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Stalin's death affected the course of the Korean battlefield, and his death came very suddenly.
It seems to be an exaggeration that one person can influence a war, but the sudden death of an important person will indeed have a certain impact on the situation of the war.
So, did Stalin's sudden death have a decisive impact on the course of the war in Korea? What role did Stalin play behind the Korean battlefield?
The Second World War brought untold damage to us human beings. Even after Japan's unconditional surrender and the end of World War II, its impact on the world continued.
One of the most typical features is that the existence of the two superpowers, the Soviet Union and the United States, and the confrontation of the Cold War, made the world seem to be plunged into a war crisis again in an instant.
The Eastern and Western camps, led by the Soviet Union and the United States, respectively, must be aimed at everything, and anything can be used to compete, especially in the area of weapons and the development of the space industry.
Under the two different ideologies, the world is artificially divided into two distinct groups that do not allow normal communication. And both sides are also trying to "enclose territory" as much as possible, hoping to occupy more resources and voice in the world.
On the mainland, the CCP, which was originally not favored, defeated the Kuomintang army, which had good weapons but was vulnerable, and established New China. Let the Soviet side look to the East.
At that time, Stalin wanted New China to lend some ports for the Soviet side to park warships. But New China is no longer the country that used to be free to have the troops of other countries stationed in mainland territories. Even the proposal of the big brother of the Soviet Union, the Party Central Committee decided to refuse.
For this reason, Stalin could only turn his attention to the Korean Peninsula. At that time, the situation of Korea was somewhat similar to that of Germany, which was divided into eastern Germany and western Germany. North Korea is divided into two regimes, North Korea and South Korea.
At that time, the North Korean Communists under the leadership of Kim Il Sung also saw the founding of New China and the glorious victory of the Chinese Communists sweeping the world from north to south and liberating the whole of China.
As a result, with Stalin's covert support and encouragement, Kim Il Sung's desire to reunify the Korean Peninsula became more and more eager.
Stalin told Kim Il-sung that the Soviet Union could provide weapons and equipment support to the Korean People's Army as long as the DPRK was willing to allow the Soviet Navy to station troops in Incheon, Pusan, and other seaports, which were originally occupied by South Korea, and to obtain the right to use these ports.
In Stalin's view, the North Korean army, supported by Soviet weapons and equipment, would certainly be like the liberation of China by the Chinese People's Liberation Army, with the same momentum as the liberation of China, to deal with the South Korean forces, unify Korea, and then provide the Soviet Union with these ports.
After Kim Il Sung launched the War of Korean Unification, the situation of the war developed as Stalin had expected, and the Korean People's Army quickly defeated the South Korean army and liberated a large number of cities occupied by capitalism.
However, Stalin never imagined that the United States did not seem to be willing to give up its arrangements in East Asia, and was unwilling to watch China and North Korea fall under the control of the socialist camp.
As a result, the U.S. military brazenly intervened in East Asia, not only directly sending troops to the DPRK, but also carrying out dimensionality reduction strikes against the Korean People's Army. On the other hand, the navy was dispatched to obstruct the process of liberating Taiwan and reunifying the whole country on the mainland.
The Americans did not expect to be disgraced and go straight to the field, which Stalin did not expect. The United States, which has a complete industrial system and the possession of the world's most advanced weapons and equipment, would shamelessly and directly intervene in the civil war between China and North Korea, two agricultural countries.
With the defeat of the Korean People's Army, Stalin could only ask China for help, hoping that New China, which had not yet completely liberated the whole country, would send troops to Korea to participate in the war.
In Stalin's view, it was not suitable for the Soviet Union to directly participate in the Korean battlefield, and if the Soviet army was to fall, it would directly confront the American army, and if it was not done, it would lead to World War III.
In Stalin's view, China was a partner of the socialist camp, and it was only natural that together with them, it would share the same hatred and hatred for the United States.
Moreover, if the United States occupies the Korean Peninsula, it is not in China's national interests and interests, and in the end, as long as China sends troops, it can also exert some pressure on the US military, so that the United States cannot easily occupy the Korean Peninsula.
