Struggle in Soviet Russia

Of course, in addition to the ships covered in this document, Japan, as a fascist country, will also pay nearly 2.2 billion US dollars to many allies. In addition, there are some equipment and the like, but in general In other words, what the alliance can really get from the Japanese is really not much, and it is hard to say whether it will actually be able to get it in the end.

Victor doesn't care about the issue of compensation. What he really cares about is whether the alliance and the Americans have reached an agreement. If an agreement is reached, what is the outcome of the agreement.

"Not so optimistic," Comrade Malenkov shook his head and said, "The issue of the division of these ships was finally made at the insistence of the Chinese. As for the formation of the Far East Committee, we have not yet come up with a decision. final conclusion."

Having said that, he stopped and took a breath before continuing: "The problem now is that the situation in North Korea is not stable either."

"It's still Cao Wanzhi's problem?" Seeing that he stopped talking, Victor couldn't help but ask, "Isn't his problem solved?"

Cao Wanzhi is a standard Korean nationalist, very popular in North Korea, and after the Red Army captured northern North Korea, he was also included in the system of the interim government. But this person is not only opposed to the alliance's trusteeship of the northern region of North Korea, but is also extremely anti-communist. In the past few months, his initial resistance to the alliance's trusteeship, to his later public opposition, has almost reached the point where he can't be with the alliance. coexisting location.

For this reason, just a few days ago, the interim government in northern North Korea launched an impeachment and blasted this person from the position of the head of the interim government. Subsequently, the intelligence personnel of the People's Commissariat of National Security brought him under control. Now, In Pyongyang's provisional government, the person who holds the sole power is Comrade Kim Il Sung.

"Now it's not just a matter of Cao Wanzhi, but also the antitrust movement in Pyeongbuk, Sinuiju and other places. Recently, the riots have been getting bigger and bigger, and there has even been armed resistance," said Comrade Malenkov. " In addition, according to the reports of the comrades in Pyongyang, the sectarian problem in their party is very serious, and the Kansai faction, the Guanbei faction, the domestic faction, etc., are in a mess."

Victor nodded. He was still more concerned about North Korea's problems. Naturally, he knew that North Korea's intra-party sectarian problems were very serious. Xue is the main one. Among them, the problem of the Kansai faction is the most serious. Their problem is not sectarianism within the party, but a problem with the line. Fortunately, Hyun Junhyuk has been dealt with, so , the threat of this faction has also been eliminated.

"My view is that there is only one fundamental reason for many problems in North Korea, and that is the existence of the Thirty-Eighth Line," Victor said after thinking for a while, "If the southern part of the peninsula is not controlled by the Americans, Then these problems may not exist anymore.”

Victor can't say that it is wrong. As far as the current reality is concerned, the antitrust movement in the Northern Dynasty has the support of Americans, and the antitrust movement in the Southern Dynasty has the shadow of the alliance behind it. It is also under the control of the alliance, so maybe not so many people will jump out and make trouble.

But after saying this, Victor regretted it again, because the historical facts of his previous life told him that a unified North Korea may not be easy to control, at least, it is not as easy to control as a North Korea and a South Korea.

Comrade Malenkov didn't think too much about it. He generally agreed with Victor's opinion. Therefore, after listening to Victor's words, he nodded thoughtfully and said, "I also agree... "

He just said this, the warning light set above the floor-to-ceiling windows in front of the rostrum suddenly rang, the red light that had been on before went out, and the green light turned on, at the same time, a young man said in a voice: " The launch preparations are ready, please evacuate the staff of the launch site quickly..."

As this voice sounded, Comrade Beria also walked towards the rostrum.

"How is it?" Comrade Malenkov asked impatiently when he approached, "What went wrong before?"

"There are some glitches," Comrade Beria sat down in his seat, first stretched out his hand to take off his glasses, and placed them on the table in front of him, then said while rubbing the corners of his eyes with his fingers, "it is said that there are A section of the line was bitten by a mouse."

Speaking of which, he shrugged helplessly and added: "It seems that Comrade Sergei Pavlovich was right in what he said before, and some effective rodent control measures are indeed needed here."

