Big Time 1958

   In the past few days, the North Vietnamese army has invaded Saigon, and the news of the completion of Vietnam's reunification has not dispersed all over the world. The news of the Cambodian Communist Party's capture of the capital Phnom Penh came shortly after. Here Laos began to hold a conference to reject the pro-American faction, and there the Portuguese Revolution and the armed forces movement of the Communist Party and the military prevailed.

   All the newspapers in the Warsaw Pact countries are at full speed to sing down the capitalist camp. When countries continue to question capitalism, they publish their own construction results and their own economic growth rates. In the face of verbal criticism from the Soviet bloc, Western European newspapers and the United States have refuted them one after another, fighting back with totalitarianism and pollution.

   In the end, Pravda made a move and joined the media war with the theme that facts speak louder than words. It is unreasonable to blame the Western European and American media for losing their impartiality, and to accuse Soviet allies even more when their own economic crisis broke out.

“The U.S. government has not made domestic economic policy a priority area of ​​governance. Inflation is an issue, but it is not the most worrying one, and it is not one that can be dealt with at the expense of other goals, especially high employment. That is the US President Ford's view on the economic crisis. It is hard to believe that this is the word of a country's president. Inflation in the United States started to increase last spring, whether it was the order to freeze the price of daily necessities or the implementation of slightly easing control measures, the currency Inflation has never shown signs of abating. The inability of the U.S. government to face the economic crisis has been exposed to the world.”

"Up to now, the level of economic failure and the number of unemployed people in the United States have reached the highest level since the Great Depression, and according to the current trend, it seems that the bottom has not been reached. A large number of companies have gone bankrupt, stock prices have plummeted, the United States, Japan, In ten countries including West Germany, more than 120,000 companies with capital of more than one million dollars went bankrupt within two years. The failure of Franklin Bank, which had assets of five billion dollars, became the largest bank failure in U.S. history, and stock prices fell by a total of $500 billion. The unemployment rate in the United States has approached 9%, and the price index has risen during the crisis by 40% in the United Kingdom and 35% in Japan. The international trade volume of developed capitalist countries has exceeded 20 billion US dollars. The balance of payments deficit is $40 billion."

"In this case, we hope that the capitalist powers in Europe and the United States can see their own shortcomings, instead of accusing the Soviet Union. This kind of behavior of yours is suspected of diverting your attention." Pravda finally used the front of the Soviet embassy to slowly The photo of the long queue of , as the accompanying picture for the article, is like a silent slap in the face of the capitalist camp.

High prices, high inflation, high unemployment, economic recession, and a sharp drop in industrial output have resulted in massive unemployment, including a 14 percent drop in steel and a 20 percent drop in cars; corporate bankruptcy is serious, and the stock market plummets , up to 50 percent in the UK. It surpassed the level of the Great Crisis of the 1930s; fixed capital investment fell, and housing construction investment fell even worse; unemployment rose sharply, and prices continued to rise. The consumer price index rose by 10 percent in the Federal Republic of Germany and as much as 40 percent in the United Kingdom. As a result of rising stagflation, the disintegration of the dollar-centered capitalist monetary system, and the hit of the Middle East oil war on developed countries, wholesale prices in Japan rose by 30 percent and consumer prices by 25 percent. In order to curb high prices, the Japanese government adopted a financial policy of tightening credit, resulting in a large excess of corporate products and a sharp decline in industrial output. Japan's industrial output fell 20 percent, and 1.3 million people lost their jobs.

  The Soviet Union is more confident than ever, pointing fingers at European and American countries, but in the face of high unemployment in their own countries, and being pointed out by the other side to transfer conflicts, it seems very guilty. Of course, they would never admit defeat, but quietly ended the debate as if they didn't hear it.

  People in many countries listen to the voice of the Soviet Union and the words of Eastern European countries when they are free. At the same time, compare the words in it and compare it with your own country. Of course it doesn't do much, but it will plant a seed in these people's hearts. In due time it will take root and sprout.

   For the Soviet Union, this is a great situation in the chaos of the world, and it does not delay the continued expansion of the super-rich class. Sheloff had already contacted Taylor and Hepburn to warn the two women of the dangers involved. The two women avoided risks perfectly, and the wealth in their hands not only did not fall, but continued to rise. Two of the most dazzling women on earth.

   "When I hit rock bottom, I will use these two women to buy the dips, put a Trojan horse on Europe and the United States, and put an end to the Cold War at the most critical time." Serov still doesn't know the West in this era, and all kinds of market omnipotence theories. You have to wait until things get out of hand before you can think of a solution. The American solution is even simpler, shearing wool directly. In order to divert the excess issuance of the US dollar, the United States has begun to invest heavily in Latin America, and at the same time, it is also to resist the proliferation of Chile's Allende model. At an appropriate time in a few years, the United States will withdraw dollars according to its own country's situation, causing the Latin American economic crisis.

