Chapter 753: Planning Angola
Because the United States was fighting a war and over-issuing currency, coupled with the oil crisis and the world economic crisis, the Soviet Union used this time to narrow the gap between the two sides. In this time and space www.biquge.info the Soviet Union had already approached 80 percent of the strength of the United States in 1975, and with the Soviet system, Serov believed that if there was a military confrontation, the one-on-one situation would be completely worthwhile to the Americans. Eurasia should also have the upper hand.
Will the United States allow itself to be suppressed forever? Not at all, not to mention that the Soviet Union's national strength is slightly weaker than its own, even if the Soviet Union is stronger than the United States, as long as the United States adjusts its own industry, it will naturally begin to eradicate the threat of the Soviet Union. With the development trend of the USSR in the seventies, the threat to the United States was greater than at any time.
In other words, the two sides can talk about economic matters, but the question of who is the boss of the world must decide a winner.
Reagan's coming to power brought about a hardline trend in the capitalist camp, but in fact, the Soviet Union's cards were not weak, and the core countries of the two camps were NATO and the Warsaw Pact, which were the most powerful ones, and other neutral countries that were free from the two forces would not play a decisive role, and the Soviet Union could completely withstand it.
"Then now it's up to you to cooperate with you, and we'll decide the winner in the eighties." Serov said secretly.
The third telegram was the intelligence of Portugal, a few days earlier, the Portuguese Provisional Government had smashed a coup d'état, the second after the Carnation Revolution, and last September, the Portuguese Provisional Government approved Ernesto? Augustus? Merlot? An economic plan drafted by Major Antonis. Major Antonis was a member of the "Group of Nine" in the Armed Forces movement. This plan was subsequently approved by the Congress of the Armed Forces Movement. The current class struggle must take into account the positive role that the middle class can play. "The Antonis Plan advocated partial nationalization, the takeover of certain large and undesirable properties by the state, and an increase in foreign investment.
Another coup attempt was made on the right wing. This coup d'état got Kissinger and US Ambassador Frank? Kaluchi's approval, but the coup forces mutined at the last minute. The general who staged the coup fled to Spain and later to Brazil. Many capitalists who supported the coup were arrested. The Portuguese Communist Party and its allies thus effectively controlled the entire government and its ministries. At the same time, the Gonsaves, that is, sympathizers of the CPP in the army, controlled the revolutionary committees of the armed forces movement. Vasco? Gonçavis is now the prime minister of Portugal.
"Comrade Zinev, when will the withdrawal of Portuguese troops from the overseas colonies be completed?" Serov picked up the phone and asked Zinev, vice chairman in charge of African affairs, that in fact he could have walked to Zinev's office, but it was a pity that he was lazy as the chairman.
"In about two months, the last Portuguese colonial troops will be withdrawn to the mainland, is there anything going on? Chairman? Zinev's voice was a little confused, he didn't know what this chairman who had nothing to do was thinking.
"Two months?" Serov was silent for a moment and said, "These colonial troops who went back are not reliable ideologically. ”
"It should be no problem, according to our intelligence in Africa, many middle and low-ranking officers have revolutionary tendencies." Zinev replied solemnly, "We consciously expanded Vasco? Gonsaves's influence on the colonial army, the feedback effect is not bad, and the colonial soldiers in that kind of place in Africa do not like the previous government very much. ”
"That's good, we have to prepare for war, it is estimated that as soon as the Portuguese soldiers leave, South Africa and the United States behind South Africa will subvert Southern Africa, and we must hold that place." Serov's voice was resolute, "If South Africa is against us, they don't blame us for inciting the black riots." ”
Put down the phone and let out a long sigh, southern Africa is a little far away from the Soviet Union, and the power of the Soviet Union cannot radiate there, and the Soviet Union's competition for southern Africa has lasted for more than ten years, until the era of the Go-map has gained the upper hand, but it was immediately sold by the Go-map. It couldn't take too long there, otherwise the gains would outweigh the losses, so Serov let the Portuguese colonial troops slowly withdraw and give the Soviet Union enough time to get used to the situation.
Now Angola and Mozambique are not only the Soviets there, but also a group of Cubans wearing Soviet military uniforms, who are familiar with the local environment with them, and are also formulating battle plans against South Africa. Once South Africa makes a move, I believe it will definitely not be caught off guard as it has been in history.
The reason why the Soviet-backed side of the Angolan civil war was particularly dangerous for a period of time was because the Democratic Republic of the Congo had organized coalition forces in the north to operate with South Africa, and the north and south were caught between the Soviet-backed SPLM. The advantage now is that the DRC has been destroyed by Sudan's troops, and now it is in the midst of a civil war itself, and it will not become a northern base for the United States.