Previously, Victor also heard from Comrade Mishin that in the process of rocket research and development at the launch site, in addition to human factors and technical problems, the other most troublesome problem is the existence of mice. These slap-sized little creatures don't know what's going on. They seem to have a soft spot for all kinds of enameled wires and pipelines. Whenever there is a chance, they will find a line to chew on.

The lines in the rocket body are complicated. No matter where the mouse bites, it takes a lot of work for technicians to find the damaged part. Similar things have happened more than once in previous launch tests.

"That's right," Comrade Beria didn't know what to think when he heard the countdown sound in the command center. He leaned closer to Comrade Malenkov and whispered, "I just received news from Moscow, about Persia. "

Having said this, he stopped, took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, and fiddled with it on the table, while saying: "Those guys on Jamshid Throne Street have been in close contact with Saadabad Palace recently, I am Worrying about Vyacheslav should be necessary."

What Comrade Beria said about Persia naturally meant Iran, and his subsequent remarks were thoughtless. If Victor didn't have enough understanding of the situation in Iran, he probably wouldn't know what he said. what is.

The so-called "Jamshid Throne Street" is a street in Tehran. Since the Tehran Conference, Americans may have realized that their embassy in Tehran is not safe enough, so they moved to Jamshid Throne Street, In the past two years, they have built an embassy complex on this street, which is much more secure than the embassies of the past.

As for the Saadabad Palace, it is the residence of Shah Pahlavi of Iran. The king, who lived his life so well, usually lived in this palace and seldom went out.

During the Great Patriotic War, because Iran and the Germans flirted with each other and their attitudes were ambiguous, in 1941, the British and Soviet Union jointly dispatched troops to divide the north and the south into two parts and occupied Iran. At that time, the British and Soviet Union An agreement was signed with Tehran, promising that after the end of the war, Britain and the Soviet Union would withdraw their troops from Iran, thus guaranteeing Iran's independence.

Now that the war is over, the British ostensibly complied with the agreement and withdrew from Iran, but they still firmly control Iran’s economic lifeline, especially Iran’s customs. It can be said that what Iran imports It is up to the British to decide how much tariff to charge. The most important point is that the major oil fields in Iran are basically controlled by the British.

Also in the past few years, the alliance has been continuously increasing the number of troops stationed in Iran. After all, from a geopolitical point of view, Iran is too critical to the alliance's "going south policy". So far, the alliance has been stationed in Iran. The size of the army has exceeded 200,000. In addition, it also indirectly controls the two ethnic minority regions of the Republic of Kurdistan and the Republic of Azerbaijan. In such a situation, the alliance is of course not willing to comply with the pre-war resolution and honestly withdraw its troops from Iran.

Just for this, King Pahlavi has submitted three notes to Moscow in the past few months, demanding that the alliance abide by the agreement and withdraw its troops from Iran.

Of course, Tehran's attitude has no influence on Moscow, and it is impossible for Comrade Stalin to take Pahlavi's notes to heart, but the real problem is that the British always regard Iran as their sphere of influence. When the alliance made it clear that it was not ready to withdraw its troops from Iran, the British also jumped out and denounced the alliance as treachery in the newly established United Nations.

If the British stand upright themselves, and accuse the Alliance in such a righteous manner, it is still in the past. The key is that its own roots and feet are not upright. How could the Alliance allow it to point its nose and swear at itself? So, just a week ago at the UN General Assembly, the alliance broke out an agreement signed with the Iranian government in 1921, and at the same time, there were several letters between Reza Khan and Comrade Litvinov. letter.

In the agreement signed by the alliance and Iran in 1921, it was clearly stipulated that once Iran was invaded by other countries and threatened the security of the alliance, the alliance could send troops to Iran.

In the correspondence between Reza Khan and Comrade Litvinov, as the former king of Iran, Reza Khan asked the alliance for help in early 1941. At that time, he believed that his own Personal safety has been threatened, and the British are plotting an assassination attempt against him in retaliation for his changes in the allocation of oil revenues.

At the time, Reza Khan had just taken coercive measures to increase Iran's share of oil proceeds with Britain. Before that, the British controlled Iran's oil trade. They took oil from Iran's oil fields, sold it and then split it with Iran. The British took 84% of the proceeds, and the Iranians only got 100%. The sixteenth, and Reza Khan increased the proportion of Iran's acquisition from 16% to 20%, so the British could not tolerate him.