Chapter 614: Basra Uprising
Basra is the second largest city in Iraq, second only to the capital Baghdad, and Basra is also Iraq's largest port and only outlet to the sea, so its status is not worse than Baghdad. www.biquge.info There are Christians and Mandaists who belong to a sect of Christianity that has been in southern Iraq for thousands of years. At the same time, it was the site of the earliest communist cell activities in Iraq, and the Iraqi Communist Party also made it a key area of activity.
"Actually, I don't know when the Iraqi operation started, but it should be a few days. Preparations for all our directions arrived in these days...... "Serov, who was on duty in the Lubyanka, raised his son aloft into the air, causing a burst of laughter. He was explaining to his wife why he was working, and Valya had been here for the last few days, to be with her husband.
Indeed, Serov did not nail the time, and it was up to the Iraqi Communist Party itself to decide when it was most appropriate. Otherwise, such command, which does not regard the actual situation, will be harmful to Iraq. If memory serves, this seems to be called dogmatism. No matter how much Serov analyzes in the Rubyanka, it is impossible to know the local area better than the local Iraqis, and to prepare what is needed for the Iraqi Communist Party, and the rest is up to them.
"That's why you're not home?" Valya pinched her waist with her hands and said with some indignation, "Do you think that the country will not be able to leave you, why don't you marry Lubyanka as your wife?" ”
"You think I'm the first secretary of the Komsomol Zamyatin?" Serov smiled and put his son down, pinched his wife's face and whispered, "Oh, I see, it's itchy down there, right?" I can understand that, after all, the demand for women is growing, but who says you can't do it here, and it's not like there is no place to live......"
"Why don't you talk with your brain, your son can understand......" Valya leaned on her husband's body, her beautiful eyes looked at her son standing on the table, and the little one's eyes rolled around, looking at his parents curiously.
"That shows my son is smart!" Serov glanced back at his son, anyway, sooner or later, there will be such a day, male gender, female hobby, aren't normal people like this? Also worth the fuss?
Basra is the largest transportation center in southern Iraq, with inland shipping and railways connecting Baghdad to Baghdad and will become the largest logistics base for the protracted war of Iraqi communist and government forces if the war drags on. For its part, the Iraqi Communist Party wanted to quickly take control of the entire region and then raise the banner to ask the Soviet bloc for help.
Serov also arranged for a country to be the main support unit, that is, Bulgaria, the most reliable ally of the Soviet Union, and the chairman of the Bulgarian National Security Council, Malakov, had already prepared for this. At this time, the Iraqi Communist Party had decided to revolt, and the time was set for the night of January 10, and almost all the underground party members who had developed in the past ten years were ready. Arradi had already taken the Central Committee members here into hiding in the surrounding villages.
This season is a good time, because many Iraqi communists have studied in the Soviet Union and know how to fight in low temperatures, and you must know that Basra is the hottest place in the world, with a normal temperature of about 50 degrees in summer.
Late at night including Hussein? The leadership of the Iraqi Communist Party, including Arradi, anxiously awaited news in a small village, knowing that this would be a fateful moment and that they must succeed, otherwise the socialist forces in Iraq would be devastated.
At this time, in the city of Basra, the underground party members who had already received the news were anxiously waiting, and for the underground party members, this wait was very painful, because they did not know how many comrades were working in secret like them. Many of the people trained by the Soviet Union have long since dispersed throughout Iraq and do not know each other.
But under the cover of the night, the forces gathered from all over the city were accumulating, and even they were surprised when they suddenly found each other, but they didn't expect that the other party was also their own comrades. Finally, an unexpected incident made the whole city boil, and everyone was ready to occupy important places without blood, but a few policemen who went home from work interrogated several underground party members, but the very nervous Iraqi communists were very nervous, and they directly robbed and killed these policemen.
Now, there is no need to hide, and the sound of the sound marks the official beginning of this uprising. Insurgents flocked from all over the city to several important institutions, the telegraph office, the railway station, and the post office. For a time, there was a burst of gunfire throughout Basra, and tens of thousands of insurgents with red cloth tied to their right arm attacked valuable targets throughout Basra.
"Major Arif, should we immediately inform the division commander of the situation here, the Communists have rebelled." A nervous, sweaty captain came in and found the deputy commander of the Basra garrison.
