Republic of Korea in Yeokcheon - Chapter 220



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#Episode 220 There are not enough men

At a time when North and South China, including the Republic of China and the People’s Republic of China, as well as the Republic of Korea, were working hard to erase the scars of war and develop, the Soviet Union was not sitting idle.

In 1949, the Republic of Korea was invaded without warning, and all territory east of the Ural Mountains was lost, and all federal member countries except Ukraine and Belarus also became independent.

The remaining territory now consists of mainland Russia west of the Ural Mountains, Ukraine, and Belarus.

However, even after losing over 10 million square kilometers of territory to the Republic of Korea, the Soviet Union was vast.

Moreover, because the population was mostly located west of the Ural Mountains, even though so many people were lost in the war, there was still a population of close to 90 million left, and now that it has been 5 years since the end of the war with the Republic of Korea, the number has exceeded 90 million and it will not be long before again. It seemed clear that 100 million would be recovered.

In addition, underground resources such as the Volga oil field were abundant, so it was only a matter of time before the Soviet Union could be rebuilt if a proper government was established.

And the reconstruction of the ‘Great Mother Rossiya’ was faithfully implemented by Nikita Khrushchev.

After purging Lavrenty Beria, who was synonymous with fear, and with the support of Malenkov and Zhukov, Khrushchev began by breaking with the past.

It was a campaign to downgrade Stalin, which involved arresting people, sending them to the gulag, and even killing them.

This was not only a break with the past, but it was also absolutely necessary to take responsibility for the crushing defeat in the war with the Republic of Korea.

This was especially true because Stalin had been deified.

The opening ceremony began at the National Convention of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

Under the title ‘On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences’.

“Did Marx do that? “Is the cult of personality justified?”

“… … .”

“Or, our great leader! Did Comrade Lenin have a cult of personality? no! Comrade Lenin even opposed and guarded against many attempts to idolize him! then! Was Stalin right to make himself an idol and worship him! Comrades! “Tell me!”

“… … .”

“omg! I, I… … .”

No one could answer.

No, no matter how much Stalin took responsibility for the defeat in the war and disappeared into the afterlife, Stalin reigned as a symbol of fear for decades and was almost a god.

The shock was great because I had no idea that Khrushchev would criticize Stalin head-on by mentioning Marx and Lenin.

Either way, Khrushchev’s criticism of Stalin continued.

“Is that all? Why were we pushed back so early in the Great Patriotic War? Isn’t this all because Stalin killed or sent all the talented people in our military to concentration camps through a great purge? Do you understand? We did not defeat Germany because of Stalin, we won in spite of Stalin!”

“… … .”

“And then he drove our young people into a pointless war! how! Why did he have to suffer an unprecedented humiliation in our history by messing with the Republic of Korea, and how much of our territory he had to lose! At a time when the male population was already depleted due to the Great Patriotic War, millions of men had to be lost again in the war with the Republic of Korea! Get out on the road, comrades! “Looking at young men has become harder than finding stars in the sky!”

“you’re right!”

“That’s right! Stalin was a worldly villain and an unforgivable dictator! Comrades! Would you like to go back to those days? Is that really the case?”

“… … .”

“… … .”

The last words were a threat.

We might go back to those scary Stalin days.

Unless you cooperate with yourself.

And there wasn’t a single person who wanted to go back to those days.

It was a time when I couldn’t even breathe.

They were taken away in the middle of the night for no reason and executed or tortured before being placed in a gulag.

Because the guilt-by-association system was applied, not only he, but his entire family had to fear that something like that might happen at any time.

I could never go back to those cursed times again.

“Oh, no!”

“You can’t do that again!”

“Stalin was a bastard and a human butcher!”

“Stalin! Bulat!”

Finally, Khrushchev’s expected response came.

Now his world has opened up.

The downgrading of Stalin and the reform of the Soviet political system that began in this way were truly unstoppable.

Most of the political prisoners imprisoned in the gulag were released, and many victims of the Great Purge were reinstated and their honor restored.

As was the case throughout history, the Soviet Union’s reign of terror began to fade after Khrushchev came to power.

In the past, political prisoners who would have been immediately caught and put to death were no longer executed.

In a way, Beria was the last victim. Beria had committed so many sins and had incurred so much resentment that she was not a person who would have a good ending.

In any case, everything that could remember Stalin, including his portraits and statues, was erased.

The people of the Soviet Union welcomed Khrushchev’s reforms, and Soviet writer Ilya Ehrenberg created a sensation by naming it Khrushchev’s Thaw in his novel The Thaw.

Khrushchev’s reforms were not only political reforms.

Although he himself was not at the level of Stalin, he became the leader of a dictatorial regime, so he should at least hear that he was making a living more easily than during Stalin’s time.

Political reform is political reform, and people’s livelihood issues must also be urgently resolved.

