Yanayev's assassination caused a lot of turmoil in the political situation in the Soviet Union, and the Soviet authorities could not accept the sad news of losing two top leaders in two days. Luckily, the bullet only flew against Yanayev's shoulder, so he only suffered some skin wounds. Even the doctor who bandaged it was amazed that this shot was a blessing in misfortune.

Of course, no one would know that the gunman who attacked was the best sniper in the GRU, and had rehearsed it a dozen times for this seemingly improvised assassination.

The wounding of the top leader of the CPSU gave the martial law soldiers a reason to expel the demonstrators in an open and honest manner, and the already scattered and ineffective people had long since lost their fighting spirit after Yanayev's steely strongman speech, and immediately dispersed when the police with riot shields cleared the field. It was only after the White House was dispersed that Yeltsin's body was carried out by GRU assassins and secretly transported to the hospital morgue.

Then, in the afternoon of the same day, the news of Russian President Boris Yeltsin's suicide was repeatedly looped on television screens, declaring that the Soviets would not spare Yeltsin and his comrades who were trying to destroy the country. Some of the political allies who had had secret deals with Yeltsin saw the news and took out their pistols in despair and stuffed them into their mouths.

For them, suicide is the same as being arrested by the KGB, and they would rather choose the former.

However, there are still quite a few intellectuals who advocate Western-style democracy and freedom who have expressed disdain and disdain at the news that this victory has been hailed as a victory for the people. It's just that these flies who are still dreaming of democracy and freedom don't know that the catastrophe is coming. Only then will they find out that being locked up in a special psychiatric hospital in the fifth bureau of the KGB is a complete summer vacation enjoyment compared to the torture they suffered.

Yanayev sat happily on his hospital bed and watched the news on television, after only half a day of martial law, the center of Moscow had basically settled down, and except for small clashes in some places, everything else had returned to its usual order. The scripts of the major riots that were supposed to take place became secrets that no one knew with Yeltsin's death.

KGB agents were stationed outside Yanayev's ward, and the attackers had not yet been caught, so they did not dare to relax for a moment. If Yanayev had three long and two short, the last leader who saved the Soviets would have disappeared completely.

Prime Minister Pavlov, who came from the Kremlin to pay his respects to the supreme leader of the Soviets, was sitting next to Yanayev, who, as the organizer of the emergency committee, was particularly concerned about Yanayev's physical health. When he walked into the ward and saw Yanayev's ruddy face and a friendly greeting to him, the stone hanging in Pavlov's heart finally fell.

Yanayev raised the white gauze wrapped around his shoulders and said with a smile, "I really don't know if that gunman is really so bad, or if he has reached the point of being superb?" ”

Pavlov smiled as well, but then he put on a serious face and said, "It's time for us to talk about the future of the Soviets, General Secretary Yanayev." ”

Pavlov had changed the title of Yanayev from vice president to general secretary, and Yanayev deftly captured his expression.

"Gorbachev's terrible perestroika has brought the Soviet economy into the abyss, and we need to abolish all of Gorbachev's political and economic reforms and come up with new ones to stop this. Of course, reform is not a one-time slap on the thigh. I analyzed the case of Gorbachev's failure. Prime Minister Pavlov sounded like he was going to teach Yanayev a good lesson, so Yanayev pretended to be listening.

"Gorbachev's political practice of multi-party system and parliamentary politics was the deep-seated reason for the decline of the socialist system in the Soviet Union. Because our socialist country can only be a state of dictatorship of the proletariat in essence. What is the dictatorship of the proletariat? It is the transition from the last exploiting class society, the capitalist society, to the proletarian society, the communist society. Gorbachev even gave up the most basic and core principle of the socialist road. And he privatized economically. It is still an attempt to privatize on the condition of begging for economic assistance from the capitalist countries led by the United States, and to fundamentally change the economic basis of socialism. My God, this stupidity simply shakes the foundations of our economy. ”

Pavlov basically summed up the problems that arose with Gorbachev's reforms, and since the problems of the Soviet Union were economic, Yanayev did not mind repeating what he had learned in textbooks.

