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Not only did Tang Hua burst out laughing when he saw Batumi's new ban, but in Moscow, Astafyev, a member of the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the Soviet Union, was also in a daze at the text of Batumi's new ban.

"Have we ... imported computers from the United States?" Astafyev asked the secretary.

"Of course not. Neither digital nor analog," replied the secretary.

"It seems that I remember correctly. From last year to now, we have only imported electronic computers from China."

"There have been more than [-] units so far. Under the unanimous request of all ministers, we count the import demand every month."

Astafyev poked his finger at the Batumi ban, "So the US also bans their computers from being exported to China?"

"According to the request of Chinese comrades and the order signed by Minister Malenkov, the matter of computer trade between the Soviet Union and China is not disclosed to the public, and the performance of Chinese computers is top secret."

"Stupid American," Astafyev concluded his assessment of the news with one sentence.

As a member of the Ministry of Foreign Trade of the Soviet Union and responsible for the import and export of mechanical and electrical products, Astafyev is of course familiar with the performance of the T50 computer and similar products in Britain and the United States.In fact, from 1948 to 1949, Astafyev also cooperated with a certain department of the KGB to try to get the technical information of the US military computer.In the end it didn't work out.

In the summer of 1950, a high-performance computer system suddenly appeared from China, an ally of the Soviet Union and also a socialist country. This news was first known to the weapons research institute in the Soviet Union. Bao came to the door and asked the Ministry of Foreign Trade to approve their import needs immediately.Astafiev then got the performance manual of the T50 computer.

When he got the manual, Astafiev couldn't believe it, so on a Monday afternoon, he was dragged by the Minister of Aviation Industry to the Soviet Children's Palace in Moscow, where the Minister of Aviation Industry gave him a demonstration After seeing the computing performance of the T50 once, Astafyev had no choice but to believe it.

But until now, no American has personally touched the T50 and T51 computers, so it is not surprising that Batumi made a wrong judgment.

This is more arrogance than American stupidity when it comes to computer intelligence.I don’t believe that Soviet and Eastern countries can catch up with or even surpass the United States in cutting-edge technology. If there is a technological breakthrough in the Soviet Union, the first reaction of the United States will be “The KGB stole our technology again!”

The United States is even less willing to believe that this is a breakthrough led by people of the yellow race.

Many years later, the United States inspected the mainland China intelligence they obtained through Taiwan, and accidentally discovered two pieces of information that were neglected by the US intelligence personnel at the time due to various reasons.

The first article is one of the irregular intelligence sent back from Beijing by the military command using a secret radio station.

In this piece of information, the military reunification agents collected information obtained from sources such as the CPPCC, intellectual circles, street rumors, newspaper front pages, etc., and summarized a hodgepodge-style report on the current situation of China's education sector.One of the passages reads:

"The merger between Yenching University and Peking University is in progress... Tsinghua University has made adjustments to several departments and departments. Compared with the previous year, it has recruited more than [-] students. The number of science subjects has increased, and the funding for education has also increased. Get a computer."

After receiving the information sent by the military special agents, Taipei translated and shared it with the United States as usual.However, when translating, the coordinator of the CIA in Taipei swiped a pen and translated the computer into calculator (calculator) instead of computer.After the information was passed to Washington, senior CIA officials did not have any doubts about the combination of the words "calculator" and "huge sum of money", and believed that Tsinghua University had bought an electromechanical calculator.As for spending huge sums of money?Probably the price of one or two thousand dollars for an electromechanical calculator is a huge sum of money for a Chinese university.

The second piece of information came from Shanghai. The investigation area in charge of a Kuomintang agent lurking in Shanghai happened to include the Shanghai Institute of Computer Science.Of course, the internal name is Computer Institute, but what is actually open to the outside world is a series of numerical codes written on the gate sign.The secret agents can't even enter the computer office guarded by the People's Liberation Army, so they can only hang around outside, guessing what kind of organization it is.He was hungry, and when eating at the fly restaurant on the street, he heard the name "Computer Institute" many times from the diners at the next table.The spy guessed that the people at this table should work in that mysterious building. Although other information was unknown, when he returned home at night, he added a sentence to the secret telegram he sent to Taipei:

"The unknown building with an unknown house number on Chunjiang Road, Hongkou District should be 'Shanghai Computing Institute'."

