Chapter 581: Throwing Yourself into the Net
The Tet Offensive in Vietnam had come to an end, and the North Vietnamese offensive had been repulsed on all fronts, and just a few days earlier, the North Vietnamese army besieging the base in Khe Son had begun to retreat. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 infoHalf of the U.S. troops at the entire Xishan base have been killed, and only less than 3,000 U.S. soldiers are left to see reinforcements.
The U.S. forces were attacked almost immediately in this spring offensive, in all directions, except for the base in Xishan, the U.S. troops in other directions were unprepared, and the U.S. troops lost 9,000 people in the entire campaign. The killing of about 40,000 North Vietnamese soldiers was a pyrrhic victory for both sides. The Soviet Union's domestic armaments were constantly being shipped to Hanoi to replenish the war-damaged North Vietnamese army, and it can be said that as long as there were people in North Vietnam who dared to serve as soldiers, they would never worry.
Therefore, in the final stage of the Battle of Khe Son, when two heavily armed Soviet divisions responded to the retreat of the North Vietnamese soldiers around Khe Son, this heavily armed response was also transmitted back to China by the war correspondents on the battlefield. The anti-war wave in the United States was once again stirred, and people shouted slogans in protest at the Pentagon, "Give up, we are already in an endless war of attrition, we cannot stop North Vietnam with the support of the entire Soviet bloc, and we cannot win even on the battlefield." ”
"We will definitely not serve!" In front of the television cameras, American students at the rally threw their Selective Service cards on the ground and set them on fire, and the raging fire on the ground showed the whole of America that the students would not participate in the war.
The 100,000 students gathered in front of the Pentagon, and the young people shouted anti-war slogans, saying that they would never vote for any candidate who would continue the war in the next election, and there were even people in the crowd who held the flag of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and in the midst of an ongoing war, the students of their own country actually held the flag of the enemy to protest against themselves. The scene was televised to the whole of the United States, and everyone was deeply shocked.
"Look at these students, the men have such long hair and are still powdered, and the women wear leather shoes and belts. The Americans have gone crazy," Serov commented gloatingly from his chair, turning off the video, "but despite our investment, it is still profitable overall, and the shipments of drug lords in South America have increased year by year in recent years, and this environment is also inseparable." ”
This was a time of great social upheaval in the United States. The anti-war movement, the civil rights movement, the black movement, the women's movement and other movements were intertwined, and the waves of protests in society came and went. All the ethics that guide the behaviour of individuals and societies are under attack". The main feature of the counterculture is the proliferation of hippies, whose spiritual core is: "Do your own thing, escape from society and go on a fantasy journey". They participated in anti-war marches held in various cities.
Distrust of the government pervades society as a whole, and students take a negative attitude towards the country's policies. This situation was also encountered by the Soviet Union during the war in Afghanistan, and from the point of view of the state, it was completely an act of delay. But this happened in the United States, and as a commissar of the Soviet state, Serov had to speak with his ass and do a good job.
The South American Division of the KGB, after the start of the Vietnam War, has become the most profitable department of the KGB, and the biggest drug lords who transport drugs to the United States are not those small surrounding countries, and the name of this organization is the KGB. You must know that there are also many production areas around the Soviet Union, such as Iran, eastern Turkey, Afghanistan. These places brought a huge workload to the KGB border guards, but then Serov ordered the border guards to focus on this crime and give rewards, so the border guards began to cross the border to enforce the law, and sometimes even crossed the border to loot, and finally this harmful thing went to the hands of the KGB security personnel of the South American Division and sold to the Americans.
"According to our informant in the United States, violent crime in the United States has reached a new high, there is a climate of unrest in society, and he has noticed that many students are listening to our Moscow radio station." Sakhatowsky also said this with a smile, and the Americans were annoyed, and of course the Soviets were the happiest.
Radio Moscow, in fact, has a more acceptable name in the United States, called Voice of the Soviet Union. The headquarters of the Voice of the Soviet Union, not far from the Kremlin, is a beige office building, where broadcasts are made in all the major languages of the world, even directly by foreigners, including many language experts, and the canteen of the station has a different meal every day - the food from each country is rotated.
