Chapter 128: The Republican Guard of Egypt
"Mr. Serov, how did the USSR solve this problem in this regard?" Interior Minister Alim asked. "Top" point "small" said,
Serov smiled and said in a deep voice, "For criminals, not only can the state continue to support them, but also find a way to make these people contribute and make up for the crimes they have committed!" In other words, this free labor can be supplemented with various projects, and a large part of the cost can be saved without pay......"
Alim nodded, a little hesitant, "What if journalists from some countries use this to attack us in Egypt?" β
Serov felt great admiration for this naΓ―ve Comrade Alim? How did someone who was so concerned get into the position of Minister of the Interior? It can't have any nepotism with Nasser, right? "Journalists? How can these people who talk about it every day know the difficulty of building a country? The quality of a country's development needs to be said from their mouths? People won't feel it for themselves? β
As he finished speaking, Serov narrowed the distance between himself and Minister Alim, and said mockingly, "As a Minister of Internal Affairs, it is your job to keep the country in a safe state itself, and it is not too easy to shut up a group of people who have nothing to contribute every day except talking and farting......
Alim was awe-inspiring in his heart, since Serov said so, then the Soviet Union must have done so, but the public intellectuals always occupied the moral high ground, which made Alim a little timid.
"No country was built by a group of people who only use their mouths but do not use their hands! This was true of the Soviet Union, this was true of the United States, and I think Egypt was no exception! Serov said as he turned into an ice cube face again. You, Egypt, have just become independent. You should know that. It only takes an opportunity to clean up that group of reporters and unify their thinking by the way, so as to better mobilize the strength of the whole country to build the country! β
Now that Egypt is in the stage of winning the support of the Soviet Union, Serov will help the Egyptian Ministry of the Interior to improve its work, and the military advisory group led by Major General Battov will help the Egyptian army establish a reasonable training system and build a strong army. If Serov's guess is not wrong. When Nasser fully demonstrated his goodwill and fully secured Moscow's support, the next step was to nationalize the Suez Canal.
This was Nasser's calculation, and everyone thought that Britain and France had become a thing of the past after World War II. Nasser was not surprised to think so, but forgot that Britain and France were unwilling to withdraw from their stage, even if they were dying, they had to give it a try, what if they succeeded? will be able to maintain its colonial empire, with both risks and opportunities. It is not surprising that Britain and France chose to take the plunge once.
In the end, Serov rejected Alim's offer to visit the Egyptian prison, because it was meaningless. Serov could have an idea of what the scene would be, nothing more than orderly, the beds were clean and tidy, the whole prison seemed to be thriving, and the prisoners were in good spirits. Then Serov walked after the tour, and immediately returned to normal, what it should be like is, everywhere has its own rules, and it will not get better because of a few inspections. Visiting the prison will only waste the time of both parties.
With this effort, Serov might as well go to the military advisory group more, at least to see how the Red Army trained these Egyptian soldiers, according to Serov's previous life, the most important thing in an army should be discipline, discipline, is the rules of conduct that various organizations require their members to abide by. Under the socialist system, discipline reflects the common will of the masses of the people and safeguards the common interests of the masses of the people, and is an important guarantee for implementing the party's line, principles, and policies and for doing a good job in socialist construction.
But Serov had always thought that this discipline, like many other things, had been learned from the Soviet Union. But when Serov woke up in the Soviet Union, he found that the discipline of the Soviet Red Army was not comparable to that of China, and it seemed that the motherland in the previous life had been better than the blue. But to face it, the discipline of the Red Army can still crush the Egyptian soldiers.
That's right, in front of Serov, a group of Red Army soldiers wearing sea soul shirts, cigarette rolls in the corners of their mouths, unshaven beards, and holding their own unique decorative weapon style, still blew up the Egyptian soldiers during training.
"Is it the most combative Maozi? Is it really undisciplined to pour vodka into your mouth? Serov was an eye-opener, and he had to think of the evaluation of Maozi's combat effectiveness by netizens in his previous life. On the surface, the more Maozi looks like a rabble, the more Maozi is really Russia's trump card.
Shaking his head and throwing these things out of his mind, Serov asked, "General Battov, what do you think of the combat effectiveness of the Egyptian army?" If you were to compare it to a country, which one do you think would be more suitable? "Although Serov also has the rank of major general, he is a Sibei goods, and he cannot be compared with a general like Major General Battov who participated in World War II.
So to evaluate the combat effectiveness of this army, you can only turn to experts. Battov wiped a handful of sweat, the huge scar on his face was faintly red, and said, "Egyptian army? I guess it's about the same as the Italian army......"
