The whole meeting was held in a solemn atmosphere, and members of the Presidium of the Central Committee, including Khrushchev, Suslov, Brezhnev, Kosygin, Shelepin, Mazurov, Polyansky, and Sherest, were sitting on their seats. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 The statue of Lenin behind them and the 16 flags of the Soviet Union and 15 union republics made the whole venue look very solemn.

Below, members of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, deputies of the Supreme Soviet, advanced workers, heroes of socialist labor, ministers of various departments, and representatives of the Communist Parties of other countries were invited, including the general secretaries of the Communist Parties of France, Italy, Indonesia, and other important countries.

This was the last time Khrushchev held a congress as the first secretary of the Soviet Union and chairman of the Council of Ministers, and seeing the people waiting densely below, this reluctance cannot be said to be completely let go, but Khrushchev also knew that he was so old that he could not tell when he would be gone, and he must retire after retirement.

The meeting was opened by Suslov, secretary of the Central Committee, and thunderous applause rang out in the venue. Even suppressed the voice of Khrushchev's microphone, who was already standing on the rostrum. Even though many people had reservations about Khrushchev's leadership, they still gave the greatest support to the top leader who was about to retire.

Khrushchev put his hands together and waited for the applause to stop, then put on his glasses and took the speech and began his last speech as First Secretary of the Soviet Union and Chairman of the Council of Ministers, "The great revolution of the Soviet people in 1918 began, as Lenin, the revolutionary mentor, pointed out many times, and began a new era in the history of the world. There have been various revolutions in history. However, no revolution in the past can be compared with the October Socialist Revolution. The establishment of a society in which no one exploits man has been the dream of the working people of the world and progressive mankind for thousands of years. For the first time in history, the October Revolution turned this dream into reality on one-sixth of the world's land. This revolution proved that without the landlords and the bourgeoisie, the people were able to build a new life of freedom and happiness in a planned way. At the same time, it also proves that without imperialist oppression, all nations in the world can coexist in harmony. ”

"The reason why the Soviet Union is invincible is that it is a country that has replaced the capitalist system with a socialist system, a country that has replaced the dictatorship of the exploiting classes with the dictatorship of the proletariat, a country that develops the social productive forces at a speed that capitalist countries cannot have, and a country that truly practices proletarian internationalism, truly opposes national oppression, and assists the oppressed nations in their liberation. Such a country has the enthusiastic support of all its own people, as well as the peoples of all countries in the world. These two types of support have reached a level never before in the history of nations. ”

The face of the USSR has completely changed in fifty years. Before the revolution, Russia's economic and technological power was relatively backward. Now the USSR has become the world's first and most powerful industrial country. The standard of living of the Soviet people was constantly improving. The scale of development of educational, scientific, and cultural undertakings in the USSR far exceeded that of the capitalist countries. The Soviet Union built the world's first atomic power station, made the world's first jet airliner, made the world's first intercontinental ballistic rocket, launched the world's first and second artificial satellites. It opened up the ****** for man's conquest of the natural world. All this is the pride of not only the Soviet people, but also the pride of the proletariat of the whole world, and the pride of all mankind. It is only some reactionaries who are not happy about this.

"As Comrade Lenin, the revolutionary mentor, said, the ice has been broken, the road has been opened, and the route has long been indicated." "We must note that the socialist movement is flourishing all over the world, and in Southeast Asia, the local people are heroically arming and waging a resolute struggle, and in the Middle East and South America, the oppressed people at the bottom have awakened their minds and begun to fight for a basic human need, which is the need of life, the needs of the individual, and the needs of society." The comrades in Europe, on the other hand, have won the rights and interests of the people through peaceful means, and no matter what means they have achieved this, I myself firmly believe in one thing. ”

Speaking of this, Khrushchev stopped thinking and slowly took off his glasses with a somewhat trembling hand, an old man in his seventies, his body was unprecedentedly straight, his expression was so sincere, and his eyes were so hot. This performance left the entire venue silent, waiting to know what Khrushchev wanted to say.

"I firmly believe that capitalism will be buried, and the final victor must be us. Maybe I can't see this day, but this day will come, whether some countries want it or not, history will prove that if we bury capitalist society, the future of mankind will inevitably belong to us! Khrushchev, when he presided over the congress for the last time, still uttered his classic quote, which carries more weight than it did ten years ago.

