Chapter 976 976 Unexpected
After the meeting in Lisbon, Lin Youde and his family flew back to Berlin non-stop to participate in the final military parade.
When Lin Youde and his family appeared on the viewing platform in front of the Brandenburg Gate, the crowd at the scene applauded.
Xiaolu was taken aback, turned her head and looked around blankly: "Why are they applauding?" ”
"Because they admired Dad." Sophie replied in a whisper.
"Is it delicious?"
Obviously, Xiaolu doesn't have the word admiration in her vocabulary yet, as long as she doesn't understand the word, she will confirm one thing first: is this thing delicious? Lin Youde once joked that this shows that Xiaolu is indeed the daughter of the Chinese, and everything is inferior, only the mouth and stomach are high.
"Xiaolu, admiration means that these people are ......" Sophie frowned, she seemed unsure of which of the words Xiaolu knew could be used to describe admiration, and finally she chose the most reliable one, "That is, they all like Dad." ”
"Me too!" Xiaolu looked very happy, and then clapped with her paws. Her applause and the applause of others were two different concepts, and her paws clapped loudly, like war drums.
Sophie hurriedly grabbed Xiaolu's hand and stopped it loudly: "Xiaolu, you lighten it, it's too big and it will ruin this scene." ”
"Huh?" Xiaolu was at a loss again.
So Sophie applauded herself with gentle movements and demonstrated to Xiaolu.
But at this time, Lin Youde had already walked up to the microphone and made a "quiet" gesture, and the applause stopped abruptly.
"Aren't they bidding on Dad?" Xiaolu asked Sophie with a worried face.
"No, it's Daddy who is going to speak, so be quiet. And that read admiration, not bidding, admiration. ”
"Lenses."
"Admiration."
"Gold medal!"
At this time, Lydia glanced back at the two of them and raised her index finger to make a shushing motion, so Sophie could only sigh and give up the plan to correct Xiaolu, while Xiaolu covered her mouth with her big paws.
Lin Youde didn't notice the interaction of his daughters behind him, he glanced at the audience and took a deep breath.
"Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today primarily to pay tribute to those who have lost their lives in the hard years of the past few years, and to celebrate the return of peace. After the end of the war, I received many letters, such as that of Ms. Martha from Württemberg, in which she confided in me the pain of losing her two sons in the war, and asked me if we had won the war.
"Ms. Martha's doubts must also be the doubts of many people present. Because it seems to everyone that after the end of the war, Germany's territory did not expand, Germany did not acquire any overseas colonies, and the war reparations that were inevitable after the end of the previous war were nowhere to be seen. Therefore, many people hesitated, and some even began to suspect that I, an 'outsider' from China, had betrayed Germany's interests.
"But gentlemen, I ask you to think about why Germany suddenly attacked France in 1914. Because the German generals feared that Germany would be powerless to resist in the event of a French and Russian attack, it was necessary to fight a preventive war to destroy France's combat capability. In this way, Germany became the aggressor and was condemned by the world. But at this moral cost, Germany was defeated, precisely because it was flanked from both sides and unable to concentrate its forces on one side. ”
In fact, Lin Youde is talking nonsense, and the reason for Germany's defeat in the two planes is that it has not fought for war potential -- this is because Russia in both planes and planes was relatively warlike in World War I. By the way, the first war in both time and space was an imperialist war for hegemony, and there was no justice on both sides, so whoever launched the invasion first would bear the blame, and if the side that took the blame won the battle, the evaluation could be rewritten, but unfortunately Germany did not win.
This is different from World War II in another time and space, World War II in another time and space because the mustache and the Japanese military department are too ******, the nature of the war has changed, and the anti-fascist side is to prevent indiscriminate genocide and humanitarian disasters, so although the process of World War II still has various political and national hegemony considerations in it, World War II can still be called a just war, which has nothing to do with who is the winner.
"And this time," Lin Youde continued his speech, "we were also flanked by the enemy, but we not only withstood the attack of tens of millions of Russian troops on Polish soil, but also defeated the invading British army on our own soil. Not only that, but we were at sea, defeating the British vaunted Royal Navy! Gentlemen, in this war, we are the side defending the homeland, and now we have blocked all the enemy's attacks, forced the enemy to sit down at the negotiating table, forced them to give up their undivided thoughts, and I think this is called victory!
"Gentlemen, it would be unwise to continue the war with the United States, and every soldier returning from the front line in North Africa will clearly tell you how strong the industrial power of the United States is, and how hard the war in North Africa has been. If it weren't for the Xinming government, which was far away in the east, contained a large number of American troops, the outcome of the war might have been very different. A massive number of American troops will sweep away North Africa and then land in Italy and the Balkans, and Russia will not have such a truce with us! Some people ignore these facts and shout that the truce is a traitor, and this kind of behavior is ill-intentioned!
"Gentlemen, keep your eyes open and look carefully, and all those who hold such views have certainly not been on the battlefield. When our soldiers were fighting bloody battles on the front line, they were huddled in the safe rear, watching the opera and playing bridge, so unhappy. Now they have jumped out and smeared the achievements of our warriors after their bloody battles, in a vain attempt to steal the fruits of the great victory! ”
When Lin Youde said this, the crowd had already begun to stir, and among the politicians who were also on the viewing platform, some of them had begun to tremble.
Lin Youde raised a hand, signaled everyone to be silent, and then continued: "But, fortunately, these people's attempts will not succeed, and the warm applause just now has fully illustrated this point!" Now, gentlemen, let us cheer for victory! ”
The deafening cheers immediately resounded throughout the square, and the pigeons perched on the Brandenburg Gate were frightened by the cheers and spread their wings.
After the overwhelming cheers passed, Lin Youde spoke again: "Gentlemen, the war is over, and history will enter a new chapter. I, Lin Youde, will resign from my post as the Supreme Adviser to the Government of the German Republic, and I will transfer the command and personnel authority of the elite units in my hands to the High Command of the Wehrmacht of the German Republic. ”
For Lin Youde's family, the decision to retreat behind the scenes has long been made, and there can be a lot less restrictions behind the scenes, so Lin Youde's step is actually to retreat as an advance, as long as there are two bargaining chips of Shenji and the support of the masses, Lin Youde has nothing to worry about, because of this, everyone in the Lin family is expressionless, but the politicians and the generals of the National Defense Force on the viewing platform are in shock, obviously no one thought that Lin Youde would make such a decision. R1148