The term military-industrial complex was not invented by Victor. It should have been Truman's successor, first coined by President Eisenhower in his outgoing speech.

As the current U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union and the initiator of the U.S. policy of "restraining the Soviet Union", George Kennan once said frankly in his later years: "If there were no Russians as a rational basis for our military force, we would still come up with Some other adversaries will replace them.” In other words, the fundamental reason why the Americans competed with the Soviet Union for hegemony after the war was not the aggressive foreign policy of the Soviet Union, but a series of reasons for the United States itself.

From this point of view, Victor's statement is not alarmist, he just explained the problems that will gradually emerge in a few years, with his own reasons in advance. And one of the views he tried to express is: Moscow should no longer have illusions about the friendship between the Soviet Union and the United States. The White House and the Kremlin, Moscow and Washington, are born to be a pair of opponents, and they cannot coexist peacefully with each other at any time. It can even be said that the hostile reality between the two sides has been doomed since the day of the partition of East and West Rome. There is not only the hostility between the East Slavs and the Anglo-Saxons, but also the religious differences between them. hostile.

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Although the mutual shelling incident between the Soviet Union and the United States in the Jinchuan area of ​​the Korean peninsula did not cause any heavy casualties to each other, as a military conflict, its impact was huge.

Twelve hours after the bombardment, the Soviet ambassador to the United States, Gromyko, took the lead in submitting a protest note to US President Truman, arguing that the bombardment of the Soviet training camp in Jinchuan by the US military was a blatant provocation. It is an extremely immature and irresponsible behavior to intensify conflicts and provoke the risk of war.

However, Washington then refuted the accusations made by the Soviet Union. The U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union pointed out when visiting Comrade Molotov, Chairman of the People's Committee for Foreign Affairs of the Union, that the Jinchuan Artillery Battle was the first conflict provoked by the Soviet Army. According to the tenth The report submitted by the military police agency of the Army Group showed that before the shelling was launched, a US patrol in the northern area of ​​Seoul was shot by a suspected Soviet detachment. In other words, the subsequent shelling by the US military was only for this shooting incident revenge.

This kind of mutual accusation between you and me lasted for two days. During these two days, the confrontation between the Soviet and American armies on the Korean peninsula continued, and the atmosphere of the confrontation between the two sides was very tense. would detonate a large-scale military conflict.

Also in the past two days, the eyes of the whole world are almost focused on the Korean Peninsula, and the whole of Europe is trembling, lest a war really break out between the United States and the Soviet Union, even if it is the British guy who is known as the world's **** stick. , also held his breath at this time, Attlee, the first prime minister of Britain after the war, flew thousands of miles to Moscow on the third day of the artillery battle, and held talks with Comrade Stalin, trying to mediate the Soviet Union and the United States. The conflict that broke out between the two countries - the British are very clear that only when the Soviet Union and the United States are in confrontation, it will have the opportunity to profit from it, but once the confrontation turns into a war, then as one of the European countries, they will also suffer huge losses. of.

To be honest, Victor didn't really pay much attention to the artillery battle between the Soviet Union and the United States. He knew very well that this mutual artillery attack could only be regarded as a military friction, and it was not enough for a direct military conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States. Conflict, because Moscow has no idea of ​​conflict with the Americans at the moment, and Washington is also the same. Jinchuan's shelling is just a rash decision by the front-line commanders of both sides, and has nothing to do with the major policies of the two countries.

After two days of mutual accusations, the Soviet Union and the United States finally reached a consensus on the third day after the shelling occurred. The two countries will send representatives to form a joint investigation team to investigate the truth of the shelling incident in Jinchuan area. And then give each other's opinions on the investigation results.

When this agreement is reached between the two sides, this matter is actually over. Everyone knows that this investigation will not produce a result of any practical significance. Moreover, whether it is Washington or Moscow, neither wants to Get a meaningful result.

But having said that, the Jinchuan shelling incident is of great significance in itself. To a certain extent, it shows the end of the alliance between the United States and the Soviet Union based on World War II. Cooperation led to confrontation after the end of the war - although everyone knew that this day would come sooner or later, no one thought it would come so soon.

