Chapter 101: The Camp David Conference
"Take off your shirt and trouble your American counterparts to find a big rope! Do you need to let the five of you? Serov smiled and said to his American counterparts that he had contributed to the friendly exchanges between the two countries!
After finally leaving a mark on the flat golf course, the Soviet side lived up to its title of polar bear and won the tug-of-war competition, and the shoe prints left on the golf course as if they had been turned over were only a small sequelae. In the evening, Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko, who was coordinating other matters, rushed to Camp David, and the Soviet Union and the United States were now considered to have assembled their own lineups.
"Are Americans used to working in the dark? Why is a group of workers working on the golf course? Gromyko asked very confused as soon as he entered.
"Haha, there's such a thing? Yuri: They came there and the American guards came to a tug-of-war! Maybe you're mending your lawn overnight, right? Khrushchev looked at Serov, who bowed his head and said nothing, and laughed.
"Yuri? By the way, your wife gave birth to a baby for you yesterday! It's a boy! Gromyko said with a smile, "I heard that you are a strong young man, and I heard that you couldn't concentrate all day yesterday, now you can breathe a sigh of relief!" ”
Serov was stunned for a moment, then suddenly stood up and walked to the window, then walked back and sat down again, took a deep breath and said, "Minister Gromyko, thank you for telling me the news!" I can't express my feelings, I can only say thank you! The chaos that had lasted for a day came to an abrupt end at this moment, and nothing changed on the surface, but Serov himself understood that his mind had regained its calmness, the buzzing of flies in his mind was gone, and his mood was no longer irritable.
"Peace when you hear that mother and child are safe?" Khrushchev taught with an attitude that you are not stable enough, comrade. "Yuri, don't bring personal feelings into your work, just like yesterday, with our Soviet medical technology, your worries are completely superfluous, mother and son are naturally very safe, and as a result, you are like your soul has been sucked away!"
"Yes, yes, yes. I shouldn't have brought personal feelings into my work! Serov bowed his head and apologized incessantly, at least in his attitude, absolutely accepting Khrushchev's teachings. As for Khrushchev himself, he was the most personally emotional of all the general secretaries of the USSR, and was always controlled by personal feelings to make decisions. This can be said later, anyway, after Khrushchev stepped down, Serov had a chance, and now he really doesn't dare.
"It's not at home, we don't have too many seasoned diplomats around us, and we don't have huge data to back it up! So tomorrow Yuri, you will also be in attendance! Khrushchev thought for a moment that his side was a little weak, and finally hit Yuri, who had been an ambassador in Italy. Although more is still in the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs! However, he also understands the work of the diplomatic system, and although the Berlin crisis is immature, he has seen the world, and in the case that there are not many capable people around him, Khrushchev needs Serov to once again go to the mines in the diplomatic field.
It doesn't matter what Serov says, he just needs to come out and muddy the water at a critical moment, this is Khrushchev's purpose, and as far as Khrushchev observes, Serov has a completely capable ability to mess around. Among them, the sophistry is very good, I don't know if it was cultivated by the KGB system.
"Me? First Secretary. I only have the ability to talk nonsense! Serov shook his head like a rattle, he knew exactly how many pounds and taels he was, and if the other party was an ambassador or a temporary leader, he would dare to go up the building. On such a formal occasion, Serov went up to talk nonsense, which could only lead to jokes.
"It's an informal meeting, and it's not going to be fruitful! We will not retreat, and neither will the Americans. So Yuri, don't take this meeting as a formal occasion! "Gromyko, who understood what Khrushchev meant, analyzed what he needed to do for Serov, who was a novice on the road, and this time Serov understood his job, the fool in the two, the villain in the TV series, and the clown in the Peking Opera! It is completely used as cannon fodder.
The first secretary and the Minister of Foreign Affairs obviously cannot have a ** share, and the rest of the people have no experience in this area, and Serov's position can speak. It's okay to say something wrong! Ideal for cannon fodder in a charge.
The two sides held informal talks in the conference room of the Shanyang House Villa, Serov followed Khrushchev and Gromyko to the conference room, ready to fulfill his duties as cannon fodder, thinking of the grapevine of later generations Serov just entered the conference room and said with a very professional taste, "A perfect place for presidential vacation, there should be an emergency response command post, considering that it is now the era of nuclear weapons, the command post should be built thirty to forty meters underground, I wonder if there is such a place under this villa? ”
This phrase has just come out of Eisenhower, Nixon, and Christian, who acted on behalf of Dulles, who was suffering from cancer? Het's face did not change, but the faces of some diplomats behind him changed slightly, and Serov knew that there was really such a place under this villa, and Serov, who was the first to take the lead, waited for Khrushchev and the two to sit down, and then sat down in Christian? Opposite Het.
