Chapter 678: A Changing World

Poverty is not socialism, of course, but poverty can revolutionize people, and when all hope is lost, do not forget that there is one last option left, and that is to lose to the death. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info There is a soil for losing a fight to the death in Africa, but what to do after the fight is over, this is a problem.

Zinev came to solve this problem, the KGB is an intelligence organization, once it is found profitable, it is like a cat that smells fishy, and it will rush up without anyone reminding itself, and this is the purpose of his coming to Ethiopia.

There is another condition, the widespread spread of socialist ideas in this country, and that is the widespread long-term rule, which is another reason why many third world countries are interested in the Soviet Union. Of course, the latter was not the goal of the USSR, but it did exist objectively.

After the initial meeting with the other party, Zinev was quite satisfied, and he did not show a domineering attitude, and then reported the situation here to Serov in Moscow, giving a detailed report on the situation here.

Serov's reply also came immediately, and the sprinkling text in it actually had only one core content, "When will the rebellion be suppressed?" "It's a very straightforward question, straight to the point of not being disguised.

What age is this? This was an era of fierce collisions, the Soviet Union and the United States had to fight all over the world, and there was no environment to slowly transform a country, in fact, since the founding of the Soviet Union, there has not been such an environment. The whole world is waiting for the Soviet Union to fight for it, who has the time to wait for an African country to slowly complete its transformation? Serov felt that as long as a country was dealt with, the capital of that country must be eliminated immediately, and he was not concerned about public opinion. What is the use of public opinion? Only an idiot like Gotu would listen to public opinion and take a ruling strategy.

"Head, isn't it a little more direct?" Zinev had a very helpless tone, although this was also his idea, but he did not hide it so unabashedly, and the instructions of Comrade General Political Commissar were always so straightforward.

"There are some things that one country can't do, but a few more friends can do it, and that's the dilemma we are facing." In Serov's reply, he said from the side where the current calm of the Soviet Union was. The dilemma of the Soviet Union was that it had too few friends, not that the Soviet Union was inferior to the United States, but that the American circle of friends was stronger than that of the Soviet Union.

There are so many countries on the planet that if the Soviet Union wants to expand its own circle of friends, it will inevitably squeeze the circle of friends of others. How can I have time to farm? And the drought did not allow the Soviet Union to do anything, could the Soviet Union transport the Antarctic ice sheet to Ethiopia? The problem can only be solved through the assistance of other countries, of which the importance of the Sudan is self-evident. But the Soviet Union is not charitable, and if you want the Soviet Union to give assistance, you must make the changes that the Soviet Union wants, otherwise there is no need to talk about it.

"This is a class contradiction, some unscrupulous chieftains and Haile Selassie's cronies, which have caused Ethiopia's predicament, the Soviet Union can be assisted by the allies, but you still need to make your own achievements." Through the translators, Zinev tactfully expressed Lubyanka's idea of how to turn the unexpected joy into his own credit, and Zinev decided to make a fuss about the rebellion, otherwise the situation in Ethiopia will become a natural development and will not become his own credit.

Zinev wants to turn natural development into his own credit, and the chairman has also given this opportunity, and it is up to him how to grasp it, then he must complete his task of suppressing the rebellion and live up to Lubyanka's expectations.

"Of course, slow adjustment can achieve its own goals, but it may take unimaginable time, Lieutenant Colonel Mengistu, maybe you will see results in a few decades, and sometimes, we have to get some blood on our hands." Zinev nodded at the other party lightly.

For Mengistu, who turned out to be only a middle- and low-level officer, he has just been in power for less than a month, and he still needs time to digest the existing power, and he is in the stage of ignorance in many aspects, it doesn't matter, Zinev can hand it over to him. It always takes time for a novice to become a politician, and looking at the dark skin of the other party, Zinev already has a plan in mind.

In order to break with the past, Mengistu decided to first execute a group of powerful people who had been controlled, and then distribute the property of these powerful people to the people who needed to avoid death the most. At the same time, in the capital Addis Ababa, it was announced that it had received aid from the Soviet Union to stabilize the people's minds.

"We can clearly see that the United States cannot give us the support we need, so we have to overcome it ourselves." Mengistu's statement was followed by a massive march to show Ethiopia's determination to break with the past. On the same day, 200 ministers of the reign of Haile Selassie I were executed.

