"Yuri is here? Have you ever said hello to your original friends from the General Bureau? Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky kindly made a cup of coffee for Serov, and Serov came to the First Main Directorate, and it was impossible for Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky, as the head of the Main Directorate, not to know, so it was just a polite question.

"Director, I used to be your subordinate! Let's not be so polite! Although Serov and Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky are cadres of the same rank, they have always shown respect for this kind of veteran agent, and took a sip of coffee and said, "When I return to the First General Bureau today, I still miss the experience of working here at that time!" I guess it's a combination of work and personal life, and I'd like to talk to the director about foreign intelligence......"

"Oh, you have arrived at the General Directorate of Military Administration and you still can't forget the work of the First General Directorate!" Sakhatowsky tapped Serov with his finger and smiled, "Okay, I'll just sit down and see what our Director of the Foreign Intelligence Department has to say about the current work of our First Main Directorate......"

"I don't dare to have any opinions, it's just some of the work I did when I was the director of the Foreign Intelligence Department! Now that I have left the First Directorate, I am afraid that there will be a change in the work I was responsible for at that time! After all, each one has everyone's opinion! Serov put the cup on the table and thought as he said, "I can't expect the future director to be in the same line of thought as I was the director, of course, I don't mean to interfere in the work of the First Directorate, but just put forward my personal opinion......"

"Oh!" Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky understood what Serov meant, and it was nothing more than the fear that after he left the First Main Directorate, his successor intelligence director would waste his efforts, and in all fairness, this reason is justified. Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky also did not have to obey his own style of arrangement, "Serov, you can tell me what you think!" I'll see if it's the same as the work of the Foreign Intelligence Division now......"

"I went to Egypt twice in a row, using Egypt as a base to radiate our Soviet influence in all directions!" As if returning to his days in the First Directorate, Serov recalled, "Algeria to the west, Syria and Iraq to the east, and Sudan to the south!" The country that made the most steady progress before my return was Syria, and there were no major setbacks before and after. The first major breakthrough was made in the southern Sudan, and we managed to establish contact with General Aboud......"

"Well, I have a certain understanding of these situations!" Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky nodded and said, "The Sultan's operation was very successful. Except for the fact that the country is somewhat unstable, the conditions in Sudan are good in all respects in Africa, and the first war in Sudan can definitely be called a strong stroke in the history of the operation of our First General Directorate......"

"Yes, the operation in Sudan has basically stabilized. Now I'm most concerned about the Iraqi side! Serov unhurriedly complimented his former boss and continued, "Iraq is the core country of the Baghdad Pact, as long as there is a breakthrough in Iraq, the soft underbelly of our Caucasus region will no longer exist, and the Americans will lose the ability to threaten the Soviet Union's ribs, so the main problem I am talking about today is this!" ”

"Well, there's news from the Department of Foreign Intelligence! Recently, the Free Officers Organization in Iraq seems to be on the verge of making a move, Serov, do you mean that this time the Free Officers Organization has a great chance of success? ”

"That's right. That's exactly what I meant! Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky! "Now Serov is already the head of the General Administration at the same level as Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky, and when he made a solemn proposal, although he said the same thing as when he was the director of the intelligence department, his voice is completely different.

Serov's thinking is very simple, Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky is indeed seriously thinking about this proposal, the threat of the Baghdad Treaty Organization to the Soviet Union is not at all smaller than that of NATO in the west, don't look at the countries of the Baghdad Treaty Organization and the NATO powers in the west are completely incomparable, this strength and weakness are all contrasted, NATO has a Warsaw Pact to deal with, although the countries of the Baghdad Treaty Organization are not strong. But the Caucasus was also a weak point for the Soviet Union, and the Soviet Union had only one military district there, and the pressure was enormous.

"Okay, I asked the comrades of the Middle East Division to pay close attention to the situation in Iraq!" Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky nodded and said. "This time, the Baghdad Pact Organization will be dismantled once and again, and our passage to the Middle East will be opened......

Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky's statement made Serov breathe a sigh of relief, at least he didn't have to worry about leaving the First General Directorate, and no one cared about the work he left behind. However, fearing that Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky was thinking wrongly, Serov added some more of his own thoughts. The situation of Sunnis and Shiites in the Middle East is presented.

