But this matter can also be said to be "outside", because Lithuania and other union republics are union republics after all, and they are still different from Russia, the main body of the Soviet Union. In a certain sense, they are not much different from East Germany and other countries, or they are very similar.

It is precisely because of the complexity of the situation that the high-ranking officials are as cautious as they were the other day, and they do not want to and dare not speak casually.

Seeing that his high-ranking officials did not speak when they encountered thorny problems, Gorbachev was very depressed, and couldn't help but think of Ye Liqin, who just threw up his sleeves and left, he might be able to start the cannon here, no matter what, as long as someone starts the cannon, he, as the head of state, can take advantage of the situation, no longer weigh left and right as before, no matter how he decides, it is a collective decision, and no one will hold him accountable afterwards.

This problem has dragged on for too long, Lithuania is about to start anew, Czechoslovakia is about to think about Europe, but the central side has not yet made the final move, this is not intended to let others see the joke? Isn't this intended to be looked down upon by people in other countries?

He coughed dissatisfiedly and said, "We can't delay it any longer today, we have to come up with a decision." In the end, it is necessary to suppress the republics at home first, or to suppress the allies who have defected abroad. If you do not speak, you will vote by show of hands. ”

An official hesitated for a moment and said, "I think the first thing to do is to suppress those defective allies." After all, it is a foreign country, and our officers and men are easy to do, and if they suppress the rebellion of the common people at home, the officers and men will definitely not want to shoot if they see their own villagers. As long as the foreign crackdown is suppressed, the rebels at home may be frightened, and there is no need for us to act. ”

Most people are reluctant to bear the reputation of shooting their own compatriots, and when they saw Gorbachev's gaze sweeping over, they immediately agreed: "Yes." Yes, we should first suppress those allies abroad. They are so ungrateful, we support them so much, they even betray us. The Warsaw Pact said that it was the Soviet Union that led it, but in fact it became that we, the Soviet Union, paid for them, and that we had to beat this vampire to the ground. ”

Gorbachev said: "Well, the overwhelming majority of our comrades agreed to start with the suppression of betrayal of allies. After this principle is settled, let's discuss which of the three we should choose between Czechoslovakia, East Germany, and Outer Mongolia. Whether to choose the most positive table, or the one who is just ready to move. ”

A high-ranking official immediately said: "Of course, it is Waimeng who is just about to move. Because they are just beginning to want to break away from the Warsaw Pact and return to China, we can scare them as soon as we send troops. This is the best way to achieve the maximum effect at the minimum cost. Moreover, China is something. An outburst who just had a little bit of money, how can we get them what they want? Compared with our Soviet Union, they are just a little ant, although they drink vodka and run a little faster, but after all, they are just ants, and we can trample them to death. ”

A high-ranking official opposite him sneered: "You compare China to ants, so what are we, the Soviet Union?" Didn't you just look at China's nuclear weapons and ICBM tests? We have a way to deal with their weapons. Even if they replace the warheads of the ICBMs launched today with conventional bombs. We also had to be nervous. Their air force and their army are already on a par with ours, and the only thing they can't compare with us is the navy, but China has a land border of tens of thousands of kilometers with the Soviet Union, so can we use the navy to climb ashore to fight? I don't know what's going on in your head. Why is it stupid to go against China directly. Do you think that their experiment today has no purpose, and do you think that China is not fully prepared for the sake of Outer Mongolia? ”

The ridiculed high-ranking official blurted out: "You must have been bought by China!" China has been operating with us all these years, wandering around with gold in search of their agents. You must be the officer who was dragged into the water. ”

A hint of panic flashed in the official's eyes, but he quickly calmed down. sneered: "It's a pity that this is not Stalin's Beria era, and it's not a lie that can kill people." Can I say that you are because the Chinese do not look down on you, and no Chinese take gold to care about you, so you hold a grudge against the Chinese, so today you do not care about the interests of our Soviet Union, knowing that the strategic focus of our country is not Outer Mongolia, and you want us to throw our precious forces in that direction. ”

The official on the other side turned blue with anger and said angrily: "You are slandering, you are framing me." ......, who said that the strategic location of Outer Mongolia is not important, and who dares to say that after Outer Mongolia is taken back by China, the damage to our country is very small? ”

Another official said confidently: "You are stealing concepts, or playing children's tricks." Who said that the strategic position of Outer Mongolia was not important, and who said that the loss of Outer Mongolia did not harm our Soviet Union? None of us would be so stupid. However, there is a question of comparison, there is a question of prioritization. How to compare, that is, we can compare East Germany with Outer Mongolia, East Germany is far greater than Outer Mongolia in terms of geographical significance, political significance, or resource significance. Even Czechoslovakia is much more important than Outer Mongolia.

