Lingyun
Abstract: At the end of World War II, on the European battlefield, the Us and British Allies had advanced to less than 100 kilometers away from Berlin, and at this time the Soviet army was still 400 kilometers away from Berlin, but why did the American and British Allies stop and give Up Berlin to the Soviet Army, so that the Soviet Army could attack Berlin?
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At the end of World War II, on the European battlefield, the Us and British Allies had advanced to less than 100 kilometers away from Berlin, and at this time the Soviet army was still 400 kilometers away from Berlin, but why did the American and British Allies stop and give Berlin to the Soviet army, so that the Soviet army could attack Berlin?
This is the world-class vision and pattern of the American elite class!
Don't think that the United States and Britain are pitting the Soviet Union, at this time the United States is the first to clean up, it is precisely Britain! However, this is the most powerful place for the United States, not to kill Britain in a daze, but to absorb it and formally take over most of the political legacy of Britain, which was once the hegemon of the world.
Most of us young people grew up in an environment where the geopolitical situation has always been dominated by the United States and Western Europe, and the relationship between the United States and Britain has always been as iron as wearing a pair of pants, and it is difficult to understand the old families of mainstream American society, specifically the descendants of those who came to the Americas on the "Mayflower". The motto that most families have passed down to this day is still: "Fear God, don't lie, hate the British.".
In addition, don't look at the Western world in the middle of our Ming Dynasty began to sail, the great colonial era, britain in 1840 will be lonely late Qing dynasty bullying. However, the first time that the ancient country really surpassed our ancient country economically was that the United States did not complete it until the years of our Sino-Japanese War, but the world hegemon of that era was still Britain!
In the First World War, the United States cleverly participated in the war two years after the outbreak of the war, and has begun to take the form of a new world hegemon, but political immaturity, providing a large amount of materials for Britain and France, sacrificing the lives of hundreds of thousands of its own soldiers; finally after the victory in the First World War, it was squeezed out by the British and French forces at the Paris Peace Conference, basically did not get any war dividends, which will be reshuffled in the Second World War twenty years later. The political elites in the United States first need to fight against the mainstream trend of "glorious isolation" in their own domestic society, and only then do the views that the Pearl Harbor incident was Roosevelt deliberately indulged and forced the Japanese to fight.
By the second world war, the American political elite, on the one hand, actively controlled the trend of "glorious isolation" in the country, grasped the correct value orientation, and used this trend of thought as an excuse to resist the premature assistance demands of Britain and France, that is, to borrow Hitler's knife to first collapse the entire European economy in Europe, and itself sold materials at both ends, made a lot of money, and warmed up its own large-scale industry.
If I really want to talk about conspiracy theories, I think it is possible to count the fact that the red capitalist Hammer helped the Soviet Union establish an industrial system. Britain, the old hegemon's means of dealing with the European continent, has always been to support the second boss to fight the boss, but the political elite of the United States should have realized that these bosses and bosses in the European tradition are no longer enough to control the future world, and they must establish a desperate opponent for Europe, an opponent that the European union must look up to, then there is no choice but the Soviet Union, and the size of other Countries in Europe cannot bear this burden.
The elite of the German army is enough to make Europe despair, but it is really not enough, once Britain, France, and even Italy, Spain, as long as there is a leader who can coordinate and integrate domestic forces and form enough prestige, it is possible to become such a country. Napoleon in France, Hitler in Germany, such leaders may not reappear. So a Seemingly disorganized Soviet Union, completely overwhelmed by its size, appeared, and only the existence of such an arbitrary state would still frighten a united Europe.
The United States was the first country to understand and understand the power of industrial explosions, and it also laid such an industrial foundation for the Soviet Union, so the threat of Germany and Japan is very large. Fighting against Germany and Japan is only a tactical means, and the layout of the new world after the war is the most important thing. Especially when the Soviet Union resisted the Germans in Moscow and Stalingrad, and after the T-34 was piled up in Kursk to kill the elite German troops, the victory was already certain, the material support of the United States did not mind, they also knew that they were paying, others were giving their lives, they cared about the sacrifice of their own people, and the establishment of a new pattern in the post-war world.
In terms of operation, on the issue of the formation of the United Nations after the political war, Britain quickly co-opted France, while the United States co-opted China and supported the Soviet Union. Militarily fighting against Germany, the Soviet Union had already fired a real fire, and no one could stop them from attacking and retaliating against Germany. At the Tehran Conference, Stalin was arrogant and arrogant, but he needed to fight for more interests, and the United States half pushed and half asked them to attack Berlin. The United States itself does not care about such prestige. Britain cared, and Britain was willing to sacrifice its young soldiers for the honor of attacking Berlin.
But the British really couldn't do it, and the British troops who landed with the Americans on the Western Front were still not opponents in front of the second- and third-line troops cobbled together by the Germans before the German Ardennes counterattack. Montgomery's "Market Garden" operation failed and failed to take the distant Arnhem Bridge. And soon after, because of the fear of the German army on the south bank of the bridge to launch an attack, the Us army asked the American army to send bombers to blow up the bridge, such a British army, if it really dared to attack Berlin, the American army and the Soviet army would probably coldly watch these British troops being swallowed up by Berlin, and then continue their original rhythm.
However, there were also many people who criticized Eisenhower's order to stop the Allied army march to Berlin, believing that Eisenhower was considering attacking Berlin, and that the one that would encounter stubborn resistance from the German army was likely to pay a huge casualty price, and paid so much to capture Berlin, and finally handed it over to the Soviet Union according to the provisions of the Potsdam Agreement with the Soviet Union.
Indeed, the Soviets later suffered 550,000 casualties at the Battle of Berlin, as if Eisenhower's decision was wise.
However, if the American and British Allies attacked, the German resistance might not be as stubborn as it was against the Soviets. Of course, there will definitely be casualties, and no matter what, 100,000 casualties are absolutely indispensable.
Nevertheless, some people, represented by Churchill, believe that such casualties are still worth it, because letting the Soviet army capture Berlin symbolizes that the Soviet army is a great hero in defeating Nazi Germany, and this glory is worth the political price, and it is precisely because the Soviet army occupied Berlin that the Soviet Union won a lot of benefits in Eastern Europe after the war. So Churchill thought Eisenhower's decision was obviously somewhat short-sighted, picking up sesame seeds and throwing away watermelons. If the American and British Allies had captured Berlin, even if Berlin had been handed over to the Soviet Union after the war, it would have had greater influence in Eastern Europe and would not have allowed the Soviet Union to control Eastern Europe so smoothly.
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