Chapter 250 The Cuban Question

Under the planned economic system of the Soviet Union, the establishment of a vegetable greenhouse base for the six million people of the capital required the cooperation of several departments, such as the Committee on Construction and Building Materials of the Union Academy, the Committee for the Protection of Nature and the Rational Use of Natural Resources of the Council of Nationalities, the Ministry of General Machine-Building, the Ministry of Public Works Manufacturing, the Ministry of Water Resources, the Ministry of Fruits and Vegetables under the Council of Ministers of the USSR, and of course the Ministry of Finance.

Serov, who disagreed, had completed all these departments, and was able to obtain the understanding of these departments under the green light all the way, and in view of the problems of efficiency, all the infrastructure construction was accepted by the KGB. When these departments first prepare all the materials that need to be prepared, the vegetable greenhouse base can be started. The Soviet department, which speaks with the data, has already indicated to Serov that all the materials that need to be prepared will be ready by April.

First of all, the Yaroslavl Oblast in the east of Moscow is not suitable for the establishment of this base, the conditions there are not suitable for agriculture, and Smolensk in the west has a pleasant climate, but the pressure on Smolensk itself is already not small, and the status of Smolensk as the gateway to Moscow is like a stone city next to the imperial capital, which has been overshadowed too much. What's more, the positioning of Smolensk itself has made the current manpower very reluctant, as for Moscow itself, Serov is very willing to build a vegetable greenhouse base here, but other departments still implicitly suggest that they should try their best to stay away from the urban area, the population of Moscow Oblast has been rising, if the base of vegetable greenhouses is established in this region, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be any projects in the future to demolish it.

Serov was almost touched by this conscience, and the people of the planning committee still know the truth of sustainable development? He also thought that Lao Maozi would only make great strides regardless of the cost, it seems that he has not yet understood Maozi's national nature, but his understanding of Maomei is quite thorough.

In the southwestern part of Moscow, most of the Kaluga region is plains, fields and forests. The flora and fauna are diverse. This is also a good place, in terms of development rate, it is not fully developed. The underexploitation in Serov's mind was assessed by Chinese standards, which were almost developed here by Soviet standards. From his point of view, the Soviet Union's development standards were slightly lower, and in the case of forestry resources, trees with a diameter of more than 30 centimeters abound on top of a mountain. Is this embarrassing to say that the development is complete? All the forests have been cut down, and we will talk about the development after we have finished talking.

"Let's build it right on the border between Moscow and Kaluga, get it ready to supply the people of the two oblasts, and if our first steps are successful, next year we will build a smaller base in the middle of Smolensk and Moscow, plus the Ryazan region, and that's pretty much it!" At present, Serov, who has nothing but drawings, still can't change the true nature of his map. He has always been fearless of anyone in this regard, and it cannot be said that he did not do his best when he arrived here from Moscow on a cold day.

According to the official Soviet Union, Kaluga is located in the middle of the Central Russian highlands. So Serov looked for information on this and found that the average altitude here reached an altitude of 200 meters. I secretly sigh that the Russian Highlands really live up to its name, and I don't know what the Russians think of that part of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau.

At present, the work of the KGB in Moscow is entrusted to another first deputy chairman, Itvasov, who will look for Sherepin when it comes to major events, and according to Serov's standards, there are so many major events, so he left the capital again to investigate. In addition to communicating with various departments to build vegetable greenhouses, he also had to go to the training camp in Azerbaijan to have a look. So naturally, he did not know that as soon as he left Moscow, the KGB received an announcement from the United States that it had severed diplomatic relations with Cuba. And the news of full-scale economic sanctions began.

"Send the report of the expedition to Lubyanka Square 11 and take the car to Baku in the afternoon! Our friends are here! "Serov did not look carefully at the investigative reports collected by the agents. There are people in the headquarters who are more professional than him, and he doesn't have to worry about this.

Just as Serov was heading south, Sherepin returned from the Kremlin and hurried into the KGB headquarters next to the Dzerzhinsky statue in Lubyanka, where First Deputy Chairman Itvasov and Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky, head of the First Main Directorate, were already waiting in the chairman's office.

Shelepin, who had just worked in the Secretariat for less than a month, was not at all unaccustomed to it, and if he had to say something. It seems that today there is one less guy here who likes to export revolutions. This guy is not here and makes him a little unaccustomed, shaking his head Xie Lepin retracted his thoughts, Serov has rarely been able to stay in one place for a long time, from when he was the director of the Department of Foreign Intelligence, all the way to the head of the Third General Directorate, the director of the Second General Directorate, the deputy chairman, and the first deputy chairman.

