"Our big hero is back. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info "Returning to the Kremlin, Defense Minister Ustinov said to Andrei.

"Comrade Ustinov, don't make fun of me, I didn't do anything, everything is because of our strong Motherland, which has today's status." Andrei said.

Andrei said it modestly, but no matter how modest Andrei was, Andrei was always the main mastermind and implementer of this chain of actions, and for the Soviets, the victory in the Middle East had the same huge interests as the Far East!

The victory in the Far East allowed the Soviet Union to gain access to the Pacific Ocean and the advanced science and technology of the West, especially electronic technology, while the victory in the Middle East allowed the Soviet Union to choke the economic lifeline of the West!

"Andrey, you are too modest, our victory in the Middle East has allowed us to suppress the West in all aspects, and now, the countries of Western Europe are trying to maintain a friendly relationship with us in order to get more oil shares from us." Foreign Minister Gromyko said.

Oil is the lifeblood of the economy, and the Soviet Union now controls huge oil resources, so it has a huge say.

As far as the United States is concerned, as the world hegemon, it is absolutely impossible to compromise with the Soviet Union, but other younger brothers in Western Europe do not necessarily have the consciousness of the United States.

"Andrey, in view of your outstanding contributions this year, ****** adopted the decision to promote you to lieutenant general." Andropov said: "Congratulations, you have become the first lieutenant general of our Soviets after World War II to be less than thirty years old. ”

Andrei's original rank of major general belongs to the ancients, and there is no one to come, after that, he presided over the work of the Turkish Military Region with the rank of major general, in fact, sometimes it is very passive, and the corresponding commander of the military region should be the rank of lieutenant general, but after all, Andrei is too young, the wood is beautiful in the forest, and the wind destroys it. Therefore, Andrei's military rank was not promoted upwards, until now, finally, Andrei got his own new promotion, lieutenant general!

In fact, with Andre's current performance, it is completely okay to promote even the general, but after all, he is still too young, and the current lieutenant general is already unprecedented.

After Andropov finished speaking, there was a round of applause below, this time it was not an official award, it was just a verbal communication by Andropov, and the people around him were extremely supportive of Andropov's decision.

"I will certainly live up to the cultivation and expectations of the motherland, and the goal of the existence of our Soviets is to liberate the whole world and free the people who are still under the enslavement of the capitalists." Andrei said.

This sentence was said very grandly, and Ustinov on the side couldn't help but pat Andrei on the back: "Andrey, with your rise, it is definitely not a dream for us Soviets to control the whole world, but now, we still have to focus on the present, this mess in the Middle East, I'm afraid you still have to clean it up." ”

It seems to be peaceful, but in fact the Middle East is not peaceful, the turmoil in Turkey, the establishment of Kurdistan, the division of Saudi Arabia, there are still many risks in between, and the Soviet Union must not take it lightly.

"Yes, in '82, we're going to focus on the mess we have now." Andrei said: "There will be no big war, and a small war must be in our favor." ”

Further actions are already in Andrei's mind, and as long as they are steadily implemented, there should be no major changes after the withdrawal of Western forces.

"Among them, the most important is Turkey." "We take advantage of the civil strife in Turkey and wish we could control the Black Sea straits," Ustinov said. ”

The reason why the Soviet Union struck hard and beat Turkey last year was that Turkey wanted to make a fuss in this strait and block the passage of the Soviet Union's Black Sea Fleet to the sea, and although this incident ended with the victory of the Soviet Union, everyone's hearts were unhappy, and the strategic place must be controlled by its own side!

Hearing Ustinov's words, Andrei also frowned, indeed, it would be great if he could control the Black Sea straits, but the relationship between them is complicated, and it is easy to say that he has messed up the Kurdish settlements in Turkey, and it will be difficult in other regions.

"We try our best to get it done." Andrei said: "This goal has to be worked on by the Turks themselves. ”

"This year's war ended with our victory, and the United States did not launch the Third World War with great ferocity, frantically grabbing the crude oil producing areas of the Middle East, and stopped at the last moment, do you know why?" Foreign Minister Gromyko said.

The United States is the leader of the Western world and a superpower, and the United States will never see the Middle East fall to the Soviet Union! And now, the United States has actually stopped, which is also a mystery.

At the top level of the Soviet Union, in fact, a plan was prepared at the beginning, and once the United States was unwilling to defeat and caused a third world war, the Soviet Union would also accompany it to the end! However, such a scene still did not appear.

"Why? Gromyco? Ustinov asked.

"Because the United States has decided not to rely on the oil resources of the Middle East anymore." "The United States has found new extraction technologies at home that can extract shale oil on a large scale, and soon, the United States will be able to produce more oil than Saudi Arabia, or even more than us, and then the United States will be able to rely on their oil exports to closely link Western Europe," Gromyko said. ”

This is the conclusion finally reached by the Soviet ambassador to the United States after careful investigation, if the United States had no alternative, it would rather start a third world war and retake the energy fields of the Middle East, and now, the Americans have actually given up, because they have found a replacement!

Shale oil! The second revolution in the oil industry!

Hearing Gromyko's words, Andrei suddenly felt extremely ridiculous. Isn't this a reenactment of history? It's a pity that the two sides have already swapped places!

In the 80s of history, the United States controlled the entire Middle East and continuously increased oil production, creating a situation in which the global energy supply exceeded demand, and hit the economy of the Soviet Union from this aspect, the main source of foreign exchange of the Soviet Union at that time was oil exports, and with the fall of oil prices, the oil industry in the Soviet Union fell into an embarrassing situation.

And now, it's the turn of the USSR to play this one! (To be continued.) )