Chapter 1106 Nanyang will not be forgotten (first update, please subscribe)
When the world's attention is attracted by the space industry, there are still some people who are quietly doing other work.
After all, the competition in space is just a competition in new frontiers. In traditional fields, competition and confrontation are more intense.
Dzerzhinsky Square,
The building that frightened all Soviet people stands between heaven and earth. On the square, a group of gray pigeons are jumping around there, regardless of worldly affairs. How to change, only if they exist here forever, undisturbed by worldly affairs.
Not far from the square, a huge poster of Gagarin stands there. To the Eastern world, Gagarin is the only hero. As for Wang Baoxian, most people on the other side of the Iron Curtain don’t know it. Yes, many people in some countries don’t even know that Nanyang also launched spacecraft.
However, no matter what, for human beings, this is a big event, a big event worth celebrating, just like this poster.
On a bench in the square, a man wearing a coat and a hat was feeding the pigeons from time to time. Occasionally, he would look at Gagarin. It has to be said that the Russians understand Promotional, the starry sky and astronauts on the poster together form a scene full of tension.
Not far behind the man, a couple who seemed to be in love were standing not far away, but their eyes were fixed on him. They were the KGB who were following him. In the Soviet Union, every foreign country Behind people, there may be stalkers like this.
The man has long been used to this. He just feeds the pigeons quietly and waits for the arrival of his contact.
At this time, a person came over.
The other party glanced at him, then sat down and said.
“You know very well that I can’t give you any answer,”
Fang Desheng was not surprised by this answer. As the security officer of the embassy, he also had a His identity is the head of the Moscow Intelligence Station of the Secret Intelligence Service, and the person in front of him is his contact person in Moscow - the official kind.
There are some special and sensitive matters that require contact through some unofficial channels. Just like now, their meeting is unofficial. This kind of meeting can solve many problems.
"I know,"
Scattering all the corn kernels in his hand, Fang Desheng looked at the other person and said.
“Today’s meeting is about one thing. I need to tell you that our patience has been exhausted and our tolerance has its limits. No responsible country will tolerate its citizens becoming A bargaining chip for other countries or organizations!"
After that, Fang Desheng stood up, looked at the other party, and said in an extremely calm tone.
"Maybe you don't know...what you have done, but you will eventually understand! We will never forget our families!"
Afterwards, Fang Desheng turned up the collar of his coat, and then stepped on the ice and snow on the ground to leave the square, followed closely by the pair of stalkers behind him!
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Although the "Suez Crisis" of 1956 ended with Egypt's defeat and the international condominium management of the canal, it seemed that Egypt had become a loser both militarily and economically. , it can be said that it was a complete failure, but they achieved political victory. Egypt became the main force in the Arab world against Israel and the base of Pan-Arabism. Of course, he is also the undisputed leader of the entire Middle East world. Even Nasser, who dared to resist Britain and France, became a spiritual leader in the Arab world.
The Soviet Union's strong intervention in the second Middle East War did Egypt a great favor. It not only gained Egypt's friendship, but also made the Soviet Union's image in the Arab world even taller - ah! The Soviet Union, supporter of weak nations, friend of the Arabs.
“As long as we win over Egypt, we will gain the entire Middle East!”
I can imagine what happened next with my eyes closed. Aid, aid, aid.
In order to win over Egypt, in order to seize the right to talk about the Middle East, and faced with Egypt’s idea of building the Aswan Dam, the Soviet Union not only decided to provide loans, but also sent the best water conservancy experts to help Egypt with the preliminary Surveying and other work. By the end of 1957, more than 500 Soviet experts were working in Egypt.
On November 17, water conservancy expert Demieri disappeared. The night before, he had dined with Dr. Sergei and an Egyptian translator. They were all water conservancy experts sent by the Soviet Union to Egypt to conduct surveys and surveys on remote dam sites. On the morning of the 18th, people found their car abandoned in the desert outside Cairo. After the intelligence officer of the Soviet Embassy in Egypt learned of the incident, they immediately asserted that he had been kidnapped by Israeli spies, but the Cairo police Neither trace of this nor any evidence of abduction was found.
Just as people were looking for traces of Demieri, the focus at this time turned to Soviet experts abroad.
On November 18, near Jakarta, when Soviet consultant Mikhail was preparing to go to the fertilizer factory where he worked, as usual, he was kidnapped by armed forces on the way. His translator and guard were shot several times by militants during the attack and died in the attack, while chemical expert Mikhail also disappeared.
On the 19th, in the upper reaches of the Nile River, Aswan Low Dam. By this time, the Egyptians had already taken security measures against the Soviet experts.
But even so, they were still attacked. As a result, more than a dozen Egyptian security personnel died and dozens were injured. Twelve Soviet experts disappeared during the attack, and only two escaped. .
