Chapter 908: Central Plenum
Because of Reagan's private words, the Soviet armed forces went into a state of alert, but this process lasted less than two hours, and when they returned to the Kremlin, the general secretary ordered them to be lifted. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
NATO, which was very nervous about the Warsaw Pact, secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and the storm about this joke had just begun. As the president of a country, Reagan's words can be news, not to mention that this sentence affects more than just one country.
At a time when Reagan's rhetoric was hotly debated, people were also wondering how the Kremlin would react, with fear and anticipation, and everyone wanted to know how the owner of that Kremlin would respond.
Because towards the end of the year, in the selection of the people of the year by Time magazine, Serov, general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and US President Ronald Reagan are far ahead, and the two are back to back, with half of the background of the star-spangled flag of the United States and the iconic flag of the Soviet Union. This was originally a poster for American conservative propaganda, but it became the most influential iconic poster at the end of the year, and it entered Time magazine's Person of the Year selection.
Reagan is the first strong president of the United States since the Vietnam War, and since the last time Kennedy made tough diplomacy against the Soviet Union, the United States has not felt the status of the world's number one brother for almost 20 years. Reagan's ascension to power rebuilt Americans' confidence, and during his first term, he proposed an economic revival plan to make the U.S. economy healthy and win the momentum of continuous economic growth.
Although two general secretaries of the Soviet Union died one after another, Serov, a notorious Soviet hard-liner leader in Europe and the United States, and a police cadre, finally gained the highest power in the Soviet Union and began to vigorously promote the anti-sabotage and anti-privilege movement. Strengthen the planned economic system, face the menacing Reagan, and call for the holding of an international democratic games against the United States.
The planned economic system of the Soviet Union was once again strengthened, and for the first time, computer networks were proposed to be used in economic development. After the establishment of a comprehensive social surveillance system, the new general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union tried his best to strengthen the Soviet government institutions, and the economic growth rate of the Soviet Union soared to more than 10 percent again after two years. The anti-sabotage and anti-privilege movements, as well as the strengthening of the planned economic system, began to be extended to Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union.
The two values, which represent diametrically opposed ideas, have one thing in common, because Serov and Reagan, and the Soviet Union and the United States, look at each other fiercely, and that is that they choose to build up their arms at the same time, engage in a broader arms race to defeat their opponents, and pursue each other in their spheres of influence.
This kind of duel between actors and spies makes people both excited and frightened. Reagan, who had changed his policy of avoiding the Soviet Union, chose to lead the United States in a new counterattack, and he was greeted by Serov, the Soviet Union's mysterious, KGB-born general secretary.
It is a pity that for a whole day, neither Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko, nor the General Office of the Soviet Central Committee, nor even the Rubyanka responded to Reagan's attack on the Soviet Union, as if they had never known about it. Of course, this is impossible, and everyone believes that Serov will never take it as if he did not see it.
"Why should I respond to an Alzheimer's person? He wants to send a nuclear bomb? Do the American consortia agree? Think it's the Cuban Missile Crisis? Nuclear superiority is on our side. Serov yawned and waved, "Everyone leave work early, and the plenum of the Central Committee will start immediately." ”
Ligachev nodded, he really needed to prepare for his speech at the plenary session of the Central Committee, and the other members of the committee also left work. In the Grand Kremlin, only the old rascals of gender and women are left......
Serov has a question, about the method of cadre change, Stalin's method is whoever can't complete the task is **** Khrushchev's method softened a little and directly told him to get out. After Stalin's death, all his assistants except Molotov were completely betrayed, and Khrushchev needless to say, if he had not led the KGB to keep an eye on it, he would have been overthrown by his own subordinates long ago.
The only thing that was relatively stable was the Brezhnev era, but the results of this stability can be seen by everyone, and if it really outweighs the losses, it may have a greater negative impact than the previous two general secretaries.
If Serov learns from Stalin, the future general secretary is learning from him, and it will definitely not work for generations of general secretaries to stabilize the country by purging the layout of their predecessors, there will always be a time when they will get away with it. From time to time, every leader is a leader of steel. Serov had a bunch of children, and from the fate of Stalin's sons, he could not do this. He is not Tikhonov......
Khrushchev's approach to retirement without doing anything seems fair, but it must be explained that the problem of pensions in the Soviet Union, which stipulated that the pension of a retired person was only half of the period of service. Serov would say that this is completely logical and mathematically perfectly fine.
A person's contribution to society in his prime is completely different from that of his or her old age, and half of his pension after retirement is more sustainable than the over-inflated benefits of later generations in Europe.
