"Okay, but let's look at the plan first. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 "The two countries of the first step plan are Congo in southern Sudan and Thailand in Southeast Asia, which are led by Comrade Zinev and Comrade Tswigon respectively, and I will sit down to give assistance to the two comrades. ”

"Hmm!" After more than half a year of negotiations, the time for the signing of the European Security Conference was imminent, and Brezhnev successfully fixed the interests of the Soviet Union in Eastern Europe after World War II. After he rushed to Helsinki to sign the agreement, he would start his visit to the United States, so that the détente would be completed.

Half a year had passed since the end of the Congress of the World Communist and Workers' Parties, and the assistance of the countries of the Soviet bloc had stabilized the situation in Chile, grain from Sudan, oil from Iraq, machinery from the GDR and Czechoslovakia. Bulgarian vegetables, Yugoslav hardcover goods, and the Soviet Union's mobile phone communication business rushed into Chile, and after stabilizing the political situation in Chile, the Red Navy naturally got a supply base in Chile.

For Chile's largest industry, Chile accounts for one-third of the world's copper reserves, and the world mineral price is still falling at this time, but the Soviet Union and all the allies signed a treaty with Chile clearly expressed their willingness to buy it at a price of sixty dollars a ton, but half of it needs to be consumed in rubles.

The fall in world mineral prices hit Chile very obviously, and the Soviet bloc simply carried out the pallet. But this is not the case for another country, another country that relies on minerals as the backbone of the country, the Congo under Mobutu, which has also suffered from the fall in mineral prices, and the Congo does not have the Soviet Union to palletize.

The same thing had an impact on two different countries, but one of these two countries was pro-Soviet and the other was anti-Soviet, which caused different strategies of the Soviet Union, and Serov's strategy was to take advantage of this time to kill the Democratic Republic of the Congo in one go. As for Thailand, taking advantage of the current excellent situation, Thailand is the only country with communist bases in both the north and the south, and it would be a pity not to have such a good advantage, so this is the country listed in the first step plan.

"Earlier, if Sudan was used as the offensive site, Ethiopia in the northeast would become a big deterrent force, which is why you delayed the plan in the first place, is the time ripe now?" In the Southeast Asian direction, Brezhnev did not think it was a problem, and the more meaningful direction was the African side.

The greatest value of Thailand is to make the Soviet bloc no longer have to worry about food, but now the Soviet Union itself is not a problem with food, with Sudan, India and Indonesia as supplies, once the Vietnam War ends, Vietnam will also become a food supplier to the Soviet Union.

Thailand can be the icing on the cake, but it is far less allure than the allure of the world-class mineral kingdom of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where various Soviet forces have ceased their activities almost openly for several years, and preparations have been going on in the shadows.

"Now that there is a famine in Ethiopia, the whole country is panicking, and Haile Selassie I, even if he is pro-American, cannot ignore the domestic environment to make trouble for us, otherwise he will not want the throne. This factor is gone. Serov recounted the current situation.

Ethiopia is suffering from a devastating drought across the country. Soon, more than 300,000 people died from lack of water, starvation, and pestilence, and more than 4 million people in the cities were suffering from severe food shortages. Prices have skyrocketed by 50 percent in a year. Haier? Selassie did nothing about this, but continued to indulge in a life of drunkenness with the nobles.

Western journalists, reporting on the situation in Ethiopia, said that Ethiopia had become a country of beggars. They photographed a handful of wealthy dignitaries (including Haier?). Selassie himself fed his lions with meat on gold and silver plates, while hordes of scrawny hungry people gathered in the streets, wandering and begging for food. The photos caused an uproar in the Western world, with a wave of condemnation of Ethiopia.

If history is concerned, after the photos of these Western European journalists were sent back to Ethiopia, they became the fuse for Haile Selassie I's house arrest, how could Ethiopia have time to cause trouble for Sudan to move south?

"Okay, the plan is approved, in what order?" Brezhnev asked, "Which direction is more preferred?" ”

"Thailand started first, because it helped a lot, and the Congolese side followed suit." Getting this answer, Brezhnev also nodded, feeling that there was no problem.

