Chapter 155: Towards the Wasteland (I)

USSR, Moscow, Kremlin, General Secretary Stalin's office

It was still very cold in Moscow in March, and although the remnants of the winter snow had begun to melt slightly, the green vegetation had not yet germinated, and the remnants of the blizzard from the Arctic Ocean made the sweet breath of the goddess of spring far from reaching this cold land that was always ruled by General Winter. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Of course, Russians who have lived here for generations have long been accustomed to such a cold climate. By this time, many Russians had already shed their thick fur coats and replaced them with thin suits, labor clothes and casual clothes. The beauty-loving Soviet girls changed out of their bloated winter clothes early, put on stockings, dresses or plaid skirts, and showed off their slender legs on the streets.

However, sitting in the office of General Secretary Stalin, blowing a warm and comfortable humidified heater, the current People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs of the USSR, Vyacheslav. Mikhailovich. Comrade Molotov, at this moment, I couldn't help but feel a slight chill in my heart, and even a little trembling.

As the head of diplomacy of the Soviet Union, Molotov has been thinking about how to end the war since the nuclear explosion of the United States and the defeat was assured -- from ancient times to the present, any war must have a way to end, either by signing an armistice treaty, or directly destroying the country and swallowing the land, or after sending troops to invade the enemy country, he could not stand on his feet, so he had to pack his bags and go home...... After all, we can't keep fighting endlessly: the horror of modern warfare has led to the fact that no matter how reckless a country is, it will not be able to feed its war with war, and it will not be able to remain in a state of war for a long time.

Although the land of the United States of America is blessed with unique resources and abundant resources, after all, it is too far away from the Soviet Union, and there are too many people on that land, even if the United States mainland is forcibly annexed, it will not be able to digest it in the future, let alone control it. So it's better to stop in moderation and accept it when you see it

According to Molotov's idea, after winning the world war, the Soviet Union only needs to take back Alaska, which the Tsarist Russian government sold to the United States at a cheap price (saying that it was sold for 7.2 million US dollars, in fact, it was already given away in vain, because during the Civil War, Russia sent a fleet to the United States to help quell the rebellion, and the military expenditure was 7.2 million, and it was never reimbursed afterwards...... However, the Tsarist government was not stupid and generous enough to give away the land for nothing, because after the disastrous defeat in the Crimean War, Russia's national strength declined, its finances collapsed, its internal instability was quite hostile and isolated, and the overall situation was even worse than during the Russo-Japanese War. And then cutting off a large piece of *** from western Canada is to seize the entire west coast of Canada, so that the new territory of the Soviet Union in North America has an ice-free port (Vancouver) to maintain traffic, and it is about the same.

In addition, the Hawaiian Islands, a transportation hub located in the middle of the North Pacific Ocean, should be allowed to establish an independent state or be assigned to "Red Japan," but the remaining 48 states in the United States headquarters should not continue to be involved and divided, lest they eat too much in one go and spoil their stomachs......

However, although there is no need to continue to cede the land of the 48 states in the core headquarters of the United States, in addition to this pitiful "goodwill", there are other large indemnities, garrison supervision, the establishment of concessions, the surrender of weapons and warships, and the disbandment of the federal army and the National Guard...... and other extremely harsh punishment clauses, but even one cannot be missing. In the past few months, Molotov has already referred to the German clauses in the "Treaty of Versailles" that ended World War I, and tailored a set of "ten socialist tortures" for the post-war United States, which can definitely squeeze the last drop of oil out of these arrogant Yankees, and by the way, the United States will become highly crippled from society to economy, unable to take care of itself, and do not want to relieve its anger for decades.

Therefore, in Molotov's view, as long as the United States accepts the above-mentioned "goodwill", obediently surrenders unconditionally, disarms militarily, and then launches a large number of war criminals to be put on the gallows to show the world (otherwise the Soviet Union, which has already released too many cruel words, will not be able to treat it internally and diplomatically), then it is possible to promise to preserve the territorial integrity of the United States itself, and even promise not to carry out socialist transformation to the United States...... It's not that it's non-negotiable.

-- If we want to continuously milk cows from the defeated United States, we can't feed the cows themselves.

