Chapter 173 to cut off the roots
Not to mention this, the railway station, after repelling the German attack, the signal flag troops noticed a detail, that is, the German commander who used the saber to command, since the modernization of the Western army, the saber is completely a decoration and etiquette, and it is generally only worn on important occasions, but the officer actually commanded with a saber, and it was not the standard saber of the German army, but a beautiful saber, which seemed to be a saber with history. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
The German officer seemed to be a nobleman, but his warlike ancestors did not shelter him this time, and after the reinforcements were arranged, Andrei also talked to Brezhnev about the Germans, saying: "Ilyich, the spiritual foundation of the Germans lies in the Prussian militaristic tradition, and since the beginning of the Teutonic Knights, in the middle of the 13th century, the Teutonic Knights were hired by Duke Conrad of Poland to conquer the Prussian region to the north. The Teutonic Knights, who were extremely combative, completed their mission cleanly in the face of the uncivilized indigenous people of the region. After sweeping the Prussian area, the knights who had been wandering for a long time felt that the water and grass were abundant and close to their German hometown, so they simply lived here. Prussia, which originally belonged to Eastern Europe, was gradually Germanized under the influence of the Teutonic Knights. The Teutonic Knights became the earliest ancestors of Prussia. Its iconic black cross on a white background later became the prototype of the Prussian flag. Later, the black and white tone of the Noodle Don flag even became the object of imitation and tribute to the Nazi flag. The history of the Teutonic Knights' pioneering history of having an army and then a country determined that Prussia was born "not a country with an army, but an army with a state", and it also found a historical basis for the Nazis to later boast that "the German sword obtained land for the German plow". Indeed, the martial spirit of the knight, the rigor of the monk, the wanderer's desire for the land, in this land of Prussia, are in trinity. Prussia was a war machine on the European soil from its birth. It wasn't until 1700, when the secular Kingdom of Prussia was officially established, that the nations of Europe really felt its horror. The nascent Kingdom of Prussia was surrounded by powerful neighbors such as Sweden, Russia, Austria, and France, and this environment prompted Prussia to prioritize military development in a frenzied manner unimaginable to other countries. In particular, during the reign of the second Prussian king, Friedrich II, the number of Prussian troops surged from 80,000 to 200,000 in more than 20 years, accounting for 9.4% of the country's population, and military spending cost four-fifths of the government's entire budget every year. At that time, Prussia was the 10th largest in Europe in terms of area and 13th in population, but its army was the fourth largest in Europe. By the time of Friedrich II's death in 1786, Prussia's territory had expanded 1.6 times and its population had grown to 5 million. The rapid rise of Prussia became the most high-profile geopolitical event in Europe throughout the 18th century.
Frantic military investment, constant foreign wars, and the political concept that "might is right", Friedrich II created a unique development model for Prussia"
And Brezhnev listened to what Andrei introduced and fell into thought, yes, Prussia established the country by military force, and finally unified Germany, such a tradition brought terrible power, but the beginning of Russia, there are also heavy traces of militarism Since Peter the Great, Tsarist Russia has carried out crazy military expansion, Siberia, the Urals, the Caucasus, and Central Asia have all been incorporated into the territory of Russia under the saber of successive tsars, great power chauvinism, This is actually inherited, you must know that Marx is a completely critical attitude towards great power chauvinism, but as the first socialist country, the Soviet Union was born out of Tsarist Russia and inherited the legacy of Tsarist Russia, it was not that no one proposed that some places should be independent to solve the national question on the basis of complete equality, but what can be spit out when it is eaten in the mouth, if the Soviets gave up their sovereignty over the Baltic, Caucasus, and Central Asia, it would really be a loss of power and humiliation. Those lands are an integral part in the eyes of many Russians, how is it possible to give them up? Brezhnev was not a communist but a pragmatist, and he also felt that Stalin's national policy was correct, knowing that the Soviets should inherit the ruling power of Tsarist Russia, and of course they should also inherit these lands (Tsarist Russia is also a country established by force, in fact, although the specific line and method are different from Prussia, but the thinking is to rely on strong military force and absolute monarchy to achieve national expansion)
As a country with a heavy militaristic mentality, the understanding of the Germans is still very clear, and Brezhnev said: "Andrey, if we drive out the Germans in the future, do you think they will come back?" After all, after the First World War, the Germans had a ferocious revenge, no one thought that in just twenty years, the planes, artillery, and tanks of the German Empire swept through Western Europe. Brezhnev said: "What do you mean? Andrey, how do you think it will be destroyed? ”
Andrei spoke of the practices of the Soviet Union and the Western allies in history, and he said fiercely: "We occupied the old place of Prussia, erased all the things in Prussia, changed the name of the place, expelled all the people, and demolished the palace. Tear down and fill in the mausoleums of the Junker aristocracy, remove all the marks of Prussia, and completely cut off the roots of German militarism! ”
Hearing Andrei's words, Brezhnev directly broke out in a cold sweat, this Andrei is a person from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, this method is ruthless enough to kill the household, and then Andrei asked the radio station of the signal flag to report this idea, and Beria also agreed very much with this method, because although Kuusinin pretended to have amnesia, he still told history that the Soviet Union would win, and since it won, it really has to deal with the Germans, and it is indeed very important to completely destroy Prussia, and when the Ministry of Internal Affairs reported it to Stalin, Stalin also approved of the question, and on this question he agreed with Andrei's suggestion that Prussia must be destroyed, and that the Königsberg region of East Prussia could be used as the home port of the Baltic Fleet in the future, not only to destroy Prussia, but also to eat it in one bite.
And what Andrei didn't know was that Brezhnev had a new evaluation of him, that is, he was ruthless enough, but at this time, Brezhnev was not the old bureaucrat of later generations, he was still very optimistic about Andrei as a promising rookie, and in the future, his partner would gain a firm foothold in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which would also be good for his political life, and Brezhnev also had the ambition to climb up, and he also thought that he had such ability, so all aspects of the relationship should be accumulated.
And Andrei also knew that there were remnants of chauvinism in the Soviet Union, so how to divert Stalin's attention, just as the Far East chose Hokkaido, or let Maozi focus on other countries.