For Britain, the best state of affairs between the United States and the Soviet Union is not a hot war, but a cold war, so that Britain can be safe enough to have the opportunity to play all kinds of small tricks. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info Otherwise, the United States and the Soviet Union will fight directly, not to mention nuclear bombs flying all over the sky, even a conventional confrontation will be enough for the British to drink a pot.

Therefore, Britain's attitude is actually quite strange, it hopes that the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union will be bad, but it does not want the relations between the two sides to completely break down and contradictions will erupt. Therefore, as soon as it was discovered at the meeting that there was a possibility of a direct exchange of fire between the United States and the Soviet Union, the British immediately jumped out to "mediate."

The British proposed a compromise: "Establish an Allied military tribunal, with judges composed of Allied countries, to try all war criminals in a unified manner." I recommend that each country send a voting justice......"

This suggestion made by the British seems fair and reasonable, but in fact what is hidden is disgusting. How many members are there in the allies, and there is a small vote in addition to the Big Five. And the majority of this small vote of countries is pro-British and American, and if, according to the British assumption, all countries send judges to participate in the trial, the final result is that the Soviet Union will be eliminated because the minority obeys the majority.

In other words, this suggestion is a trick that seems fair and reasonable, but in fact it is completely biased to one side, and it is not possible to directly face such a ruse, after all, it is necessary to take into account the influence of international public opinion, right? If the Soviet Union does not agree, then Britain and the United States can really go out of their way to blackmail the Soviet Union, and it is not cost-effective to do so.

So Li Xiaofeng immediately proposed: "Okay, you can do this." ”

When he first heard him say this, Aiden was very happy, because it meant that the Russians had been fooled and could finally scold the Russians. But what he didn't expect was that there was still the second half of Li Xiaofeng's words: "According to this plan, the Soviet Union will send a total of 14 justices to participate in the military tribunals of the allies." ”

Aiden was blindsided, and he didn't understand how the Soviet Union could send 14 justices? Didn't he just say it very clearly, one justice in one country?

Li Xiaofeng replied: "The Soviet Union is a commonwealth of sovereign states. The union of the USSR was made up of 14 independent and sovereign states (without Moldavia). Naturally, there are 14 justices. ”

Aiden then remembered the national nature of the Soviet Union, which, according to the Soviet Constitution, was indeed a collective, with each union republic enjoying nominal sovereignty. That is, the USSR did have the power to send 14 justices.

But how could Britain and the United States accept this, what they wanted to play was the trick of the minority obeying the majority, and now the Soviet Union has 14 representations, Nima, and the numerical gap has not only been flattened, but even immediately surpassed.

Even if the British could say that they had at least four representations, that would not be enough. Is it forcing the Americans to declare that they have forty or fifty representations? That's no joke.

But it is impossible for the Soviets to give up such an exercise without paying a price, and it is clear that this trick of the minority obeying the majority will not work. forced the Soviet Union to divide another vote of the republics, anyway, the country is big, you can toss it casually.

For a while, things came to an impasse again. At this time, the representative of East Prussia suggested: "The Supreme Military Court of the Allied Powers can send only one representative to each country, and a country like the Soviet Union can send only one collective representative." However, the trial of war criminals is based on a one-vote affirmative system, and if the representative of a country believes that the war criminal is guilty, he is convicted. However, the death penalty can only be imposed if a majority of States believe that they are convicted of the crime. ”

This suggestion is still essentially and muddy. It not only takes care of the interests of big countries, but also prevents small countries from being reduced to soy sauce. It can be said that both the needs of the USSR and the face of the United States were taken care of. It was a plan that everyone could accept, so this plan was finally passed.

It's just that this suggestion was later implemented with a lot of fun. Almost every Axis prisoner of war who stepped onto the trial seat was found guilty, and the Soviet Union did not once spare them. The only difference is that only a very small number were put to death, while the majority were sent to prison cells.

This result displeased both the Soviet Union and the United States, which wanted to execute these scumbags, but a considerable part of these scumbags survived. The Americans, on the other hand, want these scum to live to create value for the interests of the United States, but to Yankee's annoyance, these people are locked up in prison cells. According to the previous agreement reached by the allies, prisoners other than the death penalty must be unanimously agreed by the allies whether they are **** or commuted, even if one country does not agree, **** and commutation cannot take effect.

Therefore, the United States and the Soviet Union did not like this approach, and it happened that the United Nations was established again at this time, and the voting method of the Security Council was again a series of open and covert battles, and after several quarrels and quarrels, the principle of unanimity among the major powers was developed. That is, the right of affirmation is replaced by the right of negation.

