Chapter 2066: Same Warsaw, Different Stories
"Don't run around! Everyone line up! Keep order! Come one by one, no one is allowed to cut in line or rob or fight, violators will be disqualified and kicked out!"
It was still the small square where people were shot at noon. After more than a dozen bodies lying on the street were cleared, there were still a lot of blood on the ground. But this couldn't stop the compatriots who were shot to come here to have fun. Living people are always more important than dead people.
Once the news that the Red Army was going to distribute supplies to everyone spread, the entire Poles in the Central Bridge Bridgehead area under Malashenko's rule were shocked. Few people could have imagined that the Soviets who came with cannons roaring, tanks and planes would be so kind as to distribute supplies to everyone after driving away the brutal Germans.
Many people originally thought that "as long as the Soviets are not as brutal and murderous as the Germans, they will win", but they never expected that there would be such a good thing. This is really a pie in the sky.
Although Warsaw is the capital of Poland, you can't really imagine how rich this place is. Compared with Paris, which was also ruled by the German army, this place is really a world of difference. There is a huge difference in all aspects. Capitals cannot be generalized.
Long before the Red Army came to Warsaw, the Germans had already implemented extremely strict material rationing control in Warsaw.
Any public peddling and private reselling of daily necessities were strictly prohibited. If you were caught by the Gestapo, you would be thrown to feed the German Shepherd. The Germans never mind giving dogs extra meals.
All the daily necessities in Warsaw were concentrated in the hands of the German army for unified control. The reason why the Germans did this at first was also quite simple. The risk of riots was reduced by controlling daily necessities such as rations. The rations distributed in different areas according to the minimum guarantee amount could theoretically avoid the gathering of a large number of people who did not belong to this area in a short period of time in the same area.
If there is a surge in the number of people in the area within a short period of time, the minimum daily rations will definitely not be enough, and various food-related problems in the area will surge and become prominent, which can be easily noticed by the Germans who have ruled Warsaw for many years.
What can a large number of people who do not belong to this area do when they gather together? Even a fool knows that the Polish ghosts must want to take advantage of the Russians' attack to rebel. The German high-ranking officials who rule Warsaw have long anticipated this and taken such actions to prevent accidents.
The Germans' advance move is indeed effective. The Gestapo and city defense forces' spies, who are everywhere in every corner of the city like tree roots, have successively discovered and cracked down on many Polish uprising assembly points and arrested a large number of people. In just two days, there were so many that the prisons were full and could not accommodate them. A group of them had to be quickly interrogated and shot before new people could be put in.
It is worth mentioning that many of these uprising assembly points that were seized and killed were really exposed and destroyed because of food problems.
For example, the members of the insurgent army who went out hungry in the middle of the night to look for food and conduct private transactions received intelligence that "the ration situation in the area was abnormal", so the Gestapo who had been squatting in advance discovered and followed them. Without knowing it, they became "guides" and led a large group of SS soldiers who were following behind to the uprising site. In the end, they were wiped out. This was not uncommon during those crazy few days.
For the Germans, all signs showed that with the continuous advancement of the Russians and the army approaching Warsaw, the Poles in Warsaw were preparing for an organized large-scale armed uprising, and larger-scale actions must be taken to eliminate it in the bud.
The Germans thought so, and of course they planned to do so.
But there are unexpected events. The Germans never expected that these Poles, with their plans exposed, a large number of people arrested, and a lot of uprising sites pulled out, actually decided to confront head-on and start the rebellion in advance.
The Polish "early uprising" caught the German defense forces of Warsaw by surprise. At first, they were really panicked, and the Polish uprising army took advantage of them and caused heavy casualties.
However, because they had learned many key intelligences about the Polish uprising in advance, the Germans, who were always rigorous, did immediately make many deployments and preparations, including transferring many reserve field troops originally deployed in the rear of Warsaw, which were originally planned to fight with the Russians, to Warsaw to support and suppress the riots at any time.
Therefore, even if the Polish uprising caught the German defense forces by surprise and had the advantage, it was only temporary, and they soon ran into the guns of the German reinforcements that came to help urgently.
The second-line German defense forces stationed in Warsaw may indeed be weak, but the German reinforcements that came from the west are different. These are all complete and fully equipped, and they were originally the first-line reserve field troops that were supposed to fight with the Russians.
It was one thing to be unable to defeat the Russians and to be defeated on the battlefield, but it was another thing entirely to deal with the Polish ghosts who rebelled in the city. It was easier to deal with these Polish ghosts who had gathered together and rebelled than to cut melons and vegetables.
The Poles only maintained the "advantage was in my hands" for a very short time, and immediately became "the good times were only yesterday".
The fighting in the west and the center of the city was fierce. The Polish insurgents in Warsaw were forced to concentrate most of their forces in the key directions of the west, northwest, and southwest of the city, and desperately blocked the German army's offensive, even though the operation was not smooth and even lost from beginning to end.
However, this also led to some derivative situations. For example, in the eastern part of the city where the fighting was relatively rare, even if the ordinary Polish people living here did not fight with the Germans, they still lived under the high-pressure rule of the German army's city-wide martial law and blockade all day long, and lived in fear all day long in the roar of gunfire or artillery from far or near.
The Germans not only blocked the streets and urban areas, strictly prohibited anyone from wandering around the streets, but also stopped the distribution of daily supplies regardless of whether people lived or died. In short, it was a "What does the life and death of you Poles have to do with me?".
So this explains why the news that the Red Army was going to distribute daily necessities to everyone caused such a sensation in the eastern bridgehead area under the rule of Malashenko once it spread. Because everyone was really short of food, many of them were so hungry that their eyes were dizzy. They had been out of food for many days at home and dared not go out to find food, fearing that they would be caught and killed by the Germans.
But Malashenko did not know that the Warsaw Uprising in this timeline that he had tampered with was so different from the original Warsaw Uprising in the existing history.
Comrade Lao Ma was just amazed. The scene of the densely packed Poles queuing up to receive food looked like the black uncles in Africa queuing up to receive UN humanitarian aid in the future. The number of people was beyond imagination. "Shocking Lao Ma for a whole year" scored twice.
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