Chapter 39 Commonwealth
Before the last Soviet infantry regiment withdrew from Germany, not many people really expected that Soviet policymakers would succumb to the results of the referendum on the population of the occupied territories and the political pressure from the Western world, but it all happened surprisingly. In accordance with the official withdrawal statement after the referendum, more than 1.7 million Soviet troops were withdrawn in batches in just one month. So far, only tens of thousands of Soviet troops in these two countries have stayed on the border and in major cities waiting for the handover of defense - the Soviet side insisted on handing over defense to the legitimate armies of the legitimate governments of Germany and Hungary, but because the current governments of Germany and Hungary were abandoned in the referendum, they had no interest in reorganizing the army and taking over the defense from the Soviet army, and even deliberately delayed everywhere, and the Soviet Union refused to recognize the imperial ** troops from northern Europe as the legitimate armed forces of Germany, and threatened them with war ultimatums to force the imperial ** The team withdrew from northwestern Germany to the Danish islands they occupied. Under these circumstances, the complete end of the Soviet military occupation of Germany and Hungary would have to wait until after the political elections in both countries.
The main forces were withdrawn, and the remaining Soviet troops had neither the motivation nor the ability to maintain law and order, and as a result, there were horrific incidents of looting and rioting in many parts of Germany and Hungary, and Western Allied forces were not allowed to cross the border to assist in security due to treaty and declaration restrictions. Seeing that the fruits of victory that countless compatriots had sacrificed their precious lives and that countless compatriots had risked their lives to win were threatened, people from all walks of life in Germany and Hungary were in high spirits. In Germany, Hugo. Horst's Baath Party took on the important task of "saving the country in a special era" in the run-up to the elections, using its distributed agencies to organize unarmed security forces. Feng. Field Marshal Weix also stood up and called on every retired soldier to join in the maintenance of local order. Since the organizational structure of the native German army no longer existed, most of the officers at all levels returned to their hometowns to earn a living. Field Marshal Weix's call was not clearly notified, and many of those who had served in the German ** team joined the security forces spearheaded by the Baath Party. This is a priceless asset for any political faction interested in vying for state power!
The infuriating procrastination efficiency of the "government of the end" has led to the repeated postponement of the political elections scheduled for July, after the withdrawal of the main forces. The Soviet top brass was also able to shirk their responsibilities in a grand manner. Time gradually ran out of patience, and at the end of July, Budapest, the capital of Hungary, broke out**, angry people stormed the office of the prime minister's office, and even civilians beat officials. In early August, the German people held a huge march organized by the Ba'ath Party, and more than 400,000 people gathered from Brandenburg and other places to the capital Berlin. The tide of processions frightened the officials of the puppet government, and the heads of state and ministers fled in their cars, and the procession occupied the new Prime Minister's Office and the National Assembly building without violence. Taking this opportunity, the leader of the Baath Party, Hugo. Horst and military representative von . Weix jointly appealed. The international community has been asked to support the German people in forming a short-term interim government to organize political elections to replace the dysfunctional government and maintain law and order in the land until the elections are over. Soon, the Western countries led by the United States and Britain created public opinion, and although the imperial ** team huddled in the northwest corner of Germany did not move, saucer-shaped aircraft that could not be shot down by conventional weapons frequently intruded into the Soviet airspace, which re-tensified the atmosphere in Moscow, Leningrad, and other major cities. In order to prevent dangerous elements from taking advantage of the chaos to seize power, it is advisable for the two countries to elect the state assemblies and governments by local elections, and then to form the central government by the state unions, and the two countries must never have a single party holding more than 60 per cent of the seats in the parliament and the cabinet, otherwise new elections must be held. …,
For Germany, which had a dictatorship** and thus embarked on the path of military aggression, it is understandable that the constraints of partisan dictatorship should be put an end to. However, the clause that "the state and state jointly produce the central government" is very connotative. In a small and medium-sized country like Hungary, which is relatively small in size and population, there is little difference between local and central suffrage and direct universal suffrage, while in Germany, the actual situation in different states is different, especially after the changes of World War II and the occupation of the Allies and the Soviet Union, the people of some eastern states are more accepting of the idea, while in the western and northern states, the proportion of people who prefer Western-style democracy is higher. The southern states of the southern states are where the mentality of the old Third Reich is more preserved. Thus, in order to maintain political centralization and national cohesion, the Baath Party issued a statement of opposition in conjunction with the multi-party parties, but the existence of Germany's once strong and free empire caused the Western allies to be quite suspicious, and from the perspective of their own interests, they coincided with the Soviets on the question of the future form of government in Germany. The joint declaration also forced German and Hungarian nationals to accept a fateful choice that they had not intended.
