Rasputin of the East

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“Aww.”

I couldn’t see it from the sky, but Westminster was a piece of charcoal.

A charcoal-burned tank from the boulevard looked like it had been brought out for a parade, but it was questionable whether the tankers were alive or dead.

Rechecking the Luger pistol on his thigh and the well-hidden Nagant revolver, Nikolai took a look around the devastated square before making a decision.

‘It is also impossible to surrender.’

You made the city center like that, but now you surrender? Will the citizens be beaten to death?

‘If not…’

“Aww!”

As Nikolai was walking down the street in thought for a moment, he bumped into a girl.

“Oh, I’m sorry, are you okay?”

Nikolai hurriedly grabbed the crying girl by the wrist and pulled her up, holding her nose while sitting down, and brushed off the girl’s clothes.

“The road is dangerous, so please stay at home.”

“The house collapsed.”

“Uh… your parents?”

“I don’t know….”

‘I’m sorry.’

When Nikolai realized that something was going wrong, he thought about it for a moment.

“Once then… follow me.”

Then, an idea flashed through my head.

If you pretend to be a soldier who takes a child who has lost his parents to the police, the checkpoint will also focus on finding the child’s parents, and the background check for the soldier protecting the missing child will not be thorough.

‘I’ll pass the kid over and escape to the US mission… okay?’

The Russian embassy is closed, but the US embassy is still operating normally, no, it is still in operation.

***

USA, Washington DC

“Sir, I am ready.”

“I see.”

“It starts in 30 minutes.”

US President Huey Long looked at his political senior, sitting nearby as a ‘civilian’.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt, abbreviated FDR, former President.

Of course, he was the former president, but he knew that the power the FDR wielded behind the scenes was far greater than his own.

Right now, he himself was a branch of the FDR, and the ministers are not all members of the FDR.

Even after leaving office, the political support he received was enormous, and Huey Long couldn’t openly oppose him.

Sometimes he wondered if he was really the president, or if that Roosevelt couldn’t get a third term, so he made him a puppet who listened to him.

‘You’re doing the same thing as my relatives, in case someone doesn’t belong to the same family.’

Theodore Roosevelt, in fact, was of the same family, although it was actually close to the South and the South.

Theodore Roosevelt pushed William Howard Taft to be his successor, but it was a confrontation when Taft, who became president, tried to establish his own power without inheriting his faction, aide, and political philosophy.

Perhaps that person had the same idea.

Of course, he had such a strong desire for power that he could not say anything to Roosevelt just because he played with each other, but no matter how active he was with Roosevelt’s support, he was the current president anyway.

Roosevelt’s frequent interruptions could not be seen as good.

Whether he knew the idea or not, Roosevelt smiled kindly and asked Huey Long to shake his hand.

“Sir, you seem to be getting clearer.”

“Since the former president has retired, your face has become much brighter. Are you in good health? If you ever need medical care, can you help me find a beautiful home in Alaska?”

After retirement, what kind of anger are left, so you are pushing your face here and there? After 8 years, I would go to parties, write an autobiography, or go to lectures to raise money for retirement. Not a single face color has changed.

“Haha, I will be grateful for your words. “Who wouldn’t know that the Republican regime suffered from all sorts of corruption, and that the president took care of him?”

In the first place, even incumbent President Huey Long’s support is largely attributed to Roosevelt. He received overwhelming support even after resignation that could shake the Democratic primary in the next election or overturn all the people’s support.

As Roosevelt’s political successor, he was elected in the Democratic primary, and he had to be conscious of next year’s election right away.

‘shit.’

Huey Long, who had only fired one shot out of annoyance, quietly stepped back and took the script.

‘It is the arsenal of democracy.’

In a situation where relations with Britain, Germany, and Japan are on the brink of destruction, the public opinion that they should participate in the war when they have strong allies is shaking the country.

Of course, that does not mean that the Russian Empire is not a democracy, but no, formally, a democracy is a democracy. In that sense, Germany, England, Italy, and Japan are all democracies.

Even with this speech alone, the breath of that person entered strongly.

