Chapter 546: Explosive Growth
"It's terrible, it's terrible......" Servanov muttered in a low voice as he came out of the chairman's office. Pen ~ fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info he only saw Serov show this kind of look once, that is, before going to Indonesia to talk about how to deal with the Indonesian coup army, and then the Indonesian army suffered a big purge, as the secretary and chief of general affairs responsible for the chairman in recent years, Servanov knows what kind of temper his top boss is, when the chairman's wife came to the rubyanka, Serov called a courteous person, by no means disguised, you can imagine what will happen if you are disrespectful to his wife.
Twenty-four hours later, Servanov was repeating what he had done yesterday, reading a newly published newspaper titled Former American boxing champion Sony? The news of Liston's shooting on the streets of St. Louis has sent many black people in the area to express their condolences. As for some American newspapers speculating that the Soviets did it, he did not dare to take a picture of the newspaper to Serov.
"Some people say I killed it, right? Their IQs are normal, but I won't admit it. After listening to the newspaper, Serov stood up and patted his trouser leg and said, "Okay, I'll go to Kyiv tomorrow to see how the 3rd Internal Guard Division is doing." ”
The Third Division of the Internal Guard, which belongs to the reorganized General Directorate of the Internal Guard of Ukraine, is stationed in Kiev, the head of the General Directorate of the Internal Guard of Ukraine is Igor, Serov's good friend and the first deputy chairman of the KGB of Ukraine is Shirekov, Serov's subordinates brought from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, because of the important position of Ukraine in the political map of the Soviet Union, so he put two trustworthy people to stay here.
After getting off the bus in Kyiv, Serov temporarily left the whirlpool, and the newspapers of the two camps in Moscow were still talking about whether the social monitoring network was good or not, and Western Europe had almost formed a consensus in the public opinion circles, that is, it was not good. Before Serov left Moscow, did he think about finding someone to write a novel about Big Brother Watching You and so on, and put it on fire......
It's a pity that there is no time, and by the time the novel is finished, the heat of this matter may have passed, and it is more likely that the author of a Western European country may be thinking of something similar. It is not just the Soviet Union that uses the endorsement of the cultural circles to do this, as long as public opinion needs it, there will also be many cultural people in Western Europe who will come out to kneel and lick their eggs. Political opinion needs it.
In addition to Igor and Shirekov, Serov met with the chairman of the Council of Ministers of Ukraine, Serbitsky, who was born in a working-class family in Verkhniy Dneprobsk, Yekaterinoslav province. Ukrainian. But Serbitsky is completely different from Serbitsky, who is a first secretary who tries to preserve Ukrainian culture, while Serbitsky has no national consciousness, on the contrary, in Serbitsky's view, if the Ukrainian national consciousness is strong, there is a danger of splitting the Soviet Union. So when it comes to the matter of Ukrainian culture, the two have very different attitudes.
As soon as Serov saw Serbitsky, he felt that he was a ruthless person who should be the chairman of the KGB instead of developing the economy at the local level. At this time, the chairman of the Council of Ministers of Ukraine should have been in the spring breeze, and the patron of Sheryst, Podgorny, had become an ordinary person. The reason why Sereste is still the first secretary of the Ukrainian party committee is, on the one hand, because Khrushchev is more recognized, and on the other hand, because the first secretary of the Ukrainian party committee is himself a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee.
But with Brezhnev's support, Serbitsky's authority has increased greatly, and Shereste can no longer exclude him at will, as he used to. With the ascension of Shcherbitsky, personnel changes within the Party and the government gradually began, many of which involved the removal of Serest's supporters and the promotion of cadres associated with the Communist Party organization of the Nepropetrovsk region, where Serbitsky had been the base of his early career. Now this process has just begun, and Shcherbitsky has not yet exerted his strength.
But Serov knew something else, and that was what made Serov look at Serbitsky differently, who, after achieving an overwhelming victory over Serbitsky, purged the Communist Party of Ukraine, expelled five percent of the Ukrainian Communist Party, and kept arresting nationalists and human rights activists.
Serov has been planning and deducing things, Shcherbitsky really did it during the Cold War, if it weren't for the constraints of Shereste in front, maybe Shcherbitsky would have really been able to pinch Ukraine and Russia into a whole. Treating this kind of ruthless person, Serov can only say admiration, and then talk and laugh with him, showing that the two are a kind of people......
Serbitsky welcomed the arrival of the KGB chairman and invited the three of them to his home. He also wants to have a good relationship with the security cadres of the KGB system, so what to do? Wouldn't it be okay to have a good relationship with the chairman directly?
At least now with Khrushchev on top, there will be no conflict between them, Serbitsky, like Serov, is an alternate member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, and the rank of Ukrainian cadres has always been relatively high, which shows that the Soviet Union attaches great importance to Ukraine.
