#1384 - War breaks out

Donbass line of defense.

Compared with Russia, Ukraine, which had just been independent, is obviously a very weak country, and Ukraine's terrain is flat and wide, which further increases the difficulty for Ukraine to deal with Russian invasion.

Of course, from the perspective of Russia, Ukraine was originally part of Russia, so it should be called the recovery of lost land. However, due to the special attributes of the Russian Labor Party, the occupied areas such as Ukraine should be acted in the name of "liberation".

Russia's ambitions are more than that. Liberating the Russian territory of the former Tsarist territories such as Ukraine is just the first step, the second step is to liberate the entire Eastern Europe, the fourth step is to extend the entire Europe, and finally extending to the whole world.

Therefore, in order to prevent being "liberated", the Ukrainian government naturally built the Donbas line of defense and sought to use this line of defense to fight against Russia.

On the west side of the Donbas line.

Ukrainian Marshal Doroshenko stared at the military map with a sad face, thinking about how to deal with the Russian Red Army.

And he was surrounded by a group of senior Ukrainian generals. In the face of the huge Russian behemoth, Ukraine obviously had no confidence in winning.

"The terrain of the entire Ukraine can be said to be flat and not conducive to defense. When Ukraine was independent, it would be great if the Allies could do their best to take over the entire Eastern Ukraine, and we would not be so passive." Ukrainian General Volosiv Ka said.

The so-called Allied forces naturally refer to the Allied troops during World War I. Because in the late war, the Allied and the Russian Labor Party reached an agreement, and the two sides re-divided Ukraine based on the actual control zone, so Ukraine is not complete.

"It's no practical point to discuss these things now, and now we should pray for the Donbass defense line to support us in dealing with the possible large-scale offensive Russia."

That being said, but almost most Ukrainian generals are not optimistic about the so-called Donbass defense line.

Although World War I proved that trench warfare has become the main form of current warfare, trench warfare is actually not very friendly to both offense and defense.

Especially in terms of personnel and materials consumption, Ukraine happened to be Ukraine's biggest shortcoming. At that time, Russia was not like the lame Russia in his previous life, because of population issues, even wars were afraid.

Russia's current population is more than 100 million, while Ukraine's population is less than 20 million. In addition, Ukraine's industry is almost negligible.

Therefore, Ukraine responds to Russia and is an agricultural dealing with industrial dealing with China. In other aspects, Ukraine seems to have a huge gap with Russia, except for international relations.

Marshal Doroshenko said: "Although our opponents are very strong, we are not completely at a disadvantage. We have the support of the mainstream civilized world behind us, whether it is Germany, Austria, Britain, France, or even the United States outside of Europe are on our side."

The reason why there is no East Africa is also very simple, that is, there is also a Tsarist Russian government in exile in East Africa, and the Tsarist Russian government in exile obviously disagrees with the so-called "independence" of Ukraine. In terms of maintaining national unity, the Tsarist Russian government in exile is instead More firmer than the Russian Labor Party.

Moreover, the reason why Britain, France, Germany and Australia support the current Ukrainian government is itself to avoid East Africa using the Tsar to command the former Russian princes.

Then, to extend his hands to Eastern Europe, Britain did not want East Africa to break through the barrier and enter Europe, while Germany and Austro-Hungary empires were completely considered from a market perspective.

You should know that Eastern Europe has always been an important traditional market for Germany and Austria. During World War I, Germany and Austria did not expand their overseas market scope through war, so they attached more importance to the traditional markets of the two countries after the war.

Therefore, driven by interests, the two countries tacitly exclude East Africa from Eastern Europe, which is actually a serious backstab for East Africa.

After all, during the Tsarist era, Russia and East Africa traded very frequently, and at that time, due to Russian reasons, East Africa could also use trade to enter the Ukrainian regional market.

Nowadays, the Ukrainian government is actually a puppet supported by Germany and Austria, and naturally leads Germany and Austria everywhere. Germany and Austria intend to exclude East Africa from the Eastern European market, so the Ukrainian government naturally does things according to the arrangements of the two countries.

Therefore, East Africa and European countries have differences on the Ukraine issue. Since this is the case, East Africa will naturally not contribute to the so-called People's Republic of Ukraine.

