Big Time 1958

   "Le Duan, Li Deshou, Fan Xiong, Wen Jinyong!" After leaving the residence of General Vo Nguyen Giap, Ye Grove muttered a few names, these are the people he was ordered to focus on attracting. Before Yegrov came to Hanoi, he met the largest security cadre in the Soviet Union, the chairman of the KGB, the general political commissar of national security, and General Shelov in Lubyanka. At the same time, I received a task. While presiding over the transportation of Soviet arms to Hanoi, I also tried to establish contact with the cadres of the Vietnamese Communist Party at this time.

   These people are the most important ones in the list given by Serov. Among the orders he received, Le Duan's name was highlighted several times. After arriving in Hanoi, Ye Grove knew that Le Duan was the number two person in Vietnam. Formerly the secretary of the Southern Bureau, he is currently the first secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam. Once Ho Chi Minh died, Le Duan was the undisputed leader of Vietnam. In fact, Ho Chi Minh's role is more in international relations. He has a good relationship network with the Soviet Union and China, but his roots in Vietnam are actually not deep.

   Relevant information, as well as Serov's handwritten notes, were all recorded in Yegrov's mind. When he came to Hanoi, the chairman of the KGB personally handed him a diary-like thing, which clearly listed the work history of these people and whether they were suitable for recruiting, which made Yegro who did not know much about Vietnam himself. Husband has a feeling of clearing the clouds and seeing the sun.

   Ho Chi Minh is more like a spiritual leader in Vietnam, because he has been in exile for a long time, and he does not have many of his own troops in his own country, and he himself was assigned by the Comintern, so he can be regarded as a pro-Soviet faction, but this person cannot be considered. Because he only has a symbolic role.

  Vietnamese politics is clearly divided into the southern and northern factions, of which Le Duan is the leader of the southern faction, and Long March, another very influential cadre in Vietnam, is the leader of the northern faction. Long March is a recognized theoretician within the Viet Cong, but because of the issue of land reform, he has no real power, and since then the northern faction has shown weakness.

   Relatively speaking, Long March, Vo Nguyen Giap, Ruan Zhiqing, Huang Wenhuan and others are more friendly to China. Fan Wentong is the Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the government. He is easy-going, pragmatic and capable. He has dealt with China the most and is known as an "old friend of the Chinese people". But he has been instructed to take a stand for a long time, and he is probably a neutral. Vo Nguyen Giap was awarded the rank of general in the year of the Vietnamese army, and was the secretary of the Communist Party of Viet Nam. He has long served as the supreme leader of the Vietnamese army.

   Both are the main leaders of the Vietnamese army. Vo Nguyen Giap and Ruan Zhiqing have different ideas on how to build the army, but now there is no need to consider this issue. Ruan Zhiqing died of a heart attack.

   But Vo Nguyen Giap, a soldier, is definitely not Le Duan's opponent. The political situation in Vietnam will inevitably be dominated by the pro-Soviet faction. The key point is Le Duan. Your task is to establish friendly relations with Le Duan.

"Countries in Southeast Asia are too close to China, and the Soviet Union poses no threat to them. In their hearts, they will be pro-Soviet. Even if the Communist Party of some countries says that we are social-imperialists, as long as we let go of our attitude, they will eventually follow us. Le Duan is a person with very strong political ability, and under the general trend, no one in Vietnam is his opponent, so this person is the most important!" Yegrove said this conclusion, and felt that his task did not seem to be so difficult.

In Serov's view, Le Duan is the Vietnamese version of Brezhnev, which is not an exaggeration at all, but also has some reservations. In fact, Le Duan received more support than Brezhnev. Lezhnev was also restrained by different groups. Le Duan's opponents had long since disappeared. On the contrary, his supporters had occupied major positions. Only the military was relatively weak.

Yegrove didn't have much effort to meet Le Duan in Hanoi, and the other party was very friendly. This is a matter of mutual benefit. Le Duan is a local cadre in Vietnam, but he knows that Vietnam wants to reunify the motherland. It was supported by both China and the Soviet Union, but if he had to choose one of them, he would definitely choose the Soviet Union.

  Vietnam is, after all, a country under the influence of China. It is a matter of minutes for a big country to sacrifice the interests of a small country. If Vietnam cannot be one-sided with China, it must have another backer, otherwise the national security will be unbalanced. In the Eastern strategy theory, friendship at a distance is an important principle. What made Le Duan most dissatisfied was the Geneva Conference, which made him feel that Vietnam was betrayed. At that time, once North Vietnam took the opportunity to liberate South Vietnam, there would be no war with the United States at all.

"Our general political commissar told me that the victory of the Southeast Asian revolution is inseparable from the joint efforts of Vietnam and Indonesia. In the process of driving the United States out of Southeast Asia, the Soviet Union greatly appreciated Vietnam's sacrifice in the process." This made Le Duan appreciate it very much. Without the support of the Soviet Union, the Chinese revolution cannot succeed. Without the success of China and the support of the Soviet and Chinese parties, the revolution of the Communist Party of Vietnam cannot succeed. Without the success of the Communist Party of Vietnam, the revolution in Cambodia and Laos will not succeed. The revolution in Southeast Asia will not be successful. This is the consensus of the top leaders of the Communist Party of Vietnam, and it is also the strategy they often teach the fraternal parties of Cambodia and Laos.

