Chapter 882: Star Wars Project

It's just a casual remark, putting hope in Serbitsky, he has been fooled in vain for so many years. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Believe that marriage can solve all problems? It didn't work in China, let alone in the USSR. What he could believe in was the agents of the Ninth General Directorate of the KGB, and the KGB, which was responsible for protecting the major leaders of the Soviet Union, was the force he could trust.

He is the KGB, and he can only trust the KGB, and any other considerations, to put it mildly, are nonsense.

"Your probing skills are a little worse than Brezhnev's. Need I tell you? You, the chairman of the KGB, have been doing it for nothing for so many years? Shcherbitsky sneered, "Won't the Ninth Directorate tell you directly when the time comes?" ”

"It's not interesting to talk like this, we are high-ranking cadres, how can we talk like those thieves?" Serov's face changed, and he said step by step, "That's just a backup method, can't you do it openly?" ”

The Ninth General Bureau needs to take a detour to do this kind of thing, how can it be more convenient for this big head snake entrenched in Ukraine to make a move?

Always lying in the hospital, even a good person will get weaker and weaker, while Andropov can still move, it is also a good choice to recuperate on the shores of the Black Sea with a more favorable climate.

So when Chernenko made this proposal, no one objected, and as for Andropov himself, it was the same whether he opposed it or not, on the one hand, it was really for his good, and on the other hand, with his current physical state, he could not do anything to Chernenko, just like Brezhnev in his old age, time had beaten them.

In this way, Andropov was escorted by special train to the Black Sea to recuperate, of course, this does not mean that Andropov was isolated from the center of power, and a whole set of institutions attached to the general secretary was still running, and Andropov was still the general secretary of the Soviet Union. There were also Ustinov, Gromyko, Serov, Chernenko who visited him regularly.

Each department performs its own duties, and the leaders of the major departments of this state have learned it as early as the late Brezhnev era.

At the moment of the departure of the special train, all the members of the Central Presidium seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. Grishin, the first secretary of the Moscow Municipal Party Committee, stayed where he was for a moment and left with a blank face. Romanov, the secretary of the Central Committee, stood still, waiting for the reaction of the others, until Chernenko made a move, and everyone left the train station one after another.

For Andropov's physical condition, everyone is clear, this is no longer something that the general secretary himself can hide, and more than two months of hospitalization can make these Soviet bigwigs figure out everything. In the current state of affairs, Andropov is not certain to die, and there is really little hope that he can hold on.

Everyone was dormant waiting for the next fight, and Chernenko almost immediately sensed that his biggest threat was the only remaining boss of the Komsomol, KGB Chairman Serov. Seniorly, Serov was a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee in the Khrushchev era, even earlier than Andropov.

"It's fast!" Serov also immediately felt that Chernenko's attitude was not very friendly, and there was no way, to the point where he was today, his figure had reached the point where no one could not fail to pay attention. There are no more prestigious and senior people than him, and it would be strange if Chernenko did not notice himself.

So at this time, Serov could not leave Moscow, otherwise, there would be a conspiracy against him, and history told him not to think that what happened with Beria would not repeat itself.

Serov, however, believes that no one in Moscow can kill him without even noticing. It is impossible for the Kremlin garrison, the Dzerzhinsky special operations division, and the Taman division to be transferred without their knowledge. As for the police forces in Moscow as a whole, they themselves were an integral part of the KGB.

"The general secretary is recuperating, but the anti-sabotage and anti-privilege movement will continue, so from today onwards, I will live in the Lubyanka and continue to carry out the movement further." Serov said to all the members of the presidium of the KGB, "Each department has its own duties, you don't play tricks, I will keep an eye on you." ”

Although before Andropov's death, it is estimated that no one would use drastic measures against another member of the Presidium of the Central Committee. But in case someone has a brain cramp, Serov doesn't dare to try it with his own life. There is always the idea that Diao people want to harm me and must not give up, and the General Political Commissar still feels that he is the safest in the rupee sample card.

After all, this is the place where he has been operating for decades, and now even Zvigon does not dare to make small moves under his nose. Of course, this is not enough, some co-optation still has to be done, but he will not do it himself.

"Our family is a spy!" Serov is not blackening himself, this is a basic fact, it is as it should be.

When the Soviet Union was on the verge of another succession, Reagan, who couldn't wait to sleep and looked at the Soviet Union with one eye open, also keenly noticed that the Soviet Union seemed to be unable to accurately respond to the American attack after Brezhnev's death. Even when the U.S. military attacked Grenada a month ago, the Soviet Union did not make a substantial move to fight back.

