Chapter 286: I Can Fix It
Serov, who finished eating the watermelon, checked out, and he really wanted to say that Lao Tzu didn't want money from the establishment of the restaurant, but after seeing the vendor happily accept the ruble, he dispelled this idea, which shows that the ruble has begun to be accepted by the Cubans.
This matter can not be implemented until after the end of the Cuban Missile Crisis, and it is believed that the Soviet Union will not make a fuss about Cuba if it does not complete the accumulation of strength within 10 years, and during the talks with Che Guevara, Serov invited him to go to Moscow if he has time, but it is not enough to just meet Che Guevara, and the people who Cuba really says are the Castro brothers.
I don't know if Che Guevara's later departure from Cuba was related to the Castro brothers' disagreement. But historically, the Castro brothers had no intention of purging Che Guevara, at least not in this way. It is understandable why Che Guevara ran away, as long as it was because of his own thoughts. This incident illustrates Che Guevara's inability to change the policies of the Castro brothers, who are better than the leaders of many socialist countries, who know how to stick to their principles when they should and not to be stubborn when they should compromise.
In addition, living a long life is also a huge advantage, the reason why Cuba can survive the crisis of the collapse of the Soviet Union is that in addition to being too far away from the Soviet Union to be harmed, the ability of the two brothers is the most important factor, after all, they are so close to the United States, and the pressure is not less than that of the Soviet Union.
Fidel? Castro is now the No. 1 man in Cuba, and his younger brother Raul Castro is in charge of the Cuban army, and after Che Guevara left, Raul Castro soon became the No. 2 man in Cuba. These two can only be compared with the map of the entire Soviet Union.
In terms of age, Serov and the Castro brothers, as well as Che Guevara, are the same age. He was a year older than Che Guevara and more than Fidel? Castro is a year younger and four years older than Raul Castro. The meeting place was set at the Museum of the Cuban Revolution, which is also the former presidential palace, and Serov was only interested in the former presidential palace, and by the way to see how the former Cuban presidents lived.
It must be admitted. Where the economic conditions are poor, there will be no shortage of luxurious buildings, such as the current Cuban Revolution Museum, the real valuable things should have been nationalized, but from the building itself, we can still see what conditions the Cuban presidents lived in.
"The Spaniards seem to have a natural love for luxurious art, and the revolution in Spain thirty years ago was not the result of the clergy and aristocracy occupying too much wealth, which turned into the Spanish Civil War?" Touching the carvings in the corridors of the presidential palace, Serov felt that his life was now so colorful. The Soviet Union had national retro buildings, all built during the Imperial Russian period, and some during the Stalin period, but from the time of Khrushchev they became exactly the same wholesale products. The impression left on Serov is that it is a community with red bricks and white walls, appearing in batches.
"Yes, if this place were still the way it was, General Serov would have seen something more luxurious. You'd be surprised at our former president, Batista was just a steward of Americans' wealth. His status may not be as high as that of the head of an American gang! "Fidel in a green uniform? Castro said as he stood beside Serov. From the outside, the original Cuban presidential palace looks like a replica of the White House in the United States. It's not quite, of course.
On the surface, Serov was looking at the Holy Land of the Revolution, which would have been the case if Isemimutny and Lukarni hadn't been with him. However, with the two female agents, this kind of scene seems a little unserious, and Serov also found this problem. Leaving the two women a little farther away, leaving only a Spanish translator.
"Are those two women your men?" Raul Castro asked at this time, seemingly dissatisfied with why he appeared here with a woman, knowing that he also believed in a saying that war makes women go away.
"Yes. Sometimes it's easier to achieve our goals with women than with men, don't underestimate the two little girls, they are much better than me in combat. Serov said with a smile, "Their marksmanship is even better than that of elite soldiers!" Speaking of which, Serov misses those comrades of the king of soldiers a little, and I don't know what his career as an instructor in the Caucasus was, and whether he has taught his skills to the Communists in Iraq.
After the success of the revolution, many wealthy people had already fled to the United States, and the act of smuggling into the United States still occurs from time to time, and several of them have no way to do this, knowing that this is a means for the US government to deal with Cuba.
