Chapter 460: Start with Assistance
"I know you're determined to do that, but the Americans won't do it, they won't use their troops in Africa to go to war with us, don't worry!" Sherepin gave his judgment that the value of Sudan is not to the point where the United States has to intervene, and Sudan does not border even the countries of the Soviet bloc that are out of color, which is not the same as on the Vietnamese side.
Even if Sudan succeeds in changing color in Africa, it is only an isolated socialist country, not connected to the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, a situation that is acceptable to the United States, at best, trying to destabilize it. There will be no personal end, because a separate isolated state, even if it is an ally of the Soviet Union, will not have much of an impact.
The situation in Southeast Asia is backed by China, and once South Vietnam cannot withstand the danger that the whole of Southeast Asia will turn red, but the entire socialist countries of Asia will be united, and the power of the United States will be driven out of the sea. At that time, there were only a few support points left for the United States, and it would be very difficult to make a landing, so the United States would intervene and just look for an opportunity to intervene and enter.
The Soviet Union was also looking for opportunities to intervene, just like the United States, when the national liberation movement after World War II was at an all-time high. The goal of the Soviet Union's policy toward Southeast Asia was to take advantage of the contradictions between the countries and peoples of Southeast Asia and the old and new colonialists and to do everything possible to extend its tentacles into the sphere of influence of the Western colonizers, which traditionally belonged to the Western colonialists, and to seek to establish a foothold for the Soviet Union. Because the Soviet Union had no base in Southeast Asia, had no diplomatic relations (except for Vietnam and Thailand) and no trade contacts, it was unable to compete with the United States and Britain militarily at that time.
Thus, the Soviet Union was not strategically engaged in full-scale expansion, but selectively focused on penetration. During this period, the Soviet Union focused on its expansion in Burma and Indonesia, the first nationalist countries in Southeast Asia to pursue a policy of peace and neutrality. Myanmar is located in the western part of the Indochina Peninsula, bordering China to the northeast and north. After the three Anglo-Burmese wars in the 19th century, Burma became a colony of British imperialism. After a long and heroic struggle, the people of Myanmar finally declared independence from British rule. In the mid-fifties, due to the invasion of foreign monopoly capital, the international market price of rice, Myanmar's main product, fell, domestic industrial and agricultural production stagnated, and inflation caused great economic difficulties. The Soviet Union took advantage of this opportunity to expand. Soviet expansion into Burma was opened by diplomatic visits, trade agreements, and economic aid.
The second stage: At the beginning of the Vietnam War, the Soviet Union took advantage of the opportunity of the United States to get caught up in the Vietnam War and stepped up the development of its own strength, not only shortening its military strength, but also surpassing the United States in conventional armaments and catching up with the United States in nuclear armaments. With. As military and economic power grew, the Soviet Union and the United States fought fiercely on a global scale. According to the needs of the global strategy, the former Soviet Union launched a comprehensive expansion of Southeast Asia during this period.
The Indonesian side Serov has already set a nail, and the Myanmar side has a good relationship with the Soviet Union in this era, which Serov did not expect, and after thinking about it carefully, he understands the reason, or the old saying, distant friends and close attacks. The Burmese government wanted to use the influence of the Soviet Union to resist the Communist Party in the country. The United States itself could not do this, and the Soviet Union was a much more powerful socialist country than China, and it was able to use the influence of the Soviet Union to withstand the Communist Party supported by China, killing two birds with one stone.
"I almost forgot that Myanmar's constitution also stipulates that it is a socialist country! Same as in India. Serov left Shelepin's house, thought about the Southeast Asian issue for a long time, and finally shook his head and shook off these ideas, it is better to solve only one problem at a time, since it is decided to have a coup d'état in Sudan, then plan a coup d'état.
In the office of the chairman of the KGB at 11 Lubyanka Square, Serov had just received a letter of protest from a military attaché of the US Embassy, which was addressed to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but to the KGB. Yes, during the Sino-Indian War, he was in India at the time, and during that time, an American, who didn't know whether he had drunk too much or for some other reason, shouted at the gate of the KGB headquarters that Dzerzhinsky was a butcher and that the KGB was a terrorist organization. So after completing the ultimate task that the Soviets could not even imagine, this American was directly imprisoned in the headquarters prison by the anti-rebel workers who rushed out of the headquarters.
Yesterday the American hero, probably not mentally up to the level of a hero, committed suicide in an internal prison. This is really a sad story, with a heavy heart, the KGB reluctantly handed over the body of the American who had not completed his sentence, "I even have the courage to commit suicide by hitting my head against the wall, why can't I serve my sentence and wait for my return?" Serov pouted and read the letter of protest from the U.S. Embassy, then threw it into the basket.
