Chapter 854: Prelude to the Falklands
The leader is still there, and that's more important than anything else. Pen ~ Fun ~ Cabinet www.biquge.info Although Brezhnev has indeed considered his future problems in his heart, at this moment, he is still not ready to take the initiative to give up the position of general secretary. He wanted the Soviet people to know that the country was still under his leadership and had reached the pinnacle of history.
In the history of Russia, there has never been such a strong period, never before. A great country and a great leader are one, this is what Brezhnev thought, whether it is a friend of the USSR or an enemy of the USSR, he wants everyone to know that he is still here, and not to hit the USSR with his ideas.
"However, the temperature will be very cold on October Revolution Day!" Chernenko's meaning is obvious, Brezhnev is not young.
"I am the general secretary, and this is my responsibility." Brezhnev's face remained unchanged and did not listen to Chernenko's bluntness.
"I've seen a lot of problems, but that's not a reason to have to disintegrate." By 1982, Serov felt that he should see how serious the problems of the Soviet Union were. The external environment of the Soviet Union has changed a lot, and it is very different from the historical environment, but the internal environment is still the same. The same old man is in control, and those people are still in power, so some problems should arise.
But the problem that the General Political Commissar saw was not a reason why the Soviet Union had to disintegrate, but at most a reason why the United States could not be defeated. If the standard was only in 1982, and this year's Soviet Union and the United States were not significantly superior, the Central Presidium of the Soviet Union was already old, but Reagan, who had early Alzheimer's disease, was also a rare elderly president in the United States.
No reform can produce immediate results, this is the law, and Reagan cannot violate this law. Just as Serov could not have given an order, all the Soviets were possessed by the aura of communism, and all the indicators of the Soviet Union were crushed by the United States at once.
But there is one thing, Serov has to adjust now, he can adjust from the rubyanka now. The KGB's world strategy, where a country's intelligence services develop strategic plans, may sound like bragging, but that's what the Soviet Union is, and the KGB's strategy is to serve the Soviet Union.
"According to the spirit of the Central Committee, security and internal affairs cadres at all levels should understand that both ourselves and our enemies are undergoing a round of adjustments. We don't talk about it, but we are all preparing for the next round of confrontation, so some foreign policies and plans, as our department, the department that is in confrontation with the United States at this moment, should respond flexibly to changes in the facts anytime and anywhere! Taking off his blue big-brimmed hat, Serov emphasized word by word, "Intelligence work cannot only be defensive, but more importantly, offensive, even if it is defense, it is also offensive defense." ”
The offensive strategy of the KGB included any country on the planet, any people, regardless of the ideological and political structure of the other side, without exception. Manipulation and control, armed subversion, the work of the CIA is done by the KGB, and what is outside the authority of the CIA, the KGB also has to do, because the KGB is a comprehensive intelligence service.
"Listen to me with my ears pricked up, and I'll just say a few simple questions. I can express the matter of the British Expeditionary Force later, and now let's talk about the big picture! "The preparation time for the Falklands War came later than in history, probably because the Soviet camp had greatly increased, and the United States did not want Britain to go all the way to Latin America to start a war at this time, but it seems that Reagan's mediation failed, and although it was a few months late, Britain still began to prepare for war.
Britain's preparations for war are underway, and Serov will talk about this at the end, when he says his own strategic plan, "The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is our primary target, and for our intelligence adjustments, three important cities must be adjusted!" The three important cities he spoke of were Vienna, Berlin and Rome.
Of course, under normal circumstances, the KGB would not use Soviet nationals, because the target was too large, and it was obviously easier to use Germans and Czechs. Berlin and Vienna, in the eyes of the KGB, were equivalent to a launcher, without which missiles could not take off.
There were more than 20,000 informants in the KGB and Stasi in the entire Federal Republic of Germany, more than 10,000 in France, and 10,000 in Italy, most of whom did not know that they were spies, and because of the ratio of men to women in the Soviet Union. Therefore, there were many transnational marriages, and it was also a regular means to actively recruit Soviet spouses abroad to serve the Soviet Union.
