With the quellation of war in Albania, the European people were able to usher in the New Year of 1945 in a relatively peaceful atmosphere. However, looking at the world, war was raging in Asia: in East Asia, the Japanese army accelerated the pace of invasion of China launched a series of offensives, and the Third Front Army, which was advancing from the north, captured Lanzhou and Xining, and cut off the main land channel for Soviet materials to transport into China's hinterland. The First Front Army, which was advancing from the middle, arrived at the Qinling Mountains-Dabashan line. Bombers taking off from the front airports attacked Chongqing day and night, greatly hitting and weakening the confidence and morale of the Chinese military and civilians. The Second Front Army, which was advancing from the south, formed a clampdown on Kunming.

The momentum further compressed China's strategic depth; in South Asia, Japan and Hindustan jointly launched a series of storm-like attacks on the Indian Federation, which had already been in sight for victory and was approaching China, showing a collapse. Large areas in the central and southern Indian subcontinents returned to the hands of Japan and its puppet allies. The lost Indian Federation Army barely put together more than 300,000 troops to defend the west bank of the Indus River. Once the main force of the Japanese army arrived, it is still a big question whether the last 400,000 square kilometers of territory in western India could be kept. By then, India, with a population of 400,000,000 people, may complete unification in another way.

Just after the New Year, Western allies held a summit in the Irish capital Limeric, focusing on the discussion of Asian issues that are very geographically distant but closely related to the global landscape. From the perspective of their own strategic security, European countries neither want Asia to have a superpower that is strong enough to peek at the Middle East and even Africa, nor do they want Russia, which spans the Eurasian continent, to rise again under the leadership of another ideology. When European and American countries joined forces to aid the Soviet Union, they were to use the Russians to restrain Japan's military deployment and curb their military expansion.

Before the negotiation of the Japanese-Soviet armistice, this strategy did have a very significant effect. The main force of the Japanese army was transferred from South Asia and Australia for a long time, and the situation there changed greatly. However, now it seems that the idiom for raising a tiger to suffer is perfect for the Russian Soviet Republic. The Russians braked halfway through the exhausted but still powerful Japanese army was able to withdraw from the battlefield in Northeast Asia, and suddenly reversed the situation in the Indian subcontinent and Australia, which was equivalent to slapping the Western allies with a loud slap!

Regarding the bad behavior of the Soviet leaders who did not keep their word, signed and changed their faces faster than flipping books, the heads of Western allies expressed their contempt and indignation, but despite their large populations and power, it was not easy to effectively punish the Russians for violating the agreement. On the one hand, Russia is vast and rich in resources, and the economy and defense industry are self-contained. They are not afraid of external blockades and can seek trade with the Japanese if necessary. On the other hand, since its founding, the Soviet Union has always been wary of the interference and subversion of the European Union. They have placed important industrial resources in the Ural Mountains far away from the hinterland of Europe and the western region bordering European countries. The layout of road traffic facilities and civilian industrial buildings fully takes into account the needs of defense. Coupled with the ideological group advantages and the reformed military service system, such a Russia is definitely a nightmare for all invaders...

Even so, there were still many voices at the summit that encouraged the German Emperor William Xiao to use force against Russia. The German Empire he dominated has replaced the hegemony of the British Empire in the past. The most tempting goal at the moment is undoubtedly to challenge Napoleon's unfinished great cause. The good people even made a comprehensive deduction for defeating the Soviet Union and coming to the Far East. They believed that defeating the Soviet Union would require 2-2.5 million troops, although this number exceeded the current service of all European countries.

The sum of troops, but with Germany's current mixed military service system, 85 million local population and nearly 200 million colonial population, it is very easy to recruit and equip 3 million troops. If the Western allies start war against the Soviet Union, it is not difficult to assemble 5 million troops. This is ten times that of Napoleon's Russian army! Of course, in the modern war model, the amount of troops is not the key to determining the outcome. Any army trying to conquer Russia faces the most.

The great enemy is not the Russian army, but the vast Russian land and the harsh and complex climate environment. The army from Europe set out from Belarus and Ukraine and advanced to the Ural Mountains, and it would take 2,000 kilometers to maintain a huge army to advance 2,000 kilometers to the enemy's hinterland. The logistics supply consumed is an astonishing astronomical figure, and it may not be able to bear it for a long time if it gathers the power of Western allies. German Emperor William has the ambition to conquer the world like his father.

At that time, he was a stingy person, full of interest in plans with small investments and large returns, and he was worried about plans with large investments and uncertain returns. Therefore, he scoffed at the argument that he used force to completely conquer Russia, believing that it was just a waste of money to exchange for some low-value mineral resources, some labor with low cultural level and the trouble of maintaining public order in a large area.

