"When Comrade Stalin took over the Soviet Union, we were surrounded by hostile countries, and several of the largest capitalist countries in the world, including yours, did not recognize the legitimacy of our regime.
In the countryside, where most of the peasants still use primitive wooden ploughs for slash-and-burn farming, in the cities the pencil factory founded by Comrade Hammer in your country is enough for Comrade Lenin to regard him as a distinguished guest of the Soviet Union.
There is hardly a country in the world that wants to trade with us, I can't remember that the Soviet Union was not blocked by the West in that year, but your blockade can only make us stronger, in World War II we wiped out 1.5 million of Germany's most elite troops at Stalingrad, while Britain and the United States only wiped out less than 500,000 old and weak German soldiers in Normandy.
Mr.
President, if you sincerely and sincerely want world peace today, it would be better to reconsider the conditions you have proposed, we are willing to live in peace with you, but the status between us is at least equal now, do not think that the Soviet Union will really not be able to live without you, Comrade Stalin personally proved how strong the Soviet Union can be without foreign help, and your blockade allowed us to recover Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, and to defeat the invasion of Poland, Finland and Romania.
We could complete industrialization in a blockade and defeat the invincible German invaders.
And we are confident that we will destroy all enemies who have plotted against us."
Seryosha spoke at length very quickly, and he spoke in English, and President Bush understood him perfectly.
He fully understood the purpose of Seryosha's remarks, and did not think that the Soviet Union was really at the end of its rope now that it was in economic difficulties.
When Stalin first came to power, the situation was much more dangerous than it is now, and the Soviet Union was able to survive, not to mention that now Seryosha knows what the Americans are afraid of, and even if Stalin dies for decades, it will always be a nightmare for the Americans, and if no concessions are made today, is it possible for Stalinism in the Soviet Union to re-emerge President Bush knows the intention of Seryosha's remarks, but Bush is a democratically elected president, and the opportunity to end the Cold War with his own hands in the first year of his first presidential term is a great achievement for any president.
The history of the world will record his feat of ending the Cold War and bringing the world to peace, and not every president has had that kind of luck.
His predecessor, Ronald Reagan, had been president for eight years and had a good political record, but he could only make a wedding dress for himself.
But today's remarks poured cold water on Bush.
Seryosha used the history of the Soviet Union to tell him that the Soviet Union could develop well without anyone's help.
For today's negotiations, Bush has only one chance, and the Soviet Union actually has many options.
Gorbachev, Yakovlev, and Shevardnadze, who were present, all understood the real intention behind Seryosha's stunned speech.
And the silence of the American side also allowed Gorbachev to see a turning point.
At this moment, he suddenly felt that his heart seemed to be much more relaxed, what kind of crisis has not been experienced in the more than 60 years since the founding of the Soviet Union, compared with the crises of Stalin-Lenin's time, what are these problems now?
Bush is thinking in his heart what to do, and what will happen if the Soviet Union is really angered by the details and the Cold War continues to drag on, I am afraid that there will be no such opportunity for ten years.
And today, he had the golden opportunity to meet the demands of the Soviets to become the greatest president of the United States since World War II, because he was the one who ended the Cold War.
However, if they do not agree, the Soviets will walk away, and with Gorbachev's age and the resilience of the Soviets, there will be no problem at all in delaying the issue of ending the Cold War for another four years, and at that time, it remains to be said whether he Bush can continue to be the president.
The conference room was silent, and no one spoke for a long time.
The representatives of the United States, who claimed to be democratic and free, were thinking about the interests of their political careers and their parties, while the Soviet Union, which claimed to be a dictatorship, was considering the interests of the entire country.
At this moment, Seryosha and all the Soviet officials present were fighting for the interests of their homeland, because their successes and failures did not affect their own future, but the vital interests of the 300 million Soviet people.
The representative of the United States, however, was thinking about his own gains and losses.
"Mr.
Gorbachev, let's talk about the topic just now."
After repeated weighing, President Bush finally put down his position, and he really did not want the glory of ending the Cold War with his own hands to fly into the hands of others.
When the Soviet delegates heard this, they all breathed a sigh of relief in their hearts.
At least now we know the cards of the Americans, who are more anxious to end the Cold War than the Soviet Union.
Once this was established, the Soviet Union could reformulate its own negotiating strategy.
U.S.
Secretary of State James Baker did not expect that Ulyanov, who has always been inconspicuous, would lead the negotiations this time.
Just a few minutes ago, Gorbachev was almost submissive to the United States, but now he is aggressive.
Baker had always believed that the Soviet foreign trade minister had come to Malta to make a name for himself in the United States, and he had not paid any attention to this young man who looked to be less than thirty years old.
However, he did not expect that the youngest official in Gorbachev's delegation would have such a tough attitude.
With the change of attitude of the US side, the negotiations between the two sides went much smoother.
The Americans agreed to provide low- and interest-free loans to the Soviet Union, but only on the condition that the Soviet Union would reduce its strategic weapons and medium-range missiles.
In addition, the two sides also discussed issues such as trade.
In the next few days of the meeting, the Soviets were very satisfied with the concessions made by the Americans, and both sides negotiated with great sincerity.
As a democratically elected president, Bush knows that now is not the time to safeguard the interests of the United States as much as possible, and if he lets the victory of the end of the Cold War fly like this, no matter how much he strives for the interests of the United States at the negotiating table, he will lose the support of the voters when he returns home.
The electorate did not care at all what he bargained with the USSR, only whether Soviet missiles would fall on their heads.
This is the topic that the American people are most concerned about.
After a week-long summit meeting, the leaders of the United States and the Soviet Union signed the Malta Declaration, announcing the complete end of the Cold War confrontation and the beginning of comprehensive cooperation.
The news immediately made headlines around the world, and from that moment on, the shadow of the outbreak of the Third World War disappeared, and the Malta Summit was seen as a landmark event at the end of the Cold War. t1706231537: