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Chapter 1442 Where to Go (I)

In the 26th year of the Republic of China, November 19, 1937, Beiping, Zhongnanhai. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

At 9 o'clock in the morning, in the conference hall of the Qinzheng Palace, the Japanese generals gathered, and the commander of the North China Front, General Ishihara Wan'er, quietly convened a meeting of the generals of the young Zhuang faction in the army, which was underway.

The origin of this meeting can be traced back to 16 years ago, when Nagata Tetsuyama Shosa (then stationed in Russia), Kotsuda Toshishiro (then military attache in Switzerland), Okamura Ninji Shosa, and Tojo Hideki Shosa, came to Baden-Baden, Germany, after observing World War I, and enjoyed a relaxing hot spring bath.

Having just witnessed the incomparably bloody and brutal battle scenes in the European theater, these careerists, who were only 36 or 7 years old at the time, and who pretended to be in control of the Japanese Army in the next 10 to 15 years, felt very deeply. This war was unlike any other before, tanks, planes, poison gas were used, there was no distinction between front and rear, there was no distinction between soldiers and civilians, and all that remained was one word: "killing".

Japan did not participate in the main battlefield operations of this European war, but what about the future? What should Japan do? All of these four men, with the exception of Nagata Tetsuyama, had experience in studying in Germany, and their conclusion was that only by following the ideas of German Field Marshal Ludendorff's "Total War" could they finally achieve victory. Hence the emergence of the "Baden-Baden Secret Pact," the main content of which was to implement "military dominance and subordination," and that the country's political, economic, industrial, cultural, and social affairs should be transformed into a wartime system. In order to achieve the goal of "military dominance and subordination," it is necessary to eliminate the Choshu faction that dominates the Japanese Army, from Yama Prefecture Aritomo Ketsui Ketsutaro to Uehara Yusaku and reform the army system.

This "Baden-Baden Secret Treaty" is the real manifesto of modern Japanese militarism, and the manifesto does not mention the emperor for the first time, and this is the difference between what this faction was later called the "unification faction" and the "imperial faction." Although the purpose of both is the same, it is to achieve the goal through the "emperor's own government" with the "imperial faction", while the "unification faction" is completely throwing off everything and doing it alone.

But with just four Shaozuo, what kind of climate can it become? Therefore, after the four of them returned to Japan, they found Kenji Dohihara, Daisaku Kawamoto, and Seishiro Itagaki to form the "Futabakai" organization, which was very famous at the time, and carried out activities on a regular basis. Influenced by this, in 1929, Yamashita Fumi, Suzuki Sadachi, Muto Akira, and others formed an organization called "Ichijukai", and Ishihara Waner was in this organization.

At that time, Ishihara was already very famous, he graduated as the second seat of the 30th session of the Lu University, studied in Germany after graduation, wrote many military works, and also developed Clausewitz's "On War", wrote the "Final War Theory", and at the same time, the "Grand View of War History", which completely expressed Ishihara's thoughts, was also published, and Ishihara's status as a strategic master has been initially revealed.

Ishihara believes that the future conflict in the world will be a clash between Eastern and Western civilizations, and that Japan, as the representative of the Eastern civilization, will inevitably engage in a so-called "final war" with the United States, which is the representative of the Western civilization, in order to determine the direction of human society.

Ishihara also believes that in this contest of the "final war," Japan is in an extremely disadvantageous position in terms of strategic position: there is no depth in the country, and there are no strategic material resources. In the course of this protracted war, Japan must have a solid rear base, and in the view of Ishihara at that time, this extremely important base was Manchuria, which was the origin of the "Manchurian and Mongolian lifeline theory" that the Japanese army had always claimed.

Ishihara was indeed an otherworldly genius. As early as 1929, in his "Grand View of War History", he emphasized the role of aircraft in future wars, and pointed out the application of nuclear fission energy in military affairs. Ishihara said, "The destructive power of using this energy may make the war decide in an instant," and "it is possible for strange powers, light weapons, and other sudden appearances."

Ishihara was very smart, and when he was studying, the homework of the Army University was quite heavy, and it was common for students to do homework at night. But Ishihara always seems to have nothing to do, and he goes everywhere after eating. Ishihara is particularly good at talking, so everyone likes and hates him: I like to listen to him talk about the mountains, but when I hear him talk about the mountains, what should I do with my homework? But Ishihara was like this, and he easily graduated with the second place in Lu University. After Ishihara launched the theory of "Manchurian and Mongolian lifeline" in 1929, it was rightfully regarded as a treasure by the army, and after a great deal of media publicity, it became the sharpest slogan and an invincible ideological weapon.

Subsequently, Ishihara Waner took the "Yixihui" as the basis of the organization, completely conquered and annexed the "Futabakai" in one fell swoop, and at the same time became the well-deserved core figure of the organization, Masanobu Tsuji, Hattori Takushiro, Hattori Hanbei, Kyoji Tominaga, Hanaya Masa, Imada Shintaro, Katakura Matsuki, Tanaka Takayoshi, Kanda Masa and other land university members successively surrounded Ishihara Waner.

Subsequently, Ishihara and his partners planned the "Huanggutun Incident" and "918 Incident", and together with Seishiro Itagaki, he became a great hero and hero worshiped by the whole Japanese people. To what extent did people worship him? To give a simple example, later there was a famous Japanese music conductor named Seiji Ozawa, the "seiji" of Seiji Ozawa is the "seishiro" of "Seishiro Itagaki", "er" is the "er" of "Ishihara Waner", Seiji Ozawa was born in Shenyang in 1935, and his father Kaisaku Ozawa admired Ishihara and Itagaki so much that he gave his son this name.

Ishihara is very level-headed, he understands Chinese and maintains the most simple understanding of China. Before the outbreak of the Sino-Japanese War, he openly declared on many occasions:

"If China and Japan enter a state of war, it will be a long-term and protracted war, and the understanding that 'punishing China will lead to the collapse of Chiang's regime in a few months, so only a short-term decisive battle is needed' is a huge mistake. Until the Meiji Restoration, China was feared as an advanced country in Asia, and the Japanese looked down on China as an aging country after their victory over China in the First Sino-Japanese War. China has a high degree of civilization since ancient times, and its material life is extremely primitive, and there is a high degree of self-sufficiency in various places, all of which have become extremely favorable conditions for protracted warfare. If the two countries go to war, it is possible to force China to engage in a strategic decisive battle, but whether it will turn into a protracted war depends largely on the intentions of China's leaders. ”

After Ishihara became the head of the General Staff Headquarters, he formulated the "Outline of National Defense Policy," the main contents of which were: "Japan's national policy is to become a guide in East Asia, and to this end it must have the strength to eliminate the oppression of the Soviet Union, the United States, and Britain." While building up the armaments, especially the air forces, that could confront the Soviets, the United States, and the British, and to do the groundwork of stabilizing Japan, Manchuria, and the Northern Branch, and completing the preparations for a protracted war, it was necessary to obtain Malayan rubber and Brunei's oil, and at the same time squeeze out the British, and strive to reach into the 'Lanyin' to secure the oil supply of the empire.

"After completing the replenishment of armaments and preparations for a protracted war, active work began first of all to force the USSR to abandon its plot to attack the Far East as soon as possible. During this period, efforts were made to maintain friendly relations with the United States, and after the Soviet Union surrendered, it established goodwill relations with it, completely expelled British power from East Asia, and liberated all East Asian peoples. After the Soviet Union and Britain succumbed, he led the cooperation of East Asian countries to develop their strength by leaps and bounds, and prepared for the final Armageddon with the United States, and defeated the opponent in one fell swoop to seize the hegemony of the world. ”

It can be seen that Ishihara's choice of Japan's ultimate opponent is still aimed at the United States, and at the same time, he also sees clearly the paper tiger nature of the old empire Britain, and for the first time put forward a plan to invade Southeast Asia.

Many people insisted that Ishihara was opposed to expanding the war in China, let alone attacking Southeast Asia at the risk of angering Britain and the United States, and that Ishihara's stubbornness would never have made it easy to change his position, but this was a big mistake from the start.

