Chapter 871: The Comintern
"General Secretary, doesn't it matter to your body?" Marshal Ustinov also wanted to express his concern, although this is nonsense, but it is better than not saying anything. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
"It's okay, Comrade Chernenko?" Andropov replied that he had already decided to do surgery. Work must be temporarily left to someone else until one's body recovers before returning to work. Only the second secretary, Chernenko, now has this qualification to deal with the work of the entire USSR.
"Comrade Chernenko is sick, I don't know if it's because of the Black Sea's discomfort or what, he is recuperating in a hospital in Sochi!" Serov replied, "But it shouldn't delay work, it will only take a few days to recover." ”
"That's good, I hope Comrade Chernenko recovers soon." Andropov thought for a moment and said, "What do Comrade Ustinov and Comrade Serov think about this alliance that is clearly against us?" How do we fight back? ”
"We can't back down? If we don't react to such an obvious target, the whole world will think that we dare not confront the United States in harmony! Defense Minister Marshal Ustinov opened his mouth without thinking about it, and as for how to counterattack, he had no idea in his heart, and his words only showed his attitude.
"Comrade Serov, what do you see?" Andropov then set his sights on Serov, who had been in charge of the Soviet Union's strategic offensive during the Brezhnev era, appearing in almost every hot spot. Compared with Marshal Ustinov, this matter is still the opinion of the chairman of the KGB.
Serov was silent for a moment, and then said under Andropov's scrutiny, "There is only one organization that can confront this organization established by the United States, and that is the ...... that was disbanded in the simplest period of the Great Patriotic War"
"Comintern?" Andropov opened his mouth to say what Serov did not say, and then fell into deep thought. If there are two people in the Soviet Union today who are familiar with how the Comintern works, it is Andropov himself and Serov, who for a long time was the head of the Central Liaison Department responsible for liaising with the communist parties and allies of various countries, and he himself was supporting the revolutions in other countries.
As for the KGB, it was because of the intelligence bureau of the nine European communist parties that existed for a period of time after World War II. Tito suggested to Stalin the establishment of an international consultative body among the communist parties. Stalin agreed. After the Truman Doctrine came out and the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union officially began, the Central Committee of the CPSU wrote a letter to Gomulka, first secretary of the Polish Workers' Party, in the summer of the same year, asking him to convene a meeting of the communist parties of some European countries to discuss the issue of strengthening ties between the parties. The Polish Party accepted. The inaugural meeting of the Intelligence Service was held in Poland. Representatives of the Communist and Workers' Parties of the Soviet Union, Poland, Yugoslavia, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, France, and Italy attended the meeting.
That's right, the French Communist Party and the Italian Communist Party were the most powerful communist parties in Western Europe. also joined the intelligence bureau of the Nine Nations, and since it was an intelligence bureau, the KGB certainly played a huge role in it at that time.
"Let Komsomolskaya Pravda publish an editorial attacking the hostile attitude of Western European countries towards the Soviet Union." "At the same time, let the Liaison Department of the Central Committee and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs contact friendly countries and parties to exchange views in a frank manner, express the support that the Soviet Union needs at the present stage, and win over these fraternal parties." If Comrade Chernenko had recovered his health, he would have immediately begun preparations for the rebuilding of the Comintern. ”
"Got it, General Secretary!" Serov and Ustinov stood up at the same time, and after explaining to the leadership of the hospital, they returned to their departments. In the USSR, before Andropov and Chernenko returned to health, there would be a period of absence of a general secretary, during which neither the general secretary nor the second secretary could work.
In fact, the USSR will be without a de facto general secretary for longer and longer, and if there is one thing that Andropov and Chernenko have in common, it is that both are in very bad health.
Soon, in response to the establishment of the International Democratic League in London, Komsomolskaya Pravda severely condemned it. Pointing out that this so-called international organization was a great threat to the Soviet Union, the ruling parties of Western Europe and the United States made such an alliance in which they unabashedly expressed their hostility to the Soviet Union, and even to the Socialist International. The Soviet counterattack was bound to be fierce, and the countries hostile to the Soviet Union would definitely pay the price.
At the same time that Komsomolskaya Pravda was in full swing, the Soviet Foreign Ministry and the Central Liaison Department began to contact the allies of the Soviet Union and the parties with party affiliations with the Communist Party of the Soviet Union to carry out diplomatic work and gain support.
