According to the age of the current Presidium of the Central Committee, in fact only two people are overage, one is the current first secretary Khrushchev, and the other is the current chairman of the Supreme Soviet Mikoyan, except for the two of them. The remaining giants www.biquge.info such as Brezhnev, Kosygin, Sherepin, and Suslov actually belong to another era.

Khrushchev and Suslov's original boss, Zhdanov, belonged to the cadres of the same era, and Mikoyan was even earlier, to the cadres of the Stalin era. So as soon as Khrushchev retires, it will only be his own retirement, at most he will take Mikoyan with him. In terms of age, the current members of the Presidium of the Central Committee will not retire with him.

"I still haven't leveraged Brezhnev's position, maybe I'm still too young than him." Serov, who was walking on the road, couldn't help but sigh that not only himself, but even Sherepin was far from being Brezhnev's opponent in terms of political maneuvers. In fact, no one is Brezhnev's opponent now, and Kosygin and two assistants himself occupy three places in the Presidium of the Central Committee, and he only held out for ten years longer than Shelepin, and was finally dismissed by Brezhnev.

Serov knew that as long as Shelepin did not change his character, it would be very difficult to win over anyone except the cadres of the Komsomol and the judiciary, and Suslov was clean and clean, but this was only Suslov's own business. And Xie Leping is the chairman of the Party and State Supervision Commission, and he will ask others to be the same as himself, which is more offensive.

Institutions such as the Party and State Supervision Commissions, which deal with party discipline, are actually more offensive than the KGB, and Sherepin himself is not smiling, and he does not have the feeling of a spring breeze like Brezhnev, and he is not the same as Kosygin. Belong to the presidium of the Central Committee of the rare people.

But Shelepin's advantages are also very obvious, and he has a unique ability to win people's hearts, of course, this is limited to treating friends who he thinks are capable, and if Sherepin thinks that a cadre has no ability, he will basically be regarded as if he does not exist. And Shelepin's friends have always been loyal to him, such as Yegorechev and Semychasny until the collapse of the Soviet Union, they never said a bad word about Shelepin, although they are losers, but they have always been loyal to Sherepin.

Sherepin was called the strongman Shurik behind his back when he was in his prime, alluding to his rivalry with Dzerzhinsky, who was known as Felix. He came to Moscow to study at the university as a skinny student, but he achieved such an extraordinary fame. Many encounters have ended in his victory, but he still lost once after all. He simply lost to Brezhnev and ended up paying the price for the end of his political life. The eagle of the Komsomol and the strongman Shurik disappeared.

The young Sherepin had a very rich, vivid face, his lips pursed and his eyes focused. If Shelepin had led the country, Serov, with his current understanding of Sherepin, there would definitely not have been a major reform in the Soviet Union, and Sherepin would have strengthened his superiority within the framework of the Soviet Union. At the same time, it will ease relations with Yugoslavia, Albania, and China, and concentrate the forces of the entire camp to defeat the United States first.

"Can we win?" Serov was thinking about this on the way home. With the current balance of power in the Presidium of the Central Committee, Kosygin has the most obvious advantage, Sherepin has many friends at the level of a member of the Central Committee, Brezhnev looks like nothing, but Serov knows that this is an illusion, and as soon as Brezhnev takes the position of general secretary, supporters from all over will flock to him.

If Khrushchev had retired, before the death of the former first secretary, Brezhnev's personality would certainly not openly oppose Khrushchev's policies, but would have stopped some of Khrushchev's policies with an attitude of only saying but not doing. And after Khrushchev died, it is estimated that Brezhnev will take charge of his own power.

If Serov is not mistaken, Khrushchev should have died five years later, and Brezhnev died of illness eleven years after Khrushchev's death, which means that Brezhnev had eleven years in power without hindrance. That's about two sessions. During these eleven years, it seems that it is not impossible for Sherepin and Kosygin to withstand the pressure of Brezhnev.

If, according to history, Brezhnev was in power for eighteen years, it would be terrible. The extra seven years were enough for Brezhnev, who was the general secretary, to defeat all opponents, and no one could withstand him.

An important reason why Brezhnev treated Sherepin harsher than other opponents was that Brezhnev was much older than Shelepin, and Kosygin and Suslov themselves were older than Brezhnev and were not in better health than him. And Sherepin is different, Brezhnev was afraid that after his death, Sherepin would control the country by virtue of his age, so he first attacked Sherepin's forces and must drive him out of the highest echelons of power in the Soviet Union.

