Chapter 961 Mir Space Station
France has its own interests in Africa. As an African policeman, France has always been lying in Africa as much as possible. Deep in her heart, France also has plans to compete with the United States and the Soviet Union. On the one hand, it holds the Federal Republic of Germany, and on the other hand, it is to exert influence in North Africa. The ultimate blueprint is the Mediterranean strategy.
The Mediterranean is very important. The Mediterranean is the European continent to the north, the African continent to the south, and the Middle East of Asia to the east. The Mediterranean is connected to the Atlantic Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar and connected to the Black Sea to the northeast through the Turkish Strait. After the Suez Canal is opened, the Mediterranean Sea will be connected to the Red Sea through this canal and exit the Indian Ocean through the Red Sea. From Western Europe to the Indian Ocean, the route through the Strait of Gibraltar, the Mediterranean, the Suez Canal and the Red Sea has become the most convenient sea route in the world. According to statistics, the Mediterranean has an extremely important strategic position in economic, political and military. For a long time, the Mediterranean has become the place where the great powers have fought for. The Sixth Fleet of the United States has always used the Mediterranean as its base.
If the entire Mediterranean is integrated together, the Roman Empire in modern society will be re-established. It has to be said that it may be because Europe has only one Roman Empire that maintained a long-term unified relationship. As a result, any ambitious country refers to the name of the Roman Empire, the United States and the new Roman Empire, while the Soviet Union has a plot of successors to the Eastern Roman Empire. Even the Germans have created the Holy Roman Empire. If France's idea takes shape, the Roman Empire in the classical era will be re-established.
The biggest opponents of this plan are the United States and the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union is friendly to France, and one premise is temporary. In fact, the Soviet Union was the most cruel country to deal with France after the war. Southeast Asia, Syria, and even North Africa and West Africa among French colonies were penetrated to varying degrees by the Soviet Union. Even the Suez Canal and the Red Sea, including now Libya, were taken into the arms of the Soviet Union. The ultimate goal was to control the entire North Africa to encircle Western Europe. This was the strategy of the Ottoman Empire.
So France's idea is to think about it, let alone the US Sixth Fleet is still in Italy. The United States will not let France's idea become a reality, and France during the Cold War did not publicly mention this idea.
Now the Soviet Union, the United States and France are sitting on the same table, with different ideas from each other and completely inconsistent interests and purposes. The Soviet Union always takes Libya out to take care of the feelings of the Arab people, so there are some negotiations in this negotiation.
However, even if this incident touches the hearts of the whole world, it will not affect the Soviet Union. The entire Soviet Union is promoting the establishment of a computer center, which is an important step in upgrading the planned economy. Soviet General Secretary Selov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers Jihonov, and Second Secretary Ligachev have repeatedly emphasized their importance on different occasions.
As General Secretary Selov went to the Baikonur launch site in Kazakhstan to personally experience the launch process of the Mir space station, and Kunaev, the first secretary of the Kazakh Party Committee, accompanied him. Originally this year, according to real history, Kunaev should have been removed from office by a piece of order from Go Map, which caused dissatisfaction among the Kazakhs and led to bloody conflicts. In the end, the centrifugal force of the Soviet minority was greatly increased. The problem was that Go Map was eventually scared. In this incident of local confrontation with the central government, Kazakhs won, and from then on, the authority of Moscow was greatly weakened in the eyes of the local party committee.
Selov was not prepared to replace Kunaev, nor was he going to let his successor Nazarbayev stay in Kazakhstan. At the appropriate time, such as after the Intermediate-Range Raid Treaty, he began to clean up cadres with serious national awareness. Of course, this should be done as a local knight Kunaev.
In case that the eighty-year-old chairman of the Council of Ministers, Jihonov, really has no energy to continue working, the General Secretary is going to use Nazarbayev to take over, but the premise is that a Russian must be replaced by the first secretary. Before that, Kunaev must learn from Serbisky, who is also the Dnepro gangster, and that is, Serbiv's in-laws, to make Kazakhstan smoothly.
"Reagan believes that for a while, he will not come to bother us. The joining of the French will make things more complicated, and the French have their own pursuits. We will just wait." On the way to the Baikonur launch site, Kunayev and Nazarbayev were both there, accompanying the General Secretary to watch the ceremony himself.
"Moscow said that Reagan was going to meet with the General Secretary in Iceland?" Kunayev asked at the right time. If the two sides really could meet, it might ease the current situation and calm the relationship between the Soviet Union and the United States.
