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Chapter 654 Aid Evaluation

"As early as the first half of the year, we received some news about the coup. To be honest, if we were not afraid of President Allende's interference and the Soviet Union interfering in internal affairs, I would have wanted to notify you. For several months, the situation in Chile has been in constant turmoil, so I took this opportunity to take out these things at this appropriate time." At this time, there were only two people in the Allende office of the Presidential Palace. Before coming, Serov's assistant had already checked the entire president to ensure that there were no eavesdropping equipment working.

"I must say that all military forces in Latin America are very dangerous. Look at your continents, all military governments, do you trust your country's army so much? President Sukarno thought so at the beginning." Selov pointed at himself at this time, "If it weren't for me, Indonesia should be ruled by a military government now. As for Indonesia, it shouldn't exist."

A trace of thought flashed through President Allende's eyes under his lens. Although he would not believe it because of some of the Soviets' words, he also knew that these words were correct. At the beginning, the Christian Democratic Party decided to support Allende's election, but proposed the "Constitutional Guarantee Regulations" to Allende as a condition to support him in parliamentary elections. The main content is: All activities of the Allende government after it came to power must strictly abide by the Constitution, and the socialist reforms carried out cannot undermine any provision of the Constitution; the original system hierarchy of the army and the state police must be respected, and the armed organizations parallel to the state army and the police must not be established. Allende accepted the Constitutional Guarantee Regulations, and Chile also guaranteed to act within the scope of bourgeois laws.

To be honest, this is the main factor in Allend's inability to resist the military coup in the end. Even if Selov has given the suspicious list to Allend and Allend put down all these suspicious people, it is impossible to guarantee that the military coup will not happen.

"Did General Selov want to establish a Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chile? Our country has such a department, and other parties will not agree." President Allende smiled and shook his head. Regarding the Indonesian incident a few years ago, it has spread all over the world over time. In the duel between the Indonesian military and the Indonesian military, the Ministry of Internal Affairs played a major role. These news has also become the target of American research, and it has blocked this road during the election.

"I didn't say that I wanted to establish a Ministry of Internal Affairs in Chile. The same trick cannot be used twice. Believe me, as a national security cadre, my job is to establish a domestic security system, smell it out and eliminate traitors." Serov said with all his words, "I want to conduct an investigation on behalf of the Soviet military, don't worry, just chat."

The Ministry of Internal Affairs can only use this trick once. Besides, if you really fight a civil war, the United States will move faster than the Soviet Union. But it doesn't matter. He has other tricks. He has been sitting firmly in the position of the KGB chairman for so many years. It's not based on credit. Brezhnev dislikes him, and no matter how much credit he has, it's useless. It's not about character. It's much better than character than Xie Lieping. It's about the sixth sense that comes after he recovers from a serious illness. Whoever is hostile to him, will this hostility be fatal? As long as Selov thinks, he can evaluate it and replace the other party before the other party takes action.

Therefore, Zinev, Zvegon and others were entrusted with important tasks by Selov. The two first vice chairmen, who were not threatening, continued to maintain the operation of the KGB. It seemed that the exposure rate was relatively low, but in fact these basic things were fatal.

He must have contacted Chilean military figures once. Chile's army consists of four departments, the army, naval and air force and police force, which is similar to the parallel institutions of the Soviet Union. The army, naval and air force and police force belong to two parts. However, unlike the Soviet KGB and the Ministry of Defense, the Chilean army and police are one.

Pinochet is now the chief of staff of the Chilean army. On the next day's inspection of the Chilean army, Serov actually met him, Allend's gravedigger. Not only did he meet him, but he also met the commander-in-chief of other branches of the military. Serov was very enthusiastic about chatting with all the thirty generals present, feeling the other party's inner thoughts about Allend and his views on the Soviet Union. As a result, two-thirds of the people were not interested in socialism. What Serov expected was that Pinochet and the commander-in-chief of the army, General Platz, both had a good impression of Allend. The latter was more like a strictly-speaking soldier.

If he hadn't known that Pinochet was one of the people who overthrew Allende, Selov almost thought his feelings were wrong. He remembered a news that the coup that overthrew Allende was actually planned by the Chilean Navy. Pinochet reluctantly agreed to join a few days before the coup began, but after the coup was successful, he occupied the dominant position. The original plan was led by the commander-in-chief of these four branches of the service, but Pinochet's position was consolidated later.