You must know that Ishihara himself is a big monster full of contradictions in his thoughts and actions, and he is constantly planning how to take advantage of the changing international situation to expand Japan's influence and territory. As early as January 1932, Ishihara said to Narumi Hijikata, a professor at Tokyo Imperial University who was invited by the Kwantung Army to visit Manchuria: "I have never said that Manchuria is the lifeline of Japan, nor have I considered it that way. Manchuria is nothing more than a scaffold, and it must be used from here to travel to all parts of the world, especially Southeast Asia, where I heard that a large amount of oil has been found, and it must be occupied. ”

Therefore, when the July 7 Incident occurred, Ishihara Wan'er, who was the Minister of Military Orders, first strongly opposed it, but when he saw the general trend and bad news came on all fronts, and the Japanese ship could sink at any time, he finally gave up his insistence in the face of the country's national righteousness, and took the initiative to ask to be the chief of staff of the North China Front, and successfully changed the situation in North China in one fell swoop (Note: The real history is that Japan fought too smoothly, from north to south, from east to west, all the way like a bamboo, naturally no one paid attention to Ishihara's theory, However, this world has an An Jiajun, and the result is naturally different), and then, he found that it was not cost-effective to fight with the Manchurian guerrillas with terrain advantages in the mountainous areas, which would greatly deplete Japan's national strength, so he stopped the conquest operation in time, and planned a surprise attack on the eastern Zhejiang Plain with Ishikawa Koichi, Suzuki Sadachi, and Hattori Hanbei, and finally got a large amount of food urgently needed by Japan, especially from the many family gates that had been inherited for hundreds of years in the eastern Zhejiang region. This has greatly eased the pressure on Japan's economy.

After assuming the post of commander of the North China Front, Ishihara once again organized his troops to attack North China in an all-round way, and finally won all the territory north of the Yellow River in the North China Plain, and also obtained all the minerals in northern Shanxi, Chahar, Suiyuan, and Hebei, making up for the evil consequences of the instability in Manchuria and Korea in one fell swoop.

At the same time as attacking by military means, Ishihara also asked the Japanese Government to send a large number of diplomats to secretly visit the United States, and to cry out to the major conglomerates, saying that if the United States sat idly by, Japan would not be able to sustain the war in China, and that Japan owed the United States a large amount of debt, and it was very likely that the failure of the military operation would lead to the collapse of the government, the bankruptcy of the country, and finally the loans of the major consortia would be in danger of being wiped out. From the very beginning, Ishihara intended to extort a large amount of money from the United States to improve Japan's military strength, and when Japan and the United States went to war, he would veto it completely and use American money against the Americans.

The American chaebols, including Morgan, Mellon, Kuhn, Boston, Cleveland, DuPont, Chicago, and the Rockefeller consortium, are naturally unwilling to let their investment particles be harvested without saying anything, and they have quietly increased their support for Japan, and Japan has not only received urgently needed strategic materials such as steel, oil, grain, and rubber, but also received a large number of loans. Japan's economy suddenly became prosperous, factories were fully operational, women, the old and weak had jobs, people's living standards immediately improved, and the media, which had been controlled by the military department, was propagated as an invincible Ishihara Waner, and in the eyes of the Japanese people, his popularity and status rose again, and almost no one could replace him.

Ishihara Waner, now a well-deserved powerful figure in the Japanese Army, not only replaced Nagata Tetsuyama, who was hacked to death in the office by the Imperial Road soldier Aizawa Saburo Nakasa on August 12, 35, to become the leader of the unification faction, and at the same time he was also the chairman of the "Ichiki Society", in the face of the stalemate in the war in North China and the huge waves set off by Germany's successful annexation of Austria in the international arena, he finally summoned the members of the "Ichikai" and the generals and staff officers of the unification faction all over the Japanese Army to gather in Beiping. Discuss how to deal with the current international situation.

In the past, most of the members of the Continental University have now become the mainstay of the Japanese Army, and when they meet again, they naturally have some affection, but they soon became well-behaved in the majestic gaze of Ishihara Waner, who was sitting in the chair.

