The situation was still at a stalemate. Yanayev warned the three leaders who were trying to split up the country in the strongest possible manner: "Don't even think about taking a piece of Soviet land from me." The Baltic Sea, backed by NATO countries, was also struggling to hold on. Yanayev had the illusion of returning to the historical timeline of 1959. Khrushchev also fell into a terrible stalemate with Kennedy, but that time Khrushchev used his concession to avoid the possibility of humanity entering doomsday.
Regardless of the fact that times have changed, just like Cuba, which the United States is resentful of, the political instability in the Baltic Sea is like a sharp nail directly inserted into the heart of Moscow. Once Yanayev chooses to compromise, the subsequent domino-like chain reaction will cause the Soviet Union to lose most of its republics.
Yanaev is not competing with the three clowns in front of him, but with the huge free world behind them.
Throwing out the Baltic Fleet, and even some relatively hidden unconventional weapons as trump cards, Yanayev has few trump cards left. His seemingly tough attitude is a helpless move. No confident country would squander its trump cards so casually. If NATO insists a little longer, he will really only have the last life-saving trump card left, the R-36M Satan intercontinental ballistic missile.
But Yanayev knew very well that doing so would be tantamount to sending humanity into a new generation of Stone Age civilization.
And now Yanaev is going to play his penultimate trump card. Just like adding straws to a camel's back, Yanaev keeps exerting military pressure on NATO, piling one straw on top of another, until the last straw breaks their psychological defenses.
Three Tu-160 bombers escorted by Su-27 fighters took off from the Soviet mainland airport and flew towards the Baltic Sea. The Tu-160 bomber, known as the "pirate flag" in the West, spread its huge wings and flew across the azure sky like an elegant and noble swan, like a floating white island, flying over the three Baltic countries.
The three Tu-160 bombers were loaded with nuclear warheads, and they looked like a mobile nuclear arsenal in the air. As long as Yanayev gave the order, the pilot would press the red button, and the air death bombs would fall in clusters on the Baltic territory, and in an instant the three countries would become replicas of Chernobyl.
After receiving the radar alert, the three Baltic countries urgently dispatched MiG-27 fighters to intercept, but no pilot dared to attack it openly. First, the Su-27 fighters following closely beside the Tu-160 were watching the MiG-27's every move with a covetous eye. If the MiG-27 pilot dared to do anything out of line, he would have to consider whether he was a match for the Su-27 "air scalpel". Second, the Tu-160 bomber was loaded with nuclear warheads. Even if it flew over the three Baltic countries, no one dared to attack it. Once those nuclear bombs exploded, Estonia would not escape the fate of becoming Chernobyl.
The MiG-27 pilots were ordered to monitor the movements of the Tu-160 bomber and intercept it only when it passed over the capital. The Estonian Air Force was also helpless, it felt like a robber swaggering into your house to take things, but you were not as strong as him and could only watch him do whatever he wanted.
Therefore, when Estonian President Arnold received the news, his face was not very good. He even wanted to rush out of the conference room to see if the bomber was aiming the bomb at him.
"Yanaev, what are you doing? Threatening us with nuclear weapons?" Arnold's teeth were chattering. In front of the powerful Soviet armed forces, the whole of Estonia was like a lamb to be slaughtered.
"Threat? President Arnold, you think too highly of yourself." Yanaev shook his head, holding a pen in his hand, wanting to put it on the table. "Countries like the three Baltic countries don't need to deploy the Soviet Union's ultimate killer weapon. In other words, how many divisions can the three Baltic countries with all their armed forces add up to Moscow? Don't think too highly of yourself. The Soviet Union has never been afraid of small characters like you. It's just those guys who are fanning the flames behind you who are the real targets I want to attack."
"And now those guys may be unable to hold back any longer. All I need to do is lick another handful of firewood." Yanayev gently pushed the pen standing on the table, and the tip of the pen just pointed at Estonian President Arnold, like a sharp sword, pointing directly at people's hearts. This pen represents the last card he will deploy, the Soviet armored division. As a country's army, the Estonian armed forces, including logistics personnel, are not enough to fill the gap between the two Soviet armored divisions.
At this point, Yanayev has played all his cards except for the Satan ICBM, which is his life-saving trump card. Now it depends on whether NATO countries will be restrained by his tough attitude.
The T72 tanks were like a long steel dragon, filling the road leading to the border. The fully equipped tank armored division aimed its artillery fire at the Estonian capital of Tallinn. The tank tracks were turning, and the indestructible steel torrent would crush all obstacles in their way.
The soldiers marched in neat steps, looking into the distance with resolute eyes. With AK74 rifles in their hands ready to go, they sang the "Soviet March" that quickly spread from the ranks, and rushed to the distant battlefield. The political commissar stood among them, singing this magnificent military song composed by Yanayev himself to the front line.
The Hind helicopter flew over the soldiers' heads, and the sound waves created by the rotation of the propellers carried this impassioned song far away, causing those who dared to offend the Soviet Union to feel the most primitive fear from the bottom of their hearts for the first time.
"We the Soviets will punish the world!"
The roar of tanks rolling over the road startled the birds perched on the roadside trees, the golden wheat fields fell in the direction of the war gears, and in the Orthodox church in the Estonian border town, the stained glass windows were shattered by stray bullets. The people looked at these suddenly appearing invaders in panic, just like the fearful eyes of the citizens of Budapest in 1956.
"From the Baltic Sea to the Pacific Ocean!"
The soldier stationed at the Estonian border post forgot to light his cigarette and watched the seemingly endless torrent of armored vehicles passing by them. Then he was pinned to the ground and his gun was confiscated. Until the last moment, he did not believe that the so-called steel torrent was really an endless ocean of war.
"October's songs resound throughout the land!"
The Estonian armored forces had no power to fight back against the torrent of steel. The so-called "Maginot Line" strategic defense line, which was said to be able to resist the attack of Soviet tanks, was easily torn apart, and a steady stream of Soviet tanks drove straight in without even suffering much loss.
"The Soviet Red Bear is about to arrive!"
The Estonian Army finally despaired. Their previous pride was instantly shattered. They now realized that their proud armored forces were no match for the Soviet tank divisions. They were quickly defeated and surrendered, just like the Hungarian October Incident and the Prague Spring. The Soviet army was in full control of the situation. It took less than four hours from the beginning to the end of the offensive. The Estonian Army Commander-in-Chief had promised Arnold that they could stop the Soviet troops for a week until the NATO joint forces arrived in the Soviet Union.
"Hurrah!"