American Strategic Deception Bureau

　- In today's world being swept by the anti-colonial wave, South Africa and Rhodesia (Zimbabwe) are the only two reactionary regimes that still adhere to the apartheid system and openly and institutionally promote racial discrimination, racial oppression and even genocide.

　To what extent was South Africa reactionary internationally at this time?

　Even the reactionary British Empire, which had finally become a little more humane after the war, could not stand it and kicked South Africa out of the Commonwealth in 1961.

　But it doesn’t matter. As long as South Africa has the protection of its like-minded American boss, it will not be afraid even if it falls out with Britain.

　Because of this evil policy that went against the times and went against the will of heaven, left-wing forces all over the world criticized South Africa and Rhodesia. The way black people viewed these two white colonial regimes was probably equivalent to how Arabs viewed Israel - their status as "public enemies of colored people" was unequivocal.

　However, thanks to the protection and support of the United States and the "low human rights advantage" of exploiting black labor, the white South African regime in the early Cold War not only managed to maintain a booming economy despite worldwide condemnation, but also had the ability to send troops abroad and expand its territory.

　Over the years, South Africa has sheltered the white regime in Rhodesia, made it a vassal state, annexed Namibia, and supported the Portuguese in suppressing the blacks in Mozambique and Angola. For a time, it killed blacks everywhere and showed off its power everywhere, just like the old Japanese Empire.

　Even though they only fought against some poorly organized and poorly armed black guerrillas, the South African authorities boasted about themselves as if they were possessed by the god of war.

　Since receiving nuclear weapons aided by the United States last year, the white South African regime, which considers itself "full of martial virtues", has become even more energized, as if it has a hammer in its hand and everything looks like a nail. It is eager to find a target to test the power of a nuclear explosion.

　However, the current South African President Jacobus Fouché, holding the US nuclear bomb, looked around at the various enemies he was facing. Whether it was the "Spear of the Nation" raised by Mandela in South Africa (Mandela himself was arrested and imprisoned), or the "Southwest African People's

　The "Organization" is just a guerrilla operation in the countryside. There is not even a decent city in the area under its control. It seems not worth bombing it with such expensive nuclear bombs.

　The black uprisings in Angola and Mozambique have become somewhat influential. But at present, Angola and Mozambique have not yet gained independence and are still colonies of Portugal. South Africa would not be embarrassed to use nuclear bombs to bomb other people's territory for no reason, right?

　Seeing that he had a nuclear bomb in his hand but couldn't throw it, South African President Jacobs Fouché was extremely anxious.

　By this summer, even a terrorist organization like the Irish Republican Army attacked London with a nuclear bomb, and South Africa could no longer bear it.

　——Just bomb the hut with a nuclear bomb. At least you can hear a noise. It’s better than letting it rust in a warehouse!

　On May 30, the South African Air Force used a tactical nuclear bomb with a TNT equivalent of 2000 tons to bombard a black "rebel" stronghold in the Namibian desert - actually a small village of about a hundred people. This marked the first nuclear war in the black Africa region south of the Sahara Desert.

　Although South African officials boasted about the nuclear explosion's success, many scoffed at it, believing that the key to winning a counter-guerrilla war lies in capturing the enemy, not relying on indiscriminate firepower. A British commentator, writing in The Times, sarcastically commented: "For black warriors clad in animal skins and armed with spears, what difference does an incendiary bomb dropped from an airplane make from an atomic bomb?"

　So far, those who have suffered in this uncontrolled nuclear proliferation are either backward and remote Third World countries or developed and semi-developed countries in the Western bloc, while the Soviet Union, the boss of the Eastern bloc, can watch the fire from the other side of the river and secretly rejoice.

　But then, it was the turn of the red countries in the Soviet and Eastern European bloc to begin to feel the pain brought by nuclear proliferation...

　Author's words: PS: Sinwal's suicide note has been published. I have to say that it really gives off a heroic vigor and boldness when read. He can be described as a lone brave man.

　Especially the line "starting from the first child who threw a stone at the occupier", which is really moving to hear.

