Chapter 154, The Final Solution to the United States (Part 2)
"...Well, this news review about the Battle of Skagerrak in the newspaper is really very literary and full of epic tragic colors. It is just like "The Song of the Nibelung" or "The Ice". Similar to "Song of Fire"... From this point of view, with the death of Admiral Halsey and his last followers in the Skagerrak Strait, the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet is basically It’s the same as being finished, right?”
In the captain's room of the Yamato, Ma Tong said to Wang Qiu, who had just finished reading the newspaper, while eating wagashi desserts made in the ship's kitchen.
——Ever since the sailors of the Yamato changed from "sea country boys" wearing loincloths and smelling of sweat to a group of classic Japanese girls, young women and widows with the temperament of Yamato Nadeshiko, they have become more and more "Yamato" "Hotel" is like an IKEA... In the past, there were frequent wars and I was forced to travel endlessly on the sea. I really didn't have the conditions. Now that I have been anchored in the port for a year, these Japanese women are very hot. He lovingly began to decorate the interior space of this giant ship, trying to create a better living environment with his own hands: the cabin walkways were always cleaned spotlessly, the bathroom walls were pasted with colorful mosaics of the Mount Fuji scenery, and the residences The cabin door is also hung with decorations such as wind chimes, as well as calligraphy scrolls and Ukiyoe paintings that come from unknown sources. Every corner is full of traditional Japanese style. The daily dishes and snacks are also made more and more exquisite and delicious... Living on this boat now is like being in a high-end hot spring hotel, and you feel at home.
Although this description is used on a warship, and it is also a fierce super battleship, it feels a bit strange...
In short, Wang Qiu lives very comfortably on this ship, not to mention there is a beautiful female captain who can be used as a pillow, so he is very used to it now.
"...How should I put it? If measured as a combat force, the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet that dared to fight the Soviet Red Navy has indeed ceased to exist after the death of Admiral Halsey. But if only It refers to the ships of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet, so there are still many remaining ships, at least much more than the ships brought to the Skagerrak Strait by Halsey, and the tonnage is at least ten times more. "< br>
Wang Qiu put away the newspaper and replied, "...in the past month or so, these ships have been quite active in the Atlantic Ocean, but they are no longer our enemies and no longer carry out the orders of the Pentagon. , everything we do has nothing to do with this war..."
"...What? One side is still active in the Atlantic, but the other side has withdrawn from the war and is no longer an enemy of us?"
Ma Tong was confused and asked with a puzzled look on his face, "...it doesn't sound like they have surrendered...what are they doing?"
"...To put it simply, in the history of our world, the role played by the Kuomintang Navy at the end of the Liberation War - transporting a group of corrupt officials, local tyrants and evil gentry, reactionary capitalists and communist elements, as well as their The luggage is small and the refugees are crossing the sea to escape to Taiwan!”
Wang Qiu shrugged and replied, "...I remember there is an old saying, it seems that before a ship sinks, the rats on the ship are the first to escape. By the same token, watching the United States of America put the war on hold We have reached the point where we are at the end of our rope, and even if we want to humiliate ourselves and ask for peace, we can't get it. , the upper-class gentlemen and wives in the United States who survived the nuclear explosion, as well as a lot of petty bourgeoisie, literati, scientists and the like who are afraid of Bolshevik ideas and are afraid of being knocked down and thrown into labor camps. Naturally, they are also taking stock of their belongings and packing away their belongings. Busy escaping from the soon-to-be-defeated United States!
As for the remaining officers and soldiers of the U.S. Atlantic Fleet who refused to follow Halsey to die, they were originally worried about how to live after their jobs were ruined. Now they are making the last fortune from the national crisis by acting as refugee ships - —The profits from this business are very high, absolutely huge profits. I heard that you have to use gold to buy the ferry tickets! People who can choose to flee usually have some wealth. It’s just that the Kuomintang navy over there only needs to cross a narrow Taiwan Strait, while the US navy, which is a guest ship for refugees, has to carry the escapees across the vast Atlantic Ocean..."
"...Crossing the Atlantic? In that case, are they leaving America? Where is their escape destination?"
"...Where else can they escape to now? Of course it is the only neutral country in the world right now - South Africa..."
