Chapter 172: Summary Report on the World War (II)

7. Latin America

Since the liberation from the colonial rule of the Kingdom of Spain in the last century, until the beginning of the decade of war, Mexico and all the Latin American countries south of it have played an insignificant role on the international community stage of our world. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Some of the Latin American countries that are particularly fortunate to be the furthest from the war, such as Ecuador, have not fought for more than 100 years since independence until the outbreak of World War III.

Although in the past century, there have been intermittent wars between countries in Latin America, or invasions from countries outside Latin America. For example, Mexico's war with the United States and France, Paraguay's war against Argentina, Uruguay and Brazil, Chile's saltpeter war with Peru and Bolivia, and the Chaco war between Paraguay and Bolivia. However, compared to the rivers of blood and wars in the Old Continent over the years, Latin America, where there was so little war, is enough to be called a paradise of peace and happiness.

The reasons are, firstly, the protection of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, which allows Latin American countries to stay away from the chaos of war in the Old World; Second, Latin American countries are relatively weak and have low aspirations, and they do not have the same ambition to develop overseas interests as the United States, and as long as they are not invaded from overseas, they are already satisfied, and they are not keen to take the initiative to send troops to fight overseas. Third, Latin American countries have loose political regimes and low levels of territorial development, making it difficult for them to withstand the attrition of high-intensity wars.

Although Brazil voluntarily followed the United States in declaring war on Nazi Germany and Italy during World War II, its homeland was not affected by much of the war, except for sending a small expeditionary force under American command and sending a number of naval ships to escort the Atlantic routes.

However, in the third world war that swept all mankind, the homeland of Latin American countries finally could not escape the attack of war. At the beginning of World War III, some Latin American countries followed the United States into the capitalist camp, while others chose neutrality. Subsequently, because of the continuous defeat of the US military on various overseas fronts, Latin American countries were also torn into two camps, pro-American and anti-American, and declared war on each other after taking sides.

But, in fact, in the record of the Third World War, it is difficult to say what decent military actions Latin American countries took during the war, or what large-scale battles worthy of description were launched. Because, before their armies could actually launch any meaningful military action, the lazy and unresponsive countries of Latin America had already been turned into a radioactive wasteland by the overwhelming American and Soviet atomic bombs:

During the entire period of World War III, Latin American countries endured a total of 107 American atomic bombs and 2,023 Soviet atomic bombs. With the exception of a handful of small Caribbean island nations that are not worth mentioning, no Latin American country has escaped the devastating devastation of nuclear war.

At the same time, the world's unusually low temperatures caused by the volcanic eruption in Iceland have also severely damaged agricultural production in Latin America. The brutal plundering and bloody massacres carried out by the US occupation forces against Latin American countries at the end of World War III further exacerbated the collapse of the social order in the region. Since then, the end of the world has come for the people of Latin America, and hunger, violence and death have become the main themes of Latin American society.

So far, with the exception of a few small Caribbean island states that are not worth mentioning, Latin America as a whole remains largely anarchic and chaotic. This is not to say that there is no government in Latin America, but that there are too many groups calling themselves governments there. In Bolivia, for example, after the nuclear explosion, there was a confrontation between four governments. In post-war Peru, only what is currently known was the emergence of five local governments with a certain degree of strength, namely, the Peruvian Justice League, the Peruvian Patriotic Front, the Free Federation of Peru, the Peruvian Salvation Government, and the new Inca Empire, which ruled the ancient capital of Cusco. In the desert of northern Mexico, someone called himself the Aztec Emperor, claiming to lead an army of indigenous people to reclaim the empire from the whites. In the Yucatan Peninsula in southern Mexico, a voodoo priestess proclaimed herself Mayan queen. In Brazil, there have been at least 30 "revolutionary governments", "provisional governments" and "governments of national salvation", most of which are headed by former police officers or gang bosses.

Although the post-war situation in Latin America is very dazzling, even interesting. But in reality, the vast majority of these so-called "governments" can only control a province or a city, or even only a few villages, and often do not last for a few months before collapsing for various strange reasons. Moreover, these new governments generally have a "smaller territory, bigger names".

For example, after members of the British government-in-exile entrenched in the Cayman Islands finally surrendered to the Soviet Red Army and were taken away, the democratically elected self-government of the Cayman Islands easily won the status of an independent state. But then, as if carried away by the joy of independence, the Cayman Islands authorities went so far as to change their name to the "Government of the Latin American Community" in December 1949, as if they wanted to follow the example of the Federation of South Africa to establish the "Southern African Community" and take over the colonies of the European powers in Black Africa and become the hegemon of Africa.

