USSR 1991

The situation is still at a stalemate, and Yanayev warned the three leaders who tried to separate the family with the strongest attitude, that you can never take a piece of land belonging to the Soviet Union from me.And the Baltic Sea, which is backed by NATO countries behind it, is also struggling to support it.Yanayev had the illusion of returning to the historical timeline of 1962.Khrushchev also fell into a terrible stalemate with Kennedy, but that time Khrushchev used his own concessions to avoid the possibility of human beings entering the doomsday.

Regardless of the fact that the times have changed now, just like Cuba, which the United States is worried about, the political instability in the Baltic Sea is like a sharp nail directly inserted into the heart of Moscow.Once Yanayev chooses to compromise, the following domino-like chain reaction will cause the Soviet Union to lose most of the union republics.

Yanayev is not competing with the three clowns in front of him, but with the huge free world behind them.

Throwing out the hand of the Baltic Fleet, and even some relatively concealed unconventional weapons were brought to the table as trump cards to play in the gambling game. Yanayev was running out of trump cards.The tough attitude that seems to be pressing every step of the way is really helpless. No country with confidence will squander its trump card so casually.If NATO persists, he really only has the last card for life, the R-36M Satan intercontinental ballistic missile.

But Yanayev is very clear that doing so is no less than sending humans into a new generation of stone civilization.

And now Yanayev is going to play the penultimate trump card, just like stacking straws on a camel, Yanayev keeps putting military pressure on NATO, one after another, until it can be overwhelmed The last straw for their psychological defense.

Three Tu-27 bombers specially escorted by Su-160 fighter jets took off from the Soviet home airport and flew towards the Baltic Sea.Known as the "Pirate Flag" by the West, the Tu-160 bomber spread its huge wings, flitting across the blue sky like an elegant and noble swan, and flew over the three Baltic countries like a floating white island.

And these three Tu-160 bombers are loaded with nuclear warheads, and they have become a nuclear weapons arsenal moving in mid-air.As long as Yanayev gives an order, the pilot will press the red button, and the death in the air will fall in piles on the territory of the Baltic Sea. In an instant, the three countries will become a replica of Chernobyl .

After receiving the radar warning, the three Baltic countries urgently dispatched MiG-27 fighter jets to intercept them, but no pilot dared to attack him openly. First, the Su-160 fighter jets that followed Tu 27 were staring at the MiG-27's attack. Every move, as long as he dares to make deviant behavior, the MiG 27 driver has to weigh whether he is the opponent of the Su 27 "air scalpel".The second is that the Tu-160 bomber is full of nuclear warheads. Even if it flies over the three Baltic countries, no one dares to attack. Once those nuclear bombs explode, Estonia will also be unable to escape the fate of becoming Chernobyl.

The pilot of the MiG-27 was ordered to monitor the movement of the Tu-160 bomber throughout the entire process, and only when he passed over the capital could he intercept it.The Estonian Air Force is also very helpless. This feeling is like a robber swaggering into your house to move things, but you can only watch him do whatever he wants because you are not strong enough for others.

Therefore, the moment Estonian President Arnold received the news, his expression was also not good.He even wanted to rush outside the conference room to see if the bomber was aiming at him where the bomb fell.

"Yanaev, what are you doing? Threatening us with nuclear weapons?" Arnold gritted his teeth, and in front of the powerful Soviet armed forces, the whole of Estonia was like a lamb waiting to be slaughtered.

"Threat? President Arnold, you think highly of yourself." Yanayev shook his head, holding a pen in his hand, and wanted to stand it on the table. Finale killer. To put it another way you can understand, how many divisions can the three Baltic armies add up to be equivalent to Moscow? Don’t think too highly of yourself. The guys behind you who are fueling the flames are the ones I really want to attack."

"And now that group of guys may not be able to bear it anymore, all I need to do is lick another firewood." Yanayev gently pushed the pen on the table, and the tip of the pen pointed at Estonian President Arnold, Like a sharp sword, straight to the heart.This pen represents the last card in his hand, the Soviet armored division.As a country's army, the Estonian armed forces, including logistics personnel, are not enough for two Soviet armored divisions.

So far, Yanayev has played all the cards in his hand except the Satan ICBM, which is his life-saving hole card.Next, it depends on whether NATO countries will restrain themselves because of his tough attitude.

