(3rd Update)

"Poof, what did you say? U.S. Ambassador Matlock was overpowered by Shevardnadze's high blood pressure? And Shevardnadze also pretended to be unconcerned, sorry, let me laugh for a while. Hahaha~" Yanayev, who was eating lunch, almost spit out the chewing meat in his mouth when he heard the news.

He couldn't help but shake his head when he couldn't stop laughing, but he just let Shevardnadze delay time, but he didn't let him send the ambassador to the hospital angrily. This is good, the Soviet Foreign Minister successfully caused a diplomatic storm, and it is estimated that he will have to apologize in person in the end.

But it's still cool to think about this kind of thing, of course, you can only think about it in the dark in your heart, and you can't say it on your lips.

Shevardnadze, who was summoned by Yanayev to report what had happened, behaved very innocently. When he faced Yanayev's crying and laughing face, Shevardnadze shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly, "I did what the general secretary said, but Matlock's aggressive appearance was really annoying, so I gave him a small lesson." Who knew Matlock had a physical ailment. ”

"Okay, okay, it's not your fault in this matter, Comrade Shevardnadze." Yanayev waved his hand, signaling him not to pay too much attention, "We have also generally understood the requirements of the American side, Matlock is just a tentative prelude, the real highlight is still to come, if I guess correctly, the next thing should be Secretary of State Igorberg to come and negotiate with us." The Americans will not blindly give in, and they will definitely take other ways to get their submarines back. For them, the secret of an attack nuclear submarine is much more noble than human life. ”

Yanayev put down the dishes. Picked up a tissue and wiped his lips. Then he said slowly. "The loss of the officers and men of a submarine is nothing more than Black Friday, and it is a nightmare for us to discover the technical secrets of the Los Angeles-class nuclear submarines. However, because of the relationship between domestic public opinion, Bush had to reluctantly choose military personnel first. Tut-tut, it's a difficult choice. ”

"But then Bush's choice will become even more difficult." Yanayev hooked the corners of his mouth and couldn't help but want to see what kind of wonderful expression Bush would have next.

A few days later, the major newspapers frantically reprinted the scoop from Columbia Television's newspaper overnight. According to reports, a U.S. nuclear submarine sank in an accident in the waters of the Soviet Arctic Circle, and the Soviet military eventually rescued all the officers and men in the submarine. The United States, on the other hand, has been suppressing public opinion, regardless of whether it is asked. Attempts to deceive the public. Wallace also put together photographs of submarine officers and men shivering at sea and photos of them drinking red wine and drinking sturgeon at the Murmansk naval base and socializing with Soviet sailors as strong evidence of his criticism of the government. In fact, even Wallace didn't notice that he incidentally helped the Soviet army to make a positive image of propaganda.

The publication of the news caused an uproar in public opinion, and people accused the Bush administration of its attitude of ignoring the lives of soldiers. Even the Democrats, who have been suppressed, have found an excuse to attack, dealing a fatal blow to the Republican Party in the months leading up to the presidential election. With the support of politicians, the newspaper launched an even more unscrupulous public opinion attack on the Republican Party.

Outside the White House was packed with demonstrators protesting the cruelty and inaction of the Bush administration. Their signs have different words, but they all mean the same thing, our soldiers are going home!

Some newspapers linked Yanayev's recovery of prisoners of war from Afghanistan to the Bush administration's inaction, and sarcastically argued that the human rights problems of the liberal United States were not as good as those of the Soviet Union, which was portrayed as an evil empire every day.

For this. Bush almost fell to the ground in anger, and such a leak of secrets actually occurred in a secret-guarding incident that had always been tight-lipped. Now it was too late to make amends, and the more he thought about it, the more frightened he became, fearing that this report was carefully arranged by the Soviet Union, and the countries on the other side of the Pacific Ocean had already taken repressive measures ahead of him.

It seems that since the outbreak of the Arctic Ocean crisis, the United States has been in a state of disadvantage step by step, and the Soviet Union has not missed the opportunity to suppress the United States, and has even more absurdly tried to force Bush to become the leader before the presidential election.

Thinking of this, President Bush really panicked.

At the same time, Secretary of State Igor Berg embarked on a trip to Moscow, where for the first time he took over from American Ambassador Matlock in his capacity as a representative of the United States to negotiate with the Soviets. From the first encounter between Shevard Nazel and Matlock, it can be seen that the other party is not an idle person, at least the diplomat is playing Tai Chi very well.

The first thing Igelberg did after getting off the plane was to go straight to the U.S. Embassy in Moscow, where he first visited Ambassador Matlock, who was recuperating from his illness. Although the other party suffered a heavy blow, it was not enough to collapse in an attitude, and the good mental state of the other party also made Igorberg settle down a little.

Matlock chatted with Igorberg without saying a word at his hospital bedside, laughing that he could finally escape this hell, and that he had been suffering every day for the past few months, and that the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union alone had exceeded the sum of last year.

"I've never been so haggard, really, Igelberg." Matlock sighed, "I have nightmares every day about a conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, and then I become a victim of the forefront, and this situation is too tiring. ”

After a pause, Matlock said with trepidation, "I don't want to face Yanayev again, he is a smiling devil and butcher in my heart." Those terrifying eyes I've only seen in nightmares. ”

Igorberg's hand peeling the apple paused, and he looked up and asked, "Is it really that scary?" ”

"Yes." Matlock nodded, "Especially when it comes to American diplomats, he always seems to have a smile of calculation and intrigue in his face. So you have to be careful, don't be calculated by him, this is the most difficult Soviet government since Stalin, there is no one. ”

Igor Berg put the peeled apple in Matlock's hand and said with a smile, "Don't worry, all the intrigues of the Soviets will be crushed in the face of the great power of the United States." ”

"Well, I hope so." Matlock said worriedly.

After seeing Matlock in the hospital bed, Igorberg went to the Kremlin to meet with Shevardnadze, and this meeting was secret, so only the United States and the Soviet Union knew about each other's arrival. Igor Berg traveled to the Kremlin to meet Shevardnadze in a light car, accompanied only by a few escorts.

When he was taken to Shevardnadze's office, Igorberg was somewhat surprised to find that in addition to Shevardnadze, who was sitting in the office, there was another man with his back to him, who kept looking out the window, as if everything that happened in the house had nothing to do with him.

Igor Berg generously shook hands with Shevardnadze in front of him and said in a friendly manner, "Hello, Minister Shevardnadze, I am US Secretary of State Igorberg. ”

"Hello, Secretary Igelberg, it's a pleasure to have you all the way to Moscow." Shevardnadze said.

Even when he told Shevardnadze, Igelberg's attention was on the man who had been looking out the window, and he finally couldn't help but ask in a low voice with curiosity, "Who is that next to you?" ”

Shevardnadze blinked and did not speak. However, when the figure in the back heard the other party asking about himself, he turned his head to face Igelberg, but when the other party stared at him with his eyes, it made Igorberg stunned for a moment.

From time to time, there was a glimmer of light in his deep, watery eyes, and there was a very mysterious aura in his body, as Matlock said, the most terrible and elusive Soviet leader he had ever seen. He did not have the stubbornness of Khrushchev, the arrogance of Brezhnev and the stupidity of Gorbachev, and the aura of wisdom and cunning succeeded in erasing those vulgar temperaments.

The most mysterious leader of the Soviet Union, the most feared adversary of the US government.

"Hello, Secretary of State Igorberg, I am the President of the Soviet Union, Yanayev."

Yanayev held out a hand to Igorberg and said with a friendly smile. (To be continued.) )