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Chapter 1237 Collaborators in Berlin (rd update, please subscribe)
August is the best season in Germany.

Berlin at this time was still the same as it had been before - the city was divided into two, one side was East Berlin - the capital of East Germany, and the other side was West Berlin, a city controlled by Western countries.

A city that reflects the fate of this country, a fate that is divided into two.

This is the price of war!

In an open-air cafe not far from the Brandenburg Gate, an Oriental man walked up to Sergei and sat directly in front of him.

"Sergey, how's the coffee here?"

Liu Haodong added,

"I have the best Nanyang coffee. What do you think about that?"

Faced with the other party's enthusiasm, Sergei, who didn't know why he should reject his kindness, replied softly:

"why not?"

Liu Haodong, who had already sat down, looked at the other party and said with a tone of regret:
"For some reason I feel like our meeting next time might be a little difficult."

With a slightly frowned brow, Sergei looked at the South Asian man in front of him again.

Nanyang is the youngest country among all developed countries. It was founded by a group of Tangshan immigrants sixteen years ago. With the help of the remnants of fascism, they achieved rapid development in various fields such as national economy and science and technology. Now, among capitalist countries, their economic scale is second only to that of the United States.

“These Nanyang people are conceited and arrogant.”

Sergei thought to himself,

"In general, they are very sensitive, especially when it comes to security issues. In this respect, they are somewhat similar to the Soviet Union, but more extreme. This is understandable. They have experienced the war with Japan, so they are extremely sensitive..."

Analyzing the personalities of these Nanyang people in his mind, he looked at them and said:
"I do not understand what you mean."

When saying this, Sergei thought of the turmoil in Germany in recent days - first, the local newspaper published an "arms procurement scandal", which revealed that when the German Air Force purchased F104 fighter jets from the United States, its Minister of Defense and others accepted bribes of more than 1000 million US dollars, and Lockheed also provided more than 1000 million US dollars in political donations.

After this scandal was published in a German newspaper, it immediately caused an uproar. Subsequently, the article was reprinted by many German newspapers. This report has special significance.

In black and white, a whole series of evidence of bribery was provided in one news article.

For a time, the whole of Germany was shocked. People were surprised at the shamelessness of the top leaders - for money, they were even willing to sacrifice Germany's national defense security.

After reading those articles, Sergei realized that there must be someone behind this, so he put down the newspaper and went to the streets of West Berlin.

He realized, this was an opportunity!
An opportunity to distract the attention of Western countries. After all, the next action is likely to cause an uproar throughout Europe.

Sure enough, everything was just as he expected. After arriving in West Berlin, he found that the people here were angry - the reason for their anger was that the politicians in Bonn sacrificed the security of West Germany for money.

Nowhere were Germans more sensitive to security issues than in West Berlin; after all, they were "surrounded."

So, such anger is understandable.

"We can also take advantage of this incident! We can add fuel to the fire and make the Germans unable to take care of themselves!"

In the intelligence game, every event can be utilized, and this incident is no exception.

If handled well, it could even bring about an unprecedented shock to German politics!

As a good intelligence officer, I would naturally not miss such an opportunity.

But there are always unexpected things.

The surprise today was... When this thought came up in Sergei's mind, this Southeast Asian man appeared so rashly, and under the pretext of delivering coffee, he sent a signal - they knew!

Thinking of this, Sergei's heart tightened - did they really know?
"For some reason I feel like our meeting next time might be a little difficult."

Recalling what the other party said, Sergei tentatively said:

"I don't know why you feel this way, but if we want to meet, we can meet anytime. I can come here and you can go to the east, just like we met before."

"Indeed, we can indeed meet anytime."

Liu Haodong nodded, picked up the coffee cup, took a sip of coffee, and said:

“Just like in the past, when I was interested in something, I could buy something through yours.”

In the past decade or so, the cooperation between Nanyang and East Germany has been extremely extensive. Most of this cooperation was "no-cost business". After the establishment of East Germany, all German brands in the east were nationalized. Except for a few controversial brands, the others were generally non-controversial.

After East Germany nationalized those brands, they did not continue to use them, but directly abandoned them as "remnants of capitalism" and then created new brands belonging to the people. Therefore, Nanyang simply waved US dollars and acquired a large number of German brands, which were then distributed by the company to subsidiaries in various related fields.

