Chapter 740: The Situation in NATO
"From then on, Greece and the USSR will be an unbreakable alliance, and Greece has made a wise decision to be the first to see the trends in today's world!" The two goblets touched each other with a crisp sound, and Serov said meaningfully to the Chief of the General Staff of the Greek Wehrmacht, General Konstantin Jean. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info
"Of course, the Soviet Union is the most powerful military force in the world." Admiral Konstantin Jean's words were not without compliments. Turkey, which has been pressing on Greece's head for a long time, has only held out for a week. It was actually wiped out, and this shock he had already heard from the Greek officers who were about to leave NATO headquarters, and even NATO headquarters considered itself not an adversary, which only strengthened Greece's confidence in leaving.
"Not only do we have the most powerful fully mechanized army in the world today, but more importantly, we have ideals." Serov was noncommittal, and his eyes were fixed on the bright lights of the ball. Today a week can take out the Soviet soldiers in Turkey. These people used to have a unified term: the proletariat. When consciousness and form become the guiding ideology, the hungry, oppressed, trembling low-level laborers take up the weapons in their hands, they become the most fanatical army, they form an extremely efficient regime, they develop consciousness and form, they form base areas, they form political parties, they form states, they form alliances, the great Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
"We should have won, and there was no why." Serov drank the red wine in his glass little by little, he liked this red, which represented both revolutionary ideals and human blood, and everyone at the bottom of society who was overwhelmed by the weight of life, when you face painful hunger, high housing prices and education, and ubiquitous neglect and ridicule, should remember the meaning of the sickle and hammer flag, that everyone is created equal, and that communism will be realized.
Whether today's reforms in Europe and the United States were won by the Socialists' wishes and protests, or by the Warsaw Pact's 4 million mechanized army, anyone with brains should come to the right conclusion.
"I have invited President Karamanlis to review the army in Constantinople and celebrate this great victory with a military parade." Leonid Brezhnev raised his glass and said, "Comrades, friends of Greece, cheers." ”
"Cheers, bang......" All those present drank their glasses and raised their glasses to greet General Secretary Brezhnev and President Karamanlis, and the Soviets and Greeks present put aside their doubts and began to talk.
During the conversation, there was no lack of concern about whether the Soviet Union would interfere in the Greek economic and political system in the future, and this kind of question was discussed within the Soviet Union long before the reception, taking Yugoslavia as an example, the Soviet Union did not hide its dissatisfaction with Yugoslavia, but the same dissatisfaction was dissatisfaction, and the Soviet Union only exerted pressure through public opinion. The USSR did not do anything to Yugoslavia, and even less to Greece.
"The military system of Greece is naturally the same as that of the Warsaw Pact, but this is not a bad thing, the American army system is only suitable for themselves, while our Soviet system can be adapted to most countries. Let Greece fight the Vietnam War, the Greek Air Force will be dispatched for a month, and it is estimated that Greece will be bankrupt. Serov and Ustinov are also communicating with the generals of the Greek Defense Forces, and in the future, both sides will be colleagues in the Warsaw Pact, and it is very normal to greet and contact in advance.
"In fact, since this war, the external pressure of the Soviet Union has also eased a lot, and the military strength of the Warsaw Pact can also be appropriately reduced, so as to reduce some military spending, and some Eastern European countries can also retire some old-fashioned tanks with the help of disarmament." Ustinov knew that disarmament was imminent, and it was also necessary, and the Eastern European countries still had T34 tanks in service, which happened to be all retired this time, supplemented by new tanks, and also allowed the Soviet military industry to continue to move forward.
"What was the number of tanks in the USSR, we only had an approximate estimate when we were in NATO." Admiral Konstantin Jean asked, as a military man he was most interested in this question, that is, the specific strength of the Warsaw Pact.
"It's about fifty or sixty thousand, this number changes every day, and I can't give you a specific number, and there is also the Greek American tank, which is not suitable for use as the main tank. It was not possible to meet the standards of the Soviet war, and the replacement had to be completed if necessary. Serov is also ready to send some people to communicate with the Greek Defense Forces to see how the NATO-standard military system works, which is the KGB's job in itself.
Compared with the joy of Greece and the Soviet Union, and even the entire Warsaw Pact countries, the whole of NATO is in a gloomy fog. The great victory of the Soviet Union was a great defeat for the whole of NATO. Because of the mishandling of the Cyprus war, in just one month, NATO almost simultaneously lost two member states and 600,000 troops from both countries combined.
