"Yura, why don't you go back and say hello to Valya?" Sherepin and Serov came out of the Kremlin together and walked outside in the middle of the night, discussing what name to give Serov to go to the Americas.

"No, she's going to be worried, now that the whole world knows that we're in Cuba and the United States, I don't want to see a woman with tears in her eyes." He took a deep breath and popped the cigarette butt out of his hand. This is inside the Kremlin, but no one came to ask Serov to pay the fine, and Serov, who smoked a cigarette and felt that his thinking was much clearer, looked at his boss and asked, "What about Semychasny?" He's actually more qualified than I am to sit on the front lines......"

"He has no diplomatic experience!" Sherepin also had a headache when he spoke, he wanted to give this opportunity to Shemychasny, but when it was discussed, even Shemychasny himself had no confidence, and if he didn't have confidence, he would have nothing, when was this? At this time, the people sent out can't be a little timid, how can Shemychasny behave like the leader of a powerful department?

For the first time, Sherepin felt that it would be better to let Shemychasny work in the government at an appropriate time, and it would be better for Serov to be in charge of the KGB department, not to mention that this was originally what Khrushchev meant.

"The country's expectations for me are really not small!" Serov smiled bitterly, "I went to Tashkent, and I was allowed to fly back, I don't know what the main purpose of going abroad this time is to?" Let me go to the UN General Assembly for a debate? I did work in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but didn't I make a mistake at that time, I was a security officer from beginning to end......"

"If you can successfully solve this problem, I believe there will be no obstacles to your progress!" Sherepin also saw that his assistant was somewhat lacking in confidence, and it seemed that Shemychasny was not isolated. The tense atmosphere in the Caribbean at this time does make some people feel terrified.

How not? Didn't Brezhnev sit well in the position of the Presidium of the Central Committee? Of course, his boss thinks so highly of himself, and Serov must also comfort himself from the side, and drink the chicken soup for the soul when he should drink it. During the Cold War, the United States and the Soviet Union had such a direct confrontation, and it was a kind of luck to participate in it.

"In accordance with the spirit of the meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee, Comrade Yuri Yefimovich Serov was appointed deputy commander of the Cuban cluster, and he and General Pliyev jointly commanded the operations of the Cuban cluster, and at the same time, as the representative of the Soviet Union to the United States, he was responsible for negotiations with the United States together with Comrade Dobrynin!"

"I'm willing to give it all I can. Let the Soviets get what they want from this crisis! Serov raised his head slightly and gave a military salute to the members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union. I promise to complete this mission with a mortal attitude. I'm willing to die in Cuba when I need to......"

"The central government will not let you die in Cuba, what we want is the completion of the task, once the United States invades Cuba, this is a global war!" Kozlov solemnly assured, "The capitalists are not afraid of death, and there is no reason why we should be afraid!" ”

"Understood!" Serov stood up and saluted all the members of the Presidium of the Central Committee and left the Kremlin with his legs raised.

"Will Serov be able to accomplish this task?" Kirilenko, the first secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk regional party committee, asked with some unconfidence. As soon as this sentence was asked, it was met with a stern gaze from Brezhnev.

"Judging from Serov's experience in handling related incidents in the past ten years, if he doesn't handle it well this time, we may not be able to find another security cadre who is more capable of handling it well!" Sherepin glanced at Aristov indifferently. Aristov is an alternate member of the Presidium of the Central Committee, and Sherepin is also an alternate member, but this does not mean that Serepin will care about Aristov, with Sherepin's character, he thinks that he is equal to Brezhnev, let alone Aristov, who is taken care of by Brezhnev? In his opinion. Without Brezhnev's recommendation, how could the secretary of this state party committee enter the Central Committee? And still be the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Russia?

This is a miscalculation by Shelepin. In fact, Aristov and Brezhnev really had a simple superior-subordinate relationship, the two were not one of the groups that Selepin thought, and Kirilenko, whom Brezhnev trusted the most, was not here.

