Chapter 880: Oil Prices Drop

"Let it go, it's strange for two men to be like this. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info" Shcherbitsky twitched twice and had to speak, homosexuality was found in the Soviet Union and would be sent for treatment. Soviet scientists have always believed that this is a type of mental illness.

"You're welcome!" After Serov let go, he indifferently took out the flask, and then poured it on his hand, he is also a male and a female. Many standards in the Soviet Union are different from those in the world, and every time European and American scientists try to remove homosexuality from the category of mental illness, they will be fiercely opposed by the Soviet Union, and by the time European and American scientists succeed, it will already be after the collapse of the Soviet Union, and a series of standards promoted by the Soviet Union all over the world have almost disappeared from international organizations.

This overnight fiasco, even Serov, a Chinese, felt sorry for the Soviet Union, and now he has the ability to reverse it. He didn't think that Beria's kind of Lao Tzu could succeed, and he was trying to avoid Sherepin's aggressiveness. The former was assassinated by Malenkov, Khrushchev, Molotov. The latter forced everyone around Brezhnev.

The current situation makes Serov have to make another change in thinking, anyway, there is no successor to the Dnipro gang, and the bigger threat is the few people nominated by Andropov, which may also be related to Andropov's lack of confidence in his body. With the exception of Ligachev, these cadres are actually average in ability. As for the reason why Ligachev looks good, it is because in the Khrushchev era, Ligachev worked in the Central Committee, unlike Ryzhkov and Volotnikov.

But? Serbitsky's attitude always gave Serov a feeling of helplessness. If it weren't for the fact that Andropov's favored cadres had no ability, he would still use to contact the Dnipro gang?

"You know what? I think the most unstable is Ryzhkov! In front of his own family, Serov did not hide his true opinion of the few people selected by Andropov, and there was another reason why he did not like Ryzhkov, that is, Ryzhkov had a good relationship with the first secretary of the Stavropol Territory and the member of the Central Committee.

Serov didn't find out about this situation for long, and after preliminary observations, the relationship between the two was just the opposite of history. Now it's Go, and the map is good in the eyes and minds of the big man Ryzhkov. Because of this relationship, the General Political Commissar had a worse impression of Ryzhkov, what is the word? The smell is the same, right?

Ryzhkov is a reliable heir? Serov absolutely did not believe in this, he and Gotu were only worse and worse relations, the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, a real second-in-command. Even if he doesn't have Kosygin's prestige, it doesn't mean that he won't do it. Ligachev managed to organize a final counterattack, although it was easily crushed. What did Ryzhkov do, did the USSR need a second-in-command as a spectator?

"So your eyes are okay?" A smile slowly appeared on Shcherbitsky's face, and he said unhurriedly, "Few of the people chosen by Andropov can be used." Truth be told, it's not even as good as the cops under your command. ”

"If my eyes are not good, how can I look for you. Chernenko is only the oldest in your group, but in fact you are the most powerful and ruthless. Otherwise, when we supported Celeste, you would have made him disgraced by a second-in-command. Serov said in a long voice, "The support is the same, you all have the strength to make Sherest uncomfortable." This is not something that Chernenko can do. ”

"Can I understand this as a compliment?" Shcherbitsky rolled his eyelids and said disdainfully at Serov's evaluation, "If I had lost positions with Chernenko, you would have gone to farm like Sherepin today." ”

"It's more likely that you're going to die in a traffic accident." Serov, who was rubbing his nails, blew lightly, "I suggested to Sherepin that I use the Kremlin garrison to kill you in a direct coup." ”

"You can't do it, Zinev, Zvigon, Serokov, Chebrikov are all there, they will watch you." Shcherbitsky shook his head and said, "The risk is too great, so neither Ilyich nor Shurik is sure of a showdown." ”

"Well, it's too risky, and that's why the two of them ended up solving the problem politically, and at this point, Shurik lost!" Under the circumstances, unless Serov could immediately order the elimination of all members of the Dnipro gang from the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs, once known to the military, the whole of Moscow would inevitably be bleeding.

The boss of both groups is now dead and the other is retired. In this Ukraine Hotel, two cadres who were once favored separately had their first contact. If it had been ten years ago, neither of them would have imagined today. They're ...... Plotting a conspiracy, a conspiracy that was enough to change the politics of the USSR.