"The idea is very good, after your analysis, the Shiites are indeed in power much more beneficial to us than the Sunnis!" Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky agreed with Serov's analysis, and the two discussed the layout in the Middle East, and finally Serov took his leave after receiving approval, refused Lieutenant General Sakhatowsky's retention, and left the headquarters of the First General Directorate.

While Serov was busy integrating the Third General Directorate, Khrushchev was also brewing a very important thing in the Kremlin, the center of the Soviet Union, "Brezhnev, Sherepin, you also know the specific situation. At present, if I want to implement the current policy, I can only make this decision! In two days' time, when we meet, I'll formally propose the resolution! ”

Brezhnev and Sherepin glanced at each other, neither of them could see through each other's thoughts, but they still spoke almost at the same time, "General Secretary, I will support your resolution!" After speaking, both of them were stunned at the same time, and then looked at each other with a little more unusual meaning in their eyes.

"It's not that I want to do that!" Khrushchev touched his bald head with some heaviness and said, "With the comparison of the strength of our Soviet Union against the United States, a one-sided arms race will not solve the problem between us, and our Soviet Union claims to have the most noble ideas and the most stable social environment!" But if the standard of living of the people cannot be compared with that of the United States, how can we tell the people that your motherland is great? Isn't that tantamount to deceiving the people? ”

Neither Brezhnev nor Sherepin spoke out, making it unclear what was going on in their hearts, but as Khrushchev's trusted right-hand man, the two of them quickly expressed their support for Khrushchev's opinion. At present, there is no one in the entire Soviet Union who has the ability to oppose Khrushchev, and the two of them are naturally no exception.

"General Secretary, we understand what you mean, we must compete with the Americans! Not only militarily, but also economically, since we need time to stabilize our economy, it is okay to take a détente towards the Americans for the time being, neither I nor Alexander have any opinion! Brezhnev replied with a blank face.

Brezhnev and Sherepin may not be as supportive of this matter as they seem, but now Khrushchev's authority after taking the Malenkov group has made ordinary challengers have no courage to confront, and now as long as Khrushchev wants to pursue any policy, naturally no one can oppose it, for example, this time.

Two days later, on 27 March, a meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee was convened, at which Khrushchev first proposed the reform of education in the Soviet Union, which had made great progress in the 10 years since the end of the war. However, the current system of national education in the USSR was formed during the period of consolidation in the thirties, when the task of primary and secondary schools was to train qualified candidates with a solid cultural foundation and a mastery of the basic knowledge of science for the higher schools, and for secondary specialized schools and higher schools, the task was to train technicians and specialists urgently needed for industry and agriculture; The tasks of providing labor training and comprehensive technical training in primary and secondary schools, as well as making them ideologically prepared to participate in labor, so that they can learn the practical knowledge and skills necessary for life and work, have been pushed to a secondary position.

At present, with the popularization of seven-year compulsory education and the development of secondary education, the contradiction between young people's education and employment is increasing. In the past three years, more than 2 million middle school graduates have not been able to go on to higher education, and this year alone, 800,000 middle school graduates have not been able to go on to higher education. Further education and employment became the main contradiction in Soviet education. As a result, there is a serious disconnect between the goals of school work and the feasibility of employment, and between the structure of the education system and the needs of the national economy.

The fundamental way to eradicate this phenomenon is to establish an educational system that prepares students for their future life and work and promotes their participation in socially appropriate activities that are appropriate for their age and body. In addition, after entering the mid-fifties, the modernization of the Soviet Union's industrial and agricultural production technology also put forward new requirements for the training of workers and engineering technicians, and the reform of secondary education, vocational and technical education and higher education was urgently needed.

Khrushchev's solution was to demand that the original ten-year schools be reorganized as soon as possible into ordinary secondary schools of various types of 11-year schools. In line with this, universal compulsory education has been extended from seven to eight years. It also calls for starting next year to begin the transition from seven-year schools with universal compulsory education to eight-year schools with compulsory education, and to complete this transition within three to five years.

Khrushchev's educational reform was a good thing in every way, so it was quickly approved by all the members of the Central Presidium, and the educational reform was a major event for the entire Soviet Union, but some people, including Brezhnev and Sherepin, knew that in fact, the major events that are happening today are far from being as simple as educational reform. (To be continued.) )