Chapter 1360 – Silent Ball

The combat systems of the NATO member countries received interference, not to mention Poland, which bore the brunt of it, the Warsaw airfield was already under the control of the Soviet Airborne Army, and this time the Warsaw Pact military organization’s response to NATO’s synthetic operations was first applied to Poland.

The main force was of course the Soviet Army, and the native Soviet Army would carry out a demilitarization operation against Poland with the cooperation of the Soviet Army in Poland.

Preventing the Polish army, forced by the bourgeoisie, from doing pro- and anti-Soviet actions with the socialist brother countries, i.e. actions against the Soviet army.

At Warsaw airport, the airborne troops occupying the airport immediately contacted the command to say that everything was going well, and then dozens of transport planes took off and landed at Warsaw airport at the rate of one per five minutes. At the same time, the Soviet Army in Poland moved out to impede Polish troops everywhere, while around Poland, sixteen divisions of Soviet troops, with one thousand tanks and eight thousand armored vehicles, split into four directions and entered Polish territory, with the Soviet Army in Germany and the GDR People’s Army in the west, and Soviet troops in Belarus dominating in the east.

Hundreds of thousands of troops sped across Polish soil as if they had been maneuvered thousands of times, while Warsaw, in the eye of the storm, knew nothing of it.

The next morning, the American ambassador to London appeared in Whitehall and just sat down and spoke directly, “Yesterday all of Poland was under the control of Soviet and GDR forces.”

“Uh? How do you know that?” Alan Wilson was taken aback, he wasn’t surprised that Poland was occupied or how many people had died, but that the US had gotten the news so quickly.

“We were notified by the Soviet Foreign Ministry.” Donald explained in a nonchalant manner, “It’s also to eliminate any misunderstandings between the two camps, even if we don’t know now, once the embassy gets in touch with Washington, we’ll know sooner or later.”

Before the Soviets began to move, the Soviet ambassador to the United States, Dobrynin, called on President Lyndon Johnson in accordance with his country’s instructions. In fact, Johnson had already had this in mind. Dobrynin confronted Johnson and U.S. National Security Advisor Rostow and read a telegram from Moscow.

The telegram stated, “There exists in Poland a cabal of reactionary forces, both internal and external, opposed to the socialist system. The Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact Organization allies have responded to the Warsaw government’s appeal for help. Accordingly, Soviet troops have been ordered to move into Poland.”

Johnson listened carefully to the message, calmly “thanked Ambassador Dobrynin for informing him of the news,” and then went on to talk at length about the talks he had held with Kosygin.

“It seems that there is a tacit understanding between Washington and Moscow.” Reaching for a goji berry and taking a sip, Allen Wilson’s face didn’t look good as he commented salaciously.

“The president has no intention of straining relations with Moscow when his term is about to expire. And frankly, we can’t interfere with anything in Eastern Europe.” Knowing that the overdue hegemon was a bit disoriented by this, Donald took care of Britain’s feelings explaining, “But like that possibility we communicated earlier, the Soviet Union’s hold on Eastern Europe is not firm.”

“The situation in France suggests that Western Europe is not very secure either.” Seeing that the U.S. ambassador was about to make a double standard statement, Allen Wilson had to point out that the situation in France was now not much better than in Poland. If the Soviet Union’s hold on Eastern Europe was insufficient, was the U.S.’s hold on Western Europe strong?

Of course both men agreed that they had to try to give de Gaulle a chance and hope that he would be able to get the situation in France under control and not let NATO come in after the Soviet Union’s move, which would not be good.

“The Soviet Union’s move will certainly not satisfy all countries, I think we can keep quiet for a while and see what the Soviet Union’s allies think, especially those few allies with complicated relations. For example, Yugoslavia, and several countries in East Asia.”

Alan Wilson took the initiative to propose, “If the Soviet Union’s actions can’t satisfy its own brother countries, then it would be logical for us to say a few words.”

Alan Wilson could remember that a certain big country seemed to have slammed the Soviet Union over Czechoslovakia, and now that it was replaced by Poland, the attitude should remain the same. That would be something to capitalize on; the free world doesn’t comment on it, but wouldn’t it be okay to reprint the views of a major power?

It’s a good thing that the world didn’t have a Polish-Hungarian incident, otherwise it would be useless to reprint two similar incidents years apart where a major power’s stance is inconsistent. It would only make most countries think that a certain big country is double standard, now there is no such problem.

“We are not hostile to the Soviet Union, but the Soviet Union’s own allies think so.” Allen Wilson said to the American ambassador in a roundabout way, “Avoiding a direct statement would be a way of taking care of the Soviet Union’s sentiments.”