Five days after the hard-working Kuomintang agent sent out the information, his secret radio station received a call back from Taipei, giving him a scolding.

"You have been trained by the party-state for many years. Why did you mistakenly abbreviate the calculation and accounting office as the calculation and accounting office? Although this is a small mistake, it also affects the accuracy of intelligence analysis. It should not be repeated in the future."

Chapter 129, How did the fourth battle end like this

Before boarding the train to return home from Moscow, the last important news Tang Hua saw was not good news.

Paul Robertson was arrested on charges of subversive tendencies, and his record containing anti-war songs was listed as a prohibited publication.

In the first half of the 20th century, the top 5 mid/bass singers, black singers, close friends of Nie Er and Tian Han, are obviously also old friends of the Chinese people. As soon as this record was released, McCarthy checked the past records and found that it was probably a Communist spy. , grab it first and then talk.

Calculated, it will take nearly 4 years for McCarthy to be impeached by the Senate, and it will take more than 6 years for McCarthyism to disappear.

Robertson was released on bail and it is not yet known when he will appear in court.Before this incident happened, Robertson was prohibited from leaving the United States, and now he is not allowed to leave the United States on bail, which is about the same.

The domestic anti-war movement in the United States, which broke out due to North Korea's disastrous defeat, triggered police crackdowns in 19 cities. This is very unusual in a state where McCarthyism is prevalent and political pressure across the United States is high.The defeat of the second battle in history was not such a big shock.

The antiwar movement also allowed both McCarthyist and anti-McCarthyist factions to ramp up their firepower, attacking the other with louder voices.This has created greater uncertainty about the future direction of US domestic affairs, but one thing is certain among these uncertainties: increasing firepower to bombard political opponents indiscriminately usually means that the showdown will come to light sooner.

The anti-war record was banned from resale... Never mind, hundreds of thousands of copies have been sold before.Moreover, tape recorders/players should be on the market soon. Compared with records, the biggest difference is that tapes can be copied (if you are not afraid of copyright lawsuits).

In short, the only hope now is: I hope people are okay. ...everything else goes its own way.

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"We believe this is the 'psychological time' to end the Korean War."

At the press conference, the Buckingham Palace spokesperson answered the first sentence of the AFP reporter, which caused a commotion in the audience.

"Britain advocates that the United Nations forces stop advancing after reaching the [-]th parallel in order to seek to resolve the North Korean issue through negotiations with China and North Korea, and even make some concessions to China and North Korea when necessary."

"Mr. Speaker, there is nothing to suggest that the United States will stop its advance in North Korea. How will the United Kingdom decide its position if the United Nations forces cross the [-]th Parallel again?"

The AFP reporter then asked another question.

"If we cross the [-]th parallel again, it will only lead to protracted and even expanded wars. This is not in the fundamental interests of the United States and the United Kingdom."

Six hours before the start of the press conference, British Prime Minister Attlee held a secret meeting with Foreign Secretary Morrison and Defense Secretary Simwell.

Now under the command of Li Qiwei, the United Nations Army slowly resumed its offensive and pushed northward again.But Simwell was very worried that the United States would cross the 9th parallel again.In his view, the US military has crossed the [-]th parallel for the second time after September last year, and the political negative effect is greater than the military significance.

Morrison's opinion was similar.He believes that the Chinese army's participation in the war has fundamentally changed the situation on the Korean battlefield. With the current size of the United Nations army, it is impossible to fight to the Yalu River and occupy the whole of North Korea.And even if the troops involved in the war were increased on a large scale and reached the Yalu River, because China and the Soviet Union were in an alliance, once the Chinese border was affected by the war, the Soviet Union would definitely send troops to join the war, which might trigger World War III.

What Attlee cares about is not whether the United States is deflated in North Korea, but what he cares more about is Europe.If the United States gets bigger and bigger in North Korea, it will have no time to take care of Europe, which may plunge Europe into a greater crisis.

