Chapter 521: Yang Zhen's self-question
Perhaps there were some scruples about the American and British military delegation in Harbin, and several expatriate leaders were not taken away in handcuffs like the Belarusian leaders who had long been targeted by the Soviets. Rather, they returned to the USSR by train with the ordinary expatriate
In fact, as early as the handover of the first batch of Belarus, it had already attracted the attention of the American and British military delegations stationed in the Anti-Japanese Alliance. After all, it turned out that the White Russians on the streets of Harbin disappeared all at once, and it could not but attract the attention of other quarters. At present, there is an extreme need for Western aid, and the Soviets who do not want to offend the United States and Britain too much.
When handing over this group of expatriates, under the reminder of the Anti-Japanese Federation, they did not do so publicly, and their actions were much more obscure. Not only was the handover at night, but at the same time, the transfer back to China was only on an ordinary freight train, with an ordinary passenger car attached.
Although things are developing, the beginning is not as complicated as Yang Zhen and Li Yanping expected. But the subsequent development of things was exactly according to Li Yanping's judgment. Almost all of the White Russian families whose men were taken away received notices of the death of their family members who were forcibly sent back to serve their country during or at the end of the war.
But the Soviets said that all the young men in the White Russians who were sent back to the Soviet Union were basically wiped out in the war. Of course, this outcome is inseparable from the brutal conditions on the Soviet-German battlefield, not to mention the unreliable elements in the eyes of the Soviets, even those staunch Soviet personnel suffered heavy casualties.
Of course, this result also played a considerable role in the fact that the Soviets often sent these White Russian troops to the most dangerous and casualty directions, and consciously consumed these people on the battlefield.
On the battlefield of Stalingrad, which was called the meat grinder by later generations, these White Russians, who were forcibly sent back to fight in the war, finally completely disappeared in the ruins of the city that had been completely razed to the ground after the war.
These units, which were formed separately from the returned White Russian expatriate, were always under the machine guns of the supervising troops of the Soviet Ministry of Internal Affairs because of their unreliability and other reasons. Most of these White Russian men died either on the battlefield or at the hands of their own men.
The whereabouts of the repatriated Baltic expatriates has become a mystery that will never be solved. After these people returned to the Soviet Union, no one knew their whereabouts, let alone saw them again. Compared with those repatriated White Russians who did not have too many scruples, for these people became a big problem for Yang Zhen decades later.
And what kind of situation will these White Russians encounter after returning to China is a question that Yang Zhen has no time to worry about, let alone worry about. For Yang Zhen and the Anti-Japanese Federation, there were a large number of White Russians living in Harbin and North Manchuria. Sooner or later, it's a boil that is about to emerge. It's better to get early than late.
These White Russians opposed not only the Soviet Union, but also the Anti-Japanese Federation, which I am afraid also treated equally in their eyes. Moreover, those guys with Soviet backgrounds in Belarus may be even more difficult to deal with once something happens. Instead of being passive at that time, it is better to take advantage of this opportunity and simply ask them to leave.
In fact, if these White Russians can be sent to a third country, it will be a better ending in Yang Zhen's opinion. After all, no one really wants to wait for them to die after knowing the approximate outcome of their return home. He is a warrior, not a butcher.
However, under the condition that foreign transportation is still dependent on the Soviets, at least for the time being, the Soviets put forward this kind of demand that does not harm their fundamental interests, and there is no other way for Yang Zhen to choose. Even if the Soviets promised to transfer them to a third country, the lines of communication were in the hands of the Soviets, and there was basically no possibility that these people would be able to safely pass through the Soviet Union and leave.
The Soviets have always been able to cut down the grass and eradicate it when their hands are long enough. They will not let these staunch anti-Soviet elements in their eyes leave their sight alive and go to other countries to continue to oppose them. Even if the Soviets promised to let them go to a third country, and there was already a country that agreed to accept it, these Soviets would still cut the grass and eradicate the roots on the way.
Under the tremendous pressure of the Soviets and the urgent need for technicians, it was also a helpless choice for the Anti-Japanese Federation to transfer to the Soviet side the White Russians and some other expatriates that the Soviets considered to be Soviets. It's just that in order to avoid pressure from the West when the Anti-Japanese Federation handed over, or to say that the troubles were moving eastward, they still adopted some tactful tricks.
It's just that this approach and the practice of directly transferring this batch of White Russia to the Soviet Union are just one that has openly gone to the sea to do **, and the other is that he wants to be ** and wants to set up a memorial arch, and the difference is not even 50 steps and 100 steps. Under the circumstance that the Anti-Japanese Federation did not have time to argue with the Soviets on this matter, in fact, the last fig leaf should not be needed.
