Chapter 867: The General Secretary is Hospitalized
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Anything Reagan was thinking about was directed at the Soviet Union. This is exactly the opposite of the great leader of the Soviet Union at the same time, this action coincided with the time when the Soviet Union died one after another, and in this situation of political instability, the Soviet Union certainly had no way to counteract, why did Serov say this? Because the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Andropov had just been hospitalized, although he came out immediately, but in the eyes of the General Political Commissar, this was a bad sign.
You must know that Andropov has only taken over as general secretary for more than two months, and the anti-privilege and anti-sabotage movement is unfolding, but the general secretary has been hospitalized once so soon, which makes people feel a little worried.
"To be sure, this is a broad transnational coalition of the Reagan organization aimed at us. It's just that we don't know the name of this alliance yet! "This alliance is still in the making, and Serov, of course, cannot say anything about the future.
"Reagan finished dealing with domestic problems and started to trouble us." Andropov's face was calm, even if he was a little uncomfortable, he didn't want others to see it. His long political career has taught him to disguise, and this is true in front of anyone, even if there is a tingling pain in his abdomen, he can still talk to Serov with a normal face.
"yes, he's a little faster than us!" Serov also did not know what happened to Andropov. It is normal for a country to have problems, and no country is a perfect society. After so many years of confrontation, both the Soviet Union and the United States themselves have problems, but the current leaders of the Soviet Union are waiting in line to die, but the president of the United States is in good health, and he is fine if he is shot mentally ill.
"Yes, Reagan moved a little faster than we did." Andropov was referring to the fact that the United States was adjusting faster than the Soviet Union, but this was normal, and Reagan had more than a year earlier than he did, so he had more time.
Thinking of this, Andropov felt a little uncomfortable, his body was actually not better than Brezhnev, kidney disease had been with him for decades, the results of this examination, the doctor told him that if he controlled his condition, he would have seven years to lead the country, Andropov had strictly ordered this matter not to leak out, before he was discharged from the hospital and returned to the Kremlin.
"By the way, Comrade Serov, what are the results of the anti-sabotage?" Andropov got rid of the negativity, he asked about the domestic problems that are now being solved, and only when he is strong can he confront the United States.
Andropov did not trust the Dnipro gangs even more, and he trusted Serov, Gromyko and Ustinov, the three major departments directly under the General Secretary. The heads of these three departments, although they are only ministers, are perfectly on an equal footing with the President of the Council of Ministers, as was the case a long time ago.
"According to the statistical report in two months, the output value of factories in the country increased by 5 percent, the number of people who were sabotaged throughout the country was 254,000, and a fine of 3.4 million rubles was imposed." Serov reported 1510 that the data was in his head.
"Very well, I knew that we had wasted a lot of potential, and the power of the country was not being brought into play." Andropov happily muttered to himself, and then said, "In two days we will discuss how to confront Reagan." ”
"Okay, General Secretary, you can rest first!" Serov smiled and nodded, leaving Andropov's office. If this situation gave him a choice, he would definitely choose to live for seven years according to the doctor's words, rather than be discharged from the hospital after the examination and go directly to the Kremlin to work, as Andropov did.
Waste in the USSR was as serious as slack, so to speak, a worker who had worked in a tractor factory all his life, and what he took from the factory, could assemble a tractor and drive it himself after retirement.
Serov knew about this, because another of his sons went to work at the factory during the holidays, and he took six sets of repair tools from the factory in a month, so the monitoring system had to be pushed into all the factories. If you dare to do this in Western countries, it is no different from theft, that is, the Soviet Union does not care about these things.
Employees have to interrupt their work for an average of one month for each move, and it usually takes six to seven days or even ten days to go through various formalities after work. In total, 700,000 people who were able to work did not work all year round, about the same as prisoners in the prisons of the Soviet Union. Since the seventies, the entire Soviet Union has been producing more than four billion rubles less than four billion rubles a year due to the movement of labor.
Fifteen million tonnes of coal are lost from carriages and misstorage in rail transport. The oil and gas sector "volatilizes" more than 3 million tons of oil each year, in addition to the loss of 1 million tons in storage and 2 million tons in transportation, for a total of 33 million tons, more than 5 percent of the total production. Because the natural gas processing plant could not be put into operation in a timely manner, billions or tens of billions of cubic meters of associated gas were "burned out in the flare" in vain every year in the process of oil exploitation, and 13 billion cubic meters were lost in 1980 alone.