After all, East Africa originally had a Russian spokesperson that it supported, that is the Tsarist Russian government in exile led by Alexei.

From this we can see that the world is bustling with people, all for profit; the world is bustling with people, all for profit. When facing tangible interests, the so-called German nation's feelings are completely nonsense.

Poland, Ukraine and other regions have a total population of about 40 million. With such a huge market, Germany and Austria certainly want to take it alone.

The same is true for the Ottoman Empire. After the war, Germany and Austria tried every means to eliminate East Africa's influence in the Ottoman Empire.

This is also one of the main reasons why East Africa was assigned to Iran. Britain and Germany do not want East Africa to get too close to the Ottoman Empire. After all, except Britain and East Africa, the Ottoman Empire is already the only major power along the Indian Ocean coast.

For Britain, an important reason why the outcome of World War I was not ideal is that the Ottoman Empire and East Africa were too close, which led to the Allies being unable to completely block the foreign economic and trade channels of their allies.

For Germany, Germany actively won over the Ottoman Empire before World War I and built the Baghdad Railway. In fact, before World War I, the Ottoman Empire had become a German economic colony, so Germany did not want East Africa to pick the peaches it had worked hard to cultivate. Now.

Of course, the distractions and contradictions between imperialist countries are not very important to Doroshenko. The relationship between East Africa and Ukraine is originally average, especially the Tsarist Russia that supported by East Africa in exile, which made the Ukrainian government feel like it was in the throat. .

Marshal Doroshenko continued: "With the support of Germany, Austria and other countries, as long as we can withstand the early military pressure of Russia and show our value, we can obtain more military assistance."

"Especially when competition among countries such as Poland, who can show higher combat effectiveness can get more real money and weapons and ammunition."

That's right, Poland is Ukraine's biggest competitor. After all, both are countries that eat military aid, and military aid is obviously limited. If Poland gets more, Ukraine will eat less.

In fact, the Polish government is indeed more powerful than Ukraine. Even Ernst has to admire the courage of the Poles. At the beginning of independence, Poland could not wait to launch a small-scale military operation against Russia.

The history of previous lives also proves that there is no more active country in the anti-Russia than Poland. Poland's active behavior made the Ukrainian government seem a little passive.

Doroshenko said: "The situation is very obvious now. Although Britain, France, Germany and Austria support us, we certainly cannot fully trust these powerful countries. After all, the strength of Ukraine and Russia is too great. Before other countries do not organize troops to help us fight against Russia, we There is only one thing to do, that is to defend the Donbass line."

"Now, although the Polish government is happy, they are the easiest to become Russia's primary target, and we must not be as arrogant as the Poles."

Doroshenko's words also prove one thing, that is, the current attitude of the senior Ukrainian government towards Russia is mainly based on passive defense.

Although the Ukrainian government is very clear that Russia is the enemy of Ukraine's life and death, they do not want to confront Russia immediately, especially in various countries that only fund weapons and materials to help Ukraine train its army but not send troops, which makes Ukraine very ineffective. sense of security.

In fact, it is not that Britain, France, Germany and Austria do not want to send troops, but that they are not able to send troops. The major European countries that have just experienced World War I have now had a high sense of war weariness in China and have not yet escaped the trauma of war.

If another war is joined, there is a high probability that people from all countries will completely arouse dissatisfaction with the government, thus shaking the foundation of the rule.

In addition, the intrigue between imperialism is also an important influencing factor. After the First World War, it was impossible for the soldiers of Britain, France, Germany and Austria to unite against the Russian army.

Just thinking about it, yesterday I was fighting to the death because of different camps. Today I changed my attitude and became a close comrade in my arms. How could this happen?

Therefore, the support of various countries for Ukraine can only be limited to military aid, but it cannot really end up.

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Moscow.

Ukraine does not want to confront Russia immediately, but the Russian Labor government obviously does not think so, and it is very different from the Ukrainian government's ideas.

Although the Russian Labor Party hates Poland, the jumping clown, Vladimir and other Russian senior officials still want to regain Ukraine first from a practical perspective.

And there is no other reason for this, that is, Ukraine's importance to Russia is far above Poland.

