For the Soviets, a place with a warm climate was very attractive, but it was not the sheer heat of Khartoum, which happened to have a relatively short coastline and no sea breeze, and the Nile River obviously did not allow the temperature to cool down in the Sudanese capital. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info Mountains and rivers are good places, and Khartoum is not one of them.

However, for the sake of the Soviet Union's national interests, the advisers of the military advisory group in Sudan were still ordered to come up from Alexandria against the current to be responsible for the reorganization of the Sudanese army and the realization of the Soviet Union's strategic plan.

The plan has been around for a long time, along the route of the British Empire, from Egypt, the northernmost part of Africa, all the way south, until South Africa takes the whole of East Africa under its control, of course, this is the most ideal situation, in fact, the possibility of gnawing South Africa from Africa is infinitely close to zero. But South Africa and Zimbabwe of this era are, after all, special countries in Africa.

Both countries are ruled by whites but the African countries with a black majority have nominally become colonies of independent countries, in this case, it is of course more difficult to overthrow the white regimes of the two countries, after all, the Soviet Union cannot come from thousands of miles away to fight, but if you take a step back, with a lower goal to plunge the two countries into chaos, it is not impossible, in the more than ten years of white rule, black groups in Zimbabwe have been waging fierce guerrilla warfare to try to overthrow the authorities. Under the intertwining of international sanctions and black armed movements, the white government was finally forced to sign treaties with many black forces, including the African National Union of Zimbabwe and the Union of African States of Zimbabwe.

Of course, the premise of all this is that we must first deal with the Congo that is blocking the way of the Soviet Union on the way south, this country is very obstructive and has become an obstacle to the Soviet Union's African strategy, and the Congo is not weak, with a population twice that of Sudan, although Mobutu is a dictator, but also a capable dictator, after the death of Lumumba, who was supported by the Soviet Union, Mobutu banned the activities of Lumumba's supporters and consolidated his position.

Historically, Mobutu was active until the collapse of the Soviet Union, and later, because the Soviet Union no longer existed, the United States began to repair its image, and began to systematically allow these Cold War allies to be overthrown. The United States' support for various warlords and dictators during the Cold War was only a stopgap measure, and it was a move that could not be done under pressure from the Soviet Union.

Just like Serov's favorite democracy, because he knows that this system is full of loopholes, and it is very easy for powerful countries to interfere, and the political elite of the United States certainly knows it. The problem is that in this era, the United States itself is not the only superpower, once the democratic system is implemented in a backward country, first, the forces supported by the United States may not be able to elect the Communist Party, and second, they will be elected, and the Soviet Union can also infiltrate through other means.

In order to withstand the red wave around the world, the United States can only retreat to political strongmen and warlords. They also know that political strongmen and warlords are much stronger than their democratic elites. If the backward countries are all in power with their cultivated cannons, it is estimated that the result will be that they will be pushed down by the Soviet Union one after another, and the news reported in the American newspapers every day is that the Soviet Union is marching from one victory to another.

The power of Mobutu and the Congo was nothing to mention for the Soviet Union, but it was a good country in Africa. The Soviet Union could not come specifically to clean him up, and could only fight through the situation of a proxy war. This is the purpose of the Soviet military advisory group coming to Sudan.

The head of the military advisory group was a general of the Red Army, but this military advisory group was different, and in this group sent to Sudan by the Soviet Union, a general adviser appeared, and this person was the retired first deputy chairman of the KGB, General Itvasov. Although he was not the head of the military advisory group, he had a higher rank than the commander of the regiment with the rank of lieutenant general, and Serov specially asked him to come to Sudan to show that the Soviet Union attached great importance to Sudan as a country.

At this time, in the building of the new Sudanese government, Itwassov met with the rulers of Sudan, Lieutenant General Selam, chairman of the Sudanese Revolutionary People's Party, and Lieutenant General Rahim, chairman of the Sudanese Council of Ministers, and a large number of Sudanese real power factions.

"Comrade Selam, Comrade Rahim, I bring greetings from the General Political Commissar, we have heard about the achievements of the past year or so and the changes in Sudan, we have all heard in Moscow, the process of reconciliation between the North and the South is also progressing well, although the conflict is still there, it is much better than the situation under General Aboud, and the agriculture and animal husbandry in Sudan are developing very well. This is a welcome change. After meeting with these Lumumba graduates, Itvasov greeted them and went straight to the point, "The role played by a modern army cannot be overstated. I don't know what standard you think Sudan's military strength is? ”

"Our military will be able to play a role in Africa, far from being strong." Seram still had a clear understanding of the Sudanese army, he had seen the military power of the Soviet Union itself, and he had heard that the most powerful power of the Soviet Union was not in the mainland, but the Western cluster stationed in Germany, but the Soviet soldiers he saw were shocking enough.