What followed the Eastern European newspapers' criticism of the West was his broken thoughts. As the number one greed in the Soviet Union, he was quite rich, and he was expanding at any time. He had to let the KGB expand to a certain extent before he had the confidence to resist. risk.

"As for the entry of immigrants, we consider safety. I hope your department will understand that the standards must be set very strict. We do not need ordinary immigrants, and we can add a clause to provide those who want to live in the Soviet Union. They can After living in the Soviet Union for five years, if they feel that the Soviet Union is not suitable for them, they can return to China at that time. Of course, before returning to China, they must be evaluated by the General Administration of Domestic Defense and Espionage, that’s all.” Serov put down the phone and walked to the window. nice weather…

   Compared to Serov, who was comfortably enjoying a short summer in Moscow, Zinev, the vice-chairman of the KGB, had a lot of hard work. Another vice-chairman, Tsweigun, has completed his task and returned to Moscow to receive his reward. He is still working in Khartoum, a place where he sweats after walking 100 meters. Now Zinev is eager to stop the rainy season and ignite the war that belongs to Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Zinev believes that even if the war begins, Sudan's victory will be great. Among the ten divisions on the southern border, four have participated in two Middle East wars. Even if they have not fought hard battles, they are purely for fun. , it should not be a problem to deal with African countries. Besides, with the command of Soviet advisers on land, it should not be difficult to defeat the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

  Although the Congo also has a military force of 300,000, how can an ordinary country constructed according to the US Army be an opponent of the Soviet model army, and even the Americans themselves are not a traditional army power.

In the intensive preparations, Lieutenant Igor returned to Khartoum from Guinea-Bissau and gave Zinev some important intelligence information, including the topographic map of the DRC, and which forces were dissatisfied with Mobutu as an internal response. The impact of the price crash on the Congolese economy and more, and even a roadmap for the offensive.

"Very good, this will make the attack of the Sudanese army more certain. The Democratic Republic of Congo is too dependent on minerals. If we support Sudan, even if it is a protracted war, we will win." Zinev scratched his bald head very much. Excited, as for the battle plan, he doesn't think it's a problem, not to mention others, he himself is one of the few security cadres from the KGB front-line commander, he participated in many major battles in the Great Patriotic War, and fought against the Third Reich. He doesn't think he's going to get into trouble in tiny Congo.

"In fact, if there is no intervention, the success rate may be higher after waiting for two years, but this will delay our strategy, and it seems impossible to expect the DRC to overthrow Mobutu by itself, so we can only do it from the outside. "Lieutenant General Igor smiled, and his assessment of the prospects is still very good. The DRC Air Force actually runs its own airline, with a larger passenger volume than the national airline. In a country with such a dense water network, there is no water transportation. This shows that even basic operations are in trouble, and the country is slowly decaying.

Even Lieutenant General Igor believes that the number of Congolese troops confronting Sudan on the border is far less than that of the Congolese. Know.

  Zinev quickly sent the information sent by Igor to the staff of the divisions of the Sudan People's Army on the southern front. Colleagues used the last moment of the rainy season to make the final replenishment to the troops on the southern front.

"The meaning of the Soviet military advisory group is to provoke an incident during the exercise, shoot the gun, eat the heavy troops of the Democratic Republic of the Congo in the north, and then drive straight to capture Kinshasa. Quickly enter and exit quickly, and quickly withdraw from Sudan." Soviet Military Commission Chairman Seram thought for a moment and asked his comrades, "Do you think it's feasible?"

"The war should not last too long. Now that the hidden danger of Ethiopia in the southeast has been lifted, we can cooperate with the Soviet Union's global plan. Our teacher said that at the time, what is it called?" Rahim, Chairman of the Council of Ministers It took me a long time to think about it and said, "The countryside surrounds the cities. Our third world countries are the countryside, and Europe and the United States are the cities. This is the route for socialism to win."

Entering June, the rainy season in Central Africa is very normal this year. As said, the hostility between Sudan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo has not been lifted, but has intensified. This is different from previous years. The two countries continue to transfer troops to the border areas. I didn't get attention at first, because there are too many big news in the world, Southeast Asia and Portugal are very important.

Kenya, Ethiopia, and Uganda around    all sent missions to mediate, and the African Union also hoped that the two countries could calm down. Mobutu took a tough attitude and began to ask the United States for help. The attitude of the Soviet Union was clear from the very beginning that this proxy war must be fought. (To be continued~^~)