Chapter 2: A Different World War II (Part II)

Late at night on September 15, 1945, London, England

During the war years, the capital of the British Empire was in a state of depression and dilapidation, with most of the once bright street lights extinguished and shops closed early due to lack of fuel and electricity. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info also due to the limitation of gasoline rations, there are very few cars on the streets, and the occasional car, truck and red double-decker bus, most of which carry military personnel, and without exception carry ugly gas generators. There aren't even many bicycles on the streets – it's too dangerous to ride a bike in the dark under the dark lights. Occasionally, a few pedestrians are also in a hurry, and rarely greet each other.

This is the imperial capital of wartime, London, which is still suffocating cold, even though it is far from the bombs of the Luftwaffe.

It was a difficult time for all Britons, with six years of brutal war that drained almost all of the wealth of the British Empire. The last bit of good that could be scavenged was given to the army by Churchill's wartime cabinet, and all that was left for the common people was rags.

Nothing has disappeared from the market except for a little ration of flour, salt and turnips. There was no gasoline, no fruit, no cloth, no tea, no candy, no chicken, no tissue, no soap and shampoo, and in order to cover up dirty hair, people put on hats even in summer. Women's favorite cosmetics are nowhere to be found, so they can only use beetroot juice instead of red lipstick. Then use anything from sunscreen to onion skin to color your legs and draw stitches with eyebrow pencil instead of nylon stockings you simply can't buy – it's better than nothing.

Even more devastating was the stomach of the British, whose wartime food supply was so scarce that there were not enough vegetables to eat, because the British peasants produced only 30% of the country's food needs, and the sea-to-sea lifeline was constantly under the threat of German submarines. The ration of tea and coffee was almost zero, forcing the British to drink afternoon tea without tea. An entire generation of British children born between 1940 and 1945 had never seen a banana.

In fact, during the war, the British lacked not only bread, tea and fruit, but meat was even more scarce, steak and pork chops had become an unattainable luxury, pigeons, rabbits, and even former pets Dutch pigs and cats and dogs were put on the table, because the people were so hungry, the trade in cat and mouse meat became more and more popular, the composition of sausages became more and more suspicious, and more and more people became vegetarians. In order to lead by example, or at least for show, the British royal family had to treat their stomachs badly, and among those sumptuous gold and silver tableware, Spam luncheon meat was served......

However, many Londoners could not even eat luncheon meat, so they had to turn their gardens into vegetable gardens, pluck out the moonflowers and tulips, plant onions and cabbage, and start raising rabbits, chickens and even pigs in their homes to increase their food supply a little.

However, it was not only the food that was lacking in the kitchen, but also the fuel - in times of war, there were limits on the use of coal, kerosene, gas and electricity, and in many cases it was not possible to buy anything even with ration tickets, forcing many people to go down the wrong path: at night, there were always tree thieves in London's parks, forcing the government to urgently organize night tree patrols......

So, in order to keep the kitchen fuel, so that they could eat cooked food at last, instead of drinking blood like the barbarians, the whole family could only grit their teeth and take cold showers in the winter, or huddle together in the cold winter wind to keep warm...... On top of that, there were even people's kitchen utensils that were taken away from the brutal war, as the government called on people to donate aluminum pots so that they could be melted down to make parts for airplanes. Next, paper was also a ration in wartime Britain, and the limit was very low, and many people who received letters had to write directly on the back of the letter in order to save paper.

In short, all factories were producing munitions, all steamships were transporting military supplies, everything was taken to war, and even the people in the streets were deserted, because young people were conscripted to fight in Africa, to West Asia, to India, to Southeast Asia, to Europe, and middle-aged people and women were working overtime in factories, and even underage students were subjected to a lot of voluntary labor......

Day after day, year after year, in the face of snowflakes of death notices and pervasive shortages and deprivations, the proud subjects of the empire on the island of Great Britain have cooled down from the patriotic fervor of the early days of the war, and have come to understand what a protracted general war really means—not at all the legends described in operas and epics, but a hellish torment, a cruel gamble with countless flesh and soul, with which every family, happiness, and life is gradually consumed. In the end, it was reduced to a few cold numbers that made no sense.

But now, it is too late to regret it, and the tragic end of the last world war, after the defeat of Germany and Austria-Hungary, is still vivid in the minds of the British at this time. In order to avoid such a fate, they can only grit their teeth, resign themselves to fate, and try to survive until the last moment.

