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Chapter 1511: Spreading Money, the Beginning of Spreading Money! (Second update, please subscribe)

May in Moscow is the most beautiful season of the year. After a long winter of dormancy, the streets of Moscow, Russia in May officially enter the season of blooming flowers in all colors. People go out to the streets, greedily bathing in the sun, green trees and sea of ​​flowers.

While people were enjoying the sunshine and green trees, a number of black, long-bodied GAZ cars were driving on the "emergency lane" in the middle of the road.

These GAZ cars themselves are symbols of power and status. Whenever they are about to pass through an intersection, traffic police will prohibit other cars from driving at the intersection to ensure that these convoys can pass quickly.

More than a dozen long black "Zil" cars drove towards one direction - the Kremlin.

They drove through the Borovetsky Gate in the Kremlin wall.

Today, a meeting at the highest level of the Soviet Union will begin that will change the course of history.

In the conference room, a long T-shaped table with a green tabletop took up most of the space.

Khrushchev was sitting there, smoking a cigarette as usual with a smile on his face.

"Andre, in this case, the Westerners pushed all those African countries to us!"

"Yes,"

Gromyko said:

"Recently, the American and European media have been flooded with news about Africa. Many people are blaming African countries, accusing Africans of not being able to govern their countries, and accusing them of falling into chaos and turmoil after independence.

Because of this, European and American countries have to adjust their policies towards Africa, which has led to complaints from many African countries.

That’s why they showed us their goodwill.”

Gromyko also emphasized:

"Yes, that's right, now Western countries are pushing those African countries into our arms in an extremely stupid way and for a very stupid reason."

In everyone's opinion, the behavior of Western countries is extremely stupid. The leaders of African countries used the aid to build luxury houses and buy luxury cars.

So what?

Compared to those countries, this is totally insignificant.

"Haha, what a bunch of stupid guys."

Khrushchev took a puff of his cigarette and then said excitedly:

“We must take advantage of this opportunity to win over all African countries and turn them into our friends and allies.

When Americans and Europeans realize this, Africa will be ours.”

Khrushchev emphasized:

“Africa, our Africa.”

For Khrushchev, who had just concluded his visit to Africa, his visit to Africa, especially to Ethiopia, allowed him to see the rich side of Africa.

"In the eyes of many people, Africa is backward and poor. However, Africa has an extremely vast land and there are no four seasons. Food can be grown all year round. Even cattle and pigs grow faster there than in the Soviet Union."

What is a Feng Shui site?

Africa must be a Feng Shui treasure land. A brief inspection in Ethiopia made Khrushchev realize that the fertile land hid potential that the world could hardly imagine.

Especially for the Soviet Union, the importance of Africa is self-evident. After all, the Soviet Union needs food. According to the speculation of departments and the Planning Commission, the Soviet Union must continue to import food in the next few decades. Only in this way can it meet the domestic people's demand for meat, milk and other materials.

However, importing food from the United States, Canada and other countries requires foreign exchange, and foreign exchange is exactly what the Soviet Union lacks the most.

Under such circumstances, the importance of Africa, which can exchange a large amount of food for industrial products, is also reflected.

For this reason, after returning to Moscow from Ethiopia, Khrushchev asked various departments to compile various data.

"Last year we imported 2000 million tons of corn and 300 million tons of wheat from Ethiopia. In addition, we exported 400 million tons of fertilizers and a large amount of pesticides to Ethiopia, as well as agricultural machinery and oil worth hundreds of millions of rubles."

When mentioning these figures, Khrushchev looked at his colleagues and continued.

"Comrades, although I don't like Western capitalist economics, we can see that through the export of agricultural machinery and fertilizers, our industry has been further developed. With the development of industry, we have also obtained more food..."

Although the Soviet Union had always rejected Western economics,
“Yes, Comrade Nikita, in the past few years, we have imported food from Ethiopia and exported agricultural machinery and other agricultural materials to Ethiopia.

Our economy has indeed achieved further development and growth, which is undoubtedly beneficial to the development of the Soviet Union."

Brezhnev immediately followed up. "I think, as you said, Ethiopia and even Africa are not just a place where we are going to help the local people to be liberated, but also the lifeline of the Soviet Union.

