USSR 1991

"Yes, a coup d'état is very likely." Yanayev said while playing with a pen.In the mouths of the leaders of the two superpowers, overthrowing a country's regime is nothing more than a random reshuffle of power. "Once there is a coup, the situation in South Africa will develop in the direction we want to see. Even if It doesn’t matter if they don’t. After Mandela came to power, they have no choice but to improve relations with the West. Besides, they are already tired of the Boers’ dream of developing nuclear weapons and wanting to be the most powerful country in Africa.”

"But it is impossible for us to take action based on a conjecture. It is too risky." President Mario shook his head. He only wanted to take revenge on the South African regime. He was not like Yanayev, who was concerned about eradicating the entire roadblock in South Africa. Stone, let the power of the Soviet Union develop more unscrupulously in Africa.

"Opportunities and risks have the same probability. Although there are small ideological frictions between the United States and the Soviet Union, in the final analysis we are all maintaining world order, aren't we?"

Yanayev put down the golden pen in his hand, and he replied with an unquestionable tone, "South Africa can only become more chaotic, and there is absolutely no chance of rising again."

Because the Soviet Union still uses terror and violence to control the whole of Africa, it is better to use fear to make them bow their heads than to transform black Africans with all great and lofty ideals and beliefs.

We are never afraid of fear because we create fear.

Chapter 271 Death or Resistance

"President de Klerk, American Ambassador Bettis seeks an audience."

The words of the messengers were like the rain after a long drought, which made the anxious De Klerk see a glimmer of hope for reconciliation.He quickly summoned the US ambassador Betis, hoping to ease bilateral relations.The current situation in South Africa is already chaotic enough, and he does not want to add another layer of frost to the foreign relations that have not yet thawed.

But Betis is not a friendly ambassador with an olive branch of peace and a carrier pigeon. He is here to convey to de Klerk an order from Washington, requiring their South African government to hand over everything related to the attack within a deadline. Otherwise, don't blame the United States for taking further and more severe crackdowns.

"I know that you African National Congress of South Africa have always wanted to expel all right-wing white parties from government institutions. We are also worried about the right-wing parties in South Africa. I am afraid that they will once again implement nuclear weapons programs and endanger world peace. There is a peaceful and stable environment in South Africa."

Of course, Americans can say anything for their own interests, especially now that the US ambassador Betis is acting against the Boers as if he was fighting against the black South Africans. He completely forgot that when it was the Reagan administration, the United States was still apartheid South Africans A supporter of the bill, Mandela was also a terrorist on the CIA blacklist.

"So does the U.S. want us to do something?" De Klerk waited for further instructions from U.S. Ambassador Betis like a child ready to accept criticism from his parents.

"Of course, we don't think the situation is so bad that the two countries have reached the point of war. The United States has instructed you to hand over the mastermind behind the scenes. We also support you, and Mandela behind you will transfer power from the Boers snatched from the hands of the people and returned to the people of all South Africa."

"You mean to cleanly exterminate the right-wing political parties?" After understanding the ambassador's intentions, Betis hesitated. It's not that he didn't dare to do so, but that it might lead to terrible political events in South Africa. Turmoil, and the final result is that winning or losing is not something he can control alone.

After seeing De Klerk's hesitation, Betis continued to encourage the other party, "Don't worry, if you continue to clean up the internal opposition forces, the Soviet Union and the United States will support your choice. If there are two superpowers backing you, then Would you consider this a bad political upheaval?"

"This will be a reasonable purge. You will legally execute all your opponents. South Africa will only have partners who are willing to cooperate with the United States and the Soviet Union. As for the others, we don't care about their lives." Betis smiled. Said.

"So let go of your scruples, otherwise the United States will directly take more severe measures. Believe me, President de Klerk, you don't want to see that result. After all, this is a consensus agreement reached among the permanent members." Betis's smile made De Klerk feel creepy, as if South Africa was a game controlled by the powerful behind the scenes. As long as they outline the hands hidden behind their backs, his status and regime will be received by the super regime on the other side of the Atlantic Suppress.Moreover, it is still a suppression by taking advantage of the complicated situation in the country.

In this game, De Klerk has no choice but to cooperate with the United States.

"I will sweep out all the right-wing parliamentarians, but as you said, the Soviet Union and the United States will support our government, as well as the African National Congress of South Africa?" De Klerk asked the American ambassador again. .

Betis smiled and said, "I promise, this is the one time we will get everyone a satisfactory result."

A few days later, South Africa's National Congress turned on the Boers' right-wing party, accusing MPs of unconstitutional bribery deals, and began using the public outcry created by the incident to put pressure on the courts.For a while, the EO company and the MPs involved were like rats crossing the street, having to face possible lawsuits.

Right-wing political parties in South Africa seem to have only two paths to go at present, either choose to obediently get caught without a fight, or choose to abandon the car and protect the handsome.Of course, the members of the Democratic Party did the same at the beginning. After the most obvious scapegoat was "suicide", the South African right-wing party, which originally thought the incident could be calmed down, received an even more terrible blow.

