Chapter 691: Proxy War

In the past few days, the news bombardment of the North Vietnamese army into Saigon and the completion of the reunification of Vietnam has not yet dispersed. The news of the capture of the capital Phnom Penh by the Cambodian Communist Party came www.biquge.info soon after, when a congress was held in Laos to exclude the pro-American faction, and on the Portuguese Revolution, the armed forces movement of the Communist Union and the military prevailed.

All the newspapers of the Warsaw Pact countries are at full speed to denounce the capitalist camp, and each country, while constantly questioning capitalism, publishes its own construction results and its own economic growth rate. In the face of the verbal and written criticism of the Soviet bloc, Western European newspapers and the United States have retorted, fighting back with totalitarianism and pollution.

In the end, Pravda stepped in and joined the media war with the theme that facts speak louder than words. It is unjustified to accuse the Western European and American media of losing their impartiality, and of even more accusations against the Soviet allies at a time when the economic crisis in their own countries is at a time.

"The U.S. government has not made domestic economic policy a priority area of governance. Inflation is a problem, but it is not the most worrisome one, nor is it one that can be dealt with at the expense of other objectives, especially high employment. This is how US President Gerald Ford sees the economic crisis. It is hard for us to believe that this is the words of the president of a country. Inflation in the United States began to intensify last spring, and there is no sign of abating, whether it is the issuance of an order to freeze the prices of daily necessities or the implementation of slightly moderated control measures. Among them, the powerlessness of the US government in the face of the economic crisis has been exposed to the whole world. ”

"As of now, the level of economic failure and unemployment in the United States has reached its highest level since the Great Depression, and with current trends, it does not seem to have reached the bottom. More than 120,000 companies with a capital of more than $1 million in the United States, Japan, and West Germany went bankrupt in two years, and the collapse of the Franklin Bank, which had assets of $5 billion, became the largest bank failure in the history of the United States, and the total decline in stock prices reached $500 billion. The unemployment rate in the United States is approaching 9 percent, the price index rose during the crisis at 40 percent in Britain and 35 percent in Japan, and the international trade income of the advanced capitalist countries has exceeded $20 billion, and the deficit in the balance of payments is $40 billion. ”

"In this case, we hope that the capitalist powers of Europe and the United States will see their own shortcomings, instead of blaming the Soviet Union, and this kind of behavior of yours is suspected of diverting attention." Pravda ended with a photo of a slow queue in front of the Soviet embassy as a picture of the article, like a silent slap in the face of the capitalist camp.

High prices, high inflation, high unemployment, economic recession, and a sharp drop in industrial output have caused a large number of unemployment, of which steel has fallen by 14 percent, and cars have fallen by 20 percent; Corporate bankruptcies are severe, and the stock market has plummeted, as high as 50 percent in the UK. exceeded the level of the Great Crisis of the thirties; investment in fixed capital has decreased, and investment in housing construction has fallen even worse; The number of unemployed people has risen sharply, and prices continue to rise. The consumer price index rose by 10 percent in the Federal Republic of Germany and 40 percent in the United Kingdom. As a result of the intensification of stagflation, the collapse of the dollar-centered capitalist monetary system, and the blow to developed countries from the Middle East oil war, Japan's wholesale prices rose by 30 percent and consumer prices by 25 percent. In order to curb high prices, the Japanese government adopted a monetary policy of tightening credit, which led to a large surplus of corporate products and a sharp decline in industrial output. Japan's industrial output fell by 20 percent, and 1.3 million people lost their jobs.

The Soviet camp was unprecedentedly emboldened in pointing fingers at European and American countries, but in the face of the high unemployment rate in their own countries and being pointed out by the other side to divert contradictions, it was very weak-minded. Of course, they will never admit defeat, but quietly end the controversy, as if they did not hear it.

People in many countries listened to the voice of the Soviet Union and the statements of Eastern European countries when they had nothing to do. At the same time, compare the statements in it, and compare it with your own country. Of course, it doesn't make a big difference, but it will plant a seed in the hearts of these people. In due course, it will take root.

As far as the Soviet Union is concerned, this is a great situation in the world, and this will not delay the continued expansion of the super-rich class. Serov had already contacted Taylor and Hepburn to warn the two women of the dangers. The two women perfectly avoided risks, and the wealth in their hands not only did not fall, but continued to rise. became the two most dazzling women on earth.

"When I fall to the bottom, I will use these two women to buy the bottom, press the Trojan horse for Europe and the United States, and draw an end to the Cold War at the most critical time." Serov did not yet know about the West in this era, all kinds of market omnipotence. We have to wait until things are out of control before we can figure out a solution, and the American method is even simpler, just shearing sheep. In order to divert the over-issuance of dollars, the United States has begun to invest heavily in Latin America, and at the same time, it is also to resist the spread of Chile's Allende model. In a few years, at the appropriate time, the United States will withdraw dollars according to the situation of its own country, causing an economic crisis in Latin America.