In order to persuade China to send troops, Stalin provided the Chinese army with a large number of relatively advanced Soviet equipment at that time, and also formed aviation units and naval forces for China.
As long as it can improve the combat effectiveness of the Chinese army, Stalin will resolutely support the fight against the American army.
It can be said that Stalin was the most staunch main fighter on the Korean battlefield, but what was his attitude after the situation on the Korean battlefield changed as the mainland army entered the Korean battlefield?
The Korean battlefield was fiercely fought, and the sudden death of Stalin changed the whole situation.
What changes have taken place in the Soviet Union, especially Stalin's position, on the Korean battlefield, and what impact have they had?
In 1950, when the U.S. military brazenly pushed the flames of war in Korea into the mainland, the organization made a decision to "strike one punch, lest a hundred blows come."
The entry of volunteers into the DPRK conforms to the fundamental interests of the people and the country on the mainland. Again, it was in Stalin's interests for the Soviet Union.
During the First Campaign to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea, the Mainland Volunteers launched a powerful offensive against the so-called "United Nations Army" led by the United States.
At that time, the US army, after hearing the news that the mainland would send volunteers to fight in Korea, was very disdainful of our volunteers, feeling that the Chinese army was weak and weak, and that the volunteers, like the Korean People's Army, were opponents that they could easily defeat.
The Americans, who did not realize the strength of our army, made a plan to end the war and occupy all of Korea by Thanksgiving Day in November 1950.
However, on 25 October, the Chinese Volunteers concentrated the troops of five armies and launched an all-out attack on the Western Front of the "United Nations Army," annihilating more than 15,000 enemy troops, completely stunned the United States.
Then, the self-deluded Americans felt that it was because they were not prepared and were too light on the enemy to let our volunteers succeed.
So they postponed the Thanksgiving plan to Christmas, thinking that they would be able to defeat our volunteers and occupy North Korea by Christmas in December.
However, with the development of the second campaign of our army, we first lured the enemy into depth, entered the battlefield set by the mainland, and then divided the eastern and western fronts to launch a counterattack against the United Nations forces led by the United States.
This operation completely destroyed the arrogance of the Americans, and the American troops fled in disarray, and Pyongyang, Wonsan, and other places were recovered by our troops one after another.
In this battle, our army annihilated as many as 36,000 enemy troops, and the US-led coalition troops directly retreated to the south of the "38th parallel."
After that, our volunteers broke the conspiracy of the United States to go north again, launched the third campaign, fought the "38th parallel," and directly occupied Seoul, the capital of South Korea, which is now Seoul, so that the United States and the world know that the Chinese People's Volunteers have every strength to continue to move south and drive the Americans off the Korean Peninsula into the sea.
In this battle, the mainland army annihilated more than 19,000 enemy troops.
And after these three battles, the initiative on the Korean battlefield has completely changed. Neither the United States nor the Soviet Union expected that New China, which had just been founded after the founding of the People's Republic of China, would have such a strong combat effectiveness, and it would be pushed back to the 38th parallel from the Yalu River, and after that, it would even fight the 38th parallel.
But behind this brilliant victory, the mainland volunteers also paid an incomparably huge price, countless volunteer soldiers, decades later, the soul of the soul of the hometown, even the son of the great man, will forever watch over the battlefield of the volunteers.
In addition, due to the extension of the battle line and the fact that our army basically has no air force, air supremacy is completely in the hands of the enemy, and it is very difficult for the mainland to supply them. After crossing the 38th parallel, the United States, with the support of the South Korean army, made it more convenient to replenish supplies.
Moreover, the most crucial thing is that the war has been fought to this point, and the US side has finally realized a problem, that is, it cannot win against New China! The US side has the mind of wanting to hold peace talks with New China to end this war.
Similarly, Kim Il Sung, the leader of the North Korean side, who had started the war with Stalin's support and instigation, also hoped to end the war and return North Korea to a situation of confrontation between the North and the South along the 38th parallel.
However, when China and North Korea approached Stalin with the intention of making peace with the United States, Stalin refused.
