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Chapter 650: World of Conflict: Red Dawn

Chapter 10. Worlds in Conflict: Red Dawn

September 29, [-], Belgrade, Yugoslavia

Flying over the city of Belgrade from the air, the ancient city along the Danube exudes the vicissitudes of history.From the Celts to the Romans, to the Slavs, Huns, Goths, Turks and Serbs, this ancient city has frequently changed its rulers over the years.The flames of war were never really extinguished.In the last half century, it has become the powder keg of the Balkans—the fuse of the last world war was ignited here.And in this world war, this land is also bloody.

Fortunately, the recent turmoil is finally over now: after four years of anti-fascist wars and the melee of various ethnic groups in the country, the ancient city of Belgrade and Yugoslavia finally ushered in a new master: the General Secretary of the Yugoslav Communist Party, Croatian Josep Broz Tito.

At this time, Tito, who had just attended the summit meeting of the Communist International in Moscow, was walking out of the capital airport with a tired face, and got into his special car.

For Tito, the latest summit meeting of the Communist International, which just ended yesterday, was really not a pleasant experience. The rough style of the Soviet patriarchs is really a bit uncomfortable.However, there are still hundreds of thousands of Red Army stranded on the land of Yugoslavia right now, and many things can only be endured for the time being... After the preliminary agreement that "all socialist countries should assist each other in post-war reconstruction, strengthen economic cooperation, and closely unite , in order to cope with the general policy of Western capitalist forces' counterattack", and after obtaining a sum of aid, Tito left his foreign minister to Leningrad to participate in the follow-up economic and financial cooperation meeting of various countries, and hurried back to Belgrade to deal with Yugoslavia A mountain of mess in the country.

As a geographical term, the history of "Yugoslavia" is actually very short. It is a country that was forcibly kneaded after the First World War. It has neither enough cultural traditions nor a strong sense of internal identity.It is hardly a national concept, it is hardly a geographical concept, and it does not even have the dynastic tradition of the Austro-Hungarian Empire of the Habsburg family.In this pinched country, the Serbs, the largest ethnic group who consider themselves the supreme rulers, the Croats who were dragged out of the Austro-Hungarian Empire system as trophies, as well as the Bosnians, Macedonians, Slovenians, Albanians, all dislike each other.Moreover, almost every nation has its own fascist extremist organization. Before the war, they had already started to fight and kill each other. After the German army invaded and the country collapsed, they killed all the dead bodies and blood flowed into rivers.

As a Croatian, Tito's status in Yugoslavia is actually very embarrassing.Because the main ethnic group in this country is the Serbs, and when Tito was young, the Croats were loyal subjects of the Austro-Hungarian Empire and enemies of the Serbs.During the last world war, the Croats also fought bloody battles with the Serbs for several years.Now it is necessary to accept such a "foreigner" riding on the head and let a Croat become the supreme ruler of his country, which really makes many Serbian nationalists deeply dissatisfied.

--how to say?It's probably the same as letting a Pole become the general secretary of the Soviet Union!

Fortunately, now that the war is over, people’s minds are at peace, and a thousand wastes are waiting to be built. Most of the land in Yugoslavia is full of ruins and starvation. The people are dying from the cruel war. The "Great Serbists" cannot incite the people to rise up in rebellion needlessly.Coupled with the fact that there are still hundreds of thousands of Soviet Red Army stationed in various parts of Southeast Europe, there should be no troubles in a short time.

However, the troubles brought by the Soviet Red Army were as much as the benefits they brought: the smoke of the collapse of Nazi Germany has not yet cleared. In order to keep the red regime in France, the Soviet Red Army has already fought with the British.In order to demonstrate the unity of the socialist countries, Yugoslavia also had to send an international column to France to help destroy the French White Army... This is still a small matter, the real trouble is that the US and Soviet armies are not far away. The confrontation between Rome, the British Mediterranean Fleet and the American Atlantic Fleet are already cruising in the Adriatic Sea, and Greece in the south has become another battlefield for the confrontation between the Eastern and Western camps within the Allied Powers. Fall into the flames of war again!

Thinking of this, Tito couldn't help sighing, took out a few newspapers from his briefcase that he didn't have time to read on the plane, and read them carefully.

In the international news section of the newspaper, the headline was the fall of the port of Mumbai, India, and the British seemed to be wailing about it: With the last outlet to the sea blocked by Indian insurgents, Governor Wavell, who was trapped in Delhi, was completely helpless .And the British Royal Navy, which has just suffered two Soviet atomic bombs in the Netherlands, obviously cannot have the power to launch an Indian Ocean expedition... The loss of the British Indian colony seems to be a foregone conclusion.

