Chapter 489: I Can't Hold It Anymore

For Poland, with a population of just over 20 million, the loss of millions of troops killed or captured, and many more civilians killed in the war, is enough to make Poland lose all its ambitions. After all, Poland has been dead for too long, and it is impossible to fight to the extent that the old, weak, women and children are all on the battlefield, and even Pilsudski, after fleeing to Germany, has kept a much lower profile, and no longer openly advocates his idea of splitting Russia and rebuilding the "Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth."www.biquge.info

Although its total population is much larger than that of Poland, the core area of the Asia Minor Peninsula is actually left with a population of less than 20 million, which is not as large as the Poles, but the number of permanent attrition in this war is not much less than that of Poland, which forced the Ottoman Turkish Empire to recruit a large number of tribal armies in North Africa and the Middle East to avoid the vitality of the core ruling area. However, when the aliens, who had long lost their loyalty to the empire, saw the weakening of the empire, the first thing they thought of was to start a rebellion......

As a result, it was not long before the Ottoman Turkish Empire followed in the footsteps of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and its vast territory across three continents was fragmented, and hundreds of grass-headed kings emerged, and because the Great Patriotic War between Soviet Russia and Russia was still going on at this time, Britain and France simply could not spare their hands to quell the chaos in the Middle East and North Africa, which led to the intensification of the local warlord melee and caused unprecedented disasters to the local people.

However, from another point of view, the prolonged warlord melee also made those who were really capable, not just well-born, stand out, and their emergence changed the political landscape of the entire Arab cultural sphere, and even shook the colonial order of Western countries, mainly Britain and France, in these two regions, with far-reaching implications.

Britain and France could ignore the rebellion in those areas for the time being, but the Ottoman Turkish Empire could not ignore it, but if it drew out a small number of native troops to do this, it would have to rely more on British and French troops to fight against the Soviet Union......

Then, the old Chamberlain could only watch depressedly as the strength of his country and the hardcore ally of France was rapidly depleted, while Germany seized the time to consolidate its rule over the Czech Republic and Austria, and its idea of peace naturally became stronger and stronger, when the new aircraft played an effect on reversing the unfavorable situation of the war, the old Chamberlain could not even wait to expand the results of the war and exert greater pressure on Soviet Russia, so he impatiently took the initiative to hand an olive branch to Soviet Russia, but for the sake of face, the old Chamberlain still invited China to mediate, This is much better looking than Britain's direct suing for peace with Soviet Russia.

The current level of fighting between Soviet Russia and the West is enough to satisfy Li Hui, and if it continues to fight, I am afraid that China will have to send volunteers to ensure that Soviet Russia will not fall, so he did not let people get in the way, and the mentor naturally couldn't ask for it, because as Li Hui knew, Soviet Russia really couldn't hold out for too long......

Although the results of the war were amazing, in the past three years, the Soviet army and civilians also paid unimaginable sacrifices, the Red Army alone, the total number of dead and missing in this war exceeded 2.6 million, which is much more than the total number of people killed in Tsarist Russia during the First World War in history, and if you add the captured and maimed, it is close to 4 million. And the casualties of civilians in Soviet Russia are equally terrifying, even if you don't count Poland, more than 4.5 million civilians died in the war in Soviet Russia! And when the two are combined, the total number is more than 8 million!

Although this is nowhere near the losses of the Soviet Union during World War II in history, it is important to know that the Soviet Union was already the second largest industrial country in the world before World War II (if the Czech Republic and Austria are counted as Germany's, the Soviet Union was the third largest industrial country). It also received a huge amount of American aid, both of which are incomparable to the current Soviet Russia, so the proportion of the population that can afford to lose the population and the proportion of the population that can afford to leave the country is much smaller.

Moreover, due to the loss of the Three Kingdoms War and the Civil War, the total population of Soviet Russia before the Great Patriotic War was only a little over 100 million (before the war, Tsarist Russia probably had a population of more than 150 million, and after the war, the population of Central Asia was all gone, Siberia only came back partially, Poland became independent, coupled with the huge loss of the war and the impact of the war on fertility and infant rearing, it is not surprising that there are only so many people left. It is far from being compared with the 190 million before World War II in history (not counting nearly 170 million if you don't count the newly occupied land after 36 years), not to mention that the people who died in the Three Kingdoms War and the Civil War were mainly young men, and the three cruel wars were fought in succession, how many young men can be left in Soviet Russia now?

In fact, the number of female workers in Soviet Russia has now exceeded half of the total number of workers, and even the number of female soldiers in the army has begun to increase rapidly, and there are even regimental units composed entirely of women, so it is not difficult to see how large the shortage of young and strong labor in Soviet Russia has become.

In addition, it is worth mentioning that, unlike the high degree of agricultural mechanization before World War II, the agriculture of Soviet Russia at this time was completely dependent on animal power and manpower, so the large loss of young and strong labor force not only affected industrial production and the front-line war situation, but also inevitably caused major problems in the vital grain production.

In 1911, the grain production of the whole of Soviet Russia could not even reach 70% of the pre-war level, you must know that at that time, the national civil war, the grain production of that year was almost half of that year compared with before the Three Kingdoms War! Even if the population of Soviet Russia has decreased a lot compared with the period of Imperial Russia, such a low grain output still inevitably caused a large-scale famine, if it were not for Li Hui's fear that Soviet Russia would not be able to hold on, by the way, to clear the excessive domestic grain stocks, and to sell and borrow a lot of grain from Soviet Russia at low prices, the total population loss of Soviet Russia in this war may even exceed 10 million! That's 10% of the total population!

However, even in such a difficult situation, the rule of the Soviet government remained solid, and apart from the patriotic fervor aroused by the Russian people, the Bolshevik party cadres were not as bureaucratic and corrupt as they were twenty years later (due to the better atmosphere in the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and the Cheka of the Iron Man Dzerzhinsky also contributed to it). ), is the more important reason. In fact, the masses in any country are similar, as long as the people above can lead by example, then most of the people at the bottom will follow without complaint.