"I kept the greatest tradition of the GRU as far as possible, did I ask you to turn against me?" Serov tilted his head and looked at Alexei and said, "Yes, few people know that Brezhnev had a second stroke in Mongolia, and I saved him, and the extension of this visit to Mongolia means that the general secretary is resuming, and I have strictly blocked the news, and others don't know." Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ”

"I'll just say that in the past few years, your strength in supporting Sherepin has obviously been different from before, although you are still trying your best to maintain collective leadership, but you look like you are being constrained, it's not that I look down on Zonev, Tsvigon and Sherokov, they can't check and balance you at all." Alexei took a deep breath and sat down and said, "You have always had a good relationship with Shelepin, why is this happening?" ”

"We've all changed, Shurik is almost 60 years old, and some of his perceptions have changed. That's why these two years have been checked and balanced. Serov shrugged, "Now his thoughts are completely different from those of ten years ago." ”

If it were now, Sherepin would have been tougher when he came to power, and there would be no change beyond that, Khrushchev's idea of abolishing the cadre life system, Sherepin, like Brezhnev, would have forgotten it selectively. At the beginning, Sherepin was only in his forties, and the cadre tenure system would not impact him, but on the contrary, it was a threat to the older Brezhnev.

"Do you think that if Sherepin replaces Brezhnev, he will probably be in power for twenty or thirty years?" Alexei took a deep breath and said leisurely, "It's not that this is not impossible, maybe the country will still be under his leadership in twenty years." ”

But? Alexei looked pensive and asked, "When you're almost sixty?" Do you want to be the general secretary for life? I don't think you can escape the cycle of thinking shifts. ”

"I said I wouldn't, believe it or not." I have money, and Serov, as the number one big greed, has already arranged the way back. In the future, the KGB will play a greater role, doing what it should have done and preventing the Soviet Union from changing color.

"Otherwise, we anti-rebel workers are just doing a little bloody, and the real politics is more than the side effects we have brought." Alexei no longer cared about this issue, and it seemed to him that Serov was becoming more and more scruples, and he began to be cautious and cautious about politics, and he did not know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing. Thinking of the scene of this young man talking about their Ministry of Internal Affairs twenty years ago, and looking at the appearance of the KGB now, this sense of ridiculousness is even stronger.

"Since I came, I will finish my meal and leave, now I don't know if I was right to save him in Mongolia, and I had no choice at that time, once he died from Mongolia, you must know that I am the biggest suspect, who knows what other Central Presidium committees will do to me? That's why I have to save him. Serov seemed to remember the night half a month ago, he really hesitated for a while, and finally hurried to rescue Brezhnev.

Now it's useless to say this, people have been saved, can we go back and start again? After a while, Valya got off work and cooked a hearty dinner, after which Alexei left Serov's house.

Watching the woman clean up the dishes and chopsticks, Serov, who had something in his heart, got up and went into the kitchen to be busy with the woman, the process was very dull, just like an ordinary family, after cleaning up the kitchen, the two went upstairs together and returned to the bedroom.

"There is still something, Alexei rarely comes over, and when he comes, he has something to discuss with you." Valya, who was sitting next to her husband, had a flash of light in her eyes, the two had been married for twenty years, and she could feel that there was something in the heart of the person next to her.

"yes, something, a little uneasy." After thinking about it for a while, I decided not to hide it from my wife, I was still too tired to hide it from everyone, and I always had to have someone to talk to.

"You members of the Presidium of the Central Committee, no one owes anyone, you reminded Yegorechev of what happened, and Sherepin did not reverse the defeat, losing Leningrad and Moscow in succession, and can only protect himself. It's not your fault. Valya hugged her husband's head and whispered, "You have helped him so much, but the other members of the Central Presidium generally have doubts about Selepin, not to mention that you also said that compared with ten years ago, his thinking has changed, and if he really comes to power, he is no different from Brezhnev, and even more difficult to deal with." ”

"Huh! Empress, are you comforting me? In fact, I dare not let Brezhnev die in the presence of only myself, and if he dies and is used by others, it is difficult to guarantee that the fate of several ministers of the interior will not fall on my head. Serov lowered his head and rubbed the woman's embrace and said, "Actually, I am just trying to protect myself." ”

"There's nothing wrong with self-preservation, do you want to take risks for Shelepin? Why? I don't want to! Valya comforted her husband, her position was entirely dependent on which side her husband was, and other things she didn't think about and didn't want to think about were not things that she should be concerned about as a woman.

