(The first update, there is still an update left until the night of the 1st)

"You mean to hold a military parade on Red Square on May 9 of this year on the 47th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War?" Pavlov looked at Yanayev's proposal with some incredulity, "but wouldn't it be a little too hasty, it's already late February, and this year is not a major anniversary of the Great Patriotic War, so I want to ......"

Pavlov hesitated, but still said, "My idea is to postpone it a little and wait until the 50th anniversary of the victory of the Anti-Japanese War to hold a military parade on Red Square?" When the time comes, our economy will gradually recover, and it will not be too late to come back to the big parade after the most difficult period. ”

"No, no, Prime Minister Pavlov, we can't wait until that time to hold a military parade." Yanayev said three times in a row to express his importance, "You remember that in early November 1941, it was a critical moment in the Battle of Moscow. The German Nazi troops were already under Moscow, their tanks were only twenty-five kilometers from Moscow, and the sound of shells could even be heard on Red Square. But in order to boost the morale of the soldiers, Comrade Stalin resolutely decided to parade on the traditional October Revolution Day. ”

"Doesn't ours look like we were at the most critical moment now? It's just that the enemy is not outside, but inside us. In their eyes, the Soviet Union was an edifice about to collapse, and these people wished that we would destroy the Great Wall. So I would like to solemnly declare to them here that we have only experienced temporary difficulties and have not failed. ”

Yanayev's approach was to show the West that the Soviet Union had not fallen, just as Hitler, who was initially approaching, thought that the whole Soviet Union was within reach. The plot takes a 180-degree turn.

After knowing Yanayev's real intentions to hold a military parade. Pavlov also went from opposition to a tacit form. He also raised a crucial question: "On the anniversary of the victory in the Great Patriotic War, do we need to entertain other socialist allies?" ”

The legitimacy of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia had evaporated in the Velvet Revolution, Romania had become the seat of the National Salvation Front Committee, Hungary was the cradle of democratic socialism, and Yugoslavia was lost in the storm of the wave of secession.

Vietnam, North Korea, Cuba. There is also a certain socialist country that has always had complicated relations with the Soviet Union has become a country on the invitation list for this military parade, and the representatives of the first three will definitely appear on Red Square if nothing else, and as for whether the last one will come, Yanayev is not clear. And what Pavlov wanted to say and stopped talking about was the last country.

Although relations between the two countries gradually eased thanks to Yanayev's efforts, some of the originally disputed borders were developed jointly by the Soviet Union and their southern neighbors. But in the eyes of the Soviet Union, especially some hawkish generals, they were still the so-called NATO staff, threatening a bombshell in the Soviet Far East.

But every time such statements became known to Yanayev, they were criticized in circulars. If the circumstances are serious, they will even be warned and criticized in person. Yanayev knew the importance of wooing its southern neighbor, and the Soviet Union could no longer afford to face an increasingly domineering world police force on its own. The only thing he can do is to rally allies of sufficient weight to fight against America's nefarious propaganda.

"All socialist countries are invited." Yanayev said, and then he added, "By the way, send an invitation to those European neighbors who are afraid of us, and whether they want to come or not is their own business." ”

Yanayev never had any hope for the West, in fact, Soviