I Became Stalin chapter 269

I became Stalin chapter 269

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“Hmm, now here… Are you ready to advertise?”

“Yes! After all, Comrade General Secretary also has artistic talent… .”

“Please shut your mouth, bald!”

The United States tried to establish a pro-American regime in Cuba, but a little earlier than its history, a group of young men led by Castro attacked the Moncada barracks and suffered some face loss.

Ahead of the general election, it was obvious what MacArthur could take. As a rising general who has been struggling all over the world since becoming president, he had to win an overwhelming victory in Cuba, the front yard.

The most powerful means was nuclear weapons.

“Hmm… Even so, there seems to be no denying that Comrade General Secretary has a talent for art… .”

“Molotov, are you even white?”

If you think about it, it might look like that. When he was young, he made a name for himself as a national poet who spoke the Georgian language beautifully, and now he has become the world’s most sophisticated leader in film and video media.

Although, of course, it is almost entirely dependent on future knowledge. Anyway, this deification had to be pressed in advance.

“It is simple. Money for Republicans, ideas for Democrats. Let the Republicans take over the stigma even if we find out that they have ties to us.”

“Yes! Comrade Secretary General!”

“The current election is an indicator of the next US presidential election. If we lose this general election, MacArthur’s control of the party will be shaken. The Republican moderate candidates are not friendly to us, but… .”

The people the Soviet Union feared most were, frankly, the Republican moderates. People like the now Republican Truman and Nixon, who is just beginning to emerge in the Senate, have been the most effective blockade of the Soviet Union in real history.

Of course Kissinger, Nixon’s brain, the devil who brought China to America’s side and South America to hell, is now where he should be… . For us, MacArthur, who ignorantly believed in his strength and pushed forward with the Orthodox Method, was far better than the cunning Republican conspirators.

The best thing to do is for MacArthur to lead the entire Republican Party and sink it. Now, if there were only a few successes, it seemed likely enough.

American politicians have not yet accurately grasped the ripple effect of an unfamiliar media called television. That was the judgment of our intelligence department, which knew as much as the chief of staff on what MacArthur was saying and giving orders.

“MacArthur would have thought that a nuclear bomb could defeat the Soviet Union… Ha ha ha ha ha!”

* * *

“Mom! The Ed Sullivan Show is coming soon!”

“okay! don’t go soon What kind of ads are you doing these days? .”

Since the end of the war in 1944, thanks to the rapid development of electronics technology, television has spread to many American homes.

By 1950, it was so popular that about 40% of households had at least one TV, even though they were small. In order to check the Soviet-made TVs, which started to be mass-produced cheaply, American electronics companies also made every effort to lower prices and supply TVs.

Now, in a house where I live in the United States, I would eat dinner and watch TV. Quickly realizing the importance of TV commercials, they seized the opportunity and began smashing advertisements in every living room of the house.

[One, two, three… Five, four, four, six, seven… ]

[Ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five… ]

“Well?”

As soon as the advertisement for the new Ford car ended, the first advertisement she had ever seen started playing on TV. Three or five Americans gathered to watch TV, paying attention while doing their own thing.

A little girl was plucking petals on the grass in the sunlight. Are you three years old? The kid, who couldn’t count properly yet, came up with four after five, smiled innocently.

Meanwhile, a thick male voice counted down from 10 in the background.

[…] eight… nine… ]

[Three, two, one.]

The screen freezes. The appearance of a cute little girl studying numbers while plucking petals stopped, and the girl’s face was close-up with a loud noise as if an airplane was passing by.

But the girl’s face disappeared through the exploding mushroom cloud. into the dazzling flames of a nuclear explosion.

As if imagining what kind of ruins would remain after the nuclear war, burnt grass and ashes of residential areas passed by on the screen.

[This is the possibility given to us. We can create a world in which we can all live in peace together, or we can disappear into darkness.]

“… Mom? saw?”

“… yes son.”

[Vote for Democrats, for peace. We have too much to bear to be at home.]

Those who saw with their own eyes the catastrophe that the ‘nuclear war’ itself, which MacArthur had so easily proclaimed, would bring, was shocked.

After taking a walk, having dinner with their family, and although not a few young men were taken back to the military, most of them were shattered in their unfounded convictions that they would be able to lead a peaceful middle-class life.

“… vote… I must… .”

* * *

“All this is the instigation of the rednecks! Don’t play around with their tricks!”

As usual, McCarthy talked about the rednecks. Not a few people shook their heads at McCarthy’s words.

“Cancer, cancer. After all, the gangsters got this shape, so how can we hand over the power to the gangsters again?”

“Sir, Vice President? If so, could you please indicate which part of the advertisement is not true?”

