USSR 1991

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"He betrayed the people and this magnificent palace," Titus said softly behind her.

"History chose the Romanian people, and it is clear that the Romanian people made the right choice. Socialism is an anachronistic product after all. That's why the dictator Ceausescu, like Count Dracula, went to tragedy The end." Madeleine turned around and said with a smile.

"This is really a very well-arranged and prepared visit plan, which made me feel the hard work and leadership of the Romanian people, but I think more importantly, it made me feel the sincerity of the cooperation between the Romanian people and the US government."

Madeleine changed the subject and began to intervene in a formal speech.Although the Romanian president has not yet appeared, isn't it just to test the attitude of the United States by sending the foreign minister to mediate with him?That being the case, Madeleine directly expressed the attitude of the United States, and instead used it to test the attitude of the Romanian government.

"And the United States is willing to let the World Bank provide low-interest loans to Romania to aid the development of the Romanian country. And actively promote military exchanges and cooperation between Romania and the United States to jointly deal with threats from the East. Willing to help the Romanian army update its military strength and form a A powerful Romanian army and air force, these are the bargaining chips offered by the Soviet Union, I wonder what President Emil Constantinescu thinks about the conditions offered by the United States?"

On the surface, Secretary of State Madeleine offered various discounts, but in fact she set a trap.When Romania purchased the weapons on the list, the loan provided by the World Bank also spent the corresponding amount.And the Romanian government is still under pressure to repay foreign debts, and the United States will not suffer no matter what.

However, Minister of Foreign Affairs Titus was surprised. Not only was he willing to let the World Bank provide loans to Romania, he even provided military assistance to Romania. This is simply the savior of the United States.

"And on the issue of joining the European Union and NATO, the United States is also willing to play the role of a referrer to guide Romania to join NATO and jointly form the NATO Security Alliance." Madeleine seemed to give a very attractive title, but actually It is of no use.

Powerful Romanian army.

The glory of the Kingdom of Romania.

Romania, which has been ruled by foreigners for thousands of years, finally ushered in the spring of its own nation.

"We want to know, what price will Romania pay for these rewards?" Titus said cautiously, suppressing the excitement and anxiety in his heart.He could imagine the excitement of the top political leaders after hearing the news, it was as exciting as a shot of adrenaline.All rewards come at a price, and Titus understood the point.

"We need you to allow the United States to build an anti-missile system in Romania to deal with the threat of the Soviet Union." Ms. Madeleine turned around and said to Titus very seriously.

Chapter 5 The Final Answer

"Establish an anti-missile system?" After hearing Titus' answer, President Constantinescu expressed great surprise. In his opinion, the establishment of an anti-missile system in Eastern Europe is a fantasy story. First of all, Regarding Romania's own position, Romania is not yet a member of NATO at this time, that is to say, Romania has no obligation to build an anti-missile system before handing it over to NATO.And doing so is equivalent to allowing foreign troops to station in the country in disguise, which also undermines the sovereign territorial integrity of the Romanian state.

"Yes, this is a request made by Ms. Madeleine. We think that this request needs to be discussed before we can give an answer, and the other party readily agreed to the request." Titus looked a little embarrassed, "Look, Kang President Standinescu, we..."

Constantinescu pondered for a while, and then repeated the words of Foreign Minister Titus, "Then what they asked was that the United States would provide low-interest loans and help the Romanian army update its armaments to build a strong Romania. The Army. And the request made by the United States is to deploy an anti-missile system in Romania and provide us with long-range missile defense. What a big deal?"

"Yes." Titus replied nervously, he didn't know what the president meant by mentioning this.

Constantinescu leaned back, looked up at the pattern on the ceiling in a daze, "This is equivalent to pulling Romania into the water in disguise and becoming a pawn of the Americans. Although this cake is so tempting, but inside It's hiding poison."

"What should we do?" Titus asked nervously.

Constantinescu shifted his gaze from the ceiling to the foreign minister, and said to Titus, "Secretary Madeleine cannot be offended. In short, I will mediate on the US side. There is still a lot of room for maneuvering in this matter. .And a wave of separatism broke out in the Soviet Union. I think the current Soviets have no time to take care of what happened in Romania. As long as the relationship with the United States is handled properly, Romania will become the big winner of this incident.”

Titus didn't speak. He didn't think it was a wise thing to be a fool, especially when the two superpowers asked you to make a team choice.The fate of being a fool is likely to become a tragedy for Gaddafi.