Of course, it is also not in Britain's interest for the United States to immediately and cleanly disengage from North Korea.If the United States has no burden in the Far East, then the United States' military power can carry Europe's defense and at the same time have spare power to make troubles around the world, then maybe one of the ancestral colonies of the United Kingdom will be robbed by the United States again.

So Attlee shouted to the United States, suggesting that the United Nations army stop at the [-]th parallel.In this way, the United States can leave just the right amount of troops in North Korea, which not only leaves enough mobile forces for the US military in Europe, but also prevents the United States from being too strong around the world.

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When the United Kingdom publicly opposed the United States crossing the 1951th parallel, in March 3, high-level Americans debated the matter.

In fact, the United States itself also understands that a world war cannot be triggered by the infinite expansion of the Korean War.The current U.S. military is no longer what it was in 1945. At that time, the U.S. Army had 89 divisions. Now there are only 23 divisions, 13 of which were reorganized after the outbreak of the Korean War.

Once the Third World War breaks out, to stop the torrent of steel from the Soviet Union in Europe, the United States will need to deploy at least 60 divisions to Europe. This will require an expansion of troops, which was simply impossible in 1951.Moreover, in North Korea now, although Li Qiwei has resumed his offensive, every step forward is very difficult. At the current speed, it will take several years to advance to the border between China and North Korea.

Truman felt that sooner or later the two sides in the Korean War would have to negotiate a peace on the spot. He instructed Secretary of State Acheson to revise the official document issued by Congress at the end of September last year and abandon the combat goal of occupying all of Korea.

But Truman's frontier officials and frontline generals each had their own ideas.

It was Li Qiwei who first expressed his opinion.Li Qiwei sent a report to Washington expressing his opinion: the [-]th parallel is a line drawn at random, and it is neither a natural geographical boundary such as mountains nor rivers.Not only that, the military terrain around the [-]th parallel in the western section of the Korean Peninsula is extremely poor, and it can neither attack nor defend.Li Qiwei drew a line a little north of the [-]th parallel and named it the "Kansas Line". Whether the force is attacking again, it can be based on the Kansas line.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff also came out to argue with Truman, arguing that the United Nations Army should not be restricted by the [-]th Parallel or the Kansas Parallel, and that it should be decided by the frontline commanders on the fly.

MacArthur was still in the state of secondary illness. Encouraged by the group of barbarians in the Joint Chiefs of Staff, MacArthur sent a telegram to Li Qiwei on March 3: "My current plan is to continue the current combat method and fight to the 22th parallel. Push north until your logistics can't support that much delivery distance."

Two days later, on March 3, MacArthur simply flew from Tokyo to North Korea for inspection, and then issued a statement: "We have thoroughly discussed the status of the 24th Parallel before, and there is no need to make further comments now. We China's air and naval forces can fly over it at will, and ground forces on both sides have done so in the past."

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"The socialist military system adopts the three-level management of the National Defense Committee-Ministry of Defense-General Staff, which has been tested in previous wars in the Soviet Union. In terms of combat command, the General Staff is the command department that manages operations, not the head The consulting department, let alone the daily affairs management department.”

The delegation of the General Staff of the Soviet Army led by Sergey Matveyevich Shtemenko finished its work in North Korea, visited Beijing and visited the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army.

At this time, Shtemenko was the chief of staff of the Soviet Red Army. In June 1950, the Korean People's Army fought against the 6th parallel.But the People's Army went awry when it started, and didn't go according to Shtemenko's plan, and finally lost in a mess, which made Shtemenko embarrassed. At the end of 1950, the Volunteers turned the tide of the war in North Korea and defeated the 8th Army. The 2nd U.S. Army Division, starting with the division commander, surrendered their weapons. Such victories naturally attracted the attention of the Soviet Union.The Volunteer Army was even more powerful than the German Army during World War II. The German Army never wiped out a complete American division in the entire World War II. It almost did it in the Ardennes Forest, but in the end it failed. Instead, the American Army counterattacked and lost money. .