"You value Andropov a lot?" Valya with the child in her arms sent the Andropovs and asked, turning their heads.

"Yes, he's a lot like a college professor." Serov said with a smile on his face. It's just to leave a way back for himself, and of course, Serov doesn't want these preparations he has made to come in handy when the time comes. Immediately Khrushchev will convene a meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee, and if he is not wrong, his boss Sherepin will enter the ********** as secretary, and in the next two or three years, Sherepin will be promoted almost faster than anyone in the history of the Soviet Union. In just two or three years, he became the secretary of the Central Committee, the deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers, a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee, and most importantly, the chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Chairman of the Party and State Supervisory Commission.

At that time, Sherepin discussed major decisions of the state in the Presidium of the Central Committee, was responsible for the selection of cadres in the Secretariat, discussed the development of the government with Kosygin at the Council of Ministers, supervised all Soviet cadres in the Party and State Supervision Commission, and all judicial branches of the Soviet Union, including the KGB, the prosecutor's office, and the courts, were under the control of Sherepin. This is how it was two years after Brezhnev came to power, and no one, like Shelepin, had positions in almost all departments that influenced the USSR.

"Bring my daughter back next time I come back, I'm not close to you, don't even know my father by then!" Serov glanced at Valya deeply, and before he could put on a serious posture for two seconds, he instantly hugged his son and teased him, and his happy look made Valya stunned for a while.

It didn't take long to put his son to sleep, and the two crept out of the room, and as soon as they left the room, Serov picked up Valya and said ambiguously, "Madame, it's really hard, I think you should take two years of maternity leave." "That's right, it's two years, and two years of maternity leave will start next month. First in the Russian Federation.

"I hate it, and I'm alive again." Valya shyly tugged at her husband's ear, saying so seriously, isn't it actually about doing something that should be done between husband and wife. It's better to live with yourself than with another woman......

For the enemies of his own group, Serov can be said to not dare to take it lightly at all times. But Shelepin and Shemychasny in front of him all looked like no one in their eyes. It seems that now there is no one in the entire USSR who can put them in the eye, except for Khrushchev and Kozlov, who has just become the number two man. Compared to the overconfident group, Serov always felt really tired to be with them.

The most dangerous enemy is internal, and the sheer power of the Sherepin clique cannot be built on the basis of offending all other forces, otherwise it will be the old way of Beria. At present, the known forces include Khrushchev's Ukrainian gang, but as long as Khrushchev starts political reform, Brezhnev and Podgorny will soon dismantle the Ukrainian gang from the inside, and each of them won a group of Ukrainian party members, and finally Brezhnev still used the position of general secretary to slowly divide the forces of Podgorny. The representative event was that Brezhnev's confidant Serbitsky succeeded Podgorny's confidant Sereste as the first secretary of Ukraine, and from that time began Podgorny's power to collapse. In the end, Podgorny himself was retired, by Brezhnev.

Differentiation? Probably not, at least Brezhnev and Podgorny were very united when they first came to power. Both of them are Ukrainians promoted by Khrushchev, and now the Ukrainian gang does not look like a split. Because both men faced a formidable threat from Sherepin at the beginning, as general secretary and chairman of the Supreme Soviet after Khrushchev, they would not fight among themselves in the face of strong pressure from Shelepin. If the Sherepin group wants to find foreign aid, it can't be them. Among the remaining forces were Kosygin and Suslov.

Nominally, Kosygin is the number one in the government, and it cannot be said that Kosygin has no power to support himself. But compared to the power of the above three. Kosygin's power is mainly concentrated in the government department, and it seems that it will not be easy to expand it. And then there's Suslov. Suslov seems to be nothing on the surface, and it is impossible to see how many people support him. Suslov, who was in charge of the ********, was primarily responsible for his prestige, not on how many talented people he had under him.

This prestige can be understood as the prestige of the number two person, which is very useful for the Sherepin group, and for Brezhnev it can only be said to be the icing on the cake, as long as Brezhnev defeats both Sherepin and Podgorny. At that time, Suslov's ability to use his prestige as a counterweight will be greatly weakened, and ten years after Brezhnev came to power, it can be said that collective leadership has existed only on the rostrum of the National Congress.

In terms of time and severity of the blows, the order of the rankings is the same: Shelepin, Podgorny, Suslov and Kosygin. Both Shelepin and Podgorny were forced to retire. Seeing that Suslov was irreversible and for physical reasons, Brezhnev did not force him to retire as he did with the first two. Kosygin's power was best balanced by the government alone, so the last one was hit.

