I Will Stage A Coup D’état - Chapter 138



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EP.138 NBC (2)

Stalin, the human butcher of the frozen earth, was trembling at the power of the new weapon demonstrated by the United States.

The confidence shown by deliberately inviting the Soviet military attaché and flaunting the power of ‘nuclear weapons’.

The Soviet Union was clearly at a disadvantage.

Of course, the Soviet Union did not completely sit back in the nuclear arms race.

Igor Kurchakov’s research team, under the supervision of Lavrenty Beria, was engaged in nuclear research.

Although substantial progress was made in securing the uranium needed for nuclear research starting in 1943, it was not that late compared to the United States.

However, it was not easy for the Soviet Union, which was on the brink of life and death due to the war with Germany, to conduct proper research during the war.

Ultimately, it was only after the war ended in 1945 that the Soviet Union was able to invest national capabilities and budget.

At this point, the Soviet Union was several years behind the United States.

That gap was confirmed just yesterday.

The reality of the new weapon, which existed only in theory, was more fascinating than anyone had imagined.

Stalin wanted the new bomb that the United States had a monopoly on.

The research at hand was far behind, and since he wanted to have the same nukes as the US, the red leader’s choice was obvious.

If I don’t have it, I have to share what others have.

The head of the military intelligence agency GRU, Fyodor Kuznetsov, entered the office at the General Secretary’s call.

“Have you called Comrade Secretary?”

Stalin tapped his pen on the table and spoke his mind.

“Our Federation should have that weapon.”

Kuznetsov, who lived by intuition, understood what the secretary was talking about.

“If it’s the US that has nuclear weapons, I think it’ll be difficult for now.”

“So, we need to bring data. Bring data that can advance the work of our scientists.”

In fact, Western materials have been diligently stolen since 1943.

But Stalin wanted more than that.

The secretary wanted to bring back crucial information that could dramatically shorten the development of nuclear weapons.

Kuznetsov did not want to get on the Secretary General’s bad side by answering hastily.

“We will activate the GRU’s intelligence network to the fullest extent.”

So I couldn’t give you a definitive answer.

Although there were Soviet spies who had infiltrated the Manhattan Project, it was unclear whether the information they brought back would have dramatically shortened the development of nuclear weapons.

The secretary was not pleased with the military intelligence chief’s uncertain answer.

If you do it, you will do it.

If you can’t do it, you can’t do it.

What kind of information does a friend who can’t even give such an easy answer deal with?

Stalin clicked his tongue.

In any case, given the circumstances, the Federation’s foreign policy had no choice but to turn to the defensive for the time being.

It seemed advisable to put on hold the local war planned in northern Italy for the time being.

‘Should I just take it easy and stay on the defensive for four years?’

But that would have been too damaging to the prestige of the Federation.

There was a need to buy some time by creating an event that would save some face.

‘I guess I’ll have to think about it slowly.’

The secretary turned his gaze back to the papers.

If the Soviet Union was surprised by America’s nuclear development, Britain was literally knocked unconscious.

It wasn’t that America’s nuclear development was surprising.

It was because of Washington’s dirty betrayal.

“No, you’ve developed everything and now you can’t share the nuclear weapons! How can you say something so ridiculous!”

The British Empire was running a nuclear development project, Our Tube Yellowis, in preparation for a confrontation with Nazi Germany.

However, because it required such an astronomical budget, we decided to go in the direction of a joint venture with the United States.

So, the Manhattan Project was promoted through joint Anglo-American cooperation.

The United States refused to share its nuclear weapons.

I got hit hard on the back of my head.

The United States responded to Britain’s protests with this absurd logic.

“Nuclear weapons are too important a strategic asset to share.”

The British government suffered a fatal blow to this issue.

“The Americans took our colonies away, and now they’re taking our nuclear weapons too? This government is a really stupid government!”

Mosley didn’t miss this opportunity.

“The British Empire must reclaim its rightful rights! Attlee, who only invites humiliation, must step down!”

Churchill also responded to this.

“If we leave the Attlee regime, which is desperate to sell everything in the British Empire, alone, the Empire will be finished. It is time for us to shout: Attlee, step down!”

Fascists and conservatives marched through London hand in hand, chanting loudly.

It was the beginning of the so-called ‘London March’.

The Attlee regime did not back down meekly in the face of fascist-led protests.

“Suppress them.”

This time, the Ministry of the Interior did not oppose the suppression either.

If we handed over power to a group that joined hands with fascists, it was obvious that the values ​​that the Labor Party held would be damaged.

The military and police were mobilized in large numbers and tear gas filled the streets.

“We will create a new alternative to the British Empire!”

“Shut up, you fascist bastards!”

Britain was plunged into chaos resembling civil war.

This chaotic situation in Britain gave great strength to Pierre de Léotard’s regime in France.

