge losses suffered by the Soviet troops.

Since China launched the reconquest of Outer Mongolia in May last year, the Soviet Union has also made full preparations for the war on the Sino-Soviet border that China may launch. However, the Soviet high command made a serious mistake in estimating the strength of the two sides, and the military deployment was also deceived by false Chinese intelligence, and the deployment was improper. The command organs were destroyed, wireless communications were completely suppressed, radar stations were destroyed, the runways of the airfields were completely paralyzed, and the planes on the ground were unable to move, leaving them scattered on the ground. Air supremacy in the Far East was completely lost. The front-line troops of the entire central and eastern sections of the Sino-Soviet border quickly collapsed and lost contact with almost all the front-line troops.

The second wave of attack units, deployed in the shallow rear of the first line, also suffered varying degrees of blows.

It was only wishful thinking on the part of the Soviet Union to exchange the destruction of the fighting units on the front line for the destruction of the other side and the death of the other side with the other side's troops. The [***] team wants to fight, but can't fight, wants to bomb, can't bomb, that is, where the [***] team is, and the scale can't be determined, on the contrary, the [***] team knows everything about the Soviet army, and can hit wherever it wants, and bomb it wherever it wants. The operational situation in the Far East as a whole is extremely grim.

Khrushchev said to the committee members, marshals and generals who were sitting around the conference table one by one: "At the presidium meeting we held here in May last year, didn't the majority of comrades advocate fighting? I don't talk anymore. ”

Malinovsky, First Deputy Minister of Defense and Commander-in-Chief of the Army, looked very excited at this time, he looked at Khrushchev and said: "Fight! I've always advocated fighting! Last year, I proposed a preemptive strike against China, and a nuclear strike, to eliminate the threat of China once and for all, to inflict a destructive blow on these Chinese adventurers with nuclear weapons, and to completely destroy their ambitions for the territory of the Soviet Union! However, some of the principal leading comrades in our party did not dare to take this responsibility for fear of a big mess, and this led to today's consequences. So today, I would like to make a statement, I am willing to take this responsibility. ”

Khrushchev's face was gloomy, staring at his small round eyes and staring at Malinowsky viciously and asked: "I see that you are a person with inflated ambitions, what kind of dish are you, and you are responsible for this?" Can you afford it! ”

"The Chinese, like Hitler during World War II, launched a shameless surprise attack on the Soviet Union, and the great Soviet Red Army could not help but fight back against their shameless behavior," Marin broke the Shaolin abbot after the eighties, so what's the big deal! ”

Nuclear war, whether you are a marshal or a soldier, is a disaster that everyone will not be able to avoid, and this responsibility is really not something that anyone can bear. The audience fell silent again.

"It's not a question of who's responsible." Marshal Zhukov broke his silence and said: "It is absolutely impossible to carry out a preemptive nuclear strike against China, and this point was fully discussed at the meeting of the Central Presidium last year. That would only bring a devastating blow to the Soviet Union. The fish is certainly dead, but China's net is not necessarily broken. Have you not seen that China has completely destroyed our ICBM base in the Asian region with great precision, and even Marshal Nie Jielin, commander of the Strategic Rocket Forces, died at the Tyuratam ICBM launch base? How can we say that we will carry out a preemptive nuclear strike against China? ”

Khrushchev continued to say with a gloomy face: "As a senior leader of the party and the army, we cannot dictate the policy of our party with feelings, and we must be responsible to the entire Soviet people. If the Chinese do not break into the European part of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union will never be able to use nuclear weapons until it is alive or dead. ”

Marshal Voroshilov, who had been frowning, said: "It is better not to press this nuclear button, this is a move that can destroy the entire earth." However, it is still necessary to wield nuclear weapons as a strategic deterrent. At the very least, let the Chinese know that we have the determination to break the net."

Marshal Voroshilov glanced at Khrushchev and said: "I just listened to the briefing of the Minister of Defense, Marshal Zhukov. I feel that the problems are very serious now, first of all, the Chinese occupied the Slyudyanka and Vedrino regions south of Lake Baikal in just one day, cut off the Trans-Siberian railway connecting us with the Far East, and even more terrible is that we have lost air supremacy in the Far East, which has deprived the Far East of the effective support from the interior of the Soviet Union.

How can this critical situation be resolved? ”

(To be continued)