"Chairman, how do we explain to the Americans?" The management of the internal prison in the Lubyanka is the responsibility of the Main Directorate of the Secret Police, and as the head of the Main Directorate of the Secret Police, Kadypov, who has been promoted to the lottery, needs the attitude of Chairman Serov.
"Explain? Who has time to explain to them? Serov put on a ridiculous appearance and shouted indifferently, "To slander Comrade Dzerzhinsky is to slander the KGB, according to the relevant laws and regulations, we have the right to arrest people, and the sentence of foreigners will be doubled." Why explain that we didn't abuse him again, and we blamed me for committing suicide psychologically fragile? The Americans were dissatisfied and asked us to come to me, but I guess they couldn't do anything but slander us in the American newspapers. Don't be careful, just do your own thing......"
Regarding the coup d'état, Serov brought in Sakhatowsky, the first deputy chairman and head of the First General Bureau, and the first deputy chairman of the KGB was also divided into internal and external affairs, Itvasov was currently very busy and was working on another thing, which was to lead the major directorates to suppress the conspiracy theory of Kennedy's death. Serov spread the conspiracy theories, and Itvasov was responsible for arresting people, one singing red and the other white, and the two of them contributed to the conspiracy theory.
Because of the KGB's repression, there were even remarks that there were Western spies within the KGB, and Lubyanka also received a letter asking Chairman Serov to pay attention to the problem of the internal enemy and see how alert the people of the Great Soviet were. Anti-special education and propaganda in this area were absolutely not in vain, and although it cannot be denied that there was a potential fifth column within the Soviet Union, the majority of the people maintained a high degree of vigilance.
"Every time I start to make a big move, I feel a little unavoidably nervous." In a moving car, Serov, who was sitting in the back with Sakhatowsky, looked at the scenery outside and said.
"This is normal, we all understand the importance of the Sultan, if we fail, maybe we will be punished by the first secretary, if we go to the Sudan, the account will definitely be counted on our KGB, is this risk worth taking?" Sakhatowsky asked Serov, "Yuri, you are a member of the Central Committee at the age of thirty-five, the chairman of the KGB, you have the rank of general, you have the medal of the Hero of the Soviet Union, and you have the first secretary, why do you need to do this?" Even if the Sultan ends up estranged from us, the responsibility is national and will not fall on you! ”
But if the Sultan alienated the Soviet Union because of the failure of the KGB operation, the responsibility would have been for the KGB. Serov will certainly not take responsibility for the peace and quietness, but it is not difficult to understand that he has to bear the risk of losing Sudan and plotting a coup d'état to support the pro-Soviet forces to come to power.
"Because I have wolves chasing me behind me, it doesn't matter, in a country with only 30,000 soldiers, there's no reason why I can't handle it." Serov did not answer Sakhatowsky's question head-on, because he could not answer it. Does he want to say that under normal circumstances the USSR could not win? Must strike risky and cautious? No one believed it, and there were quite a few people in the entire Soviet bloc who believed that victory would be their own.
After a short time, the two arrived at the place, which is an air base, in which twelve Mi-6 heavy transport helicopters are parked, which is the assistance weapon that Serov managed to obtain from the Ministry of Defense, and it is specially used to give to the Sudanese military.
The Mi-6 heavy transport helicopter has a crew of 5 people, including the main and co-pilot, the navigator, the random mechanic and the radio operator. The cockpit has 4 throwable hatches. Two cabin doors are located in front and rear of the main landing gear on the left side, and the rear fuselage clamshell cargo door and folding pedals are used for loading and unloading cargo and vehicles, and the cargo doors and pedals can be opened or closed using hydraulic actuators. The carrying capacity of the cargo floor is 19.6 kN/m², the floor is equipped with tethered rings. There is a central hatch in the floor. In order to attach large goods. To facilitate the loading and unloading of cargo and vehicles, the seats on both sides of the cockpit are foldable, and an electric winch and pulley block with a load capacity of 800 kg are installed in the cockpit.
The two boarded the Mi-6 heavy transport helicopter and looked at it, and felt that there was no problem, so they came down to express their satisfaction. Yes, the coup plan in Sudan began with aid, which on the one hand showed that the Soviet Union was still indulgent to the Sudan, and at the same time allowed General Aboud to relax his guard against the Soviet Union, and on the other hand, it was used to equip the soldiers for the coup.
The Mi-6 heavy transport helicopter can be used for both military and civilian purposes, and can be used for combat and transportation, and it is better to send this weapon to Sudan than to simply send a helicopter gunship, and reduce General Abboud's attention to this thing. But in fact, as long as the spare parts are stockpiled, they can be used as helicopter gunships in the Sudanese capital at that time, and as for the formation of this helicopter gunship, among the people who returned to Sudan half a year ago, Serov has already selected a commander and is operating there.
The coup d'état began with assistance, not only in terms of helicopters, but also in small groups around the Sudanese capital that would receive technical support from the Soviet side. (To be continued.) )