"To tell the truth, your military strength is organizationally equivalent to the organizational strength of the European military powers during the First World War, and even inferior to the fact that during the First World War fifty years ago, European countries were able to mobilize millions of troops to fight, and you Sultan still can't do it, so the current achievements are far from the time of complacency." Itvasov adopted a narrative technique of first suppressing and then rising, first pointing out the shortcomings of Sudan, and then changing the conversation, "As a model country that the Soviet Union wants to build on the African continent, the current situation in Sudan is far from optimistic, and Serov General Political Commissar once said that the Soviet Union hopes that Sudan will play the role of a window in Africa, so Sudan had better meet the standards of the Soviet Warsaw Pact allies." ”

"Thank you, teacher, for taking a fancy to our country!" Rahim, chairman of the Sudanese Council of Ministers, said with a little excitement. Although the countries of Eastern Europe are a little worse than the powerful countries of Western Europe, in his opinion, they are already much higher than the Sultan. The meal has to be eaten one bite at a time, and as long as the Sultan can meet the standards of Eastern European countries, he is already thankful.

"Of course, that's between you and the Soviet Union, and my mission this time is very simple, to increase Sudan's control, and at the same time to help Sudan build a modern army, a model army in Africa. At least to meet the standards of Syria, and at the same time to reconcile the contradictions between the north and the south in Sudan. This is Ilvanov's purpose, to build up an army on the Soviet model, as the Soviet Union's strength in Africa. With the existence of this army, it is believed that the Soviet Union's future plans in Africa will be much easier.

According to Itwasov's plan, the new Sudanese People's Army should have about 400,000 people. 350,000 people, and 50,000 border guards, this is the largest number that Sudan can afford at this stage. Itwasov's special emphasis on the fact that most of the border guards should be made up of black soldiers, demonstrates the determination of the new government for reconciliation between the North and the South.

However, this proposal made Seram a little suspicious, and asked, "The blacks in the south themselves have a tendency to secede, and if some of the soldiers are made up of blacks, will it give them the power to separate?" ”

"I heard that there is a Sudanese minority in the north of the Congo?" Itvasov smiled and turned to another topic, "This kind of cross-border people is actually a problem and a problem, and it is not wrong to say that it is the root cause of solving the problem. With the environment in the Congo, it will certainly not be very good for this ethnic group with a population of only a few hundred thousand. ”

This ethnic group is one with the black people of southern Sudan, but there are slightly fewer people on the Congolese side, with a population of less than a million, and since the obvious pro-Soviet transformation in Sudan, this ethnic group has aroused Mobutu's suspicions, which were in the past, but now they are more serious.

The KGB and the CIA are experts at subverting the country and fanning the flames. In fact, stirring up contradictions is nothing more than a few ways, to see if there are ethnic problems in this country, if there are no religious problems, or if not, to see if there are regional problems, if all of them are congratulations, when an organization like the KGB feels that this country is valuable, but it is still hostile, it will immediately find these problems and use them.

The United States has repeatedly increased its troops in Southeast Asia, fought to the death in Vietnam, and put Malaysia on full alert. The forces in other directions are empty, so at least in Africa for a few years, the KGB is facing nothing more than the remnants of some colonial empires.

"Understood, transfer the hatred of the internal blacks to us Arabs to the Congo. Unleash this hatred. Seram and Rahim groaned for a moment, and they all understood the meaning.

In July '66, after the arrival of the Soviet military advisory group in Khartoum, a nationwide campaign to reorganize the army began, and Salam and Rahim, in the name of the Sudanese Revolutionary People's Party and the Sudanese Council of Ministers, respectively, issued documents establishing the Sudan People's Army (SPA) and (SLA) to allow all departments to accept the reorganization of the Soviet military advisory group. This marks another step closer to the socialist camp after Sudan joined the Economic and Mutual Economic Association.

"When the time comes, we will detonate the problem of the cross-border peoples, the army will attack the Congo, and the pro-American government will be taken away in waves, so this time we must let the Sudan understand the meaning of mechanized warfare, fortunately, most of the Sudan are Arabs, otherwise the idea of the General Political Commissar is really not easy to implement." Itvasov said something like this to the head of the Soviet military advisory group, "Although Mobutu in the Congo is not easy to handle, the Congo is not the Soviet Union, and once our reorganized army begins to attack, it is estimated that he will only go into exile!" (To be continued.) )