"Hundreds of thousands of Soviet Red Army troops advanced into Greece secretly. The 79th Infantry Division, the 45th Mechanized Infantry Division, the Independent Fourth Mechanized Infantry Division of the First Balkan Front Army, and the 45th Mechanized Infantry Division, surrounded and annihilated the 29th Independent Mechanized Infantry Division of the British Army in the Isas Valley on the southern foot of the Pindus Mountains..com"

Such an amazing news spread wildly around the world at an even more amazing speed. For a moment, the world was shocked. Few people knew why this was for. It was clearly a friendly army, but now fascist Germany had just perished. A series of problems dealing with Germany after the war had not been finalized. This new war broke out again. What does this mean? What inside information is hidden in this? Will the world in the future be towards peace or will it move towards a new and larger war? These questions are all what people want to know. An army of more than 12,000 people suffered a catastrophe in an instant. This is probably not a trivial matter for any country. Even if the British do not retaliate, they must ask for an explanation from the Soviets.

When the news reached the UK, the entire British islands were in full swing. Just the day before, the newspapers in Britain were still in the news that the Germans were defeated and the great Commonwealth became the last winner of the war. But when they turned around, they reported it overwhelmingly that the British army suffered a crushing defeat in Greece. Almost every British were spitting, cursing the Russians' treacherous and the Russians' vengeance. Some of the voices seemed louder, that is, the government should immediately declare war on the Russians and use a more fierce attack to fight back against the despicable practice of the Russians.

Faced with the sudden attack of the Soviets, the British government led by Churchill responded quickly. On the second day after the Battle of the Southern Pindus Mountains, Churchill contacted US President Roosevelt. For a long time, the short and fat British iron-blooded Prime Minister was a purely primate in the cracks of his bones. He had profound prejudices on any form of socialist tendency. It was precisely under his lobbying and persistence that Britain did not hesitate to

He invested a lot of manpower, material resources and financial resources to interfere with the revolution in many European countries, including Greece. In Churchill's view, ** is a poisonous seedling that can grow rapidly and spread rapidly. As long as you give it a little space for survival, it will spread rapidly to the whole world. Therefore, since the end of World War I, Churchill has been promoting the encirclement of the Soviet Union. To this day, his thoughts have not only not changed, but have become increasingly intense.

During the call with Roosevelt, Churchill, on the one hand, sought the views of his allies on the other side of the ocean on this matter, and also hoped that the United States would first provide support to Britain in public opinion and put pressure on the Soviet Union through diplomatic means, forcing them to unconditionally release the captured British officers and soldiers. On the other hand, Churchill also hoped that the United States could formally intervene in this matter and transfer the troops originally renovated in Africa to Greece to support the British army in carrying out local wars there.

After all, he was an ally for a long time. Roosevelt agreed without hesitation to Churchill's first request. He claimed that he would contact the Soviet leaders in the shortest time and put pressure on the other side with the most severe and threatening words. However, Roosevelt did not make any promises about sending troops to Greece directly. After all, war is not a trivial matter, and it is obviously not a wise decision to start a war with the Soviet Union, where the military power is in its prime. What's more, although Roosevelt is the president of the United States and has the power to announce the war to the outside world, but then again, this war needs money to support it. In the political structure of the United States, the country's fiscal allocation power is in the hands of Congress. Therefore, if the US president wants to launch a war to the outside world, he must first obtain the consent of Congress.

Don’t think that Americans are all warlike. In the American regime system, there has always been a division between hawks and doves, and behind the two factions, each with great interest background. Before the Pearl Harbor incident in World War II, doves had an overwhelming advantage in the two houses of Congress. To be honest, if it weren’t for the sudden launch of a sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States would never have joined the war under the circumstances at that time.

Now, after several years of war, the fascist axial forces of Germany, Japan and Italy have finally been lifted out. The dawn of international peace has just emerged. According to the peace conditions in the politics of the US Congress, the forces representing the interests of major arms dealers should be at a time to give in. At this time, the United States needs peace and needs to shift the main direction of national orders to post-war construction. So, Roosevelt believes that in this case, even if he proposes a new war plan again in Congress, the chance of passing is definitely quite low. If one is not done well, he, the president, will be in a dilemma.

Be cautious, be cautious in all this!

After some consideration, Roosevelt, who felt that things were not good, decided to call the White House think tanks to study this issue carefully and see what method can be used to calm the storm. It is best to make the Soviets bow their heads a little, and at the same time, the British will not be too entangled on this issue.

On February 3rd, Moscow started its first rain this year in early spring. The rain was not heavy, fine and dense, and misty.

