Chapter 27 Not just a monastery wall
As the saying goes, knowing oneself and the enemy can win every battle. No written information is the most realistic than what one’s own eyes see. Although the eyes cannot guarantee that everything they see is right, it can be recorded in their minds as direct evidence. In any case, human evidence is the most important evidence.
West Berlin has a population of 1.2 million, accounting for more than half of the urban area of Greater Berlin, and the urban area is 62% of the entire Greater Berlin. West Berlin has a delegation in the Federal Republic of Germany to express its political demands, but it does not have the right to vote. It has its own municipal government, but it must be under the supervision of the occupied forces of the United States, Britain and France.
"The opposite side of this road is the area of West Berlin?" Selov saw warning signs on the street opposite, and the soldiers on both sides were facing each other from afar. Not only was there any tension, but there was no warmth.
"Yes, Comrade Selov, West Berlin, occupied by the Three Kingdoms, uses West German currency, and the US dollar can also be used as currency!" The speaker was Selov's comrade Selov, Adalbert, director of the Technical Supervision Office of Stasi in Germany. However, this person's real identity is an investigator in East Germany by the Advisory Department of the First General Administration of the KGB in East Germany. His nationality is the Soviet Union, but he is a minority in the Soviet Union and a Volga German.
"Is that? This is really a deadly thing!" Selov looked at the opposite side with an indeterminate look. Any open confrontation can be prevented, but this invisible infiltration is the most terrifying. In Selov's eyes, West Berlin, which is located in the territory of Democratic Germany, is a cancer in Selov's eyes. It absorbs the nutrition from Democratic Germany and even Eastern Europe. Over time, it will cause malnutrition in Eastern European countries.
At present, the Berlin Wall does not exist, and nothing can block Selov's view from looking at the opposite side. The cars with the flags of the United States, Britain and France appear and disappear from time to time, which is very normal. Part of the reason for the recent Berlin crisis is that the Three Kingdoms hope that their troops can reserve the right to patrol the entire Berlin.
"Today I will take a closer look at the outposts surrounding West Berlin. By the way, is it the People's Army or the People's Armed Police Force patrolling?" asked Selov, who was sitting behind the car and waiting to set off.
"It is the People's Armed Police Force under the Ministry of Internal Affairs!" Adalbert signaled the driver in front to drive, and introduced, "Even if you patrol day and night, you still cannot organize the East German people to flee. This makes us very embarrassed when facing the opposite side..."
"Who makes Americans rich? There is no way. Who makes the main battlefield of World War II in Europe? The death of 400,000 soldiers in the United States won the world war. Even Azerbaijan was higher than the casualties of the United States! If you reason, the Iron Curtain Speech should not have appeared! Now because of the Berlin crisis, the motherland is scolded by those mouthpieces every day, and the group of heads stuffed with feces will not think about who ignored the demands of the Soviet Union and couldn't wait to establish the Federal Germany? We established a democratic Germany with a defensive attitude, which turned out to ignore the feelings of the German people?" Serov said these words in a playful tone, "If you really want to reason, our relationship with the Americans will not be like this! So I am not here to reason this time..."
Selov spent three days traveling through all the checkpoints, not only followed by KGB members from China, but also military staff in the Western cluster of the Soviet Red Army stationed in Germany. After all, he was not a professional soldier and he also needed these professional talents to make a correct judgment.
"There are two reservoirs within the jurisdiction of West Berlin. They were intercepted by dams after passing through the Spree River and the Havel River!" The Red Army staff member who followed Serov said with a high-power telescope. "The two reservoirs are enough to supply the millions of people in West Berlin to drink!"
"Are the sewers and electricity in the entire Berlin now integrated?" Selovyi asked with some advice.
"Yes, after all, it is a whole city, and we have not divided it with the United States, Britain and France!" Serov's question was answered positively by the Western cluster staff.
So! Selov said with an unpredictable smile, "Okay, that's all for today's inspection! I also want to go back to the base and think of ways. Thank you, the Red Army comrades for accompanying me to do nothing today..."
The inspections in the past few days have not been fruitless. Selov saw some unusual things, that is, there are a large number of building materials piled up in some places, including bricks, steel bars and barbed wire mesh! This shows that Selov's German colleagues are making some preparations behind the Soviet Union's back. As long as the situation develops to the point where the Soviet Union cannot sit still, democratic Germany is waiting for the Soviet Union to nod to recognize it, and the Berlin Wall in history can be quickly built in a short period of time.
In fact, Khrushchev was also very surprised by the rapid construction of the Berlin Wall in history. It only took such a short time to complete such a large project, which shows that Democratic Germany has already prepared in this regard.
Selov was cold-eyed and observant about the development of this matter. Germans themselves could make up this decision. He was a Soviet man with no interest, so it was even more irrelevant. Maybe he would have to add fuel to the fire. Selov came to Berlin not only if he was a contractor leader, but if he came to build a wall, he could do it himself. He only needed to make a suggestion, and he didn't need to come here in person.
People's needs are nothing more than food, clothing, housing and transportation. The reason why the Cold War was in a relatively difficult position was that the Soviet Union had just ended World War II, the Soviet Union was far from recovering its pre-war strength. The United States, which was not hit by the local area, forced the Soviet Union to face the battle when it was at a disadvantage, and did not even have time to develop the economy and maintain the confrontation. Even the Soviet Union, as the big brother of socialism, fought while developing, not to mention its own brother country that was severely damaged in World War II.
Specifically for the situation in Berlin, the wealthy and powerful United States used the Marshall Plan to support these countries in recovery, allowing those countries with much stronger foundations to recover quickly, creating a contrast with the Soviet Union.
As a result of the later Cold War, people often used capitalism to defeat socialism, but ignored the fact that this struggle was unfair from the beginning. The result was not that capitalism defeated socialism, but that a group of countries that were originally imperialist powers defeated the Soviet Union and a group of poor countries, which were barely poor countries.
That night, Berlin's circuit network diagram and urban sewer network diagram, Berlin's annual rainfall statistics diagram, and the river map around Berlin. "It's too simple to build a wall. I want to make West Berlin a dead city and a stronghold that makes the other party lose blood. If you want to continue to occupy it, you have to pay a few times the price..."
Chapter completed!