Chapter 485: The Second Battlefield

But this is not to say that the mentor is ready to stop the offensive, he knows very well that the goal of the coalition is to overthrow the Soviet power, and that compromise and peace are useless, and that the coalition can only cease the war if the British Empire, the core of the anti-Soviet alliance and the key to it, realizes that this goal cannot be achieved, at least at a cost that it needs to pay more than it can bear, and this can only be achieved through the offensive, because only in the offensive can the British and its minions be selectively prioritized and passively defensive, The British Empire could easily force a potential competitor like Germany, or Poland, which had split from Russia, to wear each other down with Soviet Russia, and even if Russia could win a final victory, the price would be terrible. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

However, the main force of the Polish army did not suffer much loss, and the countries of Western Europe sent a second batch of reinforcements, and unconsciously the total strength of the coalition forces in the Warsaw area has swelled to more than one million, and there are new reinforcements after that, and now the Soviet Russian Red Army, which has serious losses in personnel and supplies, has no chance of victory if it takes the initiative to attack, and winter is approaching, and the increasingly cold climate is more unfavorable to the attacking side, so the mentor finally ordered the Red Army that wanted to take advantage of the victory to stop advancing westward, Shifting the focus to the Balkans was also the idea of Comrade Steel, who has now become the second person in the Bolshevik Party.

It may be that during his stay in China, he was influenced by the "Great China" mentality, and Comrade Steel's concept of "Great Russianism" has unconsciously transformed into the "Great Slavism" that was extremely prevalent in the Tsarist era. However, it must be admitted that to a certain extent this does have some truth, and even if the opposition of the Bolsheviks to nationalism is politically correct, it cannot be denied the fact that the closer the linguistic and cultural kinship of the inhabitants of the newly occupied territories is, the easier it is to digest and consolidate them, and the higher the probability of success is to start with the red colonies of the same Slavic colonies than to export the revolution everywhere without a clear focus.

And now that the Austro-Hungarian Empire has obviously begun to collapse, it is a good time to take advantage of the fire, although the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire will be a huge blow to Germany, but since this is unavoidable, the mentor may as well push it and reap some benefits by the way, and with the mentor's excellent strategic vision, at this time has been vaguely aware that the disintegration of the Austro-Hungarian Empire may be a good thing for Germany in the long run......

However, the German Emperor and his General Staff were obviously not so clever, and actually sent a large number of troops into Austria-Hungary to help put down the rebellion, if the Russian Red Army wanted to dismember the latter himself, there would be another fierce battle with the German army, and the mentor chose to back down after thinking about it, and only let the Red Army occupy the Romanian enclaves so that they could be transferred to the government of the Romanian Soviet Republic.

That is to say, the Russian Red Army not only "liberated" Romania, but also helped it expand its territory, but the Romanians were not happy for long, because the Russian Red Army was not in vain, according to the mentor's plan, the Romanian Soviet Republic would be merged with Soviet Russia as a union republic to form the "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics......

It is worth mentioning that because he saw the hidden dangers of the union republic system, and his own voice was much greater than in history, Comrade Iron and Steel expressed fierce opposition to this idea of his mentor after returning to Russia, but at this time most of the Bolshevik high-level were non-Russians, even his descendant Budyonny was no exception, even if there was a nationalist idea, it was not nationalism from the position of the Russian ethnic group, plus the ideas of "world revolution" and "national self-determination" were in line with the trend in this period, No matter how tough Comrade Steel's personality is, in the end, he can only obey the majority by the minority......

In good times, however, it was indeed very convenient for Soviet Russia to annex and digest other countries in this way, because it could greatly weaken the revolt of the people of the new republics. Thus, it did not take long for not only Romania, but also neighboring Bulgaria to follow in its footsteps and become a new member of the future Soviet Union......

After the Red Army "liberated" Bulgaria, the Ottoman Turkish Empire in the south, fearing its invasion of the south, had to voluntarily abandon the two North African territories occupied by Italy, and then voluntarily joined the anti-Soviet coalition. However, the mentor did not take this new enemy country to heart at all, and a third-rate country that even Tsarist Russia and even a small Balkan country could not beat, what was there to be afraid of? As for the support of other countries of the anti-Soviet coalition? What the mentor wanted was for them to come and support, and fighting here was much more advantageous for Soviet Russia than on the Eastern European Plain, in fact, the mentor ordered the Red Army to go south to liberate Bulgaria, originally to open up a second battlefield in the south......

The reason is very simple, if there is a war on the Eastern European Plain, the main force must be the German army with which the mentor does not want to fight, and the anti-bone Poles who still regard themselves as their compatriots to a certain extent in their hearts, and it is also Soviet Russia's own land (at least they think it is), and even if they win, it will be a big loss; However, if the battlefield is in the Balkans and the Caucasus, Germany has every reason to refuse to send troops, and the military strength of the Ottoman Turkish Empire is much weaker than that of Austria-Hungary, and it is simply unable to resist the attack of the Soviet Russian Red Army, so the British and French can only go into battle in person, so the Soviet Russian Red Army will destroy the British and French armies, which is in line with the mentor's idea of weakening Britain and its minions to force Britain to armistice the war.

In addition, Turkey and Russia have been feuding for hundreds of years, and it is a country where the whole people believe in religion and ****, and it is difficult to complete the redness through internal infiltration, if it is left alone, I am afraid that it will adopt a hostile attitude towards Soviet Russia for a long time, in this case, it is not very necessary to destroy it, at least to cripple it?

It was not the first time that Russia had singled out Turkey and Britain and France, and the Crimean War did not leave any good memories for the Russians, so most of the Bolshevik high-ranking people objected to the mentor opening up a second battlefield, but the mentor was very confident of victory, because the current Russia is no longer the Tsarist Russia of the past. More importantly, the Crimean War was just a local war, coupled with the backward transportation conditions at that time, Russia's advantage of being large in land could not be fully brought into play, and this time the Balkan War was an important part of the Great Patriotic War of Soviet Russia, and the Great Patriotic War was a full-scale war of national mobilization and all-out efforts......