For this meeting, Ishihara sent a special request to the Ministry of War to transfer Major General Okabe Kushiro, the Japanese military attache in Germany, to North China to explain the situation in Europe.

"Gentlemen, the German adventure was a great success. Long before the incident, Germany had won a great victory in the intelligence war against the European countries, and I was extremely impressed by their rigorous work attitude.

"On the first day of the German detachment in Austria, I visited the Chancellery with His Excellency the Ambassador, while Führer Hitler was talking on the telephone in his study. It turned out that Mussolini, the head of Italy, told Hitler through Hitler's special envoy, Prince Philip of Hesse, that 'Austria is of no importance to him', and Hitler was very excited about this, and said excitedly to Prince Philip on the phone, 'Thank you Mussolini, for this I will never forget him.' Never, no matter what happens! As soon as the Austrian incident is resolved, I am willing to share his weal and woe and share the same fate. I am willing to sign any agreement with him. I finally stopped worrying about the terrible situation that Germany would be in militarily in the event of a conflict between Germany and Italy. I will be grateful to him from the bottom of my heart, and if he needs any help or is in any danger, he can be sure that I will be with him even if the whole world unites against him. We were amazed when we heard it.

Hitler's Führer probably found his gaffe, and after making a phone call, he smiled and told us that Austria is too important to Germany, and with Austria's accession, the German government's determination to change the old world order will be more resolute, and the Germanic people, like the Yamato nation, will seek more living space. He also expressed to us the Chinese government's dissatisfaction with the refusal of the Chinese government to join the German-Italian-Japanese alliance that the German government was trying to lead, saying that the Chinese government in Nanjing had resolutely stood on the side of the decaying old world order, which was undoubtedly a great humiliation for Germany and the Germanic nation. The German government has decided that after the completion of the Austrian matter, it will slowly withdraw the military advisory group stationed in China, but in the normal trade and trade, it also asks the Reich side for forgiveness, because Germany's military industry, especially the alloy industry, urgently needs non-ferrous metal resources such as tungsten, antimony, aluminum, and tin produced in China, as well as strategic materials such as tung oil and pig bristles. Germany will try to be in line with the Reich and work together to deal with and break the constraints of the old world order.

"In order to show his sincerity in cooperation with the Reich, Führer Hitler personally explained to us the diplomatic work which Germany had done before, and he told us that the cabinet of Chaudan in France had just resigned, and that a new cabinet had not yet been formed, and that Ribbentrop, the foreign minister to England, had sent a telegram saying: 'If the Austrian question cannot be resolved peacefully, I believe that Britain will not do anything for Austria', two days before the incident, Ribbentrop was having lunch with British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and Foreign Secretary Halifax in Downing Street, London, when suddenly the British Foreign Office courier sent several telegrams about the tense situation in Vienna, and Chamberlain asked Ribbentrop what was going on in Austria? Ribbentrop said, 'Everything is normal there, and the veracity of your reports is questionable,' and Chamberlain and Halifax smiled at each other, looking calm, and they continued to eat together amicably. Hitler also said that, fearing an overreaction in Czechoslovakia, the Führer had assigned Goering to hold a grand gala at the 'Pilot's House' to entertain diplomats from various countries. In the middle of the party, Goering quietly called aside the Czech minister to Germany, Mastersny, and said, 'The entry of the German army into Austria tonight is nothing more than a matter of domestic affairs. Czechoslovakia did not have to fear Germany. Hitler wanted to improve German-Czech relations. Ask Czechoslovakia not to mobilize for war because of the entry of German troops into Austria', Mastony immediately returned to the embassy and spoke to his foreign minister on the phone, and then returned to the party to tell Goering that Czechoslovakia had not mobilized and had no intention of interfering in Austrian events. At this point, Goering was relieved and made a report to Hitler.

"Führer Hitler appeared to be very sincere, and told us all these secrets, and all the diplomats of our Reich at that time were very excited, and thought that Hitler's intention to cooperate with the Reich was sincere, and when he returned to the Embassy, he immediately sent a telegram to the country, suggesting that the base camp should respond enthusiastically to the olive branch thrown by Germany.

