With the theme of their return, the just-restored Portuguese Communist Party newspaper Advance, carried out a large-scale report, detailing the process of the devastating blow to the Portuguese Communist Party during the reign of Salazar. In the end, he said, "Today, all our Central Committee members finally got out of prison, and they still have more than 300 years in prison..."

The Portuguese society at this time was sympathetic to the Portuguese Communist Party, but in the eyes of the Soviet Union, this atmosphere would not last long. This has already been agreed in the Central Presidium, and the Minister of Foreign Affairs Gromyco also knew this. This time he came to Lisbon He also has his own task to complete the Soviet strategy, so that Portugal can leave the colony decently, rather than suddenly roll up the bed and get out and buy a certain time for the Soviet Union.

  Gromico then negotiated with the current Portuguese President Spinola. Today is May 1st, the International Labor Day defined by all socialist countries. Half a million people participated in the May Day parade in Lisbon. The revolutionary atmosphere infected the armed forces, with soldiers and sailors marching alongside the workers, holding banners demanding socialism. Previously banned parties have resumed public activity from underground or exile, including the Portuguese Communist Party, led by Alvaro Canhal, and the Portuguese Socialist Party, led by Mario Suarez.

At the Portuguese Presidential Palace, Gromyko met Spinola, a soldier and a four-star general of Portugal. long job. Until the outbreak of the Carnation Revolution and being elected as the interim president, Gromyko mainly discussed colonial issues with the Portuguese president this time.

"If Portugal withdraws its troops hastily, the entire colony of the Portuguese Empire will become a huge power vacuum, and civil wars will break out in various places. General, I believe you have an international outlook and can see the danger facing Africa at this time." Gromyko quickly entered the whole, and the president in front of him would obviously advocate the withdrawal of troops. The Soviet Union's idea was not to let the other party withdraw so quickly, otherwise the war between the Soviet Union and the United States in South Africa would break out immediately. It's done.

  As a foreign minister, of course Gromyko does not want to fight and kill to solve the problem. If he has a choice, he is more willing to choose a peaceful way, which is also the purpose of his coming to Portugal.

"But the troops on the front line have already overdue their service, and they all want to return to China. This is the view of the soldiers. I am a soldier and I know the hearts of those colonial soldiers very well." Spinola, of course, knew that morally Portugal patted the **** and left. Dangerous, but if he had to choose between the colony and the mainland, of course he chose Portugal.

"It's about military spending. In fact, the main issue of Portugal's finances is military spending, but there is a big difference between armed conflict and no armed conflict. The Soviet Union understands that Portugal wants to get rid of these big burdens, but I hope you don't forget the international Responsibility, the sudden departure of African colonists, followed by the outbreak of **** civil wars has been a lot. This is also what Moscow is worried about. Although we are anti-colonial, we also do not want the new country to fall into civil war. Therefore, we in the Soviet Union have The opinion is that the major colonies can stop the war by contacting the local armed forces." Gromyko persuaded meaningfully, "In this process of slow disengagement, the Soviet Union stopped the war and was willing to give some Portuguese colonial troops some Aid so they can return to the country peacefully."

   All kinds of black armed forces in the Portuguese colonies were all supported by the Soviet Union. Quite simply, this was what the revolution needed. Anti-colonialism is the most politically correct thing in this era, and the Soviet Union should be at the forefront. Now that the political situation in Portugal has changed, and the original enemy has become a friend in a certain sense, it is natural to change the way of thinking.

Everything can be discussed, and the Soviet Union also has this kind of capital to talk about. As long as the Soviet Union greets the local armed forces, the civil war in the Portuguese colony will stop in an instant, and the soldiers of the Portuguese country will evacuate more decently, avoiding this. In the end, the image of the colonial empire's head-hunting and squirming can give the Soviet Union a more complete attack time.

The talks between the two sides lasted for more than two hours. After the talks, Gromyko and interim President Spinola came out of the Presidential Palace. In the square in front of the Presidential Palace, Gromyko stood in front of the parade and delivered a speech. The foreign minister who had experienced the difficult times of the Soviet Union, Gromyko was in high spirits. At this time, the square was a sea of ​​red, and the people here had a more revolutionary atmosphere than the Soviet Union, and then the speech began.

At the beginning, Gromyco praised the great significance of the Carnation Revolution. At the same time, he did not shy away from coming here with hostility. He came to test whether the new Portuguese government would still maintain colonialism. After the negotiation of General Spinola, it was excellent. grades, etc.

