On March 1, 1953, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union, Stalin, suddenly suffered a stroke, and on March 5, the Soviet Union confirmed Stalin's death, which had made the United States fear the iron giant for half a century, died at the age of 74. On March 6, the Soviets who came to mourn gave birth to *** pieces, it was winter, the ground was very slippery, and once people fell, they had no chance to get up again, and later Khrushchev said that *** pieces on that day led to the death of 109 people.
In 1953, when the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was in full swing, Stalin's death not only triggered great changes in the Soviet Union, but also attracted the special attention of Eisenhower, the new ** Eisenhower who had just taken office in the United States, Eisenhower should be glad that there was no strong opponent like Stalin during his tenure, without Stalin, Eisenhower's series of policies towards the Soviet Union played the greatest benefit, and in the days without Stalin, Eisenhower played an offensive plan for the whole world.
The Second World War allowed the whole world to see the strength of the Soviet Union, although the Soviet Union was heavy in the war against Germany, but after the war, the Soviet Union was able to recover quickly in a short period of time, which made the United States as a superpower also have to pay attention to it, Americans believe that the strength of the Soviet Union is due to their leader, that is, Stalin, under his leadership, the Soviet Union can do as one, so if you want to collapse the Soviet Union, the first thing to do is to make the Soviet Union without Stalin, fortunately, Stalin was more than sixty years old at that time, The age limit is an extremely favorable condition for the United States.
As early as 1946, the United States began to pay close attention to Stalin's physical condition, and many times imagined what might be found after Stalin's death, and on October 30, 1952, the American Psychological Strategy Committee presented Eisenhower with a "psychological warfare preparation plan for Stalin's death". In this proposal, Stalin's death was considered by the United States as the best opportunity that could be used to "reduce the power and influence of the Soviet Union and bring about a fundamental change in the behavior of the current Soviet regime in international relations." They decided that they could take advantage of the opportunity provided by Stalin's death and the inherent difficulties of the transfer of power in the Soviet Union to carry out psychological warfare and covert operations to weaken the power and influence of the Soviet Union, and Eisenhower agreed.
On January 21, 1953, the United States secretly issued a directive to all official organs in the country concerning Stalin's death, which clearly stated that all public and secret propaganda media controlled by the United States, unless specifically directed, should strictly limit their propaganda to factual reporting at the time of Stalin's death. If you want to ask who is most concerned about Stalin's life and death, it must be the United States, which has been preparing for several years in order to meet the day when there is no Stalin, and now everything has been done, only the last move is left.
In the early morning of March 6, 1953, the Soviet Union announced to the world that Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin had died the night before, and Stalin's body was placed in a crystal coffin. For a time, the world was in an uproar, the Soviet people wept and mourned, and the Americans were not idle, under the instruction of Eisenhower, White House special assistant Jackson and the American Psychological Strategy Committee fought all night, after dawn, the complete draft of the "Psychological Strategic Plan for Using Stalin's Death" was placed in front of the first table, and the draft detailed how the United States should seize the opportunity to rise to the top after losing Stalin, a formidable opponent, and what kind of strategic goals it should ultimately achieve.
At the same time, this is also the best opportunity for Eisenhower to win the hearts and minds of the United States, and he can make full use of this opportunity to deliver a public speech on peace, occupy the commanding heights for the first time, and use a combination of open psychological warfare and covert psychological warfare to expand the violence and unscrupulous hegemony of the Soviet Union, strike at and divide the Soviet socialist camp, make the satellite countries of the Soviet Union lose confidence in the Soviet leadership and the Soviet system, and finally achieve the goal of allowing the Soviet Union to collapse itself from within. At the same time, the United States should also strengthen friendly and cooperative relations with European countries during this period and strengthen their recognition of the world pattern that the United States has constructed.
For the sake of the strategic security and stability of the Soviet Union, the decision-making level of the Soviet Union could only lower its posture and throw an olive branch of the peace offensive to the old opponents of Europe and the United States at the first time, and then made concessions on the armistice negotiations in Austria, Germany and the Korean Peninsula, and the Soviet Union had only one purpose, that is, to do its best to reduce the impact of Stalin's death. Passing the USSR safely through this period.
