Chapter 614 Basra uprising

   Basra ranks second among Iraqi cities, second only to the capital Baghdad, and Basra is also Iraq’s largest port and the only outlet to the sea, so its status is no worse than Baghdad. There are Christians and Mandaists here, a sect of Christianity that has a history of thousands of years in southern Iraq. At the same time, this is the earliest site of the activities of the communist group in Iraq, and the Iraqi Communist Party also regards it as a key activity area.

“Actually, I don’t know when the Iraqi operation will start, but it should be these days. Our preparations for all directions will arrive in these days…” Serov, who was on duty in Lubyanka, raised his son high, causing arousal. A burst of laughter. He was explaining to his wife why he was working, and Valya had been here for the past few days, to be with his husband.

   Indeed, Serov did not nail the time, and the most suitable time is still up to the Iraqi Communist Party. Otherwise, this kind of command that ignores the actual situation will be harmful to Iraq. If I remember correctly, this seems to be called dogmatism. No matter how much Shelov analyzed in Lubyanka, it was impossible for him to know the local area better than the local Iraqis, and to prepare the Iraqi Communist Party what they needed, and they had to rely on themselves for the rest.

   “That’s the reason why you’re not at home?” Valiya pinched her waist with her hands, and said a little indignantly, “Do you think it’s impossible for you to leave the country, why don’t you marry Lubyanka as your wife?”

“You think I’m Zamiatin, the first secretary of the Communist Youth League?” Shelov smiled and put down his son, pinched his wife’s face and whispered, “Oh, I see, it’s itchy, right? I can understand, after all, a woman Demand is growing, but who says it can’t be here, it’s not that there is no place to live…”

“How can you speak without your brain, your son can understand…” Valiya leaned against her husband, Mei Mei looked at her son who was standing on the table, the little guy’s eyes twitched, looking at himself curiously ‘s parents.

   “That means my son is smart!” Sheloff glanced back at his son. Anyway, sooner or later, there will be such a day, male and female. Isn’t that the case with normal people? Also worth the fuss?

  Basra is the largest transportation center in southern Iraq. It is connected with Baghdad by inland shipping and railway. Once the war is delayed, Basra will become the largest logistics base for the Iraqi Communist Party and government forces to carry out a protracted war. For the Iraqi Communist Party, they hoped to quickly control the entire region, and then used the banner to ask for help from the Soviet bloc.

   Shelov also arranged for a country as the main support unit, that is Bulgaria, the most reliable ally of the Soviet Union, and Malakoff, chairman of the Bulgarian National Security Council, has made relevant preparations. At this time, the Iraqi Communist Party has decided to revolt, and the time is set for the late night of January 10. Almost all the underground party members who have developed in the past ten years have already made preparations, and the first secretary, Hussein Alradi, has already With the Central Committee members here, they hid in the surrounding villages.

  This season is a good time, because many Iraqi communists have studied in the Soviet Union and know how to fight in low temperature conditions. You must know that Basra is the hottest place in the world, and the normal temperature in summer is around 50 degrees.

The leadership of the Iraqi Communist Party, including Hussein al-Ladi, was anxiously waiting for news in a small village late at night. They all knew that this would be the fateful moment. They had to succeed, otherwise the socialist forces throughout Iraq will be devastated.

   In Basra at this time, the underground party members who had received the news were anxiously waiting. For the underground party members, this kind of waiting was very tormenting, because they did not know how many comrades were working in secret like them. Many people trained by the Soviet Union have long been scattered throughout Iraq and do not know each other.

   But under the cover of the dark night, the forces gathered from all over the city were gathering, and even when they suddenly discovered each other, they were surprised. They didn’t expect that the other party was also their comrade. Finally, an accident caused the whole city to boil. Everyone was planning to occupy important locations without a fight. However, several police officers who went home from get off work questioned several underground party members, which made the very nervous Iraqi Communist Party members very nervous and directly robbed them. Kill these cops.

   Now, there is no need to hide, and the sound of the sound marks the official start of this uprising. Insurgents from all over the city flocked to several important institutions, the telegraph office, the railway station and the post office. For a time, gunshots erupted throughout Basra, and there were tens of thousands of insurgents with red cloths tied to their right arms. They attacked valuable targets throughout Basra regardless of priority.

   “Major Arif, did we immediately inform the division commander of the situation here, the Communists rebelled.” A nervous and sweaty captain came in and found the deputy commander of the Basra Garrison Regiment.

