"If NATO assumes an offensive stance, what should we do in response?" Defense Minister Marshal Grechko thought for a while, "Will we take a pre-emptive attack?"

"There's no need for that. Tell all the Warsaw Pact countries to respond with first-level combat readiness. The military forces of all countries must cooperate with the Soviet Union to act as one, and tell our enemies that we are ready." Brezhnev's face was unprecedentedly gloomy. . He just wants to see if NATO can really wear a pair of trousers with the United States, not for the extinction of mankind. The current development of the Soviet Union can be said to be very good, far from pulling the whole world to the point of death.

   "General Secretary, General Political Commissar telegram." Chernenko walked into the conference room at this time and brought a telegram that had just arrived.

"Let's take a look!" Brezhnev glanced over quickly, looked at the other members and said, "Yura means, expel all Turks, the future east of the Soviet Strait will be used as a military fortress, and the west of the strait will be used as a military fortress. Commercial downtown."

   "Expulsion? If we expel four million people at one time, what will the world think of us?" Kosygin asked worriedly.

"What Yura means is that the Greek Defense Forces are willing to help us with this task." Brezhnev pondered and said, "If we turn a blind eye to the Turks in Constantinople, there will be countless troubles in the future. ."

"Greek Defence Forces? So what is the exchange condition, won't Yura give Constantinople to Greece?" Ustinov was shocked, he was really afraid that Serov would take the upper hand and make stupid things. .

"The exchange condition is that the Greek Defense Forces will have the right to garrison the fortress area on the east coast of Constantinople in the future. Similarly, Romania, Bulgaria, and Yugoslavia can also garrison troops. I can understand the intention of doing this. The garrison tried to find a way to bring Greece closer to the Warsaw Pact. As for Bulgaria, Romania, and Yugoslavia, they brought in the garrison to help us share the pressure." Brezhnev thought for a while and said, "This is a blow to our Warsaw Pact. Compromises by some allies will also allow our allies to face problems with us.”

   To put it simply, although Big Brother went out to rob, the purpose of Big Brother’s robbery was to feed you. After you have eaten your fill, you must appreciate it, and you will be more loyal when you grab a turf in the future.

"As long as Greece gives up its sovereignty over Constantinople and does not make such unreasonable demands, the right to garrison can be discussed." Sherepin said, "Constantinople is destined to be far away from our homeland, if Bulgaria and Countries like Greece can help us maintain it, and we will save a lot of costs in the future.”

  Constantinople is of course important, but as Sherepin said, this city is not connected to the Soviet Union. This is a headache. If neighboring countries such as Greece and Bulgaria help the Soviet Union, the city can survive the war.

"Well, after all, it is a special situation, otherwise this city is not a development point, but a burden to us." Kosygin, chairman of the Council of Ministers, considered from an economic point of view, "When the time comes to connect and radiate Eastern Europe, our development will be even more. Easy, maybe Constantinople will become an economic center in the Balkans."

"Comrade Chernenko, to generate electricity for Yura, the sovereignty must be ours, we can't talk about this, other places can be negotiated, and tell him that the motherland will not let the blood of the soldiers go in vain, we must Victory will be preserved." Brezhnev's voice was very oppressive.

  Two hours after Moscow officially received the threat from the United States, the Pentagon officially announced that it was concentrating the world's largest navy to carry American troops to Turkey. At the same time, it warned that the Soviet Union should stop the war and return to its own territory, otherwise it will suffer the consequences.

   The tough moves of the United States have been widely reported by domestic media, and many newspapers have praised the rapid response of the United States. After all, in one day, the government that has successively conducted diplomatic communication, UN resolutions, and sent troops to support it cannot be said to be inefficient. However, the Democratic Party believes that the United States is not suitable to intervene in the war now, and the country is in an economic crisis. , has just withdrawn from the Vietnam War, and now it is too dangerous to confront America's biggest enemy at the enemy's doorstep.

Almost as soon as the Pentagon announced the deployment of the Navy colleagues, a news from Moscow shocked the whole world. The Soviet People's Radio announced that Istanbul, Turkey's largest city, was conquered, and the Soviet Union killed more than 5,000 Turkish soldiers. people, captured 65,000 Turkish soldiers, and now controls all of Constantinople.

