Chapter 136, This World That Kills and Doesn't Bury (Medium)

As a global anomalous climate catastrophe, when Europe and North America groaned in the "year without summer" of hunger and cold, those living in other corners of the earth naturally did not survive the good fortune of watching the fire from the other side, but "the blessings are not shared, and the difficulties are shared"......

As a close neighbor across the sea from Europe, North Africa also suffered heavy losses in the abnormal climate of the "year without summer", and the output of major crops was reduced by a quarter, but fortunately, the population of this place was already small - in the first half of the twentieth century, the population of North Africa had not yet had a big explosion as it had been half a century later, and several nuclear explosions killed many urban populations. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIn Egypt, food exports have increased dramatically as the urban population has been wiped out by nuclear bombings and war, while the rural areas have not been harassed much.

Of course, the extremely chaotic and brutal tribal conflict caused the population of North Africa to plummet during this year, and if you count the previous atomic bombing and the fighting between the American and Soviet armies, the entire North Africa lost about 2 million people around this year.

On the other side of the Sahara Desert, the situation in West Africa is even worse than in North Africa, because during the period when the US and Soviet armies were facing each other across the desert, taking advantage of the fact that the US nuclear arsenal was temporarily exhausted and could only be beaten on one side, the Soviet strategic air force dropped more than 200 atomic bombs into this area, destroying some port cities left over from the colonial era. The white expatriates abandoned their belongings and went into exile in South Africa, while the blacks took off their pants and spears and returned to the rainforest, returning the light of civilization to the pre-Age of Discovery. As for the number of deaths during this period, it is basically impossible to count, some say 2 million, some say 20 million......

Further south, South Africa, the southernmost tip of Africa, has emerged as a super-winner in the catastrophe of nuclear war. Not only did he successfully get rid of the colonial rule of the British Empire, and since then he has been the master of his own country, but he also took advantage of the destruction of Britain, the acquiescence of the Soviet Union and the helplessness of the United States to forcibly seize the legacy of the British Empire in Africa, and under the banner of the "Southern African Community", the small half of Africa south of Angola has been pocketed and become its own exclusive sphere of influence.

Fortunately, South Africa also successfully withdrew from the war and established diplomatic relations with both the United States and the Soviet Union, becoming the only truly neutral country in the third world war that is currently in full swing -- in the foreseeable future, South Africa can not only use its status as a neutral country to resell scarce materials for profit, but also be able to broker and share various benefits in the peace talks.

In addition, with the destruction of Europe, North Africa and West Africa, millions of white immigrants rushed south, and sent a large number of high-quality human resources to the South African regime, which had been suffering from underpopulation (here refers to white people, in South Africa at that time, blacks were not counted as people), and at the same time brought a large amount of capital and technology, so that the Union of South Africa, which had just become independent, was overjoyed, thinking that it must be blessed by God and fate. Some of the most radical, confident, or perhaps most arrogant South African politicians have even begun to shout the slogan "Africa is Africa for Africans".

The fly in the ointment is that most of South Africa is located in the plateau, belongs to the savannah climate, the precipitation is insufficient, most of the land is not suitable for farming, and the land that can be cultivated only accounts for about one-eighth of the total area of the country. In the past, when the population was scarce, South Africa was still self-sufficient in agricultural products, and even exported a small surplus of food.

Now, however, South Africa's food supply is strained by the influx of white refugees from the north and the reduction of crop yields due to climate variability. Although South Africa is known for its abundance of gold and diamonds, and has never had a shortage of hard currency, the world is now struggling with climate change and famine, and even if it is willing to spend gold, it is still very difficult for South Africa to import food from abroad.

For this reason, South Africa, although it did not participate in the world wars, introduced a food rationing system at the beginning of its existence to reduce food consumption and waste. At the same time, despite the famine in tropical Africa, they intensified their raiding of these areas, plundering large quantities of sorghum and corn, as well as cassava flour and dried bananas, from the mouths of black people in East and West Africa, thus ensuring a food ration of 2,500 calories per day for white South African citizens. As for how much Uncle Black will starve to death from Congo, Mozambique, Rhodesia and Nigeria, no one cares.

At the same time, the Middle East became the main operational direction of the Soviet Red Army in that year. Since the Kremlin's decision to abandon Western Europe, more than two million Red Army troops have been thrown into the battlefields of Asia Minor and Iran, setting off endless bloody storms in this dry and rugged land -- unlike the American GIs who were bound by the names of "democracy, freedom, human rights, and the rule of law" in later generations, in the face of Comrade Stalin, the iron tyrant who has no mercy, and the "Cheka" fighters who dictate all kinds of disobedience, even if they are replaced by al-Qaeda to carry out the resistance movement, they are still using the mantis arm as a car.

