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Chapter 1048 Discussion in the Kremlin

Facing this second secretary who was two years younger than himself, Brezhnev showed great respect.

In his eyes, Kozlov is a person with a very bad temper. He is also the only person in today's Soviet politics who dares to contradict Khrushchev personally.

Kozlov has a very good relationship with the military and has the trust of the Ministry of Defense and the military industry.

In diplomacy, Kozlov is a representative of the hardliners. He even thinks that Khrushchev's detente is too mild. He firmly believes that imperialism is determined to destroy itself and the Soviet Union should fight back at the appropriate time instead of pretending to be friendly.

So in the case of Congo, if anyone in the Soviet Union convinced Khrushchev to give it a try, Kozlov would be the only candidate.

Kozlov, who had not answered until now, suddenly stopped and asked, "Ilyich, the imperialist encirclement network of the Soviet Union is like a chokehold. If we take the initiative on the Congo issue, can this pressure be alleviated?"

"I think there is no problem, Comrade Kozlov." Brezhnev immediately expressed his agreement, "Congo is the well-deserved center of Africa. If we take action when the enemies are not united, we can test whether the imperialists are united with each other."

"Maybe they will shirk responsibility from each other afterwards? We don't know them yet!" Kozlov paused at this point. "Some foreign comrades have criticized our moderate attitude. They don't know our difficulties."

The Soviet Union was one of the countries that suffered the most serious damage during World War II. The Soviet Union's 27 million losses were the number of casualties, not the number of casualties. The number of casualties of the Soviet Union was not announced, but as a high-ranking official, Kozlov certainly knew that the number of casualties was The number is 70 million.

It will take several years for the people born after the war to enter society. Therefore, even though Kozlov has always advocated a tough foreign policy and has no intention of having a showdown with imperialism, there are always people in his own camp who encourage the Soviet Union to have a decisive battle with imperialism.

Of course Brezhnev knew who he was talking about and nodded, "The comrades from the East are indeed too radical."

"But somewhere far away from Europe, we might as well give it a try." Seeing Brezhnev agreeing with him, Kozlov frowned and said, "We can't always be passive and not fight back."

While they were talking, the two entered the Kremlin. Also present were KGB Chairman Shelepin, Central Secretary Furtseva, and leaders of important departments such as Gromyko and Suslov.

Lumumba had already come into the sight of the top Soviet officials at the beginning of the year. At that time, Lumumba was just a party leader and went to Brussels, the capital of Belgium, to attend a round table conference.

Discuss independent matters.

If such people are not paid attention to, it is undoubtedly the KGB's dereliction of duty, and there is no need for the Foreign Intelligence Service to continue to exist. Shelepin, as the new KGB chairman, naturally cannot accept this accusation.

As the bosses sat down, Xie Leping came up with an important piece of intelligence about the situation in the Congo, "Evidence shows that Lumumba has been on the must-kill list. Britain and the United States want to use assassination to solve the problem of this third country pursuing independence." Three World Leaders.”

"Is the news true?" Fortseva nodded slightly. No one in the entire Soviet Union knew the news was true better than she. Asking questions at this time was just to reinforce the seriousness of the matter.

"It is absolutely certain that the source of the intelligence is unquestionable. It is the biggest gain of the KGB overseas." Xie Leping said this with great satisfaction. It was only after he took office that he learned about the existence of the Cambridge Five and that there were such a group of enemy countries. Those at the top served the Soviet Union.

He also had to be shocked by the layout of the KGB during World War II, and some of his arrogance could not help but show up.

Fortseva asked casually and did not take Shelepin's boast seriously. She had a more reliable source of information and was on a rocket ship with him.

However, the man reminded himself that it was best to behave harmlessly in the Central Presidium and use his female identity to cover himself, so he said nothing.

"The United Kingdom and the United States can definitely do this. Think about the fact that the leader of the Gold Coast independence movement lost contact over North Africa, and his body has not been found yet." Suslov opened his mouth and looked at Gromyko and asked, "What is his name?" Got your name?"

"Kwame Nkrumah, the leader of the Pan-Africanist movement. A strong nationalist who pursues independence." As foreign minister, Gromyko has not forgotten this figure from a few years ago, and he also agrees with Suss In Love's words, "This happened once, and there is no guarantee it won't happen a second time. We cannot overestimate the morality of imperialism. They don't have it at all."

Alan Wilson, who was far away in Lusaka, would never have imagined that the capital of the enemy camp would have his own scene.

He had almost forgotten the Pan-Africanist who did not know the heights of the world and insisted on taking the Gold Coast to break away from the United Kingdom.

But precisely because he was willing to kill Kwame Nkrumah who was fighting for independence for Britain, he was mentioned again today, although no one of the Soviet big shots present knew that he did it, except the cultural tsar.

