Chapter 1050 Whose responsibility is it?

Lumumba’s round trip took a total of twelve days, and had allowed the Soviet Union to prepare all that should be prepared.

As the world’s number two power today, aid to a country is not a great burden, in order to seize the time to prevent changes, the Soviet Union concentrated on the country’s only six Tu 114 airliners, that is, the civilian version of the Tu 95 strategic bomber.

Tu 114 airliners had ridden in Khrushchev’s visit to the United States, not stopping to fly 10,000 kilometers away.

Extremely appropriate for this mission, the airliners were already waiting in Kiev with full loads of passengers and already dispatched supplies.

Moscow, the capital of the Soviet Union, was not conducive to secrecy; Kiev was just as important and easier to conceal.

On July 24, the same day Lumumba returned to the Congo, he announced in Kinshasa that “if the United Nations is not willing to play a positive role in preserving the sovereignty and independence of the Congo, then he himself will turn to Moscow for help. To save the motherland from colonialism once and for all.”

At the same time, six Tu-114 airliners at the Kiev airport pulled up and flew straight toward Kinshasa with the Soviet Union’s personnel and supplies for this aid to the Congo.

The Tu-114s are the largest and longest-range airliners in the world today, though not jetliners.

Fully loaded with personnel and supplies, the Tu 114 airliner came at a speed of eight hundred kilometers per hour for this home-stealing.

Khrushchev’s African strategy had been fruitless for years, and it was up to one to accomplish zero.

Ten hours after Lumumba’s announcement of his request for Soviet aid, while Britain, the United States and France were all still assessing the impact, these behemoths had appeared in the skies over Kinshasa, and by the time the embassies of the various countries in Kinshasa had been informed, the Tu-114 airliners had already landed, and out of the airliners, which carried the sickle-and-hammer flag motif on their tail fins, came a group of more than four hundred Soviets, along with the supplies that they were carrying, and the power of the Soviet Union appeared in the center of Africa.

The whole process was so rapid that it was like a dream, almost as if the Blitzkrieg in the middle of a world war had reappeared.

Before anyone could regain their senses, the Soviets had already appeared in the Congolese capital, announcing that they had been invited by the Congolese Prime Minister, Lumumba, to provide assistance to the Congo, both economically and militarily, for the purpose of protecting the sovereignty and integrity of the Congo.

When this news came, the entire world public opinion was in an uproar, accusing the Soviet Union, stating that this was a move of Soviet expansion, and the United Nations venue, the two major blocs blamed each other.

On the surface the two blocs clamored against each other, but secretly Britain, the United States, and France blamed each other. Britain and France believed that it was the result of the United States forcing Belgium to let the Congo become independent, while the United States believed that Britain and France had disregarded the overall situation and interfered in the process, which had led to this result.

The unnoticed Eastern Europe was also not as calm as it appeared, and Khrushchev talked to Tito of Yugoslavia. It was indicated that Yugoslavia could play a part in this matter again.

Northern Rhodesia is now inhabited by 600,000 Slavs, and the composition of these Slavs, all of whom are hard-core anti-Tito elements, has always been a threat to Yugoslavia’s sovereign security.

And with the Congo and Northern Rhodesia neighboring, Moscow used this rhetoric to persuade Tito that he should join the Soviet Union and intervene in the Congo issue, which would proactively contain the threat of these Northern Rhodesia-dwelling, anti-Tito elements.

Ustasha and Chetnik escaped at the end of World War II and eventually ran away to Africa, where they have been in contact with anti-Tito elements at home for many years, and have also continued to infiltrate Yugoslavia and agitate for the population to flee it. In the eyes of the Yugoslav Communist Party, as well as Tito himself, it had been a heartbreaker.

With hardly any hesitation, Tito agreed to Moscow’s request, except that Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union were not comparable after all, and it would take some time to prepare for the subsequent opportunity to join with the Soviet Union and come to the aid of the Congo.

In any case, the Soviet Union a big deep raid, the United States thought everything is under control hit a surprise.

Immediately afterward, the U.S. protested the Soviet move as a threat to world peace and a provocation to the free world.

But this attack and protest could not change the fact that Soviet forces had already appeared in the Congo. The United States, sensing the seriousness of the situation, immediately put an end to the pointless bickering between Britain and France, which could also be an internal conflict among the people when the Soviet Union did strike.

The United States, of course, wants to destroy the colonial system to make it disappear, but this result is bound to be absorbed by the United States, not by the Soviet Union, which is fundamentally too powerful than the British and French two brightenings.

Dulles immediately began contact with British Foreign Secretary Macmillan and Georges Pidoule of France, and Undersecretary of State Smith, who had just left the Congo not long before, returned.

While this was going on, Yugoslavia announced that it was launching aid to the Congo and was supporting its efforts to completely purge it of the remnants of colonialism.

