Serov was silent in front of the hospital bed, and according to the time, it was indeed time. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 Personally, the ideological authority of the Soviet Union was a perfect Communist Party member, and if the Soviets were all Suslov, it would not have taken until the eighties to completely override the United States. But precious things mean scarcity at the same time, and Serov doesn't know if he can find a second person like Suslov.

"It's normal to be born, old, sick and die, you seem to be a little depressed, it's not like you, you burned so many people to death in India, and we didn't see you affected!" Suslov said softly, "Actually, Brezhnev, Andropov and I all knew about it, and I guessed it when the Bombay fire broke out. ”

"I thought I was doing something secret?" Serov laughed to himself, of course he was shocked, but over the years he had been able to hide the emotions in his heart, at least in front of people, it had become an instinctive reaction, for everyone.

"I also don't have evidence, I believe that no one else has either, maybe Andropov has it in his hands. You make the Rubyanka like an iceberg, and no one else has proof. I also know that you are self-preservation. Suslov squinted his eyes and said, "You are an outlier in the Komsomol group, the original Shelepin, Semychasny is invincible, and in the end it is not Brezhnev's opponent." Seventy-six years later, I can't stop Brezhnev either. But the pattern left by Brezhnev can still be remedied, can you think of what the Soviet Union looks like now that Sherepin has been in power? Maybe a little stronger, but Shelepin's character is a big problem, and he is too young to even be in power for more than thirty years. In that case, his authority would be even more unshakable than Brezhnev's. ”

"But weren't you the one who stopped us back then! If it weren't for you standing behind Brezhnev to fill in, with Brezhnev's prestige at that time, maybe we would have succeeded. "It's all gone anyway, maybe Shurik is a little less lucky, or maybe we're doomed to wait." ”

"Even if I die, there are Andropov and Chernenko in front of you. I think if you had to choose, you would support the former, but I tell you, Andropov is a man with a bad vision. His thinking and his own ability are qualified, but his subordinates are basically not good, and the average quality is not as good as that of Sherepin's Komsomol at the beginning. He's not really meant to stay too long, you all know I'm at odds with him, but unfortunately, I don't have time to stop him now. Suslov's voice was a little weak, and he looked at Serov and said, "You are a person, on the surface, you are not as aggressive as Beria and Shelepin, and you hide yourself like Andropov, but in fact, your thinking is still that of a rebel worker." And you have a problem with your style of life, don't care if I want evidence, I believe in my own eyes, your style of life is a problem. ”

"I'm not optimistic about security cadres, I've seen Beria at the peak of his personal power, and a Ministry of Internal Affairs in his hands can shut everyone up. I have also seen the original Serepin, with the support of the reserve cadres of the Communist Youth League, and the support of judicial cadres, including the KGB, and the Propaganda Department, the government, the local party committee, and the subordinates of Sherepin occupied nearly 100 important positions. They all lost! Suslov recalled, "But I have to look at you, you must want to know why." ”

"Well, I can clearly feel your defensiveness against the KGB, I don't know how different I am." After listening to Suslov's words, Serov said, "I am ruthless, and the patterns I learned are Beria, Shelepin, Dzerzhinsky, and even Yagoda and Yezhov, normally, you should not come forward to protect me several times." ”

"That's right, I'll try to get rid of you at another time. Don't even think that I propose you to the Secretariat. Suslov found the chat with Serov interesting, and in the decades of getting along, the two had never spoken so much.

After a pause, Suslov closed his eyes tiredly and said, "But now is not another period, the sample in front of me is only you, you were born in 1927, right?" How many classmates have you met, or how many can you think of from people born in the twenties? Where have they gone? ”

"They died, died in the Great Patriotic War, the ratio of men to women in our country itself is more women than men, the Great Patriotic War was a devastating blow to our population, otherwise General Secretary Stalin would not have taken a patient attitude towards the United States after the war." Serov paused when he said this, he understood what Suslov meant.

