This is not from the re-election of the last congress, but from the time Brezhnev came to power to the present, the re-election rate of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, and most of the members of the Central Committee who have not been re-elected have died of illness during their term of office, except partly because of disagreements with Brezhnev. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info such a powerful country as the Soviet Union, the natural metabolism has to be completed by old age?

Serov, who looked haggard like an overworked Serov, looked at the second row behind him, all of them were familiar faces. Although every congress emphasized the need to maintain the mobility of the cadre class, now, he only sees that it is carried out through the way of old age and death of cadres, and half of the people do not see this, they can only see that the Soviet Union is getting stronger and stronger, and the United States, which is pressing, is breathless.

Serov, who had something in his head, was suddenly interrupted by a burst of applause, and the audience burst into warm applause, Brezhnev should have had a pause in the middle of his speech, and Chernenko led the audience to warm applause. Serov, who came to his senses, applauded and expressed his support for Brezhnev.

The 25 th National Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) at the beginning of 1976 was generally very enthusiastic, and the speeches of cadres in various localities also carried a sense of confidence in victory; judging from the external environment, the world economic crisis in the capitalist camp had not yet completely passed, and the Soviet Union sent troops to seize Constantinople and solved its own serious problems in the Near East.

The entire Eurasian continent was firmly controlled by the Soviet Union, and was cut into two sections by the Soviet Union from the middle, and at both ends of the Eurasian continent, there was no longer any route that the Soviet Union could not radiate, and the operation of all lines of communication must be approved by the Soviet Union. If this is a kind of hegemony, the land power that the Soviet Union holds in its hands has never appeared before in the history of mankind. In the face of the countries of Eurasia in any direction, the Soviet Union was able to achieve absolute superiority. Even if they have the support of the United States behind them.

Although this is still a little short of the complete body in Serov's plan, it is already half completed, and the rest only needs to be tinkered, this kind of land power is in the hands, as long as the Soviet Union does not make stupid mistakes, at least it can be invincible.

In terms of the internal environment, because of the world economic crisis caused by the sharp rise in oil prices, the opponents of the Soviet Union were anxious, and a large number of enterprises closed down, while Western European countries liberalized the technological blockade in order to balance expenditures and invested in the Soviet Union, narrowing the gap between the two sides.

Under these circumstances, at the 25 th CPC CPSU Congress, it was not Brezhnev alone who was full of ambition, but all Soviet cadres and deputies at all levels who attended the congress. This sentiment was contagious to the foreign delegates attending the congress, including Chile and Cuba in Latin America, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia in Southeast Asia, and delegates from nearly 100 Communist parties on five continents.

Every time the Soviet Union held a congress, these pro-Soviet parties from abroad were indispensable to show their support, and more than 4,500 people sat in the auditorium, and this influence seemed to be a little stronger than at the same time in history.

Andropov, secretary of the Central Committee, presented a report on the prospects for the world communist movement, highlighting the development of the progressive movement in the world in recent years. The conclusion, of course, is that the century has never been more favorable than ever, and that the situation of the communist movement is very good.

After Andropov's speech, Serov took up his hat and put it on his head, walked to the front of the podium, saluted the more than 4,500 Soviet and foreign delegations in the audience, and greeted in a low voice: "Welcome proletarian comrades from all countries to the proletarian motherland, and let me explain the current security situation." ”

After the warm applause, he pretended to put on glasses without prescription, Serov nodded to the delegates from all directions, and the atmosphere of the whole venue was solemn, only his own indifferent but aggressive voice remained, "Comrade Andropov has already explained the security situation of the entire socialist camp at the present stage from the perspective of national security on the development of the world communist movement. Twenty years ago, the Soviet Union was forced to organize the Warsaw Pact system to prevent a surprise attack by NATO for the sake of peace in Eastern Europe and for the sake of peace in its own country. I believe that anyone who knows a little bit about history knows that the Soviet Union just wanted to coexist peacefully with the capitalist countries, but things have evolved to this day, the responsibility is not on our side at all, and the attacks of some countries on the Soviet Union are completely unreasonable. ”

