Chapter 703: Warsaw Pact VS NATO
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With the end of World War II, it seemed that the world had entered a new period of peace. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
More than 100 countries and regions participated in the Second World War, affecting 2.2 billion people, accounting for 96% of the world's population, and the flames of war spread to Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Atlantic Ocean, and the Arctic Ocean. The area of operation is 31 million square kilometers, the mobilized troops of the two warring sides have reached 120 million people, the direct military expenditure totals about 5 trillion dragon coins, accounting for 70 to 90 percent of the total national income of the belligerent countries, and the cumulative value of the total material losses of the participating countries has reached 6 trillion dragon dollars.
The greatest losses in the war were undoubtedly the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union once achieved the third largest economic achievement in the world after more than 20 years of development, but after the Soviet-German war, the economic losses of the Soviet Union were calculated according to the comparison in 1937, and the direct economic losses caused by the Nazi invaders to the Soviet Union were 720 billion dragon coins, and the indirect economic losses were as high as 2.5 trillion dragon coins, which set the Soviet Union back 20 years at once.
43% of the total losses suffered by the participating countries in World War II were losses of the Soviet Union. This was followed by Nazi Germany with 32%. During World War I, Germany suffered almost no losses, but during World War II, it was heavily bombed by Allied forces. In particular, when the Chinese Empire wanted to prevent the German army from developing nuclear weapons, it sent more than 10,000 sorties a day to bomb major German cities, resulting in heavy losses for Germany. According to the materials released by the Third Reich, Germany's material losses during World War II amounted to 21.6 trillion marks at 1941 prices, equivalent to more than 580 billion dragon coins.
World War II was by far the deadliest war in history, with about 170 million people killed. Among them, the Soviet Union has about 38 million deaths, Germany has 29 million deaths, the United States has about 27 million deaths, Italy has about 930,000 deaths, France has about 890,000 deaths, and the United Kingdom has a total of 400,000 deaths (including military and civilians), of which civilians account for the majority.
Only 13,000 people died in the Chinese Empire, the vast majority of whom were soldiers. There are less than a thousand civilians. This is mainly due to the fact that the Chinese Empire was the latest to enter the war, and the mainland was not attacked in any way, and there were many servants who served as cannon fodder for the Chinese Emperor.
At least 130 million more people have been injured, but it is impossible to count.
After World War II, the Chinese Empire became the biggest winner of this war.
By the end of Guanghua 43 years. The Imperial Cabinet of China issued an annual report on the achievements of the national economy. The report provides statistics on major projects to measure the national economy. The Chinese Empire continued to rank first in the world with a GDP of 318 billion dragon coins. It accounts for 75% of the global economy. Germany continues to occupy the second place in the world, but the national consumption of the war has reduced its GDP to 45 billion dragon dollars. The United States, which was fourth before the war, fell outside the top 20 because it was divided into 13 small countries.
The economic rankings of major powers such as Britain, France and Italy have remained largely unchanged and remain in the top 10 in the world. It is to be devastated and dragged down by war. Economies are in the grip of collapse, all going back at least 15 to 25 years. But the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and although many countries in Asia and South America have not been affected by the war and have grown steadily, they are still compared with the old capitalist countries of Europe that have accumulated primitive accumulation for hundreds of years. It's still out of reach.
During the war, the whole world knew that the Chinese Empire made war money. This is highlighted by the fact that the Chinese Empire's steel production exceeded the 80 million ton mark, reaching a staggering 84.5 million tons. More than 60% of this steel is used for export to various warring countries. As a result of the war, the world's second-largest steel production in Germany fell from 19 million tons before the war to a pitiful 730,000 tons, and almost 88% of Germany's domestic steel factories were severely damaged.
With such a huge steel production in the Chinese Empire, it was natural to make a fortune during the war. But after the end of the war, steel began to recover in various countries, losing the stimulus of the war, and the demand for steel began to decline.
In the face of an oversupply of steel, a situation is taking shape. The challenge of either cutting production, destroying surplus steel, or opening new markets is so serious that the Imperial Chinese Cabinet has aggressively pursued an economic stimulus package.
The reduction in production affects employee employment and the distribution of benefits. Increased employment pressure. The destruction of surplus steel is very distressing, so it is left to open up new markets.
Europe and the United States are almost in ruins, and post-war reconstruction is inevitable. But neither European nor American countries can afford to buy the steel of the Chinese Empire, and it is imperative to reduce prices. But price reductions are not a long-term solution. The recovery of the domestic steel industry in Europe and the United States will have a serious impact on the steel industry of the Chinese Empire.
Similarly, the phenomenon of resource and commodity surplus is not just the steel industry. The Chinese Empire ranks first in the world in the output of industrial commodities in all walks of life, and the scale of commodity surplus is very large. The General Administration of Economic Planning of the Cabinet of the Chinese Empire judged that if measures were not taken to solve the problem in time, it would lead to a serious economic crisis in the Chinese Empire in the next five years.
