A train that travels across a vast field. At this time, a heavy snow had fallen on the earth, and there was a white patch everywhere, and the green mountains in the distance and the people in the vicinity were silent in this snow-covered world.

The train is a special train, and in the middle of a carriage, there is a large living room layout with sofas on both sides.

At this time, there was a person lying on the sofa, smoking a thumb-thick cigar, looking out the window at the field, the wrinkles on his head were getting deeper and deeper.

This person is the "young" Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev, a member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU and the secretary in charge of agriculture in charge of Soviet agriculture, who is already 50 years old this year.

Gorbachev was born in February 1931 in a peasant family in the village of Privorny, Red Army District, Stavropol Krai, in the southern part of the Soviet Union, and belongs to today's Russia. At the age of 13, he began to work regularly on the farm, and at the age of 15, he began to work as a mechanic at the farm's tractor station. In 1950, Gorbachev entered the Faculty of Law of Moscow University, and in 1952 he joined the Soviet Union [***]. After graduating with honors in 1961, he returned to his hometown to work, and after rising through the ranks, in March 1962 he became a member of the Party organization of the Krai of the Farm Production Administration of the First Farm of the Stavropol Region of the CPSU, and in December of the same year he was appointed head of the Party Agency of the Stavropol Agricultural Territory of the CPSU. In September 1966 he was appointed First Secretary of the Stavropol City Committee of the CPSU, in August 1968 he was appointed Second Secretary of the Stavropol Territory District Committee of the CPSU, and in April 1970 he was appointed First Secretary. Member of the Central Committee of the CPSU since 1971. In November 1978, he was elected secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU and entered the Secretariat of the Central Committee. In November 1979 he was elected an alternate member of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU. In October 1980, he was co-opted by the Plenum of the Central Committee of the CPSU as a member of the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee.

As a person who gradually climbed up from the bottom and was in charge of agricultural work, Gorbachev witnessed the gradual decline of the Soviet Union after Breonev came to power.

Of course, this decline does not refer to the military, militarily, the Soviet Union is aggressive at this time, and Lian Mei Yanjing is in the defensive stage, he mainly refers to agriculture.

A country capable of producing tanks, artillery and aircraft, capable of producing intercontinental missiles, and competing with the superpowers, is not even self-sufficient in food at home! Last year in particular, the drought almost caused a massive food panic.

After Gorbachev took charge of the agriculture of the whole Soviet Union, he began to think about these issues gradually, and he knew that if he did not reform, the Soviet Union would collapse sooner or later, but although he had been trying, he had little success.

Every time, when he wanted to put forward some new ideas, he was always rudely resisted by some people, and the forces behind these people made him have to give up.

At this time, the Soviet Union was already accumulating! If you don't reform, sooner or later it's a dead end! But how? Unless he ascends to the throne of supreme power, there is nothing he can do about it.

The old people of the "Dnepropetrovsk" gang will definitely jump out to stop themselves! Remembering that at the military parade celebrating the October Revolution a few days ago, the old men who climbed the Lenin tomb under the Kremlin bell tower inspected the mighty and majestic procession in the cold wind, and when Breynev's chaotic voice read out the speech, Gorbachev always had an indescribable feeling that the great Soviet Union, under the leadership of this group of old men, was going downhill!

Brezhnev, who has been in power for 17 years, is second only to Stalin for the time he was in power, he graduated from the Dneprterzhensk Metallurgical Institute and worked for a long time in Dnepropetrovsk, Moldavia and Kazakhstan. Therefore, after Breonev became the supreme leader, he naturally gathered around him a group of colleagues, subordinates and friends who had worked in Dnepropetrovsk, Moldavia and Kazakhstan. These people were called the "Dnepro Petrovsk" gang by the West.

In the Brezenev era, if an official wanted to be promoted, it was not his own ability, but how he had to get in touch with this "Dnepropetrovsk" gang.

This kind of politics is not at all the politics boiled in the West, and the officials have become a special bureaucratic system that has a close relationship with each other and has been disconnected from the broad masses of the Soviet people.

For example, Tikhonov, chairman of the Council of Ministers of the USSR, is a fellow countryman of Brezhnev and an alumnus of the Dneborterzhensk Metallurgical Institute, and Novikov, deputy chairman of the USSR Council of Ministers, also graduated from the Dneborterzhensk Metallurgical Institute; First Deputy Chairman of the KGB, Semyon Tsvigon, was a subordinate of Brezhnev when he worked in Moldavia; Second Deputy Chairman of the KGB, Zinev, a graduate of the Dneproterzhensk Metallurgical Institute, was at the same time Brezhnev's main assistant when he was the secretary of the Dnepropetrovsk regional party committee; Minister of Internal Affairs Sekolov, a graduate of the Dneproterzhensk Metallurgical Institute, was the chairman of the Executive Committee of the City Soviet when Brezhnev was the secretary of the Dnepropetrovsk regional party committee; Kunaev, the first secretary of Kazakhstan, was Brezhnev's main assistant when he was working in Kazakhstan.

In this regard, it is similar to Saddam's people who were born in Saddam's hometown, Tikrik, but Saddam also knew the truth that people should retire when they are old, but Brezhnev proposed that cadres should be made lifelong, which led to the fact that the top political figures in the Soviet Union were not ordinarily old.

The average age of the 14 full members of the Politburo elected at the second [***] meeting of the CPSU in March this year is 75.5 years old, with Serpe being the oldest at 83 years old, and the average age of the eight alternate members of the Politburo is also close to 70 years old, of which the oldest Kuznetsov is 81 years old.

is so old, but he is still fighting for his life! Gorbachev showed a hint of disdain on his face.

The Soviet Union, which has entered an old state, has entered an old state, and has been ridiculed by Western Europe and the United States, this is definitely not a phenomenon that a so-called developed socialist country should have! Gorbachev had already made up his mind that he would bring a new future to the Soviet Union.

Nowadays, the economy of the Soviet Union is going downhill, and his work is becoming more and more important, and Gorbachev believes that his "young" secretary of the Central Committee will one day become the general secretary!

In the past few days, I have inspected agricultural production in the Far East, where there is less resistance from the bureaucracy because of geographical relations, and this year's harvest is okay.

Gorbachev didn't know that these days, these old people were worrying about what came from the Middle East.

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