But the cadres were not satisfied, so Khrushchev's fate was not good. This problem must be solved, and if Serov uses the KGB to force these cadres to accept the current conditions, it will be okay, and the validity period will last until the day he dies. This is only to postpone the problem, and no one knows what the subsequent general secretary will be able to solve the problem.
"It seems that I need to make some compromises, and I can't solve this problem with the gulag alone." Forcing this group of cadres to be obedient, after he dies, there is no guarantee that the next general secretary can make the next group of cadres obedient, what are the exchange conditions? That's a problem!
Serov knows what the current Soviet cadres want, not much different from what ordinary people want, a house, a car, and some state care, no problem, these can be given to them. Fortunately, the general environment of the Soviet Union was relatively closed, these cadres had not seen much of the world, and they seemed to want a lot, but in fact, in Serov's eyes, this was nothing. Even if all the cadres in the Soviet Union were replaced, that is, 10,000 apartments and 10,000 cars, plus some medical expenses, it would be nothing for a country......
However, the general secretary will never set up a department like the advisory committee, and he will retire cleanly. He is also not ready to reform the pension, half of the amount is very good, and it will not put too much pressure on future generations.
If the whole country is given a full pension, in less than 20 years, the largest expenditure of the Soviet Union will not be military spending, and it will continue to reduce military spending and throw money into welfare, just like Europe in later generations. It is better to be dragged to death by the arms race than by welfare spending. The former collapsed and still had weapons to scare people, while the latter collapsed and the whole country could not be much different from a refugee camp.
"The general secretary takes care of you so much, why don't you quickly kneel down and defeat the United States with me?" Serov laughed at himself, his thinking is completely different now than when he was the head of the secret service. However, 10,000 apartments and 10,000 cars add up to not much, is there 100 million rubles? It's still a good deal. Plus the online whistleblowing platform established by the KGB.
One cotton case has pitted billions of rubles in the expenditure of the Soviet Central Committee, and if there are a few cotton cases, this money will come back long ago.
The mobile phone on the table made the general secretary have to temporarily stop thinking and answer the phone, "You can't come, I'm done taking a shower!" Little Valya's slightly dissatisfied voice came from the phone......
Uh-huh! Although there was no one around, it couldn't stop the general secretary who was a thief from looking around, cleared his throat and said, "Okay, I'll go over in a while!" ”
"It's swollen, it's swollen! I won't take the initiative to look for you in the future, just wait for you to come by yourself. Little Valya begged with a smile on her lips.
"If you're disobedient, I'll make your belly bigger." Serov gritted his teeth and threatened, little Valya was stunned and forgot to scream, and said cutely, "It seems that you really did this, you are more affected, right?" Old rascal ......"
That's right! The next morning, Serov, dressed in a marshal's gown, put on his hat and, by the way, gave his overworked secretary two days off to attend the upcoming plenary session in the Great Hall, which was already surrounded by journalists from the Warsaw Pact countries.
"General Secretary Serov, how are you prepared to respond to Reagan's declaration of war?" A reporter from the Central Organ of the GDR rushed over to ask what the Soviet Union thought of Reagan's claim to attack the Soviet Union as soon as he got out of the car.
The general secretary, who was surrounded by reporters, pondered for a moment, stretched out his hand to signal quiet, and waited for the scene to calm down before he said slowly, "The remarks of a third-rate actor and a patient with Alzheimer's disease do not need to be paid too much attention, of course, I understand the emergence of this kind of person, for the basic knowledge level of ordinary Americans, everyone should not overestimate too much, many Reagan supporters do not know where the Soviet Union is." Stupid people support stupid presidents. ”
"Please remember my next words!" Serov kindly beckoned all the cameras to him, and said word by word, "Reagan, listen, your Alzheimer's disease, which affects your thinking, should be treated as soon as possible." Otherwise, the consequences will be serious! ”
The security personnel around the general secretary then parted the crowd and allowed Serov to step into the Kremlin General Hall. For the first time, he said in front of the whole world that there was something wrong with Reagan's head, and if Reagan could not get rid of the Soviet Union in the future, and then found out that Alzheimer's disease was attacking? How will the Americans react? Leaving a name in American history? Yes, leave the reputation of the Gogo map......
Will Reagan commit suicide in order to prove that Serov's guess is wrong? That's what really needs to be considered. It's a joy to be able to force Reagan to death, but this kind of person would kill himself? Serov was not convinced......
"Hello comrades!" Serov, who came to the rostrum, raised his head slightly and looked at the members of the Central Committee present with pride.