Chapter 881: Your Territory
The price reduction had just begun, but it was immediately captured by the General Political Commissar who used the KGB to disguise himself. www.biquge.info At the meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee, he specifically analyzed Reagan's intentions, and after Reagan solved the domestic problems in the United States, he began to try to contain the Soviet Union in two aspects, one was a technological blockade, and the other was to reduce the price of oil. Of course, these two are not the only means, but now Reagan is the only one who can see the effect.
Another move that is not obvious is that some U.S. industries are moving to China at an accelerated pace. It is not difficult to understand the meaning of the flow to China, where Japan's economic power already makes the United States feel threatened. The United States only then thought of finding a country to contain Japan, and this trick was not the first use, nor was it the last.
If it weren't for the complicated conditions in India in later generations, the media of European and American countries, which help India brag every day, would have begun to try to transfer industry to support India and contain China. Although India is a little ignorant, it always seems to be a little more harmless than China, which has never given up socialism, but the problem is that India is not a little ignorant, but too ignorant, and has wasted the international feelings of imperialism.
In terms of industrial scale, the Soviet Union was at least no smaller than the United States in terms of size. Many project areas are the first in the world, and the bearing capacity is certainly much stronger than that of oil-selling countries such as Iraq and Libya. The Soviet Union's foreign exchange had only two functions, the import of luxury goods and the import of agriculture, the latter of which used much larger US dollars.
With the current welfare construction in Iraq, as long as the price reduction is more than two years old, there will be big problems in Iraq. Of course, nothing is certain, and maybe Iran will be ahead of Iraq. Based on the current view of the Gulf Kingdom on heresy, it is estimated that borrowing money should not be considered. When the time comes, the Soviet Union will drum up, and the two countries may take action to educate those princes.
In fact, Reagan's trick limited the containment of the Soviet Union, because the Soviet Union's grain had long been provided by the socialist countries of Southeast Asia, and there was no panic when there was food in hand, so that the Soviet Union would not lose its financial balance.
Foreign Minister Gromyko agrees with this, if he is not the foreign minister, he is probably the kind of cadre in the Propaganda Department who has nothing to do every day to write about the US economic drag, but later the Central Committee has decided that he must be the foreign minister, so that the Soviet Union has one less cadre who criticizes the US economic plunder every day.
Neither Ryzhkov nor Ligachev expressed an opinion, but the General Political Commissar was not short of flag-waving people. Aliyev, the First Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, immediately said that the General Political Commissar had seen at a glance the sinister intentions of imperialism. Such a trick will not cause even the slightest harm to the great Motherland, it will inevitably suffer a shameful defeat, and so on.
Another point is that arms were the second largest export commodity of the Soviet Union after energy exports, and most of them were exported to Middle Eastern countries in exchange for oil, and in the era of the booming oil business, the arms sold by the Soviet Union to Middle Eastern countries increased fivefold.
However, now that many Middle Eastern countries have been tied to the Soviet Union, the purchase of Soviet weapons is more for political reasons, and when the Soviet Union buys weapons, it will also sell half and give away, and it is difficult for Reagan to hit Soviet arms sales through oil price reductions. If the history of oil price cuts had a five-tiered effect, now the impact on the USSR is almost practical. The Soviet Union could have shifted some of this pressure to other allies, and the Soviet Union had far more allies than it has historically been.
As long as the USSR itself did not have problems, and these allies had problems, the USSR was fully capable of helping them with their problems. All strategies are double-edged swords, someone gains and someone loses. If all these energy exporting countries are defeated, these countries will lose their purchasing power, and the products of European and American countries will not be sold. It's to see who has more background.
At least the Soviet Union still has an advantage in terms of fairness, and its tolerance should be higher, not to mention that the Soviet Union is already much stronger than in history, and the gap with the United States is almost invisible. It is not impossible to fight the United States to death.
Soon the meeting ended, and Ryzhkov and Ligachev went to the offices of Andropov and Chernenko, respectively. The General Secretary and the Second Secretary did not attend the meeting, and they were recuperating for the upcoming meeting. Especially for Andropov, who will be nominating several new members of the Presidium of the Central Committee, this plenum is very important. It is also the time when he is about to complete a year in power and needs to report on his achievements.
"It was a joint decision of the comrades to nominate Comrades Vorotnikov, Ryzhkov and Ligachev as members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union." Chernenko presided over the plenary meeting as second secretary, and his voice was as gentle as ever, but with a hint of majesty, somewhat similar to Brezhnev's, but different.