   The spread of this news shocked the entire NATO. The Turkish army ranks among the best in NATO. The 400,000-strong army was completely defeated by the Soviet army within a day, and the largest city heavily defended was captured by the Soviet army in World War I. The news came as a surprise to the entire Western European countries. After the surprise, they were deeply fearful. Many people knew that the most elite part of the Soviet army was the four major clusters stationed in Eastern Europe, and the second echelon behind Ukraine and Belarus. In the military region, the 400,000-strong Turkish army can only withstand one day, and how long can they withstand it.

After reading the newspaper, some Western Europeans were terrified and recalled what the Soviet general political commissar said in the last newspaper, "The troops of NATO countries have made a look for their people that they can resist us. To comfort the people of their country, both their own command structures and our Ministry of Defense understand that NATO is simply not ready for war.”

   For a moment, the army that normally looks mighty and domineering seems to have become vulnerable at this time. Many people look at the soldiers of their own country with doubts. Can they fight? Is it really like a general political commissar of the Soviet Union, pretending to be able to fight, but in fact not at all. Some public figures have called for not to conduct a full-scale war for Turkey and the Soviet Union, and no country on land can compete with the Soviet Union. If Serov had known, he would have given these five rubles a salary increase, saving himself a lot of trouble.

  The dignity of NATO has long been rubbed by Serov's footsteps. He is now chatting and laughing with the chief of staff of the original NATO country Greece. The communication between the two sides is very pleasant, which is higher than these NATO countries who sympathize with Greece.

  Constantine Jean also knew that it would be impossible to get Constantinople back from the Soviet Union, so don’t even think about it. He is not the kind of low-level people who pin his hopes on the other party's great kindness. Just a month ago, Greece hoped that the United States would be on its side, in exchange for a humiliating betrayal.

   Now that the Soviet army is heading south, Konstantin Jean, as the chief of staff of the Greek Defense Forces, felt that he could talk to the Soviets about cooperation and solve the Cyprus issue within his ability. This is of course no problem. Since the Soviet army attacked Turkey, the Turkish army on the island of Cyprus has been a lonely army. They couldn't even retreat, because the Turkish navy that had transported them had been wiped out by the Soviet air force.

   "The Turkish navy and air force have been wiped out, and Greece can completely wipe out that lone army. Of course, if fire support is needed, our Mediterranean Fleet in Syria can help at that time." Serov thought for a while and agreed with Konstantin Jean's suggestion. But he also had his own conditions. The Greek Defense Forces who had faced off earlier in Constantinople wanted to expel the Turks in Constantinople for the Soviet Union. At the same time, Constantine had to announce in the name of the Greek military that the reason why the Soviet Union attacked Turkey sent troops to help because it received a request from Greece and could not sit back and watch the traditional friendship between the two countries.

"There is no problem with the former. I can immediately announce that the Soviet army is attacking at the request of the Greek Defense Forces." , it was the Greek Defense Forces who invited the Soviet Union to send troops to punish Turkey.

The news of    immediately reached Athens. The entire Athens people were ecstatic. The flag of the Communist Party of Greece was raised high, and more than 200,000 people joined the cheers in the capital Athens, thanking the Soviet Union for sending troops to help Greece punish Turkey.

  The U.S. ambassador to Greece is in an unprecedentedly heavy heart. All the values ​​of the United States during the war have been wiped out as the United States supports Turkey's decision to suppress Greece. Even if the United States has a stronger economy, richer material, and better relations with the big capitalists in Greece. But the decision to favor Turkey during the war left the vast majority of Greece with a choice between the Soviet Union and the United States.

  Greece's statement shocked all NATO countries. One NATO member turned to the leader of the Warsaw Pact to punish another NATO member, which made many non-US commanders very uncomfortable. They originally disagreed with the attitude of the United States and the United Kingdom to favor Turkey.

In the White House of the United States, President Ford frowned. His reaction was not unpleasant. He made a lot of decisions in one day, but the situation did not change as quickly. Greece announced that it asked the Soviet Union to punish Turkey, which put the United States in a very embarrassing situation. Among them, the difficulty in unifying attitudes towards Greece is only a superficial phenomenon, and the deep-seated NATO risks splitting.

  Especially the entire United States and Western Europe are in an economic crisis, each with a tenth of the unemployment rate. Italy has clearly stated that the matter between the Soviet Union and the United States has nothing to do with Italy, and because Italy attacked Greece in World War II, Italy publicly supports Greece's just actions, believing that the United States' earlier judgment was wrong. (To be continued~^~)