Chapter 634: The BBC
"You are the leader of the hard-liners, you can't let Shurik go, he used to be the chairman of the KGB, and now he is the head of our country, if you go, it may not look good because of this factor. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ο½ γ info" Brezhnev said with his hands outstretched, "This is a security and cultural visit, and there should be Comrade Fortseva in the delegation. β
"I see!" Serov nodded, this reason is really irrefutable, Sherepin also served as the chairman of the KGB, and it will definitely have a bad impact on going to the UK, it is foreseeable that if he goes, the protest and scolding in Britain will just be a different person. The negative news is still not going to change. And Shelepin, as head of state, obviously should not have negative news in this regard.
Then this matter should be done by himself, and another reason is that Brezhnev is also preparing to visit abroad, does he feel that when he goes abroad, it is safer to let one of the two Sherepins also go abroad.
"It's an endless temptation." Out of the Kremlin Serov felt tired for a while, is it always interesting for a first secretary of the Soviet Union to live like this? No wonder Brezhnev said before his death that the happiest time in his life was when he was the secretary of the state party committee, and he only needed to complete the work and did not need intrigue.
But a trip with Fortseva? It was not a pleasant experience, and the KGB was investigating Fortseva's use of materials from the Bolshoi Theater to renovate the villa, but the other party was tough and did not think she had done anything wrong. The villa is also not its own, and once it steps down from the position of Minister of Culture, the villa will naturally be taken back.
Communication between the two sides did not seem very pleasant, and Serov did not have much to do with the Minister of Culture. Who let himself go up and hug his thighs in his early years, for this kind of vague transgression, it is not clear whether to investigate or not to investigate.
"Fortseva and I are on a trip together, and I expect the atmosphere of the delegation to be very awkward." Serov put his arms around his wife and said helplessly, "I really don't have anything to do with this woman, I can't make people think that we are ungrateful." β
Fortseva helped Serov a lot at that time, the relationship between the two families was relatively good, and Valya's work also made this member of the Presidium of the Central Committee from Ukraine contribute a lot, and it is not justified that Serov will investigate and punish her because the other party has no power now.
"Just let her go once, she's having a hard time now, and the diplomat's husband isn't doing well. Alekseevna is aging very fast now, and the last time I saw her, I almost couldn't help but come. Valya was silent for a moment and pleaded with her husband, Fortseva was of great help to both of them, and it was really a little difficult to see the other party like this.
"The slander of the Soviets by the bastards of the Writers' Association in recent years has a lot to do with the indulgence of the Ministry of Culture. If she hadn't helped us before, I would have proposed to Suslov to replace her as Minister of Culture. Serov said fiercely, acquiescing in his wife's suggestion, many examples have proven that no matter how powerful a cadre is, he should not talk nonsense. Especially on domestic issues, it is better for security cadres not to express their opinions. Seeing the danger and eliminating it on the spot but not speaking out is what the KGB should do.
On this trip, Serov was brought in by the deputy chairman of the KGB, Tsvigon, who was a member of the writers' association and was the vice chairman of the KGB, and he had already decided in his heart that he would take this vice chairman with him wherever he went in the future. Tsvigon's wife and Brezhnev's wife were sisters, and he was the brother-in-law of Brezhnev's children, and it was safer for this person to wear with him. At present, it seems that he is quite happy and likes to visit abroad.
The Tu-154 passenger plane smashed into the London airport with the unique landing method of the Soviet Union, which indicated that the visit of the spy chief to London had officially begun, and Serov, who had just been tested his heart, turned a deaf ear to the scattered protests, and cautiously shook hands with the other party and went to the hotel that the Soviet Union had already inspected.
The security of the entire Soviet delegation, with the exception of the bodyguards brought by Serov himself, was the responsibility of MI6. Is the name of the MI6 chief Harold? Gold? Philby. From the moment he became chairman of the KGB, Serov planned to transfer all intelligence officers who knew about this person to cover up Philby's relationship with the KGB. and mobilized funds, and even took the initiative to exchange intelligence for Philby's promotion, and in 1970, Philby finally became the director of British MI6 as he wished.
No one would have imagined that the top leader of Britain's MI6, one of the world's finest intelligence agencies, would be a spy who had been in the service of the Soviet Union for almost three decades.
From the moment Serov got off the plane, the welcome ceremony was certainly not, on the contrary, he received constant protests along the way. Maybe there are many people in the protest crowd who want to make a big news.