President Constantinescu really wants to take advantage and then doesn't want to fulfill his obligations.But he didn't think about how a woman who could become the Secretary of State of the United States would lose to the leader of a small European country in terms of skill and courage.

When Constantinescu met Madeleine, the aura shown by the other party still made him stand up, because he felt that this woman was not an easy role to deal with.As the first female Secretary of State in American history, Madeleine has extraordinary political skills.

As soon as she came up, she adopted a pre-emptive strategy, "Hello, President Constantinescu, I think you have already understood the treaty proposed by the United States before. For us, the basis of cooperation between the two parties is integrity. If the Romanian side is willing If you cooperate with us, then we are also very willing to have in-depth and further exchanges with Romania."

Madeleine's answer was not humble, but it made Constantinescu feel irrefutable.But greed will always drive people to do some hot-headed things, such as wanting to benefit from the United States but not wanting to fulfill their due obligations.This is absolutely the dumbest thing Constantinescu has ever done.

The Romanian leader tried to argue to Madeleine, "Although we are very happy to accept assistance from the United States, there is one issue that must be clearly stated, that is, Romania must obtain command authority on the issue of building an anti-missile system. What I mean is that the anti-missile system deployed in Romania must be operated by the Romanian military, not by NATO personnel. And the delivery, purchase and installation of the NATO anti-missile system must be paid by itself, and Romania will not Give some money."

"Oh?" Madeleine stared at Constantinescu's face and said very seriously, "Is there anyone in Romania who can control the anti-missile system?"

Then she added, "Or does the president of Romania feel that he thinks highly of Romania as a country?"

Madeleine put her hands on her knees and said unhurriedly, "In Eastern Europe, NATO and the United States can choose to build anti-missile systems everywhere. In addition to Romania, we also have Bulgaria and Poland. A series of former socialist countries can choose. Why does Romania think that we will definitely choose to deploy missiles on your land? Just because you border Ukraine, we can directly threaten the Ukrainian Front of the Soviet Union in Romania? "

Constantinescu didn't speak, or in the face of Madeleine's sharp reply, he couldn't find any words to refute.

"Let's put it this way, without the support of Romania, we can deploy anti-missile systems in other places, we can even deploy in Moldova, it is best to believe that we have the ability to subvert small European countries. Do you think the World Bank only provides Does Romania provide low-interest loans? Don’t forget, we can give benefits to any country, as long as they want, or as long as they are of value.”

Madeleine wants to let Constantinescu understand that Romania is not absolute for NATO, but the EU and NATO are irresistible temptations for Romania.

With such a relationship, Madeleine is not worried that Constantinescu will not bow his head, not to mention that he uses Romania's geographical location as a threat, isn't it just to get more benefits?

After seeing this point, Madeleine will not be afraid of any small moves by Constantinescu. Her sentence "Romania is not unattainable" blocked all the words that the Romanian President would say next.

"So now we can discuss the conditions for the establishment of the anti-missile system in a peaceful mood?" Madeleine was as sincere as ever, and her capable professional image made the male politicians around her look up to the Iron Lady. She is indeed the woman who can sit in the first seat of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

"Yes, I think we should discuss in detail the details of the trade between the two countries. The Romanian government very much welcomes the guidance of the United States, especially in terms of military affairs."

After being tamed, Constantinescu dared not say a word, he knew that the opponent had seen through all his cards.If you continue to struggle with this issue, the only one who will suffer is yourself.The U.S. Secretary of State has vaguely revealed the confidence of the threat. He has reason to believe that Romania is at the two ends of the mouse, and the unlucky one must be himself.

"What a terrible woman." Constantinescu sighed secretly in his heart.

Seeing the other party made a choice, Secretary Madeleine smiled and said, "Thank you President for making the right choice."

The conversation between the two standing together is like a riddle, only each other can understand what it means.

Constantinescu waved his hand and said, "I just made the choice you want."

"Isn't it good to be an ally of the United States?" Madeleine blinked, "We are willing to provide perfect shelter for our allies to avoid the infiltration of communist forces. The current Soviet Union is not only known in the 80s or 70s The Soviet Union, which used force to threaten them, has become more cunning, so we have every reason to upgrade the Romanian army's military equipment on the road."