However, things in such a distant place are meaningless to the Yugoslavs who have no overseas colonial tradition. Tito glanced at it and passed it.

Then, there is the latest development of the Soviet Red Army in France: after the liberation of Paris, workers and peasants from all over France rose up to respond to the revolution, and the Vichy French regime of Marshal Pétain collapsed.Lyon, Marseille, Toulon and other major cities in the south successively launched uprisings and established a Soviet revolutionary regime. It seemed that the liberation of the whole country was just around the corner.Charles de Gaulle's Free France movement had also failed. He himself was once again forced into exile in England. He had just delivered a tearful speech in the House of Commons in London, begging for more aid, but it was met with boos and boos.

Next came the news from Spain. To Tito's surprise, under the strong pressure from the United States and Britain, General Franco actually sent troops to interfere in the French Revolution!Fifty thousand Spanish intervention troops and a few thousand Portuguese crossed the Pyrenees the day before yesterday, and assisted Marshal Pétain in suppressing the civil uprising in Toulouse... But considering that the torrent of steel from the Soviet Red Army is close at hand, these Spanish troops His fate is estimated to be very worrying.

In fact, even the remnants of Vichy France's top management think that Toulouse is not safe enough, and they are ready to go to Corsica to establish a government-in-exile.

However, on the other hand, even if Franco does not move, the socialist camp may not spare him after liberating France.Many politicians in exile in the Spanish Republic are now active in Paris and Moscow... Tito met several of them when he was in Moscow.

Everyone knows that Comrade Stalin wants to obtain a complete red Europe, and the Iberian Peninsula is naturally within his goal.

Looking further down, the news is not so wonderful. On the Greek battlefield, the Greek White Army supported by the British Mediterranean Fleet successfully attacked Salamis Island and penetrated into the hinterland of Greece.At the same time, a British cruiser formation violently bombarded Athens, causing heavy casualties among Greek soldiers and civilians, and large-scale fleeing was taking place.In terms of military strength, the current Greek White Army is only one-tenth of the Greek Red Army, and it only occupies a few marginal islands, with weak population and strength.Reluctantly, with the backing of the British Mediterranean Fleet, they can use sea routes to freely maneuver and raid, but the Soviet fleet was stuck in the Black Sea by Turkey and could not get out.Although the Soviet Union managed to transport a batch of torpedo boats to the Greek Red Army through the railway, the effect was nothing more than nothing.

Fortunately, the key to defeating the British was not in the Mediterranean, but in London: the belligerent Prime Minister Churchill was clearly struggling to hold on.The latest opinion polls show that the British public has become so dissatisfied with the long and endless war that everywhere one can hear someone imitating Churchill in a sarcastic speech: "In Singapore we have failed. In the Low Countries we have failed." .In France we failed again...Even in Australia we failed! And next, India!...I have nothing to offer you but my tears, toil and stupidity...'

A few days ago, Prime Minister Churchill suffered a censure vote in the parliament, and a cabinet downturn is already brewing.Generally speaking, this old colonial empire has been exhausted by the war like the French Empire at the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and it can no longer fight.

At that time, the crisis of the Greek red regime will be resolved, and the entire Balkan Peninsula will be calm for a while...

Seeing this, Tito rubbed his eyes, raised his head, looked through the car window, and glanced at the ruins on both sides of the highway, the desolate and dilapidated street scene, recalling the scene he saw on the streets of Moscow, he couldn't help shaking his head and sighing: even after suffering Before the destruction by war, neither Belgrade, the capital of Yugoslavia, nor Vienna, the "city of music" capital of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, could compare to the grandeur, magnificence and grandeur of Moscow.

But as a prisoner of war on the eastern front of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the last war, Tito, who had spent a while in a Russian prisoner-of-war camp at that time, knew what the Soviet Union looked like in the past.In fact, when Lenin died, the Soviet Union was not much better off than Yugoslavia is today.

At that time, the Soviet Union, which had just ended its civil war, inherited almost all the high-quality assets and bad assets of the Russian Empire: the vast land, rich natural resources, harsh environment of freezing and frigid weather, messy ethnic relations, and countless obsessions all day long. A vodka-loving lazy man... Although there was the glory of the "European Gendarmerie" in the Tsarist era, it is still essentially a backward country where farmers use wooden plows to cultivate the land.

