Chapter 170, Summary Report on the World War (Part 1)
"Preliminary Investigation Report on the Damage Caused by the Second and Third World Wars to Human Society on Earth"
Commission of Inquiry into the Accounting of Losses from the Second and Third World Wars, submitted in April 1950
Foreword
The Second and Third World Wars, which lasted ten years and forty days from September 1, 1939 to October 10, 1949, were the biggest events of our time and the longest and most intense in the history of human civilization. , one of the bloodiest conflicts. In the past ten years, the battlefields where the armies of all parties fought against each other were almost all over the world, including Switzerland, which claimed to be permanently neutral, the United States and Canada, which stayed away from the war during the first war, and even black Africa and Latin America, which had always been isolated from the world. Only the ice and snow world of Antarctica has not been polluted by the flames of war and gunpowder smoke in the past ten years.
This series of tragic wars of unprecedented scale has affected the vast majority of the world's population. While causing huge losses of life and property that are difficult to count, it has also caused subversive changes in the global political and economic landscape, and has even caused harm to the earth's ecological environment. A profound impact that cannot be ignored. Due to the extensive use of various new and powerful weapons, including nuclear weapons, the two world wars had an unprecedented destructive effect on the earth.
In addition to the destruction of the war itself, the Icelandic volcanic eruption during World War III and the abnormally low global temperature caused by it, as well as the ensuing large-scale crop failure of agricultural products and global turmoil, were also among the problems in this decade. An important factor leading to the destruction of human civilization and society around the world.
During this ten-year brutal war, the world's population dropped from 2.2 billion to 1.2 billion, and its devastating consequences far exceeded those of World War I. Many smaller countries and nations were even directly wiped out during the war. In the post-war multi-polar structure, the Soviet Union, China and Japan grew relatively in strength during the war, and eventually became the main forces dominating the post-war structure. The original core of the capitalist world, Western Europe and North America, suffered a devastating blow during the world war. Their strength and influence were almost wiped out, and it was even difficult to maintain their own existence.
At the same time, as a relic of the pre-war capitalist world, the South African authorities, which got rid of the rule of the British Empire, also ushered in their own great development through the Ten Years' War and the great destruction of the original European and American capitalist world, and became a war power. One of the important beneficiaries of the post-order.
In the foreseeable future, this African country, which got rid of its colonial status during the world war, will become the last bastion of the capitalist world in the world. Just like the Byzantine Empire left after the collapse of the ancient Roman Empire, it became the last legacy of the old world.
In essence, the root causes of the Second and Third World Wars are still the inherent contradictions of capitalism and the continuous accumulation of inequality and other crises caused by the capitalist development method on the path of human development. After the end of the war, although some problems remained unresolved, the two major factors that triggered the war, namely the capitalist world system and international inequality, had been alleviated to a considerable extent.
Here, based on the information it has obtained so far, the committee has made a rough summary of the trauma and destruction caused by the ten years of war to the human civilized world. More detailed and accurate data require further investigation and statistics before conclusions can be drawn.
1. Europe
Just like the First World War, the European continent, as the center of world civilization today, has also become the main battlefield in the two subsequent world wars, and has suffered far more horrific horrors, including large-scale nuclear explosions and persistent famine. Through the catastrophe of the First World War. When all the above-mentioned hell-like disasters are over, even if the light of European civilization cannot be said to be completely dimmed, it will at least be extinguished by more than 80%.
As the former strongest country in Europe, the United Kingdom (which only includes Scotland, England, and Wales on the island of Great Britain, excluding the Northern Ireland region recovered by Ireland) suffered the most nuclear explosions in Europe during the war. The most devastated areas. Although the Air Battle of Britain during World War II only caused minor losses to this country. But in the next three wars, almost all cities with more than 100,000 people in Britain were destroyed by nuclear strikes in the early stages of the war. In the following war years, the few small and medium-sized cities that survived were abandoned one after another amid riots and turmoil due to the almost complete failure of British agricultural harvests for three consecutive years and the food supply crisis caused by the suspension of overseas trade.
