I Will Stage A Coup D’état - Chapter 183



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EP.183 Post-Cold War(?) (2)

The places that most welcomed the post-Cold War atmosphere were Germany and Italy.

In particular, West Germany expressed deep expectations that this would be an opportunity for unification.

“The era of a united Germany is coming again! This time, Germany must rise up with peace and economy at the forefront!”

Each political party took advantage of the rising unification sentiment and actively promoted it.

Displaced people also took advantage of this opportunity.

“If our country is unified, we must also deal with the issue of the lost eastern territories!”

The more than ten million displaced people had no intention of giving an inch on the eastern territorial issue.

Political parties also raised various voices on this issue.

“Of course we must renegotiate and come back. The borders of Greater Germany can never be retreated.”

German Chancellor Adenauer also added strength to these voices.

He too has consistently maintained a hard-line stance on the eastern border issue.

In this regard, Yushinhoe was not much different.

“Greater Germany cannot shrink even by 1 centimeter!”

When all political parties and people in Germany unanimously demanded the territorial issue, the Soviet Union felt secretly displeased.

Perhaps the UK and the US were behind Germany’s voices.

Khrushchev decided for the time being to pretend he had not heard the matter.

“Isn’t that what Westerners always bark about? Pretend you didn’t hear it.”

Khrushchev tried to pass it off like that, but the matter was not resolved so simply.

“There has been an uprising in East Germany, Comrade Secretary.”

“What, what?”

The East German uprising broke out during a labor multiplication campaign to mark the birthday of East German Secretary-General Ulbricht.

But here, in the aftermath of the Italian War, the communist regime was wary of the people and did not do such useless things, giving the people no reason to rise up.

However, the reason the uprising broke out in East Germany was because of the ‘issue of German unification.’

“We also want to live as part of a prosperous society like West Germany!”

“I can’t live like this!”

East Germans had been secretly longing for West Germany, as they had been watching TV and radio about the growing gap between them and West Germany.

In the midst of all this, when the topic of unification came up, everyone couldn’t hide their excitement.

Once the voice burst out, it soon spread into a political slogan.

“Free elections! Down with the Communist Party!”

The talk of unification that the Soviet Union had been talking about came to nothing with the fall of Beria, but it was impossible to take back words that had been spoken so easily.

All of East Germany was in an uproar in an instant.

Tens of thousands of demonstrators gathered in major cities including Leipzig, Dresden, East Berlin and Halle, chanting slogans.

If things had continued this way, the East German communist regime could have collapsed overnight.

“The number of protesters has exceeded one million.”

“A million?”

The Soviet Politburo took this problem seriously.

“If we allow this to happen, Ulbricht will be finished.”

If East Germany collapses, the entire communist bloc in Eastern Europe will fall like dominoes.

Both Malenkov and Khrushchev saw the danger.

If that were the case, the Soviet Union had only one option.

“We absolutely cannot tolerate German unification led by reactionaries. Mobilize the military.”

“Since the suppression was accompanied by bloodshed, the West will have negative feelings about it. Is that okay?”

“This is an internal problem of the communist bloc. Who is the West to meddle in their affairs?”

Khrushchev’s will was packaged as the will of the Soviet Council of Ministers and transmitted to the military.

Zhukov was delighted when he heard this story.

“Good. Let’s push all the reactionaries back with tanks.”

The Soviet military group stationed in East Germany immediately mobilized 20,000 troops.

Soviet troops drove in with tanks and mercilessly trampled the demonstrators.

Live fire was also fired at protesters from time to time.

The official death toll from the series of crackdowns that lasted nearly a month was more than 300.

The actual death toll was several times that number.

Britain and the United States were shocked by the merciless suppression by the Soviet army in the heart of Europe.

“Is that what those who say they will end the Cold War are doing?”

“The nature of the communists cannot be fooled. Are you still going to believe what they say?”

Western social democrats, who had believed that reconciliation with the Eastern Bloc would be possible in the post-Cold War atmosphere, were shocked by this development.

“But let’s not criticize the communists openly.”

The UK and the US refrained from commenting so as not to spoil the mood of reconciliation being created by the Soviet Union.

However, West Germany was furious as it saw its compatriots being massacred right before its eyes.

“What on earth is the Adenauer government doing? If the Ivans are running wild like that, shouldn’t we do something about it?”

“If you have a mouth, say something! Ivans are killing Germans like that!”

