In his previous life, Serov had never even been out of his province a few times in his life, but in this life, he had visited almost all kinds of hot spots, and Rome was the place where his dream began, but he had a not very good feeling. The Italian Communist Party has been lagging behind the Catholic Democrats in the polls this time, and the Socialist Party is only evenly matched.

The Communist Party of Italy has been in power for 10 years, and the changes that have been brought to Italy in these 10 years are quite obvious, and the state-owned economy has accounted for 40% of Italy's total, in fact, on the surface, Italy and Yugoslavia are actually not clearly distinguished. Don't look at one as a socialist country and the other as a capitalist country, but in fact, the two countries are basically the same, and the developed places in Yugoslavia are no different from Venice and Milan in Italy.

However, Serov is not optimistic about Yugoslavia's development model, and the difference in wages in different parts of a socialist country has reached a five-fold difference, which is far beyond the acceptable bottom line. This is not a comparison between the wages of the workers and the wages of the professors, but the wages of ordinary workers, so it is not acceptable.

Of course, part of the reason why the Italian Communist Party was in power for ten years was because the Soviet Union opened up some trade after the Italian Communist Party came to power, but Serov found another reason through the KGB's intelligence network in Italy. When he first found out, he almost removed the head of Italy because this reason was very nonsensical. That is, while the Italian Communist Party is vigorously advocating a neutral line, on the one hand, it is vigorously grasping social order and beating the Italian mafia to the point that it cannot find the north.

It turned out to be the mafia? When Serov knew about this reason, he completely thought that the head of Italian intelligence had drunk too much vodka and had a problem with his brain. But after re-investigating, he had to admit that there were indeed reasons for this, that the Communist Party must have a mass base, but there is another force in Italy that has a mass base, and that is the Italian Mafia, which has even a mass base than the Italian Communist Party.

The Italian mafia took root in Italian society and seemed to be indelible, but in fact, there was a time when there was no mafia in Italy, it was when Mussolini was in power, and the twenties were when Mussolini appeared on the Italian stage, and it was also the catastrophe of the mafia. In this year, Mussolini carried out a "sweep" against the mafia, and he commanded the military and police to arrest nearly 1,000 mafia elements, and put an end to Sicily, the mafia's old nest. Without the approval of the National Assembly, he repealed the provisions of the law on "democratic rights" in Sicily and repealed many decrees on the protection of Sicilians. An order was given to stop the work of the Sicilian courts, the military was given full authority to deal with legal matters, and the military police were instructed to "arrest the mafia as long as necessary, and issue a shooting warrant whenever necessary." ”

In order to cooperate with the government to fight against the underworld and eliminate evil, the laws of Sicily have basically become invalid, and everything is done by the anti-mafia team to do whatever they want, vigorously and resolutely. With the arrest and torture of the mafia leader Vito, the Sicilian mafia went completely underground. Mussolini's "bloodbath and blackwashing" erased the ancient underworld organization that originated in the 13th century from the map of Italy.

Parimiro Torriati, of course, knew that it was not the Catholic Democratic Party that would be the easiest to snatch the support of the grassroots masses from him, but the mafia that had good relations with the Catholic Democratic Party but was hostile to the Italian Communist Party. At that time, when Serov was engaged in pyramid schemes in Italy, the mafia was the first to add fuel to the fire, because it was very in line with the mafia's thinking of making quick money.

When Serov closed the net and patted his ass and left, he didn't consider that there was still a mafia problem here, but Parimorotoriatti, as the general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, discovered this problem immediately after the election. Serov is a foreigner who doesn't know the situation in Italy, but he doesn't know what this group of mafia is most dissatisfied with the Communist Party. That is the strength of the roots in the Italian grassroots, so he took advantage of the parliamentary advantage obtained at that time to pass the bill to combat pyramid schemes, and at the same time began to crack down on the mafia, the most profound reason is that Parimi Toriatti must clean up the mafia, the force that robs the masses with the Communist Party, and this pyramid scheme raging helped him.

At the very beginning, Parimiro Toriotti linked the raging pyramid scheme with the power of the mafia, and under the public opinion of the people of the whole country unanimously hoped that the new government would crack down on pyramid schemes, Parimiro Torriati took advantage of the situation to suppress this group that had been fighting against the Italian Communist Party and had been robbing himself of the people's support, in which many Communist Party members were assassinated by the mafia, which made the Italian people who were deceived by the pyramid scheme even more angry, and supported the new prime minister to fight the mafia.

It turns out that in the powerful gangsters, as long as the government wants to clean you up, you are not an opponent at all. At one time, countless mafias entered Italian prisons with murder, pyramid schemes, and violent activities, and Parimi Torriati solved this group that was even more threatening than the Catholic Democratic Party.

