Chapter 4 Changes
"Did you know that half of the world is directly affected by your departure, and the other half is evaluating your impact!" Serov smiled indifferently, since the death of Stalin, the socialist camp has begun to show traces of splits, this trace is from Khrushchev's criticism of Stalin, at first he was only very small, and unnoticed, but then slowly deepened over the decades, until the socialist camp was completely destroyed.
If you are a tyrant, why do the people cry for you from the bottom of their hearts? Serov couldn't believe his eyes, he had never seen such a scene, and only the ten-mile long street to send the prime minister could be compared, but Serov was not born at that time, and if he believed what he saw with his own eyes now, he could be sure that Stalin was extremely loved. But if you don't believe it, then why is there only one tyrant left in the evaluation of Stalin decades later?
"If Stalin had not developed industry, retained serfdom, and continued to make the country illiterate, maybe things would have been better!" Serov was quite brainy at this time, "People are not educated, knowledge is monopolized in the hands of a few people, ordinary people naturally lose the ability to think, and people without the ability to think are not much higher than animals!" Wouldn't that be easier to rule? Stalin, you gave the Soviets powerful industry, a high international status, advanced theories, and an educated broad masses of the people, but you did not expect that in the eyes of the people with ideas, you would become the most brutal tyrant in the history of Russia, right? Compared with the Soviet Union that you single-handedly established, people miss the dead Russian Empire more, and this kind of thinking Serov is not incomprehensible, there are a group of people on the Chinese Internet in the previous life, and they miss the starving Republic of China very much, and they are called the Republic of China Fan in the beautiful name! But he can't see the famine and war all over the country, but he puts his eyes on the bright spots that can only be found with a microscope, and it is the golden age and the masters, if the masters need to be illiterate everywhere to set off, Serov would rather all the masters go to the concentration camps! ”
Stalin's death was not intended to be like a magnitude 10 earthquake, destroying the Soviet Union in an orderly manner, more powerful than the visible nuclear weapons, the atomic bomb could only kill people, and the ensuing war could destroy the entire ideology of the socialist camp, and the signs were already beginning to appear.
The day after Stalin's death, a joint meeting of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the Council of Ministers, and the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet adopted a resolution appointing Malenkov as chairman of the Council of Ministers. Kaganovich was the first deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers, Voroshilov was chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR, and Molotov was the first deputy chairman of the Council of Ministers and Minister of Foreign Affairs of the other Soviet Union. A week later, Malenkov resigned as secretary of the Central Committee and the Secretariat was formed by Khrushchev and five others. Khrushchev became the first secretary of the Central Committee, but power in this post was concentrated only on propaganda and ideology, and political and economic affairs fell into the hands of Malenkov and Beria.
"How long has it been? You don't care if the people can accept it or not! At this time, Serov relied on the only sources of information, various newspapers, plus his own analysis, to come to his conclusions. The tearing war had just begun, and if Serov remembered correctly, Beria would have been assaulted immediately, after all, the KGB power in his hands was so terrifying that it caused the situation of being attacked by a group.
Putting the newspaper in his hand on the table, Serov frowned and continued to think, "After that, it will be the liquidation of Stalin, right?" Thinking of this, Serov couldn't help but feel sick to his stomach, man is an imperfect animal, but there are always people who think that they are perfect, as long as they are individuals, they must have good and bad, and he doesn't believe that someone has never done a good thing in his life. Now that Stalin is gone, you should criticize it, but you can't whip the corpse. And judging by Khrushchev's behavior later, the so-called opposition to Stalin was also a joke, and he did Stalin's thing all over again.
Stalin made Stalin's mistakes, Khrushchev had Khrushchev's mistakes, as long as he is an individual, he cannot guarantee that he will never make mistakes, everything will develop smoothly, only take advantage and not suffer losses, then it will not be a long time ago.
"Valya!" As soon as Serov's words came out, he realized how stupid he was, and then he reluctantly moved the hand-cranked telephone, which was almost an antique, and finally answered the phone, "Valya, come to my office for a ......"
Valya is Serov's secretary, who usually takes care of chores and sometimes helps Serov draft speeches. For the average woman, Baku at this time is still not the best choice, Leningrad, Moscow, Stalingrad and other places are the most popular places for students, but Valya is still quite confident in her ability, thinking that she can one day get what she wants with her ability.