Oh, ok! Serov thought that this was not bad, and heard the second half of Major General Battov's words, "...... in World War II"
Maybe it was Serov's attitude of asking questions if he didn't understand, which gave Battov a sense of accomplishment, and after answering, Battov took out a training plan and said, "This is the training plan I prepared before I came, look at ......"
Serov looked down and saw that the training plan was marked with detailed schedules and training contents. Wake up at 6 a.m. Five minutes to go to the toilet, three minutes to shout slogans, five minutes to warm up, and then five kilometers of cross-country, running in twenty-five minutes.
This is followed by horizontal bars, parallel bars, 100 meters, push-ups, and sit-ups. Wrap up. Ten minutes to brush your teeth and wash your face, fold the quilt and clean. Ride at one o'clock to eat, gather at half past seven to drill to the training ground, 50 minutes of obstacle training. Rest for ten minutes. Fifty minutes of tactical training.
As for the plan for the afternoon, Serov didn't see it, so Major General Battov took the plan back, tore it to pieces three times and two times, and said with a long sigh, "After I got here, I found out that any training plan is useless, let's start all over again, teach these Egyptian soldiers the most basic things first!" β
Major General Battov's constipated expression made Serov almost laugh, but he couldn't help but say, "Comrade Battov, you must know that the cultural literacy of these soldiers is indeed not comparable with that of Europe, and there are many soldiers who are illiterate, I think your training plan may be a little too much belief in the quality of Egyptian soldiers......"
"I have to admit that you, the head of the secret service, are indeed ......more accurate than me," Major General Battov glanced at Serov with a sad expression, and reluctantly admitted that his ideas were indeed unrealistic, "The key is that these Egyptian soldiers always think that our requirements are too high!" β
"The most direct way to get these Egyptians to obey is to convince them!" Serov shrugged and said, "Actually, I have a suggestion, that is, to integrate the elite troops of Egypt first, and draw high-quality and high-level soldiers from all branches of the military to build a special unit!" β
"Oh? A new army is formed!? Major General Battov lowered his head and thought for a moment and said, "It's a way to quickly increase combat effectiveness, and you may need to communicate with the Egyptian side in this regard......"
"No problem!" Serov sat on the sand pile by the playground and watched the tug-of-war between the Soviet soldiers and the Egyptian soldiers of the military advisory group, tug-of-war is the easiest game, as long as you use force, it is also the most difficult game, because tug-of-war is not only with brute force, when dozens of people work together to exert force, it is simply cultivating collectivity. This is probably also the reason why Major General Battov always let Soviet soldiers and Egyptian soldiers tug of war, right?
The end result was not surprising, the Soviets won, not only because they were more disciplined than their opponents, but in fact because of brute force, the Egyptians were bound to lose. The nickname polar bear is not just a description of the Soviet state policy.
The brainpower and skill of the yellow race are the most prominent, the black people are the most explosive, and the white people are between the yellow race and the black people, the absolute strength is not worse than the black people, and the endurance is far surpassed. Although this group of Arabs is not black, they are far from being the match for polar bears in terms of strength.
Towards evening, when the hot breath began to wane, Serov also got up from under the shade of the tree and patted the sand on his pants. He left the Egyptian military camp with Major General Battov, "Tomorrow I will go to the Egyptian military camp in the Sinai Peninsula to inspect the establishment of a new army, which may require you to communicate with Mr. Nasser!" Major General Battov said, putting on a large-brimmed hat.
"Don't worry, if nothing goes wrong, Mr. Nasser shouldn't object......" Serov smiled, unable to think of any reason for Nasser's objection.
"Draw elites from various places to re-establish a force, and directly obey me?" Nasser was slightly stunned and asked, "This is the suggestion of the Soviet Military Advisory Group?" β
"It seems to be the suggestion of the one named General Serov!" Minister of the Interior Alim said, "General Serov and the head of the Military Advisory Corps, General Battov, have discussed, saying that it will take at least a year for our Egyptian army to improve at the current training rate, and General Serov thinks that too long time is easy to cause a blank period in combat effectiveness, so it is recommended that elite soldiers be drawn from various units to form a unit to improve combat effectiveness in a short period of time, and the rest of the troops will be slowly integrated and trained according to the plan!" β
"Yes, Serov's suggestion succeeded in convincing me!" Nasser stood up and walked around twice, ordering, "That's it, the name of the new unit will be the Republican Guard......" (to be continued......
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