"On 5 November, we were invited to accompany Führer Hitler to his native Austria, accompanied by Goering, Ribbentrop, and Interior Minister Flick. In the afternoon of the same day, he arrived at Lin Si. Lin Si was the place where Führer Hitler lived as a schoolboy, and the crowd here welcomed him so enthusiastically that he got out of the car and walked into the crowd, and the people lifted him high and cheered the earth. He first went to Leondin, near Lin Si, and laid wreaths on the graves of his parents, and then returned to Lin Si to address the welcoming crowd. He said, 'When I left this town many years ago, I had the same faith as I do today. I was very touched that I was able to make this belief come true many years later. If God had told me to leave this town to become the leader of Germany, he must have given me a mission, and that was to bring my dear country back to Germany. I live to fight for this mission. I think I've now achieved that mission. ’

"November 6 may be a day of unprecedented glory for Führer Hitler. He was a penniless artist when he left Austria in his early years, and when he returned to Vienna to announce the 'German-Austrian merger', he was warmly welcomed by hundreds of thousands of people. As we arrived in Vienna from Linz, forty tanks in front of the road, police cars full of officers as rearguards, and along the way Hitler Führer was greeted by Nazis from all over Austria, and for most of the way the Führer stood in an open-top car, dressed in a brown commando uniform, waving to his fanatical supporters. Many of the supporters waved flags decorated with swastikas, and some Nazis sewed the emblem onto the Austrian flag.

Hitler's Führer, who had been watched by everyone, arrived at the reviewing stand opposite the Hofburg Castle in the Habsburg Imperial Palace, where he was greeted by the citizens of Vienna and inspected the German armored forces and the Austrian Nazi SS. He spoke with great interest: 'What we feel at this moment is what all other Germans feel. No matter what happens, the united German Empire, which we claim today, will never again be divided by anyone, and will never be divided. Subsequently, Führer Hitler signed a decree that he should be commander-in-chief of the German and Austrian armies, and that all Austrian soldiers must swear allegiance to him. In the referendum held on the 12th of this month, 99.08 per cent of the Germans and 99.75 per cent of the Austrians voted in favour of the merger of the two countries, and Austria was thus annexed by Germany by legal means. ”

It can be seen that Hitler's success greatly stimulated Major General Kumashiro Okabe, who was full of admiration for Hitler in his words, and was very envious of Germany for so easily incorporating a sovereign state into its territory.

The Japanese generals sitting on both sides also showed a frenzy in their eyes.

Compared with the easy acquisition of the Germans, the war that is now being carried out in China has fallen into a quagmire, and the army generals, who were originally full of confidence, are not arrogant at this moment, with the tenacity of the squadron on the battlefield, and the powerful artillery fire that no one can estimate that has increased several times, no one dares to contemptuously say that the other party is just a chicken and a dog that will collapse at the touch of a button.

After the investigation of the intelligence department, the equipment of the squadron, with the rapid improvement of the industrial base in the southwest, even the 300 mm caliber heavy artillery can be cast, and now the terrible fortress artillery group standing at the mouth of the Yangtze River has already become a boulder in the hearts of many generals through aerial photos, forcing people to breathe, the Japanese army, which was arrogant before the war, restrained all arrogance, and regarded the squadron as an opponent worthy of attention.

Ishihara, who was thinking with his eyes closed, widened his eyes and asked, "Okanabe-kun, how did the countries react afterwards?" ”

"As in the case of the Reich, it only expressed its protest, and by the 15th of this month, Britain, France, the United States, and other countries had successively recognized Germany's annexation of Austria and changed their embassies in Austria to consulates in Vienna, and only the Soviet Union, which was mired in civil war, felt Germany's desire for expansion, strongly condemned Germany's aggression against Austria, and suggested that a League of Nations conference be convened to discuss collective countermeasures to Hitler's aggression.

The generals attending the meeting all laughed knowingly.

That's right, Stalin is really in trouble, this year's winter in Siberia, I don't know why, later than in previous years, in the past into November, Siberia has begun to snow heavily, but this year, the climate is extremely strange, so far there is no rain and snow (refer to the 1937 drought in East and Siberia), the Red Army generals of the Far Eastern Republic, extremely rich in combat experience, in fact, the textbooks of the major military schools in Soviet Russia are written by them single-handedly, used to deal with their own disciples and grandchildren, naturally it is extremely easy, easy to come by.

