Chapter 28: The Lively and Noisy Red Camp

Late December 1945, USSR, Moscow, Kremlin

Moscow in December was already a land of ice and snow. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info but in every room of the Kremlin, it is still warm as spring.

Still, no matter how much the Kremlin's heating is turned on, everyone who visits here is still tempted to shudder and shudder.

After all, the "Great Purge", known as a Soviet miracle, had only passed for a few years. And the Iron Uncle, who sent hundreds of thousands of people to the execution ground in one fell swoop, and threw millions of people into Siberia, is still watching every Soviet citizen in this palace!

At this moment, Uncle Joseph, who has made millions of people hate and fear even more, is in his office, looking at the map of Europe on the wall with his arms crossed, watching the thick red arrows rampant on the map, gradually dyeing the vast land red......

-- These are the great Red Army that adores him! Belong to a red empire created by his own hands!

This unprecedentedly huge empire, completely penetrated by his personal will, and the entire state apparatus is his armor and sword!

Now, this force with a sickle, hammer and red flag is sweeping the world like a tide, ready to create a ****** in human history!

Twenty-eight years ago, on November 7, 1917 (October 25 in the Russian calendar), under the outstanding leadership of Comrade Lenin, the great Russian working class won the great victory of the October Revolution and established the world's first socialist state power, the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, putting an end to the strange situation of one country and two governments in the Russian Provisional Government and the Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies. However, the Soviet government was greeted not by the joy of the success of the revolution, but by an overwhelming rebellion, a variety of foreign intervention armies, and a nationwide civil war. Even if the Soviets won the battle for statehood with difficulty, they would have to face the hostility and blockade of the entire capitalist world.

-- The reactionary elements at home and abroad have never ceased to attempt to overthrow the socialist regime, and this has always been the case. On the other hand, the Bolsheviks in the Soviet Union never stopped exporting the idea of revolution and liberating all mankind, and it was steadily being implemented.

Now, the power of the socialist camp in Europe has expanded to an unprecedented extent: from the fjords of Norway to the beaches of the Aegean Sea, from the flower capital of Paris to the ancient capital of Rome, everywhere is covered with bright red flags. But the gloom of the crisis also emerged at the same time - all the military experts were constantly warning him that the great Red Army had gone far beyond the limits of its attack and was about to be crushed by accumulated exhaustion and long supply lines!

At the same time, the struggling capitalist camp in Europe continues to struggle and resist: Britain's belligerent fat man Winston Churchill briefly stepped down in October. However, peace talks between the newly inaugurated Attlee Labour Cabinet and the Soviet Union eventually broke down – and despite having been hit by two nuclear bombs, the arrogant John Bull refused to completely abandon their sphere of influence on the continent, leading to the collapse of the British Labour Cabinet. Churchill's pro-war cabinet made a comeback this month, continuing its fierce game with the red camp and receiving more aid from his American cousin.

Although the remnants of the British Expeditionary Force had completely withdrawn from France's Atlantic coast, the situation was reversed on France's Mediterranean coast as more than 200,000 Spanish troops moved north to fight: these Spanish intervention forces joined forces with the remnants of the Vichy French government to successfully hold back the exhausted Soviet Red Army at the northern foot of the Pyrenees.

Then, relying on the fire cover of the British Mediterranean Fleet and the U.S. Air Force strategic bombers, Charles de Gaulle had just this week led a predominantly black French Foreign Legion unit to successfully land in Marseille from North Africa again, and to carry out a massacre of the French workers' Red Guards in Marseille. Although this practice aroused great anger among the French people, in today's France, the class contradictions have already erupted, and this is not bad.

On the other hand, within a radius of thousands of kilometers behind this line of fire, counter-revolutionary rebellions of all kinds were also endless, and the numerous disputes between the new regimes in various socialist countries simply overwhelmed the Kremlin and greatly slowed down the pace of the Red Army.

What especially stunned Stalin was that in western Ukraine, which is now the core hinterland of the Soviet Union, there is still a fascist gang that has not been exterminated! And to be able to break through the local county government! The cadres in that place really should go to the labor camp to study!

Hey, there are troubles and loopholes everywhere, and the battle line seems to be dragging on too long! As a result, the Red Army could not concentrate its forces......

Stalin sighed like this, feeling that he was very irritable and had a terrible headache, and sometimes he really had the urge to "level the world with nuclear weapons" -- there are still more than 200 atomic bombs of various types, ranging from 100,000 tons to one million tons, and instead of letting those cowardly and mediocre juniors guard the world's largest nuclear arsenal and be "peacefully evolved" by the enemy in a mess, it is better to throw away all the atomic bombs at hand in one go before he dies of old age!