And in terms of self-deception, Yang Zhen still knows it. In this matter, he didn't want to make any trouble for the Anti-Union and himself. Now I don't have the strength or the capital, and I can't resist the Soviets on some details that are not related to the survival and development of the Anti-Japanese Federation. But if they really wanted to move themselves, they had deployed in Siberia and the Far East, and although they had transferred most of them, they had been painstakingly replenished on the spot, and the total strength had been restored to a garrison of more than 400,000 men.
It is not impossible to want to have no sovereignty at all. And the things that fall into the well or are treacherous, the Soviets have done since the outbreak of World War II. Poland, Finland and the three Baltic countries have all learned from their own experience. Yang Zhen, who has no strength at the moment and doesn't want to fight on both sides.
As long as it does not affect one's own established plans, in fact, most of the time it is a concession. But once it comes to his own established plan, or when it comes to the situation of the Anti-Japanese War against Japan, Yang Zhen refuses to back down even half a step. He is unscrupulous and secretly troublemaker, just hoping to make the situation as chaotic as possible.
Although he also knows that he is walking a tightrope now, for Yang Zhen and even the entire Anti-Japanese Federation, he has to go down no matter how dangerous it is. Because for them, there is no other choice. On one side is a greedy polar bear, on the other side is a fierce and equally greedy Japanese wolf, plus the United States and Britain behind it are difficult to deal with.
We must seize this rare opportunity and do our best to develop ourselves. But we can't let these allies and enemies who harbor evil intentions and exchange guns and arrows behind their backs have no bones left. Some things may be a burden or even a stigma for the future, but they are an opportunity for the present.
So in this matter, Yang Zhen was a little unbearable. But he knows that he doesn't have much choice in this kind of thing. He did not know how much it would benefit the Soviet side to return these White Russians to the Soviet Union. But for the Anti-United Nations, the advantages always outweigh the disadvantages.
Compared with those White Russians, the more than 100 expatriates from the three Baltic countries who were forcibly repatriated were the smallest number, but they became a heart disease that he did not let go of for decades. It was only under the influence of the post-war international form that he could not and could not ask the Soviets for information on the whereabouts of these people.
It's just that Li Yanping doesn't know these thoughts of his. After Li Yanping, who hurried back to continue negotiations with the Soviets, left, Yang Zhen looked at his back and was silent for a long time without speaking. I just sighed secretly in my heart, some things are not as simple as these simple comrades imagined.
In some cases, the struggle of one's own people is even more cruel. For some things, knowing that there may be some articles in it, but pretending not to know is the best way to solve it. He may change the rut of history, but whether he can change the fate of some people, Yang Zhen is not sure.
In fact, whether it is the commander-in-chief or his old partner. No matter what kind of work he is engaged in now, whether it is local work or military work, he has not yet departed from the unique and straightforward nature of soldiers. And I'm afraid this is their character that will be difficult to change in their lives.
If it is said that among the few people who actually hold power in the entire Northeast at the moment, only Guo Bingxun in front of him is more sensitive to politics. In addition to military problems and a slightly stronger sensitivity in politics, the rest of the commander-in-chief and Li Yanping are the kind of people who can't keep up with politics.
It's not that they don't have a long-term vision, but some things are not always too thorough, and they are still too naïve in terms of political struggle. I'm a little nervous now, but I'll have a lot less trouble in the future. And this trouble does not refer only to wartime periods, but also to political struggles in the coming decades.
And although Guo Bingxun is said to be much more sensitive to politics, he is much stronger than those two. But on many issues involving politics, he chose to remain silent and evade. For Guo Bingxun, he always knows very well what he can participate in and what it is better to stay out of it.
Sometimes Yang Zhen is also thinking that for a soldier like Guo Bingxun who wants to be a pure soldier, his innate sensitivity in politics is not necessarily a good thing. Because this will undoubtedly limit the use of his talents in many ways. It also made him suffer a lot of times, a little too much from gains and losses.
Yang Zhen has always believed that the war will always serve the government in the end, but the military and the political family can only be two railroad tracks that will never cross. If you want to be a real soldier, you can't get in touch with politics. And soldiers who are too sensitive in politics often find it difficult to become a real military strategist.
In fact, while Yang Zhen also smiled bitterly in his heart, he asked himself more than once. If he didn't have some "heavenly opportunities" in his hands, would he be the same as them with his own personality? I'm afraid it's hard to change. If this character can be changed, he will not act that night when he knows that some departments are short of calcium, and re-enacts the modern version of the officialdom and puts pressure on the troops.
After thinking about it for a long time, Yang Zhen shook his head, and he couldn't figure out whether his current self was still the same as before. The height is unbearable, if he had taken this sentence as a self-deprecation for those in high positions. So now that he is in a high position, he only realizes the true meaning of this sentence at this moment.
And now Yang Zhen also feels that he is becoming less and less like a real soldier. In dealing with the transfer of Belarus to the Soviet Union, he felt that in some respects he was more and more like a politician who spends his days calculating gains and losses, or a somewhat shameless businessman who will do anything for profit.