The role of the Voice of the Soviet Union is the same as that of the ********, which is to inform the Americans about the achievements of the Soviet Union in socialist construction. Ten years ago, ******** canceled all broadcasts, including French and German. In addition to the English used by the Americans themselves, it became a Russian-language radio station specifically for the Soviet Union, but after the independence of the British and French colonies, more than a dozen new languages were added, and it is necessary to know that it is to compete with the Soviet Union for the transformation of these new countries.
At the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis, in this tense situation, ******** in line with the foreign policy of the United States, it greatly strengthened its broadcasts to Cuba, the Soviet Union, and Eastern Europe. The British Times said ******** carried out a "devastating radio bombardment". Exactly the opposite of ********, the ******** has the largest workload in Russian, while the largest workload in the Voice of the Soviet Union is in English.
The two countries have the same attitude towards each other's counterparts, the Soviet Union blocking the signal of the ********, and the United States blocking the signal of the Voice of the Soviet Union, but for some people with relevant knowledge, they can always find the signal again to listen to what they want.
At a time when there is a problem in the United States, the shadow of the voice of the Soviet Union appears, and this is a normal time. The process of the Soviet Union's strong export of values continued until the eighties, partly because of the war in Afghanistan, but the main reason was that the Soviet Union had a succession of leaders at that time, which affected the work in this area.
"The Cuban office also said that our films have been selling well recently." Serov slapped his thigh, of course, black violent crime is on the rise, and it certainly has nothing to do with the movie. As for why white women are victims, he doesn't even know how. Didn't Reagan say that people kill people, not guns? Serov thinks that what he said is very reasonable, that people want to commit crimes, and that it has nothing to do with the film made by the Cuban office.
"By the way, Chairman, Ceausescu invited de Gaulle to visit Romania, are we expressing the position of our Soviet Union." Sakhatowski almost forgot his true purpose this time. He had come to inform the French of the action.
"Oh? Well? Serov sighed, suddenly froze, and then his brain began to spin. Charles de Gaulle's visit to Romania? Immediately asked eagerly, "When, how many days will you visit?" ”
"It seems like a week, and it's May 15th. It was the news from our comrades in the advisory department. Sakhatowsky knew as soon as Serov's reaction was that this was very important.
"The students in France are fighting against the government, and de Gaulle is really confident that his prestige works?" Serov pinched his fingers and calculated, it turned out that this kind of thing happened during the May storm. If you stay in France and don't come out, I believe that there is nothing the Soviet Union can do about this turmoil.
Ceausescu was not an obedient man for the Soviet Union, and since the beginning of this year, Romania has established diplomatic relations with the Federal Republic of Germany, maintained diplomatic relations with Israel, visited Romania by the Austrian Chancellor and leaders of Asian, African and Latin American countries, and twice visited Romania by Nixon of the United States. While inviting foreign leaders to visit, Ceausescu led delegations to visit frequently, carried out extensive contacts with various countries in the world, strengthened exchanges with these countries in science and technology, economy, and other fields, and expanded Romania's influence in the world
Ceausescu clearly distanced himself from the Soviet Union, so the Presidium of the Central Committee of the USSR talked several times about whether Ceausescu had the idea of seceding from the Soviet Union and asked the KGB to assess the situation.
But there is a difference with history, that is, in this history, the Soviet army group in Romania has not been abolished, and there are still Soviet garrisons in Romania, and Ceausescu still wants to communicate with Khrushchev on this issue after coming to power, but both Brezhnev and Sherepin are preventing the two from talking about this matter.
"Teacher, no one knows more about the problems of Romania, the entire National Security Council, you were our general adviser in Romania back then, and the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs was established by you with your own hands." Serov looked at First Deputy Chairman Sakhatowsky and said, "Before you retire, don't you want to see another Western European power become our friend?" ”
Serov, of course, understood that de Gaulle was capable of extinguishing the May storm, as long as De Gaulle himself did not make mistakes. The Soviet Union could not use the strength of milk, but he never knew that during the May storm, De Gaulle was still visiting, and the country he visited was actually Romania, which the Soviet Union could influence.
This is the advantage of knowing history, Serov knew about the May storm, understood the significance of de Gaulle's visit to Romania, and so he faced up to the possibility of success in something that could not have been successful. The Italian Communist Party had become an opposition party, but perhaps the Soviet Union could make up for this loss from France. (To be continued.) )