South Africa in the south has no solution for the time being, if it starts fighting, it depends on whose foreign aid is excellent, this point can be used brains, advance preparation is necessary, the question is where will the weapons come from? Serov stared at the ceiling, his mind racing, "Kurdistan Socialist Republic? Weapons and ammunition for the 400,000 Turkish army! ”
The newly formed Kurdish Socialist Republic, which is currently recognized only by socialist countries and some Arab countries, has a Kurdish army of about 250,000 people, which currently uses American-made equipment. It is completely possible to strip out the equipment of tens of thousands of soldiers to support Angola, "Comrade Bobkov, you go to the Kurdish Republic, we have something to talk to General Secretary Ocalan." ”
Bobkov is the first vice chairman of the KGB, and as one of the two first vice chairmen, he is also a member of the Central Committee, in charge of the KGB's external work, and can completely replace the KGB to express its attitude.
"We really should be prepared in advance, because once the Americans extend an olive branch to an isolated regime like South Africa, it may cause us considerable trouble." General Bobkov nodded seriously. From this point of view, there is no problem in preparing in advance, even if the judgment is wrong, it is a big deal to come to the aid of the Angolans, anyway, these weapons are all Americans, and the USSR will not lose anything.
"If I wanted to be able to take out South Africa, I would have done it a long time ago, and our Red Navy could not afford it. The U.S. Navy can afford it, but they can't, and to be honest, as long as South Africa doesn't oppose us, I'm willing to live peacefully with them. Serov had a mushy head, it was the geographical location of South Africa that saved his life, and if South Africa was a neighbor of the Soviet Union, he would definitely not dare to jump like now.
South Africa was known as Africa's superpower in this era, the largest financial center, the largest mineral trading center, the largest trading center, and the largest industrial center in the southern hemisphere. Taken together, Australia does not seem to be a match for South Africa, as Australia is an agricultural country and a source of raw materials.
The most important reason for the rapid rise of South Africa's industrial products and light industrial products is that they can dump almost the entire African continent, and this apartheid has nothing to do with it, it is completely a geographical advantage, unless there is a black country that is also an industrial country. The USSR and the USA had no price advantage at all, and blacks had to buy South African products.
After World War II, South Africa really made money for the whole of Africa and had a significant presence in the southern hemisphere. However, on the question of who Africa is, the United States and the Soviet Union have their own considerations in their hearts, if Africa can't grab each other and becomes the United States or the Soviet Union, it is a matter of its own strength, and there is also the possibility of making a comeback of Britain and France in the process, but it is absolutely impossible for South Africa to want to get up.
The means of operation are democracy and freedom! The United States and the Soviet Union once carried a banner to dismantle the colonies of Britain and France, and Britain and France suffered huge losses in this regard, but on the issue of dealing with South Africa, Britain and France and the United States and the Soviet Union had the same position, democracy, freedom, and the majority of the population must be allowed to take power, and at the same time, the population of South Africa must be allowed to move freely.
But it's useless for the time being, let the United States and the Soviet Union cross the sea to clean up South Africa, which neither country has the ability to do at present. As far as South Africa, which was unpleasant to all countries during the Cold War, no one really took what it could do.
First Deputy Chairman Bobkov left and began to discuss the issue of military aid with the Kurds, Serov was still thinking about how to solve South Africa, to be honest, that geographical location is the most natural protection, in my heart, as long as South Africa does not take the initiative to provoke the Soviet Union, Serov will not do anything to this country at all, unless the United States is completely gone.
Soon Bobkov had a reply that the Kurds were willing to pay part of their armaments to the Soviet Union. This is quite normal, without the invasion of Turkey by half a million troops of the Soviet Union, the Kurdish own country can only be thought about in a dream. Moreover, the Kurdistan Socialist Republic is still somewhat weak in the face of Turkey alone, and the biggest supporter is the Soviet Union. For the biggest backers, there is no reason why the Kurds should not do so.
In the ports that originally belonged to Turkey, the Kurds began to load ships with weapons and equipment that originally belonged to the Turkish army. The ships will leave for Angola in the name of supplies for the Portuguese repatriate. The USSR has been doing so well for several months, and this reason will not be doubted.
Soon, the Rubyanka was responded to by Havana, saying that if the new independent state was oppressed by regional powers, then Cuba would fulfill its internationalist responsibilities and form an internationalist column to oppose this aggression, in fact, agreeing to the Soviet Union's proposal to allow Cuba to intervene in the Angolan civil war. (To be continued.) )