First of all, de Klerk, a white traitor, used this to further cleanse the right-wing forces within the government, and used this incident as an excuse to clean up more congressmen involved in this matter.When the Boers discovered that the group of South African blacks had no intention of stopping, they finally became angry.They can tolerate a group of blacks sharing the rights and wealth of their parents, and even give them up, but they refuse to let a group of despicable and shameless guys rob them of their achievements and kill them openly.

The subsequent development of the plot developed in the direction planned by Yanayev. The information officer of the US Consulate in South Africa found the leader of the right-wing party and told them that if you launch a coup, the United States is willing to provide support behind it.In this way, the U.S. government adopted tactics of fighting left and right, leading the white Conservative Party and the Black Radical Party into a confrontational situation.

The power of the Boers in the army is intricate, and even the commander-in-chief of the National Defense Forces Enka Zola is one of them. Now what the Boers in South Africa have to do is to win over the neutral Minister of Defense to their side.Since the Yinkatamen incident, South Africa's newly replaced Minister of Defense has no longer supported the regime that suppressed the African National Congress.

"In August 1991, more than 8 extremist militants used force to prevent de Klerk from speaking in a small town populated by Afrikaners. So today, South Africa has lost the courage to resist under the so-called reform wave? Even if we are behind you, you dare not attack those black people? Think about it, reconciliation with black people will not bring peace to South Africa. They are just a bunch of nasty parasites, doing everything they can to seize the property of the entire country. "

"So, you have to continue to stand by like this, watching the opportunity go away. Launching an armed riot is your last choice and the only chance to save South Africa and get rid of those black people."

The information officer stood in a small secret meeting room, conveying orders from Washington. His words were like a devil Lucifer who tempted others to fall, leading them step by step into the abyss of the coup d'etat.The congressmen who couldn't stand the temptation finally agreed to the request of the US representative for a generous return, created a coup and turmoil, and completely disrupted President de Klerk's plan.Of course in a pinch someone always forgets that a politician's promises are as phony as a bitch's chastity.

South Africa, which was originally in turmoil, has completely slipped into the abyss because of a long speech by the information officer. To be precise, it is a false promise from Washington and Moscow.

The commander-in-chief of the Ministry of National Defense who controls a part of the army, and the parliamentarians who maintain close cooperation with the largest mercenary company in South Africa. Every powerful person supports their own army behind their backs. Benefit.

All the mercenaries of the EO company abroad were urgently recalled to the country. For the president of the EO company, there is no investment that is more profitable than a regime, even if the risks and rewards are equally high.For soldiers, obeying orders is a bounden duty, but their commanders have led South Africa to a desperate road of no return.

Only the political elites of the permanent members who have achieved their goals stay behind the sand table of the international political situation, laughing at the turbulent domestic political situation in South Africa, and then appropriately add a few flags to fuel the flames.

On October 1993, 10, everything was calm.The more deposited right-wing political parties made de Klerk more uneasy, which is not a good thing for a politician with a keen sense of smell.He believes that these people will never let it go, especially when the reform is at the most critical moment.

Although de Klerk used them to clean up some extreme black radicals and pave the way for the African Democratic Conference, the relationship between the right-wing political parties and de Klerk soon changed from a collaborator to a hostile party.

Now the whole country is a bomb stuffed with gunpowder, waiting for the first shot to ignite the flames of war and drag the whole country into the abyss of civil war.

Chapter 272 The October Incident

When De Klerk heard the news of the coup, he was at a loss for a while.He did not expect that the tough persecution of right-wing parties would lead them to take risks and launch rebellions, and it was at such a critical moment for reform.

When de Klerk was elected president in 1989, the South African National Party's 41-year apartheid policy had intensified the confrontation between blacks and whites to the point where it could not be suppressed.Violent resistance followed one after another, and military, police and prison expenditures to suppress blacks accounted for 30% of the total government expenditure.The international community also strongly condemned South Africa's inhuman racial system and imposed economic sanctions on it.Under such circumstances, De Klerk had to make changes, and it was also because he chose to make changes that the hat of a white traitor was destined to be on his head, and he would never be able to take it off again.

If Mandela is the South African version of Gorbachev, then de Klerk can be said to be the leader of the South African regime who was forced to open Pandora's box.On the one hand, he has to negotiate with the increasingly radical black African political parties, and on the other hand, he has to appease the right-wing parties that have sacrificed their interests.Even Conservative Party leader Wayne Rooney said before, "De Klerk has no right to represent the 500 million white people in South Africa, nor does he have the right to negotiate with black people in South Africa." He also said that as long as he is still alive, the South African Conservative Party will not Give up the fight.

And now Quirouni has indeed done this, colluding with the right-wing forces in the South African army to jointly launch a rebellion, starting from the Free State and preparing to spread to the entire South Africa.Since the success of the rebellion, there have been demonstrations and rebellions in some sporadic troops.

This military turmoil started from the Free State. Part of the South African army unilaterally declared a state of emergency. De Klerk's reforms had failed, and the government tried to lead South Africa into the abyss.They did this only for the stability and unity of South Africa.