This is a good opportunity, although Grenada has been in a worse environment after the US military operation, and the vast number of weapons of unknown origin has flooded the small country and is beginning to spread around. If you dig deeper, it seems that because of this invasion of the American army, the environment in Central America seems to be worse, but Reagan does not care about this small threat, he sees that the Soviet Union did not make a decent counterattack, and the attack on the United States is limited to public opinion, in other words, mouth artillery.

The discovery had reason to excite Reagan, and the aggressive state of affairs in the Soviet Union seemed to be ebbing. Or, to put it more optimistically, there were problems within the Soviet Union, which could no longer support the current expansionist policy. Whichever point of view is right, it is a great thing for the United States, but unfortunately, there is still a large part of the American public who think that the Soviet Union is extremely powerful and do not agree with Reagan's judgment, and sometimes Reagan thinks, "Why can't the Americans be smarter?" ”

Regardless of what that group of people thought, Reagan, who had already established himself, felt that it was time to implement the plan he had been preparing for a long time.

In fact, he had already elaborated on the plan months earlier, when Reagan delivered a speech to the nation entitled "Peace and National Security," in which he formally proposed for the first time that the United States would conduct research on strategic defense against ballistic missiles. In his thirty-minute speech, Reagan noted the shortcomings of existing deterrence strategies that rely on the "threat of retaliation."

He said that advances in science and technology in recent years have made it possible to build a truly effective missile defense, and that if ballistic missiles can be intercepted and destroyed before they arrive, it will be better able to guarantee the security of the United States and its allies. Reagan declared that he had taken an important step towards achieving this goal, and that "I am directing a comprehensive and in-depth effort to develop a long-term research and development program that will begin to move toward our ultimate goal of eliminating the threat of strategic nuclear missiles."

While Andropov had just come to power and had no time to pay attention to the outside world, Reagan had already won support step by step. Now, it's time for the program to be unveiled. Whether it was to persuade Congress or to contact the allies of the United States, Reagan had already taken advantage of the time of the replacement of the general secretary of the Soviet Union, and now there was only one last step left, and the order was officially put into effect.

On January 1, 1984, Reagan formally issued National Security Directive No. 119, which formally approved the Strategic Defense Initiative. He has a more accepted name, Project Star Wars.

Its core content is to attack the enemy's intercontinental strategic missiles and outer space spacecraft in outer space by various means to prevent a nuclear attack by a hostile country against the United States and its allies. Its technical means include the deployment of high-energy directional weapons or conventional strike weapons in outer space and on the ground, and multi-level interception at all stages of the enemy's strategic missile attack. Many allies of the United States, including Britain, West Germany, Israel, Japan, and others, also participated in this plan to varying degrees at the request of the United States.

In a speech in which Reagan said he wanted to rebuild America's national security, Reagan shouted cheers from the crowd who spontaneously rushed to cheer, and Serov extinguished the cigarette butt in his hand in the office of the chairman of the Lubyanka KGB headquarters, in a fairyland room. Compared with Reagan's high-spirited spirit on TV, he seemed more silent, staring directly at the US president on TV, and the corners of his mouth slowly rose to a smile, and this smile grew bigger and bigger......

It's a smile from the heart, what a lovely enemy, what a lovely Republican. This is what the enemy should look like, and compared to the small actions of the Democratic Party, the presidents of the Republican Party are very similar to the masters.

"What is so pleased?" Little Valya pushed the door in and smiled, and then saw Reagan on TV. She didn't know about Serov in the past, and thought that the General Political Commissar cared about every American president.

"When you see a very tough enemy, when you cut off his head like this, I believe he will not beg for mercy." Serov was in a really good mood, and the reason why the Star Wars program was proposed was based on a basic premise, that is, the nuclear balance was failing. The United States now has 23,000 nuclear warheads, and the USSR does not have many of them, 37,000.

Faced with this situation, Reagan, on the one hand, played the Star Wars program to fool the Soviet Union, and on the other hand, he kept playing with public opinion to reduce the number of nuclear weapons at the same time as the Soviet Union. Sure enough, after Reagan officially announced the start of the Star Wars program, a worried public opinion emerged in Western Europe, demanding that the USSR and the United States simultaneously reduce nuclear warheads. And there are already countries ready to mediate the summit summit of the USSR and the United States, which is to cooperate with the United States in balancing the nuclear threat of the USSR.