Chapter 75: Lost in Troubled Times
On summer nights, the sparse rain can't hide the scorching heat. In front of the window, wisps of white smoke contrasted with contradictory thoughts.
Nuclear war, the "monster of destruction" in the old time and space, which has been discussed over and over again and approached again and again due to current events, has always been just a purgatory in the painting, but in this time and space that has been changed and even subverted by itself, it has really come to the world. Fortunately, it was only 1qR year, and the total number of atomic bombs possessed by mankind was not enough to destroy the smallest continent on earth, but this was Lynn's "prophetic vision" as a posterity. Whether it is a nuclear physicist, a war scholar, or a different class of people, they are all afraid of the prospect of this unconventional war, but people's rational fear and anxiety are like this rain that falls, although it has the effect of cooling, it is not enough to extinguish the infinite anger generated by indignation, sorrow, and fear.
There was no lightning in the night rain, and the world before Lynn's eyes was pitch black.
Since the Dutch declared their entry into the war, official curfews and light control orders have been issued in Amsterdam, especially after the Eastern and Western camps attacked each other with atomic bombs. As a result, a beautiful city that was once vibrant has been transformed into a dreary barracks, with chariots, sentry posts, and armed soldiers and militiamen lining the streets and alleys, and their attempts to reassure the people have backfired.
Extinguish cigarette butts, close curtains, and light candles. Sitting at her quaint and heavy desk, Lynn began to carefully sort out the letters sent by the Baath Party's dedicated liaison officers, three times a week, at the beginning there were only three or four at a time, and with the rapid increase in the Baath Party's investment and size, the number of letters also showed an explosive increase, and today the thick stack of letters sent is roughly estimated to be as many as twenty. In addition to the partisan leader Franz. Most of Stupf's handwritten letters of greetings were reports on developments in the Regions, and judging by the style of language and style of printing, they should have been briefings from the Heads of the Regions to the Party Headquarters, on which Stuopfer had often signed his preliminary comments. According to the adjusted organizational structure and procedures of the Baath Party, these reports must be reviewed by the two leaders before they can be forwarded to the Supreme Council for specific approval and approval, or as a basis for grasping the development of the party or to put forward practical opinions of practical nature. This process itself is reasonable, but Lynn still plays the role of a German diplomat in the Netherlands, resulting in these important documents can only be carried by messengers back and forth across the border, theoretically there is a great risk, but Lynn, as the highest representative of the cooperation between the empire and the Ba'ath Party, cannot take care of the whereabouts of the empire's huge financial investment, the drive of party development and the facts, and has to continue this hard part-time errand for a short time.
During her nearly two months as deputy leader of the Ba'ath Party, Lynn not only saw the rapid development of the party from the briefings at headquarters and in the regions, but also confirmed this fact with information from her own special operations forces and the Imperial intelligence services. Good wishes and practical interests drove the party members from decadence and degeneration to devote themselves to this new struggle, and the slogans of the current situation attracted a large number of disoriented people in Germany. The reason why they gathered under this bright banner was not only because they were influenced by wave after wave of propaganda and momentum, but also because they hoped that the country and the nation would quickly get out of the trough and become strong again, and perhaps because they still cherished the honor, dignity, and ambition of the old era.
With popular support, the Baath Party quickly went from an inconsequential local party to a new force of considerable attention, and Stupfer wrote to Lynn that he had been defeated by von Brown. Papen Office, ready to travel to Berlin within the month for a face-to-face meeting with the head of government, who had a complicated experience, and if Lynn agreed, he could use the opportunity to make a presentation to von Brown. Baben introduced and recommended the young and promising deputy leader of the Baath Party, and since Lynn is now a full-fledged government diplomat, von Brown. Papen could have put him in a more important position, if the Provisional Government intended to establish good relations with the Ba'ath Party and use their power to maintain local stability. …,
For von. Baben Lynn did not know much about him, had not met during the Nuremberg operation, and believed that he did not know himself as a fighting hero of the end of the empire and a subversive of history, so he wrote back a brief letter to Stupfher, advising the leader not to rush things at the initial meeting, but to try to use the mentality of the provisional government to maintain domestic stability and the political strategy later in the formal elections to gain support for the development and expansion of the Baath Party. If he could, he would gladly return to Germany to act as a communicator and mediator between the Provisional Government and the Baath Party.