It was not easy to survive the fall of Berlin, Hitler committed suicide, Mussolini became a prisoner, and although there was a Japanese dwarf jumping in the East, it was after all half a world away, and the islanders of Great Britain generally did not feel anything about it - leave the affairs of the Pacific to the Yankees!

Great Britain had been fighting for six years, and the subjects of the empire were too bitter and tired to bear any more war torment.

Unexpectedly, after the fall of Nazi Germany, the dawn of peace was still far away, and Churchill, a hysterical war maniac, had just finished fighting the Nazi "brown plague", and before everyone could take a breath, he had to continue to compete with the Bolshevik "red plague", and hurriedly sent hundreds of thousands of British boys to land on the European continent in an attempt to grab territory with the Soviets...... I thought that because of the relationship between the "anti-fascist allies", the Russians should not dare to directly tear their faces and do it, but who knew that Stalin's beard would be even more crazy, and he would brazenly attack his allies without giving him any face!

From summer to autumn, after several major battles, the ill-prepared British army retreated in the Dutch, Belgian and French battlefields, and more than 100,000 young men were stuffed into Soviet prisoner of war camps to peel potatoes. Even the Great Fleet, which the British were proud of, was devastated in Dutch waters!

Although the British press was very tightly controlled during the war, the citizens of London, as the center of the British Empire, were able to hear a lot of increasingly bad news through various channels: for example, the Grand Fleet had returned from the Netherlands, the Imperial European Expeditionary Force was in the midst of the second Dunkirk retreat, and the Soviets had brazenly dropped nuclear weapons on the Grand Fleet in the Frisian Islands off the coast of the Netherlands......

A series of bad news that can be called landslides and earth cracks made the British who had been tortured in the war for six years infinitely depressed, and the sea of corpses and blood that seemed to have no end in sight made the bravest British gentleman feel cowardly, and quietly retreated in the depths of his heart.

However, the belligerent fat man who sat at 10 Downing Street had a granite mind and was still as stubborn as ever......

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10 Downing Street, the official residence of the Prime Minister of the British Empire

After listening to Admiral Montgomery's debriefing and sending him back to rest, Winston . Churchill suddenly collapsed on the couch with a blue face. Compared to the beginning of the war, he had gray hair, wrinkles carved deep into his forehead, and bruises erupted on the back of his hands, and the doctors had already warned him about his health...... But the tenacious Churchill still refused to leave his post and insisted on holding out until the final victory.

So, he coughed violently, spat out a mouthful of old phlegm, covered his aching heart, and turned to look at the map of Europe hanging on the wall.

Although the "Second Operation Generator" was now going very smoothly, and the 50,000 British expeditionary troops who had withdrawn from the battlefields of Belgium and Paris were embarking on ships in the port of Dunkirk and returning home one after another, and were not further attacked by the Soviet Red Army and the French Red Guards, this did not improve the mood of the Prime Minister in the slightest.

For Churchill, the most hostile to the Bolsheviks, the situation in Europe as shown on the map today is really like hell!

-- From Paris, Berlin, Rome to Athens, one after another dazzling red flags are being raised one after another in the ancient capitals of Europe's famous cities.

The red demonic flame, starting from Moscow in the east, swept all the way across most of Europe, completely shattering the old order of the European continent. The once invincible Nazi German army, since the war between the Soviet Union and Germany, has lost its previous sharpness to blitz France. The aggressive "Barbarossa Plan" hit a wall only as far east as the Minsk and Leningrad lines. The German navy, which was a waste of wood, was beaten by the very weak Red Navy on paper in several battles in the Baltic Sea, and even the route between Germany and Sweden was cut off.

Then, in the long tug-of-war, millions of Nazi German troops were forced back by the Bolsheviks, and were burned to ashes little by little. The red plague also broke through the borders of the country, crossed the moat of the Carpathians, and spread wildly throughout Europe.

By the early spring of this year, when Hitler, an arrogant mustache, was surrounded in a bunker in Berlin and cursing to death, the Soviet Red Army had swept through all of Eastern and Southeastern Europe, as well as part of Northern Europe, swallowing Finland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, and Yugoslavia, and marching on Venice and knocking on the northern gate of Italy. The westernmost Red Army striker had planted its battle flag in Hamburg on the North Sea, while the southernmost Red Army had drunk Athens and washed its boots in the warm Aegean Sea.

The French Red elements in Paris also launched an uprising in early February, expelling the German troops in France, which had long been drawn to the empty shell, and established the second Paris Commune, which rapidly expanded in all directions. Even in the three low-lying countries of Luxembourg, Belgium and the Netherlands, many red elements emerged, taking advantage of the political vacuum created by the collapse of Nazi Germany, to organize armed insurrections in various large cities in an attempt to establish Soviet power.

Seeing that the whole of Europe was in danger of being instantly dyed red by the Bolsheviks, and that the traditional policy of "continental balance of power" in Whitehall in London was about to come to naught, Churchill, a hardcore anti-communist ♂, could no longer sit still, and although the US allies were still hesitating, Britain hastily gathered 200,000 troops on its own, pulled De Gaulle's "Free French Movement" to send troops alone, and launched multiple sea-crossing assaults on the coastal areas of France, Belgium, and the Netherlands.

When the first British troops landed in Calais and other places, Berlin had already fallen, and the news of Hitler's suicide spread quickly. Then, out of fear of the French reds entrenched in Paris, the Vichy French government, led by Marshal Petain, also expressed its willingness to cooperate.

The problem was that although the remnants of Nazi Germany were vulnerable, the British army, which had limited troops, was overstretched by the red thugs that sprung up in France and the Low Countries. In desperation, Churchill ordered the rearmament of a part of the scattered Nazi German army, and drove them to cooperate with the British and French forces to brutally suppress the Red elements, and slaughtered the cities of Amiens, Le Havre and Nantes...... This short-sighted foolishness made the image of the British army and de Gaulle in the eyes of a considerable part of the French people, but in the beginning, the above strategy seemed to have been successful—under the thread of Churchill, de Gaulle and Petain finally reluctantly stood together and formed a counter-revolutionary alliance to encircle and suppress the "red plague".

Then, Montgomery's British Expeditionary Force, Charles de Gaulle's Free French Movement, and Petain's Vichy French government, plus a small number of Nazi German troops absorbed by the British Army, launched a joint siege against the fledgling French Red Guards, gradually compressing the living space of these French Red Guards, and finally encircled them in the city of Paris, sitting in the city of sorrow, dying, relying on a small amount of Soviet airdrop supplies, barely surviving.

But the real fatal problem was that Churchill grossly underestimated the determination of the Soviets to defend the Red regime in France. After the defeat of Nazi Germany, Stalin, the madman, did not seem to hesitate at all, and raised his sword against the British troops stationed in the Low Countries. Faced with a torrent of hundreds of thousands of red steel, the British army, which had not gained a firm foothold, was about to collapse in the Netherlands. Churchill, who was in a hurry, had no choice but to ask the United States for help, and at the same time hurriedly ordered the Grand Fleet assembled in Scapa Bay to go to sea, cover the ship group carrying reinforcements to rush to the Netherlands, and then defeated the Soviet fleet that rushed out of the Baltic Sea in an encounter off the coast of the Netherlands. But then it was bombarded by the atomic bombs dropped by the Soviet Air Force! And it was also the successive bombardment of two atomic bombs!

-- The United States had just successfully tested a nuclear weapon in July this year, but the Soviets were engaged in actual combat in August!

Moreover, the first victim of the Soviet atomic bomb was not the German-Italian-Japanese fascist Axis powers, but the British, who were both anti-fascist allies of the Soviet Union...... When the news spread in Germany and Italy, almost everyone had a feeling of insanity and speechlessness......

But in any case, under the mushroom cloud of the Soviet atomic bomb, the British army in the Dutch-Belgian theater inevitably collapsed completely. The encirclement of the Second Paris Commune was then torn to pieces by the Soviet Red Army, which had been driving straight in, and completely collapsed.

After the Second Dunkirk Retreat, the British Expeditionary Force remaining in France was less than 30,000 men, and it was scattered and trapped in a few port strongholds such as Bordeaux, Le Havre, and Brest. If the Soviet Red Army had been killed, it would have been possible for God to know how many hours they would have been able to hold out......

Looking at the map of Europe that was almost red, Churchill really had a deep headache and a deep sense of sadness. Now in the heart of this fat man, he is not only worried about the future and fate of the British Empire, but also worried about his reputation and political life behind him.

-- What many people don't know is that, judging from the law and facts, Churchill was actually the most powerful of the great men of World War II.