“That’s right.” Arif took out his gun and killed him without hesitation while agreeing, then took out the red cloth and tied it to his right arm, picked up the phone and said, “Follow me to find the regiment commander, let’s find Talk to him.”

   In view of the anti-Sunni sentiments of the Shia residents, who make up the majority of Basra’s population, the Iraqi Communist Party has been trying to win the support of the local people from the very beginning. The success or failure is not only related to the smoothness of the entire Iraqi liberation operation, but also of decisive significance to the reconstruction of Iraq after the war. But for many people trained in the Soviet Union, this kind of support is unnecessary, so some of the insurgents, at the very beginning, were prepared to take advantage of the chaos to kill the more famous religious figures, and then push it directly into chaos situation above.

   The defenders in Basra City were poorly equipped and undersupplied, and it was impossible for any Iraqi reinforcements to appear. Architecturally, it consists of a group of traditional buildings that are structurally fragile, making it difficult to turn them into strong resistance strongholds. Meanwhile, the insurgents’ positions have been deeply wedged into the city’s periphery, and it takes only half an hour to reach the city center from the most forward positions.

  Basra, as a key city operated by the Iraqi Communist Party, has far more power than outside estimates. After one night, only a few important strongholds were still under the control of the military government. Abdullah Rahman and a group of members of the Iraqi Communist Party Central Committee persuaded the soldiers who were still defending inside. Except for the post and telecommunications office, almost all the soldiers in the stronghold surrendered, and finally the Basra garrison, which had already fallen to the Iraqi Communist Party, started an attack on the post and telecommunications office.

In fact, the government troops defending the post and telecommunications office did not have the idea of ​​a deadly battle. It was just a round of artillery bombing, and the post and telecommunications office hoisted a white flag. At dawn, the entire Basra was already under the control of the Iraqi Communist Party. In the settlements, as well as the dozens of religious people who were killed, captured soldiers have admitted that they thought they were Shiite residents, so they arrested them and killed them according to the record long ago.

Afterwards, the first secretary of the Iraqi Communist Party, Hussein al-Ladi, entered the city center of Basra, surrounded by tens of thousands of supporters, and delivered a speech, “Year after year, Iraqis almost We have fallen into the quagmire. While the rest of the world is making progress every day, we keep the pain of the civil war. Everyone involved in the battle is our people. They have different supporters because of their different factions and positions. Egypt, Iran, and even Saudi Arabia, once we hoped for a force to stand up and end this chaos and bring peace and democracy back to Iraq. But year after year, we only see disappointment, more and more People have become proletarians, and a small group of people, they are warlords, they are leaders, and they continue the war with wealth that belongs to all Iraqis, and it is time to end it.”

“In other parts of the world, we can see that more and more people are saving their country, they are fighting against foreign invaders, and now we Iraqi Communist Party will shoulder the mission of liberating Iraq, let us let Return to peace in Iraq and become a prosperous and powerful country.” Hussein al-Ladi shouted, “peace, democracy, prosperity, that’s Iraq…”

“Long live a peaceful, democratic and prosperous Iraq, and long live the Iraqi Communist Party.” Tens of thousands of Iraqi Communist Party fighters raised their weapons and listened to Hussein al-Ladi’s voice from loudspeakers everywhere, and then shout long live.

After Hussein al-Aradi issued a statement, urban communists in Najaf, Erbil, Babylon, and Sulaymaniyah all held uprisings. It was only for a moment that the Iraqi Communist Party, which had been dormant, was dormant for the first time. Showed great energy. A day after taking control of Basra, a convoy arrived at the port of Basra with 200,000 automatic rifles unloaded, and Hussein al-Rahman asked Abdullah Rahman to distribute the weapons to the periphery of the Iraqi Communist Party organize.

The generals in Bagra were almost shocked by the sudden news. They always thought that their opponents were Baathists, Shiites, Sunnis and even Kurds. They even jumped out. They didn’t know that in Basra, the most difficult enemies in their eyes were all imprisoned by Abdullah Rahman. All Abdul Rahman’s men returned from the Soviet Union. The master of these people’s underground party is the Soviet KGB.

   Basra has a population of more than 700,000. The Iraqi Communist Party must first remove potential enemies. Now that they have this ability, the leadership information of many hostile factions has long been in their hands. (To be continued~^~)