Of course, Stalin was well aware that such a thing could only be thought of wildly. As long as the Soviet Union does not have the ability to drop atomic bombs on New York and Washington, then the so-called "nuclear leveling of the world" can only be a simple utopian dream: even if it succeeds in flattening London, there will still be the big tiger of the United States to fight behind it.

So, after rubbing his forehead, he turned his gaze to the map of East Asia on the wall on the other side: If the current situation in the European battlefield is the indigestion of the socialist camp after the rapid expansion, then the situation in the East Asian battlefield is a chaos under surprise.

-- Until the moment before the sudden collapse of the Japanese Empire, the attention of the Soviet Red Army was always on the Western Front. In the case of the war in East Asia, apart from large-scale trade with the Japanese Empire, only a minimum number of alert troops were maintained.

As a result, when the entire war machine of the Japanese Empire collapsed, Stalin discovered that the forces of the Soviet Red Army in the Far East were so weak that the total number of mobile forces that could be mobilized was less than 100,000. Even with the cooperation of the Japanese Communist Party and the Chinese Red Army, it was very difficult to compete with the Yankees for the legacy of the Japanese Empire. Even Manchuria and North Korea, which were originally thought to be stable, will have twists and turns.

“…… Incheon landing...... Interim Government of the Republic of Korea...... Halsey's bull really made a good move! ”

He squinted at the blue arrow on the map that truncated the Korean Peninsula horizontally, and couldn't help but snort in frustration.

-- On Christmas Day, the main force of the U.S. Pacific Fleet led by Admiral Halsey suddenly appeared on the west coast of the Korean Peninsula, dispatched marines to land and take control of the port of Incheon, which had long been abandoned by the Japanese army, and sent a large amount of ordnance and supplies to the Korean counter-revolutionary group entrenched in Seoul, and caused the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea, which had been in exile for many years, to hang up a sign in Seoul, the old capital of the Korean Kingdom, which was of great political significance.

Obviously, this was a serious blow to the process of the socialist revolution in Korea and a great encouragement to the backward feudal forces in Korea.

Unfortunately, the Soviet Red Army in the Far East was incapable of preventing this from happening.

The Soviet Red Army, which is currently entering Korea, has only one brigade in the port of Wonsan and a reinforced regiment in the Cheongjin area. And the planned leader of the Korean Soviet power, Comrade Kim ♂ Il Sung, actually had only two divisions that were seriously lacking. With the support of the Soviet Union and the cooperation of the Japanese troops stationed in Korea, Comrade Kim was able to peacefully take over Pyongyang, a large city in the north. As for the further march south to Seoul and the destruction of this nest of counter-revolutionary forces in Korea, he can only wait until he has established a relatively stable ruling order in Pyongyang and recruited more troops.

In the same way, the Soviet Red Banner Pacific Fleet, based in Vladivostok, is currently unable to sail out of the Tsushima Strait and confront the US Pacific Fleet outside the big pond in the Sea of Japan -- because of long-term neglect, the size of the Soviet Pacific Fleet has always been pitiful, and the flagship with the largest tonnage is only a heavy cruiser.

In fact, Vladivostok has entered a period of freezing, except for a small number of destroyers, submarines, speedboats, and light cruisers that had left the port of Wonsan in advance, most of the ships of the Soviet Pacific Fleet are currently firmly frozen in the harbor and cannot leave the port at all.

Even in Manchuria, north of North Korea, the current situation is chaotic, and it may take a long time to calm down.

-- Although General Umezu Mijiro, commander of the Japanese Kwantung Army, surrendered the last Chinese emperor Pu Yi to the Soviet Union as promised before leading the Kwantung Army to retreat back to China to resist the US forces, and disarmed most of the native troops of Manchukuo, some of the native troops of Manchukuo still refused to surrender and became bandits or petty warlords. At the same time, the entire Manchukuo fell into anarchy in an instant, and then there was a complete collapse of social order.

The Soviet paratroopers who had taken over power in an emergency were only able to take control of a few large cities such as Harbin and Changchun, and then barely ensured the smooth flow of several major railway lines. As for the troops and political workers of the Chinese Red Army, the takeover of Beiping in the south alone was already enough tossed and turned, and the vanguard troops heading north to the customs had just arrived in Shenyang. Most of the remote counties in Manchuria are now in a chaotic situation where mobs are rampant.

Of course, all these difficulties were temporary, and Stalin never thought that those Chinese comrades, who had been tested for a long time, would not be able to rectify even some criminal thugs who robbed homes and houses, and now the fundamental obstacle and the greatest enemy of the socialist cause in the East are still the Yankees who straddle the two oceans......

