Chapter 469 469 The Messy Caucasus
Qi Yiming's eyes have never left the civil war in Russia. After a month, the two sides were still inextricably fought, and the advantage of Makashev's side was gradually eroded by the fear of being expelled by Yeltsin. The two sides fought fiercely in the two theaters of the Oka River basin and the Volga River valley, and Yeltsin did not hesitate to send elite troops such as the Taman Division to the battlefield to block Makashev's footsteps.
During this period, Makashev also did a great thing, that is, to declare the Russian Federation led by Yeltsin as illegitimate, Yeltsin is a lackey and puppet of Western capitalist countries, and called on the Russian people to recognize his true colors. Makashev even pulled out the new banner of the Soviet Russian Socialist Republic, and considered himself the first chairman of Soviet Russia and the general secretary of the CCCP, and it seemed that he was interested in restoring the Soviet system.
Not only that, but he also declared that countries such as Siberia, the Far East, and even Kazakhstan should reunite into the Soviet Union and regain the grace and strength of the Soviet superpower. Naturally, no one will pay attention to his crazy words, especially when the big boss behind the scenes in Siberia, the Far East and other countries is Comrade Qi Yiming.
As a result, two "justifiable" countries and their armies appeared on the Russian battlefield, generally calling Yeltsin's troops the "Federal Army" and Makashev's army the "Soviet Russian Army". The emblem of the Federal Army is the red star with white edge, while the emblem of the Russian army is the red star of the Phnom Penh sickle.
In order to win the war, Yeltsin also had to use some relatively young, low-ranked, but very capable generals, who were favored by Yeltsin's knowledge and also worked very hard to fight for Yeltsin. Even Yeltsin, in order to boost the morale of the Russian army in the Federation, also formulated a policy of skewing all materials to the Russian army, not only the arrears of wages were paid, but also a large amount of scarce materials were distributed to the Russian army on the battlefield. These policies have made a significant improvement in the Russian army's appearance in battle, especially the embarrassing situation of crushing in one blow has become less.
In view of the fact that some grass-roots commanders have made decisions that do not conform to the orders of their superiors without authorization, some typical examples of delaying fighters or even disobeying orders have been caught and shot directly on the battlefield and the whole army has been circulated for criticism, while at the same time officers who can withstand tough battles will be promoted immediately after the battle, and this has also stabilized the hearts of some terrified Russian officers and men.
In short, Yeltsin's multi-pronged approach, although it did not bring earth-shaking changes to the federal Russian army, but also reversed a certain decline, so that after the defeat of Saratov, the federal Russian army and the Soviet Russian army have won and lost each other, and the two sides have entered a stage of relative stalemate. In terms of military strength, Yeltsin has 600,000 federal Russian troops in the three major military regions, and although Makashev has only one military region, he has 400,000 Soviet Russian troops.
After the Battle of Saratov, the two armies engaged in some small-scale confrontations, most of which were exchanges of fire on the border of the area of actual control, and the scale rarely exceeded the regimental level. The Soviet Russian army originally wanted to take advantage of the victory to pursue, but one of their mechanized infantry divisions was cut off by the federal Russian army on land that was blindly advancing towards Moscow at high speed, and finally had to surrender after a hard battle.
Makashev also saw that the federal Russian army was not as vulnerable as he imagined, so the battle became more cautious. On paper, the strength of the Soviet Russian army is slightly weaker, but the federal Russian army does not only need to face the "rebels" of the Makashev family.
Yeltsin's all-out efforts against the more threatening Makashev left Dudayev, the former clown, and his Chechen Republic with nothing to do. After Makhashev and Yankov made that shocking deal, the supply of weapons from Siberia to the Chechen Republic stopped. But even so, Dudayev's Chechen National Guard is already quite climatic.
Chechnya has established four fully equipped infantry brigades, four infantry brigades mainly composed of light infantry, guerrillas of all sizes throughout the country, and militia groups of more than 100,000 people. Even Chechnya has its own air force, armed with more than forty fighters and a number of other military aircraft.
Dudayev is confident that if the Russian army comes to Chechnya again, he will pull the Russians into the "sea of people's war".
The importance of Dagestan has been weakened by the abandonment of the Caspian Sea arms supply line, and Dudayev has been annoyed by the recent attacks by local Avar forces against Chechen troops in Dagestan. He wants to annex Dagestan, but Dagestan is larger than Chechnya and has a larger population than Chechnya, and if he really wants to fight, it may be a heavy loss for Chechnya. Dudayev was well aware that his main enemies were the Russians, not the Alvas, so Dudayev took the initiative to contact the regime in Dagestan.