When the world war that lasted for ten years officially came to an end, there was no longer anything that could be called a "government" on the entire island of Great Britain. According to reports from the Red Army reconnaissance troops and analysis of aerial photos, the current island of Great Britain has returned to a barbaric state to a considerable extent. No settlements with a population of more than 10,000 can be found, and 98% of the cultivated land has been abandoned. , the industrial and mining industries were basically completely destroyed.
Britain, which had a population of 46 million on its own land alone before the war, now has only 1.2 to 1.5 million survivors on the island of Great Britain, mainly distributed in the coastal areas of southern England, relying on Repeatedly hit by natural disasters and with extremely unstable yields, they make a living through primitive planting and marine fisheries. In the British interior, the survivors could only survive by hunting, collecting wild plants, and animal husbandry, almost becoming savages.
However, the abnormally low global temperature caused by the Icelandic volcanic eruption also seriously interfered with the normal operation of the Atlantic warm current. As a result, during the worst years of the disaster in 1947 and 1948, fishery catches in the North Atlantic waters suddenly dropped sharply. More than 90% of the fishermen's fisherman's population has been reduced, making life for British fishermen extremely difficult in the past few years. Mass starvation often occurred. Many fishing ports and fishing villages became deserted after the war.
According to General Secretary Stalin’s important instructions, the current United Kingdom “is no longer qualified to exist as a country.” Over the next few years, the island would replace Siberia as a penal colony for all manner of criminals and bad elements from the Soviet motherland. The central government has now launched the first exile plan, preparing to exile five people from Turkey, Afghanistan, Iran, where the Red Army has fought in recent years, as well as the Caucasus region where rebellions broke out in the Soviet Union during World War II, as well as several domestic felon punishment camps. One hundred thousand class enemies went to the island of Great Britain. At the same time, 150,000 black prisoners of war captured by the Red Army and friendly forces from various countries during the war were also released to the British mainland because the white South African authorities refused to accept repatriation. In addition, those white British prisoners of war who requested to return home, as well as Indian prisoners of war who had nowhere to be released, were also on their way back to the island of Great Britain.
In addition, based on the principle of benefit sharing in the socialist family, the Kremlin has also decided to open up the power to exile death row prisoners, felons and criminals to the island of Great Britain for all socialist countries in the world. However, it seems that due to time and distance, only the French government in Europe has exiled more than a hundred Gypsies who committed serious theft to Britain. In short, there is reason to believe that after receiving such a large amount of human resources in a short period of time, Britain's overall desolation situation will be quickly reversed and it will be developed by humans again.
Comrades from the Academy of Social Sciences also said that the island of Great Britain in its current state has become a wonderful world ethnography museum, a place to observe whether many ethnic groups with different beliefs, different languages, and different skin colors can achieve harmony while living together. A social science experimental base that coexists and integrates with each other. The results shown by this experiment have important reference and guiding significance for the future construction and development of countries around the world.
In addition, the Zionist Organization formally applied to the Kremlin on December 5, 1949, hoping to obtain a piece of land on the island of Great Britain and establish an autonomous Jewish city-state to resettle those accustomed to Europe. The life of the Jews was not adapted to the harsh climate of Palestine. In response, the Kremlin said after study and consideration that Yorkshire in England could be assigned to the Zionist organization and a free city established. However, the Zionist organization prefers to obtain the Cornwall Peninsula, which is less contaminated by radiation, and this issue is still under repeated consultations.
As a neighbor of the United Kingdom, although Ireland escaped World War II, it still suffered heavy losses in World War III. The destruction of ground wars, nuclear strikes of atomic bombs, food harvests caused by abnormal climate, and significant reductions in marine fishery production... Ireland has almost experienced the same catastrophes that the British have experienced in recent years. When the war finally ended, even including the newly recovered population of Northern Ireland, the total population of Ireland was still reduced to about two million, and at least more than half of the survivors were malnourished.
But no matter what, during the war in Ireland, at least one government was able to allocate resources, avoid waste, organize a production self-help movement, and import some food and obtain a small amount of aid from the countries in the socialist camp. Compared with the United Kingdom, which was completely isolated and anarchic during the same period, Ireland's situation is still much better. By 1949, Ireland had initially resumed agricultural and livestock production, and reestablished a food rationing system covering all citizens, which could basically ensure that citizens would no longer starve to death on a large scale.