After returning to the hotel in the evening, Selov began to recall the conversation during the day. The navy was the most hostile to Allende. Instead of the army he thought earlier, Pinochet was actually relatively neutral. This is also explained. Khrushchev was also neutral between Malenkov and Beria when Stalin died. Stalin was also neutral in the competition between Trotsky, Bukharin and others after Lenin. The final winner was often not the first time he charged.

Once the final winner appears, that's not the case, and Pinochet should be like this.

"Navy? If it were ten years ago, even if I knew that Chile was going to a coup, there would be no way. But now it's different. The Red Navy can already reach here. Anyway, the US Navy dare not take the initiative to attack the Soviet Red Navy, what are you afraid of?" Selov snapped his fingers and relied on the Red Navy this time. As long as you get Allende's approval and keep the Red Navy in Chile, the Chilean Navy will never dare to launch a coup under the nose of the Red Navy.

As a powerful Soviet department leader, Selov must have this confidence, that is, he must have full trust in the Red Navy's land combat capabilities. As the world's most capable naval navy, the Soviet Red Navy fought to the death with Germany on tanks. With this tradition, let alone the Chilean Navy, even if the Chilean Army comes in, it should not be a problem.

"Most of the military generals in Chile are not trustworthy, but the navy is more hostile to Allende." He gave his assessment report to Allende. Selov and Andropov conducted considerable inspections of Santiago in the past few days. He entered some factories and shops, perhaps because the conference was about to be held, and the Santiago parade has disappeared recently. However, traces have been left in some places, and goods are indeed short of shortages.

"You mean I hope President Allende promises Chile to allow the Red Navy as a military port for the supply? I guess the other party will not agree!" Andropov shook his head slightly, "It's difficult. You should know that for a country like ours, we pay special attention to national dignity."

"So I hope to use the World Congress to make President Allende agree, otherwise there will be a coup and you will find that we are unable to intervene at all." Selov thought for a moment, "at the same time, we must be prepared to curb the turbulence in Chile and clean up these dishonest factory owners and businessmen."

"I told the General Secretary to this matter that it requires the efforts of our entire camp." Andropov nodded.

The Soviet Union's economic model had a disadvantage, that is, many products would be insufficient, but the other situation was also very serious, that is, many commodities were piled up and could not be sold at all. In this case, there were many plans and the demand for the people was not high. Different countries had different backlogs of goods. The Soviet Union did not have only austerity. The Soviet Union produced 33 million watches per year, which was just a brand. Sometimes the Soviet Union was not enough to eat beef, but there were too many cows, and milk could be used as water.

Selov never believed that the so-called economic miracle that appeared in Chile was still under the military government. It was definitely a deceptive propaganda. The Chilean economic miracle refers to the fact that after Pinochet came to power, there were two high growth rates of more than 5% per capita GDP for six consecutive years from 1976 to 1981 and 1984 to 1989. However, in the remaining years, there were also two plunges of more than 10% negative and about 5% negative. If all were taken into account, coupled with inflation, the data would not be very good.

In the 1973 years when Pinochet came to power, the annual income of the Chileans was more than 1,600 US dollars; in the 1990s when Pinochet stepped down, it was 2,200 US dollars. The growth of less than 50% in the entire 18 years, with an average annual growth of just over 2.00. This is a miracle? If this is a miracle, including China in the 1960s and 1970s, none of the entire socialist countries are not a miracle.

In fact, Chile's resource endowment is amazing: it has an area of ​​756,000 square kilometers, and its population is only 120,000. Such a country with a vast land and sparse population has a copper reserve of 185 million tons, accounting for 29% of the world. In addition, lithium reserves also account for 17.8% of the world, and gold and silver reserves are also among the forefront of the world. I have taught this answer, this is the miracle under the Pinochet military government, similar to Argentina, which has changed from a developed country to a developing country. Argentina has been ridiculed in later generations.

Then Andropov and Selov submitted the true situation in Chile to Brezhnev, indicating that aid was urgent.

"President Allende has always said that Chile does not need foreign aid, but he did not expect the problem to be so serious." Brezhnev was also surprised by the situation in Chile. If he had not come here in person, he would not have known that Chile's economy was even more serious than some institutional problems in the Soviet Union. "It seems that we must do something." Brezhnev made up his mind to criticize Chile at the General Assembly regardless of whether the other party agrees or not. (To be continued.)
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