T72 tanks are like a long steel dragon, crowding the road leading to the border.This fully equipped tank and armored division uniformly aimed its artillery fire in the direction of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia.The tracks of the tanks are turning, and the indestructible torrent of steel will crush all obstacles in front of them.

The soldiers walked neatly and looked into the distance with resolute eyes.With the AK74 rifles in their hands ready to go, they sang the "Soviet March" which spread rapidly from the ranks, and rushed to the distant battlefield.The political commissar stood among them, and together they sang this majestic military song written by Yanayev himself to the front line.

The Hind helicopter passed over the soldiers' heads, and the sound waves brought about by the turning of the propellers carried this impassioned song far away.Let those who dare to offend the Soviet Union, for the first time, have the most primitive fear in their hearts.

"We the Soviets will punish the world!"

The roar of tanks rolling over the road startled the birds perched on the trees by the roadside, and the golden wheat fields fell in the direction of the war gears passing by. ground fragments.The people looked at these sudden invaders in panic, just like the fearful eyes of the citizens of Budapest in 1956.

"From the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean!"

At the outpost on the Estonian border, the soldiers with cigarettes in their mouths even forgot to light the fire, watching helplessly as the seemingly endless torrent of armor passed by them.Then he was knocked to the ground and his gun was handed over.Until the last moment, he did not believe that the so-called torrent of steel was really an endless ocean of war.

"October sings the praises of the earth!"

The Estonian armored forces had no power to fight back in the face of the torrent of steel. The so-called "Maginot" strategic defense line, which claimed to be able to resist the attack of Soviet tanks, was easily torn apart, and the continuous Soviet tanks drove straight in without even encountering much loss.

"Soviet red giant bear is about to arrive!"

The Estonian army finally despaired. Their previous pride was instantly shattered at this moment. They now understand that the armored forces they are proud of are not the opponents of the Soviet tank divisions. As with the Prague Spring, the events of April, Soviet troops took full control of the situation.From start to finish, the offense took just under four hours.At the time, the commander-in-chief of the Estonian Army assured Arnold that they could stop the Soviet troops for a week until the combined NATO forces rushed to the Soviet Union.

"Ula!"

Chapter 24 A Fluke

In contrast to the exaggerated show of the German army, the Soviet army's almost secretive lightning operations, large-scale armored troops rushed into Estonia without warning, and even panicked the East German frontline troops far away from Poland and Belarus. Deep in my memory, I still retain the most primitive fear of the Soviet army who conquered the Capitol and shouted Ulla in unison.Those West German troops began to hesitate at the border, while the former East German People's Army soldiers applauded the tough attitude of the Soviet Union.

Yanayev also named this military operation the Thunderstorm Project, which has the same name as the Soviet World War II plan that has not been implemented in history, except that the target of the attack is not Berlin, but Tallinn.

In Tallinn, the capital of Estonia, President Arnold, who has not yet given up his final resistance, is in a final stalemate and confrontation with Yanayev at the negotiating table.Although people kept announcing the fall of the troops stationed in various parts of Estonia, Arnold never moved his footsteps to leave here.

"Congratulations, Yanayev, you have won. What a wonderful attack plan, the civilian airliner loaded soldiers to raid the airport, and the camouflaged cruise ship loaded armored vehicles to capture the pier. It is a replica of Operation Prague. The slight difference is that you have to Khrushchev is much more courageous. You are sitting at the negotiating table pressing each other step by step, while watching your opponent lose his mind and throw away his helmet and armor. Are you satisfied? Are you happy? Congratulations, you have destroyed it again. A country that would have escaped the clutches of an evil empire." Estonian President Arnold is the only one who has not yet left the negotiating table.Vytautas and Anatoly had been sent out of Tallinn when the Soviets began their offensive.Originally, Arnold was also one of the dignitaries who should have left, but he resolutely rejected this request.

"Those people who support me are still in this land. If I leave, what will the people think of me? I would rather be a victim of tyranny to wake up more people than be a coward who escaped." Arnold's categorical attitude of going to the end this time has more backbone than his last plan to establish a government-in-exile.Perhaps he knew that even if he established a government-in-exile, it would be futile because the Soviets had absolute control over this land.