What Dudayev didn't know was that the regime in Dagestan had actually been infiltrated by Qi Yiming, and the guerrillas who were constantly attacking the Chechen army were actually mainly done by Red Police fighters sent by Qi Yiming. Dudayev held a meeting with the Dagestan side, agreeing that Chechnya could withdraw from Dagestan, but only if Dagestan declared independence, as Chechnya did, and reached an agreement on a military alliance with Chechnya against the Russian Federation.
Not only in Dagestan, but also in the Kabardino-Balkaria Republic, the Karachay-Circassian Republic, the North Ossetia-Alan Republic and other countries, Qi Yiming has sent red police spies and armed forces, and absorbed some local extremist forces, slowly forming a political force that can influence the situation.
The North Caucasus is already in smoke, and there are conflicts everywhere. In addition to the fighting between Chechnya and Russia, in fact, there is no calm in South Ossetia. When Georgia began to choose independence from the Soviet Union in 1990, the local authorities and parliaments in South Ossetia showed no support, and after Georgia's independence, South Ossetia showed "separatism" to follow the central government. In order to curb this separatist sentiment, Georgia sent a large number of military and police to suppress it, and clashes broke out between the military and the local population, resulting in a large number of casualties.
At the end of 1991, the conflict between Georgia and South Ossetia gradually expanded, resulting in the deaths of about 1,000 people and the flight of 100,000 South Ossetians, most of them into North Ossetia. In January 1992, South Ossetia held a referendum that showed that the overwhelming majority of South Ossetian residents supported independence.
In February, the leader of the Holy Ossetian League, an armed faction in North Ossetia controlled by Qi Yiming, announced independence by raiding the Soviet-era transition regime. Not only that, but Gabrov also declared that he was committed to the creation of a united Ossetian state, that the tragedy in South Ossetia had left him restless and indignant, and that his compatriots in North Ossetia would do everything possible to help South Ossetia defeat the "invaders".
Gabrov's manifesto also attracted the support of some South Ossetians, and his armament grew at an alarming rate. When the war between Russia and Russia had no time to look south, Gabrov led the Holy Ossetia Alliance back to the Caucasus Mountains, south to South Ossetia, raided the important town of Tskhinvali, and killed hundreds of Georgian military and policemen, officially starting the Ossetian Unification War.
The entire Caucasus region is under a spell, Chechnya is independent, Dagestan is independent, North and South Ossetia are becoming independent, and even in the Republic of Ingushetia, there are constant conflicts between independents and governments that do not want to be independent. Furthermore, there has been an inexplicable trend of merger in the Republic of Kabardino-Balkaria and Karachay-Circassia, with calls for the merger of the two republics into one. Their reasoning is that the Kabardians, Balkaras, Karachay and Circassians, all of whom are similar Sunni Muslims in religion, are basically Caucasian and Turkic in language, have similar living habits, and have a long historical origin, and should be merged into a single Kabakache Republic for better survival and development......
Such an unreliable idea, of course, was conceived by the great designer Comrade Qi Yiming, although it seems ridiculous, but after it was really proposed, it did get the support of several local ethnic groups. Everyone has seen how Russia is a loser now, and it is difficult to say who will call the shots in Russia after that, but it is certain that the Russians will never have any good intentions for these ethnic minorities in the North Caucasus, either ethnic assimilation, or let them be displaced, maybe it is really more appropriate to establish a new country.
Not only the republics that still belong to the Russian Federation, but also the several countries that have become independent also have their own scriptures that are difficult to read. Georgia has three regions with separatist tendencies: South Ossetia, Abkhazia, and Adjara; The dispute over the two enclaves, Naxichevan and Nagorno-Karabakh, between Armenia and Azerbaijan, also seems to be showing signs of moving towards a solution by force.
Suddenly, the north and south of the Caucasus seem to be one of the most volatile regions in the world. The Caucasus itself is divided into various ethnic groups, and even has different religious beliefs, and there are many disgraces in history, almost a spark can be lit. He doesn't want to mess up the place, but messing up the Caucasus at this time is also a move to cause trouble for Russia.
The area inhabited by Russian minorities is not only in the North Caucasus, but also in the middle reaches of the Volga River, there are Tatar, Chuvashi, Mariel, Bashkir, Mordovia, Udmurt and other union republics with separatist tendencies.
Another important factor holding these regions back from independence is that they are largely under the control of Makashev, who is a nationalist and cannot allow them to secede from Russia.