Then, Comrade Stalin, a professional magician who was born in a seminary in Georgia, used tyrannical methods far superior to successive tsars and comparable to Mongolian khans, ruthlessly spurred these drunks who were half awake and half asleep after being doused with vodka, and dragged them away. On the road of blood and tears of high-speed industrialization.

——"If you can't do something, you can shoot it, and you can do it yourself!" "Whoever dares to object, send him to see Comrade Lenin!" Get rid of the body first"...

When Westerners learned all kinds of horrific news about the great purge of the Soviet Union, a bunch of international commentators still cheered, thinking that the collapse of the Soviet Union was imminent.

But they don’t know that the Slavs, represented by the Russians, have extreme M genes hidden in their bodies. It’s useless to talk to them nicely. Only the tyrant’s bullets, nooses and Gulag labor camps can turn them from slugs to To become a tyrannosaurus rex... If you want to lead this nation to the top, the leader must be cold-blooded and cruel enough, and the will must be as indestructible as a special alloy!

Therefore, under the thorny whip of Comrade Iron and Steel, the productivity and development speed of the Soviet Union are on the contrary, and the national cohesion is unprecedentedly strong, which makes those European and American experts who are waiting to see the joke lose their glasses all over the place, shouting that the Soviet Union is evil Empires violated the scientific principles of the laws of economic development.

In short, in just over ten years, under the extremely bad domestic and international situation, this Comrade Uncle Iron has successfully reversed the situation in one fell swoop, relying on his own will, prestige and brutality, based on the idea that it is not good to be a fool. , established the second strongest military industry system in the world by stepping on countless bones, made the once weak Soviet Union grow into a real monster, and then flattened the entire European continent with a torrent of steel!

Thinking of the unimaginable explosive development speed of the Soviet Red Empire over the years, Tito couldn't help but feel dazed.

Perhaps, Yugoslavia should also learn from the advanced experience of the Soviet Union, first send hundreds of thousands or millions of disobedient bastards to see God, and then send the rest to labor camps, working day and night until death, at least I didn't have time to think about it, and then I solved all the problems...

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USSR, Leningrad

Although the flames of war in the European continent have not been completely extinguished, the old capital of Tsarist Russia, formerly known as St. Petersburg, is already bustling with prosperity.

Unlike the desperate depression, hunger, and deprivation of the previous world war, in this one, except for the worst months, the people living in Leningrad did not feel very sad. Clear supply shortage.

On the contrary, with the continuous advancement of the red iron flow on the European continent and the news of good news, the goods on the shelves of the Leningrad State Store have become more and more abundant: all kinds of oriental tea, colorful and gorgeous silk, cigarettes, etc. The amount of rations in the country doubled, and sugar was sold without a ticket as never before.In addition, there are many tropical specialties that were hard to see before, such as pepper, dried coconut, palm oil, candied pineapple, coffee beans, canned tropical fish, and many strange spices that cannot be named...especially the best-selling chocolate. Hot, because of the long-term blockade of world powers and imperialism, cocoa powder from tropical regions has always been a rare luxury in the Soviet Union!

Although no one knows where these good things come from, it doesn't stop the citizens waving rubles to buy them frantically.Girls put on smooth and gorgeous silk dresses with excitement, and children happily licked chocolate and tropical fruit preserves.

In addition to the increasing abundance of material life, the glorious victories of the Red Army on the front line one after another are in stark contrast to the bad news during the last world war, which made the Soviet people feel great joy in their spiritual life.Some houses and shops even hung large maps on the walls, planted small red flags on the newly liberated cities every day, and watched the European continent being gradually submerged by the red tide from east to west.

Today, after the Red Army entered Paris half a month ago, another new victory came from the front line: the Red Navy Arctic Ocean Fleet successfully captured the port of Narvik in northern Norway and wiped out the last British aggressor army in Northern Europe. Declare the liberation of Scandinavia!

To this end, Leningrad announced that all primary and secondary schools in the city will be on holiday for half a day, and celebration parades will be organized, as well as candy distribution.

All of a sudden, the streets of Leningrad were crowded with people, laughing and laughing, red flags were flying everywhere, and confident singing was flying everywhere.

At the same time, in a lounge on the third floor of the Winter Palace, diplomats from various socialist countries in Europe that have just been established are looking through the windows at the sea of ​​red flags on the street, as well as the red flags carried out by elementary school students. The model of the national emblem of the Soviet Union has very complicated eyes.