So when the Soviet airborne troops who occupied Tallinn International Airport surrounded the conference room, Arnold asked the people around him to put down their weapons and surrender, while Yanayev waved his hands to signal the airborne troops not to embarrass Estonian President Arnold.Yanayev has not left this conference room for almost 13 hours. He glanced at the Estonian national emblem with three blue lions surrounded by Nordic oak branches and leaves, and said slowly, "Actually, I have given you a chance before. It’s because you believe too much in NATO. That’s what led to the current situation. It’s a very stupid thing to entrust your own destiny to others without your own strength. Unfortunately, NATO seems to treat you as abandoned children. Those who wandered into the Baltic Sea The fleet has been withdrawn, the German armored forces have been terrified, and now your only hope is NATO's mediation. But don't get your hopes up too much."

If the old foxes of NATO can be forced to come to the negotiating table with him, then Yanayev can be said to have won half of the Baltic crisis.The remaining half is NATO's attitude towards other Eastern European countries.

"Is there any benefit in continuing to be a member of your evil empire? The dictatorial president." Now that Arnold is in jail anyway, he doesn't mind breaking the jar, and directly reprimanded, "Look at the way you aggressors rule Estonia. How many crimes our people suffered at that time, we were successively occupied and ruled by Prussia, Denmark, Sweden, Poland, Germany, etc. Since 1710, Estonia has been ruled by Tsarist Russia for more than 200 years. Only on February 1918, 2 Declare the independence of the Estonian Republic. Only a day later, the Germans occupied Tallinn, and then in November, you Soviet Russia declared sovereignty over Estonia."

"Under your terrible rule, Tallinn has no future. Those purges, those purges, the people who died because of Soviet tyranny will never wait for the justice and judgment that should come. Kremlin thugs! One day you will be nailed to the rack of shame in history, and you will never be able to stand up!"

In the last sentence, Arnold almost roared, but in Yanayev's view, these direct accusations were just as unreasonable as a crying child complaining to an adult.If you feel guilty or guilty, go to Stalin, Khrushchev, or even Lenin to vent your feelings and ask me why?The only thing I can do is send you to meet them.

"I'm not interested in the fate of Estonia at all." Yanayev threw a document in front of Arnold, "But you should read this document at the negotiating table before talking to me about independence."

Arnold took the document with doubtful eyes, opened the cover, but the content inside made him more and more excited, regardless of the danger he was in, he read the document in detail in front of Yanayev.After a long time, he raised his head and sighed, "A country has two different systems at the same time? Such a good plan, why didn't you throw it out as a bargaining chip before the negotiations started?"

"You didn't give me a chance at the beginning. In fact, this is the best choice for your joining countries. Apart from enjoying foreign sovereignty in diplomacy, you don't have the right to maintain your own army. You must send troops from Moscow. You cannot arbitrarily compete with sovereignty The country signs treaties related to sovereignty, except for other economic treaties. Economically, you enjoy great autonomy. You can even rectify political parties, change your own political system, and democratically elect the executive chief executive of the joining countries, but on the issue of national unity Must be responsible to the Moscow Central Committee. The Moscow Central Committee has the right to abolish any chief executive who is inclined to independence, and then a new chief executive will be elected by the people. Oh, there is another problem, that is, to pay taxes on time, and not to use industries that control the lifeline of the national economy. For example, electricity, heavy industrial manufacturing is contracted to private individuals, especially foreign businessmen, and the Communist Party cannot be declared an illegal political party in the country.”

This is Yanayev's big stick and candied dates policy. First use military strength to deter the imminent ambitions of Eastern European countries, and then use economic interests to make him compromise.In fact, the Moscow authorities have also made considerable sacrifices and compromises. If they continue to adopt a high-pressure policy, even if they use military means to temporarily regain the peace among the alliance countries, it will only be brewing for the next storm.

And the counterattack at that time will turn from a single spark to a prairie fire.

Yanayev copied the political systems of other countries to a large extent, but he was very tight on some political sovereignty issues, while the economic issues were relatively loose.Isn't it because of poverty that the people of the three Baltic countries want independence?Okay, I will give you the opportunity to develop yourself, but in terms of sovereignty, you are still an inalienable and inherent territory of the Soviet Union since ancient times.

If summed up, this document is a radical version of the Program of Action of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia. As long as the sovereignty of the member countries is in hand, as long as they pay taxes on time, the so-called development of a multi-ownership economy, the red polar bear is simply turning a blind eye. Eye.The document released was also the result of repeated discussions between Yanayev and Ryzhkov for many days.

