"In international exchanges, there are gains and losses, and the Soviet Union also needs to face up to France's interests. "President Mitterrand is not prepared to back down, this is not a traditional friendship, some question of the Federal Republic of Germany, can not be discussed.www.biquge.info France also has its own needs, no one is an internationalist, and France maintains its military presence in Africa really for the benefit of blacks?

The Soviet Union needed French guarantees that Portugal would not be subverted, and France's guarantees could not be given in vain. It is necessary not only to restrain its own subversive forces, but also to resist the pressure of the United States. Sacrifices have been made, nothing has been gained, how can there be such a thing.

Serov and Shcherbitsky looked at each other and nodded, it would not hurt to listen to the opinion of the French.

"As a counterweight to Portugal's Soviet power, France is going to send part of its military forces into Portugal." French President Francois Mitterrand put forward his opinion, immediately saying, "Limited to the right of call of the French Navy in Portuguese ports." ”

Mitterrand knew that the expansion of land power would definitely be opposed by the Soviet Union, so he took a step back and hoped to get the same port call rights as the Soviet Red Navy, and the ball was kicked to the side of the Soviet Union. The right of docking of naval warships seems to be nothing, and the symbolic meaning is greater, but this matter can be big or small, and if France harbors evil intentions, will it be used in the future.

"So shouldn't France give some exchange? You also know this right, which already reflects the great trust of the Soviet Union. Shcherbitsky said unhurriedly, "Paris coordinated the organization of the embargo on the Soviet Union, and to be honest we don't care. But there is still some influence on Eastern European countries, and if France wants to share the international network, doesn't it want to take any sincerity, just to let the Soviet Union recognize it? ”

The bargaining continues, from historical feelings, to geography, to politics, in fact, the Soviet Union and France are natural allies, and if France had become a real Soviet system after the war, the Cold War would not have started at all, or it would have ended now. and cooperation against the relations between France and the Soviet Union in the Cold War. This factor began in World War II, when General de Gaulle went into exile in England and formed the "Free France" movement, although its status was not recognized until later in the war. Immediately after the start of the Soviet-German war, the Free France established contact with the Soviet Union and sent its own troops to the aid of the Soviet Union, the famous "Normandy" fighter regiment, which was almost the only Allied combat unit to support the Soviet Union.

France has a good attitude with the Soviet Union, and it can be said that France has the best relations with the Soviet Union among Western countries. The two sides have always maintained good economic and trade relations, and the political relations are also quite good. Although France joined NATO, it withdrew from the NATO military organization, apparently unwilling to meet with the Soviet Union. France was still the only country that signed an economic and trade cooperation agreement with the Soviet Union, and even the Soviet Union's television used the French Secan system.

"France is the only Western European power that has unhindered trade in Eastern Europe, and we also know that the Federal Republic of Germany does not have such a position, is it not enough that the Soviet Union has given France in return?" Serov constantly emphasized the traditional friendship between the Soviet Union and France. Of course, the first priority of France's diplomacy is the Western European countries, because France wants to be the boss.

The second most important is the Soviet Union, and France needs the Soviet Union to suppress its old enemy Germany to prevent Germany from rising again. The United States can only rank third in France's diplomatic priorities, because the United States has adopted a supportive policy towards the Federal Republic of Germany, so France uses the Soviet Union as a diplomatic priority to suppress the Federal Republic of Germany, allowing Germany to be divided for a long time.

Serov also knew that when the Soviet Union began to collapse on its own under the leadership of the peerless genius Goto, the enemies of the Soviet Union, Britain, France, and China came to their aid, among which France had the strongest desire to support the Soviet Union because of the imminent merger of the two Germanys. President Francois Mitterrand, who was in front of him, visited the Soviet Union and was willing to provide funds for the Western cluster to continue to preserve the GDR.

"Of course France is willing to help Eastern Europe, we are all European countries, and as for the Paris co-ordination, we have a lot of ways to get around it, and this has never been a problem." Mitterrand could not abolish the organization, knowing that it was not France's own business, but it was not too difficult for an important member to break the rules.

There are many things that the Soviet Union can talk about with France, such as the energy issue, the energy strategy of later generations is not new at all, and the energy strategy of the Soviet era is an important weight for the Soviet Union to win over Western Europe. Europe is extremely dependent on Soviet energy, and since the beginning of the industrial age, most European countries have been the world's largest energy consumers, but their energy self-sufficiency rate is not high.

In the case of its own energy shortage, Western Europe had to look at the global energy market, based on historical, political and economic complementarity considerations, energy trade with the Soviet Union is the priority direction of the development of Western European countries. As far as the Eastern European Economic and Social Exchange countries are concerned, due to the confrontation between the East and the West during the Cold War, the Eastern European Economic and Mutual Economic Cooperation countries can only rely on the supply of oil and natural gas from the Soviet Union to meet the needs of domestic energy consumption. Also out of the needs of the Cold War, the Soviet Union achieved its goal of controlling the countries of the Eastern European Economic Mutual Association by lowering the price of oil in the world oil market.