All members of the Central Committee, deputies of the Supreme Soviet, including Serov below, Chairman of the Council of Ministers of Russia Semychasny, First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee Yegorechev, Second Secretary of Lithuania Kharazov, Minister of the Petroleum Industry Tikunov, TASS President Meshatsev, First Secretary of Azerbaijan Kochemasov, Chairman of the Soviet Radio Station Goryunov, First Secretary of the Leningrad City Party Committee Tolskykov, all of them gave a standing ovation without slogans, Rather, it was to express support for Khrushchev with silent actions.

"Look at those people!" Chernenko also stood up at the same time and stabbed Serbitsky next to him with a covert move.

"Huh?" Serbitsky glanced at Chernenko, then skipped Chernenko and looked at Serov's group, around Serbitsky, the Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR Serokov, the head of the General Office of the Central Committee of the CPSU Pavlov, the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Novikov, the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Tikhonov, as well as the security cadres KGB deputy chairman Zinev, KGB deputy chairman Tsvigon, and Belarusian KGB chairman Chebrykov.

At this time, Serov also saw Shcherbitsky after being reminded, and the two nodded to each other. The two groups sat down a step slower than the rest of the Central Committee, but they didn't seem too abrupt.

It looks like the strength is strong, this is what Serov and Shcherbitsky thought after they sat down. If we consider the strength of the Central Committee, these friends of Sherepin are almost the largest group in the Soviet Union at this stage. And Serbitsky also had to face his opponent Sherest, although Podgorny had stepped down, but Sereste was also a member of the Central Presidium. But in fact, this kind of consideration is certainly wrong, Brezhnev has been a local cadre for many years, as long as the time comes, if he wants to find cadres who listen to his own ideas, he simply wants as many as he wants, but now those cadres are still dormant.

Khrushchev did not see the following situation, and he continued to make his own report, "We should have firm conviction and use the will to overcome the difficulties we face until the final victory." ”

After Khrushchev's speech, Mikoyan, chairman of the Supreme Soviet, walked to the front of the rostrum, and compared with Khrushchev's passionate speech, the nominal head of the Soviet Union spoke very softly, talked about some mistakes and problems in the Soviet Union, but his tone was absolutely not intense, and at the same time he indicated that he was too old to hold the highest post, and that he should step down from the post of chairman of the Supreme Soviet, do some secondary work, and give the main work to more energetic leading cadres.

Strictly speaking, Mikoyan is not retiring, but stepping down from the post of chairman of the Supreme Soviet and the status of a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee, and he can continue to work, but he will not appear on the highest stage in the future.

"I propose that Comrade Brezhnev be the first secretary, Comrade Kosygin the chairman of the Council of Ministers, and Comrade Sherepin the second secretary, and I invite the comrades to vote on the appointment of three comrades. At the same time, because of the vacancies left by Comrade Mikoyan and I, I recommend Comrade Andropov, Secretary of the CPC Central Committee and Director of the Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee, and Comrade Serov, General Political Commissar for State Security and Chairman of the National Security Committee, to work in the Presidium of the CPC Central Committee and lead the work in their respective fields. After Khrushchev finished speaking, he and Mikoyan returned to their respective positions.

"Don't vote for me! Vote against ......," Serov whispered to Yegorechev next to him.

"Why, what a great opportunity." Egorychev also lowered his voice, but his voice was full of questions, thinking that Serov had gone crazy, and that the members of the Presidium of the Central Committee would show that he was already in status, and all of them were leveled, and as a result, Serov did not want to go up? Are you kidding.

"Just listen to me!" Serov didn't say much, Khrushchev is still the first secretary, basically as long as he proposes, this matter can't be run, anyway, it can be determined, he doesn't need to pursue 100% of the votes in favor.

In the end, all Khrushchev's proposals were adopted, and Serov, as a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee, had the most negative votes, but in fact it was Yegorechev and a few of them who voted for it. Serov also entered the Presidium of the Central Committee.

Since this meeting, the Soviet Union has actually entered the Brezhnev era, of course, the current Brezhnev is only a weak first secretary, after the vote, Brezhnev as moderate, as always, said that he must thoroughly implement the collective leadership and use all his abilities to develop the Soviet Union. (To be continued.) )