Following the Eastern European newspapers' criticism of the West was his fragmentary thoughts, as the Soviet Union's No. 1 greedy, he was quite rich and inflated at any time, and he had to inflate the KGB to a certain extent before he could have the confidence to resist the risks.

"For the entry of immigrants, we consider it from the perspective of safety, and hope that your department understands that the standards must be very strict, we do not need ordinary immigrants, and we can add a clause for those who want to live in the Soviet Union, they can live in the Soviet Union for five years, and if they feel that the Soviet Union is not suitable for them, they can return to their home country at that time. Of course, before returning to China, we have to go through the assessment of our domestic anti-espionage bureau, and that's it. Serov put down the phone and walked to the window, the weather was nice today......

Compared with Serov, who enjoyed a short summer in Moscow, the deputy chairman of the KGB, Zinev, was much more miserable. Another vice-chairman, Tsvigon, has completed his mission and returned to Moscow to receive his reward, and he is still working in Khartoum, a place where he can sweat after walking a hundred meters. Now Zinev is desperate for the rainy season to stop and ignite the war between Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Zinev believes that even if the war begins, the victory of the Sultan is very large, and four of the ten divisions on the southern border have participated in two Middle East wars, even if they do not fight any hard battles, they are purely to join in the fun, and it should not be a problem to deal with African countries, and with the command of Soviet advisers on land, it should not be difficult to defeat the Congo.

Although the Democratic Republic of the Congo also has 300,000 troops, how can an ordinary country built according to the US Army be an opponent of the Soviet model army, and even the Americans themselves are not a traditional army power.

In the midst of intensive preparations, Lieutenant General Igor returned to Khartoum from Guinea-Bissau and gave Zinev some important intelligence information, including a topographical map of the whole of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which forces were dissatisfied with Mobutu and could be used as an internal response, the impact of the collapse in mineral prices on the Congolese economy, and even a road map for the offensive.

"Very good, this will make the Sudanese army more sure of its offensive, the DRC is too dependent on minerals, and if we support Sudan, even if it is a protracted war, we will win." Zinev scratched his bald head and was very excited, as for the battle plan, he didn't think it was a problem, not to mention others, he himself was one of the few security cadres in the KGB who was a front-line commander, he participated in many major battles of the Great Patriotic War, and he fought with the Third Reich, he didn't think that he would be in trouble in the small Congo.

"In fact, if there is no intervention, waiting for two years may have a greater chance of success, but this will delay our strategy, and it seems that we cannot overthrow Mobutu on our own in the DRC, so we can only do it from the outside." Lieutenant General Igor smiled, the assessment of the prospects is still very good. The Congolese Air Force even runs its own airline, and the passenger traffic is larger than that of the national aviation, and a country with such a dense water network has no water transportation. This shows that there is a problem with even the basic functioning, and the country is slowly rotting.

Even the Congolese troops facing Sudan on the border, Lieutenant General Igor believes that the number of them is far less than the Congo itself claims, and of course, whether there is any empty pay will only be known when the war between Sudan and the DRC starts.

Zinev quickly sent the information sent by Igor to the staff of the SPA divisions on the southern front. Colleagues used the last bit of the rainy season to make the final replenishment of the troops on the southern front.

"The Soviet military advisory group meant to provoke trouble during the exercises, to get off the beaten gun, to eat up the Congolese heavy military group in the north, and then to make a long drive to capture Kinshasa. Fast in and out, quickly withdraw from Sudan. The chairman of the Soviet Military Council, Seram, thought for a moment and asked his comrades, "Do you think it is feasible?" ”

"The war shouldn't go on too long, now that the Ethiopian danger in the southeast has been lifted, then we can cooperate with the global plan of the Soviet Union, our teacher said that at the time, what is it called?" It took a long time for Rahim, chairman of the Council of Ministers, to remember, "The countryside surrounds the cities, and our third world countries are rural areas, and Europe and the United States are cities, and this is the line to the victory of socialism." ”

Entering June, the rainy season in Central Africa is very normal this year, just said that the hostility between Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo has not only not been lifted, but has intensified, which is different from previous years, the two countries continue to transfer troops to the border area, and the movements of the two countries have not received attention at first, because there are too many big news in the world at present, Southeast Asia, Portugal are very important.

Nearby Kenya, Ethiopia, and Uganda have sent missions to mediate, and the African Union also hopes that the two countries can calm down. The attitude of the USSR was clear from the very beginning that this proxy war had to be fought. (To be continued.) )