"If NATO takes an offensive stance, what should we respond to?" Defense Minister Marshal Grechko thought for a moment and said, "Should we take a preemptive attack?" Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"That's not necessary, tell all the Warsaw Pact countries that in response with a level of combat readiness, all the military forces of all countries must cooperate with the Soviet Union to act as one, and tell our enemies that we are ready." Brezhnev's face was gloomy like never before. He just wants to see if NATO can really wear the same pants as the United States, not that he wants human extinction. The current development of the Soviet Union can be said to be very good, far from the point of dragging the whole world to the death.

"General Secretary, General Political Commissar telegram." Chernenko walked into the conference room at this time and brought a telegram that had just arrived.

"Take it and see!" Brezhnev took a quick glance, looked at the other councillors, and said, "Yula means that all the Turks will be expelled, and the eastern part of the future Soviet Grad Strait will be used as a military fortress, and the western part of the strait will be used as a commercial city. ”

"Expelled it? If four million people are expelled at once, what will the world think of us? Kosygin asked with some concern.

"What Yura means is that the Hellenic Defense Forces are willing to help us with this task." Brezhnev groaned for a moment and said, "If we turn a blind eye to the Turks in Constantinople, there will be untold troubles in the future." ”

"The Hellenic Defense Forces? So what is the quid pro quo, Yura won't give Constantinople to Greece, right? Ustinov was taken aback, he was also really afraid that Serov would take over internationalism for a while and do something stupid.

"In exchange, the future fortified area on the east bank of Constantinople would be garrisoned by the Greek Wehrmacht. Similarly, Romania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia could also be garrisoned. I can understand the intention of doing this, through the Greek garrison in the fortified area to find a way to bring Greece closer to the Warsaw Pact, as for Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia, the country of Bulgaria, Romania and Yugoslavia is to bring in garrisons to help us share the pressure. Brezhnev thought for a moment and said, "This is a compromise with some of our allies within the Warsaw Pact, and it will also allow our allies to face problems with us." ”

To put it simply, although the eldest brother went out to rob, the purpose of the eldest brother's robbery was to keep you fed. After you have eaten enough, you must appreciate it, and you will be more loyal when you grab land in the future.

"As long as Greece relinquishes sovereignty over Constantinople and does not make such unreasonable demands, the right to garrison can be discussed." "Constantinople is destined to be far away from our homeland, and if countries like Bulgaria and Greece can help us maintain it, we will save a lot of money in the future." ”

Constantinople was important, of course, but, as Sherepin said, the city was not connected to the Soviet mainland. It was a headache, and if the neighboring countries of Greece and Bulgaria had helped the Soviet Union, the city would have survived the war.

"Well, after all, it's a special case, otherwise the city is not a point of development, but a burden to us." Kosygin, chairman of the Council of Ministers, said from a purely economic point of view, "When the time comes, it will be easier for us to develop by connecting and radiating Eastern Europe, and perhaps Constantinople will become an economic center in the Balkans." ”

"Comrade Chernenko, to send electricity to Yura, sovereignty must be ours, this point cannot be discussed, other places can be discussed, and it is necessary to tell him that the motherland will not let the blood of the fighters be shed in vain, and we will definitely preserve the fruits of victory." Brezhnev's voice was very oppressive.

Two hours after Moscow officially received the threat from the United States, the Pentagon officially announced that it was concentrating the world's largest navy to carry American troops to Turkey. At the same time, the Soviet Union was warned that it should stop the war and return to its own territory, otherwise it would definitely reap the consequences.

The U.S. tough move was widely reported by the domestic media, and many newspapers praised the U.S. response quickly. After all, in one day, the government that has successively carried out diplomatic communication, United Nations resolutions, and sent troops to support it cannot be said to be inefficient, but the Democratic Party believes that it is not suitable for the United States to intervene in the war at this time, and that the country is in an economic crisis, and it has just withdrawn from the Vietnam War, and it is really too dangerous to confront the biggest enemy of the United States at the enemy's doorstep.

Almost as soon as the Pentagon announced the dispatch of its naval colleagues, a piece of news from Moscow surprised the whole world, the Soviet People's Radio announced that Istanbul, the largest city in Turkey, that is, Constantinople, had been conquered, and that the Soviet Union had killed more than 5,000 Turkish soldiers and captured 65,000 Turkish soldiers, and now controlled all of Constantinople.