Of course, today's United States is still very "arrogant", and despite having suffered so many nuclear bombs, it is still unwilling to surrender unconditionally. However, Molotov is confident that as long as a certain level of military pressure is maintained, and the internal rebellion of the American ruling class is appropriate, the country will be seen to surrender to its knees in a very short time - anyway, the situation is now very clear, the United States is doomed to ruin, and there is no potential foreign aid to be found, except for aliens who do not know where they are. As long as there is a way to live, even if it is a way of extreme humiliation and suffering, even if it is a way to live that may not be able to be passed, the US ruling class, which has fallen into a desperate situation, will cling to it like a life-saving straw.

There are warriors in this world who would rather die than give in, but there are very few politicians and capitalists who would rather die than give in, and if there is, then it means that they are not qualified.

At the same time, however, the current master of the Kremlin, the iron father of the peoples of the USSR, the liberator of Constantinople, the great liberator of the entire European continent, the supreme teacher of the proletariat of the whole world, the orthodox heir of contemporary Marxist-Leninist thought, the culmination of the glorious glory of the Red Communists, Joseph. Comrade Stalin, although he agreed with part of the views of the People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov, that the Soviet Union should not take advantage of the victory to expand its territory excessively, should not ignore the barriers of natural geographical conditions and the difficulty of national integration, and wanted to seek the states and counties of the United States itself, so as not to cause indigestion.

However, General Secretary Stalin had his own set of ideas on how to deal with the post-war United States...... What he wants is not an America that pays tribute every year, but still has strength, holds a grudge, and thinks of revenge at any time, but an America that has been completely destroyed and only historical records remain!

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“…… I insist that the United States of America must be completely destroyed and become a relic of history, just like the ancient Roman Empire once was......"

Sitting behind the desk opposite Commissioner Molotov, General Secretary Stalin took his beloved pipe in his mouth, slowly puffed out the smoke ring, and handed down the final verdict of death to the United States of America in a cold tone comparable to a cold snap: "...... the Treaty of Versailles brought only twenty years of armistice to Europe, and made Germany once again the source of a world war, and France even paid the price of its destruction. Therefore, we must not repeat the mistake of the Entente at the Paris Peace Conference, and let go of the poisonous snake that might bite us in the future for the sake of temporary interests - in fact, the French did not seem to receive much reparations from Germany in the end after the First World War, and most of them were repaid, right? ”

“…… Even if the price of doing so is that we, as the victors of the war, have nothing to gain? Molotov boldly asked, "...... Judging from the current situation, if we want to gain a steady stream of benefits from the United States in the future, and at the same time try to suppress the position of the United States, the best and most troublesome way is not to turn the United States into a socialist country like us, but to continue to retain the backward system of the United States. In the future, it will be a special kind of pariah, so that Americans will be despised everywhere on the earth where the red flag will be planted in the future, and they will not be able to get the sympathy of public opinion, and finally slowly prompt American civilians to stand up and overthrow the old system.

If, on the contrary, we insist on the socialist transformation of the whole of America in the midst of this war, then on the one hand, we will provoke a desperate resistance from the American ruling class, which will rather watch us destroy everything with nuclear bombs than give in - they can also pack up their property and flee to South Africa for refuge; On the other hand, this kind of one-step brutal approach will not be sincerely supported and actively cooperated by the people at the bottom of the United States -- after all, the scale of the nuclear bomb's killing is too terrifying, and the hatred it brings is really difficult to dissolve...... All in all, the cost of this approach is too great to outweigh the costs......"

“…… However, I originally intended for the American ruling class to abandon itself in despair and cooperate with us to destroy everything in the United States. In fact, I never intended to send the Red Army to the United States, where thousands of people would shed their blood and die in order to bring the American people into the socialist family.

