Churchill suffered a big fight. The election results show that the Conservative Party's sudden adjustment of foreign policy was a huge mistake. It did not want to bear high military spending and was afraid of Soviet nuclear weapons and abandoned the fat man who led them to win. Churchill's Conservative Party suffered a Waterloo in the election and was defeated in a mess. It only won 101 seats, which is nearly half less than the 197 seats in history. The Labor Party won a comprehensive victory and could almost make the Conservative Party go away.

"Ungratitude to their great people is a sign of a great nation." Churchill, who walked out of No. 10 Downing Street, sadly could only comfort himself with such self-deception. However, this fat man did not lack confidence in the future. He said when he summoned Learvin for the last time at No. 10 Downing Street, "Madam, we will work together in this office again in five years. The Labor Party will not last long, let's wait and see!"

Yes, Attley was weaker than Churchill in all aspects, and the unilateral conservative contraction policy he implemented seemed to be a dead end in Churchill. In the words of the old smoker, "This is a new appeasement policy to the Soviet Union. The last time we used it to deal with the Nazis and suffered an unprecedented defeat, and this time we used it to deal with the Bolsheviks, it was still a defeat."

Churchill left No. 10 Downing Street in a little downturn. I have to say that this is a bit sad. After stepping down, he was preparing to write a memoir of World War II, and on the other hand, he was also preparing to visit his old friend Roosevelt. Roosevelt, who had stepped down as president, was not very happy. He, who had a tense relationship with his wife, was difficult to get care after being completely paralyzed.

You can imagine how sad the scenes when Churchill and Roosevelt met. Just a few months ago, they were still one of the two giants in the world, but a few months later they were the past. Politically, they were always with the red-top and white, and those who lost power would not receive sympathy and attention.

"Old friend, what do you think about the future situation?" Churchill asked Roosevelt lying on the bed with his iconic large cigar in his mouth.

The old president's face was pretty good today. The arrival of his old friend dispelled his loneliness. He finally had someone to talk to.

"The situation is not optimistic, and the Soviet Union will bring great challenges. For the time being, it is difficult to curb the expansion of the Red Empire!" Roosevelt's thinking was still very sharp and clear. He said with concern: "And our successors seem not very competent now. Attlee is a naive person. He prefers to please voters rather than facts. Truman lacks prestige and it is difficult to calm down those unruly soldiers and old politicians."

When it comes to Truman, the old president seemed very irritable because the post-war U.S. national policy seemed inexplicable, sometimes tough and sometimes weak, and was always swaying left and right. Those veteran politicians and generals put too much pressure on Truman. Especially the Congress, which was controlled by the Republican Party, made it difficult for Truman to really do anything. What's worse is that the main opponent of the United States, the Soviet Union, was much smoother in the transfer of power. Trotsky's departure did not cause power turmoil. The three giants led by Li Xiaofeng, Sverdlov and Luzutak quickly took over the state's power, and the Soviet Union moved forward steadily at the established pace.

In Roosevelt's view, on the one hand, it was the "difficulty" between Britain and the United States, and on the other hand, it was the "straight of the head" of the Soviet Union. This means that the gap between the Soviet Union and Britain and the United States will still decrease rapidly in the next four to five years, which means that the challenges in the future are very great.

Anyway, Roosevelt was quite worried, and Churchill's arrival even worsened his concerns. He used to think that even if Truman was not very powerful, Churchill, who could take the helm at a critical moment, controlled the wheel of the free and democratic world. Now Churchill has fallen unexpectedly, that is to say, the free and democratic world is now controlled by a group of clowns, and the future is dark!

"The Soviet ambitions will ruin them," Churchill could only comfort his old friends. "Now people can't see the true face of the Soviet Union, just like Hitler in the 1930s, can confuse the world. But once they show their hideous fangs, they will be ruthlessly abandoned. Let the Russians be proud for a while. The fruit of victory is not so easy to digest. Once they are indigested, it is our chance."

Roosevelt nodded slowly. Although he knew that this was just a comfort from his old friend, the situation Churchill said was not impossible. If the United States and Britain were smart enough, the process could be accelerated.

But it's a bit early to talk about these things now, and there is no meaning. Even if the two "old ghosts" who are not on the stage have made a good plan, how many people can listen to them? Churchill's Iron Curtain speech in the United States before was booed and criticized by the news media as "war dealers". So Roosevelt decided to change the topic: "What are you going to do in Palestine?"

