The best outcome of the Cuban Missile Crisis was for both sides to take a step back, but for the Soviet Union, a draw was a defeat. For a long time, the Soviet Union has always advertised itself as powerful and fearless in propaganda, not to mention the later propaganda, because the United States withdrew Turkish nuclear missiles secretly, and ordinary Soviet cadres did not know about it at all. What they saw was that the Soviet Union risked nothing in return, and that the shameful mentality existed until the Brezhnev era, and the attitude of vowing shame about its cowardly behavior led to a tenfold increase in nuclear arsenals in ten years.

In the final analysis, it is the current disparity in strength between the United States and the Soviet Union, which makes the Soviet Union's adventure unrewarded. This will not change just because someone else does it, so Serov will passively accept the matter of Cuba, but he will never take the initiative to go to the mines. If the aftermath is needed, Serov is willing to take orders, but it is absolutely impossible to get him to take the initiative to stand up.

And with the attitude of hindsight, the Cuban missile crisis will make the Soviet Union shame and courage, abandon the unrealistic détente policy, although Khrushchev and Brezhnev both had détente policies for two periods, but the difference is that Khrushchev really wanted détente, and Brezhnev just fooled the Americans. If you think about it, Brezhnev's attacks in later generations were mainly focused on political rigidity, and there seems to be little other than that.

"Why do I always have a feeling of following the wrong boss from the analysis of historical events?" Serov couldn't help but slander, there is no doubt about Shelepin's level, but if you think about this group, the level of others is not very high. Serov did not know, in fact, on another occasion Brezhnev once commented on Shelepin's group, and came to the same conclusion, the Komsomol cadres seem to be powerful, but in fact there are only dozens of capable people. The usual Communist Youth League cadres have no grassroots experience because their starting point is too high, but they pretend to be very knowledgeable and want greater power, and usually this group of bureaucrats is more serious than that of local cadres.

The person who really made Brezhnev jealous was actually only Sherepin himself, and as for Semychasny, he was guarded entirely because of the light of his eldest brother. As for Yegorechev's people, Brezhnev only attached importance to them, and could not talk about jealousy at all.

The journey in the air was too boring, and Serov was very envious of the woman on his shoulder, saying that where did his own airplane phobia come from? Reaching out to brush the golden hair on his shoulders, the delicate face in front of him warmed his heart, and he took a gentle breath, Serov's expression relaxed, and he felt that he should arrange a way back for his family.

"You can't even burden this woman to risk it with herself!" Start with the Malenkov group. The Soviet Union will not be in a situation where the opponent will be killed, but if the Sherepin clique loses, it is impossible for him to watch his wife worry about a day's firewood, rice, oil and salt, and if it were not for him, he would definitely not have fallen into this situation on this woman's terms. On this trip to India, Serov will solve this problem and leave Valya with a fortune to live without worry.

"Head!" From the other side of the cabin came a major, the head of the soldiers of the secret police corps this time, who had just been stopped by Serov with a gesture at birth. Glancing at his wife next to him, Serov gestured to ask the other party to write down what he said.

Actually, there is nothing wrong with this commander. Just told Serov that he had reached Indian airspace and that he would be in Mumbai in half an hour, nodded his head to show that he understood, and waved the major back to his seat.

"It's almost there, and I'm getting some sleep on land." Thinking about it, he thinks he feels a little funny, and he has a phobia of airplanes. Even when I was on a boat, I didn't feel comfortable looking at the ocean, but I often had to travel on business, and I went to hot spots.

In the afternoon, two military transport planes landed in Mumbai, although the Soviet Union and India did not have an alliance. India is also a non-aligned country, but in the past few years, everyone has tacitly informed the Indian side that a pair of Soviet security cadres came to inspect the security work of the aid project, which did not make the Indian side feel a little disgusted.

As soon as he got off the plane, Serov who came out with Valya by the hand was a frown, there was a familiar smell here, the smell of cow dung.

"Go to the Consulate in Mumbai!" Serov, who had been practicing Qigong hard, did not waste time at all, and said while taking off his military coat. Approaching May, the Soviet Union can be said to be in the middle of the house is colder than outside, and the temperature in Kabul is also below normal standards, but here in India is a completely different scene, in the previous life, I heard that hundreds of people died of heat in India in a summer, and this climate really deserves its reputation.

