Chapter 357: Facts and Truth
As an executor, Serov has been able to do everything within his scope, and in the end he still has to rely on strength to solve problems, and the reason why Britain's diplomacy is outstanding is inseparable from the national strength of the world's first colonial empire as a backing. Everywhere the United States passes, it shouts long live the beacon, relying on its undoubted world's No. 1 military and economic strength. As latecomers, Germany, the Soviet Union, and China not only did not have these things, but even as latecomers, they were suppressed by the world hegemon.
No matter what world public opinion thinks about the Cuban Missile Crisis, as long as Serov understands in his heart that it was caused by the deployment of nuclear missiles by the United States in Turkey, this is enough. Just as the Iron Curtain speech took the initiative to raise the curtain of the Cold War to contain the Soviet Union, just as the establishment of NATO ignored the protests of the Soviet Union and drew the Federal Republic of Germany into the combat system, the Soviet Union reasoned and made diplomatic efforts, but in exchange for the United States trampling the dignity of the Soviet Union under its feet.
"In that case, let the nuclear bomb do the talking, this is the truth that mankind generally knows!" The White House in front of Serov seems to be much stricter than when he last came, Serov, who has passed through one checkpoint after another, his hands have been clenched into fists under his heavy military coat, and he still looks serious and rigid on the surface, accepting the investigators' body search.
It's the same office as last time, but there is no one, it's empty but spotless, it's the White House, the symbol of American national power, and an important location for many later games. Serov, who closed his eyes and waited, had a lot of inappropriate content flashing in his mind at this time, if he couldn't talk about it, would it be possible for him to strangle Kennedy? Do everything before the agents out there rush in.
Just think about it, he is not the zero zero seven in the movie. There are tens of thousands of zero-sevens under his command, but I believe it is impossible to do this. The door suddenly opened, and the person who preceded the three previous ministers, Serov, who had seen in many documentaries in his previous life, was rumored to be the greatest American president, but in fact he was not the very clever American President Kennedy.
It seems that both sides are thinking about how to start this negotiation, and compromise is necessary, because intransigence means nuclear war. But how to compromise and save one's face to give an explanation to the people is not very easy to grasp.
Although the solemn atmosphere cannot be quantified, the American and Soviet soldiers who are in the front line confrontation must be on the highest alert, they may be thinking about what the other side is thinking through the sea and looking at the border between the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR. The fact that the entire Soviet Union allies have not expressed an updated view of the Cuban missile crisis in the last two days may be a way to stop the intensification of public opinion, but whether it will also be the calm before the storm on the other hand, no one knows.
At this point, it doesn't seem very honest to hide and tuck, and everyone's hole cards have appeared. What to talk about, how to talk about it, how to let the other party know their own needs, you can say it openly.
Frankness is the biggest attitude to negotiation, and Attorney General Robert Kennedy directly put a stack of aerial photographs on the table in order to show Serov and Dobrynin the information that the United States has received. Unlike Dobrynin, who was very serious about identification, Serov sat quietly opposite the four of them, not even changing his sitting position from beginning to end.
"General Serov, don't you look at the military power of your Soviet Union? As a citizen of the USSR, you should be happy! U.S. Treasury Secretary Dillon said slowly.
A smile tugged at the corner of Serov's mouth, he swept his eyes at Dobrynin, who was holding the photo, and pointed to his head indifferently and said, "Look at what?" From start to finish, I was a key participant in this plan, and even an executor below. I personally watched two of these nuclear missiles be loaded onto ships, I personally ordered reconnaissance planes to take off and confirm how to camouflage them through aerial photography, and the reason why you see these nuclear missiles today is because I ordered all the camouflage to be removed and let you see them, otherwise unless you can sacrifice 100,000 US Army soldiers, you will not be able to get close to these missile launchers. As soon as you get close to these nuclear missiles, maybe they'll already be flying out......"
Serov's tone was like what he was eating tonight, an incomparable candor that was simply frightening.
"Is the USSR preparing for a nuclear war with us? I believe that this is not your purpose, you must know that there is no winner in a nuclear war, General Serov, you also have your own wife and children, and if a nuclear war breaks out, you cannot guarantee that they will survive! U.S. President John F. Kennedy leaned forward and asked seriously, "What is your purpose?" Is it your purpose to see humanity perish? I don't believe that's your purpose......"