As a result, the business community in Nanyang skipped the "brand creation" stage and, relying on the pre-war market's recognition of German brands, directly entered the European and American markets under the name of "German brands", thus easily opening up the international market.

This is also one of the "secrets" of Nanyang's rise, so Nanyang has always been very keen on brand acquisitions. Not to mention East Germany today, even European and American countries may not necessarily realize the significance of brands.

However, most acquisitions in East Germany were brokered by the Russians.

"But they..." Turning his eyes to the Brandenburg Gate, Liu Haodong said:

"Perhaps in the near future, it will be difficult for them to travel freely between the two places, what do you think?"

After obtaining the information from the woman, the intelligence station in Berlin immediately took action. They first analyzed the movements of the Soviet army and the Soviet allied forces in Eastern Europe. After confirming that they had no abnormal movements, they ruled out the possibility of "war".

And politically this was not possible. After all, Khrushchev was trying to ease relations with Western countries.

So what do they do on the border outside of war?

And it’s on the border between East Germany and West Germany?
After analyzing it over and over again, there is only one thing to do - block the border!
"The Soviets will not allow East Germans to keep running to West Germany like this! They will definitely block the border. It's only a matter of time!"

The intelligence agency had reached this conclusion several years ago after noticing the population loss in East Germany, and now it has only confirmed their speculation.

Originally, this matter had nothing to do with Nanyang, but now Nanyang is doing another thing in Germany, and what the Soviets are going to do is likely to affect Nanyang's actions.

So, this is how they met.

Ok!

"what do you mean?"

Sergei's heart tightened, he realized that "Operation Rose" must have been leaked, and it must have been those guys in East Germany who leaked the secret.

It is well known that those guys in East Germany are extremely unreliable.

Since the establishment of East Germany 350 years ago until 20, a total of million East Germans fled to West Germany. % of East Germans made the choice with their own feet, and the trend is increasing every month. These people are willing to go to West Germany despite the hardships and long journeys. Of course, many people also went to Southeast Asia - many of them have relatives in Southeast Asia.

Compared to West Germany, Nanyang has a better economic environment and is far away from the threat of war. After all, West Germany was at the forefront of the Cold War, where it could turn into dust in a nuclear war at any time.

So, in comparison, going to Nanyang is also a very good choice, especially for single German women, it is easy to find a husband in Nanyang.

As a result, of the 350 million Germans who fled East Germany, nearly 50 went to Southeast Asia.

Regardless of whether these East Germans went to West Germany or Southeast Asia, the commotion they caused made the entire Soviet bloc feel pressured. Even some people from Eastern European countries came to East Germany for various reasons and fled from East Berlin to West Berlin.

If it is not controlled, within 30 years, not only will all the people in East Germany flee, but many people from the Soviet bloc may also flee.

So, after a long discussion, under the deployment of the Soviet Union, East Germany planned to implement "Operation Rose" to blockade East Germany with barbed wire.

This plan is top secret!

But now Liu Haodong's words are telling the other party that this is not a secret at all.

"As in the past, we don't care what you are going to do. As we all know, Europe is too far away from the South Seas."

Liu Haodong said directly:

"But you definitely need something to distract the Germans, at least to some extent, from this matter, so I think we can cooperate in this regard."

Sergei listened to the other party's words, and he immediately said as if he suddenly understood:
"Aircraft, are you the mastermind behind the aircraft purchase?"

Originally, he had already vaguely realized that there must be a mastermind behind all this. Now, the other party's suggestion allowed Sergei to finally find the mastermind.

It turns out that Nanyang was the mastermind behind this. This is normal, after all, they almost got the order for more than 900 fighter jets from Germany.

But how could they not be angry when they lost the order due to bribery by American companies?

All questions were answered at this moment.

Faced with such accusations, Liu Haodong did not answer, but simply spoke in an extremely calm tone.

"I think what we need to talk about now is cooperation, don't you think?"

"Of course!"

While expressing his agreement, an idea suddenly popped into Sergei's mind.

This is the truest side of capitalists. For business and money, they are even willing to cooperate with the devil.

No,... they are willing to cooperate with anyone for money, even their enemies.

Ok!

This is the truest side of capitalists. Because the Americans took away their orders, they chose to cooperate with the Soviet Union at all costs.

This is the truest and ugliest side of the Western world.

This is also the fundamental reason why the Soviet Union will ultimately win this competition.

(End of this chapter)