After the outbreak of World War II, in order to cope with the unprecedented crisis of war, with the enactment and passage of the Reich Defence Act, Churchill's British government reasonably and legally acquired a huge power that had never been seen in British history, and could make demands on any British citizen and foreigner living in British territory, and even decide his life and death at will - because every British citizen swore unconditional allegiance to the king!

Therefore, the Defence Act expressly provides that when His Majesty the Crown is engaged in any war in which His Majesty may be involved, or for the maintenance of provision or servition which is indispensable to public life, His Majesty's subjects shall surrender themselves, their services, and their property to His Majesty's disposal. The King of England was granted the right to expropriate any man, material, industrial and mining enterprise in the territory of England and to dispose of the property of every subject. and the power to kill and take away every Englishman. And as the king's chief minister and de facto leader of the country, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was given the same powers. As long as he and his wartime cabinet resolutions passed, any order issued from Downing Street and the War Department must be carried out without compromise, no matter how absurd and unreasonable it may be.

What is dictatorship? Is this a real dictatorship? While Hitler was still fighting wits and courage with the Junkers and the plutocracy, Mussolini was still pestering with a bunch of royalists and aristocrats, and Hideki Tojo was still scratching his bald head trying to balance the various contradictions between the young and old factions, the army and navy, and the emperor and the chaebols, Churchill, the prime minister of the British Empire, who was known as the model of democratic politics and the cornerstone of the free world, became a more worthy dictator than the above fascist leaders.

In this way, throughout World War II, Churchill was truly invincible at home, and his power was comparable to that of the former Lord Protector Cromwell. He was free to meddle in any work he thought would be beneficial to the war, to requisition land and minerals at will, to mobilize funds at will, to requisition personnel, and to order factories to produce the equipment he wanted. Ordering the police to arrest anyone he considered dangerous, pardoning criminals at will, and giving orders to shoot them at will, no one but the King of England could stop him, and for the most part, the King had no right to interfere with them.

However, Churchill was not a true saint after all, and he did not forget to use his power for personal gain during the war, and made many stupid and ridiculous decisions, each of which caused terrible losses to the country and shed countless blood for the subjects of the British Empire. Every Englishman saw these things in his eyes, but he didn't dare to speak out, but silently remembered them in his heart. Once the war is over and the relevant provisions of the National Defense Act become invalid, Churchill, who has accumulated countless resentments and hatreds, is likely to be thrown off the altar immediately, kicked out of the government, and even kicked out of politics - not because the British are too ungrateful, but because Churchill has sown in the past, and what he will reap in the end.

Perhaps it was also because of this vague premonition that after the fall of Nazi Germany, Churchill would desperately insist on being an enemy of the Soviet Union and continue to maintain the country's wartime status...... Then it brought an even more terrible and devastating catastrophe to Britain.

At this time, although the wartime state was not over, Churchill had fully felt the fire burning under his ass - "...... You've been sitting here for too long and you've done nothing good. Feed! Fuck off, we don't want you. This is a famous quote from Cromwell. He said it to the bureaucrats who were eating vegetarian meals. A few years ago, it was Churchill who gave these words to the former Prime Minister, Mr. Chamberlain. And in today's newspapers, some damned reporter actually smashed these words back to him untouched, and Churchill's heart ached as if he had been pricked with a needle.

Churchill felt very aggrieved by such a scolding. Since he became the Prime Minister of the British Empire, in the face of the complicated domestic and international situation, in the face of this war-torn and cruel world, in order to save the "empire on which the sun never sets", a century-old store of colonialism, he has definitely spent no less effort and traveled back and forth. Is there anything to blame for what he has done?

- Although the effect of all these efforts does not seem to be very good: first of all. During his tenure, the British Empire's traditional continental balance of power policy was completely bankrupt, and the continent fell first into the clutches of the German Nazis, and then was about to be dyed red by the even more damned Russian Bolsheviks. The former little buddy of the United States has become its own boss, although it has killed a Germany that is considered the top threat by the British Empire, but the result of such efforts is to replace its neighbor with a more terrible and powerful Soviet Union, no matter how you look at it, it looks like it is a loss that outweighs the loss.

Then, the various overseas colonies of the British Empire were also in full swing during his tenure. In the first year of Japan's declaration of war on Britain, the sun flags were raised in Hong Kong, Burma, and Malaya, and the Singapore fort, which cost hundreds of millions of dollars, was not held for several months. Today, the Australian mainland and the Pacific islands are almost lost, and the remaining little territory is garrisoned by the US military.

