The cause of the Korean War, according to our usual textbooks, is quite questionable. Today, 70 years after this war, it is necessary for us to combine the deciphered data on the truth of history and make correct judgments under the premise of independent thinking and rational thinking. It needs to be explained that the search for the truth will not only not bring negative effects to the revolutionary ancestors, but also make people more admired the difficult choices made by the great people at that time, more admired the heroes' sacrifice of their lives and struggles, and cherished the peace and development of the present.
——Introduction to the editor
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="29" > the commonly said doubt about the origin of war</h1>
The origin of the Korean War, when we were young, we all know that Syngman Rhee, the lackey of the US imperialists, first launched the attack on North Korea, and North Korea fought back, fought through the 38th Line, and almost drove the enemy into the sea. At that time, due to the special historical period and poor information, it was reasonable to understand the Korean War in this way. But now 70 years have passed, the Soviet Union has disintegrated, a large number of first-hand archives have been unsealed, and many people of insight have sorted out materials in this regard. With the help of a well-developed information platform, we can learn a lot of previously unknown truths. In this case, for the truth of history, it is necessary for us to combine the decipherment of data and make correct judgments under the premise of independent thinking and rational thinking. It needs to be explained that the search for the truth will not only not bring negative effects to the revolutionary ancestors, but also make people more admired the difficult choices made by the great people at that time, more admired the heroes' sacrifice of their lives and struggles, and cherished the peace and development of the present.
As for the origin of the war, the original textbook statement, if carefully considered, has many doubts:
1. The war began on June 25, 1950, and three days later Seoul was captured by the North Korean People's Army. If south Korea had started the war first, the preparation for the war would have been too poor, right? The attacking side ended up losing the capital in three days?
2. Various memoirs and books mention that more than 200 T-34 tanks were sacrificed to North Korea as soon as the war began. This was the most advanced tank in the world at that time, and the officers of Task Force Smith, the first U.S. unit to be put into North Korea, also took the lead in using rocket launchers to hit tanks, demonstrating to the troops and eliminating "tank phobia", which was a rare example of us fighting with inferior equipment in US operations. The question is, where did North Korea get this stuff? This thing also has to be refueled, replenished with ammunition, mechanical maintenance, etc. to fight. Who gave this? Who is protecting? Can North Korea produce diesel? The soldiers of the Korean Division, who have experienced hundreds of battles, will not use tanks, right? You must know that we never used a Single Soviet Weapon in the Three Years Liberation War! The first three battles of the War to Resist US Aggression and Aid Korea were also all Japanese and American weapons, which our army captured from the enemy in the War of Liberation! Who gave These Tanks to North Korea, who is the initiator of the war, and it is impossible that they intend to let the Korean people use T-34 tanks to plough the ground to build collective farms?
The Korean People's Army fought under the guidance of the T-34
3. Immediately after the outbreak of the Korean War, the United States referred the Korean issue to the United Nations. The United Nations Security Council, in the absence of the permanent member of the Soviet Union, passed resolutions 82, 83 and 84, condemning the armed invasion of South Korea by the North Korean army and authorizing the United States to take the lead, and the armed forces of 16 countries and the medical forces of 5 countries to form a United Nations army and enter the Korean Peninsula to fight. Here we should think, why were the Soviet delegates absent? Although the Soviet Union protested that New China had no seats in the United Nations and that Soviet representatives went to the toilet, etc., we thought about it a little rationally and knew that these excuses were untrue. Now companies that manage a little more formally don't have important meetings and the main leaders are absent three times in a row, right?
4. At the end of the Korean Civil War, the People's Army was defeated, Kim Il Sung asked China for help, and our leader and Stalin reached a consensus and decided that we would send ground troops and the Soviet Union to send air forces to participate in the war. But when our volunteers came out, Stalin said, "The Soviet Air Force is not ready." "We had to go through the first three campaigns without air cover. What does it mean to be unprepared? After fighting Germany in 1945, in order to seize the fruits of victory, the Soviet Union could transfer 1.5 million troops and heavy equipment from Europe to northeast China in one month.
Therefore, as for the reasons for the outbreak of the Korean War, there is really no need for us to wash the ground for others, and we need to find the reasons from the historical origins.
<h1 class="pgc-h-center-line" data-track="24" > second, starting from the persistent pursuit of the sea in the history of Tsarist Russia. </h1>
Russia was first a Grand Duchy, located on the outskirts of Moscow, a completely landlocked country.
1. The outlet of the Atlantic Ocean.
When the pace of history entered the 18th century, the Age of Discovery was already in full swing in Europe, and the Industrial Revolution was also beginning to emerge in Britain. At this time, the Russian Peter the Great was on the throne, he was ambitious and intelligent, and even disguised himself as an ordinary person to go to the Netherlands to learn shipbuilding technology. He was keenly aware of the significance of the Age of Navigation and the Industrial Revolution for the future of the country: industrialization meant global socialized mass production, and global socialized mass production must be guaranteed by accessible transportation. Under the conditions of science and technology at that time, only shipping was the cheapest and most convenient, and the water resistance that needed to be overcome by shipping was much smaller than the rolling friction of land transport, and shipping did not require huge basic investment in land transport roads. Therefore, if Russia wants to become strong, it is necessary to embrace the sea and obtain access to the sea.
Peter the Great, the father of Russian modernization
Peter the Great's lifelong quest for access to the sea. After 21 years of the Great Northern War against the then European power, the Kingdom of Sweden finally acquired Russia's first outlet to the sea, St. Petersburg (Pushkin called it "a window to the West"), and moved the capital here. Russia has since dominated the Baltic Sea and thus gained access to the Atlantic Ocean. The bear eventually went from a purely landlocked country to a coastal state, which was recognized by European countries as one of the great powers. Sweden, on the other hand, was kicked out of the ranks of the European powers.
2. Black Sea outlet.
Peter the Great and his successors, Empress Catherine II (the only woman to call the Emperor), alexander I, Nicholas I, Alexander II, the last Tsar Nicholas II, and even the great mentor Lenin, were not good at stubble, and were continuing Russia's ambitious expansion route –southward in search of outlets to the Black Sea, and then trying to control the Bosphorus, dardanelles, and marmara Seas so that they could enter the Mediterranean.
Monument to Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg.
To this end, ten Russo-Turkish wars were fought (12 times if you add world war I and Turkish intervention in the Soviet Union), and the access to the Black Sea was obtained, which seriously weakened Ottoman Turkey, the "sick man of West Asia", and reduced it from the last great empire spanning three continents to a second-rate country.
Painting of the Siege of Sevastopol, 1904. Russia had a deadly defense of the stolen fortress at the mouth of the sea, and so did the Fortress of Lushun.
However, at this time, the world hegemony of the British Empire and the European hegemon France had taken note of Russia's ambitions and joined forces to support Ottoman Turkey against Russia, so that Russia's expansion failed to extend to the Bosphorus and dardanelles, and The Bear Russia was blocked in the Black Sea, and could only look at the Mediterranean Sea and sigh.
3. Pacific Ocean outlet.
During the reigns of Alexander II and the last Tsar Nicholas II, the road of expansion continued, this time focusing on the East, trying to find an outlet to the Pacific Ocean. After many wars against the Manchu Qing Empire and various unequal treaties, he finally obtained the first outlet to the Pacific Ocean, Vladivostok, and Maozi was named "Vladi ostok", which means "conquest of the East", which means clear!
Now Vladivostok, our hearts are in eternal pain
Because Siberia is too big and inconvenient to travel, the last Tsar Nicholas II presided over the construction of the Trans-Siberian Railway when he was still crown prince, which is 9288 kilometers long, the longest railway line in the world, spending a huge amount of money from Russia to connect Moscow with Vladivostok (this name will continue to be called in this article), and Bear Russia has become a world power with the Pacific Ocean in the east, the Atlantic Ocean in the west, the Black Sea in the south, and the sea in three directions.