Marshal Yegorov, having restored order in Kulen (Ulaanbaatar), immediately drew up a bold battle plan, which was agreed to by the leadership of the Far Eastern Republic after a little deliberation and quickly sent ten infantry, three armored and five cavalry divisions to Mongolia from the front line of Lake East Belga, where there were surplus troops. Yegorov led the army, along the Kuwutai station road to Uriya Sutai, set Uriya Sutai as the former enemy's headquarters and logistics supply center, and then quickly followed the Utangtai station road, climbed over the Tangnu Mountain, sneaked to Usu in the Tangnu Ulianghai (that is, later the city of Kezel in Tuva Province, Soviet Russia), occupied this city at the junction of the Soviet Union and Mongolia with lightning speed, and then did not hesitate to follow the Yenisei River and directly enter the hub of the Soviet Far East Railway, Ksrjanoslav, Successfully sneak up and capture the most important city on the line.

(Note: I had a map of the Soviet Union in 1937, compared with the current Google Maps, and I was surprised to find that the Mongolian government that the other party did not know how to deal with it, originally a large part of the northwestern part of Mongolia was assigned to Russia.) The cities along the main artery of the Soviet Union's Trans-Siberian Railway, which were originally on the map in 1937 not far from the Mongolian border, suddenly became so far away on Google Maps. So when you look at the map against the battle, don't have a ridiculous feeling, in fact, in 1937, the Mongolian border was really close to the Trans-Siberian Railway. ）

Marshal Egorov was extremely perceptive, and long before he launched an attack on the city that was completely unsuspecting, he blocked the external communication and telephone lines of Kryanoslav. The current Far Eastern Red Army, imitating the Northeast Group Army of the An Yi group, has formed a special operations regiment at and above the army and division level to select and train top soldiers and "ideologically advanced" Red Army soldiers rescued from the Gugra concentration camp, quietly entered Keryanoslav before the start of the war, took the lead in occupying the telephone office and telegraph office, and carried out a decapitation battle against the generals of the city garrison, and it took almost no much effort to obtain the most important city in Eastern Siberia, and also used the political offensive to incorporate three Red Army infantry divisions of the garrison.

Subsequently, Yegorov sent false messages to the commanders of the Red Army on the western front of Moscow and Lake Belga, continued to confuse his opponents, quickly spread along the railway, attacked the city in all directions, took the lead with special combat regiments, cut off communication facilities, eliminated the commanders of troops loyal to Moscow, and then quickly launched a siege of the city, using the ideas of anti-dictatorship, anti-purge, and anti-famine to break the fighting spirit of the garrison, quickly integrate the enemy army, and enrich and expand his own ranks.

It was not until 17 July that the three special military columns from Kazakhstan bound for Lake Belga arrived in Krasnoyarsk from the southwest, bypassing the direction of Western Siberia through which Marshal Yegorov was passing, that the commander of the unit discovered that something was wrong and promptly warned Moscow, and the truth was revealed. Although this force was finally completely annihilated, the news had already been exposed, and Moscow suddenly discovered through careful verification that the vast area east of Novosibirsk had fallen into the hands of the Red Army in the Far East, and at the same time, nearly one million troops on the western shore of Lake Berga on the Moscow side fell into the encirclement of the Red Army in the Far East.

The entire Moscow high-level people were panicked, and it was impossible to hide such a big news, and the diplomats sent to the Soviet Union by various governments quickly passed this astonishing news back home, and all the countries that had different thoughts about Soviet Russia gloated, including the Japanese.

"If the Red Army of the Far Eastern Republic had absorbed the Moscow Red Army on the line of Lake West Berga, then its strength would have multiplied. A government that adheres to the same beliefs and systems as Moscow, coupled with the unpopular rule of the Kremlin's dictator, may not necessarily play out the myth that the small will win the big and the small fish eat the big fish. Now it depends on when it snows in the East, Siberia, and the Far East, and if this state of drought is maintained all the time, the Red Army in the Far East is very likely to take advantage of this sharp spirit and kill the city of Moscow in one fell swoop, which can be seen from the slackness and war-weariness displayed by the Red Army in Moscow on the battlefield.