By November 22, the attackers once again turned their attention to the Soviets in Afghanistan. Although there were only a dozen Soviet experts in Afghanistan to help build roads, on this day, not far from the road construction site, the car in which Soviet expert Sergeyev was riding was attacked by local tribes and the expert was kidnapped. , whereabouts unknown.
On November 23, just when the KGB was annoyed by the successive attacks and kidnappings of experts, news came from India that the deputy head of its expert team to assist India was attacked. The whereabouts were unknown. Later, when the local police discovered the black "Mercedes", they found that it was full of bullet holes, and the driver and guard were killed.
Behind the windshield of the car, the police found a business card, which wrote in Russian - We will not forget!
At this time, this increasingly violent revenge movement had begun in Dzerzhinsky Square, causing a sensation.
Although the outside world knew nothing about this matter, for the intelligence officers of the KGB in Dzerzhinsky Square, they seemed to understand - they had messed up the matter!
Because Nanyang chose to fight back on another battlefield, giving them a head-on blow in another way that was beyond their expectations.
“It’s them, it must be those Nanyang people, they are kidnapping our people.”
As the head of the KGB, Ivan Alexandrovich Serov was extremely angry. . "Currently we don't have any evidence that it was them, and it was an operation all over the world."
General Kalinin said helplessly:
“Maybe they did it, but without evidence, we can only watch it happen unless we are like them. The same goes for arresting their people all over the world, otherwise we can only let them continue like this."
As a general in the KGB, Kalinin is an old spy, and he has made a name for himself in this industry. The rules of the game were very clear, but this time, he was really at a loss - because he had never seen this kind of gameplay.
“We took away one of them, and they took away thirty-six of us, who are all experts in various fields.”
After all, it’s really a big loss!
“We must take revenge on them!”
Serov said provocatively:
“Last time in Hungary, our weakness allowed them to see an opportunity, and now they have Trying to force us to make concessions in this way, do they really think that we will not take reciprocal retaliation? "
Although Serov, who is fierce and shy, seems very excited, he actually realizes it himself? One point - he has screwed up!
When he directly chose to respond overseas from Nanyang, he had already screwed up!
In fact, the root cause of this incident still originated in Hungary - as a hardliner in Moscow, Serov played a key role in the Hungarian crisis. He sent a report to the Kremlin from Budapest, as the head of the KGB He was responsible for arresting supporters of Imre Nagy who were trying to negotiate with Soviet military officials. It also organized arrests of Hungarians and disrupted negotiations between the Red Army and the Hungarian army.
However, in the end, everything he did turned into a joke because of the concessions made by Khrushchev, so as a hardliner, in the past days, he has always advocated retaliation against Nanyang .
The arrest of Zheng Xingying on the pretext of being a spy seemed to be a retaliation against Nanyang, but in fact it was a way to retaliate against Khrushchev's weakness.
Although supported by other hardliners, they needed some events to challenge Khrushchev. But what is certain is that no one will stand on his side now that he has messed up.
The rules of the game in Moscow have always been very simple. No one will stand on the side of the loser.
In other words, now he must bear everything personally. And Khrushchev would not tolerate others challenging his authority.
“However, we can take away 100 or 200 of them. Most of them are businessmen or company employees, and they are all insignificant people.
For them, almost It will not be affected at all, but the experts we sent are all people who help those countries in their construction.
If they see that we can't even protect our own people, how can they believe that we can. What about protecting them?”
This is the biggest problem facing the Soviet Union. The problem it faces is not how it can retaliate, but that the other party's revenge will make the Soviet Union, which intends to expand its power around the world, be suspected by other countries and outsiders. The suspicion was not about anything else but the Soviet Union's inability to protect itself.
Compared to others, this is the most fatal blow.
As the head of the KGB, Serov knew very well what the foreign strategy of Khrushchev's goals was.
In the Suez Canal incident, the Soviet Union defended Egypt's interests to a certain extent and exerted a certain influence on underdeveloped countries.
In order to expand the influence of the Soviet Union, the Soviet Union was infiltrating those countries and promised to provide them with huge economic and military assistance, and of course, security commitments.
If those countries have doubts about the Soviet Union's capabilities, it will undoubtedly be a disaster for the Soviet diplomacy, and this disaster was caused by him.
And for him personally, this must be a disaster!
Suddenly, Serov seemed to understand why the Kremlin chose to remain silent in this incident. Khrushchev was waiting, waiting for him and the hard-liners to suffer from this incident, and then he would Give a fatal blow at the right time.
Just like now, it is certain that Khrushchev should have begun to fight back. Fight back against him and those who oppose him.
These are the rules of the game for the Kremlin, just like they grabbed the Hungarian world to challenge Khrushchev.
"Prepare the car, I'm going to the Kremlin."
Now for Serov, he has no other choice.
Now he is only glad that Khrushchev is not steel...
Well, just admit defeat.
But you must be more proactive. Only in this way can you protect yourself to a certain extent.
That guy is someone who can forgive others.
(End of this chapter)