"If there are a few opponents, in fact, it is not impossible to try, the key is that this kind of opposition is universal, maybe Shurik really does not have the life of the general secretary." Serov sighed, even now he admired Sherepin himself's cleanliness, this time whether it was for self-preservation, selfishness or whatever the reason, in short, he did miss an opportunity, and it may be the only chance for Sherepin to be the general secretary.

During a visit to Mongolia, the head of state of Mongolia, Especially? At a banquet in Zedenbar, Brezhnev said: "We rightly pay special attention to Asian issues, including the most complex ones. Can these problems be solved? Our answer is yes. We should build relations gradually and persistently on the basis of the principles of good-neighbourliness and genuine respect for the sovereignty and equality of other States, and in preparation for the future and for the achievement of constructive dialogue. Any country that deals with such problems in this way can expect our understanding. ”

In fact, Serov understands that Brezhnev's conversation in Mongolia is not about Mongolia, but about China now. At the time of the military parade in Sovietgrad, the American delegation was visiting China, and Brezhnev was trying to prevent China from turning to the United States, but it was just after this speech that he suffered a stroke, and his luck was relatively bad.

Early the next morning, Serov went to Brezhnev's office in the Kremlin, and it was not very obvious on the surface how much the two strokes affected each other, but Brezhnev seemed to be more reticent than before.

"Jura, with your relationship with Shurik, you can completely avoid saving me." Brezhnev was silent for a long time and then asked in a low voice, "Shurik has always thought highly of himself, believing that only he is worthy of the position of general secretary, and you may have lost a chance for Shurik by blocking the news of my illness." ”

"As long as there is time everything will be fine, Shurik has a lot of supporters and more opponents, he is a good person, a fair person, I support him very much in my heart, so some issues will tend to his advice, I also know the situation of us young people, many people are not convinced of us." Serov looked at the general secretary he had just saved twice, paused, and said, "Since First Secretary Khrushchev chose you as general secretary, then you should be the general secretary." ”

"The Warsaw Pact Joint Operations Conference will be held tomorrow, let's go and prepare." Brezhnev commanded with some weariness. Successive strokes certainly took a toll on him, he was tired more easily than before and needed more rest.

When Serov left the office, Brezhnev sat in his chair and slowly muttered to himself, "Khrushchev? He ruined Stalin's reputation and caused instability in Eastern Europe, does he deserve such a high evaluation? Just because he is a real Communist? ”

The Warsaw Pact Joint Operations Conference was held against the backdrop of the Soviet Union's great victory over Turkey, and compared with all previous meetings, it was even more victorious, and Brezhnev attended the meeting with his newly recovered body to express his importance to the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact as a whole.

"This time is different from previous meetings in that the threat to the Near East of our allies no longer exists, and at the same time the Romanian People's Army, the Bulgarian People's Army, and the addition of the Greek Defense Forces, it can be said that we now face an unprecedented advantage in the face of the entire NATO, and we originally had to face two threats, the south and the west, now there is only one threat from the West, and it is easier to concentrate forces, if we take the current situation as a reason, we can say without hesitation that we are in an absolutely superior position with NATO." Serov pointed to the map of Europe with his whip and said, "Considering the misgivings of Yugoslavia, this is my conclusion that the Yugoslav People's Army has been excluded. ”

"Therefore, taking advantage of this favorable opportunity, the center of gravity of the armed forces of the entire Warsaw Pact should be adjusted, and the northern cluster of the Soviet Union stationed in Poland will be expanded, increasing military pressure on Western Europe." Serov gave a brief overview of the recent situation, and then turned his attention to Wojciech? General Jaruzelski, Wojciech? Jaruzelski is now the only soldier in the Polish army with the rank of general.

"Marshal Serov, please understand Poland's dilemma, the increase in Soviet troops among the people is not easy to accept." Wojciech? Admiral Jaruzelsky cautiously hoped that the Soviet Union would reconsider.

"Then let them accept that once we win the Cold War, not only the Poles will be satisfied, but the GDR will be satisfied, Czechoslovakia will be satisfied, Hungary will be satisfied, and the entire Warsaw Pact countries will be satisfied, and only our enemies will be dissatisfied. Serov said unmoved. (To be continued.) )