Cleared his throat. "According to information from the Americas Department of the First General Directorate and the Embassy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Havana, the United States has announced the severance of diplomatic relations with Cuba. At the same time, the economic sanctions against Cuba have been imposed in an attempt to strangle the young Republic of Cuba by locking down a country that depends entirely on the production and sale of sugar for the sake of its economy and livelihood, so that it cannot sell its sugar. ”

To be sure, pro-Soviet forces exist in Cuba, and the best way to get rid of the control of the United States in this era is to find another great power, the Soviet Union. But to say how much the Castro brothers yearned for socialism, according to the intelligence collected by the First Directorate, Sherepin did not believe it, and in fact not a single person in the entire KGB leadership believed it.

It was not that the KGB did not recognize the value of Cuba, but that it was lacking in this area, and the people most interested in the export revolution of the KGB as a whole were not here and were on their way to Baku. Normally, Serov is planning this work, and apart from Serov himself, the person who knows the most about this information is Andropov, the head of the Central Liaison Department. Usually the export of the revolution requires the cooperation of these two departments, the Central Liaison Department and the KGB.

Sherepin did not value Cuba unappreciated, but he did not attach such importance to it, and the person who valued Cuban value the most was Khrushchev in the leadership, so Sherepin came back from the Secretariat and specially asked the director of the foreign intelligence work to talk about this issue.

"Cuba? The Castro brothers? They should be considered nationalists who overthrew the dictatorship. Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky thought for a moment and assessed, "When the new government first came to power, it also expressed goodwill towards the United States, and Cuba, the World Communist Party Congress a few months ago, did not show much brilliance at the congress, but I did not expect that all of a sudden the relationship between the United States and Cuba would become so bad, which is really unexpected, and the reaction of the Americans was somewhat excessive......

Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky is not wrong at all about the results deduced from the existing intelligence analysis, and at the moment the Castro brothers can be said to have a vague understanding of what communism is, and they have not expressed any particular interest. The sudden severance of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba is a bit too much for people to react to, and the turn is too blunt.

There is a process in everything, and if Serov were here, he could have told the future generations of information and analysis, but he was not here, and Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky could only slowly deduce the results from the existing intelligence analysis, "It seems that because of the reform of land reform and the establishment of state enterprises, the Americans have misunderstood something." But it's a good thing for us......"

It is already clear that the severance of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba and the economic blockade are nothing more than a daily imperialist illness in the United States in its own backyard, and this is not the first time, since the First World War the United States has established this position throughout the Americas.

This behavior of the United States can be regarded as a silent warning to the countries that Latin America regards as their backyard, this is the place of the Americans, and all the rules are set by the United States, not what you want. It's just interference in internal affairs, the United States is the first on this planet, the Soviet Union is second, the eldest brother is not to mention the second brother.

The next day, Serov got off the train at the Baku railway station, and before he could speak, he saw an acquaintance already waiting at the station, and secretly sighed when even the KGB of the republic could grasp his whereabouts?

This person is Aliyev, the later president of Azerbaijan, the current deputy chairman of the KGB of the Azerbaijani Soviet Republic, he would not have become deputy chairman so quickly, thanks to Serov who helped him at a critical moment.

"First Deputy Chairman, call from Moscow, ask you to make a call to the capital to Comrade Sherepin after you arrive in Baku!" Aliyev exchanged pleasantries with Serov and whispered the news to Serov.

Did I say? Serov nodded knowingly and entered the car prepared by Aliyev, the scenery on the streets of Baku was still slightly familiar, after all, he used to be the Minister of Internal Affairs here, and he was naturally not unfamiliar with everything here.

"On the question of Cuba, it's a long story to say that after the Chinese Civil War, the U.S. government reflected on its own mistakes, and the root cause of McCarthy's ideology began with who lost China. If we look at the Korean War 10 years ago to the present, our thinking is attacking cities all over the world, except for the European side where the confrontation is somewhat calm because of the suffocation, all other directions are offensives. In this way, as soon as there is any revolutionary regime in Latin America, which is the backyard of the United States, the United States will instantly jump up as if it has been robbed of a tomb, and in short, the development of the communist movement in the past ten years has made the United States afraid of us......"

Lukani listened to Serov's dictation, and skillfully sent the telegram out with both hands for Moscow, thousands of miles away. (To be continued.) )