"In this country, some nobles refer to people with dark skin, thick lips, and curly hair as slaves...... Now, I make it clear to everyone that I will soon bring down these ignorant people and crush them to pieces! "There will be no nobility in this country anymore, and we will tell everyone that people cannot decide their lives by birth, and that is why I am willing to maintain friendship with the Soviet Union." ”

Mengistu's words provoked a round of applause, and these middle and low-ranking officers erupted into a burst of enthusiastic cheers. The Military Consultative Council, which controlled the whole country, established a pro-Soviet policy through this meeting.

"Zinev did a good job, now that our forces in Sudan have been lifted, if it is not the rainy season, in fact, we can attack the DRC now, how much force can we use at the moment?" Serov secretly said beautifully, at the right time, the Ethiopian fruit was ripe, and it was really sleepy someone sent a pillow. Good luck comes, and you can't stop it.

The sharp rise in oil prices and the fall in mineral prices all depend on what perspective, the decline in mineral prices has hit countries like Chile and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the sharp rise in oil prices has made countries like Iran and Saudi Arabia rise. In fact, Serov is very suspicious that there is international capital making waves here, but he has no evidence.

The problem will always be solved, the Soviet Union will take advantage of Chile, and at the same time take advantage of the fall in mineral prices to the DRC, which can turn disadvantages into advantages, and the earlier work in Iraq will not make the price of oil rise in vain Saudi Arabia, Iran and other green plum countries, so even if there is international capital to do things in it, the Soviet Union did not let them take advantage, and the most affected are Western Europe and Japan, they have nothing.

"The Sudan mainly sent 120,000 troops, attacking on the grounds that the Sudanese-speaking community in the north is persecuted, this is the main direction of attack, attacking the DRC in a head-on decisive battle, as for the other direction, we need to plan carefully, after all, the strength of the Congo is too far behind the other side, so we have not started the relevant plan." General Morikin, head of the First General Directorate, said, "The program is expected to start after the rainy season. ”

The Congo was the first socialist country in Africa, earlier than any Sudan, and the KGB at that time was still under the leadership of Shelepin, which should have been a good springboard for attack, and geographically it was true, the Congo had blocked the access to the sea and turned the DRC into a landlocked country. But the problem is that the country is too weak, too weak, and now the population is less than two million, and it is difficult to recruit and pull out a single army. It is not easy for the Workers' Party of the Congo (WPC) to maintain stability in the Congo in the face of a confrontation with the DRC, and it is unrealistic for the country to play a greater role.

Both the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Democratic Republic of the Congo have armed opposition supported by each other, and at this time, let the Congo also send troops, and if you think about it carefully, you will know that it is unlikely, but well, it would be a pity not to take advantage of this excellent geographical condition.

"In that case, after the start of the war between Sudan and the DRC, the main responsibility of the Congo is to defend and ensure that the aid of the DRB is not allowed to pass through its own country to the DRC, and once the plan begins, we will airlift 5,000 paratroopers from Cuba into the DRB and attack from the west, if possible, directly to Kinshasa." Serov snapped his fingers, and at this time he could only put his hope on Cuba. Cuba is undergoing military reform, and a paratrooper unit is being created in the second largest in the world.

Cuba's build-up of a large paratrooper has provoked a backlash in the United States, with talk that Cuba should be attacked first to take out the Soviet springboard in Latin America, but this has been stopped because of Cuba's domestic unity. The United States does not want another Vietnam war, and Cuba is no worse than Vietnam in that respect. If it weren't for the fear of Southeast Asia changing color, the U.S. military would want to withdraw now.

"I'll contact Comrade Raul Castro right away, and it shouldn't be a problem." Morikin saluted, and he was left alone in the empty office, which was busy at the moment, with both Brezhnev and Shelepin greeting delegations from Arab countries, and events such as the signing of bilateral agreements taking place every day.

Countries like the Soviet Union welcome foreign visits every day, if not at the level of heads of state, but also units like the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Defense, and after the war in the Middle East, this lively scene has not stopped.

Foreign Minister Gromyko has been the busiest person except for Brezhnev recently, or for that reason, as a consequence of the skyrocketing price of oil, the land in Western European countries can generally only be cultivated, and as for oil, it is basically non-existent. So the price of oil is rising, and the first impact is on this kind of country, as well as Japan and South Korea in East Asia. It was not the USSR that begged these Western European countries to let them invest, these countries sent them to their doors. In the midst of the economic crisis, what Paris co-ordinates, hurry up and get out of the way, it's an economic crisis, what technology is still blocked, and don't you see that the technology of the Soviet Union is stronger than ours. (To be continued.) )