So we must do our best to help the local people gain liberation. This is to help them, but also to help ourselves. "

When Brezhnev finished speaking, others followed suit and agreed. Of course, most of the time they were there praising Khrushchev's wisdom.

After all, the benefits brought by the Soviet Union's investment in Ethiopia were beyond their imagination. In fact, because of this, they believed even more that the reason why Western capitalist countries could become developed countries was based on their plunder of colonies.

"Yes, just as I told the British when I visited London that year - we will bury their colonial empire one day, and that day has come, it is now and in the near future."

Khrushchev said in a serious tone.

"Now those Western countries have pushed Africa to us because of their short-sightedness. We must seize this opportunity and liberate the whole of Africa."

Then his tone became heated.

“We will provide them with everything they need, help them train their personnel, provide them with weapons, provide them with funds.

In short, we will provide whatever they need, and we will take on the mission of liberating all mankind."

Although this was just a meeting room, when Khrushchev finished speaking, everyone, including Brezhnev, stood up and applauded Khrushchev vigorously. Perhaps because of excitement, some people even clapped their hands on the table to show their excitement and excitement.

The meeting held in the Kremlin on this day will inevitably affect the development of the Soviet Union and even the development of the whole world.

After the meeting, Khrushchev returned to his office. Standing in the office, he looked at the map of Africa again. He stared at the map for a long time, then nodded silently.

"Well, yes, that's the future."

After saying this, Khrushchev walked to his desk, on which lay a report from Star City.

This was a report from Korolev. He once again pulled the report in front of him, unfolded it, and then carefully read it.

The content of this report is very simple. Apart from some photos, it mainly reports the progress of the "Lunar Project". The "Lunar Project" is the Soviet Union's lunar landing project. Compared with the United States, the Soviet Union's exploration of the moon was more advanced, from the "Luna 1" taking the first lunar photo to the Luna 2 landing on the moon.

The Soviet Union had been steadily advancing its "Moon Program," the ultimate goal of which was to send humans into space.

To be precise, it was the Soviets who sent the moon before the Americans!

Plant the red flag on the moon!

Although he was just reading the report, Khrushchev was excited when he thought of such a scene. After thinking about it, he picked up the phone on the table and dialed the number.

"Hello, is that Korolev? It's me, Nikita!"

As in the past, when calling Korolev, Khrushchev used his first name, not his title or anything else.

Korolev said respectfully:
"Hello, Comrade Khrushchev."

"Hello, Korolev, I'm not calling you to disturb you at work..."

Unlike the rough person many people imagined, Khrushchev, who was not well educated, admired these scientists deep in his heart, especially great scientists like Korolev who opened up a new era. He admired them from the bottom of his heart, which even showed in his words involuntarily.

"I just read your report again. Our rocket is going to conduct its first test launch, right?"

"Yes, Comrade Khrushchev, we have already conducted six successful tests of the first stage rocket on the ground, and the test of the second stage rocket was also successful."

Korolev, holding the phone, emphasized:
“All these successes are inseparable from your support. It is your support that enabled us to regroup in a short period of time and ultimately achieve the current success!”

This is not flattery, but the fact. In fact, the early development of the Soviet space industry benefited entirely from Khrushchev's full support. Although his purpose was to show off to the United States and the world, it did promote the Soviet space industry to a great extent.

After the failure of the first test of the N1 rocket, facing the pressure, it was Khrushchev's full support that allowed Korolev to rebuild the rocket as soon as possible, and continue to test and improve it, which led to the success of the ground test.

Whether it was flattery or not, the praise from Korolev made Khrushchev happy and said:

"Haha, Korolev, I want to know, will your launch be successful?"

"Comrade Khrushchev, you know that each of our launches has only a 75% chance of success, and our success rate in sending probes to the moon is only 50%, so..."

In fact, this is already very high. If it were not for the rapid development of integrated circuit technology, the success rate of Soviet rocket launches would be about 50% lower. Therefore, the aerospace pioneers of this era were really fighting for their lives.

The voice on the other end of the phone made Khrushchev silent for a while, but only for a moment, and then he said:

"It doesn't matter if you fail this time. I believe you will succeed soon. You know, you are Korolev!"

(End of this chapter)