Chapter Eighty-Nine: The Sacrifice of India
"I'll wait for you to come back and name me, and I won't be able to go abroad again when I'm pregnant! Twice! Valya leaned over Serov's head and let the man listen to the baby's voice, she knew that this would relieve Serov's tension, as a wife he knew very well that men lose sleep when they were nervous, and she also knew that Serov hated flying. But this time it was inevitable, and sooner or later I had to adapt.
"Got it, I'll call back!" Serov, who was a belly away from the baby, was stunned for a moment and then said, "At least a telegram will be sent!" "In those days, it was really uncertain whether the United States could get through to the Soviet Union. It seems that the mobile phone must appear, and the wired phone is still a little inconvenient.
Before glaring at the Moscow airport passenger plane, there were already crowds of people waiting on both sides of the passage to see them off, Khrushchev waved to the surrounding crowd of people seeing them off, behind him was Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko, and then behind him was Serov himself, as well as some guards, this is the elite selected by Serov from the secret police corps, next to Serov is a little girl less than twenty years old, Anna Stasiana, a Belarusian, who returned from training in Suyusnaya, one of the seven major agent cities, the meaning of the name of Suyusnaya City, It is to face the whole country of all the Slavs.
Anna Stasiana, with her natural blonde hair rolled into a ponytail and wearing white overalls, followed Khrushchev beside her, she was a very beautiful little girl, as for how beautiful she was, Serov, who had been blonde, blue-eyed, high-nosed, oval face, and had been dyed for so many years, and was almost face blind, could no longer find a specific adjective, in short, beautiful.
Looking at the huge Tu-114 passenger plane, Serov's footsteps paused slightly, and finally restrained his inner obstacles and entered the cabin, the Tu-114 was the largest passenger plane before the appearance of the Boeing 747, and it broke many world records in this era just appeared. The Tu-114 passenger plane does not seem to be famous, but his other name is absolutely resounding all over the world, and the Tu-95 Bear strategic bomber, which is still tirelessly walking around Japan 60 years later, is the prototype of the Tu-114 passenger aircraft!
Also on board the plane were forty guards, as well as other translators and staff. Feeling a force of gravity on his body, the massive Tu-114 entered the sky and began the tour of the United States, where the Soviet leader visited for the first time.
In the smooth flight of the Tu-114, the people sitting in place can move freely, but this does not include the guards of the secret police corps and Serov himself, the guards are on duty and there are too many people, there is no room for them to get up and move! As for the reason why Serov himself did not move, it is simpler, he does not want to move! Especially when on an airplane......
And also because Serov knew that the thing on the plane that no one knew except Khrushchev himself was that there was a crack in the engine of this most advanced and largest passenger plane that the Soviet Union could use! Although it is not large, it is almost impossible to distinguish with the naked eye. Serov had already reported this situation, and Khrushchev had already made a decision to let the Americans see the most advanced Soviet passenger plane, so he did not change to another passenger plane, and insisted on using this Tu-114 modified from a bomber.
The Tu-114 is the only jet airliner in the world that can fly non-stop from Moscow to Washington, and the Soviet Union has only one Tu-114 to be transferred, and this aircraft makes Khrushchev proud and proud, but just before the flight mission, the staff found a crack in the engine of the aircraft, Serov suggested a new one, but Khrushchev refused, he was willing to pay any price to deter the United States, even if it made him and all the people on board, risk their lives.
"Sure enough, he is worthy of the older generation of revolutionaries who came out of the war, and he really went out open-mindedly!" Serov could only bite the bullet and step on the passenger plane that he knew was risky, and he could only comfort himself that history would not change, and that Khrushchev could not die in a plane crash.
But if history doesn't change, he might as well die! Doesn't that mean he's doing useless work......
Khrushchev summoned Foreign Minister Gromyko and Serov "At the moment, our relations with the United States are very cold and tense, so the next two weeks will be an important test for me, because for politics, especially diplomacy, the right balance is everything, if you are too soft-spoken, your enemies will not respect you, if you make a big noise, you may end up being scared to pee your pants, and besides, I am not going to other countries, but the United States, our most formidable adversary. ”
Khrushchev has been studying the intelligence collected by the Foreign Ministry and the KGB lately, and this time he is really full of hope that he will ease relations with the United States, and then he can focus on development.
Serov listened silently to Khrushchev's speech, and as far as he knew, the current leadership of the Soviet Union, except for Khrushchev himself, almost all the cadres at the same level had little interest in détente, which means that Khrushchev's détente did not move anyone except himself.
"Comrade First Secretary, after your trip, I apply to stay in the United States alone for two days to contact the comrades of the First and Second Divisions of the First General Bureau!" Serov applied that the first department, which was in charge of the United States and Canada, and the second department, which was in charge of Latin America, was to examine the heart of capitalism.
"Yuri, aren't you going to go to China with us?" Foreign Minister Gromyko asked. Serov was stunned for a moment, and the complicated color in his eyes flashed and said, "In terms of work, the Chinese side has enough ability to protect the safety of the first secretary, and it is the same with me or not, I want to secretly contact the intelligence network in the United States, and go back and report to the headquarters for work adjustment!" Our intelligence personnel stationed in the United States need to check whether there is a problem with their work attitude......"
"The border dispute between China and India is too hasty, which is contrary to the principle of peaceful coexistence now, and I want to communicate with the Chinese comrades! Just after visiting the United States! Yuri, aren't you going to go home with us? "Khrushchev did not affirm or deny, Serov was justified by staying here for two days in the name of work.
"From my professional point of view, I am personally very willing to go to war between China and India!" Serov's immediate exit surprised Khrushchev and Gromyko, who knew that it was useless to persuade Khrushchev from the perspective of international communism and peaceful coexistence, and it was even more difficult to persuade the Chinese leadership with the same arguments. Therefore, he explained the problem directly from the perspective of the KGB, and analyzed it indifferently and cruelly, "The Chinese population is 600 million, and more than 95 percent of the population is Han Chinese!" There are many people and little land, and it is well known that the population of the eastern part of the USSR is small! From a geopolitical point of view, or from a historical point of view, there is a hidden concern in the current close relations between the Soviet Union and China, that is, the territorial issue left over from history......"
"The territorial sovereignty of the USSR is inviolable, and although Imperial Russia collapsed, this is not a reason for the USSR to cede land!" Khrushchev directly made a final decision, "There is nothing to talk about in this matter......"
"If I had the ability, I would have planned a war! Draw China's attention to the side of India, India is a big country, has the ability to resist, and will not be destroyed! Serov imagined, "As long as the hatred between India and China intensifies, we don't have to worry about the potential worries of China and the Soviet Union......" He has been thinking about this question for several years, if you want China and the Soviet Union not to split, you must divert the attention of China and the Soviet Union, and finally Serov hit India, for the development of the world socialist camp, it is nothing to sacrifice India.