When the Eighth Route Army launched the general offensive, Li Xiaofeng had already arrived in Moscow, and if he could, he also hoped to stay in China and watch the people of the motherland fire the first shot of the counteroffensive. It's just that the situation really doesn't allow it, and there are still many more important tasks waiting for him in Moscow, for example, the aftermath of the war is already imminent.

War is never a fun game, and it's not as simple as shooting shells, bombs, and bullets at the enemy. Let's put it this way, the Soviet Red Army pushed from Ukraine, Belarus, Romania and other places to Germany, it was easy. But this does not solve the fundamental problem, and it is easy to kill all the Nazis and their supporters, but it is not easy to maintain this large sphere of influence.

Is it simple in this region where tens of millions of mouths have to eat, and millions of war refugees displaced and need to be resettled? It's not simple at all, at least historically, the Soviet Union did a terrible job, to put it mildly, the Soviet Red Army was like a swarm of locusts, sweeping all the way through Central, Eastern and Southern Europe, not to mention that there was no grass everywhere it went.

I don't believe it, uh, it's true. The Red Army of those days was sometimes really a little far away from the title of great liberator. Along the way, the Red Army destroyed everything, in addition to the mistreatment of prisoners of war, the mistreatment of civilians (the Axis powers must be unlucky), such as the well-known strong female dry incident, the Red Army really did this kind of bad thing not only during the liberation of Northeast China, but also in Hungary, Romania, Czechoslovakia, and Germany. There are data available, from 1945 to 1946, 150,000 to 200,000 "Russian dolls" were born in the Soviet-occupied areas of Germany, and this data does not include the data on miscarriages, and you can imagine how bad the discipline of the Soviet army was at that time.

Of course, there is a reason for this, when the Red Army soldiers stumbled all the way to Germany, they saw a completely different world, and even at the end of the war, Germany itself was still prosperous (can it not be prosperous, pure blood-sucking economy). Germany was still electrified, food and clothing were free, and shops were full of consumer goods. In the eyes of the Red Army soldiers, all this was a world away from their own miserable homeland. The revenge soon took hold of the minds of the Red Army soldiers - making the Germans pay the price, enjoying their possessions and women as trophies. So, with the tacit approval of the commander, the Soviet Red Army relaxed its discipline and launched wave after wave of retaliation against the newly conquered Germany.

Even the actions of the Soviet Red Army were not a secret at that time, Tito's close comrade-in-arms, the staunch communist Milovan. Dgeras personally reacted to this question to Comrade Steel, and how did Comrade Iron answer? He said: "Don't Degeras, as a writer himself, know what human suffering and the human heart are? Couldn't he understand that a soldier was playing with a woman or doing a little thing after experiencing blood and fire and death threats? ”

It is clear that the Supreme Leader does not take this seriously, and presumably he also enjoys the pleasure of conquest and revenge. Of course, we can understand this kind of tooth for tooth and eye for eye pleasure, if Huaxia can conquer Japan, the same set, it is estimated that many **** will shout long live. It's just that from a political point of view, it's really short-sighted.

Why was the Soviet Union less popular in Central and Eastern Europe after the war? This kind of bad performance is definitely the majority, after all, for the common people of Central and Eastern Europe, they are also one of the victims. The liberator who looks forward to the stars and the moon is this virtue, who will be comfortable?

Of course, this problem has been basically put an end to Li Xiaofeng, and the Political Department of the Red Army has zero tolerance for wanton looting of war spoils and **** women.

However, the challenges and problems that the Red Army had to face were not only this one, but also the problems of food and shelter mentioned above, as well as large-scale infectious diseases. There are very few comrades who may know about this, but in 1945, more than a third of the population of the Greek port city of Piraeus suffered from trachoma due to a lack of vitamins. Of course, trachoma was fatal, but in Berlin the situation was much worse, and in July 1945 there was a widespread outbreak of dysentery, because the city's water supply system was destroyed, and the daily supply was all sewage. This leads to a neonatal mortality rate of 66% in Berlin.

Not only Berlin, but the whole of Germany was shrouded in a cloud. Murphy reported in October of that year: "An average of 10 people die a day from exhaustion, malnutrition and infectious diseases at the Laerte railway station in the Federal Republic of Germany." In Berlin in the British occupation zone there were 1,023 cases of typhoid fever and 2,193 cases of diphtheria in one month. ”

Other countries are not much stronger than Germany, and in Warsaw, one in five people has tuberculosis. Czechoslovak authorities say that half of the 700,000 children in need of assistance have contracted various infectious diseases.

Let's put it this way, nearly one-fifth of the population in Europe at that time was struggling with illness, another fifth was driven around, and about three-fifths of the population was struggling to make ends meet, and about half of them were hungry.

