Chapter 209: The World Shocked
The large headline on the front page of Pravda on the morning of the 25th was like a bombshell falling out of thin air, causing an uproar in world political circles -- the Japanese army brazenly used bacteriological weapons in the Haraha River area!
For a time, the embassies of various countries in the Soviet Union were like an appointment, and they did not even use their own passwords, and sent the front-page news of Pravda back to their home countries in clear code. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć As the old info saying goes, there is no evidence, but the dozens of clear-resolution photographs in the newspapers speak for themselves: the bacteriological warfare equipment has instructions in Japanese.
Less than half an hour after Pravda appeared on the market, several groups of marchers carrying banners and slogans protesting the brutal atrocities of the Japanese army appeared on the main streets of Moscow. More and more people participated in the march, and finally joined a huge procession of more than 100,000 people to protest in front of the Japanese Embassy.
Muscovites do not go to the march for no reason, of course, all this can only be arranged by the Moscow city committee, and the Kremlin wants this kind of emotional effect. The initial contingent was organized by major factories, and the order had already been received in the early hours of this morning, otherwise there would not have been so many banners and slogans so soon.
At this time, the Japanese embassy was unlucky, not only the road was blocked, but even the electricity was cut off by the power workers for more than ten hours. When they learned of the results of the comrades on the power front, the comrades of the waterworks were not far behind - water and electricity cuts have always been a strong whole that cannot be divided!
I don't know who threw a brick into the Japanese embassy, and little Japan, who was hiding in the room for a while, knew what the real bombing was. The crowd of protesters grew, and the mood began to become radical, until Kalinin appeared in the crowd three hours later, and the brick rain stopped.
"Thank you Comrade Kalinin."
Stalin expressed his condolences to Kalinin, who had returned to the Kremlin: a walk among hundreds of thousands of people was certainly enough for the old comrades. Kalinin had already prepared for today's "performance" last night, and it was all arranged.
"Comrade Stalin, in one more day the fire will be almost there."
"The work has been assigned below, and the major factories will send people to block there in shifts, and some Japanese people will suffer."
Within a few days, world public opinion began to unanimously condemn Japan's barbaric acts in disregard of international laws, and the mainstream media in Britain, France, and the United States unanimously demanded that Japan disclose its bacteriological weapons research and also called on their own governments to impose economic sanctions against Japan.
It is right to wave the flag and shout, but without the government's instructions, those newspapers and radio stations would not even let out a fart, and the contradictions between the interests of Britain, France, and the United States on the one hand, on the other, on the other hand, on the other hand, would have been a day or two, and they would have taken this opportunity to make a big fuss.
On the morning of the 29th, an even more shocking news came out of Moscow: the Soviet Union and Germany formally signed the "Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact" last night.
Germany did not greet Japan at all beforehand, and Japan knew nothing about it. As soon as the news broke, the Japanese government was shocked and scolded Hitler for his treachery.
The Soviet-German Non-Aggression Pact stipulates that neither of the signatory countries will invade the other party, alone or in conjunction with other countries. Paragraph 2 provides that in the event of an attack by a third State, the signatory State will remain neutral. The two signatories assume the responsibility of not participating in any group of States that is directly or indirectly directed against the other signatory.
Japanese Prime Minister Hiranuma Ichiro held more than 70 cabinet meetings in order to obtain a cabinet consensus on the signing of the Triple Alliance Treaty between Japan, Germany, and Italy, but he was now shocked by the news from Moscow, and finally announced: "Because of the complicated and unpredictable form of coming into Europe, Japan's long-standing policy has come to an end, and it is necessary to formulate a new policy." The Cabinet resigned for this reason. ā
The Hiranuma cabinet fell.
In contrast to the resignation of the prime minister, the generals of the Japanese army were hysterically scolding Hitler: Originally, Japan and Germany had concluded the "Japan-Germany Defense and Communist Agreement" as early as November 1936, with the aim of dealing with Soviet communism in both the east and the west.
At the time of the publication of the "Japan-Germany Defense Pact," Japan envisaged that if Germany succeeded in Eastern Europe and the western part of the Soviet Union, Japan would also intervene in the Soviet Far East and Mongolia.
Now that the Kwantung Army had lost its troops and returned from a great defeat in the Normenhan conflict, Germany had stabbed it in the back, and it was announced that the strategy of advancing northward with the help of the "Japan-Germany Defense and Communist Agreement" had been completely blocked. Of course, the Japanese could do nothing but scold Hitler as the number one traitor in the world, and on the Soviet issue, Japan lost cleanly, both politically and militarily.
The Hiranuma Cabinet, which held on to the "Japan-Germany Defense Pact," had no choice but to collapse, and the question left to his successor was how to find a national policy for Japan's development that suited reality.