"I have heard that the Far Eastern Republic attaches great importance to the psychological offensive, and when fighting on the battlefield, there are loudspeakers in the rear at all times to expose the erroneous line that Stalin has carried out over the years, revealing one after another secrets that are shocking, such as Stalin's falsification of Lenin's will to ascend to the throne, the persecution and assassination of Soviet leaders and the main generals of the Red Army, the stubborn extermination of the kulak class in violation of Lenin's principles on rural work, and the massacre of nearly two million Soviet citizens. The adventurous promotion of collectivized farms led to the great famine that spread throughout the country at the end of the twenties, the ruthless persecution of local Soviets and local party functionaries that led to the ruthless suppression of tens of thousands of people, and the early thirties not only rejected the reasonable advice of others to buy grain from Europe and the United States to tide over the difficulties, but in order to demonstrate the superiority of the system, hundreds of millions of quintals of grain were exported, resulting in the starvation of tens of millions of peasants, nearly five million people died of famine, and the unrealistic raising of industrial planning targets led to the stagnation of industrial development and construction, and even fell into a total stagnation. The exploitation of the working class, the reduction of real wages and living standards, the mass of Soviet citizens on the verge of starvation at any time, the wanton extermination of intellectuals and scientific and technological workers, the long-term inefficiency or even cessation of Soviet scientific research, the advocacy of individual superstition, the abolition of the principle of collective leadership, the implementation of dictatorship, and the influence of all the countries of the world. It carried out a large-scale purge campaign on an unprecedented scale, eliminated and suppressed the Red Army's high, middle, and low-level commanders, and leading cadres at all levels of the party and government, and then selected and appointed new people to achieve their goal of controlling the army and integrating the party, government, and military power. (The above is a quote from "Let History Judge: The Origins and Consequences of Stalinism", published by the People's Publishing House in 1980, and has nothing to do with the author's position)

"Tsk, by constantly preaching their ideals, their ideas, declaring that the Far Eastern Republic is only against Stalin's dictatorship, and putting a stop to the constant spread of rebellion and erroneous lines, and then some beautiful Russian songs will be put on to arouse the patriotic feelings of the commanders and fighters of the opposing side. Come to think of it, what would you do if you were a soldier and commander of the Red Army under Stalin's oppressive rule, and you had a painful experience?

"Don't wonder how I got this information, all of which was printed in the Far East, and widely disseminated in the Soviet Union through the agents of the Far East, which is now almost universally circulating in the world. A European and American reporter quietly interviewed Lenin's wife Krupskaya with materials, and Krupskaya said that all this was true, she said that Stalin not only tampered with Lenin's will, but also carried out long-term and merciless persecution of herself, and even Stalin aimed the butcher's knife at all Lenin's comrades-in-arms and the workers and peasants who had protected Lenin. She said in a tone of great sorrow that if Lenin had been alive, Stalin would probably have been dragged out and shot. Since the interview with Krupskaya was recorded with a tape recorder and the evidence was conclusive, almost all European and American media believed that the Far Eastern Republic was famous. European and American newspapers openly ridiculed Stalin, and because the Far East had obtained the recording of the interview, which covered the Soviet Union through the airwaves, Stalin now had a bad reputation in the Soviet Union, and if it were not for the fact that his main cronies were in control of the army and the secret services, he would have been torn to shreds by the angry masses whose interests had been violated. ”

Major General Kumashiro Okabe said this, with an excited face: "The split of Soviet Russia is imminent, and the dream of the Great Japanese Empire getting involved in the Far East is just around the corner, and all the monarchs here must work hard!" ”

Ishihara Wan'er nodded, bowed slightly to his side, and Masanobu Tsuji, who was transferred from the Kwantung Army to the North China Front Army as an operational staff officer, walked to the curtain wall at the back of the conference room with understanding, opened the curtains, and suddenly an incomparably huge world map appeared in front of the generals.