On the other hand, in northern Northern Europe, nearly 2,000 kilometers from the Netherlands, well-equipped Soviet troops were withdrawing from the northernmost garrisons of Norway and Finland, which had been in the cold, barren and terrain since early 1946. Although Moscow explained the military operation as suspecting that the remnants of the Third Reich were hiding in northern Europe, their actions were fiercely attacked by the Nordic countries and the Western allies, which historians saw as a bitter end in the two camps. The Soviet army not only carried out armed activities in the border area of the Soviet Union, Finland and Norway, and soon sent troops deep into Norway, until it launched a landing operation on the northwest coast of Norwegian Tromsø County that shocked the world. Later, the joint intervention of the Western allies at sea and the nuclear explosion in the Norwegian Sea pushed the two camps into the abyss of irretrievable war, so much so that people compared the Tromsø region in northern Norway with the role of the Balkans and the Danzig corridor in the first two world wars. Today, the flames of war have been raging for a year and three months, the flames of war have spread to the Eurasian continent and all major sea areas, the total number of casualties in various countries has reached millions, the direct property and economic losses caused by the war are not calculated, and the quiet withdrawal of Soviet troops from the disputed areas is like a slap in the face of black humor.
The entire battalion and company of Soviet troops withdrew under the cover of gloomy weather and nightfall, but their barracks facilities and a considerable part of their heavy equipment and ammunition were left intact, which seemed to be contrary to people's previous impression of Soviet troops. Of course, in the face of the Allied naval and air blockades and offensives, the Soviet Union's air and sea forces were much weaker than they were before the outbreak of the war, and it was indeed difficult to cope with the existing manpower alone if the military supplies that had been so laboriously delivered to Norway and northern Finland were to be transported, but the real reason was by no means the reason for the unconvincing logic of this superficial load. Soon after the withdrawal of Soviet troops, a large number of armed men, under the banner of Norway and Finland, quickly took over these munitions and equipment, which could also cope with the cold of the north in the middle of winter, and played an important role in the defense and offensive of the mountains, but since Finland's surrender in 1944, the army has moved from regularization to militia, and the size and military investment of the army have naturally returned to the level of matching the economic and political strength of the country, and it is impossible for the northern border troops to carry out such a scale and efficiency of operation. As for Norway, which currently has a population of only 3 million, the size of the army is less than 100,000 with the support of the Allies, and the military deployment in the northern region is close to zero
In the summer when the snow melts, Soviet officers and soldiers evacuated from Norway and Finland will travel hundreds of kilometers to the Murmansk region, where they will strengthen the defense of the northern coast or return to the Soviet hinterland by railway that runs north and south. As the saying goes, before the soldiers and horses are moved, the grain and grass go first, and before the arrival of tens of thousands of foreign officers and soldiers, the railway line connecting Murmansk and Leningrad has been busy in advance, but the long-lost military train not only brought a large number of supplies, but also carried thousands of Germans. In the war operations in the autumn and winter of 1946, the German team serving in the Soviet camp made a great contribution to the victory of the Soviet army, and the quality of the German people was once again proven. However, as the international situation changed, the German government, which had regained its independent identity, declared war on the Soviet Union, and these comrades-in-arms from Germany naturally became unreliable partners in the eyes of the Soviets. In this process, more than one million German people behaved more cooperatively, thus avoiding the tragedy that people least wanted to see. Despite this, many high-ranking Soviet military and political officials still felt that these Germans, who had good combat qualities and rich experience, were time bombs that did not know when they would explode, but the urgent war situation did not allow the Soviet military to dispatch enough troops to carry out "protective custody" of them, so except for a small number of them who continued to stay in Europe to carry out auxiliary tasks such as building bridges and roads, urban air defense, and clearing mines and obstacles, most of them were transported back to Siberia to engage in farming, forestry, engineering, and mining work, so that they could not only solve their own supply problems, which could also increase the production of war resources for the USSR.
The Germans who came to Smolensk did help to repair the port facilities with the seriousness of the Germanic peoples, but these efforts seemed irrelevant until the end of the war or the Red Navy broke through the Western blockade, but the Soviets soon saw their results - several unsightly freighters appeared like ghost ships. The Western Allies, led by the United States and Britain, were so powerful in their sea and air power that they easily blockaded the Norwegian and Barents Seas, and Soviet cargo ships, no matter how big or small, fast or slow, or remodeled and flagged with foreign flags, were rarely able to successfully pass through the Allied blockade to neutral countries and bring back the supplies and equipment that the Soviet Union desperately needed, but these Spanish-flagged ships did. The Soviets had no way of knowing where they had set out or how they had broken through the Allied blockade, so they could only watch as the empty-handed Germans boarded the ships and left, the first batch of more than 800 people, a few days later nearly a thousand, and several batches of thousands of Germans who arrived in Murmansk by rail...... Clear