As a rebirth, Victor doesn't know which direction the world situation will develop in the future, let alone whether "Fatty Qiu"'s speech about the fall of the Iron Curtain will continue to be published. However, what he does know is that, With the appearance of the Jinchuan artillery battle, Comrade Stalin obviously readjusted his expectations for the friendship between the United States and the Soviet Union, because his attitude on the China issue has undergone a very clear change. After the incident, it has obviously improved a lot.

Or because of the Jinchuan artillery incident, Victor had to push back the time when he returned to Petrozavodsk. He found that Comrade Stalin did not seem to take the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic to heart. In other words, the comrade leader seems to think that even if he, the first secretary, does not return to his job, the work on the Karelia side can run smoothly... Well, although Victor is reluctant to admit it, the latter One thing seems to be true.

During the period of Victor's stay in Moscow, various affairs in the Karelia region were still running normally. On the second day of the Jinchuan artillery battle, a representative of the Finnish agricultural and industrial sectors was appointed by the Finnish government. The delegation formed a four-day visit to the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic. After obtaining the consent of Victor, the People's Commissariat of the Republic signed five trade agreements with a total of 27 trade agreements with the delegation.

These trade agreements involve many cooperation projects between Finland and Karelia in the fields of industry and agriculture. For example, in agriculture, according to the provisions of the trade agreement, the Finnish side will be the 67th member of the Karelia region. Each collective farm provides a variety of agricultural machinery and equipment, and as a term of cooperation, the economic crops produced by these collective farms will be preferentially purchased by Finland, and the procurement method is mainly by means of barter trade.

In a certain form, the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic can actually be regarded as a special economic zone of the Union, which mainly faces the three Nordic countries. On the one hand, it is also a special trade area set up to bypass the Western economic blockade. It is connected to the entire alliance at one end and the bridge between the alliance and the West - Finland at the other end.

After the fall, the temperature in Moscow dropped very quickly, especially after a cold current with snow. Although there is still a process of warming after the snow, there are always signs of winter, and the weather has begun to be cold day by day.

Sparrow Hill...that is the Lenin Hill where the main building of Moscow University is located. The Volga car that Viktor was riding in slowly bypassed a forest with yellow branches and leaves under Pogang. When it was about to drive to the mainland, the wheels ran over a road. The dent on the top caused the body to bump violently.

Sitting in the back seat, Victor closed his eyes and rested. He was awakened by the violent bump. He opened his eyes and glanced at the road in front of him. Then he yawned and raised his hand unconsciously... At this time, In his hand he also held a bulging envelope bearing the seal of the Medical Research Society of the Soviet Academy of Sciences.

This envelope contained money, a full one thousand and seventy-nine rubles. Half an hour ago, the Medical Research Council sent this amount to Victor to reward him for his important contributions to the research and development of penicillin by the Alliance.

In fact, for Victor, things like money really don't play a big role in his life. To be honest, he should be considered very clean as an official. He must have used cash once, and his food, clothing, housing and transportation can be said to be free. Of course, this is also related to his low pursuit of quality of life. After all, it is impossible for the country to provide him with customized suits and Italian handmade leather shoes.

Benefiting from Viktor's efforts in the People's Commissariat of State Security at that time, various departments of the Soviet Academy of Sciences have benefited from the work of the intelligence department. Take the Medical Research Society as an example, except for the previous method for the preparation of penicillin. In addition, recently, it is said that they have obtained another piece of information about pharmacology. According to this information, medical research will extract a substance from the root of Ravengae that can effectively inhibit hypertension.

Victor knew that, if nothing else, this substance should be known as "Reshepin" in his previous life. At present, Americans have only extracted this substance, and no formal clinical trials have been launched.

In addition to Lisheping, the Foreign Intelligence Service also obtained the chemical formula of "diazepam" from Roche in the United States, but its effectiveness has not been confirmed, and the Medical Research Association is dealing with related work.

To be honest, these gains of the Medical Research Association all came from the work that Victor did at the beginning. Therefore, Victor really did not feel guilty for taking the prize of 1,079 rubles. On the contrary, this number is obviously a little less. .