Of course, these are all later words, so I won't mention them for the time being. After solving the problem of dealing with war criminals, the relationship between the three giants can be regarded as easing, but if the German problem is not resolved, the fundamental contradiction still exists, and God knows what moths will be at that time.

And in order to eat the fat meat of Germany as soon as possible, the government. Governance and Army. The Commission has again adjusted its deployment. The battle for Berlin was extremely difficult, the Red Army paid the price of blood for almost every step forward, and after almost twenty days of siege, the Second Belorussian Front and the Second Ukrainian Front were also fatigued. I am afraid that it will be too costly to continue to attack in this state. As the two most powerful elite regiments of the Red Army, it was not cost-effective to waste precious combat power in Berlin. So the army. The committee immediately ordered Rokossovsky and Zhukov to stop the assault, let the front-line troops rest and recuperate, and in the next stage, first consolidate the existing positions.

At the same time, the 3rd Ukrainian Front, which had previously been used as a reserve, and the Central Front, which had just bulldozed a small number of strong German strongholds in Poland, were transferred to the Berlin area. This means that the troops besieging Berlin in the next stage may be as high as two million!

Of course, it was impossible for these two million men to be thrown into it all at once, because Berlin really could not accommodate so many troops. Army. Berlin was divided into four and a theater of operations was assigned to each front. The four fronts were to march on Brandenburgplatz from four directions. This has the advantage of allowing a considerable number of fighters who have been fighting fiercely for several years to get off the line of fire and recuperate, and the input of the Red Army's echelons will ensure as much as possible that no unit will be completely disabled or destroyed, and once the casualties reach a certain target, the unit will come down to rest and recuperate, and replace it with a reserve to continue fighting. At the same time, the Germans had no reserves, and under the wheel tactics of the Red Army, it was really only a matter of time before they collapsed.

Army. Venezuela not only adjusted the tactics of the siege of Berlin, but also gave new instructions to the Baltic Front, the 1st Belorussian Front, the 1st Ukrainian Front, and the 1st and 2nd Romanian Fronts, which had already entered Germany.

Berlin can be slowed down, anyway, Berlin is already a boiled duck that can't run away, but the other front armies are urgent, they must advance as quickly as possible, they must ensure the liberation of the whole territory of Germany, and if possible, it is best to continue to go deeper into Western Europe. For example, the Baltic Front received the task of liberating Denmark, and the 1st Belorussian Front needed to go to the Netherlands and Belgium.

In an instant, Triandafilov, Konev, Vasilevsky and others were busy, and hurriedly reinvigorated the military morale that had been slightly lax before, and made great strides towards the West at full speed.

On 28 March, Hamburg was liberated, a day later Hanover was liberated, and then on 2 April Frankfurt was conquered, and within seventeen hours of the liberation of Frankfurt, Konev took Stuttgart and immediately advanced in the direction of Karlsruhe and Strasbourg.

By 5 April, the vast majority of Germany had fallen into the pockets of the Soviet Union. At the same time, the British and Americans also broke out and frantically attacked eastward, taking advantage of the fact that the main force of the German army was pinned down or wiped out by the Red Army, and they also achieved certain results.

Montgomery finally said goodbye to the beach, and after taking Lille and Calais, his troops marched towards Belgium in three directions, of which the troops on the northern front finally got rid of the logistical problems, and with the port of Calais put into service, the armored troops finally had gasoline again. On April 1, Montgomery's troops arrived at Dunkirk, where they were thrown into disgrace in 1940, and five years later the British could finally declare a disgrace on their faces.

Bradley also made his best efforts, one advancing into the Ardennes and the other into Lorraine, close to the western wall that Hitler had previously boasted about.

At this time, the so-called western wall is really very fragile, with the fierce Soviet Red Army in the east and the Anglo-American coalition desperately trying to win honor in the west.

Not to mention the fact that the morale of the Germans was extremely low, bad news came one after another, the capital was surrounded, and one large city after another was occupied by the enemy. If it weren't for the German army's emphasis on discipline from Frederick's time, the poorer nation would have been scattered.

Of course, the current German army is only slightly stronger than the birds and beasts, and the veterans who participated in the war in 1939 were basically either killed or squatted in Soviet prisoner of war camps to cultivate wasteland. The current German army is old and young, and the vast majority of them are improvised cannon fodder. Even some of them can't even get together the basic armament, and a military uniform, a 98k and dozens of bullets are considered a soldier.

Lack of morale, lack of training, lack of weapons, and even not enough numbers, how can this battle be fought? (To be continued.) )