Chapter 964: Meeting

Hundreds of warships of all classes galloped across the Indian Ocean, and nearly 10,000 tanks galloped across the Eurasian continent. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 infoThis confrontation between land and sea swept the world like a storm before Iceland met. The two military exercises in different fields seemed to start suddenly, but then disappeared in an instant, as if they had never happened. But it scared people all over the world into a cold sweat...

In the two major exercises, the death of Sakharov, the father of Soviet thermonuclear weapons, is no longer big news. Because of this-for-tat confrontation, all the news that happened during this period has been covered. As for the excessive sadness of the Sakharo couple, it is not a big deal......

Negotiations still need to be discussed, and after the competition is over, we need to return to rationality. No one wants to really practice the radiation plot, France, the Federal Republic of Germany and other Western European powers have stood on the stage to hope that the two countries will calm down, although the Eastern European countries did not dissuade the Soviet Union on the surface, but secretly they also thought so.

The meeting in Iceland was held as scheduled and was revealed by the United States and the Soviet Union, but just a few days ago, the two countries held-for-tat military exercises, and since the talks will go on as scheduled.

Iceland is an island country in the North Atlantic Ocean, located at the confluence of the Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean, with a land area of 100,000 square kilometers and a population of about 300,000, two-thirds of the population living in the capital, making it the least densely populated country in Europe. There was a certain neutrality in using Iceland as a meeting place, Reagan would not go to Eastern Europe, and Serov would not go to Western Europe. It's as simple as that, whoever goes to the chassis on the ground may be considered to be bowing his head, and the reporter who plays with the pen will have a discipline? Nothing can be said to be something, and Reagan, who has just broken a little out of the scandal, will certainly agree with this.

By the time the Kirov-class battlecruisers of the Soviet Northern Fleet approached Reykjavík, the island's capital and largest port, Reagan had already arrived first.

"The temperature is okay, but the humidity is a bit high." Emerging from a battlecruiser full of nuclear warheads, Serov felt a little and said, overcome it, how can it not be like this near the ocean. The little secretary thoughtfully put on a military coat for the big spy leader, and the giant ship of the Soviet Red Navy began to slowly dock in the harbor.

In the snow, there are a few black lines, and then there are houses, and the coastline, and this is Iceland. The buds on the volcanic rocks, the rainbow in the snow, the black volcanic stones, the white ice and snow, this place is like a paradise isolated from the world. The big spies are thinking, even if a nuclear war starts, no one will throw nuclear bombs here, right?

On the shore there was a small crowd of people who welcomed the guests, waving the small flag of the Soviet Union, and who were members of the Icelandic People's Union, formerly known as the Icelandic Communist Party. He was the face of the international communist movement in Iceland......

"There's no reason why we're going to lose, and even here we have our people." Serov calmly addressed the people around him, and at the same time waved to the supporters below, although there were not many of them, but there were not many people in Iceland.

After successfully landing, Serov, who came down the ladder of the boat, shook hands with these comrades of the Icelandic People's Union politely, and then entered the vehicle arranged by the Icelandic government under the protection of the KGB beside him.

Although Serov does not like humid places, he has never refused seafood that satisfies his appetite, but unfortunately he lives inland, and this desire is not easy. This hobby has not changed in two lifetimes, it may be this psychology, since he had a little status, he has been trying to let the people in the interior of the Soviet Union be able to eat seafood anytime and anywhere, so far, this goal has not been reached......

The Soviet Union's highway network, which can be called a strategic weapon, has been tinkering since the beginning of construction, and one winter passes, and the next year there is always a little problem, and finally Serov made a big move according to the subsidy budget for the road, the toll booth. The fact that toll booths should not exist in the socialist Soviet Union became history in 1986.

The appearance of such toll booths certainly caused a certain amount of dissatisfaction, but the toll standards were still very low, and the reason was very simple, the Soviet Union did not have any national highways, and there were no plans to build them in the future, and under the current conditions, it is very stupid to think that the natural environment of Siberia is facing each other.

"This kind of dessert with sugar is really a common problem in Europe." Serov took the untouched dessert to little Valya, and did not forget to instruct, "Eat less, the incidence of diabetes in our country is also very high......"

Iceland's own minke whales, grilled seabirds, ham, shrimp, etc., all have the taste of the food itself, so much so that people don't talk about it. As for the scenery, Serov, who was very bored in life, did not care, such things as travel were generally accessories for him to go out to find things for a purpose, and at other times he was able to spend a day in the office.

There was nothing to do with the representatives of the Icelandic People's Union, expressing the goodwill of the Soviet Union towards Iceland and the cherishing of relations between the two parties. The rest of the time was to wait to meet Reagan, and as for where, it didn't matter, and the two didn't have a friendship.