According to the Kremlin's post-war plan, the central government assigned the Welsh region of Great Britain to Ireland for occupation and management. However, due to the extreme financial embarrassment of the Irish authorities and the domestic waste of resources, this occupation plan still remains on paper. The Irish army only has a symbolic camp stationed in the Isle of Man and Milford Port in southwest Wales. , and then hyped it up to slightly boost public sentiment and morale.
The three low-lying countries of the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg also suffered heavy losses during the war. The famous Dutch sea embankment was blown open, and large cities such as the water capital Amsterdam suffered nuclear explosions. Six million people died in war, nuclear explosions, and famine, and four million were forced to migrate to Siberia. Although it has now entered the post-war reconstruction stage, in the Netherlands alone, at least 40,000 hectares of cultivated land and pastures have been submerged and salinized by sea water. In addition, some land has suffered nuclear contamination, and farmland water conservancy facilities have been destroyed. destroy. Therefore, there are many obstacles to the restoration of agricultural and animal husbandry production after the war. Even after evacuating and relocating so many people, the food self-sufficiency rate of the Low Countries is still only about 30%.
As an old capitalist colonial power on par with the United Kingdom, the French Republic has experienced ten years of war and revolution, as well as more than two years of famine. The total domestic population has dropped from 41 million before the war to about 21 million. , more than one million people fled to South Africa and the Americas, and more than three million people migrated to Siberia. A series of large cities including the capital Paris and the important seaports of Bordeaux, Marseille and Toulon were razed to the ground. The country's industrial and agricultural production collapsed, and railways, shipping, and communications were almost completely shut down. Bandits are everywhere, refugees are everywhere, and public order has collapsed. The provisional government of socialist France is currently stuck in the city of Nice on the border of Italy and France. It can only barely effectively rule about 30% of the country's territory. The remaining areas are full of powerful powers and warlords, just like the separatist rule of medieval lords. Post-war reconstruction has so far been difficult.
Spain and Portugal did not participate in World War II, and the smoke and flames of World War III only filled the Iberian Peninsula for a short period of time. But the problem is that before the outbreak of World War II, Spain had already experienced an extremely cruel civil war, which was described as "half of Spain is dead, and it is the other half of Spain that kills it." Later, during the three wars, Spain suffered tragedies such as the Madrid nuclear explosion, so the proportion of population losses was still quite huge. According to statistics, if we count from the Spanish Civil War to the end of World War III, approximately 13 million people died in war and famine in Spain, and more than one million people fled overseas. Portugal experienced a shorter period of war than Spain, but due to the nuclear explosion in Lisbon and the unusually low global temperature, the new regime in the process collapsed before it was established, leaving the country in anarchic chaos for two full years. state. During this period, approximately two million Portuguese fled overseas or died in the war. At present, new national governments in Spain and Portugal have been established in Granada and Porto respectively, and domestic order has been initially stabilized, but the road to post-war reconstruction is still very long.
Among the traditional powers in Europe, Italy's losses in the ten years of war are considered to be the slightest. However, six million Italians died in the war or from severe cold and famine during this period. More than 100 people fled overseas, and more than 100 people migrated to Siberia. Domestic road and rail traffic in Italy was not initially restored until the autumn of 1949, which was the eve of the end of the world war. While the country's industrial production was still in a state of large-scale bankruptcy, agriculture had basically returned to normal. By the autumn of 1949, it was able to export small amounts of food abroad.
Switzerland, once a permanently neutral country, was able to maintain a transcendent neutral status during World War II and made huge profits by doing business between the warring parties. However, in the early stages of the following World War III, due to its overestimating attempts to antagonize the entire socialist camp, it eventually incurred a devastating nuclear attack. The capitals of Bern and Zurich were destroyed by nuclear explosions, and the Swiss government, which fled to Geneva, was forced to Unconditional surrender. However, the Swiss die-hards, unwilling to accept defeat, continued to use the banner of nationalism in an attempt to expel the Red Army through guerrilla warfare, and indeed prompted the Soviet Red Army to voluntarily withdraw: because as the front advanced, this land was no longer available. It has strategic value, and other battlefields require additional deployment of troops.