First of all, Ukraine was an important granary in the Tsarist Russian era. Although Russia has a vast territory, most of its territory is not conducive to agricultural development due to climate. Therefore, from the perspective of food security, Russia cannot give up Ukraine.

Secondly, the eastern part of Ukraine, which is the east bank of the Dnieper River, was originally one of Russia's important industrial bases, so the Russian government must regain this area.

Finally, Ukraine is related to Russia's seaport issue. With the loss of Ukraine, Russia also lost an important region of Crimea.

So, from these perspectives, Ukraine is far more important than Poland.

August 21, 1921.

Vladimir held a military meeting in Moscow.

“Now, regions such as Poland and Ukraine are quickly armed with the support of imperialist countries, and the people we have installed in these areas are ready.”

"So, I think now is a good time for us to recover Ukraine, Poland and the Baltic region, otherwise in the future, we will pay a greater price to regain these lost lands."

"Now, it is the time when European imperialist countries are the weakest. European countries that have just experienced world wars and European flu are unlikely to directly send large-scale troops to Ukraine and Poland."

"So, we should take advantage of this great opportunity to liberate regions such as Ukraine and Poland and bring them back to the embrace of our motherland."

Some people also asked worriedly about Vladimir's judgment: "Comrade Vladimir, in the past six months, imperialist countries have exported a large amount of weapons and equipment to puppet governments such as Ukraine and Poland."

"This has rapidly expanded the Ukrainian and Polish troops to more than 600,000, and the puppet troops on the border alone have exceeded 300,000."

"They received a large amount of stock weapons and supplies from the Allies and Allies during the World War period, and were trained by imperialist countries. It is hard to say whether we can break through the enemy's defense line as soon as possible."

"And once the war develops into the trench warfare model during the World War period, it may lead us to fall into a war of attrition with these puppet countries."

Regarding this question, Vladimir explained: "Don't look at the puppet troops of Ukraine and Poland too high. Although they were armed by imperialist countries, they were essentially the old army and old warlords of the Imperial Russia era."

"Just like a gangster, even if you don't experience ideological transformation, even if you wear a suit, you will still be a gangster in your bones. You will not be changed because they wear gorgeous clothes."

"In the same way, even if the puppet army received military assistance from imperialist countries, they could not be as afraid of sacrifice as our working class team, and dared to fight for ideals and the great cause of mankind."

"Their fighting will is extremely weak, because most of them will still be exploited, exploited and discriminated against by the old bureaucrats."

"And on the battlefield, they will not sacrifice their lives for the high-ranking old bureaucrats, aristocrats and capitalists, so even if they hold weapons supported by imperialism, they will not be able to play the role of these advanced weapons and equipment."

"This kind of army will only collapse when facing our heroic soldiers on the battlefield. At the same time, we not only have heroic soldiers, but also nearly 40 million people from the enemy-occupied areas will fight with us."

"As long as they are organized, the enemy's railways will be paralyzed. At the same time, under the leadership of our party, we will cooperate to seize the military rush of the enemy-occupied areas, important towns..."

"So, the victory of this war must be on our side. We have more than 100 million people behind us. This is the core of the liberation of the people in Ukraine, Poland and other regions."

So, after Vladimir unified his thoughts, the entire Russian war machine started again, but unlike the last time Nicholas II, the Russian people under the leadership of the Russian Labor Party actively participated in this war to liberate compatriots in Eastern Europe. .

Russian domestic people joined the army enthusiastically, factory workers actively worked overtime to produce materials needed for war, and railways and other systems also operated efficiently.

Under this positive atmosphere, in mid-September 1921, Russia officially launched a war to regain lost lands such as Ukraine.

On the front line, the Russian army advanced into the Baltic Three Kingdoms with three times the advantage, Poland and Ukraine, and the two sides fought on the border.

The Russian Labor Party's brazenly sent troops, which immediately caused an uproar in the international community, which also caused imperialist countries, especially European governments, to be in a hurry.

Especially after the outbreak of the war, Germany and the Austro-Hungarian Empire suddenly fell into an embarrassing situation. Whether to send troops or not at this time has become the most tangled issue between the two countries.