Chapter 1744: The Vilnius Affair

Arikseyev, who received information about the internationalist fighters lurking in the heart of imperialism, found information about the conservative member mentioned in Alan Wilson’s mouth, who should be noticed but was not known, the Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR, the Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Grand Admiral Valentin Yimvanovich Valenikov.

Valentin Ivanovich Valenikov was supposed to serve as Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Army in Afghanistan as Alan Wilson remembers it, but in this world experience turned into General Counsel of the Afghan People’s Army, then returned to his home country to report on his duties and now serves as Commander-in-Chief of the Army of the USSR.

Alikseyev in a certain sense believes that the situation in Lithuania is not a KGB armed forces can be solved, only the Lithuanian garrison can solve the problem.

Grand Admiral Valentin thought deeply of this and asked Arikseyev if there was anything he could do, “I don’t know, can we think of something from the local Russian community.”

“It’s too easy to think.” Grand Admiral Valentin shook his head slightly, “Is this Comrade Foltseva’s idea, Alyosha?

“Mother has retired. Her ideas won’t change the situation now.” Alyakshev shook his head helplessly, not saying yes or no, his answer was ambiguous.

There was one thing though, he had sent two teams with different missions to Lithuania, one for arms depot smuggling and the other waiting for an opportunity to try to provoke an armed conflict, there were times when what one didn’t want to do, one might end up having to do.

The reason for this is that Allen Wilson firmly believes that shedding the child can’t catch the wolf, so it is necessary to make the Russian community suffer in order to do so, that is to say, provoking armed conflict should be built on the blood of the Russian community, so that the fastest effect.

It was no problem to get Aliksheyev to suppress the separatists, but it took time to convince him to use the blood of his own people from unseemly means to inspire the Russians to arm themselves.

Well, in the end he convinced the good Dahl that great things come in small packages, and Arikseyev agreed, and then hand-picked reliable men among the Soviet troops in Germany to carry out this one task.

Starting with the Chetniks’ solidarity with Lithuania, and watching up to 100,000 liberal supporters take to the streets, the scales in Arikseyev’s mind had tipped to the other side, and whether or not justice was seen according to ethnicity wasn’t a matter of opinion.

“Our department also has some misgivings about a repeat of the Tbilisi incident.” At some point, Alexeyev took out a Damascus steel knife, slowly peeling an apple, and said slowly, “It’s just some private thoughts, like the executive power might not be the right one to act, instead, the civil power needs to take responsibility for itself.”

Alexeyev was purely analyzing the consequences of the failure from an objective and neutral point of view, with absolutely no personal bias mixed in, simply feeling that the Russian community in Lithuania should be responsible for their own security, and that they would need to help themselves if Tbilisi were to repeat itself?

“Alyosha, who told you to say that?” It wasn’t so much that Grand Admiral Valentin knew about the crap with the First Daughter, he assumed it was an old party member, such as Foltseva herself, who provided the advice.

“I can’t say.” Alexeyev shook his head bitterly; as a KGB senior, he also possessed basic psychoanalysis, he just didn’t use it often.

Walking out of the Defense Ministry building and appearing on the streets of Moscow, the march of liberals in solidarity with Lithuania was still going on, the march never stopped these days, Alexeyev pulled his seat to the side and stared at these enemies of the people in the midst of an immersive atmosphere, narrowing his eyes and wondering what he was thinking.

These people had no idea what they were doing, and Alexeyev suddenly remembered a shadow of a memory of an elder who liked to wear a big blue brimmed hat, who had said, when he gave himself a Damascus steel knife, “The people are blind, and in a country like ours they are too well protected. It’s always rather human to think that whenever a problem arises it should be solved, but in reality usually the problem is never solved, and if it has to be solved, it’s easier to solve the people who have the problem.”

The figure in the gray military overcoat grew clearer, and the words spoken seemed as if they were yesterday, “Of course we love everyone in theory, but when it really comes time to make a trade-off, even if it’s very difficult, it’s important to understand who is that true majority.”

“Sir, can you donate a little for the free people of Lithuania?” The girl in the fashionable dress knocked on the glass of the car, interrupting Alexeyev’s thoughts.

By the time the car glass was wound down, a couple of young boys and girls clearly saw the general’s star on Alekseyev, “I’m sorry sir, we’ll leave right away.”

“That’s okay, you’re really energetic kids.” Alekseyev took his thoughtful gaze back, then smiled and took out five rubles and handed it to the other party, waiting until the other party left before his smile slowly faded, whispering, “You guys are only worth five rubles.”