However, before the Swiss die-hards had time to celebrate their so-called victory, the ensuing Icelandic volcanic eruption and abnormally low global temperature dealt a fatal blow to this plateau country known as the "Roof of Europe." In the two consecutive "years without summer", when agricultural and animal husbandry harvests failed and the heavy snow disaster lasted for three years, some Swiss villages and towns were buried in the heavy snow for three whole years without melting. The residents had no way to escape and could only stay in their homes. They starved and froze to death in their house. Other Swiss people must also face the desperate situation of no fuel and no food - Switzerland's neighboring countries are also in the midst of devastating famines and cannot provide Switzerland with surplus fuel and agricultural products. What's more, Switzerland's railway and highway systems have completely collapsed. Even if materials can be purchased from abroad at a high price, it is difficult to transport them into Switzerland. Finally, after the Soviet Red Army could not bear the harassment of guerrilla warfare and voluntarily withdrew from Switzerland, the entire European socialist camp imposed a trade blockade on Switzerland. Although it is still impossible to completely eliminate small-scale smuggling by some illegal traders, in this era of famine across Europe, it is impossible for the Swiss to obtain enough food to feed millions of people.
In this way, the pseudo-Swiss government in Geneva was eventually overthrown in rebellion and turmoil. The seat of the Red Cross headquarters around the world could not even save itself in this cruel era. When World War III ended, Switzerland had lost about 85% of its population, and the entire country fell into anarchy. Among European countries, the fate was second only to the United Kingdom in its disastrous outcome. Countries in the socialist camp are still discussing and coordinating whether to recognize Switzerland's national status next, or to use it as a public penal colony for criminals throughout Europe and even the world, like the island of Great Britain.
As the birthplace of the First and Second World Wars, Germany in Central Europe suffered the terrible backlash of defeat. When Berlin fell and the Nazi regime collapsed, Germany as a whole had lost one-tenth of its population, and its railways, roads, factories, and ports were all destroyed. Afterwards, although Germany's new socialist government did not actually send troops to participate in the Third World War, the nuclear explosions and bombings of the US Strategic Air Force still did not let go of this already devastated country. The subsequent abnormal global low temperature climate dealt another fatal blow to German agriculture, which had not yet recovered.
By the autumn of 1949, in Germany, which once had a population of 66 million before the war, a total of 22 million people had died from war and famine, and 10 million had migrated to Central Asia and Siberia in order to make a living. But compared to the current situation of Germany's two old rivals, France and the United Kingdom, the situation of the Germans in the devastating catastrophe of the past ten years is not particularly miserable. It can only be said to be equivalent to the global average.
As another country ruled by the Germans, Austria also suffered huge damage during World War II, and suffered a nuclear explosion during World War III. The subsequent abnormally low global climate, or the "year without summer", also brought disaster to Hitler. brought a terrible disaster to his hometown.
When the world war and famine finally ended, Austria, which had a population of seven million before the war, had reduced its current population to four million. Its industry, agriculture, and transportation collapsed, and its social appearance was almost the same as that of Germany. The disaster in Czechoslovakia and Hungary was slightly weaker than in Austria. The food rationing system has been able to be maintained. The post-war recovery situation is also better, and various reconstruction efforts have been launched.
Further east from Germany, although the countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe were the main battlefields of World War II, they did not suffer much damage in the Third World War. Although they were also attacked by abnormally low temperatures around the world, they were able to receive immediate assistance from the Soviet government. After five years of recovery and construction, the traces of the war have been gradually erased, and all indicators of the national economy are basically close to pre-war levels.
In general, the population losses in various countries in Eastern and Southeastern Europe were less than 20%. Bulgaria even suffered less than 500,000 deaths, which is far lower than the global average. Even in Poland, which suffered the most serious damage from the war, if we do not consider the post-war changes in national boundaries, which caused the people of West Belarus and West Ukraine to become Soviet citizens again, only 18% of the Poles died in the war and famine. .