"Some people say that now the Warsaw Pact countries have absolute superiority in military power, but they are still not disarming and are still in the arms race, which is a provocation to world peace, and so on. I ask those who ask such questions to think that the Soviet Union did not fight two wars in a row across the vast Pacific Ocean. Today, the United States is full of domestic problems, and it has a lot to do with these two wars. Serov continued, "The countries that raised this kind of question should not have noticed another statement, many of the Soviet Union's allies on other continents, who have suggested to us that we should use military force to take over Europe and completely eliminate NATO to win the Cold War in the case of such absolute superiority." But we didn't do that, in fact, I think confrontation is necessary, but we can win without means of war, and we don't need to occupy Western Europe, which doesn't do us any good. ”

"So those capitalist countries, you don't have to worry about the invasion of the Soviet Union, we will be in another room, with binoculars, watching you grow old, instead of killing you. It's not good for us. "There is no way, Brezhnev thinks that capitalism is not invincible, he can only go further and devalue the capitalist countries to a kopeck, so that in contrast, Brezhnev is still a moderate, and Serov himself is still a hardliner.

Serov had to jump higher to cover for Brezhnev, even if he didn't want to. There are things he has to say, he has to jump up and down, to attract firepower. Only in this way can the general secretary's wisdom and martial arts be reflected. I believe that Brezhnev said that socialism will definitely defeat capitalism in the future, and Serov will say that socialism will definitely defeat capitalism in the foreseeable future.

"Although Comrade Serov's words are somewhat optimistic, they are not unreasonable, and the future development of the motherland will require the joint efforts of different comrades to build our motherland." Brezhnev did not say that Serov's remarks were right, nor did he say that they were wrong, and used his usual methods to cover up the past.

In this important sense, the congress is just a day for everyone to show their faces, and as the big brother of the socialist camp, this is not a simple domestic conference. The reason why it took more than a week to meet was to allow time for other countries' proposals, before which the Soviet leadership and the leaders of the visiting countries took a group photo.

Minister of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba - Raúl. Castro. First Secretary of the Communist Party of Bulgaria - Zhivkov. First Secretary of the Polish United Workers' Party - Gelek. The first secretary of the Hungarian Socialist Workers' Party - Kadar, the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR - Kosygin, the secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU - Suslov, the general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee - Brezhnev, and the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR - Sherepin were in the first row.

In the second row are the chairman of the National Security Council Serov, the secretary of the Central Committee Andropov, and the secretary of the Central Committee Ustinov. General Secretary of the Socialist Party for the Unity of the GDR - Honeck, Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU - Demichev, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party - Zedenbar, General Secretary of the Communist Party of Romania - Ceausescu, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia - Husak. Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Poland - Jarosiewicz.

In the third row were the leaders of socialist parties in Indonesia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, Iraq, Sudan, Ethiopia, and Marshal of the Soviet Ministry of Defense. This can be understood as a group photo of socialism winning together, with the exception of Allende, the first secretary of the Chilean Socialist Party, whose president has just merged with the Communist Party of Chile, and Angola and Thailand, which are still at war. Even the presidents of Greece and Finland, who are not socialist countries, are in a group photo.

On the last day of the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Brezhnev proposed to adjust his understanding of some important cadres, and Poliansky, first deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, and Serbitsky, chairman of the Council of Ministers of Ukraine, became the first secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine. The first secretary of the Communist Party of Ukraine, Serest, took the place of Polyansky as Kosygin's assistant.

It was like a rotation of the positions of the three people, but then Brezhnev proposed that Comrade Sherepin was too busy as Chairman of the Supreme Soviet, so he proposed that Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers Semychasny be the chairman of the Central Supervisory Commission, and that the vacant positions be replaced by Comrade Tikhonov.

Brezhnev handed over the post of chairman of the Central Supervisory Commission, which was also a close friend of Shelepin, to Shemychasny, so that Sherepin would not object. At the same time, at this much-anticipated meeting, Sherepin will not object, which also increases Shemychasny's rights. But something seems wrong......

Brezhnev's proposal was adopted by the overwhelming majority of the Central Committee, and the 25th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was closed.

"This time he did it to us and Kosygin at the same time, and I always felt that things were not so simple." Serov who left the auditorium.

"Shemychasny will not betray us!" Sherepin said confidently, Serov nodded in agreement, this is impossible. (To be continued.) )