However, in view of the pompous nature of the Latin American residents, the exaggerated practice of the Cayman Islands authorities in hastily setting up a "Latin American Community Government" does not mean that they really have any unrealistic delusions, and most of them are just simply bragging and entertaining themselves.

Overall, after the devastating devastation of the Third World War, Latin America as a whole is expected to lose between 100 million and 120 million people, with all major cities destroyed, industry, agriculture and transportation devastated, and political chaos plunged into unprecedented chaos. But given Latin America's fragmented institutions and low level of economy, the impact of the catastrophe on South American societies may not be as severe as imagined.

8. North America

North America, north of Mexico, was one of the two core bastions of the capitalist world before the war, an important participant and dominant player in the Second and Third World Wars, and the place where the Third World War ended at the latest. Among them, Canada, as part of the British Empire, passively participated in three world wars. The United States, which was separated from Britain, took the initiative to participate in three world wars in order to compete for world hegemony, and in the final decisive battle between the two camps of socialism and capitalism, it became the last position of the die-hard capitalist forces against progress and liberation. Thus, at the end of World War III, North America, which had watched from across the coast during the first two world wars, finally suffered the most tragic nuclear attack on the entire planet -- in the last year of World War III, the Soviet Strategic Air Force dropped a total of 24,053 atomic bombs of various types on the 48 states of the United States and 1,125 atomic bombs on Canada, with a total yield of about 1 billion tons, causing devastating effects.

By the time the U.S. government surrendered unconditionally and signed an armistice on the outskirts of San Francisco, with the exception of Washington, the capital of the United States, and the Japanese-occupied port of Tacoma, Washington, all human settlements in North America north of Mexico above the county level were destroyed by atomic and conventional aerial bombs dropped by the Soviet strategic air force. The destruction and leakage of nuclear weapons industrial plants in various parts of the United States has also caused a serious problem of nuclear contamination -- unlike the short-term nuclear contamination caused by the atomic bomb explosion (although the mushroom cloud of the nuclear explosion is very terrifying, the uranium and plutonium in the atomic bomb are basically "burned out" in the explosion). Although there is still a small amount of residue left, it usually only takes a few years for the local environment to return to normal thanks to nature's self-purification), and the contamination caused by reactor and nuclear fuel leaks is long-term and there is no safe way to clean it up so far.

In addition, the frequent nuclear explosions of such intensity, as well as the heat waves caused by the nuclear explosions, have also caused widespread forest fires in the densely forested northern United States and southern Canada. Due to the collapse of the government and the fact that there was no one to put out the fires, the forest fires in some areas burned from the spring of 1949 to the late autumn, and were not basically extinguished until the first heavy snow and strong winds fell in the winter of '49.

So, in the face of such a song of ice and fire one after another, the remaining residents of the North American forest fire field had just escaped the threat of the blazing fire demon, and before they had time to secretly rejoice or thank God, they found themselves facing the cruel fate of freezing to death by the cold snap and blizzard.

In the oil-rich state of Texas in the southern United States, frequent nuclear explosions and bombings have also ignited a large number of oil wells, oil depots and refineries, triggering serious oil spills and oil fires. At present, at least 400 oil and natural gas wellheads have been ignited and set on fire, burning at least 30,000 tons of crude oil and more than 50,000 cubic meters of natural gas every day, and producing an unprecedented amount of smoke, so much so that in the aerial photographs of reconnaissance planes, half of Texas seems to be covered in gray-black smoke -- such a dense smoke that its concealment effect even exceeds that of military smoke grenades.

Because oil well fires have always been difficult to extinguish, and the anarchic United States simply does not have the ability to organize firefighting. As a result, the oil fires burning in Texas are bound to continue for a long time, and the smoke produced will keep southern Texas and the adjacent northern border of Mexico in a never-ending haze for quite some time, leaving local survivors suffering from respiratory diseases. As for how long it will take for Texas' ecology to return to an acceptable state, it seems to be unclear at this time.

Elsewhere in the United States, humanity that survived a nuclear explosion is threatened with the threat and test of starvation. Although the United States claims to be the chosen nation, it has an abundant grain production. But if you look closely, the distribution of food production in the United States is still uneven. The Great Lakes coast and the Mississippi River basin are the nation's top grain producers, while many arid and semi-arid states in the west need to import food from other agricultural states. However, with the collapse and paralysis of transportation in the United States caused by a full-scale nuclear strike, the large-scale long-distance transportation of agricultural products has become an impossible task.

