The inhumane period of World War II was also an era of gathering heroes.
To say that during the Second World War, the most far-reaching influence on future generations was the former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
On March 5, 1946, Churchill, who had just stepped down as British prime minister, delivered a speech entitled "Pillar of Peace" during his invited visit to the United States, openly condemning the "expansion" of the Soviet Union and calling on European and American countries to unite against the Soviet camp. This is the famous "Iron Curtain Speech" in history.
After Churchill delivered the "Iron Curtain Speech," all countries in the world were unable to stand alone, the original anti-fascist camp quickly erupted infighting, and the capitalist camp headed by the United States and Britain and the socialist camp represented by the Soviet Union embarked on the road of all-round confrontation.
Decades later, the Soviet Union ceased to exist, and the United States, as the world's only superpower, was also seriously injured by the influence of the "Iron Curtain Speech" plot.
How did Churchill ascend to the throne of World War II?
From the 15th century to the beginning of the 19th century, the basic contradictions of European capitalism intensified, leading to the continuous colonial expansion of the European powers; this created the conditions for the subsequent industrial revolution and the intensification of the basic contradictions of new capitalism.
In the middle of the 19th century, Britain took the lead in completing the Industrial Revolution, and by accelerating colonial expansion, it quickly established its position as a maritime hegemon.
Immediately afterward, the basic contradictions of capitalism intensified again, and the capitalist class, in order to achieve the purpose of maximizing profits, continued to expand production and exploited the laborers indefinitely, thus leading to the strange phenomenon of continuous growth of production but shrinking of the consumer market. In order to solve this series of problems, colonial countries often change the soup and do not change the medicine, that is, to continuously expand the scope of their colonies.
The countries of the old powers are expanding their territory, and there are very few territories that the latecomers can divide, so in order to achieve the goal of maximizing profits, they should grab it. For the great powers, colonies are originally blatantly "robbed" and robbed of colonies from competitors, the nature is the same, but the targets of robbery are different.
In carrying out the colonization movement, it is the colonizers who are robbed; when the territory is seized, it is the colonizers who are robbed. In the process of grabbing territory, due to the existence of interest relations, it will be more or less supported by the colonizers.
And the excuse for seizing territory is easier than the excuse for the colony; even the problem of patriarchal maintenance on the face of the situation can be a legitimate excuse to wage war without any worries, win the war, and either get reparations or get territory.
In this context, there was the absurdity of Japan and Tsarist Russia fighting in the northeast, while the Qing Adopted a "neutral" attitude. Of course, this cannot be blamed on Daqing, that is, we have not been able to withstand the strong ships and cannons of others, as long as we firmly remember history and do not repeat the same mistakes in the future.
Soon, World War I broke out, and eventually, several new powers, led by the German Empire, failed to seize territory. War, well, arises out of interest and ends with insufficient resources. The defeated nations will pay compensation to the victors. As the victor's side, it also depends on whose strength is strong, who can divide the loot as much as they want, and fight a war if they don't obey.
Although the German Empire was defeated, the country successfully removed Britain and France from the throne of world hegemony, gave birth to the behemoth of the Soviet Union, and allowed the United States to rise rapidly; however, the development concept of colonial expansion of the great powers has never changed. The rising capitalist countries are still trying to do everything in their power to colonize and expand.
Because of the indemnity for the cession of land, the German Empire was almost unsatisfactory. A mustachioed man named Hitler, at this time, remembered the famous words of Bismarck, the iron-blooded chancellor of the German Empire who once shook the world:
Cannons are used to measure the size of the country, and the truth is only within range.
Perhaps, at this time, many german low-level people also thought the same: but to make the dragon city fly will not teach Humadu Yinshan. If Bismarck had been alive, the German Empire would not have been bullied by other powers.
Hitler, who had a mustache, took advantage of this demand of his own people to quickly pull up the ranks, and before long, he not only solved the problem of food and clothing for everyone, but also accumulated a certain strength, ready to find the trouble of those victorious countries.
Britain and France, as former world hegemons and neighbors of Germany, had a little bit of mustache Hitler's heart, and they saw through it from the beginning. However, the thought that after a war they have fought, not only will they be empty of money and wealth, but also their status will plummet, and these two countries will not be happy.
Originally, as long as Britain or France moved slightly, Germany had no chance to turn around. Self-respect is a great principle that the ancients regarded as a golden rule, and killing people with a knife can make them recover as soon as possible, so they will let the moustache come randomly.
Britain and France thought so, and the Soviet Union could not do anything, and could only treat its own body in its own way; the United States benefited from its own geographical location, there was no fierce enemy around it, and in order to take advantage of the fire, it deliberately supported Germany and Japan in the early days, especially in terms of equipment, technology, and energy.
In this way, the fascist camp at the head of Germany, Italy, and Japan did nothing evil in Asia, Europe, and Africa, resulting in the destruction of lives. The French army raised its hand and surrendered before Paris was captured. Immediately afterward, Japan took the initiative to attack the United States, creating the Pearl Harbor incident and severely damaging the US Pacific Fleet.
In order to weaken the strength of the Allies, Churchill, then the British Prime Minister, had quite a means of using troops, especially in the Southeast Asian battlefield, in the face of the attack of more than 60,000 Japanese troops, the British Southeast Asian colonial army with more than 100,000 troops actually had to be equipped with backward Chinese troops to rescue, thus achieving the name of "Malay Tiger" under the Japanese chieftain. As a result, in early 1942, 100,000 Chinese expeditionary forces entered Burma, won the first battle, and were betrayed by the British army and defeated miserably.
When the Japanese army continued to attack India, the British army began to resist desperately and defeat the Japanese army.
The United States and the Soviet Union, as the most powerful countries at that time, had long seen through Britain's small calculations, so when talking about the European battlefield, the two major powers coincided.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill wanted allied troops to send troops from southern Europe to open a second front, but the United States and the Soviet Union insisted on sending troops from Eastern Europe. Everyone knows that where a large army goes, that is, a sphere of influence goes. The United States and the Soviet Union completely intervened in Europe through the second battlefield, seriously weakening Britain's influence in Europe.
Valekin Bereshkov, who had served as Stalin's translator, revealed in his book "Memoirs of Stalin's Private Translators" that when Germany was about to be defeated, the United States and the Soviet Union left Britain and directly determined the post-war status of the colonies. This seriously touched British interests.
After the end of World War II, many countries in the war zones were unilaterally demarcated by the United States and the Soviet Union, such as the "38th Line" of North Korea, China's "Rule by River", and Vietnam's "17th Parallel North". Britain, France, and China, as the victorious powers, were completely unable to interject.
Before the end of World War II, Britain was also a camel bigger than a horse; as the hegemon who once dominated the world, after experiencing the Second World War, it was weakened into a second-rate country by the great powers of the United States and the Soviet Union in the name of anti-fascism, and Britain could not swallow this breath.
The intertwining of national hatred and family hatred and constantly injected into his heart made Churchill have to find a way to provoke the relations between the United States and the Soviet Union, and was destined to ascend to the position of the traitor in World War II; he hoped that at the time of the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, he could regain the majesty of the empire that never set.
Misfortune leads to revenge and hatred with one stone
On March 5, 1946, Churchill publicly delivered the Iron Curtain Address, 10 days later. Soviet leader Stalin openly denounced Churchill and his friends as no different from the fascist leader Hitler, and the open struggle between the two camps of the United States and the Soviet Union began.
In this context, the United States, the Soviet Union, Britain and other powers want China to rule by crossing the river. The great man Chairman Mao, who was well aware that the rule of the river was a trick used by the great powers to enslave other countries, ignored it and said that he would carry the revolution through to the end and, in the end, realize the reunification of the north and the south.
At this time, the capitalist camp countries headed by the United States did not recognize the legitimate status of New China. But Britain, in opposition to the United States, began to recognize the legitimate status of New China in early 1950.
Immediately afterward, the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union triggered the Korean War. At this time, Britain strongly supported the Intervention of the United States and burned the flames of war to the Chinese side. In order to defend its homeland, New China had to send troops to Korea; the Soviet Union also had to send troops to Korea in order to ensure its sea passage in East Asia.
During the stalemate, militant figures led by U.S. five-star general MacArthur believed that the flames of war should be burned into China. At this time, the United Kingdom made it clear that it would only support the United States to fight until the 38 line.
After the ceasefire in the North Korean region, it was followed by an endless military competition, in which the two sides desperately developed various weapons of mass destruction and constantly created friction in some sensitive areas to reap the benefits of the fishermen.
At this time, because New China adhered to the independent development route and did not want to become a puppet of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union felt that its sea lanes in East Asia could not be guaranteed, and quickly shifted its attention to the Indian Ocean region, and India became the object of its co-optation.
In 1962, India, which wanted to come out to brush up its presence, provoked China, and after China was forced to carry out counterattack operations against India, the two camps of the United States and the Soviet Union supported India for the first time in the world, making the taste of gunpowder in the Asia-Pacific region more and more intense.
At the same time, the Indochina Peninsula was constantly at war, and the United States, which replaced the French colonization of Vietnam, eventually had to withdraw from South Vietnam due to the outbreak of an energy crisis on its own land and a serious setback to the economic system.
In order to open up the outlet of the Indian Ocean to the south at an early date and achieve the goal of dominating the sea, the Soviet Union quickly instigated Vietnam to establish the Indochina Federation and constantly provoked relations between Vietnam and neighboring countries. The Vietnamese Le Son clique foolishly embarked on the road of military expansion and constantly carried out armed provocations against China.
After China's counterattack against Vietnam, the "Soviet-Vietnamese Treaty of Friendship and Cooperation" with the nature of a military alliance became a waste of paper, and some countries in the Middle East and North Africa saw that the Soviet Union was not righteous and broke away from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had to wage war in Afghanistan.
As a result, the militarized Soviet Union and its allies neglected the construction of agriculture, light industry, and other fields because of the "military priority" strategy, and internal contradictions continued to intensify; finally, in the early 1990s, the Soviet Union collapsed and the Soviet camp ceased to exist. The Cold War is officially over.
At that time, the United States, as the only superpower at that time, did not benefit from the collapse of the Soviet Union, but on the contrary, because of the new colonial system it had established, it was in danger of collapsing, and had to find excuses to invade other countries everywhere. Of course, since the end of the Cold War, the countries attacked by the United States have mainly been major oil and gas resource countries in the Middle East.
Over the years, the United States has frequently launched wars with foreign countries, only to find that the European Union, dominated by Britain, France and Germany, has won the opportunity to breathe and continue to rise. When the economic system in the European region gradually posed a major threat to U.S. interests, the United States panicked again.
Later, Britain has been clamoring to leave the European Union, still trying to pull Germany and France out as a shield, and it can wait for an opportunity to revive the majesty of the empire that never sets.
But the United States has become a country with a polarized wealth of society, with a high fiscal deficit and successive Congresses surviving under the noses of Wall Street capitalists.
With the rise of third world countries, the world pattern has changed from one dominant to multipolar coexistence.
So far, the Iron Curtain speech of Churchill, the traitorous hero of World War II, has made the two former superpowers "one dead and one injured", achieved the purpose of revenge and hatred, and successfully led the disaster to the east, creating an opportunity for Britain to make a comeback, which is simply killing two birds with one stone.
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