Chapter 66 The Victory Medal

General Eisenhower, in all fairness, did not like Patton as a subordinate. As a matter of fact, not only him, but also the generals of the American army in Europe, not many of them liked General Patton, who was always talking a lot.

Just because General Patton qualification is particularly old, used to be the first world war, the United States expeditionary force commander-in-chief special admiral Pan Xing’s aide-de-camp, and Pan Xing to participate in the first world war, he and Patton’s sister is in love, and has to be engaged, the two agreed to get married immediately after the end of the war.

That is to say, if they get married, then the relationship between Pan Xing Barton will change, and Barton will treat Pan Xing as his brother-in-law in the future.

With the outbreak of World War I, Pan Xing rushed to Europe before being separated from Patton’s sister. Pan Xing has numerous subordinates in the current U.S. Army, and is still alive and well as a stunt admiral, all of which must be considered.

Plus Patton himself in the war showed extraordinary bravery, in the U.S. Army among the unique, General Eisenhower only turned a blind eye.

As soon as he heard Field Marshal Zhukov mention Patton, General Eisenhower casually pulled two sentences to digress. Obviously reluctant to talk much about General Patton, he in Berlin did not yet know that he would soon have the opportunity to sideline his hated subordinate.

The parade is still in progress, as a display of the British Empire’s military might parade, Britain can not be said to be not serious. Just have seen certain Soviet system countries parade Allen Wilson, but there is really no interest.

Not even spring step to the band, can only cock his head to the side of the Eifel said, “I can not see much longer, the occupation of Berlin’s four national armies, may be scrambling to be the first to all come once.”

“That’s for sure, there’s no greater joy than holding a parade in the enemy’s capital.” Ivor replied with a grin, and then the conversation turned, “Except for the French!”

Er! Alan Wilson, his mouth open in tears, added, “Even the French.”

Watching the parade Allen Wilson even also coincidentally thought of Patton the American general, to say that the World War General Patton’s first hard battle, is as the commander of the North African Expeditionary Force Western Task Force, led the troops to participate in the North African landing campaign, led the troops to capture the French Monaco, and beat up the French army! Why emphasize the French? Alan Wilson was very remorseful, France was a British ally in the colonial issue.

As commander-in-chief of the British parade in Berlin, Field Marshal Montgomery, did not leave after the parade. Field Marshal Montgomery, who was present as commander of the British occupation forces, wore the surely famous beret.

Marshal Zhukov came forward, smiling, turned and brought out the Victory Medal which had arrived in Berlin from Moscow, and personally wore it for Marshal Montgomery, the Kremlin design in the medal being gilded in gold, with a sapphire in the background of the blue sky, a ruby in the red ground, the white edges and rays spliced with strips of white gold studded with diamonds, and the five corners studded with five carats each of natural Russian rubies.

Alan Wilson had been standing not far from the podium since the parade had begun, upholding the professionalism of an Imperial civil servant, but at the sight of this scene, he could not take his eyes off it any longer.

Not to talk about the materials used in this medal, just from other aspects of the value of the medal, the central red part represents the Order of Lenin, the highest order of the Soviet Union, the green stripe represents the Order of Suvorov in recognition of the organization of the attack and pursuit, and the dark blue stripe represents the Order of Kutuzov in recognition of the skillful retreat and counterattack.

The dark red stripe represents the Order of Alexander Nevsky in recognition of resistance to the invaders, the light blue stripe represents the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky in recognition of territorial recovery, and the orange stripe with a black line represents the Order of Glory in recognition of bravery.

There were only twenty Victory Medals in the world, so you could imagine the value of this medal, even Brezhnev, whose medal could be used as a bulletproof vest, only dared to award himself one.

“Allen?” Avril followed Alan Wilson’s gaze and nodded in understanding, “It looks valuable.”

You can’t buy it with money! Allen Wilson fondly retracted his gaze, this medal was out of his mind, unless he could pack up the British Empire and sell it to the Soviet Union, then there was no chance that he could exchange it for one to take with him.

“You said the Soviets awarded this medal to General Eisenhower and now to Field Marshal Montgomery. How come they didn’t award one to the French, it’s obvious that the Soviets don’t respect the French.” Avril was still crumbling.

Alan Wilson let out a sigh, this colleague of his was really enough, after Marshal Zhukov finished officially awarding Marshal Montgomery, the commander of the British Occupation Forces, the entire podium resounded with warm applause.

Including Alan Wilson, including diplomats not on the podium, surrounded by soldiers from different countries, also cheered, fell in the eyes of the Berlin citizens observing the parade, this belongs to the victor’s cheers, but look at it with a bitterness.

These soldiers, fighting side by side, belonging to different countries, still showed unity in the first year of victory over the enemy.

The parade of the British troops, and the awarding of the Victory Medal to Field Marshal Montgomery by Field Marshal Zhukov after the parade, was rightly photographed by the British journalists based in Berlin, and the trio of Montgomery, Zhukov, and Eisenhower, naturally, made an excellent backdrop to attract sales.

It seemed that all the newspapers felt that the united Allies would be invulnerable and end the war quickly after defeating Germany.

“As diplomats of the British Empire, we are about to be put to the test, in a little while the President of the United States, Harry Truman, and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, Stalin, will come to Berlin, and the British Empire is going to be engaged in a grueling negotiation with these two Allies, which, it is to be expected, will be very difficult, and we must safeguard the interests of the British Empire. ”

In the middle of the British Control Berlin headquarters, Alexander Cadogan spoke with a cold face to the diplomats in the room.

Alexander Cadogan noble family origin, studied at Eton and Oxford, before the outbreak of World War II, has become a senior civil servant of the British Foreign Office, taking advantage of the contradiction between the then Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain and advocate for a pre-emptive strike against Germany, the Foreign Office permanent undersecretary, became the new permanent undersecretary of foreign affairs, that is, the secretary of the Foreign Office.

This means that he is now the top boss of the diplomats in the room, and naturally, he got a one-two punch of response, with the diplomats in the room saying that they will defend the interests of the British Empire to the end, and fight the Soviets and the Americans on their merits.

“Then let us begin by understanding the goals set by the Foreign Secretary.” Alexander Cadogan nodded his head and held out the negotiation terms that the British Foreign Minister had come up with for these diplomats present to discuss the feasibility of.