Chapter 354: Mafia
The crowd dispersed, Andrei's mood could not be calm, he wanted to call Moscow now and tell Andropov that there were still serfs on the land of the Soviets, and this was simply an independent kingdom! However, Andrei still held back, as the general secretary, Andropov is in charge of everything, and it is too late now, so let's talk about it tomorrow. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
Moreover, if Andropov is not aware of this, it means that the KGB institutions here have also become corrupted, and they are in the same league with the local government.
"General Andrei, we sisters have nowhere to go, we can't stay here, so let us go with you." The next morning, when the weather had cleared and Andrei was about to return to Tashkent, the two sisters came out of the next room and pleaded with Andrei.
How to place this pair of sisters, let Andrei a little difficult, he originally wanted to find the local KGB agency to help place them, at their age, they should continue to go to school, but last night I thought about it, maybe the local KGB agency is also unreliable, then it seems that he can only take them away first, but I don't know if Ekaterina knows, will she be angry.
"Okay, you guys go to Tashkent with me first." Andrei said: "Would you like to go to school? ”
"General Andrei, do laundry and cooking, we can do any job, please don't drive us away." The younger sister Lilia had a pitiful expression.
Sister Liana grabbed her sister and said, "Okay, of course, we will do whatever the general arranges us to do." ”
Last night, his own writer, the canvas-covered Gas-69, was finally repaired, and he also drove here to wait to pick up Andrei, Andrei got into the car, and the two sisters followed into the back seat, and Varisi saw that he could only sit in the front passenger seat.
With yesterday's experience, Andrei deliberately kept an eye on it, and the Mi-24 helicopter of Unit A was accompanied by protection in the air, and they were going back to Tashkent together anyway.
The car was jolting, and the bodies of the two sisters kept leaning on Andrei's body, making Andre speechless for a while, knowing that he would leave the car to the sisters and squeeze back in the helicopter.
"General, last night you said that you want to rectify the order here, it's really good, many people here are about to lose their lives, in the past, just forcibly expropriating cotton, it made us miserable, and now, forcibly collecting land, it is forcing us to die." Liana said, her long eyelashes blinking and her big eyes staring at Andre tightly.
"By the way, what's going on with this forcible expropriation of cotton?" Andrei asked. The land here is fertile and the cotton production is huge, but why force it to be expropriated?
"I don't know, anyway, if we don't hand in enough cotton, there are those people from the mafia who come to beat and scold us, and I have seen my neighbors beaten and crippled." Lilia said, with fear in her eyes.
The Cotton Case? Andrei suddenly remembered this word in his head, in history, Andropov vigorously punished corruption, and one of the big cases was the Uzbek cotton case!
Cotton is the main cash crop of the Republic of Uzbekistan, its sown area accounts for more than half of the country's farmland area, and the output accounts for 2/3 of the total cotton production of the whole Soviet Union. And Uzbek General Secretary Rashidov, in order to cater to some corrupt leaders in Moscow, used cotton as capital to consolidate his power. From the late '60s to the early '80s, during the years of Rashidov's reign, he set standards requiring Uzbekistan to hand over at least 6 million tons of seed cotton to the state every year.
If it's just his request, forget it, the problem is that cadres at all levels in the whole republic make false reports at all levels, and the annual output of cotton is as much as 1 million tons! The state pays in full, so that the "heroes" from all walks of life are full of private pockets. Rashidov, on the other hand, won the post of ****** member of the CPSU and the medal, which won the favor of Brezhnev.
And these have suffered the people of the lower classes! If you can't grow so much cotton, you have to hand it over and distribute it to everyone's head. In the eyes of these people, the people of the lower classes are like slaves!
And now, with Andropov's reforms, which are ready to carry out reforms in the management of land cultivation, have allowed these people to seize even bigger loopholes and frantically suck the wealth of the country and the people!
Mafia! In the land of the Soviets, such filthy organizations still exist! The memories of the afterlife poured into Andrei's brain like a tidal wave.
In the Brezhnev era, Brezhnev, who was on high above, created an unprecedented environment of corruption among the Soviet cadres. He not only restored the privileges of the abolished senior cadres, but also created many new ones. And in the Republic of Uzbekistan, this trend has spread to all corners of the country! Uzbek Secretary Rashidov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers Hudaiberdeev and other high-ranking officials have gathered many important members of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and state and city leaders to form a huge corruption and theft group, which is called the "mafia"!
Their organizational network is similar to that of the Italian "mafia", their activities are like mercury, pervasive, the black hand extends to almost every corner of the whole republic, and the means adopted are assassination, intimidation, blockade and accusation, turning Uzbekistan into their private fiefdom, they are the landlords, and the people below are slaves!
It was only later, when Andropov made up his mind to punish the cover, and when the Uzbek large-scale corruption investigation team was stationed in this union republic, it can be said that it was harassed and threatened everywhere. The mafia even paid for the murderer and paid a reward of 150,000 rubles for killing a member of the investigation team! On the land of the Soviets, such a thing could have happened! This special investigative team, set up by Moscow, had members from all over the Soviet Union in order to avoid local pressure and influence. Moreover, throughout the investigation period, all members of the investigation team were in danger of becoming a formidable enemy. All of them wear body armor and are protected by armed police. For example, after the family members of the investigation team were exposed, they had to hide thousands of miles away to avoid retaliation from the members of the "mafia."
These people are the cancer of the giant of the Soviets! Originally, Andrei came here only to deal with the Iranian and Afghan issues and continue to create a new situation for the Soviets, but the reality forced Andrei to break the regulations of the army on non-interference in local affairs, and he was jealous and hateful, especially not accustomed to this kind of corruption! Since you have encountered it, you must solve it!
Wait a minute! Those villagers who ran to the base last night and were willing? Andrei suddenly broke out in a cold sweat behind him.
"Quick, go to Imia Village!" Andrei shouted. (To be continued.) )