Struggle in Soviet Russia - Chapter 649

After smoking a cigarette, Viktor’s thoughts also recovered from his wild thoughts. He snuffed out the cigarette **** in the ashtray on the table, and took the briefcase that was not far away.

The briefcase was obviously loaded with something, and it was heavy to pick up. Victor put it on his lap, unzipped the opening of the bag, and took out a stack of documents three or four centimeters thick, and placed it on the table. Briefcase set aside.

He took these documents from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Foreign Intelligence Service of the People’s Commissariat of National Security. The top one is the large-scale “clearance operation” that the British have recently taken in various major cities in Palestine.

The “revisionists” among the Zionists used a bomb to send the administrative center set up by the British in Palestine to the sky, directly causing the deaths of nearly 30 British people. This major incident has already occurred in the United Kingdom. It detonated public opinion and had an impact on the ruling stability of the Labour Party. For this reason, if the Attlee government does not want to be ousted by public opinion, they must make a strong counterattack against this violent incident, and this large-scale ” Clearing Action”, is the response that London made under the pressure of public opinion.

In this operation, the British used almost all the military forces they could use in the Palestinian area. The army and police involved in the operation totaled more than 100,000 people. In just three days, more than 3,000 Jews were thrown into the operation. In prison, twelve illegal Jewish settlements were banned and purged. In the face of the British purges, Jewish organizations, especially those with a radical stance, advocated the use of more violent, terrifying, and extreme means to force the British government to make concessions. There were dozens of clashes, causing hundreds of casualties.

However, the British’s slaughter operation this time has won the full support of the Arabs. The Arab National Liberation Alliance took quick action, and some equally radical Arab violent organizations also began to take the opportunity to attack Jews and their settlements on a large scale. Violence incidents have emerged in an endless stream throughout the Palestinian area, and reports of relevant aspects can be seen almost every day.

Putting the document in his hand aside, Victor raised his hand to touch his lips, and then lit a cigarette for himself – his current addiction seems to be getting bigger and bigger.

The cigarette was lit, and he took a deep breath. He took out a hardcover notepad from the drawer in front of him, and took a pen from the pen holder. Afterwards, he found a copy from the pile of documents he had just brought back, and while looking at it, he wrote something on the notepad.

What he found out from the pile of documents was actually a current map of the Middle East. It must be noted that this map is not the same as the later maps of the Middle East. The most direct example is the current map of the Middle East On this map, Israel does not yet exist, neither does Palestine nor Jordan exist, only the geographical term of Transjordan.

And what Victor wrote in the notepad is the general situation of the countries in the Middle East.

Today, the Middle East can be said to be one of the most tense regions in the world. In addition to this, there are also places such as the Korean Peninsula, the Indo-China Peninsula, the Balkan Peninsula, and the Indian Peninsula. From here, it seems that an interesting pattern can be seen. , that is the most uneasy place in the world, and the place with the strongest smell of gunpowder seems to be the various peninsula areas. Compared with the mainland areas and pure island areas, the situation is relatively stable.

From the map of the Middle East, from west to east, including the closely related North African regions, namely: Libya, Egypt, the Palestinian region of the West Bank, the Transjordan region of the East Bank of the Jordan River, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Iraq, etc. Countries, of course, broadly speaking, Turkey on the back and Iran on the east, as well as Yemen, Oman, Kuwait, and so on.

Judging from the status quo of these countries, the current situation is relatively stable. Lebanon, which has just become independent and has achieved power sharing among various religious sects; Saudi Arabia, which is protected by the United States and sells a large amount of oil resources to Americans; relations with the United States close Syria, which had just driven the British and French troops out of the country; Transjordan, allied with the British and controlled by Abdullah I.

As for Turkey and Iran, they can be regarded as two relatively special countries. Their territory is the “focus” of the convergence of various forces. It is impossible to judge what their future will be.

For the alliance, there are three areas that are more concerned now, namely Libya, the Palestinian area of ​​the West Bank and Iraq.

Libya’s problem is very clear. Both Britain and France are in favor of implementing escrow within the United Nations. The alliance also agrees with this view in principle. Among the five permanent members of the United Nations, it is equivalent to the United Kingdom, France and the Soviet Union. Escrow, while China and the United States are abstaining. As for the differences between Britain, France and the Soviet Union on this issue, it is the question of who is in charge of the three major regions in Libya.