In fact, before the end of World War III and the unconditional surrender of the United States, the U.S. government had lost its ability to allocate domestic resources as domestic transportation collapsed. Shortly after the war officially ended, Washington, D.C., was reduced to rubble by armed bandits. At this point, except for the port of Tacoma, Washington, which was occupied by the Japanese army, the entire territory of the United States and Canada completely fell into a state of anarchy, and the social outlook basically returned to the colonial era before the Industrial Revolution, and in many respects it was even far worse than that era.

In addition, despite the fact that the world's abnormally low temperature caused by the volcanic eruption in Iceland is now coming to an end, due to the collapse of the industrial base and the collapse of social order, the remaining farmers in the central states of the United States have fallen into a dark age with no fertilizers, no pesticides, no improved seeds, destroyed irrigation facilities, and no security guaranteed, and the avalanche of food production and the spread of famine for a long period of time are a foregone conclusion.

However, even in this desperate, dilapidated and decadent wasteland, all sorts of ambitious political and military groups have emerged, competing for power under their own banners. Among them, the Native Indians of the United States, because they were driven to the Indian reservations in the wilderness, far away from the big cities and prosperous areas, but in the carpet nuclear strike of the Soviet strategic air force, they basically preserved their strength intact.

When the war was over and the nuclear strikes ceased, some Indian chiefs led their men out of the reservation, seizing the undestroyed pastures, farms, and warehouses from the whites, and even further, trying to carve out a kingdom of their own in the turmoil of the collapse of the Union.

For example, in the remote mountainous region of the southwestern United States, the Navajo people, known for producing "wind whisperers", declared the Navajo Republic and circled the land of three states on the map in one go. In the northern part of the Great Lakes, Indians who left the reservation raised the Iroquois Union flag, attacked white refugees in small boats, and proclaimed in mimeographed leaflets and radio broadcasts that they would "take back their ancestral lands from the whites."

At the same time, after discovering that the country had fallen into a power vacuum, black Americans were not to be outdone, and established the "Mississippi Free Commune" in rural Mississippi, the Black Panther Party in Georgia, and a series of other armed groups to compete with whites for the post-war North American continent.

In order to further divide the United States and at least delay the recovery of this chosen country, according to the Kremlin's instructions, GRU agents have secretly provided these armed groups of colored people with a certain amount of ordnance, ammunition and daily necessities, and also sent military advisers to guide the operation.

On the other hand, in the face of a massive counterattack by people of color, the remnants of white Americans are also desperately resisting. In the southern states of the eastern United States, the old terrorist organization Ku Klux Klan has revived, and has reraised the Confederate flag of the Civil War, claiming to restore the Confederate States of America. In the northern states of the eastern United States, a white armed group called the Brotherhood of Steel has emerged in an attempt to establish a new regime on top of the wasteland of a nuclear explosion.

In addition, the last owner of the White House and the last acting president of the federal government, Linton. Baines. Johnson, after escaping Washington, which was burned by the mob, managed to get three merchant ships and a gunboat, and withdrew all the way out of the North American continent to the southeastern edge of the Caribbean Sea, where he was lucky not to be bombed by the American colony of Puerto Rico. Then President Johnson and his followers re-erected the flag of the United States of America here, proclaimed themselves the rightful successor of the federal government, and made a big noise on the radio demanding that the domestic forces submit to its leadership and command.

Since Puerto Rico is no longer the mainland of the United States, but has always been ruled by the U.S. government, it cannot be considered a foreign country, and considering the unpleasant name of the government-in-exile, President Johnson called himself the Enclave government, and the troops under his command were also called the Enclave.

In addition, in the area of the ruins of San Francisco, where the U.S. unconditional surrender agreement was signed, John Brown, who attended the ceremony as a representative of the U.S. Navy. Captain Kennedy, with a command of his men who had not known where to go, proclaimed himself president of the New California Republic — though it seems more appropriate to call him mayor based on aerial photographs taken by reconnaissance planes in the area.

Then, as a representative of the U.S. Air Force, George Murphy, who attended the unconditional surrender ceremony in San Francisco. Captain Bush also came to Texas and occupied a small piece of territory, proclaimed the new Republic of Texas, and also proclaimed himself president of Texas.