Reagan's anti-Souge was more thorough than Nixon's, and Serov was not Brezhnev, who was really capable of superficial work. An unscrupulous actor for the sake of the end, a ruthless spy leader, this is the real role of the two.

Serov thought about how to disgust each other when they met, and Reagan thought the same way, neither of them was the kind of person with a good image, and they were ready to yin each other for a while, and then claimed that they had the upper hand in the conversation.

Early the next morning, the two leaders, who obviously did not want to see each other, but had to make a pretense of talking, set off separately and went to the Hovdi House next to the Icelandic presidential palace, which was the place where the Icelandic government prepared for the meeting of the heads of state of the United States and the Soviet Union.

At this time, the eyes of the whole world are on this Nordic country with a population of only 300,000, but Serov, who is still on the way, remembers that this country that was defeated by international capital while playing finance seems to have died miserably?

Iceland has developed a strong financial sector. Attract overseas capital with an open financial environment with high interest rates and low regulations. Icelandic banks have also followed the example of other international investment banks by borrowing heavily from low-interest short-term bonds in the international capital market to invest in high-yielding long-term assets, such as subprime mortgage assets. Optimistic global economic prospects have led Iceland's banks to over-borrow, resulting in staggering levels of financial leverage, with total external debt twelve-fold as much as GDP. The total external debt amounted to 100 billion euros. 300,000 people owe so much money that they don't know how many years it will take to sell the fish to pay it back.

The relationship between Iceland and the Soviet Union is actually not very good, and the bad reason has little to do with Serov. At the beginning, the Soviet Red Navy was not strong, and there was a shortage of meat products in the Soviet Union, so the KGB took the lead and the Ministry of Shipping practiced to create a fishing hegemony in the world's oceans, which was very targeted, and the Soviet Union's territorial waters could not be fished except for themselves, and the Soviet Union would not recognize other people's territorial waters no matter which country they belonged to.

Iceland, which is already very dependent on fishing resources, once fought a cod war with Britain that lasted for 20 years. The Cod Wars also led to the creation of a two-hundred-nautical-mile exclusive zone of the sea. The exclusive zone of the sea was something that the Soviet Union was very much against, and just when it was at its wit's end, the Soviet distant-water fishing fleet appeared, taking over the cod wars from Britain and Iceland. The confrontation between Britain and Iceland, which had only existed in history, became a confrontation between the Soviet Union and Iceland in the second stage.

From the late seventies, the Soviet Union, which was in full swing, became the biggest shadow in Iceland, the Soviet Union was not a NATO country and did not accept pressure from the United States at all, and the United States was in a period of weakness at that time, and it was not able to put much pressure on the Soviet Union.

In the second stage of the Cod War, the Soviet distant-water fishing fleet put down its position to confront the Icelandic fishermen, diplomatically the Soviet Union did not care whether it broke off diplomatic relations with Iceland, and in the specific confrontation, the Soviet Union's large fishing boats did not care about the collision of Iceland's small boats, and after the appearance of Icelandic warships, Soviet distant-water fishing ships also launched torpedoes to intimidate.

The end of the war was not because the Soviet Union retreated, but because the catch was no longer cost-effective compared to the money for oil, and it was only then that the Soviet Ministry of Shipping began to travel to other seas to wait for production to resume around Iceland.

That's why Reagan and Serov are treated completely differently in Iceland, but Serov doesn't care. It's just a meeting!

Now the whole world is praising this meeting, even if the Icelandic government has any kind of affection for the Soviet Union, there is no less courtesy, and the unanimous praise of so many countries is enough to make Iceland welcome the source of Iceland's fishing resources.

"I just like this kind of helpless look!" Serov, who got out of the car, moved his neck and said to himself, if you can choose between being bullied and bullying, then of course it is better to bully people.

Entering the Hovdi Building, reporters from all over the world who had been waiting for a long time invariably took pictures of one of the protagonists with their cameras, and as for Reagan, he was still dressed appropriately and stood in front of him not far away, as if waiting for his old friend.

Compared with Reagan, who wore a suit and leather shoes, Serov wore a Soviet-style military coat without military rank and a large-brimmed hat, which was a completely different style. But without losing the charm at all, he walked directly towards Reagan, and the whole world watched, and the appearance had to be done, even if it was pretended......

In the presence of the world's media, the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the president of the United States shook hands together, and under the flashing lights, both leaned forward slightly, and said in each other's ears in the gesture of touching their heads and ears, "The Soviet Union/the United States is our biggest problem...... and looked at each other without leaving a trace.