Chapter 41 Passing the buck

On the outskirts of West Berlin, the Red Banner 214 Engineering Brigade entered the predetermined location in a company and platoon, led by the staff officers of the garrisons around West Berlin, smashed open warehouses stacked with barbed wire, and removed logs that had been placed in the open air. Quietly and step-by-step into the operation, for the soldiers of the engineering brigade, paving roads and building bridges in the face of mountains and rivers is their own duty, and it is not a problem to complete a blockade line.

"Ten meters into the range of West Berlin, leave a distance of ten meters!" The staff officer of the War Department ordered this, and as for why there was such an order, he actually did not know. This order was given by Serov, what can a mere barbed wire fence of less than two meters do? Even pressing the blade on it won't help, you can climb up by taking off your clothes and putting on the pad. The real project still needs reinforced concrete concrete, not barbed wire that can be easily destroyed, and this 10-meter distance is to leave a distance for the real wall!

The Soviet Union and the GDR joined in the invisible dividing line of West Berlin, in which more than 13,000 men were involved, in a process of intense silence, an atmosphere of collective action and the caution of covert action, in a strange environment of conflict, a blockade of barbed wire, which was not strong and only played a role in stopping the movement of people.

At midnight, Serov, who was sitting at the headquarters of the Stasi, received one call after another, the barbed wire fence in the northern, western and southern suburbs had been built, and after looking at the time, the local time in Berlin was half past one, Serov yawned and said, "The blockade line in the suburbs has been built, and you have to deal with the rest of the things yourself." We, the Soviets, had better not go into battle in person, in case the West Berliners, who had not slept, saw us! ”

"Don't worry, I've arranged it!" Markus Wolf also knew that the stakes were high, and directly grabbed the phone on the table, "The internal affairs forces are dispatched to carry out the operation according to the original plan!" ”

"General Serov, thank you for helping the GDR personnel to flee, it's late, or you should rest here!" Markus Wolf had been preparing for this day for a long time, and the GDR had already known the loss of the exodus, and had been waiting for the opportunity to act like today, but he did not expect Serov to be parachuted into Berlin to make this day come so quickly.

Who helped you stop the people from fleeing? Serov hated the distortionists the most, and his planned Berlin Wall was not the same thing as the historical Berlin Wall, and it was not just a matter of increasing the amount of work and the cost of work. The most important thing is that the purpose is different, the historical Berlin Wall is indeed the GDR to prevent people from fleeing, and Serov's Berlin Wall, he is afraid that the people inside will run out, not afraid of people entering.

And it's time to shirk a wave of responsibility, for tomorrow's wording, Serov already has a basic draft in his mind. The blockade has been established, and today's task has been accomplished. Let Marcus Wolf make arrangements for him to stay here today. Don't go back and cause trouble for the two women at this late hour.

Overnight, a blockade of more than 100 kilometers of barbed wire suddenly appeared, and when the people of Berlin woke up from their sleep in the early morning to find that the city had been divided into two parts, and the news had spread throughout the city before noon, the people of West Berlin suddenly found that they had been surrounded by more than 100 kilometers of barbed wire overnight, as if they were in a huge prison.

Around the barbed wire fence, there were soldiers of the People's Army of the GDR standing everywhere, people wanted to ask but did not dare, it was useless to ask, these KPA soldiers were only transferred to patrol by order, and the construction of the blockade line was the work of the internal affairs forces.

"Hey, Kolomna Electric Plant? Comrade Badaev? Well! It's me, I'm Serov! Serov took the phone and said, "The high-power searchlight I want should be done, okay, I'm sorry for you." Didn't delay your production tasks, did you get the kind of lamps that glowed red after being energized? At least it's about the same shape as the drawings I gave you, don't think about anything else, goodbye Comrade Badaev......"

In the fifties, there were still some problems with the telephone line, and it took half an hour from the time the operator answered the phone to the actual call, and the call took only two minutes.

Serov, who put down the phone, smirked twice, high-power searchlights can often be seen in wartime, especially in the face of night air raids by enemy countries, which play a role in guiding air defense forces, in fact, there are not many factories that are still producing high-power searchlights, after all, fighters are getting faster and taller, and this kind of searchlight can no longer keep up with the rhythm. As for the lamps that glow red, they are used for deterrence at night, and the red color is the most striking in the dark night, which also represents danger! The shape is made according to the infrared monitor, and the cost of manufacturing a real infrared monitor is too large, so just take a similar lamp and make do with it.

In terms of fraud, black-hearted capitalists can only rank second, and the first department is the intelligence department of various countries, but black-hearted capitalists commit fraud in pursuit of profits, while intelligence departments fraud for strategic deception.

The establishment of the blockade zone caused an uproar, and the news from West Berlin made the United States, Britain, and France feel very angry, and the countries began to discuss countermeasures against the sudden appearance of the blockade zone, and were ready to put pressure on the Soviet Union with a unified voice.

Can I give you a chance? Serov, dressed in the uniform of a lieutenant general not seen for a long time, appeared at the city hall in East Berlin, which immediately caused a commotion among many journalists, who had come by application through the passage of the blockade belt.

"General Serov, did this obviously hostile behavior of the USSR benefit from the General Secretary of the USSR?" This is a British journalist who does not think much of a big deal to see the excitement.

"General Serov, is the Soviet Union trying to force the United States to submit by building a blockade? Do you think it helps? This is the journalist of the United States, the king of the world's mouth.

Serov did not even lift his eyelids at these obviously hostile and aggressive questions, which were all expected by his brother, "The establishment of the blockade belt is the GDR's own actions!" Serov would never admit that he had done such a thing, and in fact there was nothing wrong with it, the GDR was ready to act on its own, "We, the Soviet Union, have transferred to the GDR all the rights that a country should have, including the status of West Berlin." In my personal opinion, there is no problem at all, and it is not very uncommon for the border between the two countries to be guarded with barbed wire! ”

Completely shirking his responsibilities, Serov said refreshedly, "You can apply to your newspaper to add an office in the capital Berlin, and it may not be so easy to come here in the future!" ”

This is just the beginning, and in a few months you will know what will become of West Berlin......

[My update speed has always been very stable, 12,000 update tickets, I can only say that, I have never had more than 10,000 words a day, even if it is only one day]