But what is troubling is that even though Nazi Germany has been destroyed, the wave of rejection of Jews set off by it has not completely subsided in European countries, especially in Eastern Europe. The situation in Poland is the most serious. Many Polish Jews who had just been released from Nazi concentration camps were lynched, tortured or even killed by the Poles. Because it was difficult to reconcile with the Nazis, some Polish Jews chose to go to Palestine and settle in the emerging State of Israel. Although other Jews also felt that they could not stay on the European continent, they believed that it would be difficult to adapt to the harsh climate of the Middle Eastern desert and hoped to continue living in Europe. Therefore, they proposed the establishment of a Jewish free city on the island of Great Britain.
The Poles expressed great support for the above-mentioned proposals of the Jews and wished them to leave quickly, but they also hoped that they could also encircle a piece of land on the island of Great Britain. After hearing the news, the Zionist organization strongly demanded that Jews must not continue to be neighbors with Poles on the island of Great Britain.
The three Nordic countries of Denmark, Sweden, and Norway were also not the main battlefields of the world war, and the death toll did not seem to be very high. However, due to the extremely cold climate, vast territory and sparsely populated areas, even just one atomic bomb in the capital would be an unbearable and devastating blow to these countries. The subsequent abnormally low-temperature climate around the world has pushed these high-latitude countries into a freezing hell. Northern Norway and Sweden did not see any sunlight for six months because Icelandic volcanic ash obscured the sky. When the volcanic ash subsided slightly, it was already entering the polar night... According to current rough statistics, Denmark lost about 1.5 million people and Sweden lost 2 million people during the world war and the abnormally low temperature climate around the world. , Norway lost 1.8 million people. Finland, which had been recaptured by the Soviet Union, lost 1.2 million people in war and famine. Iceland has completely become a no-man's land. According to the current situation, it is impossible for human beings to survive in such a place.
In addition to the huge losses in population and economy, the ecological environment of the Nordic countries was also severely damaged during these two "years without summer". A considerable number of animals and plants were frozen to death in the unusually severe cold. It is expected that It takes quite a long time to gradually recover.
Finally, in this great war, for the independence, freedom, rejuvenation and dignity of the Soviet people, for the innovation and liberation of all mankind, and for ringing the final death knell of the capitalist world, our great Soviet motherland also made successive contributions It cost the lives of approximately 15 million heroic sons and daughters, and paid a painful price when four local cities, including the second largest city, Leningrad, were destroyed by U.S. atomic bombs.
Regarding more detailed specific losses, there will be a special Soviet Civil War loss report later, which will not be mentioned here.
To sum up, compared with the time before the war, Europe as a whole lost about 300 million people, of which the number of deaths alone was as high as more than 200 million.
2. West Asia and North Africa
During the Second and Third World Wars, West Asia and North Africa were also important battlefields. Although many newspapers and magazines talked about the "Desert Fox" Rommel's various ingenious schemes in the North African desert, as well as the series of jokes made by the Italian fascist army on the African battlefield. But to be honest, the serious damage to West Asia and North Africa basically started with the Third World War.
On the Asia Minor Peninsula, relying on the Red Army's heroic fighting and overwhelming nuclear strikes, the Russian military's battle flag was finally planted on the city of Constantinople, realizing a centuries-old dream. But as an inevitable price of the war, with the complete destruction of the reactionary Turkish regime, more than 10 million Turks were also wiped out. The remaining Turks are fighting in the mountains of Asia Minor with the Soviet Red Army and the new socialist Kurdistan. The Republic waged a long guerrilla war. The Kremlin is still discussing with Kurdish leaders whether to relocate all Turks from Asia Minor in the future, or to follow the example of the Americans setting up Indian reservations and set aside a reservation for them in the Ankara area.
In the West Asian Arab world south of Turkey and east of Egypt, the Soviet Red Army only stopped at Mosul and did not send large-scale troops to these areas. However, in order to expel and eliminate the American and British allied forces previously entrenched in these areas, the Kremlin used strategic The Air Force dropped more than 900 atomic bombs on cities and ports in this region. Even after the withdrawal of US troops, nuclear strikes continued in order to eliminate some extreme anti-Soviet forces. Until the autumn of 1949, while carrying out strategic nuclear strikes against the United States, the Soviet Strategic Air Force was still carrying out nuclear bombing missions in certain areas of the Middle East.