If it had been the original translation, the approval rating of the Adenauer government, which was pushing for anti-communism, would have risen further.

The problem was that there was another large political party that promoted an anti-communist ideology.

“The current sloppy response is really showing the limitations of the weak Adenauer government and the CDU. If we were the Yushin Society, we would not have just stood by and watched the atrocities of the rebels like they did. We would have punished them strongly!”

Manstein’s voice resonated throughout Germany.

“That’s right. If they were Junkers, would Ivan have acted like that?”

Ironically, the Junkers’ record of fighting the destruction of Russia and the Soviet Union won them the support of the people.

If it were those lunatics, they would have used blackmail to stop Ivan.

People felt that kind of faith.

“Citizens, it’s time to change your mind. Give strength to a truly patriotic conservative party, not the weak KDF that can’t even say a word to the Soviet Union. Only then will the Ivans come to their senses and stop acting so arrogantly toward Germany.”

“That’s right. Those guys from the Democratic Party of Korea, they just talk nice words but don’t take action.”

The Junckers’ approval ratings suddenly rose to a level that threatened the CDU.

Although the votes were mostly based on displaced people from the east, they were still threatening enough.

“Does it make sense for such anachronistic people to look down on the ruling party?”

Moscow saw this and began to doubt the West’s intentions.

“Weren’t the Westerners the ones who released those war criminals in the first place? Comrades, you should think carefully. It’s possible that the West had this picture in mind from the beginning.”

“I really do get annoyed by the Western bastards’ tricks. I think I understand why Comrade Stalin had such a pathological hatred for the West.”

The moment the Soviet Union’s paranoia kicked in, the air of post-Cold War sentiment began to flow in a subtle direction again.

The Soviet Union felt that Britain and the United States were not sincere in their gesture of reconciliation.

No, I felt like it showed hostility.

Even in this subtle flow, both sides tried not to show ill feelings toward each other.

Both sides continued their conversation, avoiding sensitive topics.

“In any case, shouldn’t we prevent nuclear war?”

Both sides agreed with this proposition.

But neither side put down their weapons.

Both sides worked tirelessly to expand their influence behind the scenes in preparation for a possible resumption of the Cold War.

“North Vietnam, these guys, are they really going to help us?”

“Even a cat’s paw would help somehow.”

When the Soviet Union reached out to North Vietnam, McCarthy did not stay still.

“What did I tell you? I said there were signs of a communist domino effect in Southeast Asia?”

McCarthy took this opportunity to advocate intervention in Vietnam.

“If Vietnam falls, Cambodia and Laos will fall, then Thailand, and then Malaysia.”

It was a scenario the United States did not even want to think about.

“Mr. President, McCarthy has some truth to his words, so we must also extend our hand.”

France was scheduled to withdraw from South Vietnam, or the Vietnamese Empire, at the end of this year.

The Stevenson administration was reluctant to reach out to Vietnam, but it had no intention of allowing communist dominoes to fall.

“If that is the case, provide aid to South Vietnam.”

Stevenson passed a resolution providing military supplies and aid money to South Vietnam.

The two sides fought like this behind the scenes while smiling and talking on the top floor.

In the meantime, a big incident occurred.

“You want to bring our US military base into your territory?”

“Oh, we were a country that wanted to be friendly with Washington from the beginning. We ended up entangled with the communists, but that’s not our real intention.”

To begin with, Turkey was a capitalist country that was far from a communist regime.

It was even stranger that such a country continued to side with the Soviet Union for security reasons alone.

Taking advantage of the post-Cold War atmosphere, Turkey has proposed to give up the land for US military bases in an attempt to draw a line at the United States.

The United States naturally accepted this.

“If we set up a base in Turkey, a strategic location, it will be easy to keep the communists in check even if they change their minds. That’s perfect.”

Of course, the Soviet Union took this as a major provocation.

“Are you crazy Americans? Turkey is our front yard!”

Khrushchev and Malenkov could no longer stand it and criticized the United States in public.

But Washington did not stay still.

“What’s wrong with a sovereign state exercising its sovereignty?”

The briefly warm atmosphere of the post-Cold War period cooled down with this argument.

“From the beginning, the idea of ​​ending the Cold War was out of the question. It seems like we were dreaming a pipe dream.”

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union virtually gave up on the possibility of reconciliation with the West over the Turkish issue.

There was only one country that welcomed this situation: South Korea.