"As early as the first half of the year, we got some news of the coup d'état, to be honest, if it weren't for the fear of President Allende interfering in the internal affairs of our Soviet Union, I would have wanted to inform you a long time ago, the situation in Chile has been in constant turmoil for several months, so I took this opportunity to take these things out at this opportune time. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info: "At this time, there were only Serov and the two of them in Allende's office in the presidential palace. Before coming, Serov's aides had checked the entire president to make sure that no bugging devices were working.

"I must say that all the militaries in the whole of Latin America are very dangerous, look at your continent, all the juntas, do you trust your national army so much, and President Sukarno thought so at the beginning." Serov pointed to himself at this time and said, "If it weren't for me, Indonesia would be ruled by a military junta now, and as for the Indonesian Communist Party, it should no longer exist." ”

President Allende's eyes flashed with thought, and although he would not be gullible because of some words from the Soviets, he also knew that these words were true, and the Christian Democratic Party decided to support Allende's election, but proposed to Allende a "constitutional guarantee regulation" as a condition for supporting him in the parliamentary elections. Its main contents are: all activities of the Allende government after coming to power must strictly abide by the Constitution, and the socialist reforms carried out must not undermine any of the provisions of the Constitution; The existing institutional hierarchies of the army and the national police must be respected, and armed groups that are parallel to the national army and police must not be established. Allende accepted the constitutional guarantee, and the Communist Party of Chile pledged to act within the limits of bourgeois law.

Truth be told, this was the main factor in Allende's final powerless resistance to the military coup. Even if Serov had already sent the list of suspicious people to Allende, and Allende had put down all these suspicious people, it would be impossible to guarantee that a military coup would not take place.

"Is General Serov trying to create a Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chile? Our country has such a department, and other parties will not agree to it. President Allende smiled and shook his head, about the events in Indonesia a few years ago, with the passage of time, has spread all over the world, the Indonesian Ministry of Internal Affairs played a major role in the showdown between the Indonesian Communist Party and the Indonesian military. These messages have also become the target of American research, which has blocked the road at the time of the election.

"I didn't say that I wanted to establish a Ministry of the Interior in Chile, and the same trick cannot be used twice. Believe me, as a national security cadre, my job is to build up the domestic security system and sniff out and eradicate traitors. Serov looked left and right and said, "I want to represent the Soviet military to inspect the Chilean military, rest assured, just chat." ”

The Ministry of Internal Affairs can only use this trick once, and if it really fights a civil war, the United States will move faster than the Soviet Union. But it doesn't matter, he has other tricks, for so many years he has been firmly sitting in the position of chairman of the KGB, not by merit, Brezhnev looks at himself unpleasantly, no matter how much credit is useless. It's not about character, it's much stronger than character Shelepin, it's about the sixth sense that comes after recovering from a serious illness, who is hostile to himself, will this hostility be fatal, as long as Serov wants to, he can evaluate it, and he can replace the other party when the other party has not yet acted.

Therefore, Zinev and Zvigon were constantly tossed and entrusted with important tasks by Serov, and the two first deputy chairmen, who were also not threatening, continued to maintain the operation of the KGB, and it seemed that the exposure rate was relatively low, but in fact, these basic things were fatal.

He had to come into contact with the Chilean military, which consisted of four divisions, the army, navy, and police force, which were similar to the parallel structures of the Soviet Union, and the army, navy, air force, and police force were divided into two parts, but unlike the KGB and the Ministry of Defense of the Soviet Union, the Chilean army and the police were one.

Pinochet was now the chief of staff of the Chilean Army, and on the next day's expedition to the Chilean Army, Serov met him, Allende's gravedigger. Not only met him, but also met the commanders-in-chief of other services. Serov chatted with all the thirty or so generals present quite enthusiastically, sensing the other party's inner thoughts about Allende and the Soviet Union. As expected, two-thirds of the people were not interested in socialism, and to Serov's surprise, Pinochet and General Platz, the commander-in-chief of the army, had a fairly good view of Allende. The latter is more like a military man in the strict sense of the word.

If it weren't for the fact that Pinochet was one of the people who overthrew Allende, Serov almost thought that his feelings were wrong, and he remembered the news that the coup d'état that overthrew Allende was actually planned by the Chilean Navy at the beginning, and Pinochet only reluctantly agreed to join a few days before the coup began, but after the coup succeeded, he became dominant as his position was secured. Originally, it was planned that the commander-in-chief of the four services would be led on a rotational basis, but Pinochet's position was cemented afterwards.

