The huge fireball in the sky, like a big sun, emitted a constantly changing colorful light, red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple, presented in Khrushchev's mind, and its beauty was simply beyond words. The huge mushroom cloud was extremely turbulent and surging straight into Xiaohan, and then, buildings and vehicles were "blown away", big trees were uprooted, and rows of T34 tanks were rolled up high like toys, and then they were thrown out of two or thirty meters and then turned upside down

The footage of the Chinese hydrogen bomb explosion became a lingering shadow in Khrushchev's mind. He had asked nuclear experts at the Soviet Atomic Energy Commission, who estimated that the hydrogen bomb used by China for the experiment would have exploded at least 500 to 600 nuclear yields, 400 to 500 times more than the atomic bomb dropped by the United States on Hiroshima. According to Korolev, an engineer responsible for the development of the Soviet Union's first P-7 intercontinental missile, China's rocket carrying capacity far exceeds that of the Soviet Union by a large number in terms of the weight of the satellite launched by China and its orbital entry, which means that the range of China's intercontinental missile also exceeds that of the Soviet Union by a lot. There is also the mysterious Deng Feng who has disintegrated India, and this time he has come to Outer Mongolia, in an article published as a commentator for the People's Daily: "China's development of nuclear weapons is entirely for the purpose of defending against serious infringement of China's core interests, and when China's political axe and the people cannot stop such infringement by peaceful means and the use of conventional armed force, China will use nuclear armed forces to stop this infringement of China's core interests." What signal did he send to the world? He made it clear to the whole world that if you don't use nuclear weapons to hit me, I won't use nuclear weapons to hit you; You have harmed China's core interests, and when I can't beat you, I will also hit you with nuclear weapons. If Malinowski suggests, then the first condition for China's use of nuclear weapons is met. China's nuclear counterattack is beyond doubt. What does China's nuclear counterattack mean? It meant the destruction of the political, cultural, and economic centers of the European part of the Soviet Union. No! This must not be allowed to happen. Khrushchev couldn't help waving his hand, he opened his eyes and stared at the idiot Malinowsky and asked: "How do you make a preemptive strike?" Have you thought about it? What will you do if China strikes later? If the Soviet Union had done what you had said, it would have caused a big mess and would have collapsed completely, and who would be held responsible? And who can afford it? ”

Who is responsible? Who can take this responsibility? In the face of Khrushchev's question, the audience was silent.

Although no one here knows how many nuclear weapons China possesses, how much nuclear power it has, and whether it will have the ability to destroy the Soviet Union, it is certain that China will violently counterattack with nuclear weapons after it is attacked by itself.

Zhukov was the first to break the silence of the venue, saying: "The so-called preemptive strike means that we can destroy all of China's nuclear weapons launch bases at the first time, so that China will lose the ability to make a nuclear counterattack." Can this be done? This is obviously impossible. Not to mention that we still do not know the specific location of China's nuclear missile land launch base, but we also have the problem of the accuracy of the launch of our missiles and the question of whether our bombers can get closer, and I don't think we have the ability to do so. This time, the six MiG-19s of the Far Eastern Air Force were all shot down before they could find their targets, and from this point it is not difficult to see how big the gap between China and the Soviet Union is. Zhukov glanced at Malinowski, who was about to speak, and said: "Although we don't know the specific data of China's current bombers, based on the data we know about their civil airliner 'air train', we can conclude that the Chinese have enough ability to send their hydrogen bombs to all corners of the world." It would be nice if Marx and Lenin had the spirit in heaven and could bless China from a preemptive nuclear strike on us. ”

Malinowski sat there hissing and smoking his pipe, muttering without confidence, "But the Chinese have already called, they occupy Outer Mongolia and the Tuva People's Republic today, so where will they occupy tomorrow?" If their actions are not effectively stopped, who knows where their tank tracks will end? ”

"Among the socialist countries, nuclear weapons cannot be used first," Andropov, head of the Central Liaison Department of the Soviet Union and in charge of relations with socialist countries, fanned the thick smoke that came out of Malinowski's mouth with his hand, and said: "Even if you really want to use it, you must inform the Eastern European countries in advance of our plan to launch a nuclear strike against China, and we must seek their understanding and consent, because it is a matter of reunification of the Warsaw organization." ”

"China is not a socialist country at all, they are a bunch of narrow-minded nationalists, they just sell dog meat on the head of a sheep. Talking about Marxism-Leninism and mechanically repeating what Marx and Lenin said decades ago. "Molotov, who has regained his calm, has restored the function of language" As early as 1951, the Chinese colluded with US imperialism, betrayed the interests of the Korean people, and reached a cease-fire agreement with the Americans in private when they were fully able to drive the Americans out of the Korean Peninsula. ”

"The same cannot be said of this," said Suslov, a tall and thin theoretician of the CPSU, who hid his forced gaze through the gold-wire lenses: "Whether or not a socialist country is mainly determined by whether he has a surname peculiar to socialism."

Khrushchev looked down on the Stalinists Molotov, Malenkov and Kaganovich, who only talked about it. They stubbornly adhered to Stalin's line, and they colluded together to oppose their own criticism of Stalin for the sake of their own vested interests. Internally, they oppose their own liberalized reforms, adopt a hard-line line externally, and negate the "three-harmony line" of "peaceful transition, peaceful competition, and peaceful coexistence" put forward by themselves. But they did not have Stalin's steely surname, Stalin's fox-like cunning, and even less Stalin's powerful thunderous means.