If not, it won’t be long before he is overthrown.

“What can we do if we only develop heavy industry? Does heavy industry produce bread? Why are you focusing only on heavy industry? Let’s grow light industry together! “The people’s comfort comes from light industry!”

“All right! Comrade Secretary General!”

Stalin seemed to have something to do with heavy industry.

It was just heavy industry, heavy industry, heavy industry, and heavy industry.

As a result, light industry, which was directly related to the people’s lives, went into disrepair, and the Soviet Union became a country that manufactured tanks and howitzers but could not even produce basic necessities of life.

“First of all, let’s make stockings properly! How many proper stocking or underwear factories are there? “Should our beautiful female comrades have to wear something like that?”

“Even if TV is later, let’s make radio at least! “We also make washing machines!”

“Of course, Comrade Secretary! “But we don’t have enough resources!”

“We have more than enough oil to use, right? “Let’s export, export!”

“Yes, Comrade Secretary General!”

The level of light industry began to increase little by little, and the people’s standard of living gradually increased.

In addition, a universal pension system was created to guarantee the minimum living standards for the elderly, wage levels were raised, and efforts were made to improve the people’s health and medical care, leading to a noticeable improvement in life expectancy.

In addition, as the housing crisis worsened due to destruction caused by war and urbanization, cheap and inexpensive apartments were built in large quantities as if they were literally produced in a factory.

It was an apartment called a Khrushovka (Хрущёвка), and although it had a uniform appearance, was unsightly, and did not have an elevator, it served as a home for the people.

Where is my room and separate bathroom?

This was no different from a revolution.

As the problem of making a living was gradually resolved, attention was also paid to education, culture, and art.

Gifted students were educated by establishing a gifted school, and students who did not go to college were provided with technical education.

In terms of culture and art, the environment has improved to the level of heaven and earth compared to before.

‘Censorship’, the biggest enemy of creativity, has become much softer, and in the past, even if you published a work that you would have nothing to say even if you were dragged away and shot, you would only be banned from publishing.

In other words, a world has opened where one does not have to prepare for death as before.

In this atmosphere, Fyodor Dostoevsky, who had been stigmatized as a counter-revolutionary writer, was reinstated, and, slightly later, Boris Pasternak’s ‘Doctor Zhivago’ and Solzhenitsyn’s ‘One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich’, which won the Nobel Prize in Literature, were able to be published. .

It is said that Khrushchev himself was angry after reading Doctor Zhivago, but prevented unnecessary repression, and that he gave approval after reading A Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. In any case, it was clear that he had become more free than the Stalin era.

In all fields, the Soviet Union was improving compared to Stalin’s time, but there were some things that Khrushchev could not do no matter how hard he tried.

“There are not enough men. “And a young man.”

“… … .”

“… … .”

Khrushchev and other high-ranking party officials simply smoked cigarettes and could not say anything.

Because I had nothing to say.

“Why aren’t you saying anything? We have to come up with a solution somehow… … .”

“stop! “Stop it.”

“Comrade Secretary General! Are you really saying this because you don’t know about this issue? “There is such a shortage of men that shocking reports of young men being raped by women are popping up all over the place.”

“ha… … .”

“After a while… … .”

“I’m going crazy… … .”

It’s a shocking report, but honestly, it wasn’t a story of one or two days.

The shortage of young men in the Soviet Union was a serious social problem.

Even without war, a lack of men was a common phenomenon among the Slavic people.

These guys have a fundamentally manly temperament, risking their lives for useless things at a young age and dying at a young age, and they also smoke and drink excessively.

Especially drinking, even in cold regions, the drinking of the Slavic people was excessive.

So, I have no choice but to die early.

Meanwhile, the first half of the 20th century was full of revolution and war.

More than 1.7 million young people died in World War I.

And nearly 300,000 people were sacrificed in the Russian Revolution and the Red-White Civil War that took place in succession, and when things were about to stabilize, Stalin took power and carried out a mass purge, killing people.

The number of direct victims is officially said to be 680,000, but in reality, an estimated 2 million people were executed or died through harsh labor.

Then World War II, called the Great Patriotic War in the Soviet Union, broke out.

The number of soldiers killed and missing was close to 8 million, and civilian casualties exceeded 20 million.

This is why there is no way for a man to remain.

Then, when the war was over and life was finally getting better, Stalin invaded Korea.

Although the invasion was carried out with a light heart, the result was another catastrophe that killed millions of people.

In fact, during the first half of my 20s, I grew up a little and every time I tried to listen to young people, I died.

The results were disastrous.

It’s not that there’s a shortage of ‘young men’, it’s just that there’s a shortage of ‘men’.

It was difficult to see young men in their 20s and 30s even if they washed their eyes and looked for them, and even the middle-aged generation was divided by frequent social chaos and war.

In the end, it led to a situation where women who could not satisfy their desires raped men.