Chapter 393: Long Live the Motherland
Serov's report focused on the self-monitoring of the KGB, and not only on the aspects of supervision of others in the general sense. If it still gives the forces within the alliance a sense of threat, as the Ministry of Internal Affairs did, the KGB will always be watched by everyone's eyes. If you want to reduce resistance, you must give people a sense of harmlessness to people and animals, and this Andropov took more than ten years to achieve this by exchanging interests, while Serov was more anxious and wanted to speed up the process greatly, and the meeting of the Central Committee was a great platform.
With the platform provided by Khrushchev now, whether it is deception or some other reason, Serov wants to create the illusion that the KGB is now just an ordinary security service, and whether the other side believes it or not, he has to say so.
"Mass production will replace a large number of anti-anti-operative workers, which will save the cost of the National Security Council, and there is a lot of food that can be manipulated by human operations through surveillance records, and in the next few decades, maybe we in the Soviet Union will not need the existence of the KGB, this pair of ubiquitous eyes in the alliance is more reliable than any anti-anti-operative workers, this will be seen by the people, and I hope that the Central Committee members present here will supervise, thank you!" Serov bowed his head slightly and said the entire security situation in the Soviet Union in his heart.
Of course, most of these are lies, and a strong surveillance system may solve some of the problems, but far from all, knowing that any device is controlled by humans. Many examples from later generations have shown that surveillance equipment can be tampered with by humans, or it cannot escape the human factor. But today, when surveillance equipment is still not popular, nothing is unknowable, and Serov paints an illusion to everyone that there will be no monitoring in the future, so that his plans will not be subject to any resistance, first of all, to convince the most powerful people in the Soviet Union in front of him, the Central Committee and the Committee of the Soviet Union.
Serov is not afraid that he will be slapped in the face in the future, because the future itself is unpredictable, and the successful assumption is that the blind cat runs to death, and it is normal to not predict success, and no one will come to Serov's trouble by the standards of the future, saying that this time he is in the Central Committee. The statement made at the meeting was wrong.
After Serov's speech, there were bursts of applause at the meeting, and almost all the members of the Central Committee expressed their satisfaction with Serov's report, including both Khrushchev's trust in Serov, a young cadre, and the joy of having his supervisory shackles lifted.
"Comrade Serov's report is very meaningful and focuses on putting forward a new concept!" After Serov went down, Khrushchev walked back to the front of the stage and continued, "Yes, the communist society envisioned by our future mentor Comrade Lenin was nothing more than upstairs and downstairs electric lights and telephones, and in the foreseeable future, this goal is actually not difficult to achieve, and the times are developing and our goals must also be perfected, and on the issue of eliminating crime, I believe that everyone will have their own judgment on the work of the KGB, and Comrade Serov's speech today is only a kind of imagination of the future, but it is by no means a dream, With the joint efforts of us and the entire Soviet people, this goal will be achieved sooner or later, and we are confident that this future is not far off......"
Not far away, this term always appears in all kinds of Soviet reports, it has been started since the beginning of the Soviet Union, and this era is not far away and is still a kind of hope, not the ironic word after the eighties.
After Khrushchev finished speaking, the entire meeting of the Central Committee and the meeting burst into warm applause, which seemed to be even more enthusiastic than Serov's speech just now, and Serov, who had just returned to his seat, watched every move in the meeting hall with a scrutinizing gaze, not because he was only a security cadre, but for another purpose.
It is now the end of 1962, less than two years after Khrushchev was ousted from power. Did these members of the Central Committee really support Khrushchev? This is actually a big problem, if Serov is not mistaken, two years later, when Brezhnev attacked, the entire Central Committee of the Soviet Union, with a resolution of 100 to 70, adopted the decision to remove Khrushchev from power.
So how many of the current members of the Central Committee are supporters of Khrushchev? And how many of them were dissatisfied with him? Thinking of this, Serov set his sights on a person next to Khrushchev, the nominal successor of the Soviet Union, the second secretary Kozlov, at this time Kozlov was in high spirits and seemed to be very harmonious with Khrushchev, Serov knew that as long as this person did not have problems, in fact, things were still under control.
As the nominal second secretary and successor of the Soviet Union, Kozlov actually had no reason to oppose Khrushchev's policy, he only had to wait for Khrushchev, who was almost 70 years old, to retire, and then he could justifiably take over the fate of the entire Soviet Union and implement his own policy. Historically, after Kozlov's illness, Khrushchev, because he was very old, hurriedly began to inspect the members of the Central Presidium as successors, so there were many people who thought that they had hope, but felt that they were actually not the most suitable people, and overthrew Khrushchev without a sense of security.
Among them, Brezhnev, Shelepin, and Podgorny were all inspected by Khrushchev for a period of time, but because Khrushchev, who was already very old, showed a very impatient attitude on the issue of choosing the next successor, which made everyone very stressed, everyone felt that their position was unstable.
But now the situation is not so bad, at least the Cuban missile crisis will not be used by many cadres as an excuse to attack, and it seems that this reason is not very crowned with the fact that Khrushchev is simply attacking from the aspect of reducing privileges.
"At the beginning of 1963, I wish all the comrades present here will achieve greater achievements and make our motherland stronger, you are the Soviets, you are the people!" At the end of the meeting, Khrushchev encouraged the work of the new year.
"The work we have carried out is so great, as an individual we will do everything in our power to build our union, the great Soviet, Ula!" Serov followed all the members of the Central Committee in standing and chanting, "Long live the Fatherland, long live the Soviets......" (to be continued. )