Serov analyzed for a long time and felt that if Khrushchev could not be saved, Sherepin's strategy was to hold Kosygin, one of the troikas, and neutralize Suslov, who had a high prestige under the collective leadership, so that he could withstand the offensive of Brezhnev and Podgorny. If you look for an opportunity, you must let Suslov know that his prestige is useful under collective leadership, and once these forces that disobey Brezhnev are eliminated, Suslov, who only has prestige, will not matter.

These analyses are based on one less person, the current number two Kozlov, who is two years younger than Brezhnev and joined the party five years before Brezhnev. Kozlov's status rose rapidly because of his close ties with the large enterprises mainly in Leningrad, especially the military-industrial complex, and because of almost all of Khrushchev's reform measures, the increase in investment in agricultural technology and equipment for the purpose of land reclamation, the reorganization of industry and construction, and the disarmament and development of the rocket and nuclear industry. But Kozlov is sick, and even if it is delayed for two years, it will not change anything.

A hand touched Serov's face, and Valya snuggled into her husband's arms and said unhappily, "What are you thinking?" Didn't I satisfy you? ”

"No, I'm thinking about you Ukraine." Serov snorted and got ready for bed.

This answer obviously did not satisfy Valya, and she pulled her husband's chest hair twice and said, "The plan to introduce the Russian language has been relatively smooth since the second half of last year, but Celeste is still a little dissatisfied. The invisible resistance over there is very large, and it has something to do with the work of Sherest! ”

"Take your time, my Venus!" Serov lowered his head and kissed the woman's forehead, Valya is a beauty in every sense of the word, and a real beauty does not change with the passage of time. Even when they are old, they can see what they looked like when they were young.

Go to bed! Everything that needs to be done has been done, and Serov can't think about everything for Shelepin. However, he vaguely had an idea, if Khrushchev really can't keep it, since everyone says that they want to lead collectively, then they will propose to see if it can be implemented, anyway, even if it is delayed, it will be beneficial to them, after all, Serov and their young age.

Be fully prepared, and leave the results to God. Serov, who woke up early the next day, brushed his teeth and washed his face, put on his military uniform, and was stunned to find that his belt seemed to be reaching its lifespan, and turned his head and shouted, "Valya, where is the armed belt issued by the KGB?" ”

There was a rush of footsteps, and Valya carefully put her son on the bed, stroked the blonde hair on her ear in a bit of confusion and asked, "Which one?" ”

"It's the head of the belt with a red five-star engraved with the party emblem on it!" Serov thought for a while and said, carving the sickle and hammer on the waistband of his trousers, I don't know what those supply companies think, maybe the Soviet Union did not have a taboo in this regard. No, those companies themselves are KGB, aren't they talking about themselves?

After eating, Serov went to the headquarters of the Third Directorate, he was already tired of this switchback and running route to work, except for the special proximity of the First Directorate and Lubyanka Square 11, the remaining units of the KGB were spread all over Moscow, and it would be a little advantage to be able to control the movement in the city before the garrisons around Moscow arrived.

As soon as he arrived at the headquarters of the General Directorate of Military Administration, he bumped into Major General Pavlov with a cold face, and after seeing Serov, the head of the first division softened slightly, "What's wrong?" Could it be that the generals of the Ministry of Defense have come to scold you? "Serov, if you think about it, it seems that you haven't offended the Red Army lately.

"It's the GRU cadres who came to visit the First Deputy Director!" Speaking of this, Major General Pavlov sniffled and said very coldly, "From the way I walk, I can smell a nasty smell familiar with GRU......

The Third Directorate and the GRU have overlapping powers in some respects, so the relationship between them is somewhat unharmonious. Serov smiled and didn't say anything, as if the person who designed it was himself.

"Well, the GRU also has our liaison representative, and we are all family." Serov comforted his subordinates and said, "You should know that our KGB has the right to supervise the work of the GRU, and their foreign-related intelligence work is arranged by us, and they are all comrades in the same department, so don't work with emotions." ”

After saying this, Serov went to the office of the first deputy director, originally he thought that he was from Azerbaijan, but when he went in, he realized that it was not, so he immediately left to carry out his own work, first of all, the assessment and identification of middle-level officers at the end of the year, this point is very important to the opinion of the General Directorate of Military Administration, and politically unreliable comrades cannot be trusted: "Take the resume of Major General Ivan Baglamilyan, chief of staff of the 23rd Taman Division, and I will see ......" (to be continued. )