Churchill sighed: "Attley is ready to give in. Now public opinion and public opinion are very unfavorable to us. The people generally demand the withdrawal of troops. Attley is ready to submit to this pressure. He is ready to evacuate the army from Palestine and only give military assistance to the Arabs."

As a person who has been dealing with the Soviet Union for a long time, Roosevelt shook his head and said, "This is not enough!"

"Who said no!" Churchill also sighed, "Our concessions will only make the Soviet Union worse. Before, they only dared to give Jews military aid under the guise of humanitarianism. Now they may interfere directly without hesitation... And the Arabs are unreliable, extremely naive in military and political terms, and they actually agreed to a temporary ceasefire. It is conceivable that after taking a breath, the Jews will beat them to their butts and urinate!"

Speaking of this, Churchill couldn't help but sigh again. The most stupid thing that made him feel was not the Arabs. It was understandable that those rustled people were foolish because they lacked political experience and it was too normal to be deceived. Didn't the British Empire deceive them for more than 20 years? Attlee was the one who really drove Churchill crazy. This idiot actually believed in the so-called armistice, and actually said that the British government would strictly abide by the armistice agreement and promised that no one would allow anyone to destroy the peace. Isn't this stupid?

Churchill could imagine that during the precious armistice, East Prussia and the Soviet Union would unload ship-made arms from the docks in Haifa and send tens of thousands of East Prussian Defense Forces to Palestine. After the armistice agreement expires, the ones waiting for the Arabs are not peace but an iron lion armed to the teeth, and the Arabs will be beaten by then.

Roosevelt sighed after hearing this. He was not unfamiliar with such routines. This operation method was a pediatric trick in politics. Now what makes people speechless is that the British who are well versed in this way was actually deceived. In the past hundred years, this was almost unimaginable. Is this the so-called extreme of things to reverse?

Just as Roosevelt was a little distracted, Churchill sighed again: "If you don't talk about this annoying topic, are your actions in China still going well? That Chairman Chiang is much smarter than the Arabs, and he has not been involved in the Bolshevik tricks, right?"

This time it was Roosevelt's turn to sigh. He blinked and said helplessly: "He is indeed much smarter than the Arabs, but what's bad is that these smarter tricks only belong to the category of cleverness. The DPP's support in China is quite bad, and he is unwilling to really fight the * problem. He lost even more points on the land issue. The only force he can rely on is facing the demolition of some internal schizophrenia forces. In short, it's a mess!"

In fact, Roosevelt hasn't said anything worse yet, that is Truman's hesitation. To be fair, if the United States goes out and supports the Democratic Party at all costs, it will become difficult for Chiang to become difficult. What's bad is that Truman has a very bad impression of Chiang, and he always thinks that he is not a friend of the democratic world, just a dictator full of lies, and this dictator has a group of followers like locusts. In Truman's eyes, T is an ideological enemy, while Chiang is an enemy of the democratic party. Anyway, they are enemies. This determines that it is difficult for him to support Chiang in all aspects. Truman is very unwilling to think that he and Chiang are the same as the scum, so he has to draw a clear line with Chiang in moral terms.

This has led to the US's China policy always being swayed. On the one hand, it is necessary to crack down on the Communist Party from the perspective of curbing communism. On the other hand, it is necessary to cut off the poor political image of the Democratic Party and Mr. Chiang. The consequence of this is that the United States is struggling on the issue of China.

"I heard that the DPP and the Communist Party are also conducting peace negotiations?" Churchill asked again.

Roosevelt sighed again: "It's just a show. I know very well that Chairman Chiang is impossible to live in peace with the Republic and establish a coalition government. He is now oppressed by us and the public opinion and has to pretend, and the preparations are not completed, so he is temporarily patient. Once his army is in place, the civil war in China will break out immediately."

Churchill nodded thoughtfully and asked, "If someone from Chiang provokes a civil war, will the US government still stand on his side?"

Roosevelt smiled: "Nominally, we will adopt the same policies as the current Soviet Union in Palestine, calling for peace and sanctioning those who provoke war. But in fact, in order to prevent communism from spreading in the East, we will secretly support the slaughter of the Democratic Party and let them act as pawns to resist Soviet expansion."

Churchill nodded, as if he was relieved. But immediately what Roosevelt said made him feel cold again: "But to be honest, even with our support, I don't really like Chairman Jiang..."