After withstanding such a large-scale and high-intensity nuclear attack, except for the Palestinian area that contains the holy city of Jerusalem and is currently controlled by the Jews, all large-scale population centers in the entire West Asian Arab world have been basically completely destroyed. Especially desert oases with fragile ecological environments often never recover after being scorched by the flames of nuclear explosions. At present, the governments of various Arab countries have completely collapsed and have basically degenerated back to the barbaric age. To the outside world, such a vast area has almost become a black hole from which no information can be transmitted.
The Kingdom of Iran further east, after more than two years of confrontation and fighting with the Soviet Red Army along the Caspian Sea, finally gave in in June 1949 and chose to negotiate a peace and truce with the Soviet Union, ceding a small piece of lowland along the Caspian Sea coast. After the defeat in the war and the cession of territory, the Kingdom of Iran immediately fell into domestic turmoil. In order to divert internal conflicts with foreign wars, the newly elected Prime Minister Mossadegh proposed the slogan "Persian Gulf for the Persians" and ambitiously wanted to enter the Mesopotamia. , as well as several small countries on the southern coast of the Persian Gulf, in order to boost the public sentiment and morale of the Kingdom of Iran and make up for the loss of the lowlands along the Caspian Sea.
Regarding the Iranian plan, the Kremlin expressed its acquiescence. The newly born Socialist Republic of Kurdistan also signed an agreement with the Iranians, using Mosul as the dividing line to separate the country south of Assyria that was devastated by nuclear explosions. The Arab world lost it to the Iranians. It remains to be seen whether the Iranian army can reconquer this old territory from the Persian Empire and realize the slogan of "Persian Gulf for the Persians".
Then, in Africa, Egypt, as an ancient civilization, suffered several nuclear bombs during the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. At the same time, it suffered a massacre during the uprising against the colonial rule of the United States and Britain, and a series of massacres followed. During the civil war, approximately three million people died. However, starting in the autumn of 1947, relying on the support and assistance of the Soviet Red Army, a socialist regime was finally re-established in Egypt, which reluctantly ruled the Nile River Basin and restored agricultural production to a considerable extent. He began to export large amounts of surplus grain to famine-stricken Europe.
Further west from Egypt, the situation in the Maghreb region of North Africa is much worse. The original colonial government collapsed and was unable to perform effective management functions. Local tribes fought with each other. Everything seemed to have returned to the Dark Ages of the Middle Ages. Although the Soviet Red Army stationed in North Africa once established several air force bases and military ports on the edge of this desert, they were never able to extend their effective rule beyond fifty kilometers from the base wall. Moreover, with the end of the strategic nuclear strike against the United States, these troops have been ordered to abandon all North African bases and withdraw back to the country.
At present, apart from the occasional conflicting information collected by smugglers and spies from this region, we know very little about the current social situation in North Africa. We only know that until now, there are still wars there and there has been no establishment. establish an effective governing order.
Due to the lack of first-hand accurate investigation information, news in many places can only rely on hearsay, and there are many contradictions and conflicts between them. Therefore, we can only roughly speculate based on existing data that the entire West Asia and North Africa region lost approximately 30 to 40 million people during the ten years of the Second and Third World Wars. Judging from the numbers, it does not seem to be very significant. The death toll in the UK alone is more than the death toll in the entire West Asia and North Africa. However, considering the harsh environment, vast deserts, and lower population density in West Asia and North Africa compared with Europe, such a proportion of large-scale deaths is already close to devastating for local civilized societies.
In short, excluding Asia Minor under the occupation of the Soviet Red Army and the Eastern European Army, the Kingdom of Iran that survived the world war, Egypt, Israel and the Kurdistan Republic that gradually established socialist regimes, and some European immigrants established in North Africa Apart from the port colonial cities, the rest of West Asia and North Africa have now become "lawless places" where social order has collapsed. According to traditional sociological concepts, in the next few years, it seems that this large arid and semi-arid area can be demarcated from the concept of "civilized world".
3. Black Africa south of the Sahara Desert
In the ten years of war that just ended, the Soviet Red Army's ground forces could only attack as far as Morocco in the north of the Sahara Desert. They had never penetrated deep into the black African region south of the Sahara Desert, and they had never even planted the red flag in Strategic Vision for Black Africa.
