"Chernenko is still a little worse than Andropov. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info Okay, let's go down. Listening to the report of Pavlov, director of the General Office of the Central Committee, Brezhnev responded somewhat weakly. Of course, he himself is inclined to his comrades-in-arms, but if he can't do it, he can't do it, even if he is the general secretary, he does not have the ability to forcibly support the next general secretary.

The demarcation of the Presidium of the Central Committee was so clear that Andropov was supported by the three departments directly under him. This tendency is too obvious, Serov's State Security Council, Ustinov's Ministry of Defense, Gromyko's Foreign Ministry. Because of the re-intensification of the Cold War, the three major departments have become more and more important.

Sighing and looking out the window, Brezhnev had often been mired in memories since Suslov's death. It's not a good tendency, but that's what he wants. Memories of their participation in work, memories of the Great Patriotic War, memories of Kozlov, Sherepin, Podgorny, Kosygin everyone.

The door to the office was pushed open, and Nina, the general secretary's professional paramedics, walked in to examine Brezhnev's body. And the great leader of the whole people of the Soviet Union, with a wooden face like a puppet, was left to the fiddling of the female nurse. He has no demeanor as a great leader, and is more like an old man on the verge of death.

"Nina, you've been with me for four years." At the end of the examination, Brezhnev looked at the beautiful female physician with a blank eye, and for four years he had seen this intimate care far more than anyone else. More than his wife Leonid Brezhneva, more than a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee.

"Yes, General Secretary!" Nina had a gentle smile, which was not a routine smile. But there is a certain emotional implication, she has seen the great leader become what he is today, and although the KGB should not have personal feelings, she still has some sympathy in her heart for the general secretary.

Not! Brezhnev was noncommittal, and said after a pause, "Today I want to talk to you, can you be a listener?" You're not a cadre, you're just an ordinary person, and I really want to talk to an ordinary person now. ”

Nina did not answer, but sat directly opposite Brezhnev and looked at the general secretary with expectant eyes.

"If you look back on my life from the current perspective, the happiest days in my heart were when I was the secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk regional party committee. At that time, I was able to see with my own eyes what I had done for the people, but now, I can only listen to the mouths of some departments, hear what the people think of me, I am already the general secretary, but I can't see the people anymore. "Brezhnev's own memories.

Dnepropetrovsk had the happiest years of his life, and Brezhnev's first task after taking office was to complete the grain purchase program. Natural disasters can't be changed, so let's avoid man-made disasters. Since the vast majority of reconstruction work in various parts of the country is mainly industrial, it is not possible to concentrate enough vehicles and machinery for the transportation and processing of agricultural products, resulting in food rotting in the ground. In response to this problem, Brezhnev gave orders with the consultative leadership method for which he would later become famous.

"I know that Shurick once said that I have the ability to be a good state party secretary. He was wrong and he wasn't wrong. He lost to me! Brezhnev smiled mildly at Nina, "A second secretary who is recognized as capable and skillful and has many supporters is not my opponent in the end. When Shurik left, I had mixed feelings, there were many things he didn't think was wrong, and if he was willing to focus on safety like Serov, maybe he wouldn't go. ”

The Soviet Union did not have a nominal second secretary, which was a ridicule of the secretary of the Central Committee, who had the ultimate right to speak. In general, there are two Central Committee secretaries who are responsible for the most authoritative work, one is in the ideological field such as Suslov, the other is the Central Secretary of the Personnel Organization, Kozlov in the Khrushchev era, and Sherepin when he first came to power. Even Brezhnev's old comrade-in-arms Kirilenko was not the second secretary, although Kirilenko always thought so himself. But in the eyes of others, Suslov is still there.

"The person I am most powerless to face is Comrade Kozlov, who has died of illness, and if Shurik has many supporters, then Kozlov is the one who everyone wants, and even I think that I cannot fight against Kozlov. But an illness knocked him down in an instant, and fate was so wonderful. Brezhnev pointed to himself as he said this, "Now I understand what it feels like to be riddled with disease, Nina, can you understand this feeling?" ”

"General Secretary, everything will be fine." Nina pushed the glasses on Joan's nose and gently comforted her.

