Chapter 960: Decisive Battle (26)

The news of the riots in Indiana quickly reached Washington.

"Mr. Vice President, former President Willkie was killed!"

Vice President Truman was shocked. "What happened?!"

It is well known that the US president is a "high-risk" profession. Nine US presidents have been assassinated. They are Andrew Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, James Abram Garfield, William McKinley, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Harry Truman, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Gerald Rudolph Ford, Ronald Wilson Reagan; some of them died, and some survived.

However, there is no president who was killed after leaving office.

Because the US president is ostensibly an "advocate" of interests elected by the people, but in essence he still serves the big financial groups and elites behind the president. Citizens' right to vote is only a superficial manifestation of the democratic system, while the president is the "helmsman" of capitalism.

Therefore, this also leads to some policies after the president takes office that cannot be "benefited by everyone", which will cause contradictions and conflicts, and breed marches, protests and even assassinations. This is also the most direct manifestation of "contradiction immediacy": if your current policy does not meet my interests, I will find a way to prevent the implementation of this policy.

But when the president steps down, this "contradiction immediacy" will disappear. Because the president no longer has the power to govern, the contradiction will naturally shift to the next president. Assassinating the president who has stepped down has no political significance and cannot affect the policies of the current government. So even if the president makes his opponent miserable when he is in office, once the president steps down, it means everything is over. It is not worthwhile to assassinate at this time.

But this "tradition" was broken? !

"Where is the murderer? Has he been caught?!"

"I heard that thousands of people rushed to the residence of former President Wilkie..." The secretary hesitated and continued. "They also set fire to the house of former President Wilkie. When the local fire department arrived, only ashes were left."

"Thousands of people?" Vice President Truman was stunned for a moment, and then reacted. "Are they the families of the expeditionary soldiers?!"

"Yes."

"..." Vice President Truman sighed with melancholy.

How should this matter be handled?

Punish the murderer severely?

But this matter is equivalent to former President Wilkie indirectly killing those expeditionary soldiers. If the government wants to severely punish the murderer who killed former President Wilkie, it may cause greater public outrage; but now it is a society ruled by law. We can't just watch someone being killed and do nothing, right? What's more, it was the former president!

Vice President Truman patted his head with a headache, and suddenly thought of the former former president, Roosevelt. "Quick, send someone to protect former President Roosevelt!" Although President Roosevelt did not cooperate with the Soviet Union, the war against Germany was launched by President Roosevelt. Who knows if these people will also vent their anger on Roosevelt? !

At this time, another secretary hurried in to report. "Mr. Vice President, large-scale demonstrations broke out in various cities."

"These damn Germans!" Vice President Truman couldn't help cursing. If the Germans continued to bomb, these people could only hide in the countryside or underground fortifications. But these hateful Germans announced that they would stop bombing for half a month. Isn't it obvious that they want to make the American people riot?

It's really an internal and external trouble.

In the Berlin Palace across the Atlantic Ocean, Yannick held a small meeting.

"Minister Ribbentrop, have you contacted Siberia?"

Ribbentrop said respectfully. "It has been contacted. They are preparing to establish the Siberian Republic."

"Siberian Republic?" Yannick snorted disdainfully. "These guys haven't given up yet?" As early as 1918, during the Soviet-Russian Civil War, the old forces of Tsarist Russia announced the establishment of the Siberian Republic and claimed to have 13 million territories. The territory extends from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean.

At that time, there were many anti-Soviet regimes, and there were dozens of large and small ones in Russia. The Siberian Republic was just one of them. What's even funnier is that the Siberian Republic has no army, no policy plan, and no policy program. It was just a makeshift team set up temporarily to oppose Lenin's Soviets. The area of ​​jurisdiction they claimed was just empty talk. Not long after, the Siberian Republic perished after only four months due to a coup by internal generals and their submission to the Soviets.

But Yannik didn't bother to care what their country was called. "Give them 300,000 square kilometers. If they think it's too little, I don't mind continuing to march eastward."

Although Siberia's climate is somewhat extreme, the resources it contains are close to 2/3 of Russia's total resources. For example, the timber reserves account for 75% of Russia's total timber reserves, and the fresh water resources of Lake Baikal account for 70% of Russia's total fresh water resources. Moreover, the entire Siberian region is also a region with huge oil reserves, accounting for 50% of Russia's oil reserves and 80% of its natural gas reserves. It can be said that Siberia is a region rich in resources.

Yannik will naturally not leave such a good place to others. "They didn't contribute much, so they should be thankful to get 300,000 square kilometers." Chuikov in the Far East at least handed over all the military supplies supported by the Americans, and Siberia only cut off Moscow's support supplies and retreat.

"Yes."

Yannick looked at Marshal Rundstedt. "Marshal, what's going on in Moscow? Have all the underground passages been destroyed?"

"Your Highness, all the passages that can be found have been destroyed."

"That means these guys are basically trapped to death?" Why dig such a deep subway? If they want to dig a passage to escape, they can't dig it, right?

Yannick sighed with some melancholy. "It's really a tiger's head but a snake's tail." Millions of European troops were assembled to surround Moscow and fight it, but these guys all hid underground. Of course, if they didn't hide in the ground, facing the bombardment of nearly 200,000 artillery pieces, there would be nothing left.

This feeling is like a punch on cotton. Although he could also let the soldiers rush into the underground fortifications to fight the Soviet army, it would be meaningless except for adding casualties in vain.

Marshal Rundstedt was very happy. After all, they took Moscow without bloodshed, which was a feat that Napoleon couldn't do back then. But compared to the great achievements made by His Highness, Napoleon seemed insignificant, and Napoleon retreated from Tsarist Russia in disgrace, losing many troops along the way.

After discussing some other things, the meeting ended.

(Maybe a chapter will be updated later)