Chapter 916: Waiting for an Opportunity
After receiving this news, while looking at the plan for attacking Europe that was being formulated, the general secretary found more and more that the plan to attack Europe should be the product of two more drinks that day. The pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info obviously drank too much and forgot, with the current downward trend of oil prices, the possibility of the outbreak of war in the Middle East is much more likely than the war he planned.
What to do? The general secretary is also desperate! In the end, the evolution of the situation will not be transferred by his will, even if Serov is already the general secretary, of course, the plan will not be abandoned, and when the conditions are ripe, the raid on the Federal Republic of Germany will be launched.
The idea that South Azerbaijan wanted to merge with the Soviet Union forced him to think about the Middle East question by attacking the European front as a pretext. Like he said, it's definitely not a good thing. For the Soviet Union as a country, all these were disadvantages.
Now that it was the 80s, the Soviet Union could not do anything that would damage the country's reputation, even if the Azerbaijanis in northern Iran wanted to, not to mention that it would change the demographic structure of the Soviet Union, and there were tens of millions of Azerbaijanis in Iran. The Soviet Union was not a country where China and India had an absolute predominance in terms of ethnic or religious dominance.
The Soviets could not do this until the concept of the Soviet nation was established, or Serov would not have expelled the local Turks when they raided Turkey. The unity of the proletariat of the whole world is only a concept at this stage, which sounds wonderful to the general population.
You have found the wrong person for the world revolution, and if you go out and turn left to find the Trotskyists, the general secretary will not send you. Serov will shout two sentences about the world revolution if he has nothing to do, giving the international Trotskyists a thought, and at the same time scaring and frightening the European and American countries. In fact, he has been strictly implementing Stalin's theory of the establishment of socialism in one country, and at most Eastern Europe......
At such a time of fierce confrontation, the general secretary now has enough countries to help the poor. Don't expect Serov to do more," Comrade Gromyko asked Comrade Gromyko to give the People's Party government an official guarantee on a formal occasion. Cut off the minds of Azerbaijanis and support the BJP to suppress such speech if necessary. ”
General Chebrikov nodded, he understood the meaning, until the concept of the Soviet nation was truly established, any expansion of territory could not be considered, even if other nationalities took the initiative to join. After working so hard to build a perfect society, in a blink of an eye, the pacifists became the majority of the country? Isn't the knife of the anti-rebel worker fast enough?
"Peace Christians, you can't be trusted, not a single one." This is what Serov said at the original meeting of the KGB Presidium, "Idealists and materialists are people of two ideas, they have no common language with each other, their ideas are all over the world, and either we suppress them or they persecute us." If you have the opportunity, you have to clean up, and the number of cleanups is not capped......"
If the Soviet Union is the only one on this planet and its strength far exceeds that of other countries, Serov still talks nonsense with you? Directly ban Saudi Arabia from importing grain, create a great famine in the Middle East, and end this source of the disaster of donating mosques to other countries.
"I know, I'll communicate with the Iranian security services." Senior General Chebrikov understood that the general secretary was not actually a hate to peace religions, but to include all religions. Nor against immigrants from a particular country individually, but against all of them. In the eyes of anti-rebel workers, they will not deliberately distinguish what kind of harm you will cause, only that you will cause harm.
"It seems that the Middle East will break out first!" Serov smiled freely, his original intention did not change, he still wanted to compete with the US military, but it seems that the battlefield should be the Middle East, not Europe.
Europe's plan has not been abandoned, the basic conditions still need to be created, and the lock of the INF Treaty must be removed. The thing before the general secretary now is that he needs to bring out all kinds of unfavorable factors for the United States in one to two years.
When General Bagramian met Serov for the second time, the plan to attack Europe had not been mentioned, but the Middle East was emphasized. At present, the price of oil is only slowly falling, compared with the peak of 34 US dollars, which has fallen a lot, but it can still cause fatal harm to Iraq and Iran.
The real oil war has not yet started, and Serov is anxious for Reagan, so why not hurry up and take out the domineering spirit of the Plaza Accord, let Saudi Arabia cooperate with the strategic actions of the United States, and weaken the Soviet Union, a group of allies who are rich in resources but how powerful is the Ministry of Industry?
But he was the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, not the president of the United States, and could not help Reagan with these things. All he can do is wait, if the price of oil does not fall, Europe itself lacks resources, and recovery after being sucked by the United States is certainly far away. The crackdown has a price and also allows the industrial scale of Western Europe to be brought into play, helping its allies to reduce production costs.
International industries are interlocked, and to achieve this goal, the United States cannot allow oil prices to remain so high. Otherwise, the actions of the United States would not have been sheep shearing, and the Federal Republic of Germany and Japan would probably have been directly killed by the United States.