In fact, Japan's future national policy Lin Jun and Western countries have already prepared for it: the United States and Britain have threatened to cut off oil supplies to Japan, and the original oil purchase agreement will not be renewed after it expires, unless the Japanese army starts a bacteriological warfare development plan, cancels the bacteriological force, and withdraws troops from China.
"Alas, little Japan is all forced!" Lin Jun made the above classic explanation of Japan's future direction, of course, after saying it, there was a burst of unbridled laughter: Japan got into the chain of its own elaborate design, and Western countries were a little unintentionally prepared for their own interests, and the next thing to do is to wait and see how long it will take Japan to prepare for a large-scale attack in the Pacific Ocean!
A year? Or two years? In fact, it doesn't matter, as long as Japan can fight with the United States and Britain in the Pacific.
Japan scolded Hitler as an international traitor, but Hitler was also "forced"! For historical reasons, Hitler knew very well that the first thing he had to deal with was Britain and France. Under such a strategic policy, in fact, from April onwards, Germany began to conduct diplomatic tests with the Soviet Union without concealing Japan, expressing its willingness to abandon its anti-Soviet stance, recognize the inviolability of the Soviet Union's borders, and conclude a non-aggression pact with the Soviet Union.
At that time, Britain and France were clinging to the policy of appeasement, and although they also said that they would send a delegation to negotiate with the Soviet Union, the policy of "bringing disaster to the east" did not move at all, and it was doomed to a dead end before the talks began.
Before leaving for the Haraha River, Lin Jun had a deep discussion with Stalin about Germany's overtures: "Under the current complicated international situation, from the perspective of long-term interests, the signing of a treaty with Germany can smash the conspiracy of Britain and France to encourage Germany to go to war with us first, and can buy time to accumulate strength. Since Germany has proposed to sign a non-aggression pact, it will be signed if the conditions are right. If this "good intention" of Hitler is abandoned, there is a possibility that there will be an unfavorable situation of war on both sides. ā
"On another point, whether the conflict on the Haraha River will eventually be resolved by an armistice or whether a full-scale war will break out, Germany's movements will be decisive. The next thing was that Japan, betrayed by Hitler, had to admit that the strategy of going north was over, and the only choice for such an ambitious country could only be to go south to the Pacific Ocean to compete with Britain, the United States and France. With a war between Germany and Britain and France looming, another war in the Pacific, and dog-eat-dog between the imperialist countries, we will temporarily sit firmly in the Diaoyutai for one to two years from any point of view. ā
"The only solution to the knot of siege and isolation of the capitalist countries is to sign a non-aggression pact with Germany for the time being, and there is no other way."
Interlocking, Lin Jun's analysis is like an inescapable mantra, all imperialist countries are enclosed in this big circle, and the Soviet Union will have time to prepare for the decisive war that Lin Jun always talked about in front of Stalin.
"Poisonous! Ruthless enough! Insidious enough! At that time, Stalin made this evaluation of Lin Jun's words in his heart: A person without such scheming cannot be a qualified national commander.
It was precisely because of this conversation between Lin Jun and Stalin that Ribbentrop's talks with Molotov after his arrival in Moscow would go so smoothly. Of course, the agreement signed was not only the public part, because the precondition for signing the treaty was that Germany made some compromises, and the unseemly, one-man and half-brother good conditions were suggested by Lin Jun to Stalin a long time ago.
"Go to its international norms, capitalist countries never mention any international moral norms when they fight a war of aggression, and if they fight, they will fight, what can they do?! Bite me! Only the officials are allowed to set fire there, and the common people are not allowed to light an oil lamp, this will not make a fortune, it is a fool's egg! Besides, it's his own, Lao Tzu just wants to melon Poland and the Baltic Sea, and no one else has to chirp! ā
Lin Jun once talked about Western strategy with several of his brothers in private conversations, and a few of them were a little strange at first - they are one and a half like the fascist brothers?! Lin Jun used this passage to teach his brothers a good lesson.
"If I tell you what excuse the United States will use to fight Iraq in the future, and the president of Iraq hangs himself, and finally admits that the original excuse is not valid and is still free, you will not have to freeze your brain for three minutes!?"
It is not enough for a military commander to be able to fight a war, but also to understand some politics: With several decades of historical experience in political struggle, he can understand the meaning of "world hegemony" more profoundly than anyone else, and he can also skillfully apply it in advance. Although he is not proficient in playing, but there is a strong country as a backing, and the world can be used as a stage for himself to experiment and show his talents, Lin Jun is very confident that he can lay this big banner with capitalist countries, whether on the battlefield or at the negotiating table.
On the 30th, when the last "shift" protest crowd gathered in front of the Japanese embassy dispersed, Hayashi Jun returned to Moscow. (To be continued.) )