Churchill couldn't believe it because he was quite optimistic about Chairman Chiang before. In his opinion, the old fox didn't do his best to fight the Japanese to suppress the Communist Party. It was impossible for him to do something when suppressing the Communist Party, right?

"It's not a question of attitude," Roosevelt smiled bitterly, "it's a matter of ability. His trick of preserving strength seems to have preserved strength, but in my opinion, he is waiting for the T-Gong to become stronger. In the battle against Japan, the T-Gong not only expanded the army through active actions, but also accumulated rich combat experience, but more importantly, it greatly won the support of the Chinese people. On the contrary, Chairman Chiang's army is probably mostly a scheming. When a few elites trained by us are consumed, the result waiting for him is probably not optimistic!"

Churchill did not expect Roosevelt to be so pessimistic. He couldn't help but become even more nervous. Although modern Chinese history is an absolute tragedy, the potential hidden in this country is quite amazing. Once it breaks out, it will be earth-shaking. Once the Democratic Party is scrapped and the Communist Party is brought to power, it will be a disaster for the free and democratic world that is no less than that of the October Revolution of the Soviet Union.

"It's really so unsatisfactory?" Churchill asked.

Roosevelt sighed and replied: "You know that before the war is about to end, our country sent a military observation group to Yan'an. After a long-term investigation, the investigation group believes that whether it is organizational structure, democracy, morale, influence or mobilization ability, the t-communist Communist Party is far stronger than the t-communist party. Compared with the t-communist party, the t-communist party is a rotting political zombie. The t-communist party even advises us not to waste our energy on the t-communist party, the t-communist party is the goal worthy of cooperation."

Speaking of this, Roosevelt couldn't help but sigh again: "I admire the Russians in this regard and found a truly worthy partner from the beginning. Before the report of the observation group came out, I thought that the Soviet Union valued the Communist Party only because they belonged to the same communist party. Obviously this conclusion was wrong..."

Churchill listened very carefully. If it weren't for the situation that wouldn't allow it, he even wanted to take out a small notebook and write down what Roosevelt said one by one. These are precious wealth! Although he is no longer the prime minister and the UK is not able to interfere in China affairs for the time being, who can guarantee that the day when Britain does not deal with T will be better at knowing more potential opponents. What's more, Roosevelt also highly recommends this opponent, so he needs to pay more attention.

Late that night, Churchill wrote a letter to the Conservative Shadow Foreign Minister, reminding the other party to pay attention to China, especially the situation of the Communist Party. In the words of the old smoker, "This is very important!"

But here I have to make a splash. There may be many comrades who don’t know what the so-called shadow is, the shadow of the foreign minister? Is it the assistant of the foreign minister? Or the person who manipulates the foreign minister behind the scenes?

Haha, it is not. The British political tradition is quite special, and the shadow minister is one of them. In fact, not only are shadow foreign ministers, but in fact all the current ministers (ministers) in the British cabinet have corresponding "shadows". Of course, this shadow does not mean a backup. Shadow ministers do not belong to the ruling party, and the ministers of the ruling party cannot hide as shadows, right? The so-called shadow ministers belong to the opposition party. Take Churchill's conservative party for example. They are now opposition parties and do not have the power to govern, so naturally they cannot form a cabinet. But even the opposition parties are ambitious, and they may turn over in the next election?

Naturally, in order to make plans to turn over and form a cabinet in the future, the second tier must be cultivated when in the opposition party. The so-called shadow ministers are actually the second tier cultivated within the party by the opposition party in the form of simulated cabinets. Once the power is obtained, these shadow ministers can come to the front and take over the regime smoothly without being blind. To put it bluntly, this is the trick of the opposition party playing house. The shadow ministers are not real ministers, and they are barely considered as spare tires.

Of course, as a shadow minister, it is not enough to pretend to behave, so you still have to understand related affairs. Although the shadow foreign minister cannot really engage in diplomacy, it is inevitable to care about related foreign affairs. Churchill mentioned the shadow minister to prepare for the future.

So what is the current situation in China? On the eve of the storm, the last darkness before dawn, or when the storm is about to come. After Trotsky arrived at Yan'an for talks with the top leaders of the Communist Party of T, he basically made a clear judgment. It is probably an imminent civil war. Trotsky was not surprised by this. One of his purposes was to remind Trotsky to be vigilant, but it seems that this reminder is completely redundant. For the leadership of the Communist Party who came from 412 Middle School, it was completely fantastic that Jiang had experienced the tricks of someone else and wanted to take the initiative by surprise attacks.

