Struggle in Soviet Russia

Afterwards, Comrade Molotov expounded several other points of his, including the reason why Churchill made such a speech, there may be two intentions: first, in order to instigate the confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, so as to alleviate the The pressure on the United Kingdom, to put it bluntly, is the idea of ​​​​competing with cranes and clams for the fisherman's profit. Second, in order to test the attitude of the alliance and see what Moscow will do in the face of a possible confrontation situation. reaction.

As for the position of the United States, Comrade Molotov's idea coincides with Victor's. He also believes that behind this incident, Truman's will is likely to be hidden. This ambitious American president is likely to be the Using Churchill's words to test the mood in the United States, and then make arrangements for its next policy.

As for the specific response, Comrade Molotov's opinion is to keep the same and respond to changes. Moscow does not need to give a specific response. It only needs to follow the established strategy before. He believes that since the body is Truman, the president of the United States, already has a plan to confront the alliance, so even if the alliance makes the most prudent response, Washington will still proceed according to their established strategy.

In addition, Comrade Molotov also suggested that the alliance might be stronger than before on certain geopolitical issues, such as the Greek issue, and the Korean Peninsula issue, etc. It seems that the confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States has become inevitable. In this case, there is no need for the alliance to continue to maintain friendly relations with the Americans. Since it is destined to tear its face, the one who takes the lead will always be Take some cheap.

"Victor, what do you think?" After Comrade Molotov finished expounding his own opinion, Comrade Stalin took two puffs of his pipe and suddenly turned his eyes to Victor and asked.

"I have exactly the same views as Comrade Vyacheslav Mikhailovich on this matter," Viktor said after thinking for a while, "It's just that in terms of countermeasures, I think the league should be more proactive. , at the very least, we are going to issue a scathing note in response to Churchill's speech, declaring that this man's speech betrays his neo-fascist nature, and that, in addition, the British are trying to provoke a confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States. , and the possibility of profiting from it is also announced.”

After a pause, he continued without waiting for Comrade Stalin to speak again: "I think Churchill's speech should really have the purpose of exploring the way for President Truman. After several years of war, part of the United States has People are no longer satisfied with the isolationist policy of the past, and they are no longer satisfied with just maintaining their hegemony in the Americas. They want to take advantage of this favorable opportunity in the early post-war period to push their hegemony to the world. People with an opinion, after all, only some Americans, not all Americans, are interested in world hegemony, especially since the alliance now has its own nuclear weapons and has achieved an absolute lead in rocket technology. Therefore, in the United States In China, there must be some pessimists who are afraid of the direct confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. They have dropped two atomic bombs on the heads of the Japanese, so they are very aware of the lethal power of this weapon. I believe that in the There should be no one in the United States who hopes that a nuclear war will break out between the alliance and the alliance. Therefore, President Truman's temptation may not get an exact response, and what he can gain is definitely still a An endless quarrel."

Reaching out his hand and taking a torn pack of cigarettes from the table, Victor poured a few into his hand, and after consulting Comrade Stalin with his eyes, he distributed it to everyone present one by one, until he finally lit one for himself before continuing. Said: "According to my estimation, if the Americans want to reach a unified opinion, I am afraid it will take two or three years, and in these two or three years, we still have plenty of time to make some layouts. And , I think the tougher Moscow takes on this matter at the moment, the bigger the division of opinion in the United States will be, which is inevitable."

Americans are very afraid of death. In the face of the threat of a full-scale nuclear war, it is estimated that every decision they make will be extremely prudent. Therefore, once the attitude of the alliance becomes tough, the Americans will directly confront the alliance. On the issue, there will be more scruples.

Victor's proposal was approved by Gromyko and Litvinov. Subsequently, the remaining people expressed their views one after another. The final short-term plan was that Comrade Stalin would personally publish it the day after tomorrow. A broadcast address to all Soviet citizens, with a strong response to Churchill's speech this time.

