Chapter 231: Negotiation
"Yes, I think so too, my wife Valya!" Serov said very bluntly to the boss of the Sudanese military junta, under normal circumstances, it should be a happy thing to be praised for his wife, but unfortunately General Aboud faced the wrong person, and it happened that Serov was a guy whose heart and eyes were not much bigger than a needle.
Lukani pursed her lips and translated Serov's words, General Aboud couldn't make out the other person's thoughts from the tone of a guy who spoke a foreign language, but Lukani heard something else, although she was not protecting herself, but she was also one of Serov's women, wasn't it......
It may be that the Sultan's bumper harvests last year and this year have allowed General Aboud to find a different way out, and at this time he has changed the embarrassment he had when he first came to power, and he has shown a look of ambition. There is a very conceited demeanor, leading the Serovs into their official residence, introducing the different places from the original. Turkish carpets, Indian silk scarves and Egyptian artifacts reveal a shocking side of the Sultan from General Aboud's mouth.
On the one hand, Sudan's foundation is still quite weak, and although it has ushered in a bumper harvest, it has not fundamentally improved the lives of the Sudanese people, and on the other hand, this group of military leaders who have just come to power have begun to degenerate so quickly. Of course, these military leaders cannot be blamed for this. A group of soldiers, this situation is the most normal embodiment, and those who have good results are the few of the few. One cannot expect much from a military junta.
Today, General Aboud did not receive the Soviet delegation, but showed a reminiscence. It's more to let Serov see that the sultan under his rule is different from before, but this kind of arrogant performance makes Serov and his wife very sneering, if the other party is an American, forget it, what confidence do people from other countries have to boast in front of the Soviet Union? But even so, Serov still behaved as you say I listen. Accompanied by the swelling General Abboud.
It wasn't him who burst the bubble, but his wife beside him, and when General Aboud said that the number of idle homeless people in Sudan had decreased this year, Valya suddenly asked, "What do you mean by a wanderer?" ”
For the average Soviet person, the words unemployment and vagrancy are so unfamiliar that they are almost never heard of. As the first deputy chairman of the KGB, Serov, he naturally knew that the Soviet Union had not completely eliminated unemployment, and that the real unemployment rate in the Soviet Union should be 0.6 percent because of the hundreds of thousands of Gulag prisoners released in recent years. As for vagrancy, in the USSR as long as there were hands and feet did not starve to death, except for the mentally ill and disabled, even a young single mother was able to raise a child and at the same time continue to complete her studies at the university, after all, maternity leave for a child was enough for a woman to have time to go to school, and in the meantime the factory would give the woman full salary. This money could make it easy for people to survive under the distorted food prices of the Soviet Union.
As for going to school, this is not a problem at all, and in the USSR it does not cost money to go to school, and how much you can learn depends entirely on your own level. One more thing to say here is that since Serov sent students from the Middle East to the Soviet Union on a large scale, the Ministry of People's Education has clearly stipulated that international students need to pay tuition, but they can apply for exemption from tuition fees according to the degree of difficulty. Serov raised his hands in favor of this. After all, the entire Soviet education system was maintained at a huge cost, and it was not necessary to earn some money from foreign students. The Ministry of Education is about to eat dirt.
In view of this situation, the Soviet Union began to recruit all kinds of foreign second-generation students to fill the educational gap, while still continuing to open the door to the best students of the Third World, after all, the revolutionary nature cannot be forgotten.
"General Aboud, after three years, according to our estimates. You should have put down the rebellion in the South? But when I came here, my comrades from the embassy told me that the war in the south was not over, which is not unreasonable! Serov changed the subject.
General Abboud's official position is also a very revolutionary name, the chairman of the Sudanese Revolutionary Council. As for where exactly the revolutionary nature of this revolutionary committee is manifested, Serov has not yet discovered and may need to be observed. Maybe it's like the Lord of War says, every faction in Africa likes to give itself some noble name, liberation this, patriotism, or republic or democracy or something, maybe they don't know what they are, the only people on the planet who like war, often the most brutal atrocities come from people who claim to be freedom fighters.
This is the case with the current Sudanese Civil War, considering the moral standards of these African tribes that retain all kinds of strange customs, the atrocities in this civil war can be expected, before coming to General Aboud's official residence, the KGB agents in the Sudanese embassy wanted to show some photos of the war to their immediate superiors, just kidding, how could Serov fall for this, he didn't have any curiosity about Uncle Black's body, if the photo was the corpse of the Soviet Union or China, or even the corpse of the communist, He had to think about where to get revenge, or at least make the death of his comrades more valuable.
