Chapter 626: Defection to Freedom

After the Cuban Missile Crisis, the United States has always monitored Cuba, but Cuba itself does not have the power to threaten the United States, although it is the second military power in Latin America after Brazil, but it is still not at the same level as the United States. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info, but this time the Castro brothers are ready to think of something else.

This method is people, the Soviet Union sent all the dissidents from the whole of Eastern Europe to Cuba, itself waiting for Cuba to make a trade-off, and now, Cuba has finished weighing, since the United States has been trying to lure Cubans to smuggle in, then the Castro brothers are ready to play a big game, and send all the people who the Soviet Union put here plus those who are not needed by their own country to Cuba.

For Cuba, which is in the tropics, it is possible to do this at any time, but it will be difficult for the Soviet Union to do so, and if a person falls into the sea this month, the temperature of the Bering Strait is enough to freeze people to death in ten minutes.

At the same time that Nixon was expounding his two-column strategy in Saudi Arabia, the old ships of various sizes and sizes that were aided by the Soviet Union to Cuba were raised one after another by the Soviet Union, and there were six or seven hundred such ships, although they were not new ships, but they were by no means dilapidated ships that would sink halfway.

At 10 p.m. in the Western Hemisphere, all the major ports were under martial law, and the Cuban armed forces escorted the men on board, many of which were ordered not to come out at night, and were sent to the ships with enough food to eat for a week. Cuba did not have the ability to smuggle people in one day, so the authorities in Havana decided to use the darkness of the night to send people to the ship first, and then strictly order those who boarded the ship not to come down the next day, and so on until everything was ready.

The next morning, when people go to work, they will find that there are more ships in various ports, but they can never imagine that they are already full of people who are going to be stowed in, and all of them are Cuban active duty soldiers, and when they are put on board, these soldiers have already told the people on board in Russian, German, and other languages that they will be sent to the United States. The fact that these prisoners will not continue to serve their sentences in that land is good news for the vast majority of people.

This news has played a role in stabilizing the population, and in Cuba for several years, they have all been informed of the situation in the United States, which is of course relatively one-sided, and in the eyes of these people the United States is a paradise. In fact, the United States also knows that there are Eastern Europeans in Cuba, because some people have fled Cuba and have successfully smuggled people in the past, telling the Americans about the situation of this special group.

The number of prisoners who have fled Cuba for several years, probably more than a hundred, is not a large number for the entire group, and these people are being cared for by the United States, who need the existence of such examples as a basis for the cold war. Let the US government get a reason for confrontation, and under the spread of some media outlets, many people in the United States know such a group of poor people on the island of Cuba.

"You don't have to serve a prison sentence right away, and since we are so disgusted with socialism, let's go to the United States, where capitalism is the most powerful, where you can get the life you want." This kind of speech stabilized the mood of the people, and there was some commotion in the crowd when they were suddenly brought to the boat, which stemmed from the fear of the unknown. Moreover, they are Eastern Europeans, and during the world war more than 20 years ago, the Third Reich invented all kinds of strange ways to deal with them, and some people thought that the Cubans were going to sink them to the bottom of the sea.

This act of stuffing people into the boat at night, which was calm during the day but at night, lasted for a week, and in the course of this the Cuban armed forces showed great discipline, and it can be said that all the talents of the Cuban planned economy were deployed.

The Cape Building is located in the town of Arlington on the Potomac River near Washington, D.C., and is the seat of the U.S. Department of Defense. Viewed from the air, the building is in a regular pentagonal shape, hence the name Pentagon. The Department of Defense, established by US President Harry S. Truman, began to work here. Since then, the Pentagon has become a synonym for the US Department of Defense. In addition to the organs of the Ministry of National Defense, the building also includes the subordinate Joint Chiefs of Staff and the three headquarters of the Army, Navy, and Air Force.

"There seems to be some movement on the Cuban side recently, and our spy satellites show that it seems that there are some more ships in some ports, so nothing will happen, right?" In the Pentagon, an agent looking at satellite photos said.

"What will happen? Could it be that the USSR was preparing for a second deployment of nuclear missiles? There are fishing boats and old freighters, are they loaded with atomic bombs ready to attack us in suicide? Don't be stupid, the Soviet atomic bomb didn't need to do this for a long time, think it was still twenty years ago? Another older agent said that when the Soviet atomic bomb had just been successful, because there was no means of delivery, the major ports in the United States were strictly inspecting the Soviet cargo ships arriving at the port for a period of time, and they were afraid that the atomic bomb on it would be detonated in the port. But like he said, it was more than 20 years ago, and now that I think about it, it can only make people laugh.

