Author: Forget about the jianghu
Japan, the Soviet Union, China, the United States, who are the biggest beneficiaries of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea?
Some people hold that the biggest beneficiaries of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea were not the DPRK side nor the Chinese side, but Japan and the Soviet Union. Because the arms business has spawned Japan's economic recovery, the defeated countries in World War II have embarked on the road to rapid rise, and "Big Brother" regards China as a "chestnut in the fire".
At first glance, there is indeed a market for such a view. Because the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea broke out, the "last kilometer" of China's liberation of all of China was delayed. In order to fight against the world's number one military power and win the war of founding the country, New China spent 6.2 billion yuan on military expenses and owed the Soviet Union 3 billion yuan in arms debts.
In August 1952, the Chairman said at a meeting that the previous year's military expenditure and economic construction expenditure accounted for almost half of each. The expenditure on the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea accounts for 31 percent of the finances, and the Chinese people to "smash pots and sell iron" must also fight the US military to the end on the 38th parallel.
Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea to Defend the Motherland
Palmerston, who was twice British Prime Minister and three foreign secretaries in the late nineteenth century, left a famous saying: There will never be eternal friends between countries, only eternal interests. Analyzed by this logic, what exactly did we gain in resisting US aggression and aiding Korea?
The War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea is, first of all, based on safeguarding national security.
In our traditional culture, there has always been the lesson of "cold lips and dead teeth," but when it came to the decision to send troops to resist US aggression and aid Korea, at first only the chairman saw this with great foresight, including the "god of war" Lin Zong, who was jealous of crossing the Yalu River. And General Peng, who "dares to cross the knife and stand up, only I am General Peng", learned that the Soviet Air Support was not in place, and he had no bottom in his heart for fighting this battle.
However, the chairman has an iron heart to fight with the United States, not for anything else, but to resolutely defend the security of New China!
As early as during the Liberation War, the People's Liberation Army shelled the British "Purple Quartz" on the eve of the Battle of the River Crossing, giving Churchill a "red card warning" to the eager Touhous. This is also the first time since the Opium War that the "sleeping lion" has shown its "teeth", but this time the shelling of the British ship is a last resort.
After the outbreak of the Korean War, the situation was completely different. U.S. planes crossed the Yalu River recklessly, and the bomb broke the calm of the black land in the northeast. The reason why the US military is so aggressive is that it is a little bit fixed: The Soviet Union must make concessions on the 38th Line, and you "poor and white" new China, what can I do?
Northeast border guards look out over the fighting on the other side of the Yalu River
However, neither MacArthur, who was over seventy years old, nor Truman, the "chicken thief", understood New China.
A year and a half ago, when the People's Liberation Army dared to shell the British ships, the chairman had already arrogantly declared: "Isn't there another Eight-Power Alliance?" Unexpectedly, when the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea broke out, New China had to face 16 countries and was still dressed in the cloak of "coalition forces."
At this time, both the southeast and the southwest had not yet been liberated, and the security of the northeast border was seriously threatened. Whether it is farming or economic construction, the new China needs a stable environment, and the economic center of gravity of new China has always been the northeast of the "eldest son of the republic".
How important is the status of the Great Northeast? We can peek into the panther from a set of data ::
Before the "918" incident, the northeast was urbanized by 11.5% and the air mileage was 15,000 kilometers, while in 1950 Kannai reached 11.2% and 11,400 kilometers; in 1943, the northeast railway had 60,000 kilometers, compared with 80,900 kilometers in China in 1950; in 1945, the industrial output value of the northeast accounted for 85% of the country, Baodao accounted for 10%, and the rest of the mainland was only 5%.
Without the strong backing of the northeast, the war of liberation could not have come so quickly; in the same way, if the northeast could not rebuild its homeland due to the threat of war, the impact on the construction of new China would certainly be enormous. It should be known that the northeast, one of the six major administrative regions, has a higher economic volume than Shanghai. Of the 156 major projects built with Soviet assistance during the "First Five-Year Plan" period, 56 were placed in the three eastern provinces.
From the perspective of national security, if people do not offend me and I do not commit crimes, it is doomed that New China must send troops and show its sword.
From the perspective of economic construction, if New China wants to rebuild its homeland and achieve take-off, it cannot allow wars on the banks of the Yalu River to continue to burn. Of course, judging from the "one-sided" strategy of the early fifties, it is also a historical necessity that the side of the bed will allow others to sleep soundly, and the Chinese and Soviet Unions will stand together.
Why is the Soviet Union unwilling to send troops, but new China has to rush to the front to "block the gun" for the red camp?
In fact, the "theory of blocking guns" is "a leaf obscuring the forest," and since the world has always been a "courtesy exchange," New China will never do anything that "harms others and harms itself." The Purpose of Resisting US Aggression and Aiding Korea is to defend the homeland and defend the country, and to win the victory of the 16-nation coalition led by the US military, it is impossible to achieve without soviet weapons, automobiles, and other support.
So, in the two-year and nine-month War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, how much support did the superpower Soviet Union give to New China?
According to incomplete statistics, during the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Soviet Union provided 94 divisions with weapons and equipment for 1.4 million people to the Volunteer Army. There were also 71,000 vehicles, more than 3,000 aircraft (including the MiG series), and more than 72,000 Air Force personnel covertly involved in the war.
A year after the armistice was signed, China also received enough Soviet-made weapons to equip 30 divisions.
Of course, it took us 14 years to repay the foreign debt of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea. But it is undeniable that the victory of the Volunteer Army on the 38th Parallel was due to the assistance of the Soviet Union.
Soviet aid
Finally, it should be pointed out that the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea for the first time made New China stand tall in the forest of the world.
After the outbreak of the Korean War, New China has not yet openly entered the big stage of the "United Nations." In order to interfere with the people's army's reunification of the peninsula, the US military has openly proposed "sending troops to intervene.", how many countries support the "coalition forces" to interfere in the Korean War?
In addition to 326,000 U.S. troops and 140,000 British troops, 140,000 troops were directly sent, such as Canada, Turkey, Australia, Ethiopia, the Philippines, New Zealand, Thailand, Greece, France, Colombia, Belgium, South Africa, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
There are 13 countries (regions) that have not sent troops but provided assistance, such as Sweden, the Federal Republic of Germany, Japan, Israel, etc.
At the beginning of the Volunteer Army's War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, almost all over the world did not expect that the "millet plus rifle" volunteer army would win. However, with the end of the victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the world's understanding of New China has undergone earth-shaking changes: the US military has always been ashamed of the war on the 38th Parallel, and "it is still holding the pipa and half covering its face", and the reactions of countries such as Japan and South Korea are even more interesting.
China and North Korea fought side by side
In the eyes of the Japanese, old China has been fighting wars, but it has either failed or surrendered, and unequal treaties have been signed in addition to signing.
Needless to say, Japan was one of the greatest vested interests in the Korean War, but New China's "War to Resist US Aggression, Aid Korea, defend the country, and defend the country" was first of all based on me. The victory in the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea initially changed Japan's previous stereotypes, and the top level also began to take the initiative to show goodwill to China.
The 50th Army of the Volunteer Army invaded Seoul and searched through the Independent Gate
South Korea experienced a war that was reluctant to "sign", but the influence of China and the volunteer army has always haunted them. On January 19, 2005, South Korea changed the name of the capital "Seoul" Chinese to "Seoul" in an attempt to forget the shame brought to them by the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea.
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