In the large dining room of Khrushchev's residence on Lenin Hill. After a light dinner, vegetable soup and boiled perch, Khrushchev moved to the right, found a place without utensils, and began his night's work. In order not to interfere with his work, everyone in the family quietly left the restaurant and returned to their respective rooms, except for his son Sergei sitting on the sofa in the dining room and reading the newspaper of the day. Khrushchev silently reviewed the documents that had not been processed during the day and the most urgent telegrams that had been sent by night.

He looked at Mikoyan, head of the Soviet delegation to the cease-fire talks between the Soviet Union and the Soviet Union, deputy chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and the principal assistant to the Soviet foreign minister himself, from Pyongyang, Korea, an urgent telegram about the cease-fire agreement, although Khrushchev saw that there were many ambiguities and ambiguous words in the "Sino-Soviet Ceasefire Agreement." There were some obvious disadvantages to the Soviet side, but he was very interested in this Armenian who had worked in the Kremlin since the time of Lenin. Mikoyan still trusts. He knew that Mikoyan would do his best to get the best interests of the Soviet Union if possible, and it would be nice to sign such a ceasefire agreement now.

Khrushchev, at the height of his power, knew better than anyone that the situation in which the Soviet Union was now found was so dire that the entire Soviet Union was on the verge of extinction. China's tiger and wolf army of more than one million gold and iron horses is still attacking and attacking from space to the bottom of the sea, devouring the territory of the Soviet Union every minute and every second, and China's bombers dare to brazenly penetrate deep into the European region of the Soviet Union to show off their force.

The United States has also continued to send additional troops to Europe to carry out military exercises codenamed "Nuclear Shield," and the entire North Atlantic Treaty Organization's army, navy, and air force are also ready to move, and there is a great tendency to take advantage of the fire to loot.

The little brothers of the socialist countries in Eastern Europe all stayed away from the big brother of the Soviet Union, and constantly threw flattering eyes at China.

The reforms that he has carried out in the country are only now beginning to be implemented, and they have not yet borne fruit. The problem of food shortages has spread throughout the Soviet Union and has seriously plagued all areas. Although the officials loyal to Stalin in [***] were overthrown by themselves one by one, who can guarantee that there are no dissidents around him who want to overthrow him. Fortunately, those who had been rectified in the Stalin era and the bourgeois liberal intellectuals supported themselves, and some workers and peasants were still full of hope for the good life they had sketched for them, otherwise it would have been even more troublesome.

Therefore, it is imperative to cease fire with China and stop this cat-and-mouse game, as long as the Chinese side can agree to a cease-fire, any issue can be discussed. Therefore, he did not hesitate to sign the "Sino-Soviet Armistice Agreement". He stood up, walked to a small table in a corner of the living room next to the large dining room, picked up the red political axe line, and ordered Zhukov to issue a ceasefire order to the five Soviet military districts in Asia. He also instructed Zhukov not to violate this hard-won ceasefire agreement under any circumstances.

When Khrushchev returned to the restaurant, he felt a lot more relaxed and had a sense of relief. His son Sergei poured him a cup of English black tea, broke their family taboo and asked: "Dad, what do you think at this time?" ”

Khrushchev forced a smile of joy and said: "Well, this war, which has made me tired and painful, is finally coming to an end. The nuclear clouds that hung over the Soviet Union were about to lift. ”

"Dad, I doubt that the Soviet people will be able to forgive this defeat?" Sergei asked with some concern.

Khrushchev was a little angry and said: "Do not forgive? Then let their husbands, sons, and brothers die in Chinese prisoner-of-war camps in cold Siberia and the Far East. They should thank me for doing my best to save their loved ones. ”

"The Chinese have already announced that they have captured almost 400,000 Soviet troops, are they lying?" Sergey asked again.

"No," Khrushchev replied, taking a sip of his tea, "it's true, everything is exactly as you say, in fact I'm afraid there's a little more." I am sure that soon after the ceasefire, these people will be able to return. He saw that Sergei was going to ask more, and then Khrushchev waved his hand and said: "Don't ask anything, I'm tired, I have to think about it." Then, without saying a word, he circled around the dining table twice, walked out of the dining room, climbed the stairs, and went back to his bedroom on the second floor.