"Since I mentioned the economy, I would like to say a little more." Yanayev organized the language and said slowly, "Since 1900, there have been serious difficulties in the economic field of the Soviet Union, and this economic crisis can be said to be in the most difficult period of the post-war period. The rate of economic growth has dropped sharply. The growth rate of national income and industrial output fell by almost half compared with the same period before, for example, from 4.7 per cent to 2.4 per cent. At the beginning of this year, our economic situation has become even worse, with the gross social output falling by 2 percent, the national income falling by 4 percent, and the labor productivity falling by 3 percent. While we are all aware of the serious consequences of institutional rigidity, Khrushchev, Brezhnev, and Gorbachev are only trying to tinker with them, without getting to the root of the economic problems. ”

"So?" Pavlov's eyes lit up, and it seemed that Yanayev had already planned the strategy of reform in his heart.

Yanayev waved his hand, signaling that Pavlov wanted to hear what he had to say, "There is a serious shortage of consumer goods, and the market is extremely tight. Some reports indicate that only 5 per cent of products are now in sufficient supply, and the remaining 95 per cent are actually in shortage. The supply of food, which is closely related to the lives of the population, is even tighter, with 188 out of 211 food items being supplied by ticket. Isn't this the fault of our country's leaders? Of course, I'm not particularly good at economics, so I can only point out some problems, and the specific methods will have to be left to the professional economists. ”

"However, since the beginning of last year, we have implemented a series of economic adjustment policy measures, for example, the growth rate of industrial products urgently needed by the people will exceed that of heavy industrial products required by the state by 12.4 times, investment in the field of material production will be 12 billion rubles less than in 1989, and investment in the agro-industrial complex, light industry, and services of daily life will be increased, and investment in the agro-industrial complex alone will increase by 8 billion rubles. To strengthen agricultural construction, in addition to extensively implementing the leasing and contracting system, it is necessary to carry out structural readjustment of agricultural investment in the future, focusing on the modernization of agricultural product processing departments and storage equipment. Pavlov spoke word for word about the government's document measures.

"But many of these reforms were extraordinary and urgent, and the economic situation in the Soviet Union was unlikely to change significantly, and the adjustment and austerity policies would not have a noticeable effect until 1995. This is because many adjustment measures are difficult to achieve in the short term, such as the adjustment of the economic structure. Moreover, the government will have to shrink its spending and reduce the proportion of military spending in total spending. Speaking of this, Yanayev scratched his head, Gorbachev threw himself a mess full of holes, the army was already complaining about Gorbachev's reduction of military spending, and if he continued, there was really no guarantee that someone would follow the coup. However, if military spending is not reduced, it is also a headache to continue to pay a huge amount of repair and maintenance costs for the torrent of Soviet steel.

"You mean we still need to continue disarmament if we can?" Pavlov frowned, "Now the Soviet Union is not stable everywhere, and we need an army to maintain stability." ”

When Pavlov said this, Yanayev suddenly realized that Gorbachev had left him not only a mess, but also a colorful poisonous snake spitting out of his scarlet tongue from time to time in the dense hollow. Now everything is urgent, I can't wait, but the only thing I can do is to figure it out.

Yanayev suddenly had a flash of inspiration and thought of a way to quench his thirst by drinking water that was not a good idea, but could temporarily solve the problem of military spending for the army.

"Perhaps, we can learn from the country next to us and let the army do business and raise part of its own military spending?" Yanayev held his chin and said thoughtfully. According to the national conditions, the Soviet military could only do business in the form of foreign trade, and the shady gray income involved in this was another thorny problem to be solved.

"The army is in business?" With a stunned expression, Pavlov was a little confused by Yanayev's thoughts, "Is this bringing our state's violent apparatus on par with Western capitalism?" ”

"No, the business of the army is a very complicated matter, this matter is not urgent, we have to discuss it with Defense Minister Yazov and General Valnikov of the War Department, but now I think of the best person who can preside over economic reform." Yanayev said.