Chapter 626 Departing to Freedom
After the Cuban missile crisis, the United States has always been surveillance of Cuba, but Cuba itself does not have the power to threaten the United States. Although it is the second military power in Latin America except Brazil, it is still not at the same level compared to the United States. But this time the Castro brothers are ready to think of ways from other aspects.
This method is human. The Soviet Union sent all the aliens in Eastern Europe to Cuba, waiting for Cuba to make a trade-off. Now, Cuba has finished weighing. Since the United States has been trying to lure Cubans into smuggling, the Castro brothers are planning to play a big game and send all the people who were placed here and those who were not needed by the Soviet Union to Cuba.
For Cuba, which is in the tropical region, it is OK to do this at any time. It would be difficult for the Soviet Union to do this. If people fall into the sea this month, the temperature in the Bering Strait will be enough to freeze people to death within ten minutes.
While Saudi Arabia was expounding its double-pillar strategy, Cuba Maller and major ports in the north were of different sizes, but the old ships that the Soviet Union aided Cuba had raised the Cuban flag. There were only six or seven hundred such ships. Although they were not new ships, they were by no means tattered that would sink halfway.
At 10 o'clock in the evening in the Western Hemisphere, all major ports were already under martial law. Cuban armed forces escorted these people on board. Many ports were ordered not to come out at night, and those who were sent to the ship had enough food for a week. Even if it was strictly prepared, Cuba did not have the ability to complete smuggling in one day, so the Havana authorities decided to use the night to send people to the ship first, and then the next day they were strictly ordered to not come down, and repeat this until all preparations were made.
The next morning, people would find that there were more ships of varying numbers of ships at various ports when they were at work, but they would never imagine that they were filled with people to smuggle. All the ships were active-duty soldiers from Cuba. When they were sent onto the ship, these soldiers had already told the people on the ship in Russian, German and other languages that they would be sent to the United States. On that land, these prisoners would not continue to serve their sentences, which is good news for most people.
This news has played a role in stabilizing the population. In Cuba, they have been told about the situation in the United States in recent years, which is of course more one-sided. In these people's eyes, the United States is a paradise. The United States actually knows that there are Eastern Europeans in Cuba, because some people have fled Cuba and have successfully smuggled in the past, telling the Americans about the situation of this special group.
There have been about a hundred prisoners who fled Cuba in the past few years, which is not a large number for the entire group. These people have been taken care of by the United States and they need the existence of such examples as the basis for the Cold War. They allow the US government to gain support for confrontation. Under the spread of some media, many people in the United States know such a group of poor people on Cuba Island.
"You don't need to serve your sentence soon. Since we are so disgusted with socialism, then go to the United States, the most powerful capitalist, where you can get the life you want." This speech stabilized people's emotions. When they were suddenly brought to the ship, there was a little turmoil in the crowd, which originated from unknown fear. Besides, they were Eastern Europeans. In the world war more than 20 years ago, the Third Reich had invented various strange ways of dealing with it. Some people thought that the Cubans wanted to sink them to the bottom of the sea at first.
This kind of behavior of calming the daytime, but rushing people onto the boat at night lasted for a total of one week. During this process, the Cuban armed forces showed great discipline. It can be said that all Cuban planned economic talents are allocating this matter.
The Point is located in the town of Arlington on the Potomac River near Washington, USA. It is the location of the US Department of Defense. Looking down from the air, the building is in a regular pentagon, hence the name of the Pentagon. The Department of Defense established by US President Truman began to work here. From then on, the Pentagon became a synonym for the US Department of Defense. In addition to the Department of Defense, the building also includes the subordinate Joint Chiefs of Staff and the three headquarters of the Land, Navy and Air Force.
"There seems to be some movement in Cuba recently. Our spy satellite shows that it seems that some ships have appeared in some ports, so nothing will happen, right?" An agent in the Pentagon who was observing satellite photos said while looking.
"What will happen? Is the Soviet Union preparing to deploy nuclear missiles for the second time? Some fishing boats and old cargo ships appeared. Are they full of atomic bombs ready to attack us suicide? Don't be stupid. The Soviet Union's atomic bomb no longer needs to do this. I thought it was still twenty years ago." Another older agent fired. When the Soviet atomic bomb was just successful, because there was no vehicle for delivery, major American ports were strictly inspecting the Soviet Union's cargo ships to port for a while, afraid that the atomic bombs were loaded on it and detonated at the port. But as he said, it was something that happened more than twenty years ago. Now thinking about it can only make people laugh.
