Under the title of their return, the newly restored Portuguese Communist Party's newspaper, the Forward Newspaper, carried a large report, detailing the devastating blows to the Portuguese Communist Party during Salazar's reign. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 Info concluded, "Today all our Central Committee members are finally out of prison, and they still have more than 300 years to go to prison......

At this time, the Portuguese society was sympathetic to the Portuguese Communist Party, but in the eyes of the Soviet Union, this atmosphere did not last long, which had been agreed upon in the Central Presidium, and Foreign Minister Gromyko also knew this, and this time he came to Lisbon He also had his own task, to complete the Soviet strategy, so that Portugal could withdraw from the colony with dignity, instead of suddenly rolling up the bed and getting out, and buying a certain amount of time for the Soviet Union.

Gromyco then held talks with the current President of Portugal, Spinola, and today is May 1, the International Labor Day defined by all socialist countries, and half a million people have participated in the May Day parade in Lisbon. The revolutionary atmosphere infected the armed forces, where soldiers and sailors marched with the workers, raising banners demanding socialism. Various parties that were previously banned resumed their public activities from the underground or in exile, including Álvaro? The Portuguese Communist Party led by Kanhal and Mario? Suarez's Portuguese Socialist Party.

At the Portuguese presidential palace, Gromyco met with Spinola, a military man, a four-star Portuguese general who had been dismissed from the post of chief of the General Staff a year earlier by publicly declaring that a Portuguese victory in Africa was impossible. Until the outbreak of the Carnation Revolution and the election of provisional president, Gromyko mainly discussed the colonial question with the Portuguese president.

"If Portugal hastily withdraws its troops, the entire colony of the Portuguese Empire will become a huge power vacuum, and civil wars will break out in various places immediately. Gromyko soon entered the whole, and the president in front of him was obviously in favor of withdrawing troops, and the idea of the Soviet Union was not to let the other side withdraw so quickly, otherwise the war between the Soviet Union and the United States in South Africa would soon break out, and the earlier domestic plans had already been formulated.

As a foreign minister, Gromyko certainly did not want to fight and kill to solve the problem, and he preferred to choose the peaceful way when he had a choice, which was also the purpose of his visit to Portugal.

"But the troops on the front line have already exceeded their service schedule, and they all want to return home, this is the opinion of the soldiers, I am a soldier, and I know the hearts of those colonial soldiers very well." Spinola knew of course the moral danger of Portugal patting its ass and leaving, but if he had to choose between a colony and a native, he would certainly choose Portugal.

"It's a question of military spending, in fact, the main problem of Portugal's finances is military spending, but there is a big difference between armed conflict and non-armed conflict. The Soviet Union understands that Portugal wants to get rid of these big burdens, but I hope you will not forget the international responsibility, the sudden departure of the African colonizers, and then the outbreak of bloody civil wars has been quite a lot, which is also what Moscow is worried about, although we are anti-colonial, but we also do not want the new country to fall into a civil war, so our Soviet opinion is that we can stop the war in the major colonies through contact with the local armed forces. "In this process of slow disengagement, the Soviet Union stopped the war and was willing to give some aid to the Portuguese colonial army so that they could return to their country peacefully." ”

All kinds of black armies in the Portuguese colonies, all supported by the Soviet Union, quite simply, this was needed by the revolution. Anti-colonialism was the most politically correct thing of the era, and the Soviet Union should have been at the forefront. Now that the political situation in Portugal has changed, and the original enemy has become a friend in a sense, it is natural to change the way of thinking.

As long as the Soviet Union and the local armed forces say hello, the civil war in the Portuguese colonies will stop instantly, and the soldiers of the Portuguese country will be evacuated more decently, avoiding the image of the last colonial empire, and at the same time giving the Soviet Union a more perfect time to attack.

The talks between the two sides lasted more than two hours, and after the talks, Gromyko and Provisional President Spinola came out of the presidential palace, and in the square in front of the presidential palace, Gromyko stood in front of the crowd of marchers to give a speech.

At first, Gromyko praised the great significance of the Carnation Revolution, and at the same time did not shy away from the fact that he had just come with hostility, to test whether the new Portuguese government would continue to maintain colonialism, and to pass the negotiations of General Spinola with great results, and so on.

"I must admit that the armed forces fighting against the Portuguese colonial army, the Soviet Union supported in principle, of course this is a thing of the past, General Spinola told me that Portugal is ready to renounce colonialism, which I believe will be welcomed by people of conscience in the whole world, and this is also a victory for the Portuguese people."