Later, Serov was dumbfounded by the development of Italy, and secretly sighed that he was worthy of being a veteran revolutionary, knowing who his worst enemy was, and successfully keeping the Italian Communist Party in power for almost ten years by fighting the mafia, which may not be expected by Americans.

The Americans really did not expect that at the beginning, the United States, like the Soviet Union, thought that the Italian Communist Party came to power by accident and would fall in the next election. As a result, the Catholic Democratic Party, which is backed by the United States, failed to elect the Communist Party in every election, and they realized that the mafia was so important. But at this time, the Italian Communist Party had long suppressed the mafia, and it has to be said that the mafia fled to the United States in large numbers, and it is still very good.

"It's a pity, not to mention the transformation into a socialist country, even if it is still a lot short of Finlandization." Serov withdrew his gaze from observing the pedestrians around him, closed his eyes and prepared to rest for a while. The term Finlandization appeared in the Federal Republic of Germany in the late sixties, coined as a term coined by conservatives in the Federal Republic of Germany when they criticized the then West German Chancellor Brandt, who valued dialogue with the communist countries.

But let's be honest, what else can a small country do? If the Soviet Union had been in the same place since ancient times, Finland would have been annexed directly and would have become the sixteenth republic of the Soviet Union. You must know that Finland is part of the Russian Empire, and the Soviet Union can do it completely, and the Soviet Union will certainly not tolerate Finland threatening itself in the other camp under its nose, which is certainly not possible.

In general, no one thinks of Finland, a country with a relatively low sense of existence, but it is a typical example of making a lot of money in a muffled voice, and among the allies of the Soviet Union, the most developed is not itself, not even the GDR on the front line of the Cold War, but Finland. Finland's per capita income has long been among the top 10 in the world, but later it was out of the top 20 due to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Serov, who knew the history of the Soviet Union for 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union, found that all the countries that were more exclusive to refugees were the Warsaw Pact countries during the Cold War, such as Hungary, Poland, and the Czech Republic. On the contrary, the more brain-dead countries are all NATO countries, and Finland also has the least number of refugees among the Nordic countries, which shows that the Soviet Union is still more conscientious in some aspects and has not taught its allies to be brain-dead. It is estimated that when later generations saw that their country was full of refugees, some people almost had the heart to re-establish the GDR.

Arriving at the KGB estate in Rome, Serov took a bath in the bathroom waiting for his guests. This villa is very well equipped, covers a considerable area, the scenery is also very good, although it is in the suburbs but the traffic is still very convenient, Serov believes that to do intelligence, you must be willing to invest, not only to develop ordinary people as informants, the best way is to let the agents disguise themselves as capitalists, so as to penetrate the enemy's interior. The effect is not bad, and no agents disguised as capitalists have been discovered.

Dressed in a bathrobe, Serov, with wet hair and leaning on a leather sofa as if paralyzed, was an important partner of the great businessman Patrodi, who traveled to Italy, while the famous Italian businessman Patrodi gave up a villa in the suburbs to Serov and his entourage.

After a short time, a black car stopped at the door of the villa along the path, and Elizabeth Taylor, dressed in a well-fitting suit, walked into the villa with sunglasses.

"Hello, actress! It's been a long time since I said goodbye last time! Serov, who was holding the red wine, tilted his head and glanced at the other party, and then said to himself, "I haven't seen you for a long time, and I miss it very much." To celebrate today's encounter, let's have a drink! ”

Bang! The two wine glasses made a crisp sound when they touched, and they both drank their own glasses tacitly. Serov looked at the other party's purple eyes, sighed slightly in his heart, and said, "See me again, is there anything to say?" ”

"There's nothing to say when you see your own man, congratulations on your successful adventure and defeat the United States in the Cuban Missile Crisis!" Elizabeth Taylor put her glass on the table and said, "And congratulations on becoming the chairman of the State Security Council of the USSR." ”

"Didn't the American newspapers say they won the Cuban Missile Crisis?" Serov asked with a smile.

"That's the American newspaper, the European newspaper said that the two sides were tied, and with the shortcomings of the Soviet Navy, you can say that you won!" Elizabeth Taylor sat down next to Serov as she spoke.

"In fact, the United States has lost, and you will know when the time comes, when I negotiated with Hoover in the United States, I indexed part of the line to Hollywood, and it seems that the results are quite good, and Hoover still learns some things quickly, such as the rebellion!" Old Serov stared at Elizabeth Taylor and said, "You don't seem surprised at all......" (To be continued.) )