Soviet Union 1991

Second update

"For the fall of Berlin, the German high-level officials, especially myself, have an unshirkable responsibility. I declare that from today on, the Federal Armed Forces will concentrate all their forces to take Berlin. We will not accept any peace talks if Berlin is not taken. This is the answer of the Federal Republic of Germany! There is only one Federal Republic of Germany in Germany, and it will never create a second divided country."

The passionate Kohl on TV cleverly avoided the issue of the fall of Berlin, but focused everyone's attention on retaking Berlin. He hoped to use the pressure of the people to put pressure on East Germany in many aspects. Taking back Berlin is a battle that he must win.

His expression under the spotlight was firm, and he bet all of Germany's assets on the Battle of Berlin. Desperate Berlin, this was Kohl's answer to the Democratic Renaissance Party of East Germany.

The German Democratic Republican Army has occupied the entire Berlin, and the surrendered Federal Armed Forces are being escorted to the prisoner-of-war camps in the rear one row after another. This time, the Federal Armed Forces lost completely because they underestimated the enemy. They thought that the German Democratic Republic Army was just a mob, and they thought that they could wipe out East Germany with West Germany's advanced weapons and armaments. But they were all wrong.

When the surrendered General Henry saw the endless stream of tanks, he realized that all this was a trap. There were serious errors in the intelligence of the Federal Armed Forces, and they didn't even realize that the other side had such strong strength.

"The top leaders of the National Defense Army are really a bunch of idiots. No wonder we lost so badly. It's not that we didn't fight the bandits well, but that the top leaders were really incompetent."

Henry even laughed and cried. He now figured out that the failure of the Federal Armed Forces did not depend on weapons or numbers. The real root cause was a group of useless people. Otherwise, how could reconnaissance satellites, high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft, and various information reconnaissance methods fail to find the artillery positions hidden behind the Selo Heights. Even intelligence operations were full of mistakes.

The loose armaments and incompetent army led to such an embarrassing ending. It is no wonder that the combat effectiveness of the Federal Armed Forces has shrunk significantly in recent years. After the upheaval in Eastern Europe, Germany was cutting its armaments frantically. In addition, the pampered environment for many years even made these people forget that there was a red empire in Eastern Europe that had always been thinking about revenge and accumulating strength in secret.

He looked at the current German Democratic Republic Army, which had strict military discipline and was well-organized. Compared with the group of good-for-nothings in the Federal Armed Forces, it was a world of difference. Only the German troops during World War II could maintain such a high fighting spirit.

The East German army, which truly inherited the orthodoxy of Germany and Prussia, was true.

Henry sighed, but his loss was not unfair. Whoever commanded such a steel army could also achieve the momentum of crushing withered and rotten.

The door behind him suddenly opened, and Henry quickly retracted his sight from the window. He turned his head and saw that the person standing in front of him was Colonel Jonishkis, the leader of the German Democratic Renaissance Party.

"Why is he here?" Henry muttered in his heart, looking at the tall man in front of him, without speaking.

Jonishkis waved his hand and asked the guards behind him to go out. He planned to talk to the defeated general alone. The guard nodded and left the room very tactfully.

In the small room, apart from the buzzing noise of the constantly rotating electric fan, the only sound left was the silent breathing of Henry and Jonishkis.

"Chancellor Kohl seems not to plan to negotiate with us." Jonishkis was the first to break the silence. He said to himself, "He just announced on Bonn TV that he would capture Berlin at all costs. It seems that all of you prisoners of war have been abandoned by the country."

Jonishkis raised his head and said, "General Henry, do you remember the colonel you met in Berlin in 1989? At that time, representatives of the East German Democratic Army tried to negotiate with the Federal Armed Forces. When the army was disbanded, they hoped to retain some East German soldiers and join the Federal Armed Forces. Do you remember?"

Henry nodded. He was also at the scene of the negotiation, but he didn't know what Jonishkis wanted to express.

"It's good that you remember it." Jonishkis said with a smile, "I remember that at the negotiation table, you were the one who reacted the most strongly. At that time, you strongly opposed the East German People's Army joining the Federal Armed Forces. Even if there was only one soldier joining, you said that we were just a group of damn accomplices of the dictatorship and did not deserve sympathy at all. All senior generals should even be thrown into prison for treason and endangering national security, right?"

"A defeated general has no right to bargain. These are your original words at the time."

Jonishkis took out a box of cigarettes from his arms, took out one and lit it, staring at the other party with puffs of smoke. Waiting for his reply.

Henry widened his eyes, and he vaguely remembered something. Taking a deep breath, he asked tentatively, "Are you from that time..."

Jonishkis nodded and said coldly, "Yes, I was the representative who argued at that time. I vowed to preserve the last bit of dignity for the East German People's Army. I remember saying at that time that the East German People's Army did not surrender, we were not defeated, so how could we admit defeat. The East German People's Army can put down their guns and ideals because of reality, but our dignity and our beliefs will never be erased."

Colonel Jonishkis opened his hands and said word by word, "I still remember your contemptuous eyes and disdainful actions at that time. So please watch carefully, this is the return of the Iron-Blooded Prussian Division. We are back and once again set foot on this humiliated land as a people's army."

Jonishkis' eyes became sinister.

"Use your land and your blood to pay for our humiliation."

Henry did not speak. Now he was the defeated general who had no right to bargain.

No one would have thought that eight years later, the East German army would return to Berlin in such a posture, and the Federal Armed Forces that thought they had won the final victory in 1989 appeared here as an embarrassing loser today. Fate played a big joke on the two people in this small house.

"East Germany no longer exists, but our fight will never end. Please remember this, General Henry."

Looking at the defeated general with a livid face in front of him, Colonel Jonishkis said proudly, "Prussia will never perish, and we will return to Germany."

Prussia will never perish, like a spell lingering in Henry's heart, lingering. When the other party was about to leave the room, he turned his head and said to Jonishkis, "Do you think that East Germany's occupation of Berlin is the final victory? Don't be ridiculous, at best it just has an advantage in the early stage. Don't forget, the Federal Armed Forces has not been defeated. You think we only have so many troops, and we can recruit more soldiers at any time through expansion. But East Germany is different. The number of soldiers has always been the reason for your development. Otherwise, you would not let the Soviet Union intervene in the dispute in Germany, right?"

"What if it is, what if it is not?" Jonishkis really didn't want to listen to his nonsense.

"Humph, you want to stop the attack of the Federal Armed Forces with only the Soviet troops deployed in Germany? That's too naive. Even if we don't expand, the reinforcements in the later period alone can kill your two armored divisions that are not fully staffed in Berlin. Do you understand what I mean? Colonel Jonishkis."

"Oh? It sounds arrogant." Jonishkis said disdainfully, pointing his finger out the window and said to Henry, "You should look out the window, that's our bargaining chip."

Henry raised his head and looked out the window in the direction Jonishkis pointed. The moment he looked out the window, his pupils shrank instantly.

He saw countless parachutes flying over Berlin, and the figures of transport planes shuttling over Berlin were like a heavy hammer hitting his chest. He was pale and speechless.

"The Soviet 76th Airborne Division is responsible for the Berlin peacekeeping operation. From now on, your opponent is no longer the German Democratic Republic Army, but a joint army composed of the Democratic Republic Army and the Soviet Airborne Forces."

"So Kohl announced that the Federal Republic of Germany wants to take back Berlin? It must first pass the Red Empire."

Jonishkis added one last sentence before leaving, leaving General Henry completely speechless.

"Or do you want to try again the shame of the fall of the German Third Reich in 1945?" (To be continued.)8