Although they are all members of the socialist camp, few Europeans like Russians.With so many countries in the world, it is true that many countries have become the nightmare of neighboring countries at some point.But Russia may be the only country in Europe that has been the worst nightmare of all neighboring countries since its founding.In modern Europe, one of the biggest themes of foreign affairs of various countries is to manage various anti-Russian alliances.

However, despite the fact that Europeans have stubbornly looked down on Russians in modern history, trying to expel them from the category of European civilized people, thinking of them as uncivilized barbarians.But in fact, the Russian nation is really an extremely outstanding nation. Although it has only risen out of ignorance in just three to four hundred years, it has produced world-class geniuses in almost all aspects of science, technology, humanities, and military affairs.

In the eyes of the vast majority of European intellectuals, the Russian nation is a great nation; the land of Russia is a magnificent land; but Russia is a terrible evil empire, greedy and shameless.Almost the whole of Europe hates Russia, hates Russia, fears Russia, and even unites to attack Russia... But it is useless, Russia is invincible.Even if he was knocked down occasionally, he would just go through the baptism of fire like a phoenix reborn, and then climb out of the ashes to provoke and make trouble, making the whole of Europe tremble, but there was nothing he could do.

——In this world, I am afraid that only the Soviets dare to print the entire earth on their national emblem, and take the liberation of all mankind as the core purpose of the founding of the country, and only the Soviets dare to use their own country as the largest human being in history. A social science experiment...

Now, the Soviets are going to use the whole of Europe to conduct social science experiments again!Well, this time it's financial.

——The theme of this Leningrad meeting is: to issue a unified currency for all socialist camp countries in the entire European continent: the euro!

In this regard, the first reaction of diplomats from various countries was to lie down and then meow: Since modern times, how can there be a lot of countries using the same currency?It is no longer the Renaissance era when Italian ducats and florins were used throughout Europe!

Judging from the experience of the unification period of the German Empire, this is simply a prelude to mergers and acquisitions, okay?

Facing the tyrannical Soviets, the small Eastern European countries could not stand up. The German Communist Party and the Italian Communist Party were representatives of the defeated countries, and they were not qualified to speak out against them.The representative of the French Communist Party, which has not yet unified the country, slapped the table on the spot, expressing that they must not give up the franc with a long history... Representatives from other countries saw that there was a leader, and they all joined in one after another, but at the same time they couldn't help the calf cramps , lest I offend Mao Zi, and the trouble will not end.

However, this time the Soviet representative was very talkative. Seeing such strong opposition, he took a quick step back and said that if the situation does not permit, the introduction of a unified socialist national currency can be temporarily put on hold... However, as As an alternative and minimum requirement, although each socialist country can issue its own banknotes, it must use the same unified pattern as the ruble, that is, the cruiser Aurora...

This is another request that makes people want to roll their eyes. Since the first two years of the Soviet-German War, under the sole arbitrariness of Uncle Steel, ruble notes of all denominations in the Soviet Union, from large to small, and even kopeck coins All the patterns have been changed to the cruiser Aurora!

As a result, just as Americans call the dollar Franklin, the Russians also call the ruble Aurora bluntly...

Then, the stamp design with the largest circulation in the Soviet Union is also the Aurora cruiser, and the most issued low-level medal is still the Aurora cruiser... A bronze statue of the Aurora cruiser stands on the Red Square in Moscow , In government buildings in every city in the Soviet Union, cruiser models of the Aurora of different materials and models have also become standard equipment.Looking at Stalin's frenzied appearance, he simply wanted to turn this antique cruiser from the Russo-Japanese War era into a sacred object and artifact of the red camp, similar to the "True Cross" and "Ark of the Covenant" of the Catholic Church... …

Well, although I know that you Russians have a short history and little experience, when your Nordic neighbors played pirate games vigorously for hundreds of years, and finally refused to do it and reformed, you Russians have not seen what the sea looks like Woolen cloth.As a result, as soon as I saw the sea, I became excited like a shot of chicken blood. I must drive a warship to play in the sea. For hundreds of years, I have been thinking about the estuary leading to the warm ocean... Then, Aurora The cruiser Aurora is indeed an important symbol of the October Revolution and the establishment of the Soviet Union, as well as the most famous warship in the entire socialist camp: everyone knows that the cruiser Aurora fired a cannon that night, and the revolutionary sailors rushed into the winter. Palace!

But it can't be promoted as a statue of the Virgin Mary or a cross, right?Is this still a materialist?