Of course, that doesn’t mean he doesn’t agree. The fact that we have to take care of the South Americans who climb with confidence in Japan, Germany and Britain, that the United States should intervene in the war in Europe at any time, and that it is better to have an ally than to be alone.

And the more powerful the ally, the more advantageous it is.

Therefore, within his tenure, the United States must intervene in the war.

No, it is only through intervention that the United States can survive.

The United States may be able to survive. However, what is the meaning of that if the United States only maintains the national supremacy in a state that it is not itself?

***

“Fellow citizens.”

“This is not a story about war, it is a conversation about national security.”

“The central goal of your president is to desperately protect you today, your children after, and your grandchildren after, from war, in order to preserve America’s independence, you, me, and Because to all Americans, the independence of the United States means everything.”

“We are in a crisis right now. It is a threat to national security, and it requires the same courage as 1812.”

“Since the Jamestown and Plymouth Rock incidents, the United States has never faced such a threat.”

“The Nazi rulers in Germany not only want to rule all life and ideas within their own country, they want to enslave the whole of Europe and invade the rest of the world. It is clear that no compromise can be made between their philosophy of government and ours.”

“In the face of today’s undeniable threat, I assert unequivocally: The United States has neither the right nor the duty to discuss peace. That will not be possible until the moment it becomes clear that their intentions are to give up all their intentions to conquer the world.”

“Those who seek to create a system of government based on the uniformity of all human beings by a few individual rulers call it the New Order. But this is neither new nor orderly.”

“At this moment, the armies of the Axis powers oppress all free-living peoples, far from our shores. Britain, Germany and Italy are held back on the other side of the Atlantic by the Russian Empire and Yugoslavia, Hungary, Norway and Sweden. In Asia, Japan is at war with the Kuomintang, another great resistance. We have our fleet in the Pacific.”

“Some people say: Wars in Europe and Asia are not our concern, but they are already reaching out to South America. And they will be used as forward bases for Britain, Germany and Japan to attack other countries before Germany, as Switzerland did, and Denmark did.”

“Our Pacific defense outpost is Hawaii, but even with the exception of Canada and South America, the Azores are closer to the Atlantic coast than Hawaii.”

“There are those who argue that the Axis will never attack the United States, but this is only a dangerous form of hope, similar to destroying the resistance against many conquerors.”

“117 years ago, the Monroe Doctrine was devised by our government as a defense against the threat posed by continental European aggression on this continent.”

“But it is clear that they already control Europe, Asia, Africa, the continent of Australia, and South America and the high seas, and have enormous military and maritime and land resources. All citizens of the free world, including us, are within their range, loaded with military as well as economic shells.”

“It is clear that the United States of America cannot survive if we alone try to become an oasis of happiness and abundance. One thing is certain: we are entering a new and deadly era unlike any before, and it is clear that the whole of the United States is facing the threat of those beasts. It is clear that in order to survive in such a world, we must transform ourselves into a military power based on a wartime economy.”

“Some of us are inclined to believe that: Even if the Russian Empire were to fall, we would still be safe, and the oceans would be our shields, but the oceans were no longer our shields, and the nations of South America betrayed their promises to the United States of America, and Germany, Japan and Great Britain I want to hold hands with you.”

“Over the past few weeks, millions of people have told me what they want to hear from them tonight. Almost everyone wanted to hear from my mouth the exhaustive truth about the gravity of the situation. However, one of the telegrams represented the views of a minority. He said he did not want to see or hear any evil, even though he knew it existed. Please don’t let me tell you the uncomfortable truth, that all our shores and all our land borders are under unprecedented threat.”

“But it is clear that there is a threat ahead, and it is a threat that we must face. No matter how many blankets we cover from bed to head, we know that fear cannot go away.”

“We must know that any oppression, injustice or hatred is ultimately a blade designed to attack our civilization.”

“Let us no longer deny that the forces of evil that have trampled, weakened and corrupted many are already within our own gates.”

“No one can tame a tiger into a cat, and there can be no appeasement for ruthlessness.”

“The United States of America must be an arsenal of great democracy. We are in a state of emergency like war, and we must do our best in our mission with the spirit of patriotism and sacrifice shown in war. I believe the Axis will never win the war.”