"More than anything else, I think it's time to convene a security conference, you have just become the chairman of the KGB, and many of the comrades in the allied countries do not know you. Establishing certain contacts with the comrades of the allies will help us in our work, and it will be easier for you, as the head of security, to carry out our work. Serov seriously suggested to Semychasny.

"Well, yes, it's time too." Semychasny nodded approvingly, establishing his authority through a security conference, the national security conference has never been a department of the KGB, since Sherepin has become a bridge of communication between the Soviet Union and Eastern European countries, contributing to the relations between the Soviet Union and these countries, and asked rhetorically in his heart, "Yuri, where do you think the loopholes in our work at this stage are likely to appear?" ”

"Huh? Romanian! Serov was stunned for a moment and said with certainty, "The Romanians have been trying to drive our garrison away, and we must make some efforts in this regard. Moreover, the Romanian centrifugal force analysis of the Soviet Union should be accurately informed to the leadership of the Central Presidium, and not just to Khrushchev. Let our leaders understand that it is easy for us to withdraw our troops in good faith today, and that it will be even more difficult to return once things turn against our Soviet Union, and that the role of the Romanian cluster is understood by us all as a sharp sword against the Turks geographically. At a time when we cannot be sure that the Turkish direction completely lifts the threat, the Romanian cluster must be preserved! ”

"No matter who the leader of Romania is and what he wants, we cannot withdraw our troops." Serov had to think from the Soviet point of view, and as a result of Khrushchev's goodwill in history, Romania became a problem child in the Warsaw Pact bloc after Poland. And because of the existence of the Soviet Union's northern cluster in Poland, the situation in Poland was always under control until Goto's death, and the withdrawal of troops in Romania caused Romania to dare to oppose the Soviet Union at the government level.

The garrison must not be evacuated, who has ever seen the withdrawal of US troops in Japan and Germany? The U.S. government doesn't even think about it, and there is no voice in that regard. If the Americans can station troops all over Europe in the open, why did the Soviet stationing troops in Eastern Europe become a symbol of oppression?

Semychasny thought about it carefully, suddenly picked up the phone and waited for a while and said, "Let Comrade Sakhatowsky, head of the First Main Directorate, come, yes, I am Semychasny, there is something important!" Putting down the phone, Semichasny asked, "Comrade Sakhatowsky was the original Romanian general counsel?" ”

"That's right, the discussion of the Romanian question must have the opinion of Comrade Sakhatowsky." Serov nodded. Lieutenant General Sakhatowski was in charge of Romania for a long time before succeeding Panyushkin as head of the First Main Directorate.

Not long after, Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky came to Lubyanka Square 11, which is normal, the headquarters of the First General Directorate can be called next door to this place, and seeing that the first and second leaders of the KGB are there, Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky was also stunned for a moment, and then joked. "Yuri, just got back from Germany?"

"Hmm. The matter over there has been dealt with, and there are some things that Volodya and I don't know too well, so we need you to help us analyze them! "The importance of the First Directorate cannot be overstated, and Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky deserves Serov's respect.

"Well, Jura is right, you are the most authoritative expert on this issue!" Semichasny replied. Then he went straight to the point and asked in a very serious tone, "Comrade Sakhatowsky, do you think that kind of flaw in the work of the Romanian side, or to put it bluntly. Do you think Romania has any idea of breaking away from us? ”

"Or is there now a certain trend of over-nationalism in the Romanian Communist Party, and a certain degree of weariness with the Soviet Union?" Serov added a heavy sentence beside him.

"Leaders of nationalist tendencies? Ceausescu! Without the slightest hesitation, Lieutenant General Sakhatowski directly said the name of this person, which shows that although he left Romania, Lieutenant General Sakhatowski did not pay much attention to Romania, and the increasingly obvious signs of Romania in this regard had attracted the attention of the former general counsel.

Serov sighed in his heart, it was really him, and now Ceausescu, the No. 2 man in Romania, considering that Georgiou Dezhi's health has been getting worse and worse, Ceausescu will be able to take over smoothly as long as he waits for two years.

For Ceausescu, no matter how much mistake he made in his later years, in fact, Romania was far from the point where it had to collapse, and Serov did not believe that a leader who sang the Internationale to the death would really be as brutal as people later said, many Eastern European countries did not reach the point of economic collapse, but he couldn't stand the big brother's side of the Gotu is an idiot, Goto's sins are not limited to crimes against the Soviet people at all, but he took the entire camp of more than a dozen countries into the ditch.