In general, after the bombardment of more than 20 nuclear bombs, the continuous carpet bombing, and several urban offensive and defensive battles that seriously violated the humanitarian spirit, the Turks living in Europe have basically become extinct, and the number of Turks living in Asia Minor has been reduced to less than 8 million, of whom 2 million are being imprisoned in various labor camps on charges of terrorists or "suspected terrorists", and are working day and night under the whip of the "Cheka" fighters. In the case that there is no need to consider any public opinion issues at all, and there is no need to consider whether the cost is too high, with modern killing methods, it is not very difficult to suppress the resistance of the people in the occupied areas. The Kurds, who were allies of the Soviet Union and feuding with the Turks, happily took over their fields and houses, and even their wives and daughters - and indeed "the stones were overheated, and the population was replaced......

In fact, in the secret meetings of the Kremlin's top brass, there was also a "final solution" to the Turkish problem, which was to ensure the absolute security of the Bosphorus and Constantinople, and to mimic the way the Chechens were treated in the past, and to move the entire Turkish nation out of Asia Minor and to Iran, Ethiopia or other more distant places, such as to fight the bears in the Alaska Peninsula...... It was only after further discussion that the majority of the members considered that a radical cleansing of the Turks in Asia Minor would cause the Kurds to become so large that the front door would turn away the wolf from the back door, and the proposal was put on hold for the time being.

The Iranians were treated similarly to the Soviet Red Army, but the Soviets were apparently far less interested in the Iranian plateau than in Constantinople, and after encroaching on the small lowland plains on the southern shore of the Caspian Sea and destroying the Royal Government of Iran in Tehran, the Soviet Red Army sent to Iran temporarily halted its offensive and watched the remaining Iranians kill each other in chaos and famine.

The Arabs further south, with the exception of a period of time when they were bombed by nuclear, poison gas, incendiary, and high-explosive bombs, killing more than 10 million people, were not within the direct attack range of the Soviet Red Army for the time being.

But that didn't mean that the Arabs would be able to live in peace forever, because before that, more than 200 atomic bombs had destroyed most of the cities of the Middle East. The destruction of governments has re-fragmented the Arab world, returning to the era of tribal rule, and warlord warfare has quickly erupted. The Soviets took the opportunity to maintain a certain degree of trade with the Arab world through several ports off the coast of Syria, exchanging the arms eliminated by the Red Army for the food that the Arabs had plucked out of their mouths - because the urban populations that had consumed these foods disappeared in the mushroom cloud, so that the Middle East became a grain exporter again after a thousand years.

Further east from Iran, the densely populated Indian subcontinent is still desperately struggling in the vortex of endless war, and the drastic reduction in food production caused by the "summer years" has had far more tragic consequences than in peacetime in the context of war and division, in which India's rulers would reduce taxes and provide relief measures to aid victims whenever there was a precursor to famine. However, in the war, the limited resources were consumed and destroyed by the army, and no one side took any serious measures to relieve the disaster.

On the contrary, Nehru, who ruled the most densely populated valley of the Ganges, in order to reverse the previous stage of the losing war, instead raised the tax standard, taking away the last bit of rice from the peasants to raise funds to import arms, and the result was an unprecedented tragedy - in the upper Ganges region, according to the journalist's description, "the bones of hundreds of thousands of hungry people covered the plains outside Delhi, and countless starving corpses floated all over the Ganges". In Bangladesh, on the lower reaches of the Ganges, 10 million people died of starvation, and vast tracts of farmland were abandoned and overgrown with weeds, turning them into unfathomable jungles. The few survivors had to live on grass and even cannibalism. But almost all of the warlords who fought each other in the Indian subcontinent showed no mercy for the death of the common people at the bottom, and even openly said: "...... The famine is the fault of the poor themselves, who let them breed like rabbits? ”

According to incomplete statistics, in 1947, the "year of no summer," 20 million people died in war or starvation in India, which is a sad figure. What is even more sad is that India will starve to death in the next year when the climate is even more eerie......

With the withdrawal of British troops, there was a temporary power vacuum in the countries of Southeast Asia. The Japanese Navy, which had returned to Southeast Asia, seemed to have little interest in other places than Singapore. Therefore, after many years of colonial rule, the people of Southeast Asia finally ushered in a good time for themselves to be the masters of their own affairs. However, whether it is the Communist Party of Burma, the Communist Party of Vietnam, the Communist Party of the Philippines, the Communist Party of Malaysia, or the republican government of Thailand after the expulsion of the king, they only have the name of a central government, and they are powerless to suppress the national territory for a while, and they are still fighting endless guerrilla and counter-guerrilla warfare with various separatist forces. As for Indonesia, a vast country of a thousand islands, after the nuclear bombing of Jakarta, it completely fell into a state of anarchy in which warlords and chieftains fought each other, and more than 100 chiefs, large and small, Sudanese and the junta fought each other, and conservatively estimated that it would have to be divided into twenty or thirty small countries.