"Our opponents also have unclear support, so at the moment our government has the advantage, but it can't quell the war in South Sudan, which is also a headache for me!" As he spoke, General Aboud asked his guards to bring out South Sudanese weapons captured from the battlefield.
All kinds of small arms were arranged in a row in front of Serov, and the staff officer behind him whispered, "The rifle is Lee?" Enfield series, the submachine gun is the Stern series, and the American-made M3 submachine gun, which was the standard weapon of the British and American forces during World War II! ”
"So it seems that it is our old adversary who has established some kind of connection with the separatists in South Sudan!" After listening to the words of the staff officer behind him, Serov was very sure that the resistance of South Sudan was attributed to the support of Britain and the United States, and told the head of the Sudanese military government next to him about the connection.
Throwing the blame on the CIA and MI6 was not done by Serov on a biased and deliberate purpose, but on a completely subconscious act, and once the Soviet Union was hindered by unknown forces in a certain place, it almost did not need any intelligence to associate Britain and the United States with two countries.
There are only a handful of countries on this planet that can hinder the Soviet Union, the French are busy with the Algerian war, China is too far away from Africa, and it is completely in a state of powerlessness, and at present China has no reason to do so, it just so happens that Sudan was once a British colony, and after a simple analysis, this answer is about to come out.
"The British, perhaps dissatisfied with my overthrow of the pro-British government!" General Aboud very much agreed with Serov's judgment. Sometimes, the choice of the Soviet Union after these coups d'état in Africa is not because it is great and noble, but because the previous government has chosen a boss, and after they came to power, in order to show that they are different from the previous government, they changed their doors and threw themselves into the arms of the Soviet Union.
Waving his hand to take back these seized weapons, the group almost chatted in the official residence, do not think that there are no rich people in these poor countries, and as long as there is such a thing as class in poor places, there will be no shortage of rich and unkind guys. The Soviet Union brought the greatest changes to Sudan as a country, first of all, the rich and the military.
But General Aboud should not think that everything is smooth sailing, he may have overlooked one thing, the Soviet Union is still the current leader of the world socialist movement, and every time foreign aid comes with it, it also brings another thing, revolutionary ideas.
It shows that Sudan, a small country with weak strength, average military strength, and very prominent social contradictions, once exerted influence by the Soviet Union, the revolutionary trend of thought will immediately spread, and the reason why this situation has not yet appeared in Sudan is entirely because Serov is restraining his work in this area and will not attack Sudan for the time being, but no one knows how long this will be for the time being.
At least Serov saw the Arabs who were always wearing robes, and there were a lot of mosques, so he could only restrain the idea of exporting revolution in his heart, and compared with the desperate and snaring export revolution in the history of the Soviet Union, Serov was more willing to operate slowly from the cost point of view, so that there would not be a result of supporting a hundred partisan detachments, but none of them could seize power. The Soviet Union was indeed strong, but it could not afford to let go of such bloodletting.
In the first few days of his stay in Khartoum, Serov followed General Aboud around very leisurely, listening to the other party boast of his achievements in governing the Sultan, and under Serov's advice, Valya did not continue to ask embarrassing questions such as what is a homeless person and what is unemployed.
Finally the day of formal negotiations came, from the days of wandering in Khartoum, although Serov has been wandering with General Aboud idlely, it does not mean that the whole delegation is idle, the agents of the Soviet Embassy in Sudan, as well as experts who assist Sudanese agriculture, have been working, and the Soviet delegation is carefully understanding the real situation in Sudan and formulating strategies in the negotiations.
On the fifth day of their arrival in Khartoum, negotiations between the Soviet delegation and the Sudanese military began, and whether or not the Soviet food problem could be resolved depended on the results of the delegation's negotiations. In Serov's view, the food problem would definitely be solved, but it was impossible to predict what the Sudanese military would ask the Soviet Union to provide in exchange for the products or aid.
The talks between the two sides took place at the Prime Minister's Office in Sudan, where three years ago it witnessed a military coup d'état, the norm in third world countries. The successful General Aboud killed the entire family of the Sultan Prime Minister, and the cracks in the silver-white floor tiles may have been soaked in blood...... (To be continued.) )
PS: Isn't it just to let the protagonist go to Sudan just to skip the 81st Congress......