The problem with the Arabs is not within them, and the religious forces, if they are strong, are not strong enough to blind the Arabs to the point where they cannot see the gap between Arabs and Europe. There are people of insight www.biquge.info the pen, the fun, and the pavilion, and they can firmly suppress the religious forces in this era, and people like Nasser, Assad, and Gaddafi are all trying their best to develop the country. But in the end, these people all failed. The only thing left is Assad in Syria, and all secular regimes have been wiped out except Syria, leaving only a group of emirates in the Middle East.

The United States is eliminating Arab countries with stable regimes, which are not necessarily secular regimes, and the standard depends on whether or not to kneel down to the United States, which is exactly the opposite of the Soviet standard, and after the oil surge, the Soviet Union will definitely face a different situation. Will the oil-producing countries of the Persian Gulf change the local balance of power?

"Egypt, Syria and South Yemen are not oil-rich countries except Iraq, and this is especially true of South Yemen. With the rise in oil prices, Saudi Arabia, Iran and those small countries around the Persian Gulf will get better and better, will this affect our strategic layout, you must know that the big countries with oil reserves are all emirates, they are our enemies. Serov pointed to countries including Saudi Arabia and Iran that were hostile to the Soviet system, even if the Soviet Union supported Arab countries against Israel.

The king is the enemy, religion is the enemy, and the countries with these two factors are not destined to have harmonious relations with the Soviet Union.

"It's a problem, Saudi Arabia and Iran will benefit from this oil price surge, while Egypt and Syria won't be so easy, but it's still not too bad." Andropov, secretary of the Central Committee, assessed, "Is Serov worried about the loss of the leadership of the Arab world from Egypt?" Probably not, Egypt has always been regarded as the leader of the Arab world, especially after this war, Egypt and Syria have regained lost territory, and Jordan has also recovered some territory in addition to Jerusalem, but the casualty rate is not very good compared to Israel. ”

"Since we have this problem, we will help our allies from other aspects, we can only help them develop, in addition to oil, our strongest Soviet Union is in the military field, and build them into a military power." Ustinov gushes about this, and in his opinion there is nothing more important than the development of the military.

"It is necessary to develop their armed forces, but this is still far from enough, and the natural environment of Syria, Iraq and Egypt is still much stronger than that of Saudi Arabia, and it is appropriate to put some industries there." Serov thought for a moment and said, "Our department should speed up the delivery of optical fiber cables to the Middle East, and we will also set up people's telephone companies in those countries to promote the telephone business to the Middle East through cooperation, and then occupy the market first." Those countries add up to hundreds of millions of people, maybe there are more than hundreds of millions, and their fertility rates are so high. ”

"It's good, if you don't have oil, you can develop other industries, and you won't live without oil?" Andropov nodded approvingly, and the three of them then gave Brezhnev the results of the post-war assessment, waiting for the general secretary's instructions.

When the diplomats of the United States and the Soviet Union were still shuttling around the Middle East, the three people who received the general secretary's instructions began to act, TASS first issued a message congratulating the Arab coalition forces on their feat of recovering lost territory, and then said that the Middle East region was already in a general balance, and peace had come, and so on. In conclusion, he expressed the traditional friendship between the USSR and Arabia, the need to develop good relations in the future, etc., "The USSR has an obligation to help achieve peace in the Middle East, of course, first of all, to improve the quality of life of the local people." For example, advances in communication technology. ”

Egypt first responded positively to the Soviet Union, and the Kupriyanovich People's Telephone Company was first established in Cairo, and as the inventor of the civilian mobile phone, Kupriyanovich followed Kosygin to Cairo to visit Egypt after the Middle East war.

"What kind of revolution is the output? Obviously, it was the Mao Mei who played a big role. The Mao sister in Serov's mouth is the wife who returned to China with the Egyptian elite who began to study in Moscow more than ten years ago. Among them was Mubarak's second wife, and the result of this group of people blowing pillow wind obviously played a huge role, much more useful than exporting the revolution.

Mubarak is the commander-in-chief of the armed forces of Egypt and the commander-in-chief of the air force of the 11-nation coalition, and it is believed that his position will be more stable after this war, and the 45-year-old Mubarak, one of whom is a 30-year-old Russian, has two children, and it is the pro-Soviet elite that is now prevalent in Egypt that has allowed the relations between the Soviet Union and Egypt to continue to be harmonious.

With Egypt as an example, Syria and Iraq have also expressed interest, and Libya has also expressed its willingness to set up telecommunications companies in its country. At present, it seems that relations between the USSR and the Arab Union were boosted after this war.