Schematic diagram of the Trans-Siberian Railway
Map of Russia's three-facing maritime period in 1904
Taking advantage of the opportunity of the three-nation intervention to assist the Manchus against Japan after the Sino-Japanese War to return the Liao (to curb Japan's monopoly on Liaodong), Nicholas II signed the "Sino-Russian Secret Treaty" with Li Hongzhang on the day of coronation, and through various means, usurped the right to build roads, so that the Trans-Siberian Railway could take from Manchuria through the territory of China's three eastern provinces to the Suifen River, without having to take a big detour in the territory of the Hungry State on the north bank of the Heilongjiang River. Faced with the fiasco of the Sino-Japanese War, Li Hongzhang was powerless to resist, and the only face he won was to insist that the railway line must be named the Eastern Qing Railway, which means "Great Qing Eastern Provincial Railway". This means that even if Jin Lian gives birth to a child, she must be surnamed Wu! It can be seen that weak countries have no diplomacy!
But Vladivostok has natural defects, and its freezing period is almost half a year. So Nicholas II began his relentless pursuit of an ice-free port in the Pacific, this time targeting The Brigade. Russia also forced the Manchu Qing government to sign the "Luda Lease Treaty" and the "Luda Lease Land Renewal" in 1898, forcibly leased Lushun and Dalian, and obtained the right to build a railway from Harbin to Lushunkou. Xiong Russia finally won the unfrozen port in the Pacific Ocean , Luda , and the railway line from here that could go directly to Moscow — with different titles such as the Eastern Qing Railway, the Middle East Railway, the South Manchuria Railway, and the Medium-Long Railway.
Xiong Russia's appetite is far more than this, watching the "sick man of East Asia" the Qing Empire and the "sick man of West Asia" Ottoman Turkey a bit of a package, Russia also took advantage of the 1900 Eight-Power Alliance to invade China, brazenly dispatched 170,000 troops to invade the entire territory of northeast China, and created the appalling Hailanpao Massacre and the Jiangdong Sixty-Four Tun Incident, slaughtering tens of thousands of innocent Chinese people in the local area (this is also the consistent practice of Xiong Russia to effectively occupy a place to prevent future disputes), known in history as "Gengzi Russia Difficulty".
Hyland Bubble Massacre painting
Daqing was ravaged in turn, not to mention resisting, struggling powerlessly. But no one wanted The Bear Russia to be too powerful, so another bandit, Japan, with the support of Britain and France, intervened to curb Russia's expansion into the Pacific, with the result that the Russo-Japanese War broke out in 1905. Japan captured the fortress of Lushun on land after a battle for the blood of the corpse mountain, and sank the remnants of the Russian Pacific Fleet in the harbor as if it were a target; after the reinforcement fleet of the Russian Baltic Fleet at sea bypassed most of the world and reached Asia, it was ambushed by the Japanese Navy in the Tsushima Strait, the Russian fleet was defeated and almost completely destroyed, and Japan lost only three torpedo boats. The Russian Navy has since collapsed and become the world's third-rate navy. However, Russia used the Trans-Siberian Railway to transport supplies and personnel, and accumulated enough strength to barely save Northern Manchuria.
Schematic of the Battle of Tsushima
Moreover, the fiasco of the war led to a surge in internal contradictions, and the first revolution broke out the following year, which Lenin called the "general exercise" of the October Revolution. After a series of successive struggles by the revolutionaries and the blessing of the First World War, in 1917, the entire family of the last Tsar Nicholas II, including his queen, four princesses, a crown prince, as well as servants, drivers, florists, etc., was shot and killed without trial by the order of the Great Mentor in a basement in Yekaterinburg. (Because the four princesses hid a large amount of jewelry in their underwear, blocking the bullets, and the executioners continued to mend their knives and search for jewels with bayonets, the horrific execution process lasted about half an hour.) ）
The last Tsar Nicholas II took a family photo, and was later ordered to be destroyed by the great mentor.
After the fiasco of the Russo-Japanese War, Tsarist Russia lost the frozen ports in the Pacific ocean that had been acquired and the Middle East Railway connecting the ports, and retreated to Northern Manchuria. The war also eventually led to the collapse of Tsarist Russia and the extinction of the last Tsarist clan.
Talk about the phases of the Korean War (-) war, the discussion and impact of the outcome of the war