The entire southern blockade was pierced by the Soviet Union, the line of defense preventing the Soviet Union from entering the Mediterranean no longer existed, the London Straits Convention and a series of later Straits Conventions against the Soviet Union all failed, and even Constantinople was seized by the Soviets. Because the Soviet Union mercilessly sent troops to attack, NATO countries did not know what to do for a while.
Say that the USSR violated the London Straits Convention? The Soviet Union is at war, how can the London Straits Convention stop it? Then Turkey was quickly defeated, and the London Straits Convention was instantly a waste of paper, and it was too late to protest.
The news of Greece's accession to the Warsaw Pact caused a big shock within NATO, because the two major military blocs themselves were numerically inferior to NATO, and the impression that they seemed to be encircling the Soviet Union appeared was entirely because of Greece and Turkey, so it seemed to have some advantage on the map.
But at the same time, NATO countries also know that the USSR was a European country, while the United States was an American country. The Soviet Union could start a war at any time, but it would take time for the United States to transfer troops from its homeland, and it would be difficult to say whether Europe would exist when the American troops were assembled. In fact, the intention of the attack is on the opposite side of the Warsaw Pact, and NATO's battle plan is based on defense.
Originally, in terms of the number of soldiers and ground forces, NATO was the one that was in a weak position, but now that the Turkish army has been defeated and Greece has joined the Warsaw Pact, the number of NATO soldiers has instantly decreased by 600,000, because the Greek Defense Forces have entered the Warsaw Pact, and the Warsaw Pact has 200,000 more troops, and this is 800,000 troops.
The simple calculation of this figure is based on the fact that the Yugoslav People's Army, which is the third largest armed force in the socialist countries of Europe, is not part of the Warsaw Pact. What is even more disadvantageous is that after the Soviet Union took out Turkey, will the second largest heavy military group in the Caucasus direction after the European direction be deployed in the European direction because of the disappearance of the Turkish threat? Judging by the number of troops sent by the Soviet Union this time, it was not at all weaker than the Western cluster in the GDR.
After such a frightening comparison, all NATO member states found that NATO's strength has never been so unbalanced compared with the Warsaw Pact, and the defense pressure of almost every NATO member state has become even greater with the end of Greece and Turkey.
"Anyway, Turkey and the USSR have always been feuding, and it is impossible to throw themselves into the Warsaw Pact, why didn't we support Greece in the first place? Well, now that there are a million more soldiers on the other side than we are, our Prime Minister has just stated once again that in the event of an invasion by a powerful enemy, he will consider using nuclear weapons first. This is tantamount to telling the Warsaw Pact, we can't beat you......" After a long silence, a British general complained dissatisfied.
"This is a mistake on the part of the Americans, and didn't you Britons then say that there is no problem? Now, the only thing we can do in the face of the Soviet Union's fully mechanized army is to use nuclear bombs as mines and detonate them on our own territory, isn't that how you see the Federal Republic of Germany? A German officer sneered, "Why do you assume international responsibilities and hope that the Federal Republic of Germany will expand the Wehrmacht to 700,000 just to help you buy time to retreat?" ”
"This accusation is meaningless now, we should still unite and make a defensive battle plan!" The Dutch officer coughed and said softly, "The addition of the Greek Wehrmacht has reduced the pressure on the southern front of the entire Soviet Union from the Balkans to the Middle East, including Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, and the confrontation seems to be more fierce in the future." ”
"We should find an opportunity to bring the French back again, without France we can't expand our potential." Such an opinion was made.
"French? The French are about to be kidnapped by the Algerians, and the entire Algerian people only listen to the Algerian Workers' Party, because the Warsaw Pact supported Algerian independence ten years ago, and the Algerians generally have a good opinion of socialism. Skirmishes in Algeria have been going on all the time, and if France is to really come back, the Second Algerian War of Independence will soon break out. ”
There is also the fact that France itself does not produce oil, but Algeria has oil resources, and now in the context of the world economic crisis, will the French make Algeria independent? The Federal Republic of Germany is resisting with the largest population and industry in Western Europe, Britain is developing North Sea oil, France is relying on Algerian oil to operate, and as for the Italians, Italy is preparing to negotiate business with the Soviets.
In addition to a few powerful countries, the Netherlands, Belgium, and Portugal have been affected more, don't you see that Portugal is about to revolutionize now, and other NATO countries seem to be less affected because of their small populations. But no one can doubt that the economic crisis has weakened both Western Europe and the United States. (To be continued.) )