Chapter 330: Target Cuba
Tomorrow is 515, the anniversary of the starting point, and the day with the most benefits. In addition to the gift bag and school bag, this time's "515 Red Envelope Flip" must be seen, how can there be a reason not to grab the red envelope, set the alarm clock high~
"Vote passed!" Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Leonid Brezhnev, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Federation Voronov, Second Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Kozlov, First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers Kosygin, Secretary of the Secretariat Kuusinin, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers Mikoyan, and other members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of Suslov, Kirilenko, and Shvernik voted after deliberations to approve Khrushchev's description of Cuba's strategic position.
"Comrades, we all know the threat of Turkish missiles to the Soviets, in order to bring the enemy and us back to balance, so this adventure is definitely worth it!" After the vote was passed, Khrushchev said to the other members of the Central Presidium with a straight face, "This risk is worth taking, and it must be taken." The most obvious and quickest way to change the way in which the Soviets were threatened was in Cuba, and rest assured, comrades, believe me......"
"John? After Kennedy came to power, the failed landing at the Battle of Giron Beach made him lose a round diplomatically, and the United States had no good reason to oppose Castro taking all possible precautions against another invasion, including accepting Soviet nuclear weapons aid. ”
"Against the encirclement of the United States. In view of the fact that the United States had already surrounded the Soviet Union with bomber bases and missiles at that time, that the United States missiles in Turkey and the Federal Republic of Germany were aimed at the Soviet Union, and that the important industrial centers of the Soviet Union were under the direct threat of nuclear bombs and strategic bombers, it was necessary to secretly transport missiles into Cuba as soon as possible, and to install them before the United States discovered them, and to prepare them for launch. ”
"The deployment of missiles to Cuba is clearly a quick, cheap once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to restore the Soviet-American balance. From a military point of view, about a hundred missiles were placed in Cuba. Some have a range of 1,000 miles, while a few have a range of 1,500 to 2,000 miles, and can evade the US early warning system, thus in fact doubling the Soviet Union's ability to strike at the United States and changing the strategic position of the Soviet Union. ”
Khrushchev clenched his right hand tightly and accentuated the tone of his speech. It shows how dire the current situation is.
"It's time to give the Americans a look at it!" Second Secretary Kozlov was the first to express support for Khrushchev's proposal as a sign of solidarity between the first and second secretaries of the USSR. Standing up and walking to Khrushchev's side, facing the other members of the Presidium of the Central Committee, he said in a fierce tone, "The nuclear missiles deployed by the United States in Turkey have seriously endangered the security of the Soviets, and this time we will not compromise, and the united Soviets are not afraid of any challenge......
"Agreed, no matter what happens. We don't compromise! Brezhnev stood up from the spot, the big eyebrows above his eyes tightly twisted together, adding a hint of hideousness, Brezhnev's statement showed that this matter was unstoppable.
Kosygin secretly sighed softly and raised his hand in support. His statement proved that the Presidium of the Central Committee of the USSR had reached a consensus on this matter, and Khrushchev beckoned the comrades of the secretariat to come in and said, "Call the heads of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the KGB immediately, and come to the Kremlin immediately." There's something to discuss! "The three departments of the Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the KGB are theoretically directly responsible to the Presidium of the Central Committee. The three departments, which were of special status, were actually responsible to Khrushchev himself.
It was already late at night when I received Khrushchev's call, and it was just the right time in Moscow in June, and there was less heat during the day, and the cries of some insects in the lawn did not match the atmosphere at this time. Arriving at the Kremlin, Serov got out of the car and met with Defense Minister Marshal Malinovsky, First Deputy Minister, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Warsaw, Marshal Gretzko, First Deputy Minister, Chief of the General Staff Marshal Zakharov, and Marshal Nederin of the Strategic Rocket Forces. Nodding slightly. Serov joined KGB Chairman Semychasny and another First Deputy Chairman Itvasov and entered the Kremlin together.
Perhaps in the middle of the night, the slightest movement could be heard far away, and heavy footsteps could be heard throughout the corridors, the generals of the KGB and the Ministry of Defense in military leather shoes. As the sound of kicking footsteps got closer and closer, a sense of oppression was added to the mountain rain. Pushing open the door of the conference room, he gave a military salute to the members of the Presidium of the Central Committee present, and saw that Foreign Minister Gromyko was already sitting there.
The meeting room is huge, with hundreds of chairs, so you don't have to worry about finding a place to sit. Khrushchev nodded and asked the leaders of the three departments to sit down, and in front of the members of the Presidium of the Central Committee, he expressed his thoughts.
"The Soviet Fatherland cannot be oppressed unilaterally by imperialism, we must bring the world back to equilibrium!" Khrushchev's impassioned words made Serov's eyelids jump, and sure enough, it was this thing, the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Marshal Malinovsky and several of his assistants looked at each other, stood up first, and said, "We are willing to participate in this exciting contest, and the Soviet armed forces are willing to shed their last drop of blood for the Motherland at any time!" ”
"The KGB unconditionally obeys any order of the first secretary, even if it is for us to die!" Semichasny immediately spoke, and Serov and Itvasov stood up at the same time, although they did not speak, but showed their attitude with their actions.