“Hmm… me, me?”

But McCarthy was visibly embarrassed and flustered at the reporter’s question. MacArthur asserted that Soviet bombers could not penetrate American air defenses, but there was always one.

However, an aide from the Air Force who was present with him quickly struck the player.

“Soviet science and technology is extremely low level! With the full support of the United States, we developed weapons suitable for their level and fought against Nazi Germany, but their independent scientific and technological capabilities are inferior to those of the United States, so how can they not shoot down a heavy bomber across the Atlantic Ocean to the United States?”

“Uh… Okay.”

The reporter also seemed to be asking the same question every single time, but in the same atmosphere now, he thought to himself whether he knew that he would be shocked if he did. The Air Force, the best expert, is openly saying that the American air defense system is safe, so citizens should work with confidence. What will non-experts do?

Apart from that, the Soviet Union still strongly expressed its unwillingness to engage in a nuclear war with the United States. The Soviet ambassador, Alexandra Kollontai, even expressed regret for the Democratic Party’s TV commercial.

“We, the Soviet Union, will never preemptively invade our blood ally America. Considering how the United States helped the Soviet Union during the Great Patriotic War, such a thing cannot happen!”

Some acquaintances denigrated such lip service in the Soviet Union as merely a slash-and-dash tactic. And most people were still terrified of nuclear war.

No matter how much McCarthy promoted American science and technology, when he looked at the cars and televisions the Soviet Union exported, he could not help but question the wide gap between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Support for Republicans and Democrats fluctuated. Although McCarthy’s proprietary patent, the Red Riding Hood, was still on the rise, but she sang a flower song once or twice. When it reached the point of using red ragweed from time to time, there was no choice but to run out of medicine.

“Spy! spy! There are spies! The result of their sabotage of our security posture is destruction through nuclear war!”

He changed his stance quickly and started arguing that if the Democratic Party was elected, America might be destroyed by a nuclear bomb, but that too did not work well for the people.

Even Hoover’s FBI, after investigating the people McCarthy reluctantly pointed out, announces that “there are no charges related to the Soviet Communist Party.”

McCarthy, who argued that the USSR had no choice but to fire a nuclear weapon because the State Department had hundreds of spies and all US security strategies leaked, became increasingly self-defeating.

“Then why can’t we find spies inside the State Department? If the danger of war is imminent right now, shouldn’t we be looking out for even one of them and capturing them?”

“If the Soviet Union really intends to destroy America, as Vice President McCarthy has said, why not do it right now?”

“They are trying to infiltrate the spies and devour America whole! If you can get your hands on America, why would you want to destroy it through nuclear war?”

If you gossip and gossip, you will inevitably make mistakes. McCarthy’s logic gradually shattered in front of reporters who insisted on asking questions.

“Is the Soviet Union trying to destroy America? Or are you trying to swallow it? Which one is the State Department’s prediction?”

“I can’t tell you because it’s confidential! Don’t try to dig too much into state secrets. Keep in mind the practice of ‘patriotic reporting’ that our media has been following.”

The practice of ‘patriotic reporting’. The journalists were stunned by McCarthy’s blatant act of demanding that the media, which should spread the truth, take into account the national interest.

Of course, McCarthy was still a politician with quite a few followers. As many enemies as he has, he is a tycoon with hundreds of thousands of people who obey him. In the end, no one seemed to be able to beat McCarthy in a primary that required mobilization of organizations at the local level.

This was especially true because the grassroots of the Democratic Party was once devastated by the McCarthyism craze. People see what they want to believe, and that reinforced conviction makes it extremely difficult for a person to get out once drawn in.

If young journalists attack McCarthy prematurely, they are likely to be buried in the community and the media. Although the national approval rating fluctuated, their stronghold seemed to be strong.

“Hmm… I don’t know much about politics… .”

“Yes? Oops, Democrats and Republicans, it has nothing to do with me.”

Although he was trembling with the fear of nuclear war, his fear of being buried as a gangster was still strong. I didn’t say publicly that I would vote for the Democrats because people were afraid they would turn left and red. Not knowing what the people next door were thinking, people started hiding more and more.

“Shit… See you on Election Day.”

“I will definitely vote today!”

“Brothers! Let us reclaim our long-lost rights!”

However, public sentiment gradually began to flow backwards towards the MacArthur regime.

The middle class decided to vote after seeing the pathetic behavior of the McMac Duo. Housewives shocked by advertisements pouring into the bedroom. And even the black people who unite and head to the voting booth.

The MacArthur administration, who believed in the polls right before the general election and predicted victory or contention by a narrow margin, was shocked when the results were announced.

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