The first update

The man seated in front of Victor had Beethoven-esque hair and thick lenses like pigeon's eggs at the ends of the bridge of his nose, and he looked like a mild-mannered university professor, with a sense of humor and courtesy. At first glance, it's hard to associate him with the disgustingly cunning politicians.

Yet such a mild-looking man is one of the most brutal leaders on the European continent since World War II, with the blood of genocide on his hands.

Victor silently read the resume of the man in front of him in his heart, Ladovan? Karadzic was born in a small village in the mountains of Durmitor in the north of the Yugoslav Republic of Montenegro. In 1990, he gave up medicine to enter politics and founded the Serbian Democratic Party of Bosnia and Herzegovina, where he was elected president, the most vocal man of the year and the most likely to become president of the Republic of Serbia in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Although he has not been involved in politics for a long time, he is able to speak well in political struggles and diplomatic negotiations, pay attention to struggle tactics, and skillfully use the contradictions between the Bosnian and Herzegovina Muslims and the Croats to safeguard his political status. Frequently participated in international negotiations and meetings and made speeches to defend the interests of the Serbs. For this reason, many ethnic Serbs call him the best politician in Serbia and a hero who plays with the European and American powers.

When Viktor asked Yanayev how to deal with Karadzic, Yanayev, who had studied him well, said sharply, "Karadzic is a cunning and insidious old fox, don't expect to get exact promises and assurances from him." Coerce and induce him when necessary, and let him know that the Soviet Union can influence the situation of the civil war in Yugoslavia is true, and not just make it up. ”

"You mean to get the Serbs to give up their hatred of the Croats and Muslims? Everyone sat in a chair and negotiated the partition of the territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina? With all due respect, Mr. Victor. What do you think of this? Isn't it a little naïve. Karadzic picked up a piece of sugar with tweezers. Put it in the coffee. He slowly took a sip of his coffee, as easy-going as if he were chatting with a friend.

"You have to know that Serbia has always maintained the territorial integrity, the sovereign integrity of Yugoslavia. We cannot allow Croatia and Muslims to become independent, and it is a humiliation to the Serbs. Even if we take extreme measures to leave not a single outsider on the land of Bosnia and Herzegovina, we will not hesitate to do so! ”

"Tut-tut, is this a disguised allusion to genocide?" Victor crossed his left leg and enjoyed Karadzic's brilliant performance as a politician.

"I didn't say that. Mr. Victor. Preserving the territorial integrity of Bosnia and Herzegovina is the responsibility of every Serb, and it does not change everything because I am a presidential candidate. Karadzic's words changed sharply, and he looked calm again, as if he had not said what he had just said.

"Alright, Mr. Karadzic, I don't know what you think?" Viktor had no interest in continuing to talk to Karadzic, and continued, "I just want to tell you what Moscow thinks about the Yugoslav war, and it is your business to start a war, and we don't have the right to intervene if we want to. Isn't it. Well, the top brass in Moscow would like to remind you of something. ”

Victor paused deliberately. Trying to whet Karadzic's appetite. Sure enough, the other party asked impatiently, "Remind me of something?" Serbs have always been very measured. ”

"Remind you not to be stupid enough to commit genocide." Viktor retold Yanayev's words to Karadzic in full, "I don't care what the Serbs, Croats, and Muslims had before, but if you launch massacres and attacks against civilians, not to mention NATO, even the Soviet Union will not let you go." ”

Victor said that the righteousness was awe-inspiring, and in his heart he was actually calculating for the Soviet Union. Because he was muttering in his heart, why would Yanayev be so convinced that Karadzic would start a genocide against civilians after starting a war?

Yanaev, who is well aware of history, understands that after Karadzic became the Serbian president of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bosnia and Herzegovina fell into a three-and-a-half-year civil war. During the three-and-a-half-year civil war, Karadzic became the soul and symbol of the Bosnian Serbs. In the three and a half years between the beginning and the end of the civil war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 140,000 Muslims and Croats were killed and more than 2 million were left homeless.

After the end of the civil war in November 1995, the International Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia began indicting Karadzic for directing his men to massacre 9,000 Muslim civilians and to drive one million Muslims and Croatians out of their settlements. At the same time, the Hague Tribunal charged him with genocide and war crimes, including the massacre of 10,000 people during the siege of Sarajevo in 1992-1995 and the massacre of 8,000 Muslims in Srebrenica in 1995.

"We certainly don't launch attacks against civilians, we're just keeping the peace." Karadzic's words are very good, but what he is thinking in his heart is another matter.

"This is not a political negotiation, this is an exhortation, the future President Karadzic." Seeing Karadzic's appearance, Viktor knew that his previous preaching had not worked, and he put on a serious face and said, "Once you launch an operation against civilians, then the attitude of the Soviet Union will change from supporting the Serb state to resolving the opposition." This opposition is not a verbal protest or condemnation, we will send air or ground troops to carpet bombard Serbian troops over and over again with incendiary petrol or thermobaric bombs until the last of your formed units are incapacitated, you know what I mean? ”

"Understood......" Karadzic took a deep breath, he didn't understand why the Soviet Union, which was talking and laughing one second and supporting the Serbs, was showing a hideous appearance the next second. It's like a different person in an instant. And that sentence of the future president is obviously so obvious that it could not be more obvious.

"It's best if you understand, and I'll let you figure out if you don't understand." Victor frowned, he didn't believe that the other party would give up the idea in his heart.

"Why did you suddenly change your attitude? Isn't it your goal to install a pro-Soviet regime? If we had," Karadzic asked.

Karadzic was mostly right, but he forgot that Yanayev only needed to raise a few loyal dogs in Eastern Europe, not a bunch of guys who were nominally loyal to the Soviet Union and were actually doing something else.

"You don't need to know why, you can do whatever we want you to do, and if you choose to resist, we will train your opponents, or use your political opponents to knock you out of power and prop up a puppet that we can easily manipulate. So you remember, you are just a dog raised by the Soviets. ”

"Karadzic, follow the right people to see a bright future." Victor removed the coffee on the table and said to him, "First question, who doesn't want chaos in Yugoslavia?" Western European countries, of course. So who is in a hurry to start a war to preserve territorial integrity, of course, you Serbs. On this issue, you have violated the West's backlash. You don't have to tell me that the West might support you, they want to turn Eastern Europe into a miasma in order to profit from it. ”

"From the first question can be derived from the second question, that is, once Yugoslavia is in war and the economy and military are blocked, who will finance it like you? The Western world? Or the Soviet camp. If you think about it, it's clear, right? ”

Victor's answer really captures the heart of Karadzic's thinking. They also don't want a civil war in the difficult circumstances of the economic blockade, so every time Victor asks a question, he frowns.

"What's more, our previous proposal is also for the benefit of the Serbs, if you can occupy a large territory of Bosnia and Herzegovina before the outbreak of a limited war ends there, then it means that you have more say in the signing of the agreement, as for the other non-Serbs in those lands, I don't know what you are going to do."

As long as there is no massacre, the so-called expulsion is a trivial matter. And the more Victor went down, the brighter Karadzic's eyes became, as excited and fascinated as if Columbus had discovered a new continent.

"So, don't you still think it's bad to be a dog of the Soviets?" Victor asked. (To be continued.) )