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The Russia-Ukraine war broke out suddenly in 2022, and the weirdness in it can't help but remind people of the Korean War more than 70 years ago.
A top-secret file of the former Soviet Union proves that the Korean War was a bureau, a bureau against China.
The file, classified as top secret, was sold by Russia to the United States a year after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The archives record top-secret cables between Stalin and Kim Il Sung.
Some of the meanings expressed by Stalin in the telegram prove that the Korean War was a hole dug for China.
After the founding of Korea, it has always wanted to complete reunification, but the two superpowers of the Soviet Union and the United States agreed first, and the Korean Peninsula was bounded by the 38th parallel, which was divided into the sphere of influence of the two countries.
In order to avoid conflict with the United States, Stalin did not agree with the Korean unification war.
Peacekeeping on the Korean Peninsula is beneficial to China. China has endured decades of war and is in urgent need of recuperation.
Moreover, Tibet and Taiwan have not yet been liberated, and the troubles of banditry have not yet subsided, and civil strife has not been eliminated.
In such a situation, a big war at the doorstep will undoubtedly bring tremendous pressure to the newly established New China.
However, the Korean War broke out suddenly, and Chairman Mao said that we all learned about the outbreak of the Korean War from foreign media.
Without the consent of the Soviet Union, Korea would never have launched a war of reunification.
Why did Stalin's attitude toward the Korean Unification War change drastically? The top-secret archives sold by Russia to the United States show that the fundamental reason for Stalin's change of attitude was to make up for his losses in China.
At the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Chairman Mao personally went to Moscow to congratulate Stalin on his 70th birthday.
Chairman Mao had a more important purpose during this visit, that is, to re-sign the Sino-Soviet friendship treaty, abolish the old treaty in which the Kuomintang ceded the interests of Northeast China to the Soviet Union, and establish a military alliance with the Soviet Union.
Stalin knew that the old treaty undermined China's sovereignty, but he did not want to return the benefits to China.
He was also reluctant to form a military alliance with China, fearing that he would be implicated by the weak New China.
After giving Chairman Mao a grand courtesy, he hid from Chairman Mao and used procrastination to avoid discussing the core issues with New China.
As a result, it was widely rumored in the Western media that Chairman Mao was under house arrest by the Soviet Union, and Chairman Mao took the opportunity to refute the rumors and openly announced to the world that he had come to the Soviet Union to sign a new Sino-Soviet friendship treaty.
When Stalin was commanded and did not know how to deal with it, the United States, in order to prevent New China from completely falling to the Soviet Union, announced that it would not interfere in Taiwan's affairs and exclude Taiwan from the US Pacific defense circle.
At this point, Stalin was forced into a corner, and he had to meet with Chairman Mao and agree to negotiate a new Sino-Soviet friendship treaty.
So on January 20, 1950, Premier Zhou led a Chinese delegation to Moscow to discuss a new Sino-Soviet friendship treaty with the Soviet Union.
It was at this time that Stalin's attitude towards the war of Korean unification began to change.
The top-secret archives of the former Soviet Union record that the Soviet ambassador to North Korea reported to Stalin in mid-January that Kim Il Sung had hosted a dinner in Pyongyang on January 17.
During the banquet, Kim Il-sung told him that he could not start a war to unify Korea, and that he was always uneasy in his heart. Upon receiving this news, Stalin quickly telegraphed Kim Il Sung that the matter of the war for unification could be discussed.
It is absolutely no coincidence that this telegram was sent around the time that Premier Zhou led his delegation to Moscow.
What is even more strange is that on February 2, Stalin sent another telegram to Kim Il Sung, clearly stating that the affairs of the reunification war should be kept secret, and specifically mentioning that they should not talk about the Chinese comrades either.
On February 14, 1950, the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship, Mutual Assistance and Alliance was signed, in which China recovered all sovereignty over Northeast China and established a military alliance with the Soviet Union.
Subsequently, the Soviet Union and North Korea secretly plotted a war to unify the Korean Peninsula behind China's back.
However, when the plan for war was first mature, Stalin sent a secret telegram to Kim Il Sung in April, telling him that the war of unification must be agreed to by China.
What was Stalin's intention in doing this?
Obviously, he is not willing to return the interests of Northeast China to China, and he wants to regain his interests in Northeast China through the Korean War.
The newly demarcated Pacific defense circle by the United States does not include not only Taiwan but also South Korea.
Given Stalin's strategy, he would never be naïve enough to think that the United States would stand idly by and watch Korea launch a war of reunification.
Once the United States is gone, North Korea will inevitably be unable to parry.
At this time, Stalin was able to ask China to send troops to help North Korea on the grounds that the direct confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States would escalate into a world war.
China, as an ally of the Soviet Union, has also become an ally of North Korea, and has the obligation to send troops to fight for North Korea.
Therefore, Stalin stressed to Kim Il Sung that the launch of a war of reunification must be agreed by China.
If China does not agree, it will be hated by North Korea. Then China would lose an ally, and North Korea would become more dependent on the Soviet Union.
If China agrees, the DPRK will be defeated, and there is no reason for China not to send troops to aid the DPRK.
Stalin also extended the calculation to Taiwan.
At that time, the People's Liberation Army was in full swing to prepare for the liberation of Taiwan, because it needed the assistance of the Soviet Navy equipment, and Stalin also had a general idea of the time of the attack on Taiwan.
He knew that if the Korean War broke out, the US fleet would definitely re-shelter Taiwan, so that the People's Liberation Army, which had almost zero navy and air force, could only give up attacking Taiwan.
The existence of the Taiwan issue can not only contain China, but also make China and the United States unstoppable, and the Soviet Union will no longer have the worry that China will move closer to the United States.
Therefore, Stalin wanted to start the Korean War before the PLA attacked Taiwan.
In May, after Kim Il-sung went to Moscow again to discuss the reunification war with Stalin, he made a detour to Beijing to inform Chairman Mao that he would launch a reunification war, but concealed from Chairman Mao the time when the war broke out.
China did not want the outbreak of war in Korea to drag China into the water, but it was inconvenient to disagree, so Chairman Mao could only adopt a tacit attitude.
However, at that time, China thought that it would be able to liberate Taiwan before the outbreak of the Korean War, and preparations for an attack on Taiwan were still in full swing.
Just as the July attack on Taiwan was about to begin, the Korean War suddenly broke out on June 25, 1950, and the United States did not know about it before the outbreak of the war.
According to Stalin's prediction, China's dispatch of troops to Korea must not be an opponent of the United States. When the Chinese army was brought back to the United States, China had no choice but to ask the Soviet Union for asylum.
At that time, not to mention the interests of the Northeast, China will willingly beg the Soviet Union to accept more interests.
It's just that Stalin did not expect that China would have the strength to counter the United States.
Seeing this power, Stalin changed his mind. He turned to China in order to make China a solid barrier in Asia, so that the Soviet Union could devote more of its forces to the central direction of Europe.
There is no right or wrong in the game of great powers, only winning or losing, and resisting US aggression and aiding Korea, the Soviet Union and China is a win-win result.
So what should China choose for the current Russia-Ukraine war?
Resources:
Korean War - Baidu Encyclopedia
Su Yu - Baidu Encyclopedia