Today, the scene of the Soviet Airborne Forces falling from the sky is destined to remain in the hearts of many residents of New Delhi. In this situation, Serov has the feeling of watching a documentary, and he almost sings a song, alas, fate! As the BGM of the airborne landing of the Soviet Airborne Forces in New Delhi this time.

At least in terms of shock, this airborne operation can definitely get a high score. More than 6,000 Soviet paratroopers landed in New Delhi, causing a scene that caused many Indians in New Delhi to look up at the sky and could not recover for a long time.

"This is what happened to the defense line torn apart by the Soviet Armed Forces, no, this sight can only be regarded as a small episode!" A smile hung on the corner of Serov's mouth after putting down the binoculars, the Soviet Airborne Forces were a force that the Soviet Union focused on building during the Cold War, as part of the Soviet Union's offensive forces, the strength is equal to the total number of airborne troops of other countries, the number is as high as more than 100,000, after the start of the large-depth assault, the 100,000 airborne troops will become an important part of the Soviet Union's offensive forces.

The Soviet Airborne Forces reached their peak in the seventies after conquering the airborne of men and vehicles, which showed that the Soviet Airborne Forces could quickly confront the opponent's heavy forces after the airborne. But for a country like India, the current forces invested by the Airborne Forces are sufficient, and it can be regarded as the first time that the Soviet Airborne Forces have shown their edge in the world.

In all fairness, the fly in the ointment is the BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicle that accompanied the Soviet Airborne Forces in various videos, which had not yet been finalized, making the huge airborne forces of the Soviet Union somewhat lacking an obvious sword. But that's fine, today's news of the Soviet Union's airborne landing in New Delhi will definitely make the headlines of major newspapers, and it doesn't show all its strength.

As expected, Britain, as the suzerainty that is most concerned about India, expressed extraordinary concern for the Soviet Airborne Forces to parachute into New Delhi, and specially accompanied the photos of the Soviet Airborne Forces occupying the entire sky, and also spread the Soviet threat theory from the side.

"Britain is nothing but a weak country, and those islanders will only get weaker and weaker for the foreseeable time, and we don't need to pay too much attention to their rhetoric." Serov, who was strolling through the streets of New Delhi the next day, said to a colonel next to him.

The colonel, who walked side by side with Serov on the streets, was in his forties, and he was also a veteran of the Red Army for twenty years of service in the army. It was the brigade commander of this airborne Soviet airborne brigade in New Delhi, Colonel Yegrove. Colonel Yegrove participated in the Great Patriotic War, was also a combat hero, and conducted several airborne operations on the battlefield in Ukraine.

"I understand that our enemy is only the United States. Heard that the US Marine Corps has landed from Mumbai? I'd love to fight them once! Colonel Yegrove clapped his hands, and there was a kind of eagerness in his heart, but he immediately said, "General Serov, I don't quite understand why the country has taken a neutral position this time? ”

"Do you know how many countries are against this question? Our country is not able to confront so many countries, and this is not a matter for the United States and the USSR, or even for two camps. There are so many countries in the third world, can we offend them all? Serov tilted his head and glanced at Colonel Yegrove and shook his head secretly, the other party was just a military man.

But Colonel Yegrove's question moved Serov's heart and asked, "Is there some doubt in the hearts of the soldiers?" ”

"Yes, General Serov!" Colonel Yegrove's answer surprised Serov, but if you think about it, it is not incomprehensible, in fact, the border guards stationed in the Far East in the early days of the Sino-Soviet break, such problems also arose ideologically. As an individual, it is impossible to understand why a country that had been comradely with his own country a few years ago suddenly became an enemy of the world, which is not consistent with the country's earlier propaganda. It's very normal to bring confusion in the mind.

"Tell the soldiers that we are just abiding by the UN resolutions to stop the war and let China and India stop the state of war, not to support India from a stand." Serov indifferently ordered, "We are not out to fight, just to restore order in India, we will leave in a few months, of course we must leave with the Americans, otherwise it will be too stupid......"

Serov also did not expect that he would evolve like this with just one kick in this war. But he knew that if he didn't make peace, this war would not be any different from history, and China would still withdraw its troops. Seventy or eighty countries collectively opposed it, not to mention China, and the Soviet Union could not bear it.

From Andropov's tone, Serov knew that China was somewhat dissatisfied with the neutral attitude of the Soviet Union, but there was no way to do this, combined with the current international public opinion, the Soviet Union would not make a decision to side for China at the expense of its own interests. Even his covert help to China is risky. The Soviet Union had its own global strategy, and by now the Soviet Union had set its sights on global competition, although this conclusion was not obvious during Khrushchev's tenure.