However, the Soviet Union's show of weakness did not make the United States take it lightly, and the main departments of the United States, especially the military, all believed that the Soviet Union would not give in so easily, and the current show of weakness was just a measure to delay the army, and it did not even reduce its military strength, which shows that the Soviet Union is particularly interested in striving for hegemony. On April 16, 1953, Eisenhower delivered a speech to the world called "Opportunity for Peace", in which Eisenhower emphasized that the fundamental cause of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union was the "violence" and "priority of power at any cost" of the Soviet Union, and with the death of Stalin, this situation is likely to be changed, as for where the world pattern of the new era will eventually go, it depends on the new leadership of the Soviet Union, and the United States also claims to be fully prepared for human peaceAt the end of his speech, Eisenhower did not forget to ask the Soviet Union: Is it ready to bring real peace to Asia? Ready to allow other countries, including Eastern Europe, to freely choose their own **? Prepared to cooperate with other States and rely on the strict regulation and oversight of the United Nations to make serious disarmament proposals effective?
Eisenhower's speech was very successful, and the people of the world who had been tired by the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union were eager to end all this, and they witnessed the Japanese nuclear war, Eisenhower's speech immediately caused a huge wave in the world, and the Russian-language radio station immediately after the speech ended, the speech was repeated for 50 consecutive hours, a total of 98 times, so that the voice of the United States was transmitted to every corner of the world. Although the speech was suspected of deliberately inciting emotions and moral kidnapping, it won the hearts of a large number of people at the time.
Of course, although the United States claims to be peace-loving and the guardian of peace on the surface, it is impossible to give up the strategic policy of competing for hegemony with the Soviet Union, if it wants to win the Cold War, the United States alone is still slightly insufficient, and the strength of Europe must be taken seriously, so in order to take care of those old buddies in Europe, the United States began to actively promote the arming of the Federal Republic of Germany within the framework of NATO, but the problem is that France and Germany are on the same footing, if the United States assists Germany, once the United States and the Soviet Union reconcile, Europe is no longer threatened by the Soviet Union, so it is difficult for a rearmed Germany to guarantee that it will not attack France, and then the relationship between the United States and the entire European allies will be greatly affected.
On April 18, 1953, U.S. Secretary of State Dulles followed Eisenhower in adding to his first speech: The Soviet threat remains, the US-European alliance must be unbreakable, and America's leadership in the free world cannot be shaken! Two speeches were delivered within three days, which completely consolidated the psychological warfare strategy of the United States, and more importantly, the United States not only struck at the Soviet Union, but also stabilized the old buddies in Europe, which can be said to be a two-way benefit, I have to say that Eisenhower really played a good hand, which also laid the foundation for him to be able to win the first term after the end of his first term.
Under the packaging of the huge ** system of the United States, freedom spread to all corners of the world, and a war without gunpowder officially began, and on June 1, 1953, there was turmoil in Czechoslovakia. Almost at the same time as the turmoil, the United States encouraged the Czech people to stand up bravely against the rule of ** and dedicate everything to freedom and independence through radio, propaganda balloons and other means.
As psychological warfare has achieved good results in Czechoslovakia and East Germany, the US Psychological Strategy Committee has further put forward a "temporary psychological warfare plan for the United States to take advantage of the turmoil in the satellite states of Europe" in an attempt to disintegrate the unbreakable alliance of the Soviet Union little by little by encouraging and supporting the turmoil in the satellite states, but as the chaos in Europe has become more and more, the US policy of psychological warfare has gradually been recognized, and the European media have begun to criticize this hysterical policy of the United States, and even opposition voices have appeared within the United States. Many politicians have said that the United States should vigorously build economic, political and military power, and use this way to put pressure on the Soviet Union, rather than hurting people with this kind of hidden arrow, but under the tough attitude of Eisenhower and the military, the previous strategy continued to operate, and it was not until 1955, after the signing of the Paris Agreement, that the United States finally shifted its strategic goal and the ongoing chaos slowly calmed down after the signing of the Paris Agreement, seeing the steady increase in Western power and the easing of the attitude of the new leader of the Soviet Union Khrushchev towards the United States.
In fact, psychological warfare is not Eisenhower's initiative, in the history of the United States, this strategy has always been the usual means of the United States, but Eisenhower expanded it, and even made it global, which also invisibly warns the world that compared with the battlefield confrontation with real guns, the penetration of people's hearts is the most terrible, although they do not have the sharp edge of a sword, but they are sharper than any ** in the world.