Ceausescu is building in Romania, what's wrong with that? Later, China also relied on large-scale projects and infrastructure to develop, but Ceausescu did it many years earlier. As for Ceausescu's rumored corruption, he has been dead for more than 20 years, Romania has not found the whereabouts of more than a billion dollars, and in the 21st century, the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies of the Romanian Parliament held a joint session and adopted an investigation report on Ceausescu's foreign deposits.

Sabin, chairman of the commission of inquiry? Kutash pointed out that the commission conducted a large number of investigations and collected evidence within two years of its establishment, and that "all the investigative witnesses, without exception, believed that Ceausescu had no deposits abroad", and that the reason for this was that Ceausescu was very confident in his leadership position at home at that time, and there was no reason to deposit huge sums of money abroad. Romanian Conservative MP Dragosh? Dumitru even pointed out in his speech to parliament that Ceausescu was an "honest man" who was many times more honest than today's "rats" who are at large.

"Yuri, what do you think?" Semychasny called Serov back from the world and asked.

"It's not easy to do, a country's pursuit of autonomy is not something that can be done by a pro-Soviet leadership, Ceausescu represents not himself, but a large number of Romanians who seek autonomy. It is difficult to predict what consequences will be forcibly blocked. Serov, who came back to his senses, shook his head and said, "If it really doesn't work, we can invite Comrade Ceausescu to the security conference and take this opportunity to communicate, if there is still no way, I hope that our first secretary will not give in on the issue of garrisoning......

"Can't we copy the Hungarian and Polish model?" Shemichasny meant to replace Ceausescu.

"No, I dared to do this in Poland and Hungary because the two countries were in chaos. I just took advantage of the chaotic situation to clear up a group of people, but the situation in Romania is very stable, and there is a broad consensus on independence, and we don't know what the result will be if we act rashly, and besides, similar to what happened in Hungary, every time it appears is a great damage to our international influence and the image of the Soviet Union, according to our statistics, after the events in Poland and Hungary, the communists of all European countries lost one-fifth, and the British Communist Party almost did not exist. The Italian Communist Party and the Socialist League won that election, so this kind of thing can't be done a second time! Serov shook his head as if reflexively, telling Semychasny to abandon his risky move.

In the Polish and Hungarian incidents of that year, Serov's status was very low, and he was forced to solve the problem as a firefighter. There are only two paths in front of him, one is that the Soviet Union sends troops to suppress it, and the European Communist Parties abandon their ideals one after another. The other is that the Soviet Union did not move, he used the KGB advisory department to command the internal affairs departments of the two countries to launch a purge, and all the problems were solved by shooting, at that time Serov chose the latter article, sacrificing two countries to save the face of the Soviet Union, no matter how many doubts the countries on the other side of the Iron Curtain were, it is a fact that the Soviet Union did not send troops to intervene, and there was no opportunity to attack the Soviet Union.

Now that such conditions are not in place, Romania is relatively stable, the entry of the KGB is easy to detect, and the boss of one socialist camp wants to subvert another socialist country, and if it is not successful, whether it is Semychasny or Serov, it can be easily sacrificed.

"Comrade Sakhatowsky, draw up a security report on Romania, in which we will specify the reasons why our intelligence services insist on not withdrawing our troops from Romania, and Volodya and I will submit this report to the Presidium of the Central Committee, remember, Romania's tendencies can be highlighted in the report!" Serov can only adopt a conservative treatment plan, and sometimes the Soviet Union should show that shameless spirit, pretend to be deaf and dumb about the withdrawal of troops, and can talk about anything, but it cannot talk about the withdrawal of troops.

"Also, let the Advisory Department inform Minister Ilythescu that we have decided to invite Comrade Ceausescu to the Security Conference, which will be held in April, and I hope that Comrade Ceausescu will be able to guide the work of the KGB on behalf of Romania!" Shemychasny emphatically added in this regard.

This report did not make Semichasny wait long, and with Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky's knowledge of Romania, he quickly produced this report, which focused on the independence tendencies of Romania, and concluded that once the troops were withdrawn, there would be no chance of restraining the Romanian national forces. A little later, Shemychasny handed the report to Shelepin, who then forwarded it to the Presidium of the Central Committee for discussion. (To be continued.) )