At the critical moment, the map head of the forward-looking, so that the conservatives are anxious, and struggled to make the just biased some conservative map head, agreed to the goal of the action, although the map head of the forward-looking delayed the precious time of the action, but fortunately in the end, he was still persuaded to hope that it is not too late.

Not too late? The Soviet Union was now a transparent government to the free world, and unlike being able to be transparent, or having a government, the Soviet government was now completely transparent in every sense of the word.

Alan Wilson has spent the last few days discussing the situation in Lithuania with the U.S. Moscow’s moves are now well known to Britain and the U.S..

The Lithuanian secessionist force, the Sajudis Armed Forces, had also been organized, and according to the local independence leader, Vytautas Landsbergis, they were armed with 5,000 men.

Alan Wilson, of course, greatly appreciated, Lithuania really has the value of unity of purpose, the opposite is only a mere thirteen divisions of the Baltic military region, five thousand separatists will certainly destroy and lead the independence of Lithuania.

After a short communication with Washington, Britain and the United States have agreed that once Moscow to come hard, this five thousand cannon fodder is simply unbearable, but can be on the front page of the free world headlines, the free world will surely be eternal war of words to drown the Soviet Union, so that it can not be turned around for all eternity.

“We give the Lithuanians every support except help, just let them do it.” Having reached a consensus, Alan Wilson hung up the phone.

Alpha Force had already arrived in Lithuania, right in the middle of the base in the Baltic Military District, only the situation in Moscow had pulled the start of the operation, and eventually the Lithuanian contingent, which Alpha had formed on an ad-hoc basis, received the order to move.

Thus, the contingent in helicopter gunships entered the city of Vilnius, where their aim was to dismantle the separatist forces in Lithuania and at the same time to control the leader of Sajudis, Vytautas Landsbergis.

In order to control the whole of Vilnius, one of the contingent’s targets was the Lithuanian Radio and Television building, and the contingent’s leader, Ivanovic, led his men towards the radio and television station.

But right away he knew that things weren’t going to be easy, the Sajudis forces had already heard about it, and these separatists were armed and blocking their movement.

Almost immediately, there was an exchange of fire, and the contingent, which had been on alert, immediately exchanged fire with the armed men from nowhere and continued to advance towards the radio and television station.

These armed men were quickly fought off, and at the same time, the announcer of the Lithuanian radio and television station, who had been informed of the arrival of the contingent, immediately broadcast to the whole of Lithuania, describing the current situation, and playing the card of grief, until in front of all the viewers were controlled by the members of the contingent.

This scene, in the minds of all Lithuanians watching television, and quickly spread throughout the world.

The casualties in the firefight immediately drew the attention of the Lithuanians and even the uncountable enemies of the free world behind them, and U.S. President George W. Bush immediately said that he was considering sanctions against the Soviet Union, but as for the specific sanctions, he did not say.

“A decent speech.” When President Bush made his speech, Alan Wilson happened to be at No. 10 Downing Street and immediately expressed his appreciation for the U.S. president, worthy of being the leader of the free world.

However, he himself clearly remembers that the situation surrounding Lithuania never occurred even once in the United States at all, and that sanctions existed only in Bush’s own speeches.

“Alan, what do you make of the situation in the Soviet Union?” Mrs. Thatcher inquired of the shady man, wondering what attitude to take.

“That’s hard for me to say, Prime Minister.” Alan Wilson wasn’t lying, he was really in a difficult position, “There really aren’t many leaders like Maphead. And the Russian President, well, from this solidarity with the Lithuanian situation in Moscow, at least one thing can be concluded, he is above Maphead in political ability. Do we support Maphead, who is even weaker and less of a politician, or do we support the Russian president, who has shown some sense of decisiveness? That’s the question.”

In his eyes, Map Head and the Khitan were completely different, and as much as he wanted to find Map Head’s talents, he had found it really difficult so far.

As for the Khitan, there was no need to doubt his ability over Map Head at all, the problem was merely that he was simply ambitious, he was bad, Map Head was truly stupid.

“Let’s just support the Russian President, only verbally, and at this event.” Alan Wilson added two caveats, “Communicate with Washington on this immediately.”

It was now certain that Alpha had failed this time, and that Vytautas Landsbergis, the leader of the Sajudis, was nowhere to be found and was not under control. The raid on the Broadcasting House, on the other hand, became a global broadcast, which led to unprecedented pressure on Maphead, with the Russian president verbally attacking it in the Supreme Soviet and pulling sanctions from President Bush of the United States to threaten Maphead.