As long as it has the support of the majority of the people, no matter what form of political election it takes, it will not affect the final victory, and Lynn and his supporters entered the final ring with courageous optimism. According to the regional division of Germany during the Soviet occupation, there were 22 states and regions in Germany at this time, and in Bremen, Hamburg, Saarland and Berlin, which were the smallest and most populous, the elections were completed in mid-August. Armed local police forces were then set up in Bremen and Hamburg at lightning speed; In Saarland, the Ba'ath Party shared power and reached coalition agreements with the Christian coalition supported by the allied powers; In Berlin, the Ba'ath Party received more than 40 percent of the vote, with the Christian Union and the KPD each holding a quarter, and the Baath Party's cooperation with the Christian League also won the lead in the local council.
If the results of the elections in the other states were like those in Berlin and elsewhere, the Baath Party would have only had to cooperate with the Christian League to legitimately gain control of the state, but what followed was somewhat unexpected. In Saxony, violent clashes between supporters of the Baath Party and the KPD annulled the first election, which was followed by a second election in which the KPD won nearly 70% of the vote. In the three districts of Frankfurt, Otbus and Dresden, the KPD had a clear advantage in the number of votes......
Lynn, who once watched the U.S. election with a cold eye, was disdainful of the euphoria of a candidate for a state victory, but now that she is in the position of the party, she can finally deeply understand the ups and downs. Whenever a state on the map was painted red, he would be plagued by anger and doubts, so much so that he would lose sleep and dreams for many days on end. For a young man with a biological age of 25 and a mental age of two years, it seems too heavy to compete for the position of supreme leader in a country of 60 million people like Germany, and even when compared with the experience of Napoleon, the greatest monarch of Europe, the Emperor of France, his experience and experience seem too thin. The only thing to boast about is that he has decades of more insight than his generation, and if he can use that insight and translate it into accurate strategic foresight, he will surely become a very good leader.
Schleswig-Holstein, Baath won; Lower Saxony, where Baathist won; North Rhine-Westphalia, Christian League wins; Rhineland-Palmermetz, the Baath Party and the Free Democrats joined hands to reach the top; Baden-Württemberg, where the Baath Party and the Christian Union go hand in hand; Bavaria, Baath wins...... After the longest month's wait, the choice of the parliaments of the states and regions was revealed one by one under the joint supervision of the Allies, the Soviet Union, and other international observers, and in relative numbers, the German Baath Party, which enjoyed the strong support of the Free Reich and had accumulated sufficient popularity among the anti-Soviet population, emerged as the biggest winners, having a voice in nine states and sharing power in the form of political cooperation with the Christian League, the Social Democrats, and other parties in seven states. Theoretically, more than 50 percent of the overall decision-making power has been obtained, but political cooperation with other parties has largely weakened their advantage in Congress and the Cabinet. What is both surprising and worrying is that the KPD, which previously controlled the puppet regime, has a majority in the parliaments of the six states and states, which means that a considerable number of Germans have been "converted" to political beliefs**......
Now that the local elections have been completed, the candidate with the majority of supporters is the winner according to the American model of government, but the tacit agreement between the Allies and the Soviet Union is destined to make the political contest a little more complicated - the members of Congress, who were previously elected by universal suffrage, are now elected from among the local legislators in proportion to the population of each state and state, and the total number of members of Congress has reached 500, a full quarter more than during the Second Empire, and many small parties in local assemblies have been able to elect representatives to Congress, The weight of each MP's voting power is diluted, making it more difficult to obtain a majority or two-thirds majority, and the chances of external forces influencing the outcome of the vote are correspondingly increased. By September 9, 1949, the tumultuous German political election had finally reached a critical point under the wrestling of all parties, and the votes of the parliamentarians would determine the new president and chancellor of the country, according to the "spectrum" set by the allies and the Soviet Union for the new Germany, the president and chancellor could never be held by one person, and the two would split the state power - mutual checks and balances.