"To promote neocolonialism through terrorist means such as assassination. Only shameless imperialists would do it." Fortseva was filled with indignation. She knew the shamelessness of imperialism and suffered a loss because of it.

An angry denunciation of the despicable imperialism almost immediately took over the central theme of the discussion.

First of all, it can be proved that Lumumba's death threats are definitely not groundless. It is confirmed by the intelligence of the KGB lurking inside the enemy, and there are lessons learned from the past to prove that Lumumba's situation is already quite dangerous.

This has become a consensus reached by everyone here. The death of a third world leader does not actually matter, but this leader is the person valued by the First Secretary. The Soviet Union’s African strategy was set by Khrushchev himself, and Congo’s independence also has The Soviet Union continued to exert influence.

But now it seems that Congo's independence is just the beginning. The competition for Congo has reached a point where imperialism has been exposed. Khrushchev, who personally determined the African strategy, is a little embarrassed. Once Lumumba is defeated, Kill, he, the first secretary who has set the African strategy, still wants to lose face?

Is there something wrong with the African strategy? Where is the authority of the top leader? Khrushchev frowned and asked, "How is Lumumba doing now?"

"I went to the United Nations to call on the United Nations to intervene in the separatist forces." Gromyko immediately replied, "Could the imperialists take action on the road?"

"If you do this, it will inevitably arouse suspicion after what happened to Kwame Nkrumah twice. He may be safe for the time being. The situation in Congo is so complicated. It is natural for a backward country to bribe some ambitious people. No problem.”

Fortseva repeated what Alan Wilson said to her to others, "Once you do this, the suspicion will be cleared. If Lumumba is fine during this overseas visit, then there is a high probability that he will be the second one." Seed, imperialism wants to kill people with a borrowed knife."

Gromyko immediately said, "If Lumumba comes to the United Nations, let Dobrynin find a way to meet him."

"Comrade Gromyko has a solution?" Brezhnev asked at this time.

"It's just an idea to explain our position after Dobrynin and Lumumba met." Gromyko said as he thought, "Then we proposed that the United Nations send peacekeeping troops, but this proposal the Americans proposed and our Soviet Union The proposal is completely different. Once the United States has doubts about it, Britain and France will also side with the United States. We must be mentally prepared for this, and there is a high probability that it will be rejected."

"Lumumba will definitely be disappointed in this way!" Shelepin said with bright eyes, "We can use this to show that the Soviet Union and Lumumba stand together."

"It's far more than that. The next step is to require the power of the KGB. African countries are generally backward. Even the Katanga warlords who are fighting against the Congolese government forces only have a size of 20 to 30 thousand people."

Brezhnev continued this line of thinking, "If we want to keep Lumumba safe, we don't actually need much power. As long as an armed force of several hundred people goes there in the name of aiding the construction of Congo, it is enough to ensure that Lumumba’s personal safety, as long as he is not assassinated and there is a huge supporting public behind him, we have a certain degree of confidence in making this African mine an ally of the Soviet Union.”

"This shows how important the work of the KGB is." Upon hearing this, Fortseva sighed directly to Shelepin, "Shurik, will there be any difficulties?"

"No!" Shelepin answered resolutely, and then asked Khrushchev for instructions, "First Secretary, do you want to take action?"

"There is no need to hesitate at all." Kozlov said firmly, "Now that we have understood the enemy's conspiracy, we must do our best to crush them and safeguard the national interests of the Soviet Union."

Khrushchev's African strategy focused on attacking French-controlled Algeria and the British sphere of influence in Egypt.

But contrary to expectations, there has been little progress. It would be unjustifiable if Congo was stolen again.

In fact, Khrushchev's African strategy was fruitless and was regarded as a piece of garbage by Brezhnev, who came to power later.

Brezhnev then began to focus on military support and vigorously promoted a global offensive.

Because the African strategy he formulated was in danger of total bankruptcy, Khrushchev made up his mind to "smash the imperialist conspiracy and let them know that the Soviet Union is not easy to mess with."

When Lumumba arrived at UN headquarters, fighting was raging in Congo, the Kremlin was determined to support it, and Alan Wilson was chatting and laughing with representatives of Portuguese Angola.

Lumumba expressed his hope that the United Nations would safeguard the sovereignty and integrity of the Congo in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly. Immediately afterwards, Dobrynin and the Soviet allies expressed their support in unison. The Soviet Union, which had previously been at odds between the United States, Britain and France, showed a completely different attitude this time. Attitude.

Dobrynin received instructions from the country and met with Lumumba before he entered the United Nations headquarters. He expressed that the Soviet Union was willing to support Lumumba's ideas and completely eliminate the remnants of the West from the political, military, business and civilian circles. power, nationalize all economic rights and return all power to the Congolese people.

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