"I have to admit that the armed forces that fought against the Portuguese colonial army were supported by the Soviet Union in principle. Of course, this is a thing of the past. General Spinola told me that Portugal was ready to give up colonialism. , I believe that people with conscience in the whole world will welcome this, and this is also a victory for the Portuguese people."

Gromyko's words caused waves of cheers, and after waiting for a long time for people to calm down, Gromyko continued, "We all understand that the colonial era has passed, and the Soviet Union has always been a clear anti-colonialism, which is not the case. It's not that the Soviet Union is willing to trouble Portugal, on the contrary, we are all waiting for this day, waiting for Portugal to give up colonialism, and today, we have ushered in this revolution, which is a victory for the people of the world, including the Soviet Union, Portugal People, Mozambicans, Angolans, Guinea-Bissau, today is the International Labour Day, victory belongs to everyone, no one is a loser.”

   "Long live socialism..." Gromyko's words filled the entire square with cheers. People raised their hands to express their support for these words. At the height of the socialist movement, they were approved by the Soviet Union.

The next day, Gromyko and General Spinola signed the Soviet-Portuguese Joint Statement, in which Portugal gave up all colonies in principle and set out a timetable for the withdrawal of its troops. At the same time, he assisted the Portuguese colonial army to return to the country, and was willing to join forces with the local armed forces and the Portuguese military to discuss how to make Portugal dignified to evacuate.

As soon as the statement was released, it immediately dropped a bombshell on the world political arena. Of course, all of them were praises. If the people of the Second International had tossed around for so many years, if there was any achievement, it may only be anti-colonialism for the Soviet Union. It is hard to believe that these socialist parties are harmful.

"By the way, before I went abroad, a comrade specially reminded me that about China, I can send someone to visit from secret channels. China may not be in a hurry to take back that place." Gromyko seemed to have just remembered What, said to Spinola.

   "Why? Isn't China always anti-colonial?" General Spinola asked in surprise.

   "Maybe they have their own considerations, I don't know the specific situation." Gromyko shrugged and said he didn't know.

   "The Portuguese Socialist Party has less than a thousand members?" Serov in Lubyanka frowned and asked Morrigin, the director of the First General Bureau. After receiving a positive answer from the other party, he swallowed the question of whether he wrote it wrong. This is different from his perception, because Portugal has no sense of existence, and there is not much useful information in his memory, but there is one information he knows, that is, the Portuguese Socialist Party is a big party, and it will not seem to be so weak.

   "Yes, in fact the Socialist Party had less than 200 members at the time of the Carnation Revolution." Morrigin affirmed.

   "Oh, you go out first, I have to think about it." Serov waved his hand to let the other party go out. The later Portuguese Socialist Party was a huge heavyweight party, and now it has less than a thousand members. He now needs to deduce the process, knowing the outcome, how the Communist Party lost, and how the Soviet Union lost Portugal.

   He really did not understand the Portuguese Communist Party in this era. If there is only one piece of news that he knows, it is that this Communist Party is pro-Soviet, and was called Portuguese revisionist for a certain period of time, and it is also the object of condemnation.

   "It seems that the Socialist Party, like the previous movements, played the role of a pig opponent in the process of cooperating with the Communist Party." Recalling many historical events, Serov felt that his guesses were inseparable.

   The Socialist Party of the Second International, compared with the Communist Party of the Third International, has one characteristic, that is, many slogans that the Communist Party dare not shout. The Socialist Party dares to shout even more than the Communist Party. But the Socialist Party will never bleed. Once it encounters the Nazis or the military government, the Socialist Party tends to kneel faster than anyone else. This is why the Carnation Revolution has just succeeded, and the Portuguese Communist Party, which has been fighting all the time, has tens of thousands of members, while the Socialist Party has less than a thousand members.

   In the First World War, the Socialist Party supported the war decision-making of its own country, otherwise the Third International would not have appeared.

The slogan of the socialist party’s moral high ground is the white left of later generations. At the same time, the existence of the socialist party has also hurt the Communist Party supported by the Soviet Union, because the socialist party is easily bribed, and is often used by hostile parties to disintegrate the supporters of the Communist Party.

   "How's the public opinion of the Socialist Party?" Serov asked Morrigin, the head of the First General Directorate who had just left, on the phone.

   "It's very radical, and I don't know why." Morrigin, director of the First General Bureau, froze for a moment and said to the phone.

"Understood." Serov put down the phone, the Socialist Party is so weak, of course it has to be more radical than the Communist Party in order to win popular support. In this case, "Mendeleev, kill the Socialist Party leader Suarez and put the blame on the Democratic Party." (Unfinished To be continued~^~)