"At that time, the diplomatic mediation will be handed over to our Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and what is the attitude of the Americans, our attitude will not be!" Foreign Minister Gromyko also did not flinch at all, and when it comes to such things, no one dares to bear the reputation of a coward.
That's right, there is no one who dares to bear the charge of cowardice, and once this title is touched by himself, it means the end of his political life, and none of the people present, especially the full members of the Presidium of the Central Committee who participated in the vote, dare to be vague about this matter. Therefore, once it is decided to confront the United States head-on in Cuba, at that time, except for Khrushchev himself, no other members of the Central Presidium will take even one step back, because they do not have the capital to retreat.
Marshal Malinovsky, First Deputy Minister, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces in Warsaw, Marshal Gretchko, First Deputy Minister, Chief of the General Staff Marshal Zakharov, and Marshal Nederin of the Strategic Rocket Forces, discussed and told Khrushchev what they thought. The 51st Missile Division is the unit of the Cuban cluster, and the 79th Guards Missile Regiment III (R-12/SS-4), the 181st Missile Regiment III (R-12/SS-4), the 665th Missile Regiment III (R-14/SS-5), the 668th Missile Regiment III (R-14/SS-5), and the 664th Guards Missile Regiment III (R-12/SS-4) each have 8 launchers and 12 missiles.
The 11th Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment, the 276th Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment, and the 500th Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment of the 16th Territorial Air Defense Division under the Territorial Defense Force, each regiment has 4 battalions, and each battalion has 6 sets of S-75 surface-to-air missile launchers and independent radar battalions. The 27th Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment of the 294th Territorial Air Defense Division, the 318th Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment, and the 466th Anti-aircraft Missile Regiment, 4 battalions in each regiment, 6 S-75 surface-to-air missile launchers in each battalion.
The 213th Fighter Regiment: 40 MiG-21F Air Force subordinates, the 561st Front-line Cruise Missile Regiment, the 584th Front-line Cruise Missile Regiment, 8 launchers per regiment, equipped with FKR-1/SSC-2a cruise missiles. The two regiments carried 80 nuclear warheads.
437th Separate Helicopter Regiment: 33 Mi-4, 134th Separate Aviation Communications Squadron: 11 aircraft. The 302nd Separate Motorized Rifle Regiment, the 314th Separate Motorized Rifle Regiment, the 400th Separate Motorized Rifle Regiment, the 496th Separate Motorized Rifle Regiment, and all four regiments were drawn from the 64th Guards Motorized Rifle Division of the Leningrad Military District.
"It seems that something is missing, the first secretary, and the comrades of the Ministry of Defense, I think you have forgotten the role of anti-ship missiles, why don't you allocate the Styx anti-ship missiles to the preparation for war?" Serov stood up and asked, "Since it has come to this point." We must prepare for the worst. We must come up with a force that the Americans can scruce about all at once, and all aspects of the problem must be taken into account, otherwise what are we going to do with some of our strength? Let the Americans humiliate us? As we all know, the U.S. Navy is unique in the world, and what if the worst comes, and the United States fights a nuclear war with us because of the threat to its homeland? From my point of view, the current forces in Cuba are not enough to scare the Americans......"
"Yuri, the Styx missile is not yet mature!" Ustinov felt that he should tell Serov the real situation.
"Can't the Styx missile be equipped with a nuclear warhead? The large equivalent cannot fit in. Less than 100,000 tons should be okay, right? Serov asked in turn, "I wonder if we should put one on the Pacific Ocean and do an experiment on the surface of the Pacific Ocean before we start the operation, to see if the Styx has basic combat capabilities, and we can find a scrapped 10,000-ton ship to test its power." ”
"Also, I have been to Cuba before, and I believe that no one knows Cuba better than me, and I have something left in the Rubyanka. I hope that the first secretary and the comrades of the Presidium of the Central Committee can wait! Serov asked Khrushchev for instructions, "It is a record of some of the work I did during my expedition to Cuba. I believe that the comrades will be interested......"
After a short time, the documents sent from the Lubyanka arrived in the Kremlin, and the members of the Central Presidium knew about his earlier preparations, pointing to the unfinished building in the photo, "As you can see, the interior of the building is completely hollow." Even if the ballistic missile is in a state of launch, nothing can be seen from the sky, and I can tell my comrades unequivocally that as long as the missile is not detected during the transportation process, it will go ashore unless there are American spies in Cuba. In other words, once the missiles are landed, there will be no problem of building a launch site, as long as the existing facilities are renovated, and when the time comes, the iron sheet on the roof of the building will be removed, and the launch can be carried out......
"Serov, you started preparing for this earlier?" After reading it, Brezhnev asked with an interested expression, "Have you been preparing for the so-called worst-case scenario?" ”
"As a national security cadre, I have a record of the situation in some hot spots, and this is just one of them!" Serov neither admitted nor denied, "It's always right to be careful, and it seems that I am not preparing in vain!" ”
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