The United States cannot do this, so it also has to help the Federal Republic of Germany and Japan transfer the contradictions, there are many countries with rich oil resources, but none of them have such unique conditions as Saudi Arabia. It may be an exaggeration to say that oil is cheaper than water, but everyone knows that Saudi Arabia's production costs are much lower than in other countries.
"But you're so moving!" Serov was in a hurry, and he could not let him take the initiative to support Iraq in taking Kuwait. The peace-loving international image of the Soviet Union is still missing. Serov, who studied under Khrushchev, did not need to be taught by anyone in terms of intimidation, and from time to time he stood up to scare people, but after the world of Khrushchev's time, he also had a certain immunity.
In the post-war war, the Soviet Union fought one, and the United States fought two. Ten years ago, the international community was relatively calm, and many people who eat melons thought that it was unfortunate that the United States and the Soviet Union had a pair of such leaders at the same time.
"I really can't understand that Western European countries are happily asking us and the Americans to cut down on medium-range missiles." Senior General Bagramian is still entangled in this question, why would an enemy who clearly thinks that he is evenly matched make such a decision.
"They would rather be threatened by our most powerful tank army than pointed at the head by nuclear missiles, and this is where Western Europe and the United States differ." Serov shrugged, and another reason is that the French Communist Party and the Italian Communist Party are both powerful in this time and space, and Western European countries have seen what it is like for the Communist Party to be in power, and they don't think it will be good. Although Portugal's life is not comparable to that of an economic powerhouse, it is not far behind its neighbor Spain.
Why did Serov always plan to attack the Federal Republic of Germany? One of the important reasons was that the Federal Republic of Germany did not have a strong communist force, and the Soviet Union tried to make a spokesman, but failed.
In fact, communication with the military is still a matter of direction, and the general secretary only paid attention to the most important Europe for the time being that day, forgetting that the Middle East is equally important. The Ministry of Defense was a completely new field for Serov, and of course he was also a marshal, but he only commanded the Western Bayi once, and he lost to Ustinov.
It is now 1985, which is a very significant year, the year in history that Gotu came to power. The Soviets began their run towards hell from which they would never return, and as a counterexample, Serov had to go against the map as much as possible.
Because Gotu had just come to power in his first year, he could not turn the Soviet Union into negative growth all at once for the time being, so the basic merit of this American spy in the first year was this, directly attacking several of the most powerful departments of the Soviet Union. Significant cuts in the budgets of defense, security, and pillar military-industrial enterprises. Since coming to power, he has not approved a single contract for military procurement, which has resulted in the armed forces not being able to obtain new weapons and equipment.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB also received pitifully small allocations, which led to a very low morale among the staff of these departments. The general secretary also abandoned the generosity of the former Soviet Union and cut financial aid to the republics as soon as he took office, while two-thirds of the previous republics received funding from the central treasury. The republics, which were deprived of food, no longer bought Moscow's accounts.
When the Soviet Union increased its military spending every year, it had a confrontation with the United States, but when it cut military spending, the economy began to collapse, and the map really completed the seemingly impossible task.
The Soviet Union has been able to confront the United States for so many years, and it must have its own advantages, and it cannot be all disadvantages. Some departments are advantageous departments that even children can see, such as the powerful departments of the Soviet Armed Forces, the KGB, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Since the Russian New Year, department leaders have been appearing in front of Serov, emphasizing how important their department is, and Serov can understand this feeling, and his former self is the same as these people.
Even if he returned to the 10 percent growth rate, Serov would not be able to respond to his needs.
"As far as I know, the number of personnel in the Planning Economic Commission is not only not increasing but is decreasing because of the reduction of some alternative work, so what do they want so much money for?" Serov tilted his head and asked Tikhonov, who did not answer, as if after the age of eighty, the Soviet economic head was a little lacking.
Controlling the idea of pushing the other party awake, the general secretary asked Ryzhkov, who assisted Tikhonov, in the posture of respecting the old comrades, as if he had not seen it, but also did not get a satisfactory answer, and said impatiently, "General Bobkov, give me a clear investigation." ”
"Understood, give me a day." The two first deputy chairmen of the KGB are usually in the Kremlin and the other in the Lubyanka, and they change every month, and this month it is Bobkov's turn.
Serov swept around with an indifferent face, except for Tikhonov, who was asleep, no one dared to meet this gaze, and cleared his throat, "Regarding military and security expenses, I already have a plan. Comrade Ryzhkov, release a message that a large oil field is suspected of being discovered! Serov was still ready to help Reagan, and it was not his style to always wait.