"It seems that God has not abandoned Estonia!" President Arnold shed tears excitedly. What he has been striving for for many years is that the country can develop on its own one day?Although it has not won the country's due sovereignty for the time being, compared with the previous control, the Soviet Union has been extraordinarily merciful.

But then Yanayev told Arnold the bad news, "Of course, I'm afraid you have no share in Estonia's democratic elections, Arnold. Since you incited Estonian citizens to oppose Soviet rule, it can basically be regarded as treason. You will have Weeks in court, and years to pass in a Siberian prison where ice and snow fall eight months a year."

Chapter 25 Panic in the Free World

The first one who is not calm is the German government. German Chancellor Helmut Kohl is almost a frightened bird now. Not only did the original plan to make the Soviet surrender aborted, but it also caused the army to have an inexplicable fear of the Red Empire.Especially when they heard that it took less than four hours for the huge Imperial Panzer Corps to completely disarm a country, it was enough to make this group of soldiers stationed on the eastern border of Poland and Germany tremble with fear.

Moreover, Moscow has said harshly that if the NATO group continues to act recklessly on the territory inherent in the Soviet Union, they will not mind turning the crisis of the three countries in the Baltic Sea into another version of the Cuban Missile Crisis.Only then did Helmut, who had been taught a lesson, realize that the Soviet Union was still a powerful super empire, and would not become a second-rate country because of Gorbachev's weakness in power for more than ten years.As long as a strong leader takes over, even if the internal group is in crisis, it can continue to suppress the West for another ten years.

Without greeting NATO allies, the German government was the first to issue a statement, saying that Germany's actions on the border were just a large-scale exercise that fully complied with international regulations.It is hoped that the Soviet Union can exercise restraint. Regarding the Baltic Sea issue, Germany expresses deep regret, and at the same time looks forward to the development of friendly cooperation between Moscow and the three Baltic Sea countries.

On the contrary, Germany's official statement has a feeling of superfluous, and this sentence has the taste of 300 taels of silver, and the foreign ministry spokesman Boris Dmitrievich Pankin has already drawn up a speech , claiming that the Baltic Sea crisis was an internal matter of the Soviet Union, and that no country had the right to use this crisis to interfere in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union.Whoever it is will be punished by communism.Especially those robbers who came in from Skagerrak but ran back in despair.

"These Siberian bandits are really terrible monsters. Quickly, put me through the phone, I want to contact the White House." Helmut Kohl said nervously, he didn't want Germany to become a confrontation between NATO and Warsaw Pact frontline battlefield.

Also gathered to discuss countermeasures were the British Secretary of Defense Tom King and British Prime Minister John Major. In fact, they did not expect that when the sun never sets, the navy tried its best to show its strength in European waters. He was slapped in the face with merciless ridicule by the other party.

The British people booed the government, and the BBC British radio and television taunted, "Our government navy originally imagined that the proud victors would drive those damned robbers out of the Baltic Sea, but we didn't expect to be like a stray dog. The same was driven out of the Gulf of Finland. God knows where the taxpayers pay so much tax every year is used by these governments?"

"Great Britain has been humiliated twice in front of the whole world. If the first time was the unreasonable arrogance of the Soviet Union, the second time we put our face in front of the other side and let the other party slap us hard!" Prime Minister John Major was a little frustrated Well, this incident is enough for those political opponents who are eyeing his position to catch him, and such a poor diplomatic performance has also caused his public support rate to drop by several percentage points.

"But isn't it a good thing, my lord Prime Minister?" Defense Secretary Tom King openly contradicted John Major.

"Good thing?" John Major was about to get angry, but when he saw the calm face of the Minister of Defense, he calmed down again. As one of the foreign policy think tanks of the current government, Tom King did have a unique ability to think about things. , "Tell me how such a bad scene turned into a good thing?"

"It's time to ask the parliament for money and revive the navy. Using this incident, the prime minister can hold a press conference to publicize the importance of building a strong navy to the public. In this way, under the pressure of public opinion, the parliament It is simply impossible to cut down the army's budget, and increasing the budget means we can build a few more destroyers." Tom King tapped his fingers on the table rhythmically, pausing every time he said a word, like It is the same as summing up what has been said.

Tom King is a well-known hawk in the government. In his opinion, no UK without a powerful navy is as incomplete as an eagle with broken wings.It is a pity that since World War II, the British army has retreated from the original maritime supremacy to the second line, and financial constraints in recent years have also delayed the British fleet construction plan.