“Look at the dissolute England that has lost order and principles while shouting freedom. That is what we have shown ourselves in the interwar period. Let us say goodbye to the disorganized past and move forward to a future dedicated to the nation and the community. What we need in France is not freedom, but order and discipline.”

Leotard justified his rise to power by waging this propaganda campaign.

However, Leotard was not indifferent to the nucleus.

‘Who doesn’t know that it’s good?’

But France didn’t have the resources.

The military spending that was immediately poured into Algeria and Indochina alone would have been enough to break the country’s back.

Nuclear development in that situation?

Leotard didn’t have that dream either.

If they were to develop nuclear weapons, it would be after the colonial conflict was resolved.

While the main competitors in nuclear development, such as South Korea, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France, were facing time or budget barriers, the United States enjoyed the sweetness of a nuclear monopoly.

Just for a little while.

If America forgot one thing, it was that there are a lot of willing communists in the world.

Any security loses its meaning in the face of the loyalty of those who voluntarily pledge their loyalty to their ideological fatherland without the bribery of agencies like the Soviet Military Intelligence Service.

Scientists working on the Manhattan Project, including Claude Fuchs, Theodore Hall, and David Greenglass, stole information of enormous value and passed it on to the Soviet Union.

A variety of technologies, including the atomic bomb’s detonator, assembly sequence, blueprint, nuclear weapon test results, and implosion design methods, were well packaged and passed on.

It was a quality and quantity of information that the spies recruited by the GRU could not even dream of.

The United States was unaware of the massive leak of information, and thus assumed that the Soviet Union would not acquire nuclear weapons until the mid-1950s at the earliest.

But this judgment was wrong.

The Soviets were terrifyingly under-timed given the blueprint presented by the United States.

Of course, Soviet spies were not only in the United States.

In Korea, there were also people who were loyal to their ideological homeland.

Park Jeong-cheol, a scientist working as a researcher at the Energy Research Institute for Human Peace, was secretly sending information to the Soviet Union, the ideological homeland, once a week.

Of course, the information sent by Park Jeong-cheol had no special value other than confirming the level of South Korea’s nuclear development.

Park Jeong-cheol sent information to the Soviet Union for six months, and was then arrested by the Security Command.

“Since when has this kid been like that?”

In places like the UK or the US, they would have investigated and brought the case to trial through formal procedures, but this was a dictatorship under the rule of Korea.

Brutal violence and torture were inflicted on Park Jeong-cheol.

“I will tell you everything.”

Park Jeong-cheol confessed in detail everything he had done, talking nonsense.

In the process, the word “Communist Party” popped up.

“The Korean Communist Party? Oh, they’re behind it.”

In fact, Park Jeong-cheol was not even a member of the Korean Communist Party.

He was a natural communist who became a communist voluntarily just by reading a book.

Of course, the Security Service was not a good enough agency to take such circumstances into consideration.

They make up crimes that don’t exist and frame people for them, but when a spy case arose, it was even stranger to keep quiet.

“Let’s go.”

Agents from the Security Command’s Counter-Communism Division and police from the National Police’s Counter-Communism Division across the country conducted a large-scale joint crackdown on the Communist Party.

This unexpected wave of mass arrests resulted in the Communist Party leader Pak Hon-yong being taken to the police station in handcuffs.

“No, what crime have we committed?”

“You are guilty, you red bastard.”

As soon as the Communists were brought in, they were subjected to intensive interrogation.

If there is no sin, then sin was created and made to be used.

In this way, most of the Korean Communist Party members ended up in detention centers, just like sweet potatoes.

In the process, Kim Il-sung was also dragged in.

“I am a sinless person who looks up to the sky. Where are you talking about this guy and that guy?”

As soon as Kim Il-sung shouted, a pair of shoes flew in.

Kim Il-sung couldn’t even scream at the merciless violence.

“Okay, I was wrong.”

Only then did Kim Il-sung learn that he should not express his dissatisfaction in front of public security agencies.

The police, who seemed like nothing when I was a soldier, now seemed more fearsome than the sky.

Although the Korean Communist Party was on the verge of collapse overnight, the Soviet government showed no reaction.

“Let Koreans take care of Korean internal affairs.”

Even during the German-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact, Stalin stood by and watched as the communists in the German sphere of influence were trampled.

This time was no different.

In a situation where the balance of power was already tilted due to nuclear weapons, it was a foolish choice to make South Korea an enemy.

‘I can’t fight with Lee Seong-jun because of a handful of Korean comrades.’

Since the arrests of the Communists were initially motivated by espionage activities, Stalin was reluctant for the party to comment on the issue.

“But please say just one word for our Asian comrades.”

“This comrade is really dumb. Give him time to reflect while working in the gulag.”

Stalin chose to close his eyes and ears.

Well, if the Federation wanted to interfere in the internal affairs of other powers, it could have done so after it became the number one power.

Until then, I just kept silent and endured.