　Compared to those flies who tirelessly smear him, saying that he is a terrorist and an anti-human leader, and who use children as human shields, I really don’t know what to say - given the brutality of the Israeli army, is there any use in using women and children as human shields?

　Chapter 476: A World Full of Mushroom Clouds

　June 1, 1970, three days after London Bridge was destroyed by a nuclear bomb, International Children's Day

　Although this day is a happy festival for children, adults still have so many things to worry about, and they are so troublesome.

　So, while children are having fun, eating ice cream and visiting amusement parks, the country's leaders are still worried about the current situation.

　In an office in the Kremlin, General Secretary Brezhnev put down the documents in his hand and looked at KGB Chairman Andropov and Soviet Defense Minister Andrei Antonovich Grechko in front of him. They looked at each other, and the atmosphere was silent and awkward for a while.

　After a while, Brezhnev finally spoke first. "In other words, the KGB has just uncovered a major case. A group of Crimean Tatar separatists smuggled a nuclear bomb into the country, intending to detonate Sevastopol, the home port of our Black Sea Fleet."

　He paused. "Furthermore, this nuclear bomb is a Soviet product? Aided to our Vietnamese comrades to bomb Americans?"

　At this point, even Brezhnev, known for his magnanimous nature, could not help but frown and demand in a stern voice, "Comrade Grechko! How many nuclear bombs have we given to our Vietnamese comrades and other countries in the past year?"

　Defense Minister Grechko was so frightened that his legs trembled. He quickly stood at attention and replied, "Reporting to the General Secretary, as of yesterday, we have provided a total of 2000 atomic bombs to the countries on the anti-US front in Southeast Asia, of which the Vietnamese comrades received about 1500. We have also provided about 800 atomic bombs to allies and friendly countries in other regions outside Southeast Asia. For the time being, there is no foreign aid or sale of hydrogen bombs..."

　"So, how many of the nuclear bombs we handed over to our Vietnamese comrades have been dropped on the Americans?" Brezhnev asked.

　"The statistics on this are quite confusing. The Vietnamese comrades said they used suicide squads and spies to launch suicide bombing attacks on the US military, but the success rate was not high. Therefore, many nuclear bombs were lost in combat, and it is very likely that they were captured by the Americans or fell into the hands of arms dealers."

　Grechko replied, "According to the Vietnamese comrades, they only have 39 nuclear bombs left. Considering that although the US military has withdrawn from Vietnamese territory, the war has not been completely over and the US military headquarters in Vietnam has not been withdrawn, the enemy may come back at any time.

　Therefore, the Vietnamese comrades hope to continue to retain these nuclear bombs so that they can have some means of restraining the US military when it launches another counterattack."

　"So what's the actual situation? Did the Vietnamese really use up almost all of their nuclear bombs in less than a year?"

　"According to the KGB investigation, the Vietnamese comrades launched only 300 to 400 nuclear attacks during the war."

　KGB Chairman Andropov replied, "So, when the US troops basically withdrew from Vietnam, they should have had at least 1000 atomic bombs left. But now they probably don't have many nuclear bombs left."

　As for how the thousand nuclear bombs disappeared from the hands of the Vietnamese, Andropov did not elaborate and Brezhnev did not ask any further questions.

　Because this matter is simply obvious.

　Post-war Vietnam was devastated and in need of reconstruction, filled with hungry refugees and ruins in desperate need of reconstruction. Vietnam's treasury was empty. Under these circumstances, selling its remaining nuclear weapons to raise funds became a decision the Vietnamese People's Party leadership had to make.

　After all, in their hands right now, apart from tens of thousands of American prisoners of war, the most valuable thing is these Soviet atomic bombs!

　Therefore, the reason why Vietnam was whining and making all kinds of excuses in response to the Soviet Union's questioning was probably because they had already sold off most of the remaining Soviet nuclear bombs, and perhaps some captured American nuclear bombs and biological weapons!

　Moreover, not only the Vietnamese, but also the Laotians and Cambodians who had also recovered their territory, and even the Thai Communist Party and the Malayan Communist Party who were still fighting the US military, may have also sold the Soviet nuclear bombs in their hands to middlemen for various purposes!