1997 coincided with the time for the U.S. to upgrade its armaments. The so-called upgrade of Romania’s armaments was nothing more than packing up the active equipment that the U.S. was about to eliminate as foreign garbage, and letting the Romanian army do it themselves.This not only saved a sum of money, but also exchanged for a political favor.

"Yes, who said that we are allies." Constantinescu said with a forced smile.

"You just need to understand." Secretary of State Madeleine nodded, very satisfied with Romania's answer.

Chapter 5

The crazy expansion of American power in Eastern Europe still cannot change the determination of the Soviet Union to pull out the nail in the Ingushetia region. With the determination to fight against the outside world, it has not only invested the troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Caucasus region, but also mobilized The power of the Ukrainian military region, in cooperation with the ground armored forces, has targeted to eliminate all remaining "tumors" in the Caucasus region.Yanayev wanted to take advantage of this turmoil to stabilize most of the Caucasus once and for all.

The soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs received a special order when they marched towards the Ingushetia area. Once the terrorists escaped into the Qingzheng Temple, after evacuating ordinary people, they could directly use armored vehicles and helicopter gunships to turn the Qingzheng Temple into ruins.This approach was confirmed by the Soviet Ministry of Defense.Minister Yazov emphasized at the press conference that Soviet fighters often paid a heavy price when attacking these easily defended and difficult terrains, so they simply turned these shelters from terrorists into ruins and took them to see real pigs.

The entire city of Nazran was under martial law and a curfew was imposed, and a low-intensity war broke out between soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and rioters.In front of the orderly Soviet army, the provocative thugs had no choice but to hide in the nearby Qingzheng Temple in a panic.Most of the temples in Nazran City are supporters of the Caliphate, so they will be willing to provide sanctuary for these religious fanatics.

But it is a pity that the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is in charge of the offensive tonight, has received a new decree from the Ukrainian region. The Army Aviation will dispatch most of the Hind armed helicopters to target all steamed temples in Nazran City and remove hidden religious cancers. .Everyone must be evacuated from the Qingzheng Temple. Of course, terrorists do not have this right.

The way of attacking Nazran City has been changed. If all the gangsters cannot be killed, try to drive these people into the Qingshang Temple. At that time, the Hind Helicopter will use a wave of rockets to send all these people into the fire hell .

The armored vehicles stopped in front of the largest Sheikh Zad Temple, the Ministry of Internal Affairs surrounded almost all religious places, those who were unwilling to accept surrender hid in the temples and tried to resist the Soviet armored forces, and the soldiers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs would use bullets and crawlers, crushing their last sliver of fantasy.

The captain with a scar on his left eye was transferred from the armored vehicle. He ordered all the soldiers to guard the exit. In front of the gate of Qingzheng Temple, the artillery of the BMP infantry combat vehicle was aimed at the gate. Through the scope, he looked vigilantly at the possible figure behind the white pillar.Deal the fatal blow before they make a move.

Captain "One-eyed" glanced at his watch impatiently. There was still an hour before the official start of the killing game, but he couldn't wait to chop off the rioters' heads. The captain patted the BMP infantry vehicle and shouted inside, "Prepare to attack, first use the artillery to open the gate for me."

The driver in the car replied hesitantly, "But it's not yet the scheduled attack time, we're afraid..."

"What are you afraid of? I'm here to deal with something." The one-eyed captain spat, his sleeves were rolled up halfway, and his strong arms were exposed. He picked up the walkie-talkie and began to issue orders, "Comrades, listen up , later we will launch an attack on terrorists under the cover of BMP infantry combat vehicles. The front door is the area of ​​​​fire suppression. The flamethrower guards the back door for me, and when a terrorist comes out, he will burn me to death with a flamethrower , never compromise with them.”

As soon as the captain finished speaking, the door was opened a crack.Waving a white flag in one hand, trying to declare surrender, shouting in Russian that they would surrender.

How could the captain, who had just lost two of his men in the riot, pay any attention to the surrender of the other party? He immediately ordered his soldiers to aim at the terrorists with sniper rifles and kill them immediately after they poked their heads out.

The person inside found that he was not attacked after reaching out his hand, and he breathed a sigh of relief.Just as he was about to stick his head out to show that he was willing to surrender, the moment he stuck out his head, a gunshot rang out at the same time, scarlet blood splashed on the wooden door, a hole was opened in the head of the person who surrendered, and he collapsed instantly.