Think about it, how could Cuba have the ability to land in the United States? However, there have been a lot of ships in Cuba ports recently. At the beginning, the agents began to feel that this matter should be reported.
"From tonight, open all ports facing the United States in the north and send them to the United States. None of these people is needed by Cuba, and our country does not need such people." Castro took the cigar from the corner of his mouth and issued an order to open the port.
At one o'clock in the evening in the Western Hemisphere, Cuban soldiers disembarked on all the ships with Cuban flags in the major ports in northern Cuba. Before leaving, they told these people who had already boarded the ship that they must bring their Cuban identity certificates on their bodies so that they would be taken in by the Americans. This fleet, which was no less than the Normandy landing, is about to set off. More than 600 ships of various types are loaded with prisoners preparing to go to the United States. In addition to the minors who did not board the ship, there were a total of about 900,000 people, and more than 120,000 Cuba's own, it is a million troops.
In the attention of Cuban soldiers, these ships slowly left the port. The prisoners' own crew members were on the ships. The Caribbean Sea was calm these days, and as long as they kept going north, there would be no trek or bump into the reef.
In Florida, the United States has giant radars to monitor the movements of the sea. This is a radar station established after Cuba turned to the Soviet Union. It will shoulder the role of preventing the Soviet Union from attacking the United States with the help of Cuba. Generally, it is used to monitor the sea surface of the Caribbean Sea. Radar stations can often see signals of smuggling to the United States on the sea surface, but the US government welcomes this matter, and the staff of these radar stations cannot say anything.
Today was as usual, but suddenly the radar showed a signal that Cuba was getting closer and closer. According to the usual idea, people thought it was the ship of Cuban stowaways, but everyone's face changed immediately. The signals on it were more and more, one, ten, and one hundred. The dense sources of signal on it shocked all the staff at the radar station.
"Did the Soviets carry out amphibious landings on us?" A lieutenant gasped and said to himself when he saw this situation. Everyone couldn't believe what he saw today. Several people thought it was a radar fault and should immediately check it and find a place to repair it. In a messy situation, they did not report this situation until half an hour later.
After reporting one floor after another, the Pentagon responded quickly. At this time, the fleet had entered one side of the US territorial waters, less than 60 kilometers away from the US coastline.
The Seventh Defense Zone of the United States Coast Guard quickly received an order to send speedboats to the waters where the accident was happening. It was always early in the tropical dawn. When the speedboats of the United States Coast Guard arrived in front of these ships, they were stunned by the scene in front of them. The ships with Cuban flag were crowded with civilians. They were crowded on the deck and waved to the speedboats coming from the United States.
But it can be concluded that there were no soldiers on it. The guards on a speedboat swallowed and said, "According to the policy, are we going to accept these Cuban exiles?" The genius had just dawned. With low visibility, they could not tell whether these people were Cubans. Besides, there were white people in Cuba. He didn't know who was on these ships with Cuban flags.
"It seems that yes, who formulated this idiot-like policy, we must report it immediately." After dawn, armed helicopters and reconnaissance aircraft dispatched over the Caribbean Sea saw this large fleet, which was arguably huge, heading towards the United States from major ports in northern Cuba. The fleet that departed the latest had just left the port, and the earliest ship was about to arrive at the coastline of the United States.
"Oh my God, there are at least 200,000 to 300,000 people here." The American pilot who was surging in the air said with an ache and reported to the above, "I really want to sink these ships. If they come to the United States, they will destroy this place."
At this time, the US Coast Guard no longer knows how to show goodwill. Even in the Pentagon, generals from major military branches do not know what to do. If it is an enemy invasion, it will be right to fight, but the other side is a civilian. If all of them are sunk, the spit of the whole world will drown the Americans.
After getting up in the morning, Castro began to speak publicly to the country, "For those who don't like to stay in Cuba, it's not necessary to force them, and we don't need them. There is no need for these people who are dissatisfied with our country, since Americans want these people, I can give these people to Americans."
Chapter completed!