Not interested in invading the Soviet Union by force does not mean that they have no idea of ​​defeating the Soviet Union. Since defeating the U.S. and Britain, the main competitors of the Germans have become Japan and the Soviet Union. The former is a potential enemy thousands of miles away, while the latter is a tiger next to the bed. It has the potential power to break into the heart of Europe and subvert the European order to eliminate this threat without occupying Russia. It can achieve its goal by keeping it in a state of weakness or division for a long time. This sounds more difficult than occupying Russia, but it is a good show for senior politicians. As early as the fierce battle between Japan and the Soviet Union, Germany and its puppet servant countries stepped up their infiltration of the Soviet Union, secretly inciting the dissatisfaction of the Russian people, secretly supporting political forces against the Soviet Union government, and even instigating the rebellion.

The middle and senior officers of the Soviet Russian army also achieved certain results. In the summer of 1944, the reason why the senior Soviet leaders negotiated peace with the Japanese under the good situation on the battlefield was not because they had the tradition of resigning as soon as possible, but because European and American countries gradually reduced aid, the Soviet economy and society could no longer bear the huge consumption on the front line. In more than two years of war, the Russians not only paid a heavy price of more than one million casualties, but also caused the economic reversal due to the forced boost of the military industry. People in many areas lived a hard life of not filling their stomachs and lacking medical treatment. Especially in the winter of 1943, some remote areas were repeatedly starved and frozen to death. If it were any European country, the people would have probably gotten up to make trouble.

During the summit, both William Little, who was the leader of the alliance, or Joachim, the double champion who was regarded as the example of a wise king, never mentioned severe punishment of the Soviet Union, but talked about the prospects of the Turkish Republic to join the League of Nations and Western allies. As we all know, the Turks and the Slavs were a feud. The grudges between the two major empires of Tsarist Russia and the Ottoman Empire spanned hundreds of years. After Tsarist Russia was replaced by the Soviet Union and the Ottoman was overthrown by the Turkish Republic, the relations between the two countries did not improve substantially. The Soviet Union was planning to regain the old land of Eastern Europe.

, never forget the idea of ​​seizing the Dardanelles. Germany and Ireland actively win over the Turkish Republic, undoubtedly expressing a signal to the outside world to suppress the Soviet Union. At the same time, military officials or military generals of both countries intentionally or unintentionally revealed that their country is vigorously strengthening their military equipment, and most of the weapons and equipment purchased by the army are attacking, especially those heavy bombers with combat radius of more than 2,000 kilometers that can bomb the Ural industrial zone with Belarus, Ukraine or Turkey airports as the starting point.

The Russians are still exploring various inside information about the summit of the Western Allied Powers with a nervous attitude. The Council of the League of Nations suddenly notified the Soviet Union's permanent representative to the League of Nations that the Soviet Union has repeatedly submitted the application for membership that the application for membership that has been repeatedly rejected has entered the candidate review process. This means that as long as they pass the qualification verification of the League of Nations Council, they can become official members of the League of Nations, enjoy various trade preferential treatments of the League of Nations member states, and their voice and influence in the international field will also be greatly enhanced.

However, the shrewd Soviet rulers soon realized that this was a trap tailored by Western allies for them. Once the Soviet Union became a formal member of the League of Nations, they could indeed enjoy the conveniences they expected, but at the same time they would be subject to various supervision and constraints of the League of Nations. What's more, the right to interpret the established clauses is in the hands of the six major members led by Germany. The first question they raised when they approve the qualifications of the Soviet Union is the legitimacy of the Soviet Union's occupation of Northeast China and northern North Korea. Unless the Soviet Union can prove that they are helping the Chinese and Koreans get rid of Japanese colonial rule and provide them with sufficient safe and reliable living conditions, the Soviet Union must withdraw troops from these areas.

In order to find out the answer to this question, the League of Nations organized an investigation team composed of representatives of more than a dozen countries to travel to the Far East. Although the Soviet Union tried his best to cover up and induce, the League of Nations still collected enough evidence to prove that the Soviet occupation of these areas was colonial, especially in the northeast where sovereignty was clearly attributed to the Chinese government. Colonial occupation was boycotted by the League of Nations Convention. If the Soviet Union could not change this practice within half a year and refused to withdraw its troops, the League of Nations would reject the candidate qualifications of the Soviet Union.

In order to join the League of Nations, the Russians tried their best to modify and argued in every way, and they completely disappeared from their toughness on the battlefield, while the Japanese were much more direct. Just as the rainy season ended, the Japanese troops fighting on both sides launched a new round of offensives against the Chinese government forces and the Indian Federation Army. Their troops and equipment they invested were doing their best. As long as they could succeed, it would not take long. In addition to the areas occupied by the Soviet Union, the entire Far East (including East Asia, Southeast Asia and South Asia, namely Afghanistan, east of Kazakhstan, north of Australia, west of the Pacific Ocean, and south of the Arctic Ocean) would become the cornerstone of Japan's dominance of the world.

This is a situation that Western allies and the United States do not want to see, and it is also a nightmare that everyone who hates the atrocities of the Japanese army does not want to have!
Chapter completed!