Let me tell you the bottom line, the so-called all-round socialist transformation of the United States is, from a certain point of view, just a pretext to block the road to peace talks and make the entire socialist camp speechless. I just want to see the complete destruction of the United States of America and hear the complete requiem of capitalism...... On this point, I have communicated with other comrades and persuaded them to agree with my point of view. ”

Stalin opened his mouth and spat out a smoke ring, and said frankly, "...... Either the United States will be completely destroyed, or it will be completely dyed red, there is no third option! ”

“…… Comrade Stalin, do you still think that it is possible for the United States to become the leader of the capitalist camp again in the future and again have the strength to challenge the entire socialist camp? It's impossible! Whether it is soft power or hard power, the current United States has completely bankrupted! ”

Molotov shook his head and said, "...... Even if they retain the capitalist system in the United States, they will only survive for a while. ”

“…… I also know it's unlikely, but there is still a little bit of a mistake. If I don't make it up for a day, I won't be at ease for a day. ”

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Seeing that Stalin was so obsessed with destroying the United States, Molotov no longer persuaded him, but his face was still a little hesitant and confused.

General Secretary Stalin knew this, so he thought for a moment, and then continued to say to Molotov lightly: "...... Comrade Molotov, you should remember the time when the incredible Miss Sufi first appeared in the Kremlin and told us some terrible information. ”

“…… Yes, I remember both. People's Commissar for Foreign Affairs Molotov didn't know what to remember, and nodded with a rather complicated expression.

“…… I don't know what you guys think, but from that point on, I found myself as if I had become a drowning man trying to grasp the straw...... You know, from a rational point of view, the birth of our country is equivalent to the largest social science experiment in the history of human civilization.

In the beginning, we had reached a consensus that we were going to use a long period of peace-building to meet the material needs of the people as soon as possible, or to take a more efficient capitalist road first, to achieve the conditions of great material abundance as much as possible, and then to enter the stage of socialism. This is based on the greatest advantage of the highly centralized political system of our party and state, which can fully put an end to waste and internal friction in all kinds of disorderly and free competition.

But the problem is that the frenzied hostility from the capitalist camp of the whole world, which has forced our country to face an unprecedented threat from the very beginning, has forced us to change our original plans, and the nascent Soviets must have in the shortest possible time a heavy industry powerful enough to face the oppression of the old capitalist countries. And there is no way to make up the massive wealth accumulated by industrialization relatively easily through the exploitation of the scissors difference in the colonies like the Western countries in the colonial era, and we can only reduce the consumption of the people through the internal scissors difference, and let the country run into the era of industrialization with blood and tears. It's not that we are cold-blooded and ruthless, there really is no way, the power of the Soviets is too thin compared to our terrible enemies all over the world.

Then, the leapfrog development of the Great Depression era was not really completed, the entire Soviet state was still riddled with diseases, and we had to face the terrible threat of the Nazi fascist forces...... Thankfully, the rest of history has been dramatically altered. The sacrifices inflicted on the Soviet people by the world war are still enormous, but numerically much less than in another history. Our enemies have been weakened to a point where they can be largely ignored, and the Cold War, which has left the Soviet people exhausted and exhausted, will no longer happen, and it seems that everything is moving towards the bright side. ”

Stalin let out a long sigh: "...... But in spite of this, in the last year, I have been inexplicably having a terrible dream -- in my nightmare, the long years of peace have made our people forget the sufferings of the past, the glorious history of the past has been erased and tampered with, and the whitewashing and clamor of a handful of hypocritical literati have made the distinction between black and white, between good and evil, no longer so clear. The pervasive reactionary enemy of capitalism, though unable to defeat us on the battlefield, is capable of silently corrupting our youth with all sorts of depraved ideas, and with all sorts of evil demagoguery and hypocritical promises, the greed and ambition of the bureaucracy grow rapidly, destroying from within the great cause for which we have fought all our lives.

In the end, the red flag of the Kremlin fell, the party emblem with a sickle and hammer was smashed, and the confused people, bewildered by the rhetoric of the class enemy, incited and coerced by bureaucrats with ulterior motives, destroyed their own country with their own hands, and then there was an overwhelming ...... of evil, blood and darkness"

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In this regard, Molotov, who also knew some secrets, laughed dryly: "...... I see, you are overthinking, none of this will happen. ”

“…… Yes, all the tragedies and tragedies of the USSR in that world should not have happened again! But the nightmare was so real that I couldn't think it was just a dream...... I have been working on this nightmare for many years, and now I want it to be completely away from me - no matter how cruel the decision I make, no matter what the infamy I bear, I must personally free myself and this country, and from the cause of socialism for which we have fought all our lives! Anyway, there is no more than one of the brutal rulers of the past and present! ”