Therefore, the representatives of various countries are still reluctant to agree to this jittery request.But the Soviets were no longer willing to give in... After a fierce quarrel, the representatives of various countries still had to accept this tough "minimum requirement" and agreed to turn all the currencies of their countries into "warship coins" like Maozi , or "Aurora coins": In any case, printing a "Goddess of Aurora" on banknotes is much easier to accept than printing Stalin's head (Aurora is a transliteration, and the free translation is Aurora Goddess), isn't it?

Think of it as a small sacrifice to satisfy the vanity of the Soviets, and to thank the Soviet Red Army for liberating all of Europe!

However, they don't know how important this seemingly fame-seeking incident is to the Soviet Union and the socialist camp...

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Soviet Union, Siberia, Tyumen Oilfield

In the history of another world, this oil field with huge reserves would not be explored and discovered until the 60s. Before that, it was just a deserted wasteland.However, in this world, some things have undergone unimaginable and wonderful changes...

——In the cold wind from the North Pole, a blond girl in a military coat and a fur cap stood alone against the wind in this wilderness.

I saw that she was silent for a long time first, as if she was brewing something.

Then, the girl stretched out a jade hand towards the wilderness... Then, it was time to witness the miracle!

Under her will, the barren land squirmed like plasticine and quickly changed its shape: the grass and bushes were quickly and quietly leveled by an invisible hand, and the big trees were cut down silently. Peeling and anti-corrosion treatment... The gravel was burned into glass by high temperature from nowhere, the soil was burned into red bricks and tiles, and the thick reinforced concrete walls rose from the ground like bamboo shoots and mushrooms.Even various metal components such as copper and iron are separated from the soil by some kind of wonderful force, flowing on the ground like a river...

Of course, relying solely on the metal components in the soil and rocks is far from enough, so the girl ordered people to pile up a large amount of aluminum, copper ingots, iron ingots and rare metals here in advance.Under her power, these metal raw materials melted quickly like candles by the stove, turned into parts of various shapes, and finally assembled into sections of pipelines, machines one after another... Next, a nearby The exposed rocky mountain cracked loudly, and the solid rocks were cut into neat slabs and bricks, and they were separated from the mountain without a sound, suspended in the air, like well-trained soldiers, lined up neatly, Heading towards the unmanned construction site, like building blocks, laying foundations, roads and embankments...

Pumping units, oil pipelines, distillation towers, power plants, water storage tanks, oil storage tanks, booster pump stations, management centers, staff dormitories and canteens...all the construction equipment that make up the oil field and refinery are under the will of the girl , emerged from the soil.The cables and pipelines buried in the ground are also formed by condensation directly under the ground, and the pipelines leading directly to the oil storage stratum do not need drilling machines at all, and they are automatically formed underground...

Then comes the most tedious and fragmented part, which is to manufacture all kinds of process documents, equipment manuals, operation guides, notice boards, factory maps... one by one, and put them in the place where they should be, so that the receiving personnel will not As for the black eyes.

In this way, a huge oil base was quietly completed on the frozen soil of Siberia in a way that did not conform to science and materialism.

Fortunately, there were no people living in this place, and the Red Army used the pretext of military exercises to blockade the nearby land with a radius of hundreds of kilometers.Otherwise, if such a large piece of industrial facilities suddenly appeared, anyone who saw it would feel very strange, thinking they had seen a ghost, right?

The huge project that originally required at least tens of thousands of people to work hard for a year or two was easily completed by the girl in one afternoon.

The same thing or miracle has happened more than once in the Soviet Union, Southeast Asia, Australia, and even India in recent years.Let those desolate corners that were originally forgotten by the Western European and American civilized world enjoy the benefits of industrial civilization to varying degrees...

When everything was finished, the blond girl stretched her waist, then turned around and walked towards an off-road jeep next to her, still muttering, "...the recent increase in the power of faith... is really impressive. Surprised! It's getting easier and easier to do the work. It seems that everyone likes money... Unfortunately, the power of faith, which is not famous on the battlefield, always feels a bit uncomfortable to use Refreshing!"

Having said that, she raised her head and glanced at the eastern sky, a bloodthirsty and ferocious smile suddenly appeared on the corner of her mouth:

"...Okay! The construction of socialism should come to an end here. Next is the time to destroy capitalism! From now on, I must kill people hard and make progress every day! Fight against those Yankees who refuse to admit defeat Have a blast! Hurrah!"