In order to solve Europe's most basic food and clothing problems and to resettle refugees, the General Relief and Rehabilitation Administration spent a total of $10 billion in two years, from June 1945 to June 1947. Historically, almost all of this money was paid by the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom (the Soviet Union couldn't pay it even if it wanted to, and thank God for not grabbing something to go home).

And that's not just about people, but there are many more issues, such as infrastructure repairs, which are also quite important. Some comrades may say that it is nothing to build the road later. But you really can't say that, because traffic restricts the flow of goods. Even if there are enough supplies to help those poor refugees, what is the use of not transporting them?

How much is the damage to infrastructure? France had 12,000 locomotives before the war, and when Germany surrendered, only 2,800 were barely usable. A large number of roads, railroad tracks, and bridges were blown up, and the Soviet Union lost 40,000 miles of railways in its history, two-thirds of the roads in the European direction were damaged, and 60% of the roads, 75%, and 20% of the houses in Yugoslavia were destroyed. 75% of the standard railways in Poland were completely destroyed.

You see, it's a real mess. To solve the problems left over from the war in Europe, it is necessary not only great wisdom, but more importantly, strong economic strength. For example, a local tyrant like the US imperialist can barely do it.

But there is a problem here, if the US imperialists are made the saviors of Europe, then the USSR is still a fart? As the so-called cannibalism has a short mouth and a short hand, this vote in Europe is starving and even eating and living, plus repairing houses, roads and resuming production, and the favor owed is really a big deal!

The U.S. imperialist is really not an internationalist fighter, and after paying such a great favor, he will definitely have to find a way to take it back, and naturally he will allow you to be the master of the Soviet Union in Central and Eastern Europe. So it is very obvious that once Central and Eastern Europe accept the aid of US imperialism, then they are likely to become the little brothers of US imperialism in the future.

Li Xiaofeng will definitely not allow this to happen, so is there any good way for the Soviet Union to solve this problem? I'm afraid it's difficult, because the USSR didn't have so much money and couldn't afford to spend as much money as the US imperialists. Even if the losses of the Soviet Union have been reduced a lot in this time and space, this still does not mean that the Soviet Union is a tyrant and can spend a lot of money. So to put it simply, the USSR with more money than money is definitely a loss.

Or, just like the Soviet Union in history, it will use high-pressure policies and soldiers to directly squat in Central and Eastern Europe, and use iron-fisted policies to force Central and Eastern Europe to submit to its own coercion. This is still not a good choice, as the so-called oppression and resistance, so it is tantamount to losing character in Central and Eastern Europe, if the Soviet Union can continue to be so strong forever, it is better to say, once there is a mistake, these goods will rebound wildly, and the final situation will be even worse.

So this strategy also does not work. This doesn't work, that doesn't work, how can it be done? To be honest, Li Xiaofeng didn't know, at least when facing this problem, he didn't have a particularly good way. Regardless of this piece, he gave it to the Americans or the British, he was not willing to marry others, but he ate it hard, and he couldn't digest it with the fragile stomach of the Soviet Union.

What to do?

After thinking about it, Li Xiaofeng found a way that was not a solution, that is, the stick should be held tightly but the sweet dates should also be given, and the family can't eat alone, so they might as well share and eat it.

First of all, Central and Eastern Europe must be well controlled, whether it is the garrison of troops or a series of treaties to tie these countries to the Soviet chariot. It's about holding the stick.

Secondly, of course, sweet dates must also be given, the Soviet Union is not as tyrant as the US imperialists, and there is no way to package poverty alleviation, but this does not mean that the Soviet Union will not pay a dime. No matter how much loans or aid are given, especially food and medicine, this is a good tool for improving character. Money can be given less, and both of these things must be given enough.

Fortunately, Li Xiaofeng has made preparations in these two aspects, not to mention that the refugees in Central and Eastern Europe will be fed and fed, but he can still do it if he does not starve every day.

The last and most crucial issue is to divide the cake. Does US imperialism want to enter Central and Eastern Europe? They must have thought so, but they don't have a chance for the time being, this area will be 100% occupied by the Soviet Red Army, and it is too difficult for them to intervene. I can only look at it.

If the Soviet Union had done everything as it had done in history, then the US imperialists would really have no drama at all. However, Li Xiaofeng believes that the benefits of this method are too low, and the Soviet Union really can't eat it. It is better to give some part of this cake to the US imperialists, let the capital of the US imperialism invigorate Central and Eastern Europe, and then the Soviet Union will sit on the ground and share the money. It seems like a good way to kill two birds with one stone.

How? First of all, it is natural to establish a communist "dictatorship" in Central and Eastern Europe, and only by supporting these little brothers can we control this territory. This step is quite simple, and the USSR has done it very successfully in history, so there is no nonsense.

The second step, of course, is a total nationalization, the nationalization of all the big groups and factories, and the complete destruction of the big bourgeoisie in these countries. This step is necessary, and it is not difficult to do. Historically, these countries have done this in their history, they have completely eradicated all the bourgeoisie, taken all the means of production into public ownership, and then embarked on the road to socialism.

