A week after the discovery of missiles in Cuba, both the United States and the Soviet Union were making relevant preparations. Three countries, Britain, France, and the Federal Republic of Germany, received information from the United States, and Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany chose to support the United States. After expressing concerns, France also expressed its willingness to take sides with the Americans at the appropriate time.

But de Gaulle, who was in Paris, after taking stock of the situation in Algeria, felt that it seemed that the long-standing matter could be solved at once, so he made a risky decision. Leak the news to the media.

But the French were still not as quick as the Americans, and after a week of waiting, Kennedy knew that it was time to step up, and US President John F. Kennedy made a televised speech in which he publicly announced that the Soviet Union had deployed missiles in Cuba and that the blockade of Cuba would begin two days later. In addition, he demanded that Khrushchev withdraw Soviet missiles from Cuba and threatened a powerful counterattack if the United States was attacked. U.S. troops were put on three-level alert, more U.S. troops were moved to Florida, and about 200 ships surrounded Cuba. The United States has put on the posture of a nuclear war, strategic aerial bombers have taken off with nuclear bombs, strategic nuclear submarines have gone to sea, and the US military around the world is in a state of nuclear combat readiness. The order for full combat readiness of the US Strategic Air Force is issued in plain code.

The telegram was sent in clear code, but it was quickly intercepted by the Soviet side, and the Soviet embassy in the United States, Dobrynin, was also questioned by the Soviet embassy in the United States, because according to the earlier confidentiality agreement, all Soviet diplomats except the foreign minister were kept in the dark.

"Comrades, imperialism has launched the first wave of warnings, what is our response?" Khrushchev looked at the members of the Presidium of the Central Committee around him with burning eyes, and he hoped to see some kind of responsibility and strength in his comrades.

Yura was right that the U.S. response ended up being to use the Navy to blockade it. And we must first break through this blockade once! "The first to speak was the alternate member of the Presidium of the Central Committee, Sherepin, who had previously talked specifically about this issue with the KGB, and Serov talked about all possible scenarios, specifically mentioning that if the US Navy blockade, it must be broken through once and shown to people all over the world.

"Not bad, if there is no action. It will give a huge blow to the image of the Soviets! Brezhnev spoke.

Khrushchev put his eyes on Kozlov next to him, feeling Khrushchev's gaze, Kozlov nodded solemnly, and Khrushchev, who had received support, immediately ordered, "The Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the KGB and the Ministry of Defense immediately make relevant preparations, this time we are united, we must break through the encirclement network of the Americans......"

Soon, Marshal Gorshkov, having received the order, ordered the Navy to remain on alert, and the submarine forces immediately left the port. The SSN4 submarine shoelace submarine missile left the port and went to the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean to assemble and stand by, and the N-class nuclear submarine formation went to the Caribbean to wait for the opportunity to reach Cuba.

The Minister of Defense of the USSR, Marshal Malinovsky, issued an order from the Ministry of Defense that the military districts of Osad, North Caucasus and Transcaucasia, near Turkey, were raised in combat readiness, and military leave was canceled and brought to a state of combat readiness of the third level.

"The local State Security Service and the General Directorate of Internal Affairs must be vigilant and strict with themselves. Prevent certain lawless people from spreading rumors to subvert and sabotage the Soviets! On the same day, Semychasny sent a telegram to the KGB organs of the country.

It didn't take long for Serov to receive intelligence from the American side and learn about the forces mobilized by the American army. Two hundred ships, including eight aircraft carriers, are at anchor from major US military ports to Florida, and there are also five or so infantry divisions of army units being assembled, and the air force is moving more quickly. In total, sixty-eight fighter squadrons have already arrived there.

Serov arrived at the Kremlin to report the news to the Presidium of the Central Committee, listening to the strength gathered by the United States, the whole conference room was silent, the American army strength was never within the scope of the Soviet Union's consideration, only five divisions, and the combat effectiveness was not estimated to be too high. But this huge surface fleet of eight aircraft carriers and two hundred search ships. But the weakest point of the Soviet Union, Cuba is surrounded by seas, and the Soviet Army is not strong. The Soviet Air Force in Cuba is still a drop in the bucket compared to an air force of this size, but it is still supported by anti-aircraft missiles.

"Our nuclear missiles. It is the biggest psychological deterrent, the Americans don't know how many, they don't dare to mess around. Serov said after talking about the military forces mobilized by the United States. Compared with the Cuban Missile Crisis in history, that is, the Soviet Union's military power is still in a fog, and the Americans quickly estimated the number of missiles, this time Serov is absolutely confident that the Americans still do not know how many missiles the Soviet Union has on the island, and the U2 reconnaissance plane is indeed very powerful, but he can't see through the situation inside the building.