Due to the inability of the transport industry to load and unload industrial and agricultural products in a timely manner, the national economy of the Soviet Union lost 10.5 billion rubles every year, of which 6.5 billion rubles were lost by industry and 4 billion rubles by agriculture.
On average, 7 percent of the production capacity of the 11 machine-building divisions is "not used at all", and if all this potential is used, an additional 7 billion rubles can be produced. It was also reported that as of last year, due to "miscalculations" in the planning work, enterprises affiliated with the Ministry of Metallurgical Industry of the Soviet Union alone and projects under construction had accumulated uninstalled equipment worth 1.5 billion rubles, which exceeded the quota reserve by 650 million rubles, that is, more than a third.
"I've always felt that our country is very good, why did I feel bad all of a sudden after reading this report?" Holding the report of Semychasny, a feeling called my Great Qing Pill suddenly rose in Serov's heart. Even the news of the imminent British victory in the Falklands War did not want to pay attention.
"More than 70 departments are involved, and it can be said that if all the problems are corrected, the military spending of the Ministry of Defense can be solved." Semichasny sat on the sofa, he had just returned from the field, and when he returned, he threw the inspection report directly on the chairman's desk, and this report was not exaggerated at all.
"11 billion rubles? That's a lot. "This number is even a huge greedy comrade who is rich and rivals the country, and he didn't know how to evaluate it, once upon a time he thought that his personal wealth had long been invincible in the world, except for the Rothschilds, who only appeared in conspiracy theories, there was basically no opponent.
The individual and the state are still incomparable, and if this degree of waste lasts for a few years, it will probably exceed his assets. As an agent of capitalism breaking into the Soviet Union, he could not stand this kind of money-burning.
Cybernetics? Serov remembered the same group of people more than ten years ago, cybernetics scholars have always been there, although they have not been taken seriously, and just last year a seminar for cybernetics scholars was held in Moscow. Academic discussions have been going on, but only discussions, and the methods in it have only been partially applied.
"Voledya, I really didn't expect it, I always felt that my monitoring of the state was okay." Serov probed his breath and said.
"You avoid confrontation with Brezhnev, so you don't interfere in the operation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the public internal police are visible to the general public, not the anti-rebel workers in your hands." Semychasny spoke, "The affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs cannot be delayed any longer, let Serokov retire, and Brezhnev's son-in-law." ”
"If it weren't for the fact that both you and Tikunov had retired due to illness, I would have liked to have you come back." Serov sighed, now saying that these things are a bit of a bad thing, and retirement is a foregone conclusion. Nor can he lift the ban.
Things can't be delayed any longer, Brezhnev is dead, and Andropov doesn't have a good impression of the Dnipro gangs. The problems of the Ministry of Internal Affairs should also be solved, in the evening Serov went to the Kremlin, went to General Secretary Andropov, and specifically talked about the affairs of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, "The Minister of Internal Affairs must be replaced, the duties of the public internal police are not fully played, Serokov is blind to the current situation, I want to change someone who is competent?" ”
"Who do you want to change?" Andropov said in a deep voice, he was equally shocked to see this number. One hundred billion rubles, and the full military spending of the USSR just disappeared out of thin air. However, Andropov also raised a trace of vigilance in his heart about Serov's desire to replace the Minister of Internal Affairs, and in the position of general secretary, this vigilance is normal.
"As is customary, the KGB assigns a person to the post of minister, and I have two candidates, General Bobkov and General Chebrikov, who does the general secretary think is more suitable?" Serov asked in a low voice.
"General Bobkov has a fierce personality, and General Chebrikov is very principled, both of them." Andropov thought for a moment and said that he was still not ready to interfere in the work of the KGB.
Serov, who returned to the Lubyanka, had just gotten out of the car when he saw a woman with a child blocking the gate of the KGB headquarters, "Go and see what happened?" "The General Political Commissar got out of the car at a long distance and asked the security personnel around him to take a look.
"The chairman, I petitioned, saying that there are four people in their family, but they can only live in an eleven-square-meter house." Serov's face was as if he had been ironed with an iron, petitioning? Coming to the Rubyanka to petition?