At this time, Serov was ready to leave, but Brezhnev kept him, and turned to talk about Yegorechev, expressing his bitterness, as a general secretary, he should be respected by the first secretary of the Moscow Municipal Party Committee, and the other party always made himself unable to get off the stage, so he had to let him calm down, and Yegorechev could still return to work at the right time.

Serov just listened to this kind of thing, and Brezhnev just said it casually, and he absolutely did not believe that this was the main reason. There must be something that Yegorechev argues head-on, but the main reason for Brezhnev to replace him is definitely not this, but the very harmonious relationship between Yegorechev and Shelepin.

"I'm just a security officer, and I don't have the right to dispute the Secretariat's decision." Serov did not show too much emotion, and two important supporters of Shelepin have already been replaced, and the blow to him should not be small.

The Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe was held in Helsinki and was attended by representatives from 35 countries from Europe, the United States and Canada and signed the Final Act. It includes: Certain Documents on Confidence-Building Measures and Security and Disarmament, Cooperation in Economic, Scientific and Technological and Environmental Aspects, etc. The Soviet Union was most concerned about European security and hoped to fix the status quo on European borders through the OSCE. The Final Document, in its declaration of principles governing relations among participating States, sets out 10 principles for the relations between participating States, which refer in particular to "the inviolability of borders" and "the prohibition of the use or threat of force".

The Document on Confidence-Building Measures and Security and Disarmament also stipulates that when a participating State holds a military exercise with more than 25,000 troops within 200 kilometres of a shared border, it shall notify the participating State three weeks in advance and invite it to send observers to observe the exercise.

"Is it because the USSR is stronger than history by two years earlier than history?" Serov secretly said that judging from the TV, in the meeting attended by Brezhnev in person, he had a very dignified style, and this meeting was his masterpiece. It can be said that the Soviet Union was very powerful, and the role of the French and Italian Communist Parties in Western Europe jointly contributed to this result, and it is not too much to say that it was a great victory.

A few days after the meeting, Brezhnev will return to the United States and start his visit to the United States. Turning off the TV, Serov said in a low voice, "When you make a resolution during your visit to the United States, Brezhnev is not there, old secretary, you should not have a problem dealing with Kirilenko." Yegorechev and Tolskykov were the first secretaries of the two largest cities of the USSR, and they were dismissed one after another, and if we didn't react at all, Brezhnev wouldn't stop suppressing us at all, as the chairman of the Supreme Soviet, you should always have some reaction, old secretary, right? Otherwise, our supporters will be gone. ”

"The nomination of Grechko and Gromyko to the Presidium of the Central Committee, both of them had a good relationship with Brezhnev, especially Marshal Grechko, who was Brezhnev's boss during the Great Patriotic War, isn't this an obstacle for ourselves?" Semychasny was also worried, he felt the pressure, but there was nothing he could do.

Gromyko, like Molotov, is a well-known robot foreign minister. They have a high political status, but they act exactly as the leadership intended. The difference is that Gromyko is more knowledgeable and easy-going than Molotov. I've never seen him lying on the couch, never seen him not shaving. He was a very serious German man.

"Precisely because Marshal Grechko was Brezhnev's superior, he sometimes embraced Brezhnev in the memory of old feelings, but we have to be clear about one thing, the position of the military. The army has always advocated a hard-line line, and now the general secretary is practicing détente, and the spokesman of the hard-liners is us. Serov thought for a while and said, "At present, Andropov and I are members of the Presidium of the Central Committee, and I am also the chairman of the KGB, but they are also directly under the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense, which are directly under the three major ministries, and their leaders are not members of the Presidium of the Central Committee. If we first propose to bring Grechko and Gromyko into the Presidium of the Central Committee, we will win the goodwill of both departments, and this is not a bad thing for us. ”

"They have something to do with Brezhnev, but they are not members of the Dnipro gang, and their entry into the Central Presidium is easy for Brezhnev to accept, and they can also suppress the ambitions of Brezhnev's children. In fact, there is no way to do it, and this is a kind of simultaneous weakening of me and Brezhnev. Sherepin thought for a moment and said, "Well, when Yura and Brezhnev visit the United States, I will make a proposal." ”

Semychasny and Serov nodded, now that Shelepin had already made a decision, the two had nothing to say. Raise the status of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of National Defence, and bring the leaders of these two departments to the Central Presidium. (To be continued.) )