"Secretary, you called me?" Without letting Serov wait too long, Valya immediately came in, with a devilish figure, big wavy golden curls shining dazzlingly, and slender thighs wearing a brown miniskirt, showing off the perfection of her figure. The girl had a pair of crystal eyes, clear and clear, as bright as stars, and her noble expression was naturally revealed, which made people have to marvel at her elegant and delicate light.
"If you were born in the United States, you would definitely be in Hollywood!" Serov's previous life, otaku on the Internet are full of fantasies about the women of the Slavic nation, in all fairness, Slavic women are really good-looking, compared to Western European women, the women of the Slavic nation across Asia, and the softness of a little Oriental woman, so in the eyes of the Oriental, it is better than the blonde and blue-eyed Western European woman.
When Valya came in, Serov's thinking instantly deviated, and even forgot what he was going to do, and he came out without saying anything, and sure enough, Valya's face changed greatly at that time, as a woman who thinks highly of herself, in addition to her own appearance, she is also very confident in her own ability.
Subconsciously, it is not that no one can despise himself, but it is clear that Serov is not qualified now. And most importantly, there is no doubt that the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union is now in a hostile relationship, and although the all-out confrontation between the two countries has not yet spread to the whole world, it is not far off, and domestic education has become anti-American, and everything has already involved the United States, that is another level.
"Comrade Secretary, please pay attention to your words!" Valya's pretty face carried a hint of warm anger, as if to remind her, and said lightly, "I'm not that kind of rotten woman! ”
"I didn't mean that!" Serov cried out that he had been in the Soviet Union for half a month, and he was still a little unclear about the situation, after all, he had not lived during the Cold War, so he knew that a mere ridicule would become a matter of principle.
"Okay, okay, I apologize!" Or admit your mistake first, and then say, "I'm just complimenting you, but it doesn't seem like a good metaphor, Valya, please prepare a speech, I'm going to go to the National University of Petroleum in the next few days, come with me then!" ”
"Okay!" Speaking of work, Valya immediately showed her shrewd and capable side, asked Serov a few words, and then withdrew.
"Who did I recruit and provoke!" Serov muttered with tears and laughter, but this incident can be regarded as a wake-up call for him, this era is not the later 21st century, because it is not unlucky to say that the United States is good, and to say that it is to worship the foreign and flattering, and it was taken down to accept ideological transformation in key preparations.
Thinking of this, Serov sighed, "The control is too strict, and the extremes of things must be reversed, and some people are likely to be unable to stand this kind of control, and once they receive information from the outside world, whether good or bad, they will take it as a holy decree, but they are skeptical of their own country's reports!" Everyone is drunk and I wake up alone, and become the leading party of foreigners! ”
To change the situation, only to continue upwards until you reach a position where you can influence the whole country, and now Serov can only feel humble, and if you want not to pick up rags in Russia in a few decades, you will rewrite the end of the USSR. Let this biggest social experiment in human history continue. There has never been a moment when Serov felt that he was so tall that he seemed to be able to leave his mark on history, this temptation was ethereal, but it had firmly attracted Serov.
"I seem to have some great potential! It seems to have been sublimated in thought! Reading the news of the release of the camp personnel in the newspapers, Serov felt that the Soviet Union did not seem to be completely helpless.
On March 26, 1953, Beria submitted a Report on Amnesty to the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU, and the next day a draft resolution of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU on amnesty. Less than a month after Stalin's death, Beria and Malenkov reached a tacit agreement on exposing Stalin's crimes and criticizing the cult of personality. Therefore, in the process of reviewing the "Kremlin doctor's espionage case" and rehabilitating him, Beria asked the Central Committee members to read his own review report on the case.
The Soviet Union seemed to be thawing in a suffocating grip, especially within the party, which was most heavily monitored, and it seemed that there was already a degree of freedom for ordinary Soviet people, which in the past was unattainable and very strange to say. Stalin's surveillance of the party had reached a point where ordinary Soviet citizens had greater freedom than party members. On the plus side, strict control eradicated the middle **, and no one in the Stalinist party dared to say that it was a privileged class except himself.
You can't wake up a person who is pretending to be asleep, this sentence describes the current Serov without any sense of disobedience, in the midst of great changes in Moscow, one after another orders were issued to all parts of the Soviet Union, and the oppressive atmosphere seemed to disappear in an instant, as if it had never appeared.