If Outer Mongolia is lost or returned to China, the loss is indeed very large, and the squadron will use the land of Outer Mongolia to advance thousands of kilometers to the west and north, which seems to be able to insert into our heartland. However, there is a 'seeming' here, and in fact they are far from our heartland. Moreover, you just said that China is an ant, an ant that can be pinched to death at any time, and since it is an ant, what are we worried about about them? We are polar bears, is there a problem with being bitten by ants? Doesn't it seem ridiculous that we've worked so hard to get our army to turn around and watch out for an ant?

Of course, you will definitely regret that China is not an ant, in fact they are not ants either, they are China, a great power, a powerful country second only to our USSR in force. However, compared with the United States and Europe, they are a country that is very responsible and easy to satisfy, and they will never endlessly seek the interests of the outside world like the United States and the European imperialist countries. Even if they get Outer Mongolia, they will not attack us in Moscow because of this.

Historically, our Moscow has suffered from the French attack, suffered from the German pass, but has not suffered from the Chinese. On the contrary, they have been repeatedly attacked by us. Please don't think of the Yuan Dynasty as China, because the Yuan Dynasty was founded by nomadic peoples, and not only did they occupy our Moscow, but they also destroyed the Song Dynasty in China at that time.

In addition to the geographical benefits, the loss of Outer Mongolia will at most lose some mineral resources that we don't care about at all, some wool, a pitiful bit of mutton. But we can also reduce the amount of food, clothing, equipment, weapons and ammunition that we have to support them every year, which is a heavy burden, especially now that we ourselves are all poor. Countless times poorer than us, they stick to us like leeches and suck blood, making us even more powerless.

Even if China really uses the land of Outer Mongolia to attack our Soviet Union, they still have to face the boundless Novosibirsk, they need to pass through the boundless forests, they need to cross the Ural Mountains, we only need to control the railways, control a few mountain passes, control a few rivers, they can't do anything.

It can be said that the value of Outer Mongolia is really limited, and it is not a big deal to lose it. We can also open up our ties with China, improve our relationship with China, and import large quantities of the materials we need, especially food and light industrial products, from China. Without these grain and light industrial products, our life would hardly be able to survive, and the entire USSR would have been dragged down.

However, if East Germany falls into the hands of Europe, we will first lose countless skilled workers, hundreds of thousands of scientific and technological personnel, a large number of sophisticated machinery and equipment, and at the same time lose our large market for metal materials and our crude oil market, and our foreign exchange will be even more difficult. Moreover, as soon as Europe or the United States attacked our country with the help of East German soil, we would face their bayonets directly in the chest.

In addition, we sent troops to Outer Mongolia to suppress it, offending China, an emerging developing country, and this could not deter the European and American countries from agitating against East Germany, could not stop Czechoslovakia from fleeing to the west, and did not have any effect on the secession of Lithuania, and it was almost useless. On the contrary, if we suppressed East Germany and Czechoslovakia, we would have a great deterrent effect and would have been able to deter the United States, Britain, and France, and the rebels in Lithuania would not dare to act rashly. ”

It has to be said that Guo Zhuocheng and others have done their work in place, and after this high-ranking official finished speaking, several people immediately supported his opinion, believing that Outer Mongolia was just a barren land, and its weight was not enough to compare with East Germany and Czechoslovakia, whether it was talent or politics. Since the Soviet Union is now economically strained and it is difficult to mobilize the troops, it is necessary to move the troops in the direction of maximizing their interests.

Soon, Gorbachev made a decision: send troops to Czechoslovakia!

Three days later, the news reached Guo Zhuocheng's ears, and Guo Zhuocheng was surprised, happy, and a little nervous. Because history has changed here again, it is very different from the previous life.

In his previous life, Ye Liqin did resign, resigned from his position, and even quit the party organization, becoming a complete common man. It was not until the Soviet high-level took advantage of Gorbachev's vacation to carry out a coup d'état that he stood up and called on the common people to support the reform and oppose the coup, and at the same time said that the officers and soldiers would defect to him, making him a hero of the quelling coup d'état in one fell swoop, and dismantling the Soviet Union in one fell swoop, and becoming the first president of Russia.

This guy in the previous life was much more radical and, together with Gorbachev, completely buried the USSR.

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