It can be said that it was precisely because of Stalin's insistence that the Korean War was extended a lot, and China and the United States subsequently devoted more resources to this battlefield that had long been of little practical significance.
So, with the death of Stalin, will the situation on the battlefield in Korea really change, and is there really a direct connection between the two?
In the fifties of the last century, the situation on the Korean battlefield changed rapidly because of the sudden death of Stalin.
The name Stalin, in 1950, was definitely a very influential name for the world.
This leader, who led the Soviet Union to victory in World War II, commanded the Soviet army to invade Germany, eliminated the Japanese Kwantung Army, and led the Soviet Union, a superpower, to confront the United States in the Cold War, is a figure who holds the authority for world development in the eyes of countless people.
It was precisely because of his promotion and persistence that a war of reunification took place on the Korean Peninsula, and it was precisely because of his promotion and persistence that China and the United States still did not cease war after the volunteers beat the US troops back to the 38th parallel.
In Stalin's plan, from the Soviet Union's point of view, as long as the Chinese army and the North Korean army can drag the main force of the US army to Korea, then the United States will be limited in the number of troops it can invest in Europe, which will be of great help to the Soviet Union in its efforts in Europe.
Stalin did not even expect the Chinese volunteers to really drive the United States out of the Korean Peninsula, but hung the United States in this way, so that the United States could not occupy Korea, and was unwilling to withdraw its forces from Korea, and could only continue to be mired in the quagmire of the Korean battlefield and could not get out.
Therefore, Stalin repeatedly stressed to the mainland and the DPRK that we are currently the dominant side and should continue to expand the superiority, and not a truce.
In addition, this war is also a direct confrontation between socialism and capitalism, and it will have a powerful influence on the entire world pattern, and as long as we can continue to expand the results of the war, it will be of great benefit to the fight against the Western capitalist camp led by the United States.
Stalin even told the mainland that after this war, the weapons and equipment of the mainland army and the fighting methods can be updated and adapted to modern warfare, and this will also play a positive role in the mainland's army building.
He has even repeatedly said that the Soviet side can increase assistance and support us in continuing this war.
But Stalin overlooked the important point, that is, the Soviet side did not directly exclude the army from the war. The losses of the mainland volunteers in Korea are difficult to estimate.
On the North Korean side, because of this war, both the army and the people are suffering from the devastation of the war.
China and North Korea have been unable to fully devote themselves to their own economic development because of the war.
Only then did Stalin give in under the tremendous pressure that the mainland repeatedly faced on Stalin's surface, saying that unless the United States made a sincere enough concession, we must remain tough on the United States and absolutely cannot easily agree to the United States' request for peace.
As for the United States, there seems to be such a statement that since the founding of the United States, it has never signed an armistice that did not win.
Therefore, in order to gain the advantage of negotiations, counterattacks were launched on the mainland again and again, which led to the development of the fourth and fifth battles later.
However, the soldiers of the mainland volunteers, in the face of US artillery fire, still held the battle line and did not let the United States realize their strategic intentions. As a result, the United States had to make various concessions at the negotiating table.
It is just that this kind of concession made by the United States obviously does not reach the level of "full sincerity" demanded by Stalin, and the entire Korean battlefield has fallen into a situation of fighting and talking.
It was not until the end of February 1953 that Stalin died suddenly, and the entire Soviet Union was in turmoil, and the new Soviet leadership had a relaxed attitude towards the West in its foreign policy, which also changed the situation in North Korea.
After the resolute refusal of the Soviet big brother, the negotiations on the North Korean side finally made progress, and after China and the United States reached an agreement on the final details, the peace talks were completed at Panmunjom, ending the war.
If Stalin had not died suddenly, judging from his personal attitude and influence, I am afraid that the end of the Korean battlefield would not have been so soon, but would have been more variable. There will be more volunteer soldiers on the mainland who shed blood and died on the Korean battlefield.
It can be said that it was precisely because of Stalin's death that China and the United States on the Korean battlefield successfully completed the peace talks. And the results of the war that the soldiers of the mainland volunteers exchanged for their blood are the confidence that makes the mainland qualified to sit down with the United States and negotiate.
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