Think about it, too, how can Cuba have the ability to land in the United States? But lately, there have been a bit more ships in Cuban ports. The initial agent began to feel that he should report the matter.

"Starting this evening, open all the ports in the north facing the United States and send them to the United States, none of these people are needed by Cuba, our country does not need such people." Castro took the cigar off his mouth and gave the order to open the port.

At one o'clock in the evening in the western hemisphere, in the major ports of northern Cuba, on all the ships flying the Cuban flag, the Cuban soldiers disembarked one after another, and when they left, they told these people who had already boarded the ships that they must bring their Cuban identification documents with them, so that they would be taken in by the Americans, and this fleet, which was no less than the Normandy landing, was about to depart. More than 600 ships of various types were loaded with prisoners preparing to go to the United States, and in addition to the minors who did not board the ships, there were about 900,000 people in total, plus Cuba's own more than 120,000 people, a proper army of one million.

Under the watchful eye of the Cuban soldiers, the ships slowly sailed away from the port, and the ships had their own crews on board, and the Caribbean Sea had been quiet for a few days, as long as they continued northward, there would be no miscarriage or landing.

In Florida, the United States has a giant radar to monitor movements on the sea, a radar station set up in response to Cuba's fall to the Soviet Union, which will play the role of preventing the Soviet Union from attacking the United States through Cuba. Normally, he is used to monitor the surface of the Caribbean Sea, and the radar stations can often see signals of smuggling towards the United States, but the United States Government welcomes this matter, and the staff of these radar stations cannot say anything.

Today it was as usual, but suddenly the radar showed a signal that was getting closer and closer from the Cuban side, and according to the usual idea, people thought it was a boat of Cuban stowaways, but immediately everyone's face changed. There were more and more signal sources on it, one, ten, a hundred, and the dense signal sources above shocked the staff of all radar stations.

"Did the Soviets carry out an amphibious landing on us?" Seeing this, a lieutenant gasped and muttered to himself. Everyone couldn't believe what they saw today, and a few people thought that the radar was faulty and should be investigated immediately to find the fault and fix it. In the midst of the chaos, they didn't report the situation until half an hour later.

After reporting layer after layer, the Pentagon reacted quickly, and by this time the flotilla had entered the side of US territorial waters, less than 60 kilometers from the US coastline.

The U.S. Coast Guard's 7th District quickly received an order to send speedboats to the area where the accident occurred to observe the situation. Dawn is always early in the tropics, and when the U.S. Coast Guard's speedboats arrived in front of them, they were stunned by what they saw. The Cuban-flagged ships, crowded with civilians, huddled on deck and waved to the American speedboats.

But it can be concluded that there are no soldiers on it, and the members of the guard on a speedboat swallow hard and spit out, "According to the policy, are we going to accept this group of Cuban exiles?" "It's just dawn, and in the low visibility, they can't tell if these people are Cubans or not, and besides, there are white people in Cuba, and he doesn't know who these boats with the Cuban flag are.

"As if yes, who made this idiot-like policy, we must report it right away." After dawn, helicopter gunships and reconnaissance planes dispatched over the Caribbean Sea saw in full what could be said to be a huge fleet of ships heading for the United States from the major ports in northern Cuba.

"Oh my God, there are at least two or three hundred thousand people in here." The American pilot, who was on reconnaissance in the air, looked pained and reported to the above, "I really want to sink these ships, they will destroy this place when they get to the United States." ”

At this time, the US Coast Guard on the sea no longer knows how to show goodwill, and even the generals of the major branches of the Pentagon do not know what to do, if it is an enemy invasion, it is right to fight, but the other side is civilians, and if they are all sunk, the world's spit will drown the Americans.

After getting up in the morning, Castro began to speak publicly to the nation, "For some people who do not like to stay in Cuba, it is not necessary to force them, and we do not need them." There is no need for these people who are dissatisfied with our country, since the Americans want these people, I can give these people to the Americans. ”

Two hours later, the whole world knew that Cuba had planned this large-scale smuggling incident against the United States, and for a time the whole world was in an uproar, and Nixon, who had just returned to Washington, had just ended his trip to the Middle East and encountered this thorny problem again. (To be continued.) )