Among other things, the fact that Egypt, which occupies the Suez Canal, Syria on the Mediterranean coast, and Sudan, an important grain importing region of the Soviet Union, all three countries support India is enough for the Soviet leadership to consider the pros and cons. Each of these countries is very important, not to mention that the vast majority of countries in Africa that have just become independent support India, and if the Soviet Union has to do it, it will delay the time to attack Africa.

Global isolation, this is the situation that China is facing in this era. Nehru's operation was not in vain, and almost the whole world was raised against China. In his previous life, Serov had heard an argument that the United States and the Soviet Union focused on helping India ignore the feelings of the Chinese people, but in fact this was not complete, and it could only be said that the whole world basically supported India in accusing China, and the United States and the Soviet Union were just following the trend under this kind of public opinion. This is Nehru's own ability, and it has nothing to do with the United States and the Soviet Union.

Colonel Yegrove only considered the problem from the point of view that China was a socialist country, and if such a person came to power in the Soviet Union, it would be just another version of Goto, and the work that Serov is doing now is not an unprincipled kneeling and licking of China. He just hoped to find a place to vent the pressure between the Soviet Union and China, to find a weaker opponent for China, and believed that the Soviet people who woke up every day to see a country with a population several times their own in the south, and the Chinese who woke up every day as if they heard tens of thousands of tanks in the north, would thank him.

Of course, Serov knew that China and the Soviet Union would definitely not be able to fight, but he also knew how wasteful it was to put these surplus military forces in the Far East, the Soviet Union only had 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, but in the Far East a million troops, yes, the Far East was a secondary direction, and those troops were second-rate troops, even border guards under the KGB. But the question is, what are those troops doing badly, just playing sit-down warfare in one direction?

The reason why the Presidium of the Central Committee agreed to Serov's risk of taking the plunge into troubled waters, instead of being completely neutral and thinking that he did not see the Sino-Indian border war, was not persuaded by Serov with the great principles of socialism, in fact, if he really did this, no one would take his opinion as the first deputy chairman of the KGB seriously, and the idea that really impressed the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union was to let China move its excess military forces south and put it on the side of India. It was this assumption that made the bigwigs agree to Serov coming in and operating.

At least from the point of view of Serov's normal head, Sino-Soviet non-confrontation is a win-win situation, and the Soviet Union does not need to put so many troops in a secondary direction, and it is not known how much military spending will be saved every year. As for the confrontation between China and India, he does not believe how difficult it is to confront India, and whether it is more pressure than confronting the Soviet Union.

It would be abnormal for the Soviet Union to openly show diplomatic solidarity with China in the face of its general support for India. It's good now, you can't put all your eggs in one basket, and if the USSR openly supports China in this war, it will lose a lot, and it will gain nothing.

That's right, Serov knew that China and the Soviet Union would become more and more estranged, and all he wanted was a peaceful breakup between China and the Soviet Union. Did the Soviet Union have any means to prevent China from opening up? No! The power of the KGB is definitely a colossus for a small and unstable country. If it is for China, Serov has applied to transfer the four major European clusters, and it may not work.

Just as the reality of the country and the state is different, the USSR could not open up, and China needed to open up. The Soviet Union was able to cover a market that was not small in size, but it was not as valuable as the market controlled by the United States. The markets of the United States and Western European countries are more valuable than those of the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, not to mention that the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries themselves pay great attention to their own industries, and it is impossible for China to occupy all the markets, and it is not difficult for China to make a choice in this.

Serov and the members of the Presidium of the CPC Central Committee thought the same thing, and they absolutely could not pin their hopes for victory in the Cold War on China. What he knows better than the current Soviets is that China will definitely open up, and once it opens up, it will definitely not take a stand between the United States and the Soviet Union, and then the Soviet Union will lose the help that China can provide now, so when this help still exists, accumulate good strength before the seventies.

"General Serov, Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru will meet with you and the American officers in two days to discuss the issue of this war!" Serov, who returned to the embassy, immediately received a notice from the military attache of the Soviet embassy in India.

"Got it, I'll go then!" Serov, who had been walking around the streets of New Delhi for a day, said a little tiredly.

Looking back on today's trip, the most different thing that made Serov feel like he was in India last time was that the spirit of the people in New Delhi he saw was completely different, and in layman's terms, the backbone was broken, like a lost dog. (To be continued.) )