"I am here for peace, but peace is not about kneeling and begging for forgiveness from you, the United States!" When it comes to his wife's children, Serov no longer looks like a robot, and his tone is no longer cold, but he softens and says, "Today I am doing my best to help the country complete the plan, for the sake of my wife and children, I want to keep the nuclear missile away from the Soviet Union." The country will not pin its hopes on me in vain, and I must also be worthy of the country's trust......"
"And then you're going to use two hundred nuclear missiles to fulfill your own peace?" Attorney General Robert Kennedy asked aggressively, "And then use those countries controlled by your Soviet Union to carry out a provocation against peace together?" ”
"The USSR was threatened with American nuclear missiles, and the United States was the same, what's wrong with that? Is America God's Chosen People? Hehe, even if God is there in person, I want to see if he can resist the atomic bomb. Serov stood up suddenly, and finally said with a smile, "The reason why today's situation has happened is entirely due to the backlash caused by your continuous trampling on the dignity of the Soviet Union for more than ten years. In the face of your hegemony, not all countries have the courage to resist, but the Soviet Union happens to have this courage and this strength, and I am more tired, so I don't want to popularize the Iron Curtain speech of the Cold War and the establishment of NATO, which is not within my scope of responsibility......"
Serov, who stood up, was full of oppression with a blue large-brimmed hat on his head and a gray military coat on his body.
"General Serov, you are not being reasonable, and I believe that this is not what Mr. Khrushchev wants to see." Secretary of Defense McNamara said, "In the end, we talk, don't we?" ”
"Of course I'm reasoning, speaking what you can understand. We in the Soviet Union believe in convincing others with truth and facts, and normally we don't need to put the truth and facts in front of the enemy, but in the face of the United States, we have to do this, because your eyes are relatively short-sighted, and if you don't show them, you are afraid that you will not see them. Serov, who sat down again, crossed his fingers and whispered, "So I can only show you the truth, today you are facing the facts of the Cuban cluster, and the reason for waiting for the launch, in the big picture, we still have millions of facts in the direction of Europe, and they still carry the truth needed for a war, so that today you will sit here and listen to me come for peace, to tell you the facts and the truth......"
Truth and facts, it's that simple! The fact that the Soviet Union came up with several arms of the armed forces to form a group army carried the truth of several bases, and in such a situation all countries had to sit down and listen to the Soviet Union's talk about peace. Without these facts and reasoning, the peace that the Soviet Union will have is ****. The president of Guatemala, Mr. Arbenz, was overthrown by the CIA because he had no such facts and reasoning, and he has not been able to return to the country.
What did Arbenz do? He just wants to distribute his country's land to landless peasants, and his most basic purpose is only to hope that his people will not starve to death, and that they will live like individuals.
"General Serov's honesty is a real Soviet man, our CIA analysis is not wrong, you and your first secretary believe in military power very much!" Secretary of Defense McNamara secretly deprecated, "According to our calculations, the number of nuclear bombs in the Soviet Union will definitely not exceed 5,000, while we in the United States have nearly 30,000. ”
Serov smiled, ignoring the threat of Defense Secretary McNamara, and talked to himself about the scientific research program that the Soviet Union had begun now, which was carried out at the same time as the space race between the United States and the Soviet Union. This was done in time for ultra-deep drilling to reach the interface between the crust and the mantle, known as the Mohorovich discontinuum, ahead of the U.S. drilling program. Once this initial goal was set, the Soviets drilled the deepest hole ever drilled in the inaccessible Pachinga region, the Kola ultra-deep hole.
"Not only do you have 27,000 nuclear bombs in the United States, but you have forgotten that you have a time bomb of greater energy on your homeland, and countless people go sightseeing every year, and the name of this time bomb is Yellowstone! The shallowest part of Yellowstone is only eight kilometers, and I can tell you gentlemen that the day I arrived in Cuba, I had already aimed all the nuclear missiles at Yellowstone, and maybe it would explode, maybe nothing would happen. Maybe you Americans' fate is good, and nothing will happen? Serov, who posed for facts and truth, opened his hands and looked like he was leaving the result to fate. (To be continued.) )