However, this does not mean that black Africa south of the Sahara Desert can stay out of the world war. On the contrary, in fact, over the past decade, and even until now, black Africa south of the Sahara Desert has been in intense turmoil and conflict.
If we look back on history, during the era of world wars filled with gunfire, the first drop of blood left in the Black Africa region south of the Sahara Desert should be the invasion of Ethiopia, a country on the East African plateau, by the Italian fascist regime. In this lame war, although Mussolini's Italian army made many jokes, it still caused 800,000 to 1 million casualties in Ethiopia.
Next, during World War II, a series of armed conflicts broke out between British and French colonists in Madagascar and Dakar. However, for black Africa as a whole, the death toll and socio-economic damage caused by the above-mentioned conflicts are basically negligible and not worth mentioning.
The massive population losses that really caused black Africa to bleed like rivers began with the nuclear war in the early stages of World War III. At that time, Eisenhower led his troops to withdraw from North Africa and West Asia. After joining the colonial troops, he retreated to Black Africa south of the Sahara Desert and continued to confront the Soviet Red Army across the desert. If the Kremlin wants to end the war in the Old Continent, it must annihilate or at least expel this US-British allied force with a total strength of millions.
However, if it directly crosses the vast desert and goes south to attack the US military, first of all, the Red Army's front-line troops are insufficient, and secondly, the logistics supply line across the Sahara Desert is really difficult to support; if it marches along the Atlantic coast to West Africa, it will facilitate the transportation of supplies by sea. ,but The U.S. Atlantic Fleet still has considerable strength, and the Soviet Union has not yet gained control of the sea. It is unwise to expose the supply line to the enemy's gunfire. If we go south along the Red Sea to East Africa, the Suez Canal has been destroyed by a nuclear explosion, and it will not be possible in a short time. Passage, no boat available for a while.
Therefore, the Kremlin finally decided to continue to use nuclear strikes instead of ground offensives, and use high-intensity nuclear explosions to drive the US military away from Africa.
As a result, in the next few months, black Africa south of the Sahara Desert, especially the port colonial cities in East and West Africa, withstood hundreds of atomic bomb blasts, almost ending the impact of Western European colonists on them since the beginning of the Age of Discovery. All that construction going on in Africa was wiped out.
Before Eisenhower's U.S. military in Africa finally collapsed and the South African Union changed sides and expelled U.S. troops from Africa, about 10 to 20 million Africans were killed by Soviet atomic bombs, most of them black. After the Union of South Africa broke away from the British Empire and successfully established its country. While the white South African regime has waged civil and military attacks on various former colonies in Africa, it has forcibly incorporated almost all black African colonies, except Ethiopia, into the "Southern African Community" led by the Union of South Africa, and has been semi-openly implementing the policy of genocide. Carry out large-scale massacres of black native Africans.
By the end of 1949, a total of 50 to 60 million black people had died in wars and massacres throughout black Africa. But if we only calculate the population decline in black Africa, it is far less than that. Because, while the white South African authorities massacred black people on a large scale during World War III, war refugees continued to enter South Africa from overseas. According to information released by South Africa, the number of war refugees legally entering the country alone is as high as 35 million. The vast majority are European and American white people, but some are Indians, Arabs and East Asian yellow people. The total number should be no less than two million.
So far, relying on the large-scale influx of war refugees in recent years, as well as the original white immigrants from South Africa, Mozambique and other places, the number of white people in the South African Community has surged to more than 50 million, exceeding the pre-war British population. Therefore, in order to accommodate these white immigrants who brought a large amount of capital and technology, were of higher quality, and were more reliable in the eyes of the South African authorities, and to make enough living space for them on African soil, the white South African authorities did not hesitate to The butcher knife was raised against black people. Its ultimate goal should be to wash the black Africa south of the Sahara Desert into "white Africa" with blood and fire. The remaining black people can only live in slave dungeons on plantations just like the southern states of the United States in the last century. However, during this process, black Africans cannot sit back and die, but will inevitably launch the most fierce resistance against the white South African authorities for the survival of the ethnic group. In the next many years, the suppression and purge of the black indigenous people will inevitably involve most of the energy of the white South African authorities. Therefore, in the foreseeable future, this last bastion of capitalism should not pose too many threats to the cause of socialism.