As Comrade Stalin's current assistant, the burden of drafting this radio speech naturally fell on Viktor - in fact, the drafting of the speech for Comrade Stalin should have been handled by Comrade Poskrebyshev himself. However, since Comrade Stalin personally explained the task, how could Victor be qualified to refuse it?

Of course, Comrade Stalin's broadcast speech is just a response plan made by the alliance. In addition, the alliance will also make two direct responses to the UK: one is to publicly provide a batch of military supplies to the KKE in the near future to support its The attack on Thessaloniki, at the same time, mobilized a fleet of ships of the Black Sea Fleet, sailed out of the Dardanelles, and moved toward the Greek waters, if there was a chance, it could choose to collide with British military support ships. The other is in the southern part of Austria, provoking friction with the British escrow area.

The British are trying to pass on domestic conflicts and shift their domestic focus to the aggressive attitude of the alliance, then Moscow might as well make this aggressive attitude more in place, and see how London plans to deal with this kind of friction, if it dares to challenge If there is a conflict, then the alliance might as well be within the controllable range. Instead of having a little fight, if it chooses to forbear, then the Attlee Cabinet will have to bear the anger of its domestic people.

In fact, for today's Moscow, the British have not been taken seriously. Today's alliance is not the Tsarist Russia in the 1850s. The Tsarist Russia in those days was able to lose the Crimean War. Today's alliance If we fight the British again, it is estimated that the British Empire will be quickly defeated.

It must be admitted that the leadership of rocket technology and the mastery of nuclear weapon technology have indeed brought great confidence to the alliance. At the same time, it has also brought sufficient benefits to the diplomatic environment of the alliance. The current situation is that the Americans Xian Xian would not choose to go to war with the alliance, and the British would not choose to go to war with the alliance at all. As a result, the alliance could have more room for maneuvering in diplomacy.

When he came out of Comrade Stalin's office again, it was past noon. There was no way, Comrade Stalin didn't mean to invite everyone to have lunch. Everyone, including Victor, had to go back and eat by themselves.

In comparison, Viktor and Molotov are better. After all, they both have their own offices in the Kremlin, but Nowitzki and others don’t have such treatment. After reporting their work, they have to immediately Leave the Kremlin.

I don't know when it started, the sleet began to fall again, and the temperature seemed to drop a few degrees out of thin air. When he returned to his office, Victor actually felt that the room was somewhat gloomy.

Asking Sophia to prepare a simple lunch for himself, Victor went back to his desk and sat down, first lit a cigarette, and then leaned back on the chair, thinking about how Comrade Stalin's public speech should be laid out.

In the previous discussions, Comrade Stalin and Comrade Molotov all had a unified view on the basic content of this public speech, that is: the speech should be aimed at the British, and avoid discussing as much as possible. And the Americans, since the British tried to provoke a confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, and he watched the fire from the other side, or even profited from it, the alliance would never allow him to get what he wanted. Faced with the inflated ambitions of the Americans, the alliance should adopt the strategy of killing the chickens to show the monkeys.

A speech like this is actually better. To criticize, that is to complain, and the British, as an old colonial empire, have not too many points to complain about in their history. Enough to **** him off.

Today, the sun never sets in the empire that used to be the setting sun, and it is almost dusk, but it still refuses to accept its head and wants to rescue its hegemony. Therefore, for a period of time in the future, the alliance will be the most Jia's opponent should not be the United States, but the United Kingdom, which is in the midst of a declining river. Since the broken ship of Great Britain is slowly sinking, the Alliance might as well help him and let him sink faster.

Although Victor has not been responsible for the drafting of the speech since his rebirth, when he actually started to write, he felt that it was not too difficult. The pen started a draft, but in ten minutes, I wrote a small half page.

It wasn't until Sophia hurried into his office without knocking on the door that Victor's thoughts were suddenly interrupted.

"Just received a call from the Supreme Soviet," Sophia said eagerly, breaking in from outside the door, "Mikhail Ivanovich is in a coma."

Victor was stunned for a moment, and then realized that Sophia should be talking about Comrade Kalinin.