"Thank you, Comrade Serov, for your fancy to the friendship between Italy and the Soviet Union, which is what I want to say! We, the Communist Party of Italy, also want to find a communist road that suits Italy's national conditions, and we are fortunate to walk with many fraternal countries on this road, and I myself and the Italian Communist Party cherish our friendship with the Soviet Union and other fraternal countries! The general secretary of the Italian Communist Party, Parimiro Torriati, also responded positively to Serov's overtures, which brought the atmosphere in the auditorium to a climax again.

"It doesn't matter, the line of the Italian comrades, the Soviet Union has never had even the slightest suspicion, the national conditions of each country are different, just like China has many peasants, and the Soviet Union is the leader of the revolution, we have never said that the world revolution is a template, and we don't want to copy the Soviet model to the whole world, as some countries claim!" Serov knew what Parimoro Toriotti meant, and the Italian Communist Party currently had a great influence in Western Europe, and had good friendships with the French Communist Party and the Greek Communist Party.

If it was the Brezhnev period, if Serov sang praises for Italy's way of wanting to expand its influence, he would definitely be criticized when he returned, and considering that he was a follower of Shelepin, maybe Brezhnev would find an excuse to go straight to the end. Fortunately, during the Khrushchev period, the control in this area was relaxed, but even so, Serov was playing a side game, and if there was no problem, there would be no problem, and if there was a problem, there would be a problem.

Sure enough, as soon as Serov's words fell, Behringer, who was sitting on the left-hand side, took the lead in applauding, expressing his approval of Serov's reasonableness, the Italian Communist Party has been looking for a European line, and although they are now in power, considering Italy's living conditions in the United States and the Soviet Union, they can only support the Soviet Union in terms of partisan relations. Otherwise, it will be attacked by the Catholic Democrats.

Even so, the cadres of the Italian Communist Party and the delegation led by Serov touted each other's cheerfulness, which still made many reporters present at the meeting uncomfortable, especially Italian journalists who were inclined to NATO, to see that the Italians and Soviets were brothers and comrades. It's almost uncomfortable to wear a pair of pants.

"There is another question, I don't know if the comrades in Italy have found out!" Serov smiled and began the welcome meeting in a way of talking to his friends, singing that the matter of proletarian friendship and friendship between the world communist parties should be the responsibility of Andropov himself, who is the head of the Central Liaison Department, but Andropov is not here, so he is in charge, and it is not overstepping his authority. The Central Liaison Department and the KGB themselves were the relations between the makers and the actors, both in the service of a goal.

"Found what?" Parimiro Toriotti is actually more comfortable with this kind of relaxed welcome party, compared to Serov, who is a serious person reading reports there at home, they don't have so many rules here.

Serov asked Isemotny to bring a telegram and waited for everyone to be quiet before reading, "This year in our land south of Italy, a series of currents of thought have emerged! Since January 1 this year, seven countries have become independent: Cameroon, Senegal, Togo, Madagascar, Zaire, Somalia and Benin! We are happy to see it today. The idea of independence for the whole of Africa has been activated, and the national consciousness of the African people has awakened. This shows that the criminal colonial system on the African continent has begun to collapse, and this year is by far the most independent year for African countries, and this year is the year of African independence, and the Soviet Union and all socialist countries, including all Communist Party comrades in the world who wish to establish democracy and equality, are willing to help independent African countries become equal members of the people of the world as soon as possible. Long live African independence, long live the year of African independence......" finally Serov repeated twice in Italian and Russian.

At the right time and in the right place, Serov, who was not too late to wake up, uttered very politically correct things that no one dared to refute even the slightest rebuttal to his words, because the destruction of the colonial system was the common goal of the United States and the Soviet Union. It was also Italy's goal after losing all its colonies after the war.

No one dared to say that Serov's words were wrong, so when his words just fell, he once again won the cheers of all the Italian Communists present, and even all the Italians present, including the reporters, stood up and applauded Serov warmly.

"Long live Africa's independence, long live world equality!" Bursts of cheers resounded in the auditorium, and many reporters also joined in the cheering Communists, Serov was also excited, but he was not the same as these people's excitement, through today's Italian journalists' momentum, the concept of the African Year of Independence, which was put forward a few years later, will begin to ferment this year, because this concept was first proposed, and this huge public opinion advantage belongs to the Soviet Union, belongs to the Communists of the whole world, and the honor of being the proposer belongs to him......