"It's okay to meet! I just learned the news." Selov said calmly, "But there may be no results!" If we really meet, this may be the first time the leaders of the two countries have met since they came to power, but Reagan would not want to get a bargain from him.
If the two sides really meet, they may be in addition to the Intermediate-Range Rail Treaty to exchange views. In terms of the current situation, Reagan will definitely talk to Serov about the Libyan hostage crisis. Maybe the hostage crisis itself is the purpose of Reagan's promise to meet with Serov, rather than the so-called Intermediate-Range Rail Treaty, which was used perfunctorily by France.
Who cares, Selov didn't take the initiative to ask Reagan to meet. In fact, once the INF Treaty was signed, the United States and the Soviet Union would really not be able to tell who would suffer and who would take advantage of it. This treaty could not be evaluated at all. Or both the United States and the Soviet Union were at a loss, and only Western Europe was safe. The French determined this and jointly put pressure on the United States with the Federation and Germany.
Not long after, the group arrived at the Baikonur launch site. This was the last launch of the civilian part of the Mir space station. After this launch, the Mir space station will be built. The earliest proposed space station is not civilian at all, but a complete combat space station. After this launch, the Soviet Union will start the second phase of the plan.
Before this launch, the Mir space station in space was 80 meters long, with a total mass of 140 tons and a working capacity of more than 500 cubic meters. It is the largest spacecraft explored by humans so far, but this is not enough. After this launch, the platform will be fully built.
Before this, the Soviet Union had launched the second cabin on the "Milion". Quantum 1" represents the first time that the Soviet Union used a brand new space station design module, which contained scientific experiments and astrophysical observation equipment. Quantum 1 conducted research on active galaxies, quasars and neutron stars. The module also supported biotechnical experiments for the preparation of antiviral agents. It is planned that the module will be docked with "Salute VII". After Quantum 1 is docked with Mir, the two engines at the tail of the core compartment were deactivated. The Soviet Union then launched Quantum 2. Its main purpose is to provide the space station with new scientific experimental instruments, better life support systems, and a gas-tight chamber.
Last year, the Soviet Union launched the crystal number, which is the third module to connect with the core compartment. Like previous modules, the crystal number is designed based on the module. The main function of the crystal number is to obtain special performance structural materials, electronic devices, biological agents and plant cultivation processes under space flight conditions; to enhance the ability of earth resource surveys and astrophysical experiments, increase the space of the space station, and bring more favorable conditions for long-term manned flights.
"I will never let you be born at the wrong time. The whole world will see your true face, not the castration body of the Go map." During the countdown of the Baikonur launch site, the general secretary staring at the giant rocket said to himself.
On July 25, 1986, the last section of the Mir space station was launched, and the news of its successful launch quickly spread throughout the world. The Mir space station, which had not been completed until the collapse of the Soviet Union, had all civil plans for the civilian plan.
"The successful construction of the Mir space reflects the basic fact that the Soviet Union is the most powerful world space power. If I don't say it modestly, the Soviet Union has no opponent in space exploration yet."
In the Soviet News Broadcast at night, the people who watched the news Broadcast after get off work saw their always arrogant general secretary on TV. It would be absolutely impossible to be wrong. Although the Soviet Union always criticized other countries' hegemony and imperialism, their general secretary was actually more in line with this in terms of image and was still unconcealed.
Sherov, wearing a gray military coat, a big-brimmed hat and aged-looking dress, looked completely different from Brezhnev, who has always shown himself as a kind elder. He spoke in the tone of Lao Tzu, "The strong scientific research power of the Soviet Union should have such achievements. Facts have proved that our country, political system, and scientific groups are unique in the world. The Soviet Union does not need to compare with any country, because we are the world's number one."
"We can do things that capitalist countries cannot do easily." The Soviet people who listened to the General Secretary's recitation felt that this kind of speech seemed to have been heard from somewhere. Many elderly people thought about it carefully. It seemed that such inspiring speeches always appeared in the Khrushchev era twenty years ago.
In any case, this is a very commendable thing for the entire Soviet Union. Ordinary people can also hear the significance of the Mir space station. It can be seen that it can allow a person to stay in space for a long time. In addition, the Communist Youth League Post-Truth and the successive reports of Soviet TV station boasted that after the 1960s, aerospace fever was once again caused in the Soviet Union.
Chapter completed!