Chapter 55: You Can't Do It
"West Berlin is the safest city in the world, and they are under the strictest protection!" Serov triumphantly said to the KGB and Stasi agents who accompanied him, "I want the people inside the wall to be the most tightly guarded, and if they don't leave West Berlin and go back to the Federal Republic of Germany, they will stay in the wall for the rest of their lives." If they can endure this environment, we can only admire it, after all, we can't get rid of cockroaches......"
Looking up at the high wall, the thick wall represents the greatest achievement of Serov's trip, although he will not see the canal completed, but there is still time to witness the excavation of the canal, when the time comes, the digging of the protective embankment will cut off the water supply of 1.2 million West Berlin residents. The United States has always relied on West Berlin and has not come to defend the so-called rights of the people of West Berlin, and it has nothing to do with the Four-Power Agreement, the power of the people depends on the capitalists, and if you don't give it to you, you can't rob it, and the people of the Wall Street movement have also been well educated by the American police. As for the mutual compromise of the four-nation agreement, the Americans did not go solely because of the geographical location of West Berlin deep into the GDR.
Making West Berlin a window makes it easier to play to the greatest advantage of the Americans, which is the power of capital. With what the United States is best at and most powerful, it radiates to Eastern Europe through the presence of West Berlin.
Just kidding, how could Serov let such a thing happen, now that this window has been sealed, West Berlin is only about 400 square kilometers in size, and it is surrounded by the territory of the GDR. The lack of self-sufficiency in the city, where more than a million people produce enough household waste every day to turn this window of capitalism into a refugee camp, is welcomed by Serov if the Federal Republic of Germany is willing to spend huge sums of money on this heavy burden.
"To put it simply, it's quite satisfying!" After inspecting the wall, Serov was very satisfied with the Berlin Wall and said, "After the river is diverted, I want to see if I can rely on groundwater to sustain the current life in West Berlin, and what to do with domestic garbage?" And what about electricity, from the Federal Republic of Germany? It's a pity that I have limited time in Berlin, otherwise I really want to see how West Berlin solves these problems, what about food? If these problems can be solved, please tell me that it is time to learn about capitalism......"
Markus Wolff, who got on the bus with Serov, smiled and said, "Now we can rest assured and use our hard-won precious time to develop the economy!" In the past ten years, the population of the GDR has disappeared by more than two million, and I don't know how long it will take to make up for it......" Markus Wolff is right, in Serov's impression, the economy of the GDR took off in the sixties, and the stabilized GDR at that time was quite difficult to catch up with the development period of the Federal Republic of Germany in the fifties, but the GDR was still the strongest economic country in the entire socialist camp, with a per capita income of more than one-third of the Soviet Union.
"To be honest, the burden on the GDR is still very heavy, and the depletion of Western clusters is also a big problem, and I hope that in the future I will be able to solve this problem! Personally, I think that the development of the GDR needed to untie a lot of shackles! Serov said to Markus Wolff, who was as young as he was in a high position, as if he were facing an old friend, "With your Stasi strength, if you find a good foothold, you can actually be completely self-sufficient and no longer rely on state financial allocations!" ”
"No longer dependent on state grants? Do we want to develop our own business? Isn't that right? Markus Wolf frowned a little and said that once a department like the Stasi starts trying to be self-sufficient, it will almost immediately form a situation in the country, which will destroy the enterprises in other departments, which is not good for the country! Markus Wolf was shocked, could it be that the KGB of the Soviet Union had already begun to try this?
"Naturally, it will not work at home, which will harm the interests of the country! I'm talking about using our superior information and organizational skills to use our brains in other countries! Serov looked at his peers quite smugly and said, "This will no longer form interest groups in your own country, and you can also hide in other countries to expand the power of your organization." Led by our secret service organization, we have planted a nail in the world, and now we have no contact with the economic system of the capitalist camp, we can't influence them, and they can't affect us, what's the point of competing with each other, taking the initiative is what our agents should consider......"
Within the KGB, this kind of enterprise and source of funds have always been under the name of the First General Directorate, but in fact it has always been Serov himself who carried out this kind of arrangement, and the enterprises controlled by the First General Administration are concentrated in Italy, including food, electronics and machinery, and the General Administration of Technology is responsible for research and development, and the First General Administration is responsible for building factories. In recent years, Italy has become more inclined to be neutral between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the head of the KGB, dressed as a capitalist, is imperceptibly influencing the judgment of ordinary people, who have always been easily deceived......
Serov has always been inclined to collective action, and this collective action is not the Soviet Union itself that singles out the United States, Britain, France, Germany, and Japan, but the collective action of all socialist countries, and it is absolutely impossible to treat other socialist countries as client states. They need to give full play to the strength of their own countries, and not try to limit the development of their allies in every possible way, as the current Soviet Union does.
At the national level, he has no influence, but in the field of intelligence, he can first try to make joint attacks. Later, on the secret front around the world, the KGB pulled the intelligence agencies of other countries to act together. I believe that with the assistance of these fraternal national intelligence agencies, the KGB will definitely be even more terrible than in history.
It didn't take long for the two of them to come to the venue of today's press conference, but before that, Markus Wolf still changed into a military uniform, changed his lieutenant general uniform to a lieutenant colonel, and hid in a corner to listen.
"The problem we found this time is very shocking, in the future we will establish a mechanism with the country where the garrison is located, such as the current GDR, if the soldiers of the Red Army commit a crime in the GDR, the GDR naturally has the right to judge the soldiers, the state and the state are equal, after I return home in a month, I will immediately issue a document in this regard, before this I have communicated with the leaders of the Stasi, from the document is issued, that is, from the second half of the year, all the garrison agencies of the Third Directorate will accept complaints from the residents of the country where they are located, Solve the frictional situation between the garrison and the residents! Serov said to the reporters sitting below.
"Mr. Serov, does this mean that the Soviet Red Army was not popular with the people of the host country?" An American journalist stood up and asked.
"You're a reporter for that newspaper?" Serov asked with a smile on his cheek with his right hand.
"I'm a New York Post reporter!" The American female reporter twitched her eyebrows, but she had a kind of cowboy unruly.
"We never shy away from problems, but find ways to solve them! However, it seems that you should first study the garrison law of the United States, and today the process of our handling can be announced to the outside world, and the soldiers involved can be handed over to the country where they are located! Serov looked directly into the eyes of the female reporter and said, "You Americans can't do this......