　Anyway, it is normal to lose weapons on the battlefield. Even if the Soviets wanted to check, they couldn't.

　"What about the Americans? How many nuclear bombs have they donated to other countries? And how many have been lost?" Brezhnev changed the subject.

　"The Pentagon has never released clear data on this issue. According to KGB investigations and statistics, the number of nuclear bombs donated by the US military to foreign countries should be no less than 600, and may be as high as 2000. It is also possible that the Americans also gave hydrogen bombs to South Africa and Israel."

　Andropov replied, "As for the loss of these nuclear bombs, it is difficult to estimate. As you know, the reactionary puppet regimes supported by US imperialism are generally quite corrupt... Some are very good at fraud, while others are too lazy to even do it.

　What's more, if the buyers were rebels from the Soviet Union and other Warsaw Pact countries, the CIA would probably give them nuclear bombs for free.

　Therefore, it is pointless to worry about where the anti-Soviet elements will get the nuclear bomb. Because as long as they have the idea, they can always get the nuclear bomb..."

　At this point, the three people in the office fell silent. This was because "anti-Soviet elements" in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe had always emerged one after another.

　While the United States today undoubtedly has countless enemies worldwide, viewed by hundreds of millions as the "Great Satan," the king of hell, was the Soviet Union equally despised and hated? The accumulated blood debts from the Tsarist era, coupled with the ruthless manipulation of the Stalin era, fueled internal divisions and rebellion within the country. While the Anglo-Saxon people have always been profoundly lacking in virtue, how much more righteous could the Russian people truly be?

　Leaving aside the distant Tsarist era, let’s just talk about what happened after the establishment of the Soviet Union. The Chechens in the Caucasus Mountains and the Tatars in the Crimean Peninsula were tortured to death under the "benevolent rule" of Stalin, the "Iron Father", and 30% to 50% of the entire nation’s population was tortured to death.

　The number of Finns remaining in the Soviet Union plummeted from 20 on the eve of World War II to 6 when the Soviet Union collapsed.

　The Caucasus remained relatively stable during the Soviet era simply because neighboring Turkey and Iran seemed more humane than the Soviet Union. In particular, if the Armenians dared to pursue independence, they would have to stretch their necks and line up to welcome the Turkish butcher knife!

　At the same time, the various ethnic groups in the Caucasus region had new and old hatreds and deep resentments, and they could not form a joint force to oppose the Soviet Union.

　Without foreign aid, the Chechens endured the forced relocation and massacres of the Soviet Union, much like Native Americans under American rule. It wasn't until the Soviet Union collapsed that Chechens rose up and launched a rebellion against Moscow.

　They were always very resistant to Soviet rule and wanted to merge with their fellow Romanians. Romanians also felt resentful about the Soviet Union annexing Moldova.

　The above are the rebel forces within the Soviet Union, and in the Eastern European countries east of the Iron Curtain, there are even more anti-Soviet people of all kinds.

　It wasn't just the right that was anti-Soviet; the left was equally anti-Soviet. From the Hungarian Incident to the Prague Spring, the Soviet Union's brutal interference and great-power chauvinism, coupled with the Kremlin's mindless imposition of a planned economy in Eastern Europe and its poor operational practices, combined with the Russians' easily discernible scheming behind the high-sounding rhetoric, had already completely undermined the righteousness of the red flag.

　If the distant Third World countries of Asia, Africa, and Latin America still harbor an unrealistic fondness for Moscow due to the notion of "distance creates beauty," then the Eastern European nations right next to the Soviet Union, manipulated by the Kremlin for years, have long since seen through the Russians.

　For example, although the Warsaw Pact, the anti-NATO organization, was founded in Warsaw, Poland's capital, Polish identification with both the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact is alarmingly low. Since the 1950s, Poland has been a persistent thorn in the side of the Soviet bloc, instigating anti-Soviet movements even earlier than Hungary.