Kosygin received a huge welcome in Cairo, and his daily itinerary was full. At the same time, Egypt's neighbor Ethiopia also welcomed a guest, KGB deputy chairman Zinev, Zinev was naturally reluctant to come to this beggar's country, but if the results of the visit were linked to the bonus, then it could be tried.

"This country is the water tower of East Africa, and if it is controlled, it will affect not only one country, but if we can gain a foothold here, the whole of northeastern Africa will be unimpeded, and at the same time, the south-eastern threat of Sudan will be removed, and the strategic offensive against the Congo will be realized, and the route to the south will be opened." Zinev recalled the words of his boss Serov.

As Zinev saw with his eyes after getting off the plane, the situation in the country was not good, and it was just a trivial thing that people didn't even have clothes to wear, and Zinev thought that many people could call it that, walking with skeletons in human skin.

At this time, Ethiopia encountered a drought, natural disasters are very normal in Africa, should not be too much attention, but nothing is afraid of comparison, although the Sudan next to it also suffered losses, but with the original accumulation, domestic engineering facilities and the help of the Soviet Union, it was not affected too much by the drought. On the contrary, in Ethiopia, hundreds of thousands of people starved to death, and in this comparison, it is not surprising that something went wrong, but it is not strange if there is no problem.

"The conditions are not bad." Sitting in a car and rushing to the barracks, Zinev secretly commented that what he said was good did not refer to the economic and social level of the country, but to the soil of the revolution, in which case it is easy for a revolution to break out.

The KGB's view of Africa was largely negative, and together with the establishment of a state by the Arabs of North Africa, it was not highly rated. With the exception of North Africa, Africa is mainly divided into three parts, West Africa, East Africa and South Africa. The three sections were also evaluated differently, with East Africa being the most rated, believing that this region would be stronger than the other two regions if it were to carry out revolution.

There is a civilization in East Africa, and the civilization in Africa is mainly in East Africa, as for West Africa, it is a group of primitive people, not to mention that the current development is not good, and even the history has not developed well. The blacks of West Africa and the blacks of East Africa are completely different in terms of personality, physique and appearance, and there were dynasties established by blacks in ancient Egypt.

It didn't take long for Zinev to arrive at the barracks, which belonged to the Military Consultative Council, where he would meet with some of the former Ethiopian mid-ranking officers, who had already been imprisoned. Even Haile Selassie I was under house arrest, not to mention the dignitaries.

Zinev also did his homework before he came, and he found no trace of the French. France's growing ambitions are being seen in Africa's actions as it recovers its national strength. At the beginning of the Second World War, France was only a country that was brought into the United Nations, but with the establishment of the Fifth Republic, de Gaulle's careful governance played a role, and France got rid of its soy sauce role.

This is also due to the Soviet Union, which allowed France to still own Algeria as an overseas province that was not affected by the oil crisis. It is precisely because of this that France's development is far faster than that of its old rival Britain, and France has only given up its colonies in name, so not only has its power in Africa not shrunk, but because Britain has completely gone out and has no enemies.

In recent years, France has not only continued to maintain influence in its original colonies, but has begun to frequently intervene in the original British African countries, before the Soviet Union has not done anything to the Congo, two years ago France and Britain formed a mercenary army to kill the Congo, but the mercenaries did not succeed and were defeated by Mobutu.

The lack of French influence in Ethiopia was good news, and Zonev had some expectations for the trip.

It didn't take long for Zinev to meet with the officers of the Military Coordination Committee, these officers generally did not have a high rank, at least not a single general, it was these people who controlled the country, Zinev was welcomed by these middle and low-ranking officers, and the Soviet brand was still very influential.

"I'm Lieutenant Colonel Mengistu, welcome to you, General Zinev, as you can see, our country is not in a very good situation right now." The two sides chatted for a short time, and an officer who looked very temperamental took the initiative to shake hands.

Zinev was stunned for a moment, he remembered that this person had been mentioned at the internal meeting of the KGB, although the chairman said it was more vague, but the name was correct and it was him, and if you looked closely, this person was still spiritual except that his skin was a little darker.

"Lieutenant Colonel Mengistu, it's amazing how young you are." Zinev took the initiative to extend his hand, which made Mengistu feel good, and during his training in the United States, he was subjected to pervasive discrimination, at that time he swore to absolutely keep his distance from the Americans, and now it seems that the Soviets are not bad. (To be continued.) )