"I'm not going to be intimidated by Kennedy's bluff, when I was fighting in Ukraine, this little guy didn't know where he was?" Khrushchev clenched his right hand into a fist and said in an accentuated tone, "Andrey? Comrade Gromyko, tell the Americans that we will not accept such hostile behavior, that this is in the direction of nuclear war......"

At a time when the United States and the Soviet Union were discussing how to make concessions to each other, the news had already spread across the European continent, whether it was Western Europe or Eastern Europe, NATO or the Warsaw Pact, and it was like a bolt from the blue to learn the explosive news. The Polish government immediately blocked the news of the Polish advisory group, because three days earlier, the Polish advisory group had already decided to launch an offensive, and at this time the offensive of the Algerian People's Army had already begun.

The news of the nuclear confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in Cuba immediately caused a huge repercussion, and the reaction of the entire Western European countries was very fierce, and the Times published an article under the headline that we have never been so close to nuclear war, and analyzed in a pessimistic tone the outcome of a nuclear war that broke out. The Soviet Union once said that Britain was nothing more than three hydrogen, and the country that could solve the problem with bombs, and France, which was a little more troublesome, might need five.

With nuclear war on the horizon and small riots in some cities, the older ones will not forget that the end of World War II, which was less than twenty years old, has reduced Europe to ruins, let alone a nuclear war, and no one can remain indifferent to the terrible future they face.

Four hours after Kennedy's televised speech, TASS President Goryunov himself wrote an editorial attacking US imperialism: "Look at the imperialist country that claims to be the number one in the world but is the most powerful in the world, it always thinks that the earth is its own, it is arrogant and ignorant, and it does not hesitate to blockade it with the most powerful fleet on the planet when faced with a small country, as if Cuba would really invade it, which fully reflects the weakness of imperialism, which is afraid of even the slightest threat. Who would have believed that Cuba would invade the United States? Anyone with a modicum of common sense will know how fragile Cuba's power is compared to the millions of Americans armed to the teeth. A giant accuses a baby of committing a crime, which is shameless hegemonic logic......"

"The Soviet Union accepted Cuba's request, and they asked us to protect them, to protect a small nascent third world country. When a small island nation is in danger and comes to the door to ask the Soviet Union for help, we cannot refuse them, just as we cannot refuse all the poor people. The Americans have no mercy on Cuba, and Guantanamo, the largest port in Cuba, is still in the hands of the Americans, and they can make an amphibious landing at any time if the Americans want to, just like they did at Inchon more than a decade ago, and it is easier than then. The country's largest port had been forcibly occupied by foreigners, and Cuba could not absolve the treaty, which stipulated that it could never be dissolved if the Americans did not agree. This is a blatant act of aggression......"

The influence of Goryunov's editorial is so great that ordinary Europeans will not know about this small country under the noses of the Americans, and who will know what a country under the shadow of the United States is like. Europeans did not know that Guantanamo existed, let alone that in the context of the independence of European colonies, Cuba was still burdened with such a treaty that had to be abrogated by the nod of the United States.

Torrez, the general secretary of the French Communist Party, was the first to stand up and strongly criticized the behavior of the Americans, believing that this kind of forcible occupation of the ports of other countries was inconsistent with the propaganda that the Americans had always professed to be anti-colonial and hoped for the independence of all nationalities. In front of the microphone of the French media, Torres quipped, "The Americans openly accuse France of its efforts to preserve Algeria, and they still occupy Guantanamo, the best port in Cuba, compared to oppressing a sovereign country." Algeria has been growing up in the hands of France for a hundred years, and it seems that we are more righteous, so where did the American media find the sense of moral superiority to criticize France? Didn't they know that Guantanamo existed? ”

Later, Italian Prime Minister and General Secretary of the Communist Party, Paremi Rotoriatti, also made a statement on behalf of Italy, "The Guantanamo issue shows that Cuba's request for help from the Soviet Union is justified, and the United States should admit its mistake and believe that this matter is not difficult to solve, this is a colonial act!" ”

Because the general secretary of the French Communist Party, Torres, first expressed his position, and France did not have the confidence to brush up its presence on the issue of the colonies, de Gaulle had to give up the opportunity to brush up his sense of existence, and instead called on the Soviet Union and the United States not to go to the last step and solve this problem with political communication, but in the end he still couldn't help but say one more sentence, "The Americans are treating Europe as a meat ticket against the Soviet Union!" (To be continued.) )