180 days after the signing of the cease-fire agreement between China and the Soviet Union, nearly 400,000 prisoners of war of various nationalities were repatriated to the Soviet Union in batches. According to the Sino-Soviet Armistice Agreement, these prisoners of war could no longer serve in the Soviet forces in Asia. How to deal with such a large number of prisoners of war captured by China?

The policy of all [***] countries towards the prisoners of their armies on the battlefield is almost the same. After returning home, the repatriated POWs will not be given a heroic welcome as ostensibly as the American and Western armies, but will be given a medal ceremony before being sent to a "sanatorium" for recuperation. Of course, during the convalescence period, some people will also be vetted by the national security department before returning to the army to continue their service.

And the fate of the repatriated prisoners of war from the [***] country will be a little more tragic, and the standard for dealing with these repatriated prisoners of war is that if you are able-bodied and have the ability to resist, it is a serious political mistake in itself. After returning, they will be punished by party membership, political discipline, and military discipline. Therefore, it is certain that most of the captives will be expelled from the party, from the military, and from all posts inside and outside the party. In the files of these people, there will be such a comment: "This person was captured in the XX battle, politically unqualified, and his political position was unclear during the capture, to be investigated." It is recommended that organizational departments at all levels should not be used for the time being. This is undoubtedly a "death sentence" politically, almost equivalent to the treatment of a traitor, and it is self-evident what life will be like.

If you are seriously injured again, it has been verified that you have not been injured by yourself and lost the ability to resist, and you have become a prisoner, you can still be forgiven, but you must also accept the examination of whether you have betrayed the organization or your comrades. If not, these people can still retain their party and military membership, but if they want to get ahead politically, it is only a pipe dream. Not really.

Because the army led by [***] requires everyone who goes to the battlefield to fight their enemies to the end, run out of bullets, use bayonets, no bayonets with butts, no butts, use stones, bite with teeth, you just shouldn't be a prisoner. Soldiers in almost every [***] country are highly educated in this area, and you swear to the flag on the first day you join the army, and this oath is included in the "soldier" oath. And it is also configured on the "equipment", a "glorious bullet" specially designed for suicide. This is also one of the important reasons why the army led by [***] is extremely tenacious in combat and swears to die and should not be captured.

Therefore, when repatriating Soviet prisoners of war, many Soviet prisoners of war did not dare to return to the Soviet Union, afraid of living this life worse than death. But I can't go back if I don't go back. It would be unlawful not to go back, not to mention that these prisoners of war still shoulder the historical responsibility of the disintegration of the Soviet Union, which is that "the country must read and the nation must be liberated". Therefore, the Chinese side did a lot of work and promised that if they returned and were persecuted by the Soviet authorities for engaging in the "revolutionary cause", China would be ready to accept these persecuted comrades. In this way, the repatriation was completed with great difficulty.

With the repatriation of these prisoners of war, the Soviet Union was in real trouble.

Some of the repatriated Soviet prisoners of war were sent to factories, mines and collective farms in remote areas, and some were deported en masse to the Western Siberian region for reclamation. Soon these prisoners of war quietly gathered together under the convocation of members of the Soviet Liberation Front, a secret organization under the Special Service of China's Far East.

First of all, it is located in the central and western part of Russia, on the border between Europe and Asia, and the Ural Mountains run in a north-south direction. The Chechen National Liberation Front (KHLF), the first [***] group, mainly composed of Chechens, and the Chechen People's Liberation Army, an armed group, emerged. Subsequently, in the Soviet republics of Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan and Kyrgyzstan, which were close to the Xinjiang province of China, various ethnic [***] national liberation fronts and armed groups the People's Liberation Army (PLA) appeared. These People's Liberation Army of various nationalities, which were mainly guerrillas, quickly formed a prairie fire in the Soviet Union republics, and armed organizations of the People's Liberation Army with the aim of national reading also appeared in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, the three Baltic countries of the Soviet Union.