"Comrade Serov came to Kyiv to inspect the 3rd Division of the Internal Guard?" Sherbitsky asked with interest.
"Yes, the 3rd Division, like the Dzerzhinsky Division in Moscow, is an important combat force of our KGB, and after the reorganization of the Main Directorate of the Internal Guard, I always have to come and see it." Serov tasted the caviar and showed a look of satisfaction, the Soviet Union is not without good things, at least the caviar is absolutely original. Canned king crab is also very good, look at the brand, the food factory under the KGB produces ......
A little embarrassment Serov didn't take it seriously at all, the factories under the KGB had a steel stamp of the letter K in a hidden place, but it would not be directly on the open side, but appeared on the edge, and Serov happened to see it.
"If it weren't for the fact that the Dzerzhinsky Special Operations Division could not leave Moscow, I would really like to see the confrontation between the two divisions!" Serov, who put down his binoculars, said to General Igor next to him. Although he had just watched the Butan Coordinated Operation, Serov, who was not a military cadre, felt nothing except that he felt unclear.
As for the step-tan coordination, Serov was not clear. For artillery shooting, it is still not clear. To tell the truth, the 3rd Division of the Internal Guard made his chairman watch such a hard-working exercise, and he had a feeling of being blind. If it weren't for the fact that the operational staff officer who followed him to Kyiv looked approving of it, he, the chairman of the KGB, would have seen everything.
"When the time comes, I will go to Ustinov to ask for a new tank, and I have to be ready, maybe I will go to the battlefield then?" Serov patted Igor on the shoulder and laughed, "Maybe this army will garrison Constantinople in the future, who can say what will happen in the future......"
As long as Turkey does not give up its ambitions for Cyprus, the conflict between Greece and Turkey will inevitably break out, and it will be time to throw their arms and go into battle in person. If he remembers correctly, it should have been when the United States was at its weakest. As long as Turkey is cut, Eurasia will be Soviet's, and the worst outcome of the Cold War will be a draw, and as long as the Soviet Union tries a little harder, it will press the United States to beat.
"Constantinople? It's a haunting place. Igor was fascinated by this, for every Russian, this is the source of their culture. Although the Soviet Union purged the roots of Orthodox Christianity, the culture could not be changed, and every Russian could not deny the influence of the Eastern Roman Empire on Russia.
"There will be a chance!" Serov turned his gaze back to the KGB's internal guard and said, "It will definitely be ......"
Serov, who returned to Moscow, reported that he wanted to apply for the Third Division of the Internal Guard Army to change its honorary name, and the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union agreed to this application, and then Serov ordered that the Third Division of the Internal Guard Army in Kiev be changed to the name of the predecessor of the KGB, just like the Dzerzhinsky Division named after Dzerzhinsky in Moscow, the Third Division of the Internal Guard Army was changed to the Cheka Division, commemorating the establishment of the Cheka that year, and showing the KGB's respect for history.
Throughout 1966, the Soviet Union was plunged into a scene of prosperity. While Serov is vigorously suppressing the criminal space in the field of security, all sectors of the Soviet Union are also reporting successes, with secondly, Baku's oil production reaching a new high, and third, Baku's posture of coming from behind. At the same time, natural gas does not mean that the Soviet Union's natural gas production has also reached a new high, and Mongolia's open-pit coal mines have also been put into operation, alleviating the problem of coal development difficulties in the Soviet Union.
Even this year's grain production is very face-saving, and the channels of Sudan and India have greatly alleviated the shortage of food supplies in the Soviet market, and it seems that all the cadres are doing their best to reassure Khrushchev that the country is getting better and better, so that the first secretary, who is already in his seventies, can retire with peace of mind.
Of course, although many people think so in their hearts, they will never say it, and all kinds of voices continue to retain Khrushchev, including newspapers and ******, this voice has finally spread abroad, and it has also caused a lot of reports for a while, and many countries are very concerned about whether Khrushchev is really ready to retire?
At the end of 1966, the statistics of the Soviet Union were very beautiful, and the economic growth rate in one year actually reached 9.8 percent, although this figure was due to the factors of Sudan and Indonesia joining the Economic and Mutual Economic Association, but Serov was still a little surprised when he saw it: "Are those cadres a little overdone, the first secretary is expected to retire the year after next, and this year it will be nearly 10 percent, what will happen next year?" ”
Serov, of course, did not know that the more excesses were yet to come, and in the first three months of 1967, this growth was still continuing, and he had never seen Soviet cadres so energetic, and he really had the appearance of what Khrushchev called a theory of voluntarism, which was simply terrifying. (To be continued.) )