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When a country reaches the end of the road, there will often be some loyal ministers and righteous men who choose to die for the country and their names will go down in history; but there will definitely be more ordinary people who are greedy for life and afraid of death and choose to try to live in an ignoble way - "Like this, people need to die. Ideas such as "It's better for our country to perish" are not unique to two-dimensional otakus in a certain world, but widely exist in the hearts of many people in failed countries throughout the ages.
After all, in this world, there are humans first and then countries, not the other way around - people can live without countries, but countries cannot live without people.
In the Third World War that was sweeping the world, by the spring of 1949, the future prospects were already very clear: the Soviet Union could unscrupulously nuclear bomb the United States, but the United States could no longer continue to do the same. Such a level of retaliation could not even effectively defend and intercept the Soviets' nuclear strikes. They could only squat down and silently take the beating while holding their heads and holding the corpse upright, while watching helplessly as cities were turned into radioactive wastelands by nuclear explosions. Faced with this inevitable outcome of defeat or even certain death, if this war had been a traditional imperialist war for hegemony, or an older feudal dynasty annexation war, the United States, a "consortium disguised as a country," would probably have chosen to cut its flesh. Stop the loss, surrender and lose half the money, kneel down obediently and sing "Conquer".
Unfortunately, the enemy this time is the ideological sworn enemy, the red-headed Bolsheviks of the Soviet Union. Moreover, they were Bolsheviks who had been dramatized in advance by the time-travelers and knew the history of the Soviet Union in another dimension, such as the disintegration of the Soviet Union. Therefore, Stalin's surrender conditions for the United States were extremely harsh - in addition to unconditional surrender, war criminals must also be tried and undergo social transformation. Becoming a member of the big socialist family... This is tantamount to digging into the roots of the conglomerate bosses!
Think about the tragic end that the old dignitaries of the Tsarist Russia met when the Soviet Union was founded thirty years ago, and the prestige of the Soviet Cheka warriors that can only make children cry at night... The upper-class gentlemen and ladies of the United States are like Chilling - the above-mentioned bloody and cruel legends They heard the story told countless times by the exiled White Russians over the years, adding fuel to the fire and exaggerating it again and again. The more they told it, the more horrifying and frightening they became. In the end, they simply described the Bolsheviks as being in hell. Like a murderous devil crawling out.
When they first heard about these cruel things that happened in Russia, the upper-class gentlemen and ladies in the United States just regarded them as anecdotes and listened to them for fun. Who would have thought that the situation would turn around, and now it was possible for him to accept the same fate... As long as he thought that the mansion and villa he had carefully built would turn into a workers' club where low-class people could come and go at will; his delicate daughter would She became the "public wife" of the red-headed Bolsheviks and was abused by dozens of rough workers every day. They felt that such a life would be better than death. However, in the face of the Soviet nuclear bombs that fell from the sky from time to time, no matter how angry and clamored they were, they had no way to protect themselves.
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But despite this, these superior people have never thought of martyrdom for their country: only the country has always served them, so how can there be any reason for them to sacrifice for the country? Since peace cannot be achieved and this country is doomed, these superior people can naturally only take care of their own small families first.
Some of the depressed and decadent people chose to resign themselves to their fate, and before the Soviet nuclear bombs were dropped on their heads, they tried their best to use the resources in their hands to enjoy themselves, singing and dancing every night, as long as they could be happy every day; the other group of people chose to escape quietly. , especially in Washington, the federal capital. It had not been a month since the first nuclear bomb was dropped in Los Angeles. When President MacArthur used the last nuclear weapon of the United States in retaliation, Admiral Halsey weighed anchor. When he went out to sea to embark on a journey to his death, two-thirds of the gentlemen on Capitol Hill fled one after another, four justices of the federal court also fled, and many civil and military officials from the White House and the Pentagon fled. ——Most of the members of the House and Senate are essentially shrewd spokespersons representing the interests of big capitalists or a certain group. They are not warriors willing to sacrifice their lives for the country. How could they be willing to live and die with this country? Woolen cloth?
In fact, not to mention sacrificing their lives for the country, they were also afraid that the Soviets would invade Washington one day, take them to trial, and be sentenced to hard labor or execution - for superior people like them, this is a matter of life. The insult was unbearable... so they all left in advance.
As a result, by March, because so many big names had fled, Parliament Hill had been permanently suspended because there were too few members left. The Federal Supreme Court has also closed its doors. Communication links across the country have been cut off anyway, and there are no new bills to be dealt with by the Supreme Court. Many members of parliament, ministers, presidents, and committee chairmen are fleeing for their lives, and federal government offices are emptying out every day—but even those who remain have nothing to do. The White House and the Pentagon were forced to use many unknown little people to barely ensure that the operation of the Capital District would not be paralyzed.