In the Kremlin, which symbolizes the core of the supreme power of the entire Soviet Union, Chu Sinan was convening a meeting of the Supreme Command. He had received a call from the other side of the ocean. President Roosevelt, who was worried about the country, the people and the world, talked with him for nearly two hours on the phone. During these two hours of conversation, Roosevelt's only purpose was to put pressure on Chu Sinan, hoping that the young Soviet leader could withdraw the Soviet Red Army entering Greece and hand over the Greek affairs to the British, thus counting them as compensation.

Although Roosevelt's words were very tactful and as much as possible, Chu Sinan still showed his tough stance on the phone. According to Chu Sinan's words, there is currently a trend of fascist forces reversing the reversal of the Greek forces. The so-called Provisional Government of Greece, supported by the British, is implementing brutal, dark, and fascist rule in its country. Just a while ago, a bloody incident that shocked the whole world broke out in Athens, and after that, the fascist government still showed no sign of stopping. They were all

Greece searched, persecuted, and killed progressives who opposed its rule and demanded peace and democracy. As a country that had suffered from fascist infringement, the Soviet Union would never allow a similar fascist regime to appear again in this world. Chu Sinan warned Roosevelt that there was only one way to get the Soviet Red Army to withdraw from Greece, that was to let the British get out of that land in advance. And if the Soviet Union wanted to release the captured British soldiers, there was also only one way. That was to hand over Skobe, the culprit of the Greek chaos, the war criminal was handed over to the Greek people for trial.

At the end of the phone conversation, Chu Sinan told Roosevelt that the Soviet government was interested in peace, but was also afraid of war. He could lead the Soviet Union, who was in an absolutely weak position, to successfully fight the German invaders and eventually win, so he would have the confidence to face a new challenge, whether it was Britain or another country. The Soviet regime would not be afraid. Millions of Soviet Red Army will now be on high alert, waiting for new enemies to come to visit.

Even if it was a response to the attitude of the United States, after having a telephone conversation with Roosevelt, Chu Sinan held this meeting of the Supreme Command. He demanded that at this time, the whole country and the entire army must maintain absolute ideological consistency with him. ￣￣ As much as possible, direct conflict with the Americans should be avoided as much as possible. However, the Soviet troops fighting in Greece should avoid the front line defended by the British as much as possible and attack the Greek government forces.

At this meeting of the Supreme Command, Chu Sinan and his members analyzed that in the face of the Greek war in the place where the situation occurred, the possibility of Americans directly participating in the war was not high, at least the possibility of directly participating in the war in the short term was not high. It should be noted that the structure of the American land regime is essentially different from the Soviet regime. The Soviet Union is a centralized system of power, while the United States is a separation of power. Compared with the separation of power, the centralized system of power may lack some democratic atmosphere, but it is absolutely efficient, and this efficiency is especially reflected in the response to war. In the Soviet Union, the right to decide whether to war or not is entirely in the supreme leader's

It is impossible to say that at this critical moment, as long as Chu Sinan issued an order to start a full war with the British, then this order was issued today, and all war machines in the Soviet Union will start to operate at full speed tomorrow. In the United States, such as launching a war, it is by no means the president alone. Before the mobilization order is issued, Congress will discuss and agree that all the members of Congress with different opinions sit together and argue with each other, analyzing this and that, and when the final decision is made, it is estimated that one or two weeks will pass. And in these or two weeks, God knows what the battlefield has become.

It is also based on this that everyone in the Supreme Command believes that the United States cannot directly participate in the war in the short term.

Since the Americans cannot participate in the war in a short period of time, what is there to be scary? There is no doubt that if there were no other factors to interfere, the Soviet Union could easily kill the Greek British army like an ant. But then again, although Chu Sinan had no good feelings for the British, he did not want to have a real full-scale war with them at this time. The situation he most hoped to have was to simply teach the British a lesson and let them withdraw from Greece. At the same time, do not expand the war.

For Chu Sinan, how can we achieve our goals? There is no doubt that only negotiations are allowed. Everyone finds a place to sit down and talk calmly and reasonably. But here we are saying that, negotiation is a very profound knowledge. If you want to achieve your goals and expand your interests at the negotiating table, you must work harder before the negotiations. You must give your negotiating opponents the most basic feeling, that is, this negotiation is not what you want, but what they want to appear. The reason why you sit down and give them a chance to save some of the benefits from the doomed failure situation.