Stalin spoke so softly, but his expression was grim and solemn, "...... You can laugh at me for my lack of self-confidence and irrationality, but I just can't overcome this fear of the future in my heart, and many other comrades can't overcome this kind of demon. I don't know what kind of deadly enemy the Soviet Union and the socialist cause will encounter in the future in this world, but this does not prevent me from knocking over this enemy, which I already know and confirmed, which has the potential to completely destroy the Soviet Union and the socialist cause, to the ground with one punch, step on 10,000 feet, and crush it alive when I have the ability!

While it is nice to keep the United States behind to continue to squeeze wealth, it is nothing compared to getting rid of the lingering fear in our hearts. As a mere mortal, I personally feel that there is nothing to be ashamed of, even the proud and confident ancient Roman Republic, because of the fear of Hannibal, after the Third Punic War, still resolutely destroyed the city of Carthage, the cornucopia that could have brought Rome a steady stream of wealth, and even sprinkled salt on the ruins of Carthage (symbolizing the loss of life forever)? ”

Seeing that Comrade Stalin had clearly made up his mind, Molotov sighed, "...... Have you already decided? Not afraid that you will regret it in the future? ”

“…… Well, it's already decided! Instead of regretting it many years later because you didn't do it, it's better to do it first and regret it later! ”

Stalin pulled the pipe out of his mouth, knocked it on the ashtray a few times, and then stuffed it with new tobacco and said it in no uncertain terms.

“…… So, now that you've made that decision, may I ask you what you do next? Molotov continued to ask.

“…… Well, first of all, we need to continue to make Americans more fully aware of the value of peace, and the horrors of war! To put it simply, it is to start launching a strategic nuclear strike against the US mainland again! And the scale of nuclear explosions will increase further, and the frequency of bombing will also increase! ”

A terrifying smile appeared on Stalin's face, which could be called creepy, "...... At present, the number of atomic bombs in the Soviet nuclear arsenal has increased to 10,000, and it would be a waste if at least half of them could not be used while the world war could be used! Last year, Miss Sophie sent me a computer game called Fallout as a birthday present. This adventure game with the United States as the background map is very good, and my children and I enjoyed it, as well as the other committee members. So, I want to be able to get the American people to play with Fallout...... Of course, it's the live-action version. ”

-- Hearing this, Molotov, who had also played the "Fallout" series of games, couldn't help but reach out and wipe the cold sweat oozing from his forehead - really want to turn the United States into a wasteland of radiation in the game? This one...... I'm afraid that 10,000 atomic bombs with a single yield of less than 50,000 tons are far from enough, right?

Moreover, there should not be so many messy underground shelters in the United States at this time...... I wonder if in a few years, will Nuke Town, Deathclaw, Nuka-Cola, Mutants, Brotherhood of Steel, the Enclave, and the Republic of New California really appear in that land?

So, recalling the content of the game, People's Commissar of Foreign Affairs Molotov soon fell into some kind of wonderful reverie that ran farther and farther......

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PS: The author has some digressions about the fact that Russia had to sell or "gift" Alaska to the United States as a last resort.

Historically, some of the "stupid" moves that we now see as voluntary land ceding are actually because the information we now have is often incomplete, and there is often some element of unavoidable or exchange of interests behind those seemingly generous concessions. For example, in the "Treaty of Nebuchu", which is often criticized in modern China, why did the Qing army cede land to Russia after its victory? It was not entirely because the Kangxi Emperor was too stupid or generous enough to take the territory and give it away, but because the Kangxi Emperor hoped to be able to make a small concession in the northeast in exchange for Russia's cooperation in the northwest, and to flank or at least no longer support the Dzungar Khanate with the Qing army.

If the Qing Dynasty had failed to defeat this last nomadic empire, China's northwestern frontier would have been as far as Jiayuguan, and even Tibet might not have been able to be secured. Compared to the historical and outstanding land of the Western Regions, the small wilderness that was ceded by the Treaty of Nebuchu was nothing. (To be continued.) )