After returning to the hotel in the evening, Serov began to recall the conversations of the day, and the most hostile to Allende was the navy. Instead of the Army, as he had earlier believed, Pinochet turned out to be a neutral. This can also be explained by the fact that Khrushchev was also neutral between Malenkov and Beria at the time of Stalin's death. After Stalin, in the struggle for Trotsky, Bukharin and others, Stalin was also a neutral. The final victor is often not the first to charge.

This is not the case with the final victor, and Pinochet should be in that role.

"Navy? If it had been ten years ago, I would have known that Chile was going to have a coup d'état, and there would have been no way. But now it's different, the Red Navy can already reach here. Anyway, the US Navy did not dare to take the initiative to attack the Soviet Red Navy, what was it afraid of. Serov snapped his fingers, this time he relied on the Red Navy, as long as he got Allende's approval, let the Red Navy always have troops in Chile, and the Chilean Navy would never dare to launch a coup d'état under the nose of the Red Navy.

As a powerful department leader of the Soviet Union, Serov must have this self-confidence, that is, he must have full trust in the land combat capability of the Red Navy, as the world's most capable navy in land warfare, the Soviet Red Navy hangs the naval flag on the tank and fights Germany to the death, there is this tradition, not to mention the Chilean Navy, even if the Chilean Army comes in, it should not be a problem.

"Most of Chile's military generals are not trustworthy, but the navy is more hostile to Allende." He gave Allende his assessment report, and Serov and Andropov made a considerable expedition to Santiago in the past few days. Entering some factories and shops, probably because of the imminent convention, the recent march in San Diego disappeared. But some places still left traces, and there is indeed a shortage of goods.

"Do you mean that you want President Allende to promise Chile a military port for the Red Navy to be resupplyed? I guess the other party won't agree! Andropov shook his head slightly, "It's difficult, you know, for a country like ours, special attention is paid to national dignity." ”

"So I hope to use the World Congress of Communist Parties to get President Allende to agree, otherwise if there is a coup d'état, you will find that we are powerless to intervene." Serov thought for a moment and said, "At the same time, we must be prepared to contain the turmoil in Chile and clean up these dishonest factory owners and businessmen." ”

"I told the general secretary about this matter, and it requires the efforts of our entire camp." Andropov nodded.

The economic model of the Soviet Union has a shortcoming, that is, there will be a shortage of many products, but the other situation is equally serious, that is, many goods are piled up and cannot be sold at all, this situation existed throughout the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, because there were many plans, and the people's demand was not high, and the backlog of goods in different countries was different, and the Soviet Union was not only austerity. The Soviet Union produces 33 million watches a year, and that's just one brand. There was sometimes not enough beef in the Soviet Union, but there were too many cows, and milk could be drunk as water.

Serov never believed that the so-called economic miracle in Chile appeared under the military junta, which is absolutely deceptive propaganda, and the Chilean economic miracle refers to the high GDP growth of more than 5 percent per capita for two consecutive years after Pinochet came to power, in 1976-1981 and 1984-1989. However, in the rest of the years, there were also two crashes of more than minus 10 percent and one plunge of about 5 percent. If you all take it into account, and add inflation, the data won't look too good.

In the seventy-three years that Pinochet came to power, Chileans earned more than $1,600 a year; In the ninetieth year of Pinochet's ouster, it was two thousand two hundred dollars. In the whole of 18 years, it has grown by less than 50 percent, with an average annual growth rate of 2.0 percent, which is also a miracle? If this is a miracle, including China in the sixties and seventies, there is not a single socialist country that is not a miracle.

In fact, Chile's resource endowment is rebelliously good: 756,000 square kilometers with a population of only 120,000. Such a vast and sparsely populated country has 185 million tons of copper reserves, accounting for 29% of the world's total. In addition, lithium reserves also account for 17.8% of the world's total, and gold and silver reserves are also among the highest in the world. This is the miracle of Pinochet's junta, similar to Argentina, which has changed from a developed country to a developing country, and Argentina has been ridiculed for what it has become in later generations.

Subsequently, Andropov and Serov presented to Brezhnev the real situation in Chile, indicating that assistance was urgent.

"President Allende has always said that Chile does not need foreign aid, but I didn't expect the problem to be so serious." Brezhnev was also taken aback by the situation in Chile, and if he had not come here himself, he would not have known that the Chilean economy was more serious than some of the institutional problems of the Soviet Union, "It seems that we have to do something." "Brezhnev made up his mind to criticize Chile at the Communist Congress, whether the other side agreed or not. (To be continued.) )