"The complete liberation of mankind will come, and whatever difficulties and obstacles lie ahead of us, they will eventually be overcome by the invincible Communists!" Serov raised his right hand into a fist and shouted in the world-common Communist oath gesture.

Parimiro Torriati was the first to raise his hand in response, and immediately all the Italian Communist Party, including the Soviet delegation, raised their right hands into fists, shouting slogans although the language was inconsistent and a little messy, but at this time the huge aura shocked the reporters who appeared on this occasion for the first time, and all kinds of flashing lights kept appearing, and these reporters did not forget their work, and received this historic scene on film, which will be a big news tomorrow......

It took some time for the agitation to calm down, and then Serov and Behringer discussed that more than 100,000 people from the Soviet Union would come to Rome to watch the Games, and hoped that the Italian side would help in this regard.

"Many of our Soviet people are going abroad for the first time, they turned out to be destitute proletarians, maybe there will be a lot of habits that are not very good, I hope that the comrades in Italy will help a lot!" Serov lowered his posture and said all the difficulties in this regard, which he had personally planned, and among these people there were more than 4,000 KGB agents.

"It's all comrades who can't help or not, we in Italy are a people and a hospitable people, and we will definitely let the comrades of the Soviet Union have a pleasant trip!" Parimiro Toriotti said very generously.

This group of 1450,000 people came from all over the Soviet Union, to be honest, now the Soviet Union has to open a letter of introduction for domestic travel, and it is definitely a good thing to be able to travel to Italy. Of course, there are hidden dangers in this, if the Soviets absconded in Italy, Serov as the mastermind of the operation may be criticized, but I believe that he will escape because of the propaganda of the African Independence Year!

The reason why the Soviet Union strictly controlled the flow of people was because many Soviet cities were not suitable for human habitation, such as the villages on the Siberian side, if it were not for the Soviet KGB to watch the flow of people in the country, the work of moving the population to Asia would have been abandoned halfway, and no one wanted to live there in that icy and snowy place, and they would have run back to Europe in a few years.

Not to mention the kind of icy and snowy place in the Soviet Union, even if it is China on the other side of the national border, there is no administrative order to allow the free circulation of the population, and the population of the entire Northeast will become smaller and smaller, in the small town where he lived in later generations, the entire Forestry Bureau has changed from a population of 100,000 to 60,000 or 70,000, and many of his classmates in school are no longer local, and people love to live in warm and comfortable places like spring all year round, and there are people like Serov who are not suitable for high humidity places, but not many.

If there really are people who do not return to China, Serov will definitely be criticized when he returns home, and his response is very simple: tightening the policy in this regard and expanding the rights belonging to the KGB again, in short, is a risky move. But for the sake of the KGB, this risk is worth taking.

In private, Serov would consult with Bellinger and even Parimi Torriatti to get the Italian side to pay attention to this work. Serov threw two bombshells at the welcoming meeting in an instant, the first was the propaganda of the African Independence Year, and the second was the first large-scale tourist wave in the Soviet Union, although a lot of money itself was borne by the KGB. But finally an opportunity was created for communication, and in the end, Serov did not know how many times he found out, he was really a friend of Italy, and he took the risk himself, and the Italians kept riding on him......

The next day, the entire Italian newspaper was devoted to the propaganda of the African Year of Independence, and each newspaper was doing its best to reflect its own political correctness, even some newspapers that were themselves hostile to the Soviet Union were not hesitating to help the Soviet propaganda. No one wants to be left behind in such a desirable matter.

In the evening, the first secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and chairman of the Council of Ministers, Khrushchev, first made a speech on African affairs, TASS reported, Pravda carried a large page record, Khrushchev was the first leader to make a public evaluation of the African independence year, and soon the trusted leader of the GDR, ****** Ulbricht then expressed his position, and then Tito of Yugoslavia, before the evening, Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, The leaders of Czechoslovakia have already expressed their views on the vision of the African Year of Independence. (To be continued.) )