Chapter 612 Georgia (3)

In fact, the news of the attacks on military camps in various parts of Georgia had long been transmitted to Moscow through secret channels.

After receiving the news, Stalin just cursed "These idiots!" and didn't take it to heart. He believed that the local military district would handle the matter well.

As for who was so bold to attack military camps everywhere, there is no need to ask more. It must be the reactionary forces in Georgia that oppose Great Russianism. This is not the first or second time.

In the Tsarist era, the Tsarist government advocated that the Russian nation was superior to others and other non-Russian nations must be dominated by it. In order to make the Russian nation enjoy privileges, the Tsarist government tried every means to discriminate, oppress and ravage other nations, and did not hesitate to provoke ethnic relations and instigate ethnic groups to kill each other. This is Great Russianism, also known as Great Russian chauvinism.

After the October Revolution, the Soviet government promulgated the "Declaration of the Rights of the Peoples of Russia", proposing: "Abolish the policy of national discrimination and oppression upheld by the Tsar and the subsequent bourgeois provisional government, and replace it with a policy of openness and voluntary alliance of the peoples of all nationalities." At the same time, it also gave the basic principles for solving ethnic relations: national equality; national self-determination; abolition of national privileges; free development of nations. After this, ethnic relations in Russia have improved greatly.

After Lenin's death, Stalin came to power. As a minority Georgian, during his reign, he always adhered to the policy of Russian national priority and pursued Great Russianism to suppress his hometown.

Because Stalin often showed Great Russianism, Lenin criticized him severely when he was alive: "Some non-Russians are more Russian than Russians!" In fact, in addition to Stalin, Dzerzhinsky was also criticized by Lenin for Great Russianism, and Dzerzhinsky was a Pole by blood.

However, Stalin also had his own difficulties in pursuing Great Russianism. Since entering modern times, nationalism in various countries has been revived, and the desire to seek independence and nation-building is also very strong. To this end, they would not hesitate to launch wars or terrorist incidents to achieve their wishes. At that time, the Soviet Union had just been established not long ago, and foreign powers were eyeing it covetously, trying to strangle this new regime in the cradle.

There were also many ethnic separatists in the Soviet Union who demanded to establish a country and break away from the control of the Soviet Union. In this case, the best method Stalin could use was to rely on the majority of the main ethnic group, that is, the Russians, to suppress the separatism of the minority. If the country is governed completely according to local forces or with the interests of the minority as the top priority, the country will be a mess, without cohesion, and will fall apart in an instant when a crisis occurs.

Although there are other reasons, it is precisely because Stalin insisted on pursuing Great Russianism that the Soviet Union was able to maintain a high degree of unity across the country when it was attacked by Germany and jointly fight against the French.

But what came was not the victory of suppressing these reactionary forces, but the news of large-scale invasion of German aircraft and bombing of Georgia, Namenia, Azerbaijan and other places.

"What?! How dare they!" The Germans' sudden attack was completely beyond his expectations. According to the analysis of the Soviet high-level officials, even if the Germans wanted to take action, it would be in April or May next year. "Why didn't the Transcaucasian Military District report it in time?!" This kind of thing was actually learned from secret channels. The commander of the Transcaucasian Military District was simply dereliction of duty! ! Stalin's eyes were red with anger, and he roared with gritted teeth.

"I heard that the rebels have occupied the headquarters. Commander Lewandovsky and Comrade Political Commissar are probably in danger."

"!!" The military district headquarters was occupied by someone? The muscles on Stalin's face twitched violently. "Who are the rebels?"

"The 47th Infantry Division of the 3rd Army of the Transcaucasian Military District, the division commander is Lomonosov."

"Are you saying that the entire division has rebelled?! These damn bastards!" Stalin crushed the big pipe in his hand and trembled all over. "Levandovsky, this idiot, didn't he know that there was a division of rebels hiding in the military district? Damn it..." Halfway through his words, Stalin felt that he couldn't waste time on this idiot whose life and death was unknown. "Pass my order, hang the families of the 47th Infantry Division! No need to interrogate! Hang them all!" Stalin was originally full of disgust for his compatriots in his hometown. Now that he heard that the rebels were all Georgian soldiers, and there might be some Germans colluding with the rebellion, he was even more furious and wanted to strangle these bastards himself!

"Uh, Comrade Stalin, the 47th Infantry Division is a native of Georgia, and their families are also in Georgia." Unless they "recapture" Georgia, they can't hang those people. "And those rebels must have handed over the military deployments in Georgia, Namenia, and Azerbaijan to the Germans. The Germans' precise bombing has basically made these three republics lose their combat effectiveness."

"Send reinforcements immediately! Order the North Caucasus Military District..." Just as Stalin was about to order the North Caucasus Military District to send troops into Georgia to suppress the rebels, he paused.

The North Caucasus has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times. In history, the Persian Empire, the Arab Empire, the Mongol Empire and the Ottoman Empire have all fought here, with repression and resistance. From 1817 to 1864, after more than 40 years of war, Tsarist Russia finally conquered the North Caucasus, and Chechnya was incorporated into the Russian territory in 1859. The North Caucasus covers an area of ​​about 250,000 square kilometers and has a population of more than 10 million. It includes five autonomous republics: Chechnya, Ingushetia, Dagestan, North Ossetia and Kabardino-Balkaria, as well as the two border regions of Krasnodar and Stavropol. There are dozens of ethnic groups here, with stubborn and brave national characters and complex ethnic relations. There are also many religions here, with various sects such as Orthodox Christianity, Islam and Judaism intertwined. The brutal conquest of Tsarist Russia and the ethnic conflicts and religious disputes in the region have accumulated a variety of conflict factors in the North Caucasus, and its historical grudges are both numerous and deep.

After the victory of the October Revolution in 1917, the Soviet regime established many ethnic autonomous entities in the North Caucasus, including the "Chechen Autonomous Region". Since then, there have been many major changes in the North Caucasus. The agricultural collectivization from 1929 to 1935 caused strong protests here, and 268 violent activities occurred in Chechnya alone.

If the North Caucasus Military District is mobilized now, who knows what kind of chaos will happen.

"Order the North Caucasus Military District to enter the first level of combat readiness to prevent such incidents!! Also, has the German ground forces attacked?"

"Not yet, but they have dropped a lot of paratroopers into the Greater Caucasus Mountains."

"Paratroopers?" Stalin thought about it and guessed the German intentions.

They wanted to rely on the Greater Caucasus Mountains to block the Soviet reinforcements to Georgia!