After appointing Serov as deputy commander of the Cuban cluster, Khrushchev felt that he should buy time, so he wrote a letter to US President John F. Kennedy, "Mr. President. You are not declaring a quarantine, but you are giving an ultimatum to use force against us if we do not yield to your demands. Think about what you're talking about! And so you still want to convince me to agree! What does it mean to agree to these requirements? This will mean that dealing with other countries is not based on reasoning, but on subordination to overbearing behavior. You don't ask why, but you just want to intimidate us. ”

After sending this letter that is quite normal. Khrushchev did not hesitate to sign his name on the next document, which was an application for first-class combat readiness sent by the Ministry of Defense; 10 days after the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis, after the United States announced that it would carry out second-level combat readiness, the Soviet Union directly announced to the outside world that it would raise its combat readiness level to the first-level, and all the member states of the Warsaw Pact expressed their support and issued first-class combat readiness orders to their armed forces. Newspapers of various countries have expressed their own opinions, asking the United States not to be afraid of Cuba's involvement in Europe, and there are also voices advocating the issuance of a first-class combat readiness order for confrontation, and more of a concern for the extinction of mankind.

"My trip to the United States may open the door to peace, or I may find the key to hell, but the final result depends entirely on the choice of the Americans!" At the press conference announcing Serov's report on his appointment, Serov said expressionlessly in front of these reporters from all over the world.

"General Serov, isn't the behavior of the USSR intended to provoke a world war? It's just an island nation, is it worth it? Was the USSR ready to destroy the planet? A British journalist asked.

"The question of whether the Soviet Union took the initiative to provoke them, or whether they should protect the Cuban people at their request, is very important, since you have doubts about this, do you dare to follow me to Cuba?" Serov stared into the eyes of this journalist with an aggressive look in his gaze, "Haven't you journalists always claimed to be sticking to the truth?" Do you dare to take a risk and go with me to the front line of the confrontation to see what the Cuban people think of this matter? ”

"Are there any journalists who dare to go to Cuba? Stand up? Serov stood up and slapped the table and shouted.

This attitude of treating the journalist profession as a piece of poop angered many of the reporters present, and they stood up for a while to protest: "I am asking if there are any journalists who dare to go to Cuba with me?" You guys didn't figure it out......"

"Yes, of course we reporters dare to take risks in order to pursue the truth of the matter!" Immediately, one by one, reporters jumped out in response to the arrogant Soviet general.

"Well, all the truth is up to you!" Serov waved his hand and said, "I look at how many journalists in Europe are not afraid of death, you journalists who dare to go to Cuba, I admire you!" ”

It was a success, and Serov looked at the excited reporters and gave a satisfactory assessment of his actions, appointing the commander of a cluster or a deputy, of course, there was no need to hold a press conference. But the problem is that Cuba is now blocked by the US sea and air, and it is very likely that he will be killed by the US Air Force when he takes a plane, and Serov will not be able to get in, and if he can't get in, he will not be able to take office. This problem also troubled all the members of the Presidium of the Central Committee, including Khrushchev, so Serov held such a press conference, looking for an opportunity to scold these reporters for being worthless, provoking these reporters not to dare to go to Cuba, and looking for a batch of meat shields for themselves, which seems to have been very successful so far.

The KGB's attitude towards the journalist profession, especially Western war correspondents, is to kill one if it can, especially in places where the Soviet Union and the United States are fiercely contested, and it is usually the region where Western war correspondents have suffered the highest casualties. But Serov, who is now the first deputy chairman of the KGB, temporarily found something valuable about these people. He wants to use these Western journalists to tie himself to enter Cuba.

The huge Tu-114 passenger plane rose from the ground in Moscow and landed in Rome not long after, and Italian Prime Minister Paremi Rotoriatti agreed to let the Tu-114 passenger plane land. Externally, it claimed that the Italian government was willing to make its own efforts for communication between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the Communist leader, who had been in power for more than eight years, continued to make his presence felt. This kind of behavior is annoying, especially the general secretary of the French Communist Party, Torrez, who hates this behavior even more. They are also representatives of the European Communist Party, and the Italian Communist Party is becoming more and more like a leader, which makes the French very unhappy.

When the Tu-114 passenger plane that stopped in Rome for refueling took off again, there were many more reporters in the cabin, and with the dozens of agents brought by Serov, the passenger plane that could accommodate 200 people was already full. At this time, Serov had a sense of security, some protection from a meat shield, and believed that he could go to Cuba and take up his post safely.

"It's a pity, this little guy is very vigilant, otherwise we can create a plane crash to test the attitude of the Soviet Union, and at the same time force the Soviets to retreat!" At the meeting of the US National Security Council held at the White House, FBI Director Hoover said to Kennedy and the people around him with great regret, "There are hundreds of reporters on it now, and the shooting down of this passenger plane will put us under tremendous pressure of public opinion, and the public opinion we have just won back will instantly turn into nothingness!" ”

In the evening, Serov led this group of thrill-seeking reporters to land at the airport in Havana, the capital of Cuba. (To be continued.) )