"Are the British afraid that I can't understand English, where did they find such a group of White Russians?" After arriving at the hotel, Serov looked at the protesters outside and said to himself, "Are these people still ready to fight back to Moscow and rebuild Imperial Russia?" Fifty years have passed, and these people still haven't given up. β
"I don't know, but this situation is very disturbing, if it was in China, I would have arrested them for ideological education." Zwigon was also in a bad mood along the way, hoping that Britain would control the protests, but was told that it was the freedom of the people. If the definition of freedom was to insult the Soviet delegation casually, Tsvigon felt that he should organize a protest if he had the opportunity to bring back today's humiliation.
"Forget it, what do these people do, in terms of the current political atmosphere in the UK, they don't vote in their own elections, how can they have the leisure to protest against us, the British just want to embarrass us. Maybe it's coming for me! Serov closed the curtains, out of sight and out of mind. According to Khrushchev's words, Britain is nothing more than a country that can be solved by three big Ivans, a barren island on the edge of the world, what does it matter?
The next day the Soviet delegation entered Buckingham Palace, and in terms of specifications, the British side had already shown the utmost sincerity, which Serov did not believe at all, and it must have something to do with another person among the Cambridge Five. For Buckingham Palace, Serov, who was born with no artistic cells, couldn't find an adjective after thinking for a long time, so he could only replace it with money.
Fortseva had an intimate conversation with the British Secretary of Culture, as did some Soviet writers and British representatives around the two, but what kind of culture do you pretend to be? You are obviously the deputy chairman of the KGB, what are you squeezing forward?
With whiskey in his hand, Serov is a person who stops here, and he can speak for a word from the inside out, which is redundant...... He is not a representative of the cultural world, although he is also a member of the writers' association, but his works are all about how to construct safe books, which are worthless in terms of literary value, no writing, no plot, nothing.
"Mr. Serov, are you satisfied with our welcome?" British Prime Minister Harold? Wilson came over and came over to chat with Serov with a very happy look, he certainly knew that this Soviet man was protesting everywhere he went, and this was exactly what Britain needed, and in terms of disgusting people, he was not targeting a particular country, but he wanted to say that all the countries of the planet, you are all happy.
"Good, just some protests." Serov raised his hand slightly with a wine glass and Harold? Wilson touched it and said, "These are British, after all, they receive some unrealistic information, it is normal to have misunderstandings about the Soviet Union, people will be affected by the surrounding environment, they can't see the real Soviet Union, this reaction is normal." β
Serov did not say anything about the disgusting actions of the other side, but this reaction was very much worse in Harold? Wilson's eyes had another meaning, the man in front of him was a hard-liner representative of the Soviet Union, but this time he was sent to Britain to push for dΓ©tente, and it was clear that the first secretary of the Soviet Union, Leonid Brezhnev, had temporarily suppressed the forces hostile to the West.
Even Harold? Wilson is the prime minister of the Labour Party, and he also has a bottom line in the face of the Soviet Union, although the foreign policy of the Labour Party is not as hostile to the Soviet Union as the Conservative Party, but it still wants to keep a distance from the Soviet Union in its bones. They just advocated that the USSR should be dealt with by the Americans, and that Britain should watch the show. But even so, it was enough to make the USSR happy, and it would be best if no one was involved in the struggle between the USSR and the USA.
In his capacity as a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, Serov held talks with the British Prime Minister, during which the two sides had a frank exchange, fully exchanged views, enhanced mutual understanding, decided to increase communication, and signed a number of innocuous agreements.
During his two-day trip to Buckingham Palace, Serov spent wave after wave of protests, and finally Harold? Wilson suggested that a television interview should be made for British journalists to conduct an interview with members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union to increase the British public's understanding of the Soviet Union.
"Okay, this is an opportunity to fully communicate." Serov simply agreed, he could expect that there was a pit waiting to bring him in front, and the other party was a little too optimistic, and really thought that he could eat himself.
As a representative of the hardliners in the Soviet Union, Serov's decision to give a television interview to Britain soon spread throughout Britain through the Times and attracted the attention of the British people.
At the headquarters of the British Radio and Television Station, Serov, dressed in the uniform of a Soviet general, got off the bus, and after being interviewed here today, the Alexander Red Banner Song and Dance Troupe of the Soviet Union will hold a performance in Britain, and he will be able to return to China at that time.
"I've been through a lot of battles, I've seen a lot......" Serov looked at the icon on the building, took a deep breath and stepped inside. (To be continued.) )