"I hope so, among the current Central Presidium, in fact, I am the most optimistic about Serbitsky, if possible, for example, I still have two or three years to go, I think Shcherbitsky can lead our country." Brezhnev whispered, "The others are either too old or in poor health." Of course, I have not forgotten the owner of the Lubyanka, the international situation forced me to hand over foreign policy to him, but being born in the KGB is always worrying. So I can only use Andropov to suppress him, in terms of seniority, after Suslov's death, only Andropov has this qualification. ”

Brezhnev had been hesitating to drive the last of Sherepin's men away. But on the one hand, Serov had a good relationship with Ustinov, Andropov, and Gromyko. In addition, Brezhnev has always believed that it is best to maintain the status quo for a model that is not bad, and Reagan is menacing, and seeing that a more fierce confrontation is coming, he must consider the country and continue to rely on the chairman of the KGB who is in charge of foreign policy.

"When people are old, they are prone to sentimentality. I almost forgot that Brezhnev was originally a sentimental person! Serov hung up the phone and extinguished the cigarette butt. There have always been three centers of power in the Soviet Union that will never be weakened.

The first was the Presidium of the Central Committee of the USSR, which was the real core of the USSR. The direct leader was the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the second was the Secretariat, which for most of the time was responsible for formulating the line and guidelines, and the Secretariat was responsible for supervising the implementation of the Party's policies and handling the day-to-day work. The secretary of the Central Committee, who presided over the work of the Central Committee and the Secretariat, was usually ridiculed as the second secretary of the CPSU - the second-in-command and successor of the party.

Nominally, only the second secretary could provide checks and balances on the general secretary, but there was a third center of power in the Soviet Union. The third center of power has not been recognized, and the center has been trying to eliminate it, but because the bitter cold war has continued, the third rbuus yanka has always been able to regain strength after being weakened.

Like many Brezhnev-era cadres, Serov was a beneficiary of the stabilization of cadres, and with the exception of Foreign Minister Gromyko, Serov himself served as the leader of a separate ministry for the longest time.

As for the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR and the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet, it can be seen from what happened to Sherepin and Kosygin that they were both institutions that could not confront the General Secretary, and in the early days the prestige of the two men was even stronger than that of Brezhnev.

For twenty years, the Rubyanka has been much more stable than the Presidium and Secretariat of the Central Committee, and once the Lubyanka has not weakened for a long time, it will naturally become stronger and stronger, and every owner of the Rubyanka will be a strong candidate for the general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union whenever there is an opportunity. The advantage of the KGB over the Ministry of Defense is that the KGB represents the police, although it is also uncomfortable. But it's still a little less lethal than the pure military of the Ministry of Defense. It was simply impossible for the Minister of Defense of the USSR to become General Secretary.

As a level of confrontation with the United States, the Soviet Union at least had to face and would not let active military personnel lead the country, otherwise it would be easier to win the championship similar to the structure of the military government, the party, the government, the military, and the special forces, on the contrary, the KGB, the last spy organization.

"It turns out that I've been playing dead for so long, I almost forgot that it's 1982 now." When greeting Le Duan, general secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam, Brezhnev reappeared after two months. He led all the members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union to hold talks with Li Duan. Similarly, Le Duan awarded him the Order of Ho Chi Minh of the 1st Class and the title of Hero of Labor of Vietnam.

It seems that this year Brezhnev received a little more medals than in previous years. The General Political Commissar forgot that a few months ago it was he himself who proposed to award Brezhnev the fifth Order of the Hero of the Soviet Union.

In 1981, which had just ended, because Reagan's reforms were still in the groping stage, the Soviet Union's gross industrial and agricultural production volume had historically reached 88 percent of the United States, and of course, when it was announced, it had become 90 percent of the United States.

Although the statistical department falsified 2 percent of the data without discipline, the general public would never find out, and even a professor who was proficient in mathematics could not be the opponent of the group of mathematical monsters in the statistical committee.

"This is already a data that can try to pull the United States down!" On the day he saw the statistics, Serov once said to Andropov that even if the Soviet cadres were greedy, they could not have more wealth than the super-rich class in the United States, and if it was a separate confrontation between one country and another, the Soviet Union would definitely have a stronger bearing capacity than the United States.

After Brezhnev greeted Li Duan, he did not show up for another two months. Until September, he attended a welcome party to welcome Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi. At this time, India was in great need of the support of the Soviet Union, because the security in Pakistan was very bad, and the rebellion against India was one after another, on the contrary, the Afghan Socialist League was much quieter, and the two countries that also sent troops suffered different fates, because Amin had already started to act before the rebellion.