Knowing the fragility of Western Europe in terms of energy, the Soviet Union's global offensive was to attack with all its might in areas where oil and mineral resources were concentrated, and then force Western Europe to submit to the Soviet Union or neutralize it, turning the Cold War into a state of confrontation between the Soviet Union and Western Europe, or between the Soviet Union and the United States. At the moment only Saudi Arabia is a stumbling block, and the long-term planning of the USSR is nearing completion.

Basically, France and the Soviet Union still have a lot of cooperation, especially in the matter of energy. After the formal talks, French President François Mitterrand and the top leaders of the French Communist Party and the Socialist Party hosted a dinner for the Soviet delegation.

Some things can only be communicated in private, not to mention that it is only in the embryonic stage, such as the nuclear weapons of the Soviet Union and France are not aimed at each other, whether they are on the spur of the moment, or are they really ready to discuss. Communication through secret channels is not as sure as the real high-level communication between the two countries.

As for the strategic nuclear weapons of the Soviet Union, it was against the United States anyway, and France had its own nuclear strike force, which was enough to protect itself, and as for whether or not the Federal Republic of Germany would be threatened, it was a matter of French statement, and it was better to be threatened.

Serov did not say anything to death, but only said that Reagan's current hostility to the Soviet Union, the INF treaty was not easy to reach, and the Soviet Union had twice as many missiles as the United States, so it seemed that it was a relatively lossy and should be compensated.

In the face of medium-range missiles blocking the Soviet tank army, Serov wanted to abolish it more than anyone else, but he could not show it, he could tell the French that the Soviet Union had this will, but the Soviet Union suffered too much, etc.

"Once the intermediate-range missiles are removed, there will be real peace in Europe." French President Francois Mitterrand seems to be very sympathetic, in fact he is thinking about how to benefit France, the INF Treaty is very beneficial to France, if it is successfully abolished, as long as France and the Soviet Union declare that they do not use nuclear weapons against each other, France will completely lift the security shackles.

Politically it would be a victory for France, and at home it would be a personal victory for Mitterrand. Mitterrand didn't want to be a politician, he wanted to be a politician, but the latter often had high standards. Shaping France's security environment has the potential to allow Mitterrand to achieve his goal and leave a name on French history.

Whether the interests of the United States are damaged or not is something that Reagan is concerned about, and Mitterrand, as the president of France, only cares about French affairs. In fact, he already knew some of the bottom lines of the Soviet Union, such as not talking about misalignment with each other until medium-range missiles were not destroyed. It's better this way, France is also a member of the Western world, and it is indeed a little unreasonable to be too openly eye-to-eye with the Soviet Union.

France's basic strategic interests, the first was to prevent Britain from messing with the Western European forces organized by France, and the second was to suppress the Federal Republic of Germany, which required the help of the Soviet Union, not the United States. Therefore, France and the Soviet Union have been at peace far more than with the United States.

The next day, French President Francois Mitterrand announced that France, through its unique influence and persuasion of the Soviet Union to seriously consider the current situation in Europe and the world, had succeeded in getting the Soviet Union to abandon its attempt to bring Portugal into the Warsaw Pact.

In exchange, France will guarantee the protection of the stable social environment in Portugal, and with the approval of Portugal, the French navy will regularly maintain the security of Portuguese waters, while France will make some technical investments in Eastern European countries.

"In the most desperate times, don't forget that the French can still help us." This seems to have been said by a certain imperial Russian nobleman during the First World War, and the general secretary had to admit that it was really reasonable.

With France's statement, the protests in Portugal were truly over, and the Soviet Union rallied the entire socialist camp and at the same time allowed Portugal to transfer some industries. But in the end, it was France, also a NATO country, that made the French guarantee a complete failure of the wave of protests instigated by Reagan.

Because France has a very great influence on Portugal, because France is the strongest country in the Latin cultural circle, it has a good role model for Italy, Spain, and Portugal. On the contrary, Denmark, Sweden, these countries are all under German influence.

France's help to the Soviet Union this time was decisive, and it directly thwarted Reagan's ability to make trouble, and without France's cooperation, the United States would not have succeeded in Portugal, and the combined force of France and the Soviet Union was not something that the United States alone could resist.

"Do the French know who the enemy is?" After hearing France's assurance, Reagan knew that the United States had lost again in this tug-of-war, and the decisive factor was that France was on the side of the Soviet Union. He didn't know that Mitterrand was still preparing to pit America once.

"I didn't expect that I would have to go back to China to fight the fire!" General Secretary Serov, a veteran firefighter, returned home non-stop to mediate the conflict.