In this way, a series of decisions were quickly made at the meeting of the Supreme Command. In the following days, major Soviet newspapers and broadcasts released official news, which claimed that the Soviet government expressed regret for everything that happened in Greece. Neither the Soviet government nor the Soviet people had and would never regard Britain as its own country's enemy. Some time ago, the reason why the Soviet Red Army sent troops to Greece was that in view of the major changes in the situation in Greece, people with ulterior motives and tried to establish a comprehensive, inhumane fascist dictatorship in Greece. The series of bloody events that happened not long ago were best proved. In the spirit of the Yalta Conference that year, in the spirit of humanitarianism, the Soviet government believed that it was absolutely

We cannot try to seize power in the Greek fascists. Therefore, the Soviet Red Army entered Greece to fight. As for the "small" conflict with the British army stationed in Greece, it was just a misunderstanding. The Soviet Red Army, who was responsible for the offensive task, had a conflict with the British army after receiving the wrong information. In order to apologize, the Soviet government will unconditionally release the captured British army and make certain compensation to the families of the victims. Of course, the Soviet government will attack the temporary regime of Greek fascism. It will never give up. According to the plan of the Supreme Command of the Soviet Union, the Soviet army entering Greece will continue to launch a series of large-scale attacks on the Greek government troops within a week. In order to avoid another unfortunate incident, the Soviet government recommended that the British army stationed in Greece temporarily evacuate...

How credible is everything mentioned in the official Soviet report? I am afraid anyone understands this. It is a fantasy that a battle involving tens of thousands of people will not know who they are fighting, isn’t it a fantasy? What’s more, the Soviet Security Committee has always been responsible for intelligence collection. Their scale and efficiency are recognized by the world. Isn’t it even more ridiculous to say that they will make such a super low-level mistake on such an important issue?

Therefore, after the official explanation of the Soviet Union was made, there were booing in mainstream newspapers in Britain and the United States, and then there were reports of doubt, rebuttal, criticism and other issues.

Faced with the criticism of American and British newspapers, the Soviet Union was silent. Both the Red Star and the Pravda seemed to have forgotten this code, and no report on the Greek incident was found on their pages.

If you want to explain, we will explain it to you; if you ask us to apologize, we will apologize to you; if you ask for the unconditional release of the captured officers and soldiers, we will immediately release it unconditionally. Now, we will do everything you ask for. As for whether you believe it or not, whether the apology is sincere depends on your own. Now, the conflict between the Greek, Soviet and British armies has ended "perfectly", and the rest depends on the attitude of you British.

The above is what the Soviets did. On February 6, when the Soviet ambassador to the United Kingdom submitted the Kremlin's decision to the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Churchill was so angry that he almost cursed. The British cabinet refused without hesitation that the Soviet government's request to invite Churchill to Moscow to negotiate the Greek issue.

The British indignation did not affect the continued advancement of the Soviet Red Army in Greece. As Chu Sinan said: "Since you don't talk, then I will give you some face. I want you to know that for you, sitting down to negotiate with me honestly is the wisest choice."

On March 9, the Soviet Second Balkan Front Army and the Allied Forces of the Balkans launched an attack in the Volos area. At the beginning of the battle, the Soviet army first mobilized an army's forces to advance south quickly, cutting off the connection between the Greek government troops stationed in Volos and the British army, forcing the British army to provide support to the Greek government troops in the event of conflict between different Soviet troops. Then, the main force of the Soviet Second Balkan Front Army launched a rapid and fierce attack on the Greek government troops commanded by Plastiras.

Since the British Parliament had not made the final decision on whether to directly fight with the Soviet Union, the British troops, whose division of Volos was unable to respond most effectively without the Soviet army attacking them. The only thing they could do seemed to be watching the Greek government forces be surrounded and annihilated.

The Greek army stationed in the Volos area was the main force of the Greek government army led by General Plastilas. It has a total of nine infantry divisions, totaling more than 70,000 people. This is really a pure infantry unit. Within the range of nine divisions, there are only more than 300 artillery pieces and less than 60 tanks. As for aircraft, it is not easy to discuss.

Therefore, when facing the attack of the superior enemy, Plastilas first made a wise choice to break through. He gathered his army and launched two consecutive assaults towards Zomox in the west in the early morning of the 10th, trying to open a breakthrough in this direction and meet with the British army.

However, his attempt was not realized. After several hours of fierce fighting, Plastiras' troops not only failed to break through successfully after paying the price of tens of thousands of casualties, but were instead taken advantage of the situation to launch a counterattack by the Soviet army, pushing his front for nearly ten kilometers in the direction of Volos.

On February 10, the British army used the carrier-based aviation force on the Aegean Sea to drop a large amount of supplies to the Greek government forces of Volos. Subsequently, Plastilas received news from British commander Scobe. According to Scobe, it was hoped that they could last for another three to four days, and after the decision in the UK was issued, they would be rescued. , ,!
Chapter completed!