New Zealand and Canada, nominally British colonies, have long since become Americans' spheres of influence. A group of traitors in the South African colonies even colluded with the Boers, disobeyed London's directives, and refused to contribute to the British Empire at all, while the British Empire, which was extremely deficient, had no choice but to watch the South African authorities dream of dominating black Africa.

Even the most shining jewel in the British Empire's crown, the colonies of the Indian subcontinent, are now at war. Under the temptation and funding of the Japanese, the radical wing of the Congress Party and the princely monarchs of various places have erected anti-flags one after another, and even shabby settlements such as Afghanistan and Nepal have extended their greedy black hands to rich India. The territory that the British still had control in India was reduced to a small strip from Delhi to Bombay, and the port of Mumbai was attacked and blockaded by the Japanese fleet from time to time, and it was in danger of being wiped out at any time.

Only the few colonies in black Africa with the flag of rice are stable for the time being, but unfortunately those black uncles are generally very poor, and they can't afford much oil and water, and it is difficult to provide much support for the war cause of the British Empire, and the government can't get many cargo ships to ship their bananas......

-- The colonial empires built up over the centuries are rapidly crumbling, and the huge wealth accumulated over the years has been consumed by war. Faced with such a situation in which the edifice was about to collapse, every subject of the British Empire was naturally heartbroken and resentful of the incompetent Prime Minister...... But Churchill still felt that all this mess was not his fault: do you believe that someone else will try? It's definitely worse than doing it yourself!

What alarmed Churchill even more was that this kind of opposition to him had broken through the strict censorship of the press during the war and had begun to become popular in the market - although the laws of the empire gave him unprecedented powers, no matter what the law, it was up to people to enforce it. If everyone adopts an attitude of indifference and non-cooperation, even the strictest laws and regulations will become a dead letter.

Clearly, there are bad signs in British politics today.

Churchill was also well aware that His Majesty's displeasure with the recent series of failures was reaching a certain limit.

But, despite being drowning in the spat of the populace, Churchill was determined to continue his duties and maintain the crumbling empire...... Of course, they are also determined not to give up the enormous power that has been in their hands for more than five years......

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After a moment's respite, Prime Minister Churchill picked up his spirits and called the female secretary to summon his chief of staff and most trusted military adviser, Hastings. General Ismay began to discuss the latest situation in the European theater of the war, as well as the nuclear weapons of the Soviets.

“…… The remaining warships of the Grand Fleet after the nuclear explosion, as well as the few surviving merchant ships carrying reinforcements, have successfully returned to the Scapa Bay anchorage. However, according to the on-site inspection after the experts boarded the ship, except for a few destroyers that were far away from the explosion at that time, almost all the remaining surviving ships were very seriously contaminated with radioactivity, and it would take at least three months of decontamination operations before it was possible to return to active service. Some of these heavily polluting vessels have been judged to be scrapped, or even dismantled......

Moreover, the crews of all ships, whether navy or army, have developed symptoms of radiation sickness on a large scale, and their pathological manifestations are basically consistent with the top-secret information urgently sent by the United States. Our medical system is doing its best to treat these unfortunate boys, but the cure rate is really not guaranteed......"

“…… It's a nightmare. Isn't it? A superweapon that none of us has mastered, but it has fallen into the hands of the evil Bolsheviks! ”

Churchill took a cigar in his mouth and puffed out a smoke ring, "...... It seems that the Royal Navy is out of hope for the time being. And what about the ground battlefield? In addition to the smooth progress of the second Dunkirk retreat, is there any good news coming from the French front? ”

“…… I'm afraid it's all bad news, Your Excellency. First of all, Marshal of the Soviet Union Zhukov held an entrance ceremony in Paris today to show off his victory to the whole world. Then, with the latest intelligence two hours ago, Orleans had just been captured by Soviet troops, and the gate to the south of France had been opened. Next, French workers in Lyon rioted this morning, expelling the local police and army and essentially taking control of the city. ”

General Ismay replied, "...... The French sailors in the military port of Toulon had rioted and were engaged in a fierce battle with the suppressed military police, and Marshal Petain was almost unable to control his soldiers. Prime Minister Reival moved the government to Toulouse, near the Spanish border, ready to cross the Pyrenees and go into exile. Vichy City, where the government was originally stationed, has also mutiny and riots today, and the exact situation is still unclear. ”

“…… It's all bad news, indeed. What about Charles de Gaulle? Where is this guy at the moment? Churchill continued.

