Moscow, a world of ice and snow.
This is the coldest time of the year. It has reached the end of 1979, and it is about to enter the door of 80 years.
In the Kremlin, the heating was burning prosperously. Standing in front of the huge map, Dmitry Fedorovich Ustinov had fiery eyes in his eyes, as if he was looking at his lover. Look at the map.
The peculiar resolute lines on his face and a pair of dark-framed glasses made him look a little gentle, but this person has never been a bit muddled, he is definitely a hardline figure in the Soviet Union.
Now, he is looking at the map. On the map, two places are his most important.
"It's really hard to choose." Ustinov said: "Now that the situation in Afghanistan is deteriorating day by day, we want to bring Afghanistan back to our camp. We can only use force."
Just in April this year, a coup took place in Afghanistan in the southern part of the Soviet Union. A group of young Afghan military officers launched a coup and overthrew the Daoud regime. It’s just that this time it didn’t make any major news. The whole world’s eyes are on the Far East. After all, the Hokkaido war was in full swing.
Afghanistan has never ceased in modern times. The sorrow of Afghanistan lies in its geographical location. It is on the main road of transportation between east and west. Every powerful country wants to hold this transportation in its hands and become its own territory.
For the Soviet Union, it was to open up the passage to the south. After all, a large area of the Soviet Union was in high latitudes. At the beginning, Tsar Peter the Great set a goal for his descendants: to advance south to Constantinople and India, ruling there, ruling the world! When Russia can freely enter the Indian Ocean, it will be able to establish its own military and political rule in the world!
Under this line of thinking, Lao Maozi made a lot of efforts. For example, in the second half of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, Tsarist Russia and Britain almost fought for Afghanistan.
After the end of World War II, the Soviet Union began to look to the future after healed the scars of World War II. In the 1950s, Afghanistan and Pakistan had a serious dispute over the Pashtunistan issue, and the war between the two countries was on the verge of breaking out. The Soviet Union found an opportunity to express its firm support for Afghanistan’s position on this issue, and suddenly pulled Afghanistan into the arms of the Soviet Union.
At that time, the relationship between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union entered a short honeymoon period. Unfortunately, Afghanistan was unwilling to be manipulated. In recent years, the distance between Afghanistan and the Soviet Union has grown farther and farther.
The Soviet Union planned a coup and wanted to support a puppet. However, it will soon be discovered that the situation in Afghanistan cannot be solved by a puppet. The internal contradictions in Afghanistan are too complicated. Only when the Soviet Union takes possession of Afghanistan can it be settled!
Now Ustinov is thinking about whether to start a war and invade Afghanistan.
The country has a bumper harvest every year and the value of industrial output has continued to increase. At the same time, thanks to the continuous increase in world oil prices, the Soviet Union’s foreign exchange reserves have also risen to a new high. It can be said that the country has the ability to support a new war. The militant Ustinov couldn't wait a long time ago.
But at the same time, in the other direction, there is also a good opportunity now.
Of course it is an island country.
That fool, President Carter, actually did something in Hokkaido. Now, there is a terrible situation in which a Soviet worker was killed. This is a perfect opportunity. The Soviet army can use this as an excuse at any time to provoke new things in Hokkaido. war.
Therefore, what Ustinov now faces is two roads. Should it go south or continue to expand in the east
Both roads have sex.
Ustinov's eyes, looking at Afghanistan for a while, and the Far East for a while, were obviously hesitant. Finally, he turned his head back and asked a young officer: "Andrei, do you have any good ideas?"
Andrei, despite his young age, is highly valued. In the Far East, he obtained the ice-free port that went out of the Pacific Ocean. That is Andrei's masterpiece. Now, Andrei returned to Moscow and was summoned to participate in this In his mind, he knew the great responsibility for the planning of national decision-making.
You can't step on this fire pit in Afghanistan, it's an imperial graveyard.
The Afghan War was a turning point for the Soviet Union from its prosperity to its decline. Before the Soviet Union started the Afghan War, although various domestic contradictions in the Soviet Union had begun to become prominent, after all, the Soviet Union was still a huge empire. Moreover, the high oil prices at that time gave the Soviet Union, a country that mainly relied on exporting oil as the backbone of its economy, to obtain a steady stream of foreign exchange reserves. The Soviet Union sent troops to Afghanistan based on the wealth of the national treasury.
I originally thought that I would be able to solve the Afghan problem quickly and quickly, and gain access to the south, but who could have imagined that it would end in the same way as the United States.
Invasion is easy, occupation is easy, and defense is not easy. There are mountains everywhere, and it is simply the world of guerrillas, which is beyond the control of the Soviet Union.
At the same time, the war in Afghanistan allowed the world to see the hegemonic behavior of the Soviet Union. It also allowed Saudi countries to attack the Soviet Union in the form of self-injury. They continued to increase oil production and caused the international crude oil price to plummet. The selling price of a few dollars made the Soviet Union lose as much as it exported, which greatly hit the Soviet Union's economy.
What's the use of Afghanistan for the Soviet Union? Gain access to the Indian Ocean and break the Western world's siege in the Pacific and Atlantic? What is the bird use? It is better to defeat the island nation thoroughly and rush out of the Pacific!
If it was before, the Soviets would think about it at best, but now, the Soviet Union's national strength is constantly increasing, and the Soviet Union is finally capable of gaining an advantage in the US-Soviet hegemony! "Marshal, since you asked my opinion, then I boldly stated my opinion." Andrei said: "For us, Afghanistan is not of much use. It is not worth our fight."
Andre has a clear-cut stand.
Hearing what the little fellow Andre said, Andropov looked at him with bright eyes. Andropov admires his son-in-law very much. Yes, Afghanistan is not as important as it used to be. However, it is difficult to persuade the people in front of you to abandon the line established in Peter the Great's time.
"Andre, you said we just sit and watch Afghanistan become a country hostile to us?" Sure enough, someone spoke. (End of this chapter)