Chapter 961: The Mir Space Station

France has its own interests in Africa, as an African policeman, France has always been trying to stay in Africa as much as possible, deep down, France also has the intention of confronting the United States and the Soviet Union, on the one hand, to hold the Federal Republic of Germany, on the other hand, to exert influence in North Africa, the final blueprint is the Mediterranean strategy. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The Mediterranean Sea is very important. The Mediterranean Sea is bordered by Europe to the north, Africa to the south, and the Middle East to the east. The western part of the Mediterranean Sea is connected with the Atlantic Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar, and the northeast is connected with the Black Sea through the Turkish Strait. From Western Europe to the Indian Ocean, the route through the Strait of Gibraltar, the Mediterranean Sea, the Suez Canal, and the Red Sea has become the most convenient sea route in the world. According to statistics, the Mediterranean Sea has an extremely important strategic position economically, politically and militarily. For a long time, the Mediterranean Sea became a contest for the great powers. The U.S. Sixth Fleet has always been based in the Mediterranean.

If the whole Mediterranean could be brought together, the modern Roman Empire would be re-established. It has to be said that it may be because there is only one Roman Empire in Europe that maintains a long-term unified relationship. As a result, any ambitious country is based on the Roman Empire, the United States is called the New Roman Empire, the Soviet Union has a plot of the successor of the Eastern Roman Empire, and even the Germans have the Holy Roman Empire, and if the French idea takes shape, the Roman Empire of the classical era will be re-established.

The biggest opponents of this plan were the United States and the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union was friendly to France, which had a premise that was temporary, in fact, the Soviet Union was the most ruthless country to clean up France after the war, and Southeast Asia, Syria, and even North and West Africa in the French colonies were deeply penetrated by the Soviet Union to varying degrees. Even the Suez Canal and the area around the Red Sea, including present-day Libya, were taken into the arms of the Soviet Union, with the ultimate goal of controlling all of North Africa and encircling Western Europe, which was the strategy of the Ottoman Empire.

So the French idea is nothing to think about, not to mention that the US Sixth Fleet is still in Italy. Nor will the United States let France's vision become a reality, nor did France during the Cold War publicly mention it.

Now that the Soviet Union, the United States, and France are sitting at the same table, their ideas are completely different from each other's interests, and the Soviet Union has always brought Libya out to take care of the feelings of the Arab people, and this negotiation has been discussed.

However, even if this incident touched the hearts of the whole world, it would not affect the Soviet Union, and the establishment of computer centers was being promoted throughout the Soviet Union, which was an important step in upgrading the planned economy, and the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Serov, chairman of the Council of Ministers Tikhonov, and second secretary Ligachev stressed the importance of this on many occasions.

Serov, as the general secretary, went to the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan to witness the launch of the Mir space station, accompanied by Kunaev, first secretary of the Kazakh party committee. Ben came this year, and according to real history, Kunayev should have been removed from office by order of Goto, which caused discontent among the Kazakhs and led to bloodshed. In the end, the centrifugal force of the Soviet minority was greatly increased, and the problem was that Gotu finally coaxed. Kazakhstan won the victory in this local confrontation with the central government, and since then the authority of Moscow has been greatly weakened in the eyes of the local party committee.

Serov is not ready to replace Kunaev, nor is he ready to let his important successor Nazarbayev continue to stay in Kazakhstan, and at the right time, for example, after the completion of the INF Treaty, he will begin to clean up the cadres with a more serious national consciousness, which of course must be done by Kunaev, who is the head of the land.

In case the eighty-year-old chairman of the Council of Ministers Tikhonov really does not have the energy to continue working, the general secretary is ready to use Nazarbayev on top, but the premise is that a Russian must be replaced as the first secretary in exchange, before that, Kunaev must learn from Serbitsky, who is also a Dnipro gangster, that is, Serov's in-laws, to make Kazakhstan go smoothly.

"Reagan believes that for a while, he won't come over to bother us. The addition of the French will make things more complicated, and the French also have their own pursuits. We'll just wait. "On the way to the Baikonur launch site, Kunayev and Nazarbayev were there, accompanying the General Secretary to personally watch the ceremony.

"Moscow said that Reagan is ready to meet with the general secretary in Iceland?" Kunaev wasted no time in asking, if the two sides can really meet, maybe the current situation will be eased. So that relations between the USSR and the United States could be calmed down.