"That's right." Arif took out his gun and killed the other party without hesitation, then took out the red cloth and tied it to his right arm, picked up the phone and said, "Follow me to the regiment commander, let's talk to him." ”
Given the anti-Sunni sentiment of the Shiite population, which makes up the majority of Basra's population, the Iraqi Communist Party has sought to enlist the support of the local population from the outset. The success or failure of this is not only related to the success of the entire liberation operation, but also to the post-war reconstruction of Iraq. But for many people cultivated by the Soviet Union, this kind of support was unnecessary, so some of the insurgents, at the beginning, were ready to take advantage of the chaos to kill the more famous religious figures first, and then push them directly to the chaos.
The defenders in Basra were poorly equipped and undersupplied, and no Iraqi reinforcements were possible. Structurally, it consists of a group of structurally fragile traditional buildings, which are difficult to turn into a strong stronghold of resistance. At the same time, the insurgents' positions were already wedged deep into the city's periphery, and from the forefront, it was only half an hour's journey to the city center.
Basra, a city run by the Iraqi Communist Party, has far more power than the outside world estimates. After the night, only a few important strongholds remained under the control of the junta, and a group of Central Committee members of the Iraqi Communist Party, including Abdullah Rahman, persuaded the soldiers who were still defending inside. With the exception of the Post and Telecommunications Bureau, almost all the soldiers in the stronghold surrendered, and finally the Basra Garrison Corps, which had already fallen to the Iraqi Communist Party, began an assault on the Post and Telecommunications Bureau.
In fact, the government troops defending the post and telecommunications office did not have the idea of fighting to the death, but after a round of artillery bombardment, the post and telecommunications office hung up a white flag, and at dawn, the whole of Basra was already under the control of the Iraqi Communist Party.
Subsequently, the first secretary of the Communist Party of Iraq, Hussein? Alradi entered the center of Basra, surrounded by tens of thousands of supporters, and spoke, "Year after year, Iraqis have almost fallen into the quagmire, and while the rest of the world is making progress every day, we are conservative in the pain of the civil war, and everyone involved in the fighting is our people, who have different supporters behind them because of their different factions and positions, Egypt, Iran, and even Saudi Arabia, and we used to want a force to stand up and end this chaos. Bringing peace and democracy back to Iraq. But year after year, we see only disappointment, more and more people are becoming proletarians, and a small group of people, who are warlords, they are leaders, continue the war with the wealth that belongs to all Iraqis, and it is time to put an end to this. ”
"In other parts of the world, we can see that more and more people are saving their country, they are fighting against foreign invaders, and now we, the Communist Party of Iraq, are shouldering the mission of liberating Iraq, let us work together to restore peace to Iraq and become a rich and powerful country." Hussein? "Peace, democracy, prosperity, that's Iraq......"
"Long live a peaceful, democratic, and prosperous Iraq, and long live the Iraqi Communist Party." Tens of thousands of armed members of the Iraqi Communist Party held their weapons high and listened everywhere to Hussein? Arradi's voice came out of the horns, and then chanted hooray.
In Hussein? After Arradi's statement, the Communists in Najaf, Erbil, Babylon, and Sulaymaniyah staged uprisings, and for the first time, the Iraqi Communist Party, which had been dormant, showed great energy. After a day of controlling Basra, a convoy of transport ships arrived at the port of Basra with two hundred thousand automatic rifles unloaded on it, Hussein? Alradi asked Abdullah Rahman to distribute the weapons to the fringers of the Iraqi Communist Party.
The generals of Bagra were almost shocked by the sudden news, they always thought that their opponents were Baathist, Shia, Sunni and even Kurds, but they did not expect that the Iraqi Communist Party, which has been getting smaller and smaller in number in recent years, jumped out, they did not know that in Basra, the more difficult enemies in their eyes have been imprisoned by Abdullah Rahman, and the people under Abdullah Rahman have all returned from the Soviet Union, and these people are the masters of the underground party of the Soviet Union, and they are the KGB of the Soviet Union.
With a population of more than 700,000 in Basra, the Iraqi Communist Party must first take action to eliminate potential enemies, and now that they have the ability to do so, many of the leadership information of the hostile factions has long been in their hands. (To be continued.) )