"If Khrushchev had retired in two or three years, things might not have been too bad." Serov tossed and turned when he returned home, and once Khrushchev set the precedent of voluntary retirement, it would definitely be a good thing for the Soviet Union. There is an absolute difference between having a precedent and not having one, and this is also a tightening spell for Brezhnev.

"What's wrong, Yura!" Seeing her man's brows furrowed, Valya leaned over to her husband's side and asked softly.

"What do you think Brezhnev would have done to Shelepin and us if he had become general secretary?" Serov stretched out his arms and put his arms around his wife and asked, "I can feel that he has doubts about the entire Komsomol cadres, he does not believe us, and once the first secretary retires, what will he do with us?" He doesn't like young cadres very much......"

As soon as Valya's azure eyes turned, she immediately understood what her husband meant, and it seemed that there was a dark tide surging at the top, and Brezhnev, Kosygin, and Shelepin each had their own supporters, and as soon as Khrushchev retired, these people might immediately fight.

"Didn't you say that you were the most powerful group in the whole of the Soviet Union? I remember Shurik saying this? How are you afraid of Brezhnev? Valya grabbed her husband's hand, as if trying to give her man a little motivation.

"Yes, but the most powerful group is not as big as the entire cadre class, Brezhnev is the second secretary, and he will definitely be the general secretary in the future, I have no confidence." Serov did not hide his worries at all, if he couldn't even trust his own wife, then there was no one who could believe it.

"What are you afraid of, if you lose, it's a big deal to be dismissed, we will live well as ordinary people." Valya said with burning eyes, "Besides, once the first secretary retires, the new government will definitely be under collective leadership, what will happen to the general secretary?" ”

"That's right, sleep! What am I afraid of them for? Serov took a deep breath and gritted his teeth and said, "I've made so many preparations, I shouldn't worry about this kind of thing." If you lose, be an ordinary person. ”

Sleep, sleep! Serov tilted his head and skillfully untied Valya's sling with both hands, what are you doing with so many clothes at home? Way......

Serov actually doesn't need to be afraid of those things that are not there, Brezhnev could not be so strong when he first came to power, in fact, he could be regarded as a weak general secretary when he first came to power, but his fighting skills were too high. And the opponent Sherepin has always been smooth sailing, and there is no vigilance to fail, and this time I don't know what happened.

A month later, Serov returned from an expedition and made a report to Khrushchev. It shows that the State Security Bureaus and the General Directorate of Internal Affairs in various localities belong to the local Party committees and union republics, which creates the problem of excessive local power. It was proposed that in the Central Committee it be made clear that local party committees and union republics could not interfere in the actions of the KGB.

After the purge of Beria, Khrushchev delegated part of the power of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to the local government, but at one time and another, after the events in the Ryazan region, the KGB would take back this right. It's just that without the approval of the Central Committee, Khrushchev knew about it, and he also knew that the local government had already had the problem of excessive power, so he acquiesced to the KGB's actions.

After obtaining Khrushchev's consent, Serov issued a decree of the Presidium of the State Security Council, "The State Security Committee of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and its local organs are political organs responsible for implementing the measures formulated by the Party ********** and the government for the protection of the socialist state from deliberate encroachment by external and internal enemies and the defense of the state borders of the USSR." Their mission is to be alert to the secret machinations of the enemies of the Soviet state, to expose their intentions, and to put an end to the criminal activities of the imperialist intelligence services against the Soviet state......"

"The work of the State Security Committee is under the direct leadership and supervision of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU. The positions of leading personnel of state security organs established by the Central Committee of the CPSU must be approved by the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU. Functionaries belonging to the establishment of local Party organs do not require the approval of the Party Central Committee of the corresponding Union Republics, the Border Regions of the CPSU and the regional Party committees. Rather, it is directly responsible to the Presidium of the Central Committee, and local Party committees, state Party committees, and union republics are not allowed to interfere. ”

The next day, Khrushchev convened a meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee, issued a document approving the order of the Chairman of the State Security Committee, which was distributed throughout the country, and Serov, after the dissolution of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for twelve years, regained the rights belonging to the KGB from the local government. It ensured that the local institutions of the KGB would not be interfered with by the local government, but would be free from entanglement with the local government on their own.

"Now I can say that I have the power to protect myself!" After doing this, he felt a lot safer. (To be continued.) )