"It's okay to see each other! That's what I just learned. Serov said unhurriedly, "But it may not be fruitful!" "If they do, it may be the first time the leaders of the two countries have met since they came to power, but Reagan doesn't want to get a bargain from him.

If the two sides really meet, they may exchange views in addition to the INF Treaty, and in the current situation, Reagan will definitely talk to Serov about the Libyan hostage crisis, and perhaps the hostage crisis itself is the purpose of Reagan's agreement to meet with Serov, rather than the so-called INF Treaty, which is used perfunctory by France.

Who cares, Serov did not take the initiative to ask Reagan to meet, in fact, once the INF treaty was signed, the United States and the Soviet Union really had to say who suffered and who took advantage, and this treaty could not be evaluated at all. Or that both the United States and the USSR suffered, and only Western Europe was safe. The French recognized this and united with the Federal Republic of Germany to put pressure on the United States.

Not long after, the group arrived at the Baikonur launch site, the last launch of the civilian part of the Mir space station, after which the Mir space station would be built. The first proposed space station was completely non-civilian, not at all, but a thoroughly combat space station, and after this launch, the Soviet Union would begin the second phase of its program.

Before this launch, the Mir space station, which was already in space, was 80 meters long, with a total mass of 140 tons and a working volume of more than 500 cubic meters, making it the largest spacecraft for human exploration of space to date, but this was not enough. After this launch, the platform will be fully built.

Prior to this, the Soviet Union had already launched the second module of the "Mir" - "Quantum One". Quantum-1 represents the first time that the Soviet Union has used a completely new module for the design of a space station, which carries scientific experiments and astrophysical observation equipment. Quantum-1 conducts research on active galaxies, quasars and neutron stars, and the module also supports biotechnology experiments in preparation for antiviral agents, and is planned to dock with Salyut 7. After the docking of Quantum 1 with Mir, the two engines in the tail of the core module were deactivated. This was followed by the launch of Quantum-2 by the Soviet Union. Its main purpose is to provide the space station with new instruments for scientific experiments, better life support systems, and an air-lock chamber.

Last year the Soviet Union launched the Crystal, the third module to dock with the core module. Like the previous modules, the crystal number is designed as a base module, and the main function of the crystal number is to obtain special properties of structural materials, electronic devices, biological agents and plant cultivation processes under space flight conditions; The enhancement of the capacity of earth resources exploration and astrophysical experiments has increased the space of the space station and brought more favorable conditions for long-term manned flights.

"I will never let you be born at the wrong time, the whole world will see your true colors, not the castration of the map." During the countdown to the Baikonur launch site, the general secretary, who was staring at the giant rocket, said to himself.

On July 25, 1986, the launch module of the last section of the Mir space station was launched, and the news of the successful launch quickly spread throughout the world.

"The successful construction of the Mir space embodies the basic fact that the Soviet Union is the world's largest space power, and if I am not modest to say, the current Soviet Union has no rival in space exploration."

In the evening of the Soviet news broadcast, the people who watched the news broadcast from work all over the Soviet Union saw on TV their invincible general secretary, and they could never be wrong, although the Soviet Union always criticized the hegemony and imperialism of other countries. But in fact, their general secretary is more in line with this in terms of image, and he still does not hide it.

Dressed in a gray military coat and a big-brimmed hat, Serov was dressed in old-fashioned clothes, holding the reading of the speech, which was completely different from Brezhnev, who had always shown himself as a dignified elder. "The Soviet Union's strong scientific research strength should have such achievements, and it has been proved that our country, political system, and scientific community are unique in the world, and the Soviet Union does not need to be compared with any country, because we are the first in the world." ”

"What capitalist countries can't do, we can easily do." The Soviet people who listened to the general secretary's reading felt as if they had heard of this set of rhetoric somewhere, and many elderly people thought about it carefully, and it seemed that this kind of agitative speech always appeared in the Khrushchev era 20 years ago.

In any case, for the entire Soviet Union, this is a very celebrating thing, and the significance of the Mir space station, which can be heard by ordinary people, can allow a person to stay in space for a long time. In addition, the Komsomolskaya Pravda and Soviet television boasted one after another, and after the sixties, the space fever once again broke out in the Soviet Union.

This is definitely not good news for the United States, Reagan finally does not have to remain silent, this opportunity Reagan cherished very much, and soon announced that he would increase investment in space, and also retorted very confidently, "What the Soviet Union can do, the United States can also do!" ”