So for Trotsky, his next visit to Yan'an was very pleasant. He could focus more on exchanges with the leaders of the Communist Party, not only on philosophical issues, the World Revolution, and military issues, but also on everything. This open and honest friendly communication benefited a lot from both sides, and the most important thing was to enhance friendship.

Many years later, Trotsky recalled: "The visit to Yan'an was very pleasant. Although this barren town in northwest China was economically underdeveloped, it was very full of ideals. What I came into contact with was a group of high-quality revolutionary comrades who were proficient in Marxist theory, full of motivation and extremely strong will. In many days, we talked about everything. They were able to face difficulties and were more humbly able to accept criticism and suggestions. Compared with some of our old revolutionaries, they were stronger in any way except not speaking Russian.

Many...the communication with Comrade Mao has benefited a lot. Although I was surprised by his unkempt style when I first met this comrade, I soon forgot about these things about the skin. He is very proficient in philosophy and can always point to the point. His language is never boring. Compared with our old revolutionaries who only know how to read according to the script, he is full of personal charm... If there are any regrets in the trip to Yan'an, it is that the time is too short and we have too many topics to talk about. Due to my mission, I have to go to Nanjing."

So what impression does Trotsky have of Nanjing? He wrote in his memoir: "Nanjing is boring. The city is empty and boring. Without the development of capitalism, it is full of capitalism. Most of the important members of the Democratic Party lack energy, as if they lack sleep. Comrade Cui Kefu told me that they do lack sleep. A considerable number of the important members of the Democratic Party focus on making money and enjoyment. They are busy dividing the property left by the Japanese invaders and traitors, reselling American supplies, and preparing for the civil war. The first impression that Mr. Jiang gave me was not very good. His thin cheeks and bald head gave me a gloomy feeling. I felt that his lack of sincerity and his flickering eyes meant playing with conspiracy. He always wanted to perfunctorily and tried to pretend that he was not ready to fight a civil war in front of me."

"This feeling is very bad. Not only him, but other important members of the Democratic Party also have similar expressions, hypocrisy and falsehood, and always trying to deceive us. Of course, it is more of their constant protests. They hope that the Soviet Union will stop supporting the Communist Party and demand that the Soviet Union respect the Democratic Party as the only legal government in China. They talk about similar words without getting tired of talking about them and say them whenever they have the chance. And when I talk about it privately and hope that they will also reject American weapons, they will immediately deny it and even become furious."

In Trotsky's words, some of the important members of the DPP were unable to communicate at all. Of course, Trotsky also saw the DPP's confidence. He wrote in his memoir: "DPP thought I really didn't know how much military aid the United States gave them, and always tried to talk about it in a small way, but on the other hand, they were happy to show their muscles in front of me, showing the planes, cannons, and tanks they obtained from the United States. They might think that this could scare the Soviet Union and force the Soviet Union to change its support for the T-Communist Communist Party. To be honest, this is really ridiculous."

Trotsky visited Nanjing, Wuhan, Chongqing and Guangzhou in depth, and carefully examined the national conditions of China in these four cities. When he returned to China, he admitted: "The Communist Party's revolutionary strategy is correct, and in a backward agricultural country, this is the only feasible strategy."

After returning to Moscow, Trotsky gave a special report to the Political Bureau. In the report, he said: "The Crimson Democratic Party is a strong outside and the middle. Thirty-year war has made the Chinese people yearn for peace, and those who wantonly provoke civil war cannot be supported. The Crimson Democratic Party's economy is in jeopardy, and the existence of bureaucratic capital and huge military expenditure have made the Crimson Democratic Region suffer. If no effective changes are made, collapse will be imminent. The Crimson Democratic Party's army is uneven, with elite troops with American equipment, but more are full of people.

The beggar-like army that does not even have shoes. The internal party of the DPP is too blindly optimistic about the future civil war, thinking that with the support of the United States, the TCP can be eliminated quickly, so military preparations are rough and if the progress is not smooth, a series of contradictions will be triggered. According to my observation, if the necessary support given to the DPP is given to the DPP, the victory of the Chinese Revolution is just around the corner. This will completely change the fundamental situation of the revolutionary struggle between our country and the world..." (To be continued.)

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Chapter completed!