"I didn't expect him to be in such poor health, and Chernenko, as sure enough, he has no allies politically, and he hides it from me. But thanks to you! Serbitsky looked at Serov and said, "Tikhonov is not a difficult person to deal with, I know him well. Brezhnev used him solely because Tikhonov was a good executor. In order to control the government level and eliminate Kosygin's influence, Kunayev was difficult to deal with. ”

Serov nodded, as a candidate that Brezhnev was very optimistic about, the place where Serbitsky suffered was that he was a local cadre and could not understand Moscow's first-hand silence. This made him unable to react quickly when he was competing for the general secretary.

This also proves that even Brezhnev did not want to attach his own subordinates. Speaking of which, Serov once again mentioned the wedding date of the two families, and he felt that it could start after the Russian New Year.

"Well, I've been kidnapped by you." Shcherbitsky said impatiently that if he could choose to regret it, he would not send his daughter to Moscow to school. Comrade First Secretary may have forgotten, even if he did not do so. The General Commissar can also send his son to Ukraine, and Shcherbitsky's daughter will not be able to escape.

So it's useless to say that this assumption will always come. After getting Shcherbitsky, the General Political Commissar felt that his bones were lighter, and he walked with the illusion of walking on the moon, and when he walked out of the Ukrainian Hotel, the special car outside was already waiting.

In a room on the twelfth floor, a white arm is holding an Orthodox statue by the window, this girl's face is absolutely beautiful, her eyes are slightly closed, a trace of shyness appears on her face, a flush appears on her perfect body, and her slender legs are closed, allowing the man behind her to do it.

The young man behind him was much more serious, holding the woman's body and constantly stirring, listening to the girl's obviously suppressed voice, at this time the girl suddenly stopped responding, and said softly two seconds later, "Boris, I just saw my uncle." ”

"Ina, don't be kidding, you know that although my father doesn't care about this kind of thing, he can't let him know that we are here, it's not for ordinary people to come in!" Boris kept moving, and he thought it was an excuse that the girl didn't want to make by the window.

But! Shelbilova also wanted to say that she was not mistaken, but she was picked up by the man behind her and left the window in the posture of a princess, how could the girl be able to defeat the boy who had passed all the training in the secret service school course, and after a while, she forgot what she wanted to say, and completely gave the initiative to the man on her body.

"Boris hasn't come back yet?" After arriving home, Serov said to himself with some doubts, now he can't instruct his son where to go through the course, Boris has graduated and will soon enter the Fifth Main Directorate of the KGB and start working.

"My son is very much like you!" Valya came out of the kitchen with a bowl of soup and said a pun.

It's a pity that the General Political Commissar didn't hear the meaning, and if Grischen was a guest at his house, maybe the two of them would be able to analyze it.

In the seventies, when oil prices were soaring, the Soviet Union's earnings from oil exports increased by 300 percent, and the volume of exports increased by 22 percent, and the price of oil in the world market played a decisive role in the liquidity of the Soviet economy. An increase in the price of oil by one dollar per barrel means that the Kremlin receives about a billion dollars in additional hard currency, and conversely, a decrease in the price of oil means a decrease in revenue.

However, the United States is a big oil importer, and the United States spends nearly $200 billion a year to buy oil, and the most suitable price of oil for the US economy is $20 per barrel, while the price of oil per barrel at that time was $34; if the price of oil in the international market falls to $20 per barrel, the economic cost of the United States will drop by $70 billion a year, which means that 1 percent of the existing gross national product will be converted into the income of American consumers. Moreover, the overall economic situation in the United States will improve significantly. Lowering the price of oil could have hit the Soviet Union hard.

Reagan told King Fahd: "Saudi Arabia's main enemies are Iraq, Libya, Iran, and the Soviet Union, and they are all major beneficiaries of high oil prices, which greatly benefit Saudi Arabia and the United States; With the United States as its backer, Saudi Arabia no longer has to fear threats from any country. The United States provides Saudi Arabia with advanced combat aircraft and other advanced weapons, as well as military protection. ”

At the same time, the US Secretary of Energy also persuaded Britain to increase its oil production in the North Sea at the same time.

"Saudis, do you think you are very good at fighting?" Serov laughed, "This incident has some impact on us, but the most affected thing is that Iraq and Iran, their own industries cannot support such price reductions." "Oil was very important to the Soviet Union, but the Soviet industry was also very strong, and it was much more resilient than the countries that simply sold oil, and besides, Soviet grain did not need to be imported as it did historically, and it did not need a lot of dollars to reserve.