The Soviet embassy in any country has its signature giant antenna for intercepting information, and Mumbai is no exception, and the Soviet embassy is even deliberately set up in a sparsely populated area to ensure a good signal. Of course, as technology advances, this iconic antenna will eventually change to a less intriguing way to eavesdrop.

"If the funds of the consulate are not enough, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has difficulties in funding, you can directly ask the KGB for help, everyone is for the service of the Soviet Union, don't be so outside!" The meaning of these polite words is actually very simple, as a consulate does not even have air conditioning, and the KGB's factory in Italy sells so well the household appliances, won't you inquire a little bit about the news and communicate with the KGB? Do you think this is domestic? The demand for air conditioning in the Soviet Union was not warm because of latitude, there were electric fans in the summer and natural gas in the winter, but in a place like India, the most old-fashioned ceiling fans were used to deal with it, and it was really difficult for the staff of this consulate, Serov really wanted to say that the comrades worked hard......

"Are you ready to investigate for a year? Hand in all the documents and photos, I'm going to see them now! Serov, who had changed into a summer military uniform, had his hair still a little wet, and he could only use the most basic means to keep his body cool under this temperature, water. Fortunately, this place is far away from the Ganges, otherwise he may have to think about it for safety, but even so, Serov strictly ordered those who came from the country with him not to touch the local food as much as possible.

Under normal circumstances, Serov should have gone to New Delhi first, instead of running to Mumbai in the south, but because New Delhi is, after all, the capital of a big country with a strong voice, it is indeed a bit too arrogant for KGB agents to blatantly collect intelligence in the capital of a country. Besides, the matter is more important, because to take into account the secrecy work, Serov has always arranged for the Bombay consulate to be in charge of this matter, and at the same time as collecting intelligence, he also needs to inspect a place, although he has just seen it from the plane, but it is always a little vague if he does not see it with his own eyes.

Mumbai is a city that is more well-known than New Delhi, the capital of India, and its status is equivalent to Leningrad in the Soviet Union and New York in the United States. Mumbai is the second largest city in India and the largest seaport in the country, and is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. On the island of Mumbai, sixteen kilometers from the coast, there are bridges connected to the causeway. Mumbai was initially occupied by the Portuguese and later transferred to the British as an important trading center. Mumbai is located on the island of Salset, off the west coast of Maharashtra, facing the Arabian Sea. The Port of Mumbai is a natural deep-water port that carries more than half of India's passenger traffic and handles considerable cargo. Mumbai is the commercial and entertainment capital of India.

These are not the focus of Serov's attention, no matter how good other people's things are, they are also other people's, not to mention that the city is far from being as glamorous as it seems, and if you are wrong, it is not very good on the surface. The whole of Mumbai is dotted with countless slum kilns, large and small, which are like acne on people's faces, which may not seem to be a big problem, but in fact they have a great impact on the perception of others.

The first understanding of the slum kiln was from an Indian movie called Slum Kiln Millionaire, this film Serov didn't want to evaluate, anyway, inherited the consistent elements of Indian films, Serov wanted to know that compared to the huge population in the slum kiln, how many people like the movie protagonists could be produced, and even basic education problems, so don't think about anything else.

For Serov, Mumbai's sprawling slum kilns had only one use, and that was the trigger for all-out war.

"I warn you, it's okay to go out and take a walk, first you have to bring a gun, and secondly you have to bring the soldiers of the secret police corps, the people here are not educated, don't use your set of virgin heart in the country in this place!" Before leaving, Serov reprimanded his Mao sister with a cold face, "You'd better put away your curiosity, I've already told other comrades to follow you, by the way, shoot immediately when you encounter danger, and I'll clean up ...... if something happens."

"Got it, Yura!" Valya nodded like a chicken pecking rice, this nickname made the corners of Serov's mouth twitch, in this kind of occasion he has always hated people to call him nickname, but considering that this person is his wife, he can only whisper, "Don't take it as an example......

The reason for the outbreak of a full-scale war is actually nothing more than national interests and national hatred, and the relationship between India and Pakistan meets the previous conditions, but from India's side, it has not risen to the point of national hatred and family hatred, after all, in the face of a defeated general, it is really very difficult to produce such emotions, and Serov is ready to start from the back point and cultivate this kind of emotion. (To be continued.) )