In the past, the British had insisted on keeping the Soviet Union out of Libya. They wanted to take two of the three major regions of Libya, Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. As for the French, they only wanted to host one. The Feizan area was satisfied. Therefore, it held an attitude of not participating in the conflict between Britain and the Soviet Union.

Therefore, for a long time, the alliance has actually only had the British as an opponent when it comes to intervening in Libya, and the purpose of the alliance is to put one foot in North Africa. As for hosting Cyrenaica, it is still Hosting Tripolitania is irrelevant.

On the issue of the Palestinian area in the West Bank, the alliance does not have the most direct interests. To a certain extent, this is actually a place where the alliance is wrestling with Britain and the United States. To put it more bluntly, the alliance’s interests in the region are On the issue, it is actually playing the role of a shitposter, because whether the Jews can successfully establish a country here or not, it has no direct impact on the interests of the alliance.

As for Iraq, this is a rather special place.

For quite some time in the past, Iraq has been the British sphere of influence and their traditional colony. However, under the influence of the October Revolution of the Soviet Union, in the early 1920s, a man named Hussein al-Rahal formed the first Marxist group in Iraq. By the 1930s, Iraq had its own Communist Party organization, and its leader Yusuf Salman Yusuf, also known as Fahd, led the Iraqi Communist Party to join the Comintern.

Since the Iraqi Communist Party established ties with the alliance, even during the Great Patriotic War, this connection has not weakened. Therefore, today’s Moscow has a strong influence on the Iraqi Communist Party organization, but the current Iraqi Communist Party , There seems to be some problems on the route. They have always been hesitant to launch an armed struggle to resist the British colonial rule, and have not been able to make a final decision.

However, in the past few months, the workers’ strike movement organized by the Communist Party of Iraq has been very frequent, which may be directly related to the frequent strikes against the Communist Party of Iraq by the British colonial government and the Iraqi puppet government. In the opinion of the think tank analysis team of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs If the external pressure on the Communist Party of Iraq continues to increase and cannot be eased, then either its organizational structure will be completely destroyed, or it will be forced to launch a large-scale armed uprising.

Accordingly, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs believes that the best choice for the alliance to insert influence into the Middle East should be in Iraq. As long as Moscow can give sufficient military support to the Communist Party of Iraq, it will be able to support a position in Baghdad in the near future. Government of Moscow.

Placing the main diplomatic focus on Libya, Palestine in the West Bank, and Iraq is the mainstream opinion of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and it can be said that the coalition is currently in a dominant position.

But as far as Victor’s personal opinion is concerned, his view is slightly different from that of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Of course, he is also very optimistic about the relationship between the alliance and Iraq, mainly optimistic about the development of the Communist Party of Iraq. At the same time, he also believes that the United Kingdom is likely to make concessions to the alliance and hand over the Cyrenaica region to the alliance. In addition to this, he believes that the alliance should also pay attention to the situation in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, and at least make some layouts in these two countries.

The situation in Saudi Arabia does not need to be repeated. Victor has always had a bad idea in his mind, that is, he wants to find a way to kill Aziz who is completely inclined to the United States. No, perhaps the safest way should be to kill not only one Aziz, The entire Saudi royal family should be killed, just like the Indians killed the entire Sikkim royal family in Viktor’s previous life.

It is in the interests of the alliance to kill the entire Saudi royal family, and then support a chief whose position is at least not biased towards the Americans, and let him serve as the new king of Saudi Arabia.

Don’t think Viktor’s stance is radical, and don’t think he’s a great power chauvinist, or a revisionist, the reason he’s so hostile to the Saudi royal family today is because he knows how important Saudi Arabia is to future U.S. policy high.

As a simple example, as far as the Bretton Woods system currently promoted by the Americans is concerned, how many years can Washington maintain the policy of linking the dollar to gold? In Victor’s previous life, the Bretton Woods system existed in name only in the early 1970s. In 1973, because of the collapse of the international credit of the US dollar, there was even a wave of selling US dollars and snapping up gold and marks in Europe. That is to say, during that period, in the confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States, the Americans were completely at a disadvantage.