　Moscow could only provide generous assistance while doing its utmost to suppress the rebellion, and only then could it barely make these troublesome Poles behave a little better.

　Even so, the so-called "pro-Soviet" Polish leaders were vacillating and harbouring their own enemies. They were always soft-hearted towards the anti-Soviet cultists of their own nation, eager to see them create some big news so that they could use it as an excuse to ask for aid from the Soviet Union.

　As for the Polish cultural circles saying some weird things and doing some anti-Soviet performance art, the Russians are too lazy to care about it because they can't control it.

　Romania's anti-Soviet sentiment was no less intense than Poland's, but it was relatively hidden. By the time Ceausescu came to power in 1965, Romania had basically escaped the control of the Kremlin.

　It's just that compared with Tito of Yugoslavia, Ceausescu was relatively low-key and did not openly oppose Moscow.

　——Just as the United States could not control France during the Cold War, the Soviet Union could not control Romania in the late Cold War.

　As for Hungary and Czechoslovakia, which were violently bombarded by Soviet tanks, there were only more hysterical anti-Soviet elements.

　Unlike the United States, which controlled Western European countries through various "soft" means, mainly through various behind-the-scenes deals, bribery, and cultural influence, the Soviet Union's control over Eastern European countries was "rigid." As long as the Kremlin gave an order, no matter how absurd, Eastern European countries had to obey.

　Just like Stalin forcibly replicated the Soviet model in Eastern European countries, regardless of whether it would not adapt to the local conditions or whether it would eventually turn into a disaster.

　However, the force is mutual. The Soviet Union was so domineering and patriarchal towards Eastern European countries, and the accumulated public hatred after causing all kinds of chaos and bringing great suffering naturally skipped its own leadership and directed directly at Moscow and the Kremlin.

　Coupled with the rigid bureaucratic system, which only knows how to gag people and manipulate public opinion through fabrication, everyone in the society feels uncomfortable and as if their life is like being in prison.

　Even the most enthusiastic revolutionary youth could not help but wonder: Will liberating the people who have suffered under capitalism from the clutches of the greedy capitalists and handing them over to a bunch of officials who lie all day and do nothing really make the world a better place?

　——By the 1970s, the Soviet government actually no longer had much revolutionary enthusiasm and was completely a red bureaucratic organization.

　Brezhnev himself had lost faith in the red ideology. He just wanted to be a paperhanger and keep the country going in a perfunctory manner.

　But being a paperhanger is not an easy job. He has to find ways to bridge and fill the historical debts of the Soviet Union.

　What's even more unfortunate is that the debt owed by Stalin and Khrushchev was a bit too much.

　Brezhnev could already imagine that today the Crimean Tatars might attempt to nuke the Black Sea Fleet's home port, and tomorrow the Estonian "Forest Brothers" would attempt to nuke Leningrad. And anti-Soviet elements in Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic would similarly attempt suicide nukes against Soviet troops nearby, using atomic bombs they'd obtained from who knows where... Oh, how terrifying!

　Now it seems that providing nuclear bombs to our little brother Vietnam last year might have been a mistake?

　In fact, the United States should have allowed Vietnam's communist regime to be destroyed and the war to spread to the Chinese border...

　Uh, no, the US military would not completely destroy North Vietnam, but would leave it as a buffer zone between China and North Vietnam.

　So, isn't this better? Without nuclear weapons, the Vietnamese no longer dare to dream of unification, and Asia can calm down...

　Unfortunately, now it’s too late even if I want to regret!

　Brezhnev, who was already exhausted at this time, rubbed his sleepy head with his hand, thought for a while, and said in a deep voice.

　"The large-scale proliferation of atomic bombs has indeed posed a great threat to world peace and stability!

　This threat exists not only on the other side of the Iron Curtain, but also on our side, where the insurgents could launch a nuclear attack on us..."

　His words suddenly changed, "If, I mean if

　If, for the sake of world peace, we try to achieve detente with the United States, or even cooperate with it, and re-establish the principle of non-proliferation of nuclear weapons, would that alleviate the dire situation of the current proliferation of atomic bombs?