These PLA guerrillas, who aimed to seek national literacy, constantly mobilized the masses of various ethnic minorities who had been oppressed by the Soviet Union in large and medium-sized cities far away from the Soviet Union and in areas where the Soviet political axe rule was relatively weak, destroyed the Soviet grass-roots political power organizations in remote areas, and established so-called national autonomous regimes. The weapons and ammunition used by the members of these organizations were partly from the Soviet army that had been captured by China in the Far Eastern theater, and partly from the weapons and ammunition seized by the Soviet army and the KGB police force.

These PLA guerrillas seldom took the initiative to launch attacks on large military bases of the regular Soviet army, but they were organized and carefully planned to launch attacks on collective farms in small cities and towns and factories and mines in remote areas. The purpose of their attacks was, in general, to eliminate the basic security police and security units of the Soviet KGB, as well as the arms depots and logistical supply bases of the weakly defended Soviet troops. In coordination with the central work of the National Liberation Front, the national liberation was to undermine the grassroots political power of the Soviet Union and arouse the masses of the minority nationalities in the Soviet Union to rise up against the rule of the Soviet Union, so as to create guerrilla base areas for the national liberation war. Consolidate and establish revolutionary base areas, and establish national autonomous regimes in base areas.

These PLA guerrillas often carry out attacks under conditions that are conducive to the attack on these guerrillas. In many cases, based on the overall quality of the Soviet troops or the KGB that they were about to attack, the surnames of the commanders, and the characteristics of their tactics, they deliberately used squads with weak combat effectiveness to deal with the enemy, so that the Soviet troops and KGB units did not think of it, and then suddenly attacked the Soviet political axe army when they were not prepared. Sometimes they used the tactics of attacking the east and attacking the west, moving from south to north, so that the Soviet army was unpredictable about their movements, and paralyzed and confused the Soviet political axe army. And then attack one point of it. Guerrilla squads or armed engineering teams were also dispatched to carry out activities in place A in the name of the large units of the National Liberation Army, while the large units carried out attacks on places B or C.

In many cases, these national liberation armies sent many guerrilla groups to attack and harass the Soviet troops who came to encircle and suppress them from time to time, causing them to be frightened and fatigued overnight, and then chose the right time to attack the Soviet troops who surrounded and suppressed them. If the enemy is numerous, but the quality is poor, and the commander is cowardly, spread rumors, bluff, fatigue and intimidate the enemy in order to increase his vacillation, and then carry out the attack. When they wanted to attack a target, they also used guerrilla groups to move out in all directions, so that the Soviet troops elsewhere could tense and hold on to their own defense areas, so as to contain the enemy who might come to their aid, and then concentrate their forces to attack the target to be attacked.

They sent spies, disguised progress, bribed officials, penetrated the Soviet army and political axes, and gained the sympathy of the local people and the soldiers within the Soviet army, and used this as an internal response to attack the Soviet army and KGB troops. The effective attack on the Soviet army and the KGB security forces through these methods caused panic in the people of the Soviet Union throughout the Soviet Union, and all work could not be carried out normally. In many areas, with the exception of large cities, which were under the control of the Soviet government, the surrounding areas were completely out of control.

The large-scale operations of these national liberation forces and the large-scale encirclement and suppression of the Soviet army will be supported by timely and accurate intelligence and corresponding action plans of the PLA headquarters of the Soviet Liberation Front set up in the new area of China.

The way these PLA guerrillas launched their attacks made the Soviets and the KGB uncertain, and the timing of the sortie was also quite particular, at night, they used the darkness to covertly approach the enemy to attack; Charging at night can also reduce your own damage, and can amplify your momentum and increase the enemy's panic; Therefore, the PLA guerrillas paid special attention to tactical movements and coordinated training at night. When the PLA guerrillas are far away from the enemy or are not yet familiar with night attacks, they will also take advantage of the night dark march to approach the enemy and attack at dawn, choosing the time of the attack at dawn. Then a quick fix.

Sometimes, when the attack was uncertain, when the daytime march was not a problem or the area through which camouflage could be camouflaged, they usually scheduled the attack at dusk, and in case the attack was unsuccessful, they could take advantage of the cover of darkness at night and retreat safely.

When attacking the Soviet Shelf Army, which was of very poor quality, not alert, without fortifications, negligent, prominent, and helpless. They also choose to attack them during the day. The vast majority of daylight attacks were carried out using covert ambush tactics.

(To be continued)