For this reason, Wang Chenhao, the emperor of the Chinese Empire, proposed an imperial plan to aid Europe and the United States. The Emperor's Plan was intended to provide huge low-interest loans to the allies of the Chinese Empire in Europe and the United States, and to help them regain their economic strength as soon as possible. But behind the economic aid comes political conditionality. That is, European and American countries need to develop their domestic markets to the Chinese Empire when they obtain aid loans from the Chinese Empire, and the loans provided by the Chinese Empire can only be used to purchase industrial products and technical assistance from the Chinese Empire, so as to ensure the industrial advantages of the Chinese Empire and occupy the European and American markets in the long run.
The Imperial Plan was soon unanimously welcomed by the countries of Europe and the United States, so the Chinese Empire launched a $1 trillion dragon coin economic aid program to revitalize Europe and the United States. According to the assessment report of the Cabinet of the Chinese Empire, in twenty years, this trillion dragon coins will bring at least five times the profit of the Chinese Empire, that is, it can earn five trillion dragon coins for the Chinese Empire.
However, the Imperial Plan also had a political purpose, which was to strengthen the alliance between the member states of the United Nations, led by the Chinese Empire.
World War II ended, but the Allies, led by the Third German Reich, were not completely wiped out. Hitler's war machine was not completely extinguished either.
With the Sino-German Secret Treaty coming into effect, the Chinese Empire supported the Free French march towards the maintenance of France, completely eliminating the remnants of the maintenance of France within a week, and unifying the whole of France.
Similarly, Germany used the Soviet army to massacre 30,000 German prisoners of war and rape more than 100,000 German women in German East Prussia as a pretext to declare war on the Soviet Union again.
Stalin appealed to the Chinese Empire for help, but the Chinese Empire and the United Nations as a whole only called for an armistice and peace talks between the Soviet Union and Germany, without real pressure on Germany. The Allied forces in the periphery of Germany accelerated their withdrawal and watched the Soviet-German war.
By this time, Stalin was well aware of the political intrigues of the Chinese Empire and other countries, and they would not allow the existence of the Soviet Union, a red power, so he would let Germany continue to invade the Soviet Union.
Stalin could only call on the Soviet people to continue fighting against the German Nazi invading army, but the elite of the Soviet army was exhausted, and the remaining million Soviet troops were all new recruits, and the average age was simply unable to resist the German attack. What's more, the German army is invincible with nuclear weapons, and this war will be the defeat of the Soviet Union no matter how it is fought.
On March 18, 1944, in the Third Battle of Kursk, more than 330,000 people of the main force of the Soviet Army were completely annihilated by the First Army Group of the German SS. At this point, the Soviet army was no longer powerless against the Germans.
The military defeat, the ostracism of the political system by the whole world, the collapse of the economy, and without any international aid, the Soviets finally collapsed.
On 20 March, Stalin sued Hitler for peace to no avail, and announced his surrender in the afternoon of the same day.
The surrender of the Soviet Union was as short-lived as the Paris Commune. Immediately after the Germans took control of the entire territory of the Soviet Union, Hitler ordered the dissolution of the Soviet party and the arrest of a large number of die-hards. At the same time, Hitler supported Nikolavich, the leader of the Congress Party in the former Duma parliament of the Tsarist era and one of the members of the Tsarist royal family, to restore the Tsarist government, but changed to a constitutional monarchy, and the pro-German Congress Party was in power.
On April 3, the new Tsarist government announced its accession to the German Confederation. At the same time, Romania, Bulgaria and Finland joined the German Confederation.
On April 7, Hitler announced in Berlin that the Treaty of the Allies was abrogated and that the Federal Republic of Greater Germany, or German Union for short, was established. On the 11th, the member states of the German Union signed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, referred to as NATO, a political and military offensive and defensive alliance in Berlin.
The nascent German Union and NATO military organizations posed new threats to the whole world, and Britain and France faced new challenges.
Since Germany and other former allied countries were also approved to join the United Nations after World War II, it is not up to the Chinese Empire to say that the United Nations is not the only one. As a result, the United Nations was no longer important to the Chinese Empire.
On May 5, 44 years of Guanghua, the Chinese Empire convened a meeting of the member states of the Federation in the Greater China Co-Prosperity Sphere, at which it was unanimously agreed to establish a unified foreign political alliance among the member states of Greater China, and signed a military offensive and defensive alliance treaty, and established the Warsaw Pact military organization headed by the Chinese Empire against the NATO military organization of the German Empire.
In this way, the nascent German League became the only country in the world that could confront the Chinese Empire, announcing the formation of a two-level world pattern between the Chinese Empire and the German Federation, and the Warsaw Pact and NATO established by the two sides became new military blocs and confronted each other.
Since the Chinese Empire and the German Union had nuclear weapons in their hands, both sides were careful to avoid a frontal military conflict and avoid a nuclear war, so China and Germany showed a cold war. It is difficult for a full-scale war to break out between the two major military blocs of the Warsaw Pact and NATO, and the struggle between the two sides has shifted to a small-scale war mainly a local war.