“…… After the collapse of the encirclement of Paris, General de Gaulle left his army behind and fled to Bordeaux on a train, and this guy had just sent us a telegram asking for more reinforcements, preferably to send 'planes that cover the sky', and his troops seemed to have been badly bombed by the Soviet Air Force. Moreover, General Petain's men were reluctant to supply them......"

“…… Not to mention that we don't have any 'planes that cover the sky' at present, even if there are really so many planes, what use can they be in the face of the atomic bombs of the Soviets? Churchill extinguished his cigar in irritation," ...... On the question of how to defend against the Soviets from attacking Britain with nuclear bombs, did the General Staff work out any countermeasures? Both the parliament and the king were very concerned about this. ”

“…… Your Excellency, nuclear weapons are a completely unfamiliar new thing for the Empire, and apart from the on-the-spot sightings in Dutch waters, we only have a small amount of information provided by the Americans for reference, and there is no guarantee of correctness......"

General Ismay did not answer the question directly, but excused his colleagues in the General Staff until he was glared at by Churchill and then embarrassed to tell the truth, "...... Well, according to experts, as long as we can shoot down every Soviet plane that flies over Britain, well, and German missiles that could be captured and modified by the Soviets, the sacred homeland of the Reich will be guaranteed from the threat of Soviet nuclear weapons. ”

“…… Isn't this nonsense? Churchill was suddenly angry, but he actually knew that such a thing was simply difficult for a strong man, so he just laughed and scolded and changed the subject, "...... What is new in the battlefield other than the French front? ”

“…… The situation on the battlefield in Norway is as bad as on the French front, and the paratroopers we airdropped to the Norwegian capital Oslo have now lost contact and are presumably either annihilated or surrendered. A battalion ordered to be stationed in Bergen, which had just been expelled from the city by the landed Red Army, was wandering in the wilderness and probably not holding out for a few days. Only the troops stationed in the port of Narvik in northern Norway, who have not yet found any enemy, are also not popular with the local Norwegian population, and if the Soviet Red Army fights, they are estimated to be able to hold out for a week at most......"

“…… Alas, with the paralysis of the Grand Fleet, Norway was already doomed to be unpretentious...... What about the Mediterranean? ”

“…… The Greek government-in-exile has returned to Crete, which we have taken over, and has drawn up three battalions of armed force. He is currently engaged in low-intensity fighting against the Greek Red Partisans on various islands in the Aegean Sea, and has just taken control of Rhodes today......"

“…… That's enough! You should know that I'm not talking about the Greek petty fight, as long as the Black Sea Fleet of the Russians can't break through the Dardanelles, we will inevitably have the upper hand there! But in a place like Greece, even if you have the upper hand, it doesn't make much sense! I'm asking about the situation in Italy! Is it possible to open a second front to contain the red plague there, and by the way, to pull our unmotivated American ally into the water? ”

“…… It's difficult, Your Excellency. We had only one brigade left in southern Italy to support the French theater, and they had been forcibly transferred by Eisenhower to Naples, far from the Roman confrontation front, where they were reportedly closely monitored by the American army.

Then, in North Africa, we do have more troops, but it is basically impossible to cross the Mediterranean without the American army, and the Arabs there are not very peaceful...... Your Excellency, with all due respect, unless we can get an accurate statement and practical support from Washington, we will not be able to drag the US military into the chariot by playing some small tricks alone. General Ismay summed it up.

“…… Washington's unequivocal support...... How easy it is to say that! Churchill smiled wryly, "...... If it was military supplies, the Americans would have been supplying us in the first place. But they were asked to send troops to war with the Soviets, and without defeating Japan...... It's so hard! ”

Looking up at the map of Europe full of small red flags on the wall, Churchill's eyes once again flashed with infinite helplessness and bitterness, "...... The status quo of the empire's military cards is almost exhausted, and the next thing is the job of politicians and diplomats...... Aiden should be coming back from Russia, right? I wonder what conditions Stalin would have offered him? I hope the Bolsheviks are not more greedy than the Nazis......"

At this moment, Churchill seemed to have forgotten the old saying: what you can't get on the battlefield, don't expect to get it at the negotiating table......

So, the next morning, I read the Foreign Secretary Anthony. The Soviet terms that Aiden brought back from Moscow made Churchill once again furious.

“…… This...... This...... What exactly did Stalin want to do? Did he think of himself as the Roman Emperor? ”