The second is to control the topographical and hydrological data of the whole of Western Europe in detail, conduct surveys along the way, and prepare for the westward advance of the Soviet army. The hydrographic data and throughput of the major ports of Western Europe were also important factors for the Soviet Union to consider. The Warsaw Pact's navy, which is the weakest, has an absolute advantage over NATO in the army, and how to prevent the United States from providing transoceanic assistance is a factor that must be considered in wartime.
"In Asia, for a long time, we used Tokyo, Bangkok and Jakarta as the main locations of our activities, and the only difficult place was the British colony, because there was no diplomatic relationship with us, so we could not get first-hand information nearby, but now the times have changed, the importance of the British pearl has disappeared, and we can directly enter China." Serov was silent for a moment and said, "Geographically, we should go to the north, but in fact, from the comparison of the difficulty of the work, in fact, the most cost-effective should be the coastal cities, which are a few cities that I have circled. ”
"Immediately prepare to set up a joint venture with the Singaporeans, approve the funding applications of all the Singapore embassies, and the size of 350 people, although this country is very annoying, but it has a huge effect on us."
All the embassies of the USSR abroad had a large number of people, and more than 100 people were simply the norm. The size of the embassies in all Southeast Asian countries is on the scale of three or four hundred, and the Soviet Union does not discriminate whether the country is pro-Soviet or pro-American, large or small, large or small.
This situation does not only exist in Southeast Asia, for any country, as long as it has diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union, usually the Soviet Union has the largest embassy in this country, and absolutely does not hire locals, together with cooks and logistics personnel are all hired from Moscow, the Soviet embassy in Thailand is composed of 25 diplomats, with a standard configuration of nearly 300 people. Even the Soviet embassy in Bolivia numbered more than five hundred people.
It is also for this reason that the status of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the USSR, like that of the KGB and the Ministry of Defense, became one of the three major departments directly responsible to the General Secretary, and Foreign Minister Gromyko also became a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the USSR.
"Finally, I would like to mention the issue of Latin America, Latin America is the backyard of the United States, the Americans think so, and the people of Latin America know this reality, who least wants a big country there, of course, the Americans. The Americans know that in the future Latin America will have its own great powers, which is a direct threat to the United States. The Americans understand, and we understand. Latin America has long been a volcanic zone of revolution, a continent in turmoil, it has huge resources, but 200 million people and three-quarters of them live in extreme misery, driven by serf-like labor, 70 million people have no savings for even a month's salary, 100 million people are illiterate, 100 million people do not have medicines, 150 million people are undernourished and on the verge of starvation, so even if we do not use a lot of force in Latin America, the socialist movement there is still flourishing. Serov finally spoke of Latin America, and stretched out his finger and said, "I will talk about this issue together with the question of the formation of the British expeditionary force, the revolutionary nature of the stage of existence in Latin America." ”
"Peruvian peasants chewing coca leaves and feeding on rats, Uruguayan absenteeism crawling through the mines, destitute Brazilian peasants, and students executed by Paraguay's junta. Latin America's economy has been in the hands of Americans for more than half a century. ”
"Britain is organizing an expeditionary force, and this is a good opportunity to inspire Latin American solidarity, and we should support the Argentines in abolishing this unequal treaty. Give the Argentines courage to stand up to the British. Serov squinted his eyes and said, "It just so happens that we have stocked up on some interesting things in Chile before, and this time we have given them to the British." It's kind of a hello to Margaret Thatcher. ”
"Comrade Chebrikov, the affairs of South America will be left to you, keep the unobstructed intelligence, and we will see how capable the British really are." Serov nodded meaningfully, he was looking forward to the Falklands War.
Argentina has a high inflation rate of 600 percent, a 10 percent drop in GDP, and a quarter drop in manufacturing output; The trade unions, which have more and more supporters in the country, decided to launch a long-term general strike, and the junta was spurned and hated by the people. Galtieri, in the face of serious domestic economic and human rights problems, chose to deflect public attention by deflecting the public attention with what he considered to be a clean Falklands Battle, with a victorious outcome.
The junta, always wants to establish its authority through war and live to support, ten years ago, the Greek junta was also playing this idea, that time it wasn't for Serov who had been waiting for the opportunity to open up the sea to the Mediterranean, Greece's fate would have been very tragic, this time Galtieri was just like the military governments of various countries, diverting the crisis. Anyway, the Falklands are extremely far away from the British mainland, and they have not found any value worth fighting for in them, and the British may not do it.