This is also one of Serov's purposes, the United States encouraged the Cuban people to flee Cuba, in fact, it was the same as using West Berlin to influence the GDR, using higher treatment to wipe out the Cuban elite, causing difficulties for Cuba's economic development, and now West Berlin has been surrounded by Serov into a big prison, and I heard Markus Wolf say that the neurasthenia of West Berlin residents is growing explosively, and dissatisfaction is intensifying.
But the experience of West Berlin cannot be applied to Cuba, where the United States is much more powerful than the Federal Republic of Germany, and the embargo policy is not Cuban against the United States, but is being carried out by the United States against Cuba. However, the Cuban elite continued to flee chronic blood loss, and there was a way to stop it, otherwise the GDR's plight in the face of the Federal Republic of Germany would be repeated in Cuba.
"It is very normal for the Cuban elite to be dissatisfied with socialism, not everyone has the consciousness of Comrade Castro and dares to betray their own class revolution!" The Castro family was a well-known plantation owner in the area, and like many current leaders in many countries, the Castro brothers chose the path of revolution. Serov lowered his voice and said, "Actually, I came to Cuba because I heard that Cuba was in the same predicament as the GDR, so I came here secretly, and I forgot to say that the Berlin city defense system was built under my supervision......."
"General Serov, you built the Berlin Wall?" As for the affairs of the European continent, although the Cuban leader, who has just achieved the success of the revolution, knows it, he does not know many secrets, but he did not expect that the initiator of such a big news was actually in front of him, Castro read the newspaper of the confrontation in Berlin, and now suddenly remembered that the soldier standing on the tank and shouting seemed to be Serov in front of him.
"Yes, the GDR had the same situation as Cuba, that is, the Federal Republic of Germany was far better than the GDR offered, and the inhabitants of West Berlin bought things in the GDR in the currency of the Federal Republic of Germany, knowing that the prices of goods in the GDR were very low, at least a third lower than in West Berlin, and the behavior of the inhabitants of West Berlin was undoubtedly another kind of exploitation." Serov shrugged and said, "In order to prevent this from happening, I can only blockade West Berlin in this way, and wait until the GDR can really catch up with the economic disparity and consider opening the borders ......."
"But we in Cuba do not have the conditions of the GDR, although it is the same that the Americans take advantage of the favorable conditions to poach our intellectuals and experts, but we cannot stop them, can we arrest all those people?" Raul Castro is not yet thirty years old and thinks things are somewhat straightforward.
"It's not impossible, I can solve ......" Serov's eyes narrowed and he thought it was time to get to the point, because this sentence caught the attention of the Castro brothers and Che Guevara, who both knew what the problem was, but there was no way to solve it.
"We need to talk about this matter in a private place, and at the same time, this matter must be kept secret, only the four of us know about it, and it must not be leaked!" Serov first thought about secrecy, who made him a KGB, counterintelligence thinking exists as much as instinct. Several people looked at each other and nodded heavily. If it weren't for Serov's non-ability to speak Spanish, he would have wanted to kick the translator away.
Serov didn't believe the translator he was looking for in the embassy, so he asked the Castro brothers to find an interpreter to continue the conversation, after all, they are the masters here in Cuba, and the chance of finding a reliable person is much greater than that of the KGB, and another reason is that Serov is afraid that his ideas will be reported to the country, because this matter is a little bottomless is a rather scoundrel trick.
"There is a big loophole in Americans' policy toward Cuban exiles, which is that anyone with Cuban nationality can stay in the United States, no matter what kind of person they are, and that's a big loophole." "The Americans think it's smart to do this, but it's actually very risky, as long as you let go of a group of people at the same time so that the United States can't eat them, so that the Americans themselves will revise their policies on Cuban exiles......"
"Let go of a group of people? How many people? Lakh? Two hundred thousand? Che Guevara frowned, "Shall we arrest someone?" ”
"Ernesto, the people did not commit a crime, we can't arrest them without evidence!" Castro reminded from the side.
"We in the Soviet Union have such people, Kazan prison holds 60,000 gulag thieves, plus criminals who commit violent crimes every year, mentally ill, anti-Soviet, public intellectuals and religious extremists, not counting other destabilizing factors, if you add the people of the Eastern European countries who yearn for the United States, this number is unimaginable!" Serov said unhurriedly, "At the right time, the problem of Cuba's population loss will be solved...... )