Christian? The name Hett didn't have much in Serov's ears, so it seems that this guy should not have made any significant contributions after replacing Dulles, and it is still much easier to deal with than Eisenhower and Nixon, of course, this is only relative.
Christian acting for Dulles? "The Berlin Wall built by the GDR is illegal, the five-metre-high walls, searchlights, barbed wire, power grids, loudspeakers and watchtowers are very reminiscent of the German concentration camps during the Second World War, which is unfair to the inhabitants of West Berlin!" ”
"The border between the two countries is no exception, but West Berlin is on all sides within the territory of the GDR, and the Berlin Wall exists very reasonably as a border defense system, not to mention that the Berlin Wall has been built, can we stop discussing this issue?" Who knew the people of the Berlin Wall better than Serov, and he even took part in the labor, and at least a thousand bricks of the Berlin Wall were moved by him.
"But this restricts the freedom of the people!" Christian? Hett emphasized.
"But this clearly protects the sovereignty of the GDR!" Serov replied-for-tat, "The United States claims to be a free country, so why not hold elections in West Berlin?" Can a place without elections be called free? So far, West Berlin has been supported by the occupation forces of the three countries, no, it is the British and American occupation forces that are supporting! There is no explanation for the International Children's Day tragedy so far, and I don't see where freedom is at all. ”
"The Children's Day tragedy was the demagoguery of a handful of communist saboteurs who bewitched the people of West Berlin! The occupying forces duly quelled the incident and defended order in West Berlin! "Christian? Hett refuted Serov's point of view.
"Do you have proof? The British and American garrisons shot and killed the people of West Berlin, but there is no evidence as to whether you were bewitched or not! Besides! In the 53rd year, the propaganda vehicles in West Berlin agitated against the Soviet workers' strike in East Berlin, and more than 20 people died in the Soviet Union, and you said that we were suppressed, and on Children's Day this year you killed hundreds of West Berliners, and you said that we instigated the residents of West Berlin? I've got you covered! Serov smiled and said, "There are still more than 80,000 Communist Party members in the United States, can you kill all these Americans?" McCarthy's matter hasn't gone far yet, but don't put it in your face, bullshit free country ......"
"The problems of Berlin and Germany are now over!" Gromyko calmed down the argument and said, "The facts are very obvious, the Federal Republic of Germany and the GDR are real in the world, and I hope that the Americans will face up to this fact!" ”
"The GDR was founded without the consent of Britain, France and the United States, it was a unilateral move of the Soviet Union, and the three countries had the right of passage to the whole of Berlin!" Nixon unhurriedly retorted, "It is generally accepted that Germany must join NATO after reunification in order to ensure that the lives of the German people will not be disturbed!" ”
"You let the US Seventh Army directly send troops to destroy the GDR, and you can achieve your idea, you don't have to work so hard at all! Just kill our Western cluster, isn't it a piece of cake for you, the most powerful country in the world? "Serov was constantly blowing cold wind on the side, attacking Nixon from the Arctic Circle. Faithfully fulfill their duties as cannon fodder!
"There is no need to continue to talk about the affairs of the GDR, the attitude of our Soviet Union is unchanged, Germany can be reunited, but only as a neutral country, the Soviet Union and the occupation forces of the United States, Britain and France will all retreat, so that the situation in Europe can be eased! As for the move of the United States to hope that the Soviet Union would send the GDR out and annex it to the Federal Republic of Germany! It's never going to happen! Khrushchev said confidently, "Unless there is an idiot in the Soviet Union as the leader, how can such conditions be agreed!" ”
Serov's mouth, which had been smiling, suddenly closed, who said that it was absolutely impossible! Khrushchev's idiot leader really appeared decades later, Gorbachev ignored the GDR's pleas for help, withdrew all aid, recalled the Western cluster to merge the GDR and the Federal Republic of Germany, and betrayed not only a foreign country, but also his own country.
"In fact, at this stage, we should curb the intensifying competition, especially in the nuclear industry and the space industry!" Eisenhower made what he thought was the most important point, which was where the pressure from the Soviet Union could be most intuitively felt in the United States, and he hoped to ease the Soviet Union's aggressive posture in space. (To be continued.) )