Chapter 168: Super Division
Obviously, the internal affairs police cannot be cut to maintain law and order, and the rest do not know which part of the civil defense forces, the internal guards, and the border guards will be stabbed, and even if the internal affairs police are not counted, the military strength of the KGB is already close to one million! This force is too large under the command of an intelligence service.
"The disarmament of the KGB is looking for an opportunity to carry out it together with the Ministry of Defense! It will be part of the disarmament plan in the future! Khrushchev thought for a moment and asked, "I have no opinion on the establishment of the Internal Guard Army, but your materials do not specify where the command of the Internal Guard Army is?" Alexander, can you explain......"
"No problem, when it comes to the command of the 300,000 Internal Guard Army, our KGB Presidium can't solve it by ourselves, and we still need to assign it to Comrade First Secretary, and our KGB will definitely obey the opinions of the Central Committee!" Sherepin was completely different in front of Khrushchev than when he was in front of others, and he restrained his arrogance! Like a loyal and capable cadre.
"Just follow the practice of the Ministry of Internal Affairs!" Khrushchev scratched his head, he had no opinion on this internal guard army, the Ministry of Defense because of the Great Patriotic War, there are too many old commanders left. The Red Army should be reduced, but Khrushchev must also have forces in his hands sufficient to counterbalance the Red Army, so that the Red Army obediently accepts disarmament! At present, the KGB is the best carrier of this power.
"I see, First Secretary! In that case, the first deputy chairman is also the commander of the Internal Guard! "Since Khrushchev said that according to the custom, then Sherepin made the first deputy chairman of the KGB the commander of the Internal Guard, according to the practice of the days of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
"Okay, so be it! You work hard......" Khrushchev encouraged the two cadres in front of him, who were both young and terrifying in seniority, so much because Khrushchev knew that in addition to relying on himself, the other leaders had quite a lot of criticism about the cadres of the Communist Youth League. Because these people are so young, so young that people don't want to believe, "What other difficulties can you talk to me ......"
Immediately seeing Serov raise his hand in front of him, he didn't expect a new request so soon, Khrushchev asked curiously, "Yuri." What difficulties do you have at work? ”
"I don't have any difficulties at work, but I want to take a few days off, by the way, I want to take him on a trip next month using the working hours of the Rome Olympics, she hasn't taken a vacation for three years!" Serov yawned, looking like he was already very tired, in order to squeeze out time, he ran through most of the Soviet Union in just 20 days, if it were not for the support of a new type of electrified railway, maybe the time would have been extended.
Look at the fine stubble on the young man's face. One can imagine what kind of life he has been living recently, Khrushchev suddenly has a sense of physical superiority, he is too young to do it, and he has not yet found the joy of work in heavy work. In comparison, Shelepin is much stronger than Serov, who is a few years younger than this.
In Khrushchev's mind, the next generation of Soviet leaders must be young and energetic people, and if not so, a group of young people must enter the leadership. Guarantee the upgrading of the Soviet cadre system! Preventing the Soviet cadre class from falling into gerontocracy was Khrushchev's original intention in promoting young cadres.
Although he has always been a man of extraordinary energy, he himself is almost seventy years old after all, and others can't feel it, but he can feel it himself, and he should use a few years to investigate a few successors! At present, there is more than one candidate in his eyes, and before that, he has to do what he should do well. Get the perestroika of the USSR right!
The jurisdiction and responsibilities of the border guards and the internal guards, Serov has also been written into the report, a total of ten border military districts have been divided, including the Red Flag Pacific, the Red Flag Far East, the Red Banner Baikal, the Red Flag East, and Central Asia, the South Caucasus and other military districts, the internal guard military districts are subject to the large and medium-sized cities of the Soviet Union, the commander of the Moscow Internal Guard, the commander of the Kiev Internal Guard, the commander of the Minsk Internal Guard, the commander of the Ozad Inner Guard, the commander of the Leningrad Inner Guard, the commander of the Tashkent Internal Guard, the commander of the Baku Inner Guard, Stalingrad, as well as a number of other cities, a total of fifteen headquarters of the Internal Guard.
In the end, the jurisdictions of the two were still not separated. Because some important cities in the Soviet Union were themselves located not far from the borders, and the districts under the jurisdiction of the Internal Guard and Border Guards in this report made it clear at a glance that they were completely checked and balanced in accordance with the Red Army Military District of the Ministry of Defense, and Khrushchev also served in the Red Army, so it is natural to see it.
In fact, this report is very appealing to Khrushchev, and it can be said that it is right in the heart. It can be said that the idea of disarmament has become bigger and bigger in Khrushchev's mind, but now that the Ministry of Internal Affairs has just been merged, the decision will be made next year or at the end of the year with the generals of the Ministry of Defense.
Handed over the specific documents to Khrushchev in one go, and the two returned to Lubyanka Square No. 11, and Sherepin and Serov began to decide on the commanders of the two armed forces of the KGB, as Serov, who was himself the head of the Main Military Administration, this question is not difficult! The entire Soviet Union, including the commanders of the Red Army system, whose hobbies, specialties and even weaknesses, were all in the archives of the Main Directorate of Military Administration, and a copy was in the archives of the KGB. Now the two of them can single out these commanders as the theoretical commanders of this million-strong army.
Serov transferred six colonels and one major general from the Dzerzhinsky division, the closest to Moscow, these people were friends of Kudryash, the commander of the Central Asian Border Military District, and Serov first enriched these commanders to Central Asia and the Caucasus, acting as the commander of the border guards of the republics at the second level, and at the same time appointed Igor as the commander of the Kiev Internal Guard!
In the afternoon of the same day, the officers of the Internal Affairs Forces, who had been recalled from the unit, arrived at Lubyanka Square 11 and stood in front of the head of the KGB, Serepin, to whom Serepin read out the new appointments and told them to work hard for the officers recommended by Serov, who was not in the office, but dictated the telegram to Igor and Kudryash in the communications office.
"Old Secretary, I feel that the whole world is in a change that is beneficial to us!" Serov, who returned to Sherepin's office, fumbled for a while, confirming that the cigarette on his body did not know where it went, so he naturally took out a cigarette case from the cigarette case on Sherepin's desk, and joked, how could the chairman of the KGB, who has the quality of a chimney, lack something that can smoke, this is simply impossible, is it good to be reasonable......
"Why? Just by virtue of the Internal Guard? Not enough, far enough! "Shelepin's goal is not to be the chairman of the KGB, his goals are ambitious, and the leader of the country is the stage he likes.
"But everything is changing in our favor, isn't it? Old secretary, it is obvious that the first secretary has extraordinary trust in us, and in five or six years, the entire USSR will be our world! Except for the first secretary, the other cadres are much older than us! Serov is not worried that his words will be heard, and no one can eavesdrop in the office of the chairman of the KGB.
With 300,000 internal guards, 300,000 border guards, and 180,000 civil defense troops, plus the internal affairs police, it will definitely not be able to defeat the Soviet Red Army, but the other side still has the ability to throw a mouse trap. What's more, because of the relationship of power, the KGB still took the lead, and the balance of the power of the Red Army was completely expected. If Sherepin and the others reach the worst possibility, they must fight with Brezhnev's people, I don't know what Sherepin himself thinks, anyway, Serov would rather lead the KGB to fight with Brezhnev, and absolutely can't watch him take the position.
Sherepin seemed to be seriously thinking about his friend's advice, Serov's words are not difficult to understand, as long as they wait for Khrushchev to retire, everything in the Soviet Union will naturally fall into their hands, but the question is who knows how old Khrushchev will live. At present, Khrushchev's health is very healthy......
In any case, Serov had already said what he had to say, and Sherepin had no idea of rebelling at this time, and Serov, after realizing the current Soviet power structure, made it clear that no matter whether it was Suslov, Brezhnev or others who carried out the coup, there was absolutely no way around the scope of the KGB's work. In other words, as long as the KGB remained loyal to Khrushchev, whoever staged a coup d'état would be a dead ......
But what if, as in history, two people were among the people who carried out the coup d'état, Sherepin and Semychasny? Let Brezhnev take the throne as a matter of course? Brezhnev has always been a good man in the world, except for himself, no one will think that he is much of a threat, I guess I will say that Brezhnev can kill you all and no one will believe it, right? The most lacking thing in these leaders, including Sherepin himself, is self-confidence, and Sherepin is the one with the most self-confidence, Serov said that he could not do Brezhnev, and Sherepin may think that this is Serov's insult to him.
"Whatever? The Internal Guard is in the hands of the KGB, and as long as they are not suddenly arrested, no one can forcibly dismantle the KGB! Serov has reason to believe that as long as the heads of the KGB are not suddenly killed, no one can do anything to them, and the KGB was finally split up in the Beria era and merged into a super department again, and no one can break him down.
Now it is still necessary to strengthen the power of the KGB, that is, to ensure that the economic lifeline of the KGB is not cut off within the scope of the whole world, and after the merger of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Serov's work has become much heavier! With hundreds of thousands of extra meals, the KGB's funding problem has become more serious, and the problem of how to make money has become more urgent. (To be continued.) )
PS: Ask for a monthly pass