Andropov was no longer able to attend the plenum, and in the past two months his health had deteriorated dramatically and he was unable to come here to meet with all the members of the Central Committee, and the meeting could only be chaired by Chernenko.
On a Tuesday on the eve of the plenary session of the Central Committee and the Members' Congress, Ankadi? Volsky, one of Andropov's assistants, came to his ward in the Moscow Central Hospital and drafted a speech for him. Andropov was no longer able to attend the meeting, so he had to send a man to the Presidium to read the speech in his name. The last lines of the speech said that the members of the Central Committee should be an example of integrity and integrity, and be responsible for the future of the country.
At this point, Andropov handed Volsky a folder along with the lecture and said, "The speech looks good. Be sure to pay attention to what I wrote. ”
Since the doctor had come to escort him out of the room and into the car, he did not have time to look through what Andropov had written. Then he was given a glimpse of what was going on, and at the bottom of the last page, Andropov added a scrawled piece of ink handwriting. The paragraph reads: "Members of the Central Committee know that for some special reason I am unable to attend the plenary session, and I am also unable to attend the meetings of the Politburo and the Secretariat. Therefore, I believe that Comrade Chernenko should be assigned to preside over the meetings of the Presidium and the Secretariat.
Andropov's nomination was approved by all members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union, the Central Committee and the Committee, and Vorotnikov, Ryzhkov, and Ligachev officially became members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union.
"The invasion of South Korean airliners did not appear, and it was the United States that discovered its own attempt? Or did history deviate slightly from the point where the CIA did not make such a plan! Serov thought about things that had nothing to do with the meeting, there was nothing worth paying attention to in the meeting, except that Gotu sat in a corner and was inconspicuous, the person who was supposed to be the general secretary, because the security file was manipulated by Serov, has changed from a young and promising member of the Central Committee to an old qualified member of the Central Committee.
Chernenko presided over the meeting in Andropov's place, and of course Andropov was not willing to do so. But in fact, since Andropov began to work in the Moscow Central Hospital, he has been unable to do anything to contain Chernenko. It's like the last moments of Brezhnev's life, unable to stop Andropov.
What would have been? Historically, Andropov was more optimistic about the Go-map, but in order to unite the leaders of the powerful departments and successfully become the general secretary, so as to achieve the goal of suppressing the Dnipro gang, Go-map was sacrificed by Andropov. As a result, none of the cadres of the new generation that Andropov is optimistic about now are full-fledged members of the Presidium of the Central Committee, and of course the situation has changed from today onwards.
But what if it does? This is just a group of peers of the General Political Commissar, and it is really better to see this trick than to live for a long time, Serov is not necessarily afraid of this group of people, in addition to age, his qualifications are enough to suppress these new members.
"Based on current observations, the general secretary may die of illness in a few months." After the meeting, Serbitsky and Serov met again in a secret location, and now Andropov does not need to go to the military parade on Red Square, and almost the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union can see that he is no longer good. I have been in the hospital for two months and have not been able to come out.
"I'll see the results in three months!" Taking a deep puff of his cigarette, Serov said with a puff of nicotine, "I know what Ustinov thinks, he feels that Chernenko is not in good health and cannot weaken the Ministry of Defense. So it is more inclined for Chernenko to take over as general secretary. ”
"It's good to think about it, why didn't anyone choose me." Shcherbitsky shook his head self-deprecatingly and said, "Ustinov must be wary of you, are you sure that he will admit a fait accompli?" ”
Serov touched his chin and rubbed it back and forth a few times, shook his head and said, "It's a pity that I don't have a second son who can be used as an adult to be my in-laws, not to mention that his children are very old, and I also suffer from marriage." ”
"What do you want to do? Is there any way you can take advantage of it? Serbitsky had not heard such an unreliable assumption, and with his knowledge of the General Political Commissar, it was impossible not to do so.
"There is a way, in view of the physical condition of Comrade Andropov, Chernenko is ready to let the medical team accompany the general secretary to the Black Sea for recuperation, Ukraine is your place." Serov looked at the Dnipro gangster's landlord and said in a low voice, "I still got Chernenko's proposal from his assistant, what do you think Chernenko means?" ”
"Send Andropov away, and Ukraine is led by me, as long as Andropov dies of illness, I will be the first to know, give him enough time to prepare." Shcherbitsky smiled, "He thinks well, Andropov left Moscow, he is the de facto general secretary, but this is not good for you." ”
"Not necessarily, depending on who you notify first? In case your mind is confused, what if you notify me first? Serov lowered his voice and said, "If I fall, my son and daughter-in-law will definitely be affected." In-laws? ”