Komsomolskaya Pravda is an exaggeration in saying that the International Democratic League was originally written against communism and socialism, the former being the state of the Soviet system and the latter the state of the Socialist International. Therefore, after the establishment of this organization, not only the Soviet Union attacked this organization, but even the Nordic countries and the socialist parties of various countries also complained about it, accusing Britain, the United States and Germany of intensifying the Cold War and putting the world in danger.
"Our Communist Party and the Socialist Party are different, the Socialist Party is a vote revolution, while we in the USSR are a revolution with guns!" In response to this, Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko said, "NATO countries do not respect the hard-won peace in the world and choose to use confrontation to cover up the contradictions in their own countries, which is bound to fail." Our counterattack will come soon. ”
At the KGB headquarters on Lubyanka Square, Serov stared at the Minister of Internal Affairs of the USSR General Fedorchuk in front of him with a dead face, and without saying a word for a long time, he suddenly said, "Did you do Comrade Chernenko's illness?" ”
"Why, Chairman? Comrade Chernenko's health is not good in the first place, and it is normal for him to be hospitalized after eating something bad, and no one can find out the problem. General Fedorchuk flatly denied it, not admitting that the incident had anything to do with him.
"Well, of course, if an old spy can still get someone to get a handle on this kind of thing, it will be a failure." Serov snorted, then whispered, "But the security services have strict standards to remind Chernenko that there are some things that cannot be eaten and can evade the detection of the ninth game." But the question is, who can evade the defense of the ninth game of the KGB and bring in food that can cause physical discomfort? Can command the General Administration? At least the senior vice-chair. ”
"You don't have to deny it or admit it, it's my own suspicions, whether you did it or not, this time I can assume that I don't know, Chernenko's health itself is very poor, you just have to do the work of the Ministry of Internal Affairs." Serov did not hold General Fedorchuk responsible, he did not poison, but took advantage of Chernenko's own illness. It didn't cause any major harm, but no one knows if Chernenko would be worse off because of this.
Chernenko spent half a month in the hospital to recover, and then returned to Moscow from the Black Sea. By this time, it was close to the end of April, and Andropov, whose condition had deteriorated, was still being treated. Serov, Ustinov, and Gromyko could only show the prepared materials to the second secretary.
"We have already communicated with the Warsaw Pact countries and the Central Liaison Department with some political parties for the re-establishment of the Comintern, and now Reagan's integration of international forces is menacing. The establishment of the Comintern was imminent, and General Secretary Andropov was in favor of this. Serov spoke quickly, but fortunately Chernenko was not in good health, but without Brezhnev's hearing problems, he quickly understood the first task of his physical recovery.
"Comrade Gromyko, is that so?" Chernenko, while looking at these opinions, asked Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko, who in the current Soviet Union was almost equal to Molotov under Stalin. The time when he and Molotov were foreign ministers was almost half of the history of the Soviet Union.
Everyday propaganda and agitation must be genuinely communist. All organs and newspapers under the control of the Party must be presided over by reliable Communists who are truly loyal to the cause of the proletarian revolution. The dictatorship of the proletariat should not be talked about as a mere popular formula memorized, but the dictatorship of the proletariat should be well propagated so that every ordinary worker, male and female, soldier, and peasant, can understand the necessity of exercising the dictatorship of the proletariat through the living facts systematically published every day in our newspapers and periodicals. In the newspapers, in the people's assemblies, in the trade unions, in the cooperatives, on every occasion at the disposal of the adherents of the Third International, there was a constant and merciless rebuke not only of the bourgeoisie and its accomplices, but also of reformists of all stripes.
These articles are no different from those of a few decades ago, the first one indicates that the Soviet Union and the Socialist International are not the same thing at all, Chernenko nodded, and the establishment of the Comintern can also look at the current position of the Soviet Union in the world.
"Yes, news from the hospital, in a week General Secretary Andropov can be discharged from the hospital to preside over the work. So what we mean is that on May Day this year, the Communist Parties of all countries of the world are invited to come to Moscow to celebrate, to rebuild the Comintern at that time! Gromyko looked at Serov and Ustinov, and both nodded at the same time, which was the result of the three of them,
"Okay, I agree to do this, and immediately prepare for the celebration of May Day!" Chernenko quickly agreed to the plan of the three, and now there is only one question, whether Andropov's body will be healthy by then.
Soon the Liaison Department of the CPC Central Committee and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs began to issue invitations to the Communist and Workers' Parties of various countries to participate in this year's May Day, and many Communists who already knew the news set off tacitly, and on 29 April, Andropov was discharged from the hospital.