　After hearing the General Secretary's somewhat "naive" and silly words, KGB Chairman Andropov and Defense Minister Grechko were stunned and exchanged glances with each other. The same word seemed to be written in each other's eyes.

　That is: it is impossible to recover what has been done!

　Chapter 478: The End of Jerusalem (Part 2)

　Although Brezhnev, who was in a bad mental state, seemed to have asked a stupid question, Andropov still had to answer it seriously.

　"Comrade General Secretary, even if we can achieve détente with the United States and cooperate with each other, I'm afraid we won't be able to curb the proliferation of nuclear weapons.

　Because a nuclear arms race affecting almost all countries in the world has now begun!

　Neither we nor the United States can force all the countries that have acquired nuclear weapons to surrender them."

　Andropov replied, "Besides, the countries that can produce nuclear bombs are not limited to us and the United States..."

　Oh, by the way, the nuclear-armed countries in the world today include Britain, France and China!

　Brezhnev rubbed his sore eyes again, and felt that something seemed to come into his confused mind.

　Well, the UK has handed over all their nuclear weapons to the United States for control, so they can't sell them even if they want to.

　But France and China will not give the United States and the Soviet Union such a big face and give up such a profitable nuclear arms business in vain - according to the news received from Egypt, the atomic bomb that the Egyptian Air Force used to detonate the Israeli capital Tel Aviv was a real Chinese product!

　As to whether the Chinese have sold nuclear bombs to other places, the KGB has no definite information yet, but even if they have not sold them now, they will sell them in the future.

　Similarly, how could the Gallic roosters in Paris sit still when they saw China, the USSR, and the USSR happily selling and giving away nuclear weapons around the world? They might even be secretly selling atomic bombs!

　Finally, those countries that have obtained nuclear bombs from the United States and the Soviet Union will probably act as middlemen and resell the nuclear bombs to other forces.

　The ultimate outcome would inevitably be the secession of nations and warlords around the world. Even large gangs would frantically collect atomic bombs as treasures – if their neighbors and enemies had nuclear bombs, but they didn't, how would they survive?

　A nuclear arms race is bound to break out throughout the world.

　Driven by the broken window effect, any country that can produce nuclear weapons will find it difficult to resist the temptation to exchange nuclear bombs for massive amounts of cash.

　——The Soviet Union was already very short of foreign exchange, and China must be even more short of foreign exchange. Who wouldn’t want to exchange nuclear bombs for huge amounts of cash?

　Even if I don't sell it, the US and the Soviet Union have already sold it. If I don't make money from it, wouldn't I be an idiot?

　Then, since so many forces have obtained nuclear bombs, naturally someone will want to use them, and so... "BOOM"!!!

　First, the big countries competed for hegemony, then the small countries fought each other, and then there were terrorist attacks. Will nuclear bombs be used in gang fights in the future?

　After being shrouded in smoke, will the earth be enveloped by nuclear radiation?

　Alas, looking back to seven or eight years ago, not too long ago, the United States only lost several nuclear fuel rods of a nuclear reactor in Vietnam, which was still far from a real nuclear bomb, but it attracted global attention, spies from all sides were involved, and the two major camps joined forces to exert pressure.

　But now, not only various third-rate small countries, but even terrorist organizations have nuclear weapons.

　The old world where small countries fought each other and big countries enjoyed peace is gone forever.

　Everyone must welcome a new world full of mushroom clouds with a nervous and helpless mood!

　Thinking of this, Brezhnev couldn't help but have another headache.

　Yesterday he was still enthusiastically discussing with his comrades in the Politburo whether they could take advantage of Franco's sudden death to launch a second Spanish Civil War, form a new International Brigade, and in the process rekindle the revolutionary passion of the left-wing parties in Western Europe, which had recently become increasingly dim.

　How come today even the security of the Soviet homeland seems unguaranteed?

　Although Franco saved Spain from World War II 30 years ago by relying on his fence-sitting tactics, this did not win him the support of the people, enhance the legitimacy of his regime, or gain recognition of his dictatorship from other European countries.