Just as Stalin was contemplating the map with his pipe in his mouth, a human figure suddenly condensed in the void beside him.

-- Brilliant long blond hair, delicate boat-shaped hats adorned with ornamentation, brightly colored plaid skirts, and slender jade legs wrapped in fluffy socks.

Although it looks like a high-grade hairy girl with a high appearance, the way it appears obviously does not belong to the category of mortals.

However, Comrade Stalin turned a blind eye to this, as if he had long become accustomed to it.

“…… Comrade Sophie, is there any more information on the East? He puffed out a smoke ring and asked casually without looking back, "...... What about the situation in Japan? Are the comrades of the Japanese Communist Party capable of seizing national power in a short period of time? ”

“…… I'm afraid there is no room for optimism, Comrade Stalin. Although a series of local Soviet regimes had been established in the Japanese archipelago, this also stimulated the Japanese Empire's chaebols, landlords, aristocrats, and other class enemies, prompting them to join the banner of US imperialism more quickly. ”

Ship Lady Sophie. Comrade Aurora replied, "...... When the Soviet power in Japan was established one after another, the power of the provisional government of Japan was also rapidly increasing, and the chaebols, capitalists, and landlords of the old Japanese empire all tried to suppress the workers' and peasants' movement and restore the old order with the help of the guns of the American army. ”

“…… In other words, like Russia after the October Revolution, Japan is rapidly dividing into two camps, red and white, right? ”

Stalin muttered in a low voice, "...... And what about the more southern theaters of Australia and the Pacific? Is there also an internal division of the Japanese army there? ”

“…… Yes, in the southern theater, only the Japanese navy was basically under our control, and the Imperial Japanese Army there, after passing the initial wait-and-see stage, a considerable part of it defected to the enemy. This led to chaos, collapse and disintegration of the entire front. ”

Sophie replied, stretching out her hand to unfold a map of the theater of Southeast Asia and Oceania, which showed the Japanese sphere of influence—just before the bombing of Tokyo, the wartime base camp of the Japanese Empire had just voluntarily abandoned the island of Ceylon and abolished the establishment of the Indian army. Therefore, the Japanese-occupied areas south of China are roughly west to Burma, east to the islands of Micronesia, southeast to Fiji, and southwest to Australia...... After deducting the control area of the Japanese Navy, the Japanese Army deployed in this area can be roughly divided into two systems: the Nanyang Army and the Australian Army. Now, with the division and collapse of the Japanese Empire itself, this vast southern occupation zone of tens of millions of square kilometers has also been fragmented due to the divergence of the positions of the various Japanese forces.

“…… First of all, more than a month after the Tokyo nuclear bombing, General Terauchi Shouichi, commander-in-chief of the Nanyang Army, who was born as a Japanese nobleman, finally issued a public telegram at the headquarters in Singapore, ordering the entire Nanyang Army to obey the provisional government of Japan and surrender to the United States and British allies. At the same time, the Thai government also announced that it would withdraw from the war and negotiate peace with the US military. In New Guinea, Lieutenant General Anda 23, who was also from a noble family, was unwilling to surrender to the US army or join the red camp, and finally chose to commit suicide by seppuku.

On the other hand, the commander of the Australian Army stationed in Sydney, General Yamashita Fumi, and the entire 20 divisions of the Japanese and Australian Army agreed to join the Soviet camp. In addition, part of the Nanyang Army stationed in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Indochina strongly resisted Terauchi's surrender order and appealed to the Combined Fleet for help. The Combined Fleet Command has been busy sending ships to pick them up and temporarily relocate them in New Guinea and other places......"

Pointing to the various colored markings on the map, Sophie spoke eloquently -- in general, at present, part of the Japanese army in the Nanyang Theater is waiting to surrender, and some of the troops that have not yet lost their fighting spirit are shrinking in great strides to the east and south, quickly abandoning Southeast Asian regions such as the Philippines and Indonesia, which are densely populated by indigenous people and have fierce resistance movements, and moving to Oceania, where troops and immigrants are more concentrated, and continuing to persist in fighting the American army.

This approach was obviously more in line with the actual situation and in the long-term interests of the Soviet Union and the Comintern movement. However, in view of the arrogance of the Americans in East Asia today, Stalin hoped that the combined fleet, which had been completely red ♂, would go north as soon as possible to deal a blow to the arrogance of the Halsey fleet.

To this, Comrade Sophie replied: "...... The new commander of the Combined Fleet, Inoue Narumi, has already led the lead fleet back to the mainland to take charge of the overall situation. The main force of the Combined Fleet, which includes four Yamato-class battleships, is handling the withdrawal of troops from Hainan Island under the command of Chief of Staff Shenzhongde......"