Although, according to the detailed information that has been obtained, both the New California Republic on the West Coast and the New Texas Republic on the East Coast are actually equivalent to a small town. However, because the leaders of these two sides, Captain Kennedy and Captain Bush, for some reason, both possessed high-power radio stations, they created a certain powerful illusion through exaggerated propaganda -- the various verbal battles between Presidents Johnson, Kennedy, and Bush on the radio became the most widely known channel for disseminating information in the United States after the war.

Overall, North America, which at its peak had a population of 150 million, will not have more than 30 million remnants of its population after the war, even according to the most optimistic estimates, less than any of the major European powers before the war. Moreover, after the loss of 120 million to 130 million people in a short period of time, the balance of power among the various ethnic groups and races in North America has been broken, the division and antagonism between different ethnic groups have been greatly intensified, the national cohesion during the period of unification has almost completely disappeared, and violence and death are about to become the main theme of the next stage in North America.

epilogue

As the longest, bloodiest and most costly global war in human history, in the two world wars that have just ended, almost all the world's population has been involved in the war, and the battlefield covers all continents inhabited by humans except Antarctica, causing the death of about one billion people and the homelessness of tens of millions of refugees. In addition, the ten-year war has also brought unprecedented subversive impact to the human civilization and society on the entire earth. Even after the end of the war, many extremely serious social and environmental crises remain in the world.

The catastrophe, destruction and transformation brought to the world by this decade of war may be barely comparable to the Mongol expedition to the west 700 years ago.

However, although the ten-year war has brought such a tragic disaster and nightmare to mankind, blood and fire are also indispensable and have to pay a necessary price in every progress and change in human society. In short, through these two earth-shaking world wars, the decaying old capitalist system has been largely buried on a global scale, and the dawn of a new era has come from the ruins of the world war.

There is reason to believe that with the joint efforts of the working people of the whole world and relying on the advantages of advanced systems, the human world will certainly be able to revive rapidly from the ruins of the post-war period, and the dictatorship of the proletariat, which has been established in most parts of the world, will also be consolidated and prosperous.

These two ensuing global wars are not only a painful lesson for all mankind, but also the only way for human society to move toward a bright future.

Note: Due to the rush of time, only half a year before the end of the war, and the fact that the survey and statistical work had just begun, it is likely that some of the figures presented in this report are inaccurate or even contain a large degree of error and omission. This is because the Commission has only received relatively accurate and reliable statistical data from the countries of the European continent. The data provided by East Asian countries are relatively unreliable and even contradictory. Data in anarchic regions such as the Americas and South Asia can only rely on estimates and speculations to a large extent, and the accuracy cannot be overestimated.

Moreover, during these two protracted world wars, there were many large-scale movements of more than one million people around the world, which further increased the difficulty of statistics. For example, around World War II, more than four million Europeans went into exile in the United States. By the time of World War III, two million to three million Italians, French, and Spaniards, following the fleeing American and British allies, fled from their European homelands to North Africa, from North Africa to West Asia, then from West Asia to Black Africa, then from Black Africa to the United States, and finally from the United States to South Africa. With each escape, there will be a major attrition of the refugees, but more people will join the fleeing group along the way, making it difficult to keep accurate statistics after the fact.

A similar phenomenon was observed in East Asia, such as the Chinese bourgeois reactionary government leader, Chairman Chiang and his followers, who fled from China to the United States with about 500,000 to 1 million people on the eve and at the beginning of World War III, and then from the United States to Africa at the end of World War III.

After the end of the war, Chairman Chiang himself hung up the sign of the Chinese Nationalist Government in exile on the ranch on the edge of the Namibian desert, and led his family to herd cattle for a living, while many of his followers died in the process of fleeing thousands of miles, and the Chinese exiles who are still alive are scattered all over the world. The question of which region these transcontinental migrants should be classified for statistics is a real headache.

There is also the head of the Japanese puppet government supported by the invading US forces, former Japanese army general Mutaguchi Ryoya, who also led many Japanese pro-US elements to flee all the way from Japan to the United States with the retreating US troops. Subsequently, some of the Japanese exiles fled from the United States to South Africa.

(At present, Mutaguchi is on the streets of Johannesburg, making a living by shining shoes, but he still wears a large medal on his chest, claiming to be the prime minister of Japan, and also hangs a sign on his shoeshine stall that reads "Japanese government-in-exile", which seems to have a talent for comedy artists.) ）

Due to the existence and frequency of these large-scale intercontinental population movements, there is bound to be a large number of duplicate statistics and statistical omissions in the various population data cited in this report, and it seems that this issue cannot be resolved for the time being until further accurate surveys are conducted. (To be continued.) )