The spread of this news took the whole of NATO by surprise, the size of the Turkish army was among the best in NATO, the 400,000-strong army was completely defeated by the Soviet army in one day, and the heavily defended largest city was conquered by the Soviet army in World War I. The news came to the entire Western European countries by surprise, and after the surprise was a deep fear, many people know that the most elite part of the Soviet army is the four major clusters stationed in Eastern Europe, as well as the second echelon of the Ukrainian and Belarusian military districts behind them, Turkey's 400,000 troops can only withstand one day, and how long can they resist.

After reading the newspaper, some Western Europeans were frightened, and then remembered the words of the Soviet General Political Commissar in the previous newspaper, "The armies of NATO countries have made an appearance for their people that they can resist us, and they use this appearance to comfort the people of their countries, in fact, both their own command structures and our Ministry of Defense understand that NATO is not ready for war at all." ”

In an instant, the army, which usually looked mighty and domineering, seemed to have become vulnerable at this time. Many people look at the soldiers of their country with doubt, can they fight at all? Is it really like some Soviet General Political Commissar, pretending to be able to fight, but in fact it is not possible at all. Some public figures have called for an all-out war between Turkey and the Soviet Union, and that no country on land can be an opponent of the Soviet Union. If Serov had known, he would definitely have given these five rubles a salary increase, saving himself a lot of trouble.

The dignity of NATO has long been rubbed under Serov's feet, and he is now talking and laughing with the chief of the general staff of Greece, a former NATO country, and the communication between the two sides is very pleasant, which is not much higher than these NATO countries that sympathize with Greece.

Konstantin Jean also knew that it was simply impossible to get Constantinople back from the Soviet Union, so he didn't even think about it. He is not the kind of people at the bottom who pin their hopes on the benevolence of the other side, and just a month ago Greece wanted the United States to be on its side, in exchange for a humiliating betrayal.

Now that the Soviet army was moving southward, Konstantin Jean, as chief of the General Staff of the Greek Defense Forces, felt that he could talk to the Soviets about cooperation and solve the Cyprus problem within his ability. This, of course, is no problem, and the Turkish army on the island of Cyprus was already alone from the beginning of the attack of the Soviet army on Turkey. They couldn't retreat if they wanted to, because the Turkish navy that had transported them had already been wiped out by the Soviet Air Force.

"The Turkish Navy and Air Force have been completely wiped out, Greece can completely wipe out that lone army, of course, if you need fire support, our Mediterranean fleet in Syria can help then." Serov thought for a moment and agreed to Konstantin Jean's suggestion. But he also had his own conditions, the Greek Wehrmacht that had confronted him earlier in Constantinople was to take action for the Soviet Union to drive out the Turks in Constantinople, and at the same time, Konstantin Jean had to declare in the name of the Greek military that the Soviet Union was attacking Turkey because it had received a request for help from Greece and could not sit idly by and watch the traditional friendship between the two countries.

"There is no problem with the former, I can immediately declare that the Soviet troops attacked at the request of the Greek Wehrmacht." Konstantin Jean, in the name of the Chief of the General Staff of the Hellenic Wehrmacht, immediately announced in front of 120,000 Hellen-Wehrmacht troops around Constantinople that it was the Hellenic Wehrmacht that had invited the Soviet Union to send troops to punish Turkey.

The news immediately reached Athens, the entire Athenian people were ecstatic, the flag of the Greek Communist Party was raised high, and the crowd in the capital Athens joined in the cheers in an instant, more than 200,000 people were used to thank the Soviet Union for sending troops to help Greece punish Turkey.

The American ambassador to Greece felt a heavier heart, and all American values in the wartime had been wiped out with the United States' decision to support Turkey in suppressing Greece. Even if the United States has a stronger economy, a richer material situation, and better relations with the big capitalists in Greece. But the decision to favor Turkey during the war left the vast majority of Greeks with a choice between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Greece's announcement shook all NATO countries, and one NATO member turned to the Warsaw Pact boss to punish another, much to the discomfort of many non-American commanders. They would have disagreed with the bias of the United States and Britain in favor of Turkey.

In the White House, President Ford frowned, his reaction was not unpleasant, and he made many decisions in one day, but it was still not as fast as the change in the situation, Greece announced that it would ask the Soviet Union to punish Turkey, which put the United States in a very embarrassing situation, and the attitude towards Greece is difficult to unify is only a superficial phenomenon, and there is a risk of deep NATO splitting.

In particular, the entire United States and Western Europe are in the midst of an economic crisis, with each country carrying a one-tenth unemployment rate. Italy has made it clear that the Soviet Union and the United States have nothing to do with Italy, and because Italy attacked Greece in World War II, Italy openly supports Greece's just move, believing that the United States' earlier judgment was wrong. (To be continued.) )