   This statement is actually the domino theory that President Kennedy of the United States said. Once they cannot stop Vietnam’s success, allies in Southeast Asia will be toppled one by one, and these countries will eventually become socialist countries.

  After Stalin, the Soviet Union did not allow **** purges to resolve internal conflicts, which has become the consensus of the Soviet Communist Party. This is also in line with the political atmosphere of Vietnam. Le Duan also appreciates this. Later, Le Duan was in power, and he did not do anything to the pro-China Long March and others.

"Comrade Le Duan, before I came, the General Political Commissar asked me to ask a person, do you know this person?" Yegrov suddenly remembered that Serov mentioned another person at that time, and his expression was very strange at that time, "This person It's called, let me see, it's called Pol Pot, it looks like a Cambodian!"

   "I know him, what's the matter?" Le Duan was stunned for a moment. Of course he knew the general secretary of the Cambodian Communist Party. This person is not very friendly to Vietnam and always complains that Vietnam has the habit of Laozi.

   "Nothing, I'm just asking casually!" Yegrov said with a forced smile, recalling Serov's terrifying expression at that time. just like? The same as the legendary department within the KGB.

"When the time is right, we invite him to visit and find a chance to kill him!" In Lubyanka, Mendelev received an unusual order to put down his hat. Mendelev felt that the cold wind in Moscow this year was coming a little early...

   Yegrov was not a soldier after all. Even if he arranged for him to be the general advisor of Vietnam, the Ministry of Defense would not agree. Serov turned around. He was not thinking about the issue of Vietnam as a country, but the attack of the entire Southeast Asia. It can be seen that the military general counsel of Vietnam may be upgraded in the future, so this is a golden opportunity.

   "I'm the National Defense Commissioner Shelov, connect me to Lieutenant General Baghramyan of the Western Cluster!" Shelov picked up the phone and said, and after a while, he heard the voice of his cheap brother, and the two chatted for a while.

  The Soviet Union has a military force in Vietnam, belonging to the Homeland Defense Air Force surface-to-air missile force, stationed around Hanoi. The last commander of the Homeland Defense and Air Force, the current Chief of General Staff Marshal Biryuzov, is one of the very few military leaders who appreciates Shelepin and other young groups. In fact, it cannot be said that there are very few. Marshal Ryuzov himself was quite pleasing to Sherepin, and Marshal Biryuzov should have died unexpectedly during a visit to Yugoslavia. But many details are different, and this accident is the easiest to change.

   Shelov did not change the power balance of the US and the Soviet Union upside down, but some accidents are easily affected. Landau did not suffer a car accident, and is still a benchmark in the Soviet physics community. Marshal Biryuzov did not encounter an air accident, and Marshal Nederin was not killed. Today, he is still active in the Soviet military circle.

  Although the Hanoi government believed that the Americans would eventually become as war-weary as the French colonists of the past, the longer it dragged on, the stronger the Saigon government would become. If the US military is involved in Vietnam for another year and a half, the strength of the South Vietnam National Liberation Front will be seriously damaged. And as South Vietnam's military continues to grow, North Vietnam will be no match for it even without U.S. intervention.

"President Ho Chi Minh, General Secretary Le Duan, we should use the assistance of the Soviet Union to launch a head-on battle to make the Americans lose confidence and stop the war!" There will be an election soon, and a campaign victory will show the American people that the propaganda in the United States has long been an illusion, and we have not lost, but we are growing every day..."

"The U.S. military is stuck in cities and military towns. In the vast land of Vietnam, our comrades in the south are everywhere. We send the accumulated military weapons to the south through secret passages in Laos and Cambodia. When the time is right, Launching a comprehensive campaign, such a full-scale attack on the US military will inevitably be negligent." Vo Nguyen Giap expressed his thoughts.

   Attacked the heavy fire point of the US Marines at Khe Shan. At the same time, the North Vietnamese regular army and the South Vietnamese National Liberation Front planned to jointly attack all the major cities and provincial capitals of South Vietnam. If the U.S. decides to defend Khe San while fighting is taking place elsewhere in South Vietnam, the Americans will find that their fronts are stretched too far. If the U.S. and South Vietnamese forces were forced to fight across the board at the same time, they would suffer defeats big and small, as well as ultimately leading to their disaster at Khe San.

"Khe San? Vo Nguyen Giap will meet with a bloodbath, except that we have no force on earth to attack the American stronghold head-on, and he thinks he is facing the French army? China is right to besiege Khe San, But let's not interfere in their own actions, provide more weapons and let them kill more Americans." At the meeting of the Soviet Ministry of Defense, Serov said indifferently, "They themselves are not afraid of death, what are we afraid of?" (Unfinished To be continued~^~)