“Good idea, but it depends on what Washington thinks.” Donald’s eyes lit up, but while he certainly agreed with the approach, it also depended on public opinion within the United States.

“I don’t think it’s a big problem anyway.” Alan Wilson was confident, “We always have nothing to lose from the discord in the enemy’s internal relations, don’t we?”

The Polish situation was ultimately a distant event, and both men agreed that it was the French issue that was more important in the current situation, and Allen Wilson then proceeded to 10 Downing Street to report on the matter.

“Are we going to launch a blistering attack on Soviet behavior?” Harold Wilson was in deep thought after hearing this.

“We’d better see what Washington’s stance is, and if Washington doesn’t think it’s a big problem, there’s nothing we can say.” Alan Wilson put forward his own suggestion, “And what exactly is going on, we don’t know the details yet, we may need to wait for a while before saying anything.”

To be honest it doesn’t really matter how the UK takes a stance on this kind of thing, the US took a stance on Russia sending troops to Kazakhstan decades later, did it work? Still not shit useful.

“Diplomacy is still on France, now the Prime Minister is needed to show that Britain is on General de Gaulle’s side and appeal to France to be able to restore order as soon as possible.” Alan Wilson made a compassionate gesture, “I heard that France has lost more than a thousand tons of gold in the past month, and France has closed the channels for exchanging gold.”

This is almost close to thirty percent of France’s squeezed gold in the past few years, France used several years to squeeze out another four thousand tons of gold from the United States, and all of a sudden one-third less. It can be seen in the financial field, the French still can not be compared with the English-speaking.

Now is the time to say something good about de Gaulle, in fact, although the mouth of Britain and the United States of America to de Gaulle reported respect, but in the British and American public opinion, France is not good reputation. The end of the French Fourth Republic, de Gaulle’s rise to power had the meaning of a military coup.

And the Fifth Republic, under de Gaulle, was in fact very much an authoritarian government, and yes, authoritarian government in this day and age has always been used by some uncritical media to describe de Gaulle’s government.

But that was once upon a time, and in the face of a vocal movement composed of a wide variety of groups, Britain should have given de Gaulle its support, and anyway, the channel for the gold to come out had been terminated, and now we were all still friends in the same trench.

In a flash, the British media still emphasized de Gaulle’s contribution to France over the years, and as for the treatment of the working class, this kind of problem was certainly not exploited and expanded, and became a weapon to attack de Gaulle, and it could not be ruled out that there was the Soviet Union behind the scenes pushing the issue.

Britain will not point a finger at Poland, but the French side planted the Soviet Union can still be, the tacit understanding between the two camps still exists, I do not interfere with you, you do not interfere with me.

On the last day of May, back in Paris, de Gaulle made a radio speech – because the TV stations had gone on strike. Rejecting all the demands of the opposition parties, he would not resign or replace the prime minister, but would dissolve parliament.

He claimed that a “foreign-backed party” – the French Communist Party – was behind the movement, saying that “France is threatened by a dictatorship”, stating that “If this situation continues, I will have to do something else.

The so-called other practices, certainly to solve the problem by virtue of the support of the army, de Gaulle, although said very ambiguous, but the United Kingdom and the United States to listen to the more ambiguous, U.S. President Lyndon Johnson and the British Prime Minister Harold Wilson, immediately in public to express support for de Gaulle, recognizing the de Gaulle’s statement that France is facing a matter of life and death choices should be taken to take tough means to defend the hard-won freedoms.

After de Gaulle’s speech, 400,000 Parisians took to the streets to show their support for de Gaulle, and while this was not comparable to the size of the previous marches, it was a sort of backlash against de Gaulle, who was not without his supporters, but on the contrary had quite a few.

“We’ve got satellites over Algeria and we’re seeing a buildup of troops on the ground, and the transports are still your British strategic transport models.” It wasn’t long before Donald let slip to Alan Wilson that the Algerian garrison appeared to be preparing to return home to assist de Gaulle in controlling the situation.

“I can’t say it’s British, it’s a strategic transport aircraft that we, England, France and Germany, have jointly ordered.” Alan Wilson categorically denied Donald’s claim that the self-determination of the North African garrison could not be shown to be related to Britain just because it used the same transport planes as the British army, it was simply a matter of desire.

“And of course I’m sure that once word of the army’s movements reaches Paris, it will wake up the protesters who are caught up in the middle of a mindless orgy.”

The French Communist Party is clearly not the same as it was after the war, as can be seen from its stance, it is not the same French Communist Party that resisted in the middle of the World War, years of parliamentary struggle have made it lose all of its martial arts skills, and the stance of several of its leaders is full of compromise.

Perhaps de Gaulle is now making conditions for the French Communist Party to side with him and put an end to the strike movement in France, who knows.