Gromyko's words caused bursts of cheers, and after waiting for a long time to calm people down, Gromyko continued, "We all understand that the colonial era is gone, and the Soviet Union has always been clearly opposed to colonialism, and this is not that the Soviet Union is willing to find trouble with Portugal, on the contrary, we are all waiting for this day, waiting for Portugal to give up colonialism, and today, we have ushered in this revolution, which is a victory for the people of the world, including the Soviets, the Portuguese, the Mozambicans, the Angolans, and the Guinea-Bissau." Today is May Day, victory belongs to everyone, and no one is a loser. ”

Gromyko's words, "Long live socialism......", filled the square with cheers, and people raised their hands in support of these words, which they received from the Soviet Union at a time when the socialist movement was at a height.

The next day, Gromyko and General Spinola signed a joint Soviet-Portuguese declaration, Portugal gave up all colonies in principle, and began to work out a timetable for the withdrawal of troops, Gromyko said that the Soviet Union would stop the armed forces of the colonies from continuing to attack, and at the same time assist the Portuguese colonial army to return home, and was willing to connect the local armed forces with the Portuguese military to discuss how to make Portugal withdraw with dignity.

As soon as the statement was issued, it immediately dropped a bombshell on the world political arena, all of course, all of which were praises, and if the people of the Second International had achieved anything for so many years, it was probably only the fact that anti-colonialism was drumming for the Soviet Union, and as for the harm of these socialist parties, it was unbelievable.

"By the way, before I went abroad, a comrade specially reminded me that on the China issue, I could send someone to visit it through secret channels, and China might not be in a hurry to take back that place." Gromyco said to Spinola as if he had just remembered something.

"Why? Hasn't China been anti-colonial? General Spinola asked, surprised.

"Maybe they have their own considerations, but I don't know the specific situation." Gromyko shrugged and said he didn't know.

"The Portuguese Socialist Party, with less than a thousand members?" Serov, who was in the Lubyanka, frowned and asked the head of the First Main Directorate, Morikin, and only after receiving an affirmative answer from the other party did he swallow the question of whether he had written a mistake. This is different from his perception, because Portugal has no presence, he does not have much useful information in his memory, but there is one information that he knows, and that is that the Portuguese Socialist Party is a big party, and it will not be as weak as it is.

"Yes, in fact the Socialist Party had less than 200 members at the time of the Carnation Revolution." Morikin affirmed.

"Oh, you go out first, I'm going to think about it." Serov waved his hand to let him out, and the Portuguese Socialist Party, which was a huge heavyweight party, now has less than a thousand members. He now needs to extrapolate the process, knowing the outcome, how the Communists lost and how the Soviet Union lost Portugal.

He really didn't know about the Portuguese Communist Party in this era, and if there was only one thing he knew, it was that this Communist Party was pro-Soviet, and at some time it was called Portuguese Xiu, and it was also the object of condemnation.

"It seems that the Socialist Party, like all other movements, has played the role of a pig opponent in the process of cooperating with the Communist Party." Recalling numerous historical events, Serov felt that his speculations were inseparable.

The Socialist Party of the Second International, compared with the Communist Parties of the Third International, has a peculiarity, that is, the Socialist Party dares to shout slogans that many Communists dare not shout, and the Socialist Party dares to shout more slogans than the Communists. But the Socialists never shed blood, and when they did encounter the Nazis or the military junta, the Socialists often knelt faster than anyone else. That is why the Carnation Revolution had just succeeded, and the Portuguese Communist Party, which had been fighting all along, had tens of thousands of members, and the Socialist Party had less than a thousand members.

In the First World War, the Socialist Party supported the war decisions of their own countries, otherwise there would not have been a Third International.

The slogan of the Socialist Party's moral high ground was the white left of later generations, and the existence of the Socialist Party also hurt the Communist Party supported by the Soviet Union, because the Socialist Party was easily bought off and in many cases used by rival parties to dismantle the supporters of the Communist Party.

"What about public opinion in the Socialist Party?" Serov took the phone and asked Morikin, the head of the First Main Directorate, who had just left.

"Very radical, and I don't know why that's happening." Morikin, the head of the First General Bureau, was stunned for a moment and said into the phone.

"Got it." Serov put down the phone, the Socialist Party is so weak, of course it has to be more radical than the Communist Party to win popular support, in this case, "Mendelev, kill the leader of the Socialist Party, Suarez, and blame the Democratic Party." (To be continued.) )