Khrushchev looked at Molotov, twitched his nose like a ball of flesh upward, and said: "Comrade Molotov, now don't always dwell on those doctrines and doctrines, the most urgent thing is to come up with a specific strategy on how to deal with China's lightning attack. ”

"This bald donkey, why don't you take a specific strategy for facing China?" Molotov cursed in his heart. To put forward the opinion of the surname means to bear the main responsibility for the consequences of the opinion, and the result is good, it is the wise decision of the superiors, and the result is not good, and the main responsibility has to be borne by the person who made the suggestion, and there are a few fools like Malinowski who can make such a brainless suggestion. Can Molotov, who has been in the bloody political arena for so many years, not understand this truth.

Molotov quickly adjusted his mood, and then said: "Of course, I don't really agree with Marshal Malinowski's proposal for a preemptive nuclear strike on China. Although China's peasant army is very stubborn, it is now also a force to be reckoned with, not to mention that the use of nuclear weapons must fully take into account these factors of the United States and Europe, of course, we can carry out diplomatic maneuvers with the Chinese, but behind the diplomatic maneuver there must be strong strength as a backing, otherwise you can no longer be able to speak well, and then put on a "diplomat's demeanor" is also shit no one takes you seriously. Even a diplomatic genius like me is not good, especially when encountering someone like Li Dawei of China who does not save any face at all, and if you want to use diplomatic means to protect the interests of the Soviet Union, the premise is that the Soviet Union must show great strength and make the Chinese feel an unprecedented pressure. In a situation of vulnerability, the question of territory and borders must not be discussed. ”

"In any case, we cannot let the Chinese cut off the territory of the Soviet Union piece by piece so smoothly, and we must teach the Chinese enough lessons." Malinowski said what Molotov wanted to say, but did not say it directly.

Molotov, the politician, nodded as if he admired Malinowski's point of view, and then continued to load the gun and let Malinowski go: "Marshal Malinowski, can you talk more specifically?" ”

"Even if we don't strike China first, we should fight back against the Chinese who dared to attack the Soviet Union." Mobilization of Soviet troops into combat readiness at the first level. Bring the entire Soviet Socialist Federative Republic to a state of imminent war. "When the Soviet army marched into Northeast China in 1945, Marshal Malinowski was very rude and rude to refuse to listen to the opinions of Peng Zhen, the leader of the Northeast Bureau of China at that time, and drove out of Shenyang the organs of the Northeast Bureau and its troops, which had occupied Shenyang City. This time, he wanted to repeat the old plan, and Niu B coaxed and let out wild words: "I am willing to lead the great Soviet Red Army to march straight into and occupy Northeast China again." will meet Deng Feng, the war maniac of the Chinese Far East Corps who provoked wars everywhere. ”

"If there is a full-scale war with China, is the price too great," said Bulganin, who has served as governor of the National Bank and Minister of National Defense, and is now chairman of the National Economic Council. In terms of resources alone, we, the Soviet Union, have to consume at least 25 billion rubles, which at the current exchange rate is almost $45 billion. Can we afford it? ”

"But what is tens of billions of rubles compared to those millions of square kilometers of land?" Molotov finally made a clear statement.

"Can we find a better way to solve the problem of the Sino-Soviet border territorial dispute?" Andropov cautiously said with careful consideration: "Before I attended the meeting, I met with Comrade Sabikavusky, the Soviet ambassador to Mongolia, and he said that Deng Feng, commander of the Chinese Far East Corps, had summoned him and said that China can give us Soviet citizens in the Far East a large sum of money to settle in, and also give us the Soviet Union's investment in the Far East over the years Chinese. ”

Khrushchev looked at Molotov and said: "Did Ambassador Sabikarevsky also talk to you about this question, and what do you think?" The first thing he did when he came back was to talk to Khrushchev about the situation with Deng Feng at that time, but at this time he pretended to be completely unaware and forced Molotov to speak. Because the territorial issue is too sensitive.

"Our Ministry of Foreign Affairs has not yet made a specific study on this issue, and it has not yet been clarified whether this is Deng Feng's personal opinion or the opinion of China's political axe." Molotov was also very cunning in evading Khrushchev's questioning with a technical question.

Khrushchev knew that if he wanted to avoid a nuclear war with China, he must ensure that the two conditions for China's use of nuclear weapons cannot be met, first, it cannot first use nuclear weapons against China, and second, it must not seriously infringe on China's core interests. There are only two ways left, one is to use peaceful means to solve the border problem left over from history, and Deng Feng's proposal can be interpreted as a flexible surname for China to solve this problem; The other is that in a conventional war, China cannot fight too hard, cannot achieve a decisive victory, and fight into a confrontational situation, and both sides are tired of fighting, and then resolve these border issues left over from history through negotiations. But it's hard to do both. The peaceful way is the best, everyone gives each other a step, and the people of their respective countries have an explanation. But this fucking tsar occupies too much space, how can he explain to the people of the Soviet Union with so much territory at once? I can't afford to bear this charge of losing power and humiliating the country, right! Wouldn't the Chinese side always propose, in accordance with the great proletarian revolutionary mentor Comrade Lenin, to abolish the two "Galahan Declarations on China" that Tsarist Russia forced the Qing Dynasty to sign a series of unequal treaties to occupy Chinese territory, and deal with the problems left over from the history of China and the Soviet Union, then let Comrade Lenin carry this black cauldron, Comrade Lenin's card is big, and whoever has an opinion should go to Lenin's tomb in Red Square and ask Comrade Lenin. If everyone wants to fight, then let's fight, as long as they are in charge, they resolutely do not agree to use nuclear weapons, anyway, the two sides are fighting a conventional war, what kind of war is what it is, defeated, let the land be taken back, no one can say anything. But I certainly can't say that myself. What should be done, collect opinions from all sides, and finally let the presidium of the Central Committee vote.

(To be continued)