Of course, this is historical, and now it is not enough to do this. The reason is simple, the markets of these countries have been almost completely destroyed, the circulation of goods has come to a standstill, and the national credit has collapsed completely. Let's put it this way, that is, the currency of the country has largely lost its credit value and can no longer make the economy flow.

The question is quite fatal, why was post-war Europe so miserable? This is where the main root is located. Without the credit of the state, the common people naturally do not buy it, the peasants refuse to sell the grain, the workers do not want the same banknotes as waste paper (because they can't buy things), and the circulation of commodities instantly retreats to the stage of bartering.

This is still at home, and in international trade, these countries are facing great difficulties, because economic liquidity is close to stagnation, the country's fiscal revenues have fallen sharply, when the workers refuse to work, when industry and commerce refuse to open the market, and when the peasants cling to the grain in their hands. How to trade in the international market? How to purchase the necessary means of production and subsistence?

The more stagnant it is, the less likely it will be to survive, and when international credit also collapses, there is really only one dead end.

At that time, the communist parties of the Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe used coercive means to solve the problem, and the planned economy simply replaced the role of the most crucial equivalent currency. The stagnant economy was revitalized by administrative means. However, this is problematic, it is like a person with cardiopulmonary failure, and instead of fundamentally resuscitating the cardiopulmonary function, he will be put on a ventilator and hanged. Installing a ventilator can only be managed for a while, and it really can't be managed for a lifetime. There will come a time when you have to pull out the tube!

Li Xiaofeng didn't want to take this kind of hanging method to prolong his hunger, it didn't make much sense. The right way is to restore the cardiopulmonary function of Central and Eastern European countries, make the cake bigger, and then eat it at a time.

And to do this, the first thing to do is to restore the credibility of the country, that is, to restore the basic function of its currency, so that the people can believe that the small pieces of paper in their hands can buy things, instead of panic and frantically hoarding materials and brooms for themselves. Obviously, for this to happen, blood transfusions will be needed to these countries. Give them loan support.

The United States is the first country in the world with such financial strength. But how to make the Americans pay willingly without hindering the interests of the Soviet Union, there is too much learning here. Li Xiaofeng believes that it can only be lured to profit, and the Americans in the Central and Eastern European markets like it, and they think that the reform and opening up of the T Communist Party in the past was to exchange the market for investment, and it is difficult to find a new way, but it is much easier to follow the cat and draw the tiger.

If you think about it, the country's assets have been nationalized before, and the country is a monopoly, but the lack of credit cannot make these assets run benignly, and if there is credit support from the United States, the people should be able to restore confidence, so that the economic ball can continue to roll.

What Li Xiaofeng means is that these nationalized assets will attract the United States in the form of joint ventures, bringing in American funds. When the economy is invigorated, the stagnant water above will naturally become living water.

Of course, there is also a problem with this, because US imperialism is really an imperialist bully, not an internationalist bullie. It's easy to bring them in, but after these bullies make money, they will inevitably exert influence, they will inevitably gain more power, and they will inevitably find ways to subvert the framework of this joint venture.

This must be vigilant against peaceful evolution, and unfortunately, the communist parties in Central and Eastern Europe are really not strong in their ability to control the country, especially after the end of World War II.

Therefore, this joint venture must not be two, but three, and the USSR must intervene. Among them, Central and Eastern European countries account for one-third, the United States imperialism accounts for one-third, and the Soviet Union accounts for one-third of the shares.

This division of shares ensures the common interests of the three parties, the Americans get the stepping stone to open the Central and Eastern European market, the Central and Eastern European countries get the precious funds to restart the country, and the Soviet Union not only got rid of the burden, but also invested a sum for the future, which can slowly dividends, which is better than simply and violently moving the Central and Eastern European family that has been looted by the Nazis back home valuable and preserving value, right?

There may be comrades who want to ask, what did you take as a shareholder of the Soviet Union? You can't empty gloves white wolf, right? The Central and Eastern European countries have paid for their national assets, and the US imperialists have paid real money, what have you Russian polar bears paid?

That's not how the accounts are calculated, the Soviet Red Army, as the liberators, drove the Nazis all the way, which paid a huge economic price, right? If this is discounted, it can make you Central and Eastern Europe as pants. In addition, you don't think that you really think of yourself as a victim in Central and Eastern European countries, except for Czechoslovakia, which was really beaten by the Nazis and forced to get on the ship, the others Hungary, Austria, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, you joined the Axis in a bright way, and declared war on the Soviet Union.

I really thought that seeing the Nazi pills quickly pull out of the quagmire and wash them with water, it's not that simple, shouldn't this war reparation be calculated properly?

Even if the Soviet Union doesn't open its mouth, even if Germany and Italy want to take the lion's head, you guys can't even think about it? Where is there such a cheap thing! It's either money or shares, it's that simple! (To be continued.) )