Allen Wilson, who was in Lusaka, was a little surprised, but reacted immediately to find Grace, “It’s worrisome that Tito is doing this, supposedly directed at you.”

His meaning couldn’t be more obvious, Ustasha and Chetnik? were ultimately Tito’s defeated men.

If we were to start another encounter, a Balkan slugfest in Africa showdown, would Grace’s men be up to it?

In terms of convergent evolution, being in a stable environment for too long diminishes combat effectiveness. As the saying goes, the more you play chess with a bad player, the worse it gets… Grace’s men would be fine against the Africans, but Tito’s men? Alan Wilson was pessimistic anyway.

“Even if we’re no match for Tito, we’re no match for the Africans that Tito sent some instructors to train.” Grace was tempted to say that Tito counted for nothing, but when he thought of the scene of being like a lost dog a dozen years ago and running naked en masse along the German coast before boarding the ship, he rarely spoke more modestly.

“Looks like you guys don’t have confidence either, thankfully Tito is unlikely to send the Volkssturm.” Alan Wilson saw Grace’s colorfulness and began to reassure instead, “That’s good news for you guys.”

Yugoslavia became a member of the Warsaw Pact, increased the Warsaw Pact a lot of power, after all, it is a country of eighteen million people, in Eastern Europe is considered to be a lot of volume, in Eastern Europe, not counting the Soviet Union in third place, in the twenty-eight million population of Poland, and twenty-two million people behind the GDR.

North Rhodesia, the remnants of the Second World War, so many years to the present is only 600,000 people size. When it came to Yugoslavia, if Tito didn’t crush these enemies of the people, they would be considered sturdy enough.

But then again, he believed that Grace would have no problem beating an African arm, although the Angolan War was a counterexample, but that was mostly because South Africa couldn’t beat Cuba, extenuating circumstances.

Yugoslavia didn’t have much of a strategic force, and the Soviet Union’s strategic delivery capability was nowhere near as large as it had been under Brezhnev.

“You had the foresight to encircle Northern Rhodesia with landmines.” Alan Wilson in no way meant to be derisive, he really did think that the approach was a bit dumb, but these World War II remnants weren’t confused, and now this wasn’t being used.

Grace just wanted to say something, the phone rang, Alan Wilson copied up the microphone, and heard the voice of the High Commissioner of Northern Rhodesia, “Permanent Undersecretary, the U.S. Undersecretary of State Smith has just landed at the Lusaka airport will land, and wants to meet with you.”

“Why him again, so annoying.” Alan Wilson frowned, “William, what’s his business?”

“Something about the Congo, nothing else.” William immediately replied, “But it looks serious.”

In just half a month’s time, the situation in the Congo deteriorated into such a way that the United States was caught off guard, and it was absolutely impossible for this visit to be a catch-up, and the two men did not have much of an old relationship, and tearing each other down was a little more than that.

I believe that the London side is also very busy, all because of the deterioration of the situation in the Congo appeared butterfly effect.

Smith took a deep breath, opened the door of the building, went upstairs towards the apartment where Alan Wilson lived, and then reluctantly knocked on the door, ready to meet this close ally who wasn’t getting along very happily.

“Come in, honored guest.” Alan Wilson opened the door and invited this American counterpart to come in and have a seat, and since this was a private meeting, he also knew how to treat guests and prepared a bottle of red wine to ease the awkward atmosphere.

Fate is so wonderful, from the beginning of the Iranian oil crisis, the two people seem to meet often, indeed pleasant time is not much. Hopefully, this one will be an exception.

“The hesitation of Britain and France has created the awkward situation in Congo now.” Smith spoke with a cold look on his face, “Once the Congo falls into the hands of the Soviet Union, it won’t be beneficial to anyone.”

“Why don’t you say that the U.S. pressurizing Belgium caused the Congo to become independent? Letting go of the suppression wouldn’t have resolved things by now.” Allen Wilson snorted a laugh, the old God said, “treating the enemy did not see where the United States is powerful, the ability to be used in their own allies.”

As long as Smith in dare to say one more word on this issue, Allen Wilson is ready to help Smith, recall the whole process of the Korean War, which can not be a wonderful memory.

“Once the Congo is lost, Britain and France are not responsible at all?” Smith said word for word, he does not think the United States has any responsibility, the responsibility is certainly the British and French, good boy with the United States will not have today’s situation.

“The loss of the Congo is the responsibility of Britain?” Alan Wilson lit a cigar and spat out white smoke and asked rhetorically, “Then whose responsibility is the loss of Cuba?”

“The matter of Cuba is another matter, and now we are talking about the Congo. Now that the Soviets are here, what’s going to happen?” Smith dodged the question of Cuba’s responsibility; the Cuba thing was of course the bane of his top man, Dulles, but he didn’t dare to say so.

“Support the Congo civil war, what else.” Allen Wilson bristled, “What else can we do? Just don’t be like the Korean War where nothing was accomplished.”