However, because the ash eruption of the Icelandic volcano was far away from the other side of the world, at least for the year 1947, the damage in Southeast Asia was not significant, and life was relatively easy - if we did not consider the chaos of armed conflicts.

In the same way, the new Chinese government, which has initially completed the great cause of national liberation, is still carrying out the great cause of vigorously suppressing bandits and marching into the border areas of minority nationalities. In the face of land reform and trial, the feudal landlord armed forces in various places still fought to the death, although they had no foreign aid. In just one year, four million people died on the battlefield, and the intensity of their resistance was much stronger than that of Chairman Chiang's time, but it was still useless in the face of the iron-blooded and ruthless Red Army.

Of course, this year's Chinese is too peaceful, as the climate anomalies caused by the eruption of the Icelandic volcano are not obvious before the autumn harvest in East Asia, but if you wait until the next year, it is difficult to say......

In the end, after briefly becoming the focus of the world's attention and the center of the game between the two camps, South America was first smashed with more than 100 atomic bombs in one go, killing about 20 million people in less than two months, and then, with the withdrawal of the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Japanese army, South America returned to the Dark Ages, and once again became a very pitiful corner forgotten by everyone - except for Chile, the only surviving country, the other countries either lost the central government in the nuclear bombing, or fell directly into civil war, it's really miserable.

However, in the midst of the decline in agricultural production caused by the abnormal global climate, there are no obvious signs of famine in South America, because the large cities that used to consume surplus grain in the countryside have been almost destroyed by the atomic bombs of the United States and the Soviet Union, and the export channels have been blocked by the world war.

In this way, the farmers of the Pampas found that their crops suddenly had no market to sell, and although their crops had been reduced a lot, they still could not sell, but at the same time there was no government that would levy taxes on them, so they put their grain stockpiles into warehouses and hoarded them, ready to see what was going on...... Of course, it is also possible to be unfortunate enough to encounter bandits or armies that are more brutal than bandits, and even the food and money are plundered.

The Chilean government, which was extremely ill-prepared for the war, was able to requisition huge quantities of grain from its neighbors at extremely low prices, and then hoard them as a strategic national reserve...... However, despite being the number one winner in the South American chaos, Chile is still extremely panicked, with the vast majority of the wealthy busy hoarding supplies in the remote countryside to secretly build shelters, and the poor in the cities preparing to slip away at any time - this time Chile avoided the nuclear explosion. But the next wave of nuclear explosions may not have such good luck.

In this way, when the entire human civilization and society are striding towards the dark abyss, even if they kill the two camps of red and white, they still do not have any idea of sacrificing themselves to save the world, but continue to spend all their energy on inflicting more harm on each other - since the B-36 "Peacemaker", a big toy that can realize transoceanic bombing, the Americans have been based in Newfoundland, and from time to time hang nuclear bombs to expedition to Europe to brush their presence: first, the nuclear explosion of Lisbon, the capital of Portugal, on Christmas Eve, A warm Christmas gift to the people of the Iberian Peninsula. On the last day of 1947, the nuclear bombings of Bordeaux and Brest in France were sent to the French people as a New Year's gift......

All in all, in the bell to welcome the New Year's Day, the people of the world bid farewell to the old year like purgatory, and will usher in an even more miserable new year.

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ps: The U.S. Imperial Division really has a tradition of forcing anti-veterans, and the Department of Defense actually asked California veterans to return the war subsidies ten years ago!

Ten years ago, in the face of the long-term wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, in order to fill the vacancies in the army, the Pentagon used huge bonuses to motivate veterans to re-enlist, but when they returned home scarred after six years of hard fighting, the Ministry of Defense asked them to hand over the money and pay interest, on the grounds that they were too hasty when they signed the contract, and many people did not meet the standards and went to the front line - such as being too old and not having enough education......

Moreover, many of these veterans have become disabled and are in financial difficulty, so they have to sell their houses in order to spit out the money - what a loss of money and life!

And how much is the prize money collected? All of them add up to enough to buy an F-15 fighter, but for this reason, nearly 10,000 veterans have been packed, which chills at least hundreds of thousands of soldiers. In addition, the US military also stipulates that on the eve of leaving the battlefield, servicemen must be subjected to collective examination, and if they are found to be mentally ill, they will be forcibly discharged from the army, and there will be no pension and retirement guarantee, and then more than 20,000 people were found in Iraq -- hey, they became mentally ill after taking drugs for the sake of the motherland and participated in the war, and they were still being played with this hand when they were discharged. (To be continued.) )