Regarding the escape locations of these members of the upper class, a small number of them chose to live in secret seclusion in the wild mountains of the United States. Just like the hermits who escaped from the war in ancient times, they prepared to wait until the war was over before changing their names and identities to return. Go on living in a civilized society. But the vast majority of gentlemen and ladies who thought they could not bear the pain of being savages, like those White Russian exiles at the beginning of the Soviet Union, chose to flee overseas.
However, unlike the White Russian refugees who could travel throughout the capitalist world at that time, at this moment when red flags have been planted across most of the earth, and the remaining half of the earth is about to become a radioactive wasteland, where are the escapees from the upper class in the United States? There is only one left, and that is South Africa...
——Except for the New World, which is about to fall into darkness, the entire white capitalist world has shrunk to the point where only South Africa is left.
But since there was no choice left, these exiles acted very quickly. Since President MacArthur took office, thousands of Americans have found ways to obtain ships, and then took their wives, children, and small property with them, and embarked on a mighty voyage to escape to South Africa. After Admiral Halsey died in battle, even the remaining Atlantic Fleet was completely disintegrated. Each warship became a high-end refugee ship specialized in transporting dignitaries and their wealth, or became a private soldier at sea hired by the consortium. Protect this transatlantic migration.
On the other hand, the South African white authorities are very welcoming of these white Americans who are coming in like a tide, because this is conducive to balancing the proportion of black and white races in South Africa. Previously, the proportion of white people in South Africa was too low, and it lacked many high-quality technical talents. However, this has been quickly supplemented by American refugees, and the chance of being reversed by black people has been greatly reduced. Then, the various industrial equipment, technical data, and even the ships and warships themselves brought by the refugee fleet are also an extremely huge and precious wealth for South Africa, which has a relatively weak industrial base.
What is even more subtle is that the Soviet Union actually showed an intriguing tacit approval of the large-scale exodus of upper-class American whites to South Africa. First of all, the Soviet Union, which now has a golden elephant leg-level plug-in, does not care about these talents in the United States. Technology and wealth, just see it as a strong opponent that must be eradicated. Secondly, no empire can be completely free of external enemies, otherwise internal strife will inevitably occur. When red flags are hoisted all over the world, if a slightly stronger capitalist reactionary country can be retained, it will be very beneficial to maintaining harmony within the socialist camp.
As the saying goes, if you have never tasted the bitterness of capitalism, you will not know the sweetness of socialism. How can one teach the people the cruel darkness of capitalism and the bright happiness of socialism without a contrasting example. What if after many years the people forget all the dark conditions of the revolutionary era, and are deceived by some people with ulterior motives, and tear down their own country and dedicate it to the capitalists, then Stalin and his generation will be crying without tears. !
What's more, South Africa is not a chosen country like the United States. Although it has huge gold mountains in the country, it also has natural disadvantages such as vast deserts, dry water shortages, and a large number of black people. This determines that no matter how this country expands and develops, it is impossible Really has the potential to arm-wrestle with the Soviet Union...
Therefore, the Soviet Union consciously wanted to leave behind a white South Africa with sharp racial discrimination and heavy class oppression, and to make appropriate efforts to strengthen its strength, as a specimen of capitalist countries for many years to come, and as a teaching tool to beat and educate its younger brothers...< br>
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"...In short, today's United States of America has had all its claws pulled out, the bones of its limbs broken, and turned into a big fat pig tied to the chopping board for slaughter, with only the last two humming words left. As for when the war will end..."
Wang Qiu talked so eloquently, "...it depends on what kind of final solution to the United States Comrade Stalin in Moscow will come up with..."
In fact, just when Wang Qiu and other visitors from other worlds were looking at the flames of war in the sky, the "final solution to the United States" had been initially finalized - in Moscow, where there was wind and snow, and inside the Kremlin, where the heater was blowing as warm as spring. , a world-famous bearded man, holding his beloved pipe, While slowly blowing out smoke rings, he used a tone as cold as a cold wave to deliver the final verdict of death to the United States of America: "...I insist that the United States of America must be completely destroyed and become a relic of history, just like it once was. Just like the ancient Roman Empire..."