As early as the end of 1992, some right-wing active forces of the South African government had been illegally amassing arms in South Africa and abroad, and then providing arms and assistance to certain members of the Inkatha Freedom Party, and participating in instigating and committing violence, corrupting African NUS reputation, undermining the negotiation process.The South African Defense Forces have also been accused of horrific chemical and biological warfare and experimentation.

Quirouni, the mastermind behind these criminal activities, has a clear political purpose.They vehemently opposed the radical turnaround advocated by the new president, seeing the weak de Klerk as a "traitor".In their view, the lifting of the ban on the ANC and the South African Communist Party, the release of Mandela, the initiation of peace talks, the termination of secret operations, the dissolution of the national security management system and the lifting of the national emergency are all compromises to the dark forces.Therefore, they instigated violent conflicts between different races and created general antagonism, with the purpose of blocking reforms that would harm their interests.

Therefore, when the rebellious army quickly took control of the entire Free State, they carried out a series of military purges internally. After the important members of the African National Congress were captured, they were declared as moths of the country and charged with treason. The crime was shot in the street.At the same time, the angry Boers pointed their guns at the crowd who had been shouting for democracy and freedom, feeding them a bullet of dictatorship.The corpses of the so-called democrats who were executed for a while were randomly dumped on the street.

De Klerk strongly accused and condemned the actions of the right-wing regime, and mobilized the army to prepare to suppress the rebellion.At the same time, the black political parties in South Africa are not idle, they are actively preparing for the armed seizure of power.Previously, South Africa had a plan for Operation Ula, which was specially prepared for the violent seizure of power.

When he heard about the armed riots in South Africa, Yanayev also contacted the South African Communist Party through secret channels. As an opposition party active in South Africa, Yanayev believed that it was necessary to play the spirit of the Communist International and help them realize What is the essence of seizing power by force.

"We made a deal with the people from EO Company. The Soviet government was willing to buy one-third of the firearms they hoarded at three times the price, and then secretly provided these firearms to the South African Communist Party to prepare for the violent seizure of power. "

The South African foreign intelligence officer of the GRU even had an order to report the situation directly to Yanayev. In this good game of competition among many forces, the Soviet Union finally made its own move.Yanayev placed his bet on the South African Communist Party. He did not have much hope for the victory of this party. The purpose of the Soviet Union was only to muddy the water and make the situation in South Africa as turbulent as possible.

Yanayev is very satisfied with the efficiency of the GRU. At least now South Africa will have another group of guerrilla warfare masters hiding behind the right wing to carry out secret operations, and the government will be even more troublesome.

Sure enough, a week later, South Africa had not extinguished the armed riots burning in the Free State, and the fire of revolution was ignited in KwaZulu-Natal. The Communist armed forces, which were far less powerful than the government forces, chose the countryside to encircle the cities and seize power by force. The model has planted the spark of fire in the vast rural areas of South Africa.A more important point is that KwaZulu-Natal is adjacent to Mozambique, and they can even obtain armament supplies from Soviet military companies through the border.

The South African Communist Party's announcement of a separatist regime was like a cigarette butt thrown into gunpowder, which completely ignited the situation in South Africa. The African National Congress also announced the use of armed struggle to safeguard the rights of blacks.Riots by political factions in various places also dashed de Klerk's hopes of establishing a multi-party coalition ruling regime.

The reason why South Africa has been able to live in peace with internal and external troubles for so long is that it has a strong regular army, and now even this army no longer trusts the South African government. De Klerk has been working hard to prevent the occurrence of division. But he didn't expect that he would actually promote the advent of the era of separatism.

"The army led by Quirooni even established a regime in the Free State, claiming to be the regime that white people hope for in the future." Since the South African Minister of Defense chose to rebel, de Klerk had to support people around him to serve as ministers.

The new Minister of Defense showed de Klerk a news video of mostly right-wing soldiers executing what was defined as members of the South African National Congress on the street, hanging their bodies from telephone poles, dousing them with petrol and burning them to death do.They used this method to warn others that this was Afrikaner territory.

President De Klerk obviously didn't like such a bloody situation. He turned his head aside and asked seriously, "Could it be that our government army hasn't stopped yet and just conquered a free state. Even if we attack the free state from all directions, I don't believe how long they can last."

"The first task of the South African government forces is not to encircle the Free State, but to draw out the elite to ensure the safety of the president and the capital, Pretoria. Quirooni is just the first bomb to explode, and the South African Communist Party is the second , and who will be the fourth or fifth next? As long as the foundation of the government is still there, even if the siege of the Free State fails, we will never be so unlucky that we lose the entire country."

The analysis of the Minister of Defense also made De Klerk more aware of how dangerous his situation is. He coughed and asked him dryly, "What if the situation completely gets out of control?"

"We will be the target of public criticism." The Minister of Defense replied, "These opposition groups will attack the South African army in a tacit agreement. As for what will happen to them in the future, I don't think any careerist will care about such things as world peace."

"I want Mandela to call. Only with Mandela can we stop the incident from deteriorating." Even now, De Klerk is still fantasizing about co-government with Mandela to eliminate the threat.