"You understand? No matter how good the cadres are, they must be selected from a sufficient base. Suslov looked at Serov and said with a smile, "Among the current Central Presidium, there are only two cadres born in the twenties, one is Romanov and the other is you. We have a great shortage of cadres between the ages of 50 and 60, who were supposed to play a role, but who died in the Great Patriotic War. ”

"I have no choice but to be optimistic about you. This is also the reason that I only understood after Shelepin's resignation, and let the Presidium of the Central Committee keep a young man as much as possible. Suslov shook his head and said, "I didn't have a choice, your age group is exactly the period when too many people died in the Soviet Union, you don't have companions, you only have two choices, cadres much older than you, these cadres are usually Brezhnev's people, they can die at any time." ”

"The other person is your next generation of cadres, usually the general secretary will choose the latter, I believe Andropov will also choose the latter, but the problem is that Andropov's vision is very poor, what cadres he can choose, I am not optimistic. That's why I've always been at odds with Andropov, and that's why he always wants to take my place! Suslov was also very frank, "Your subordinates at least seem to be normal people." ”

"If we have enough talents, I will not choose you as a dangerous element, but there are very few cadres of your generation who have made achievements, and you must take responsibility and use your strong style to make up for the embarrassment of the lack of cadres in your age group." Suslov said helplessly, "Maybe you will become Stalin and use your ability to live the next twenty years until the next generation of cadres grows up, only you are the right age." ”

"Now I almost feel a lot of responsibility!" Serov smiled bitterly, he didn't expect that this was the reason why Suslov had taken care of himself in recent years, and Suslov hated security cadres from the department, because the KGB was very dangerous. Personally, he hated Serov's lazy style, and he always had a female secretary around him, and there was no evidence, but he felt that Serov's female secretary was definitely not used for work alone. So he also had a bad impression of the first secretary of the Moscow City Party Committee, Grishin.

But the world is so wonderful, Suslov suddenly discovered the problem of Soviet talent after Sherepin fell. Only then did he begin to reconsider whether the ruthless General Political Commissar could use power to lead the USSR through this awkward period.

There is only one sample, Suslov already has no choice, the cadres of the Dnipro gangs are getting older than the other, who knows how long these people will live, and it will be too late to retrain. So even if Serov does not meet some of Suslov's criteria, the second secretary can only fill in the fixed answer when faced with a multiple-choice question with only one option.

The two talked for a long time, and it was not until Suslov was visibly tired that Serov left the room.

Suslov's serious illness caused a lot of movement in the presidium of the Central Committee, you must know that Suslov has been the second secretary for a long time, in fact, he is the successor in the general sense, but he is about the same age as Brezhnev, so half of the people will not think about this aspect, from him people suddenly remembered that Brezhnev is also very old.

Leonid Brezhnev, Andropov, Chernenko, Serov and Ustinov all came to visit and show respect for the Soviet intellectual authority.

"Comrade Suslov, you will definitely get better, our country still needs you." On the one hand, Brezhnev respected him, and the two had worked together for many years, and Suslov could not pose a threat to him for a long time, and for a time his peers were critically ill, and Brezhnev himself could not accept it in his heart.

"Human aging is inevitable, and the time is up." Suslov said very calmly, "I am very glad that I have struggled for my ideals, although there are still many problems in the country, but I believe that the problems encountered by our motherland are temporary, we have created a system out of thin air, and it took several decades to develop to the current height, which is enough to prove the unparalleled advanced nature of socialism, and I believe that all problems will gradually disappear." Although I can't see this day! ”

All the people who came to the ward were in a heavy mood, because these words had a strong smell of last words, and that night, Suslov's blood pressure in the hospital rose sharply, and in the following days, the whole hospital tried to let Suslov through the dangerous period as much as possible, and Suslov never woke up and fell into a coma.

On 26 January, news came from the hospital that Suslov, member of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union and secretary of the Central Committee, had died of illness.

"Hey!" Serov, who was wearing a large-brimmed hat, sighed, Komsomolskaya Pravda had already reported the news of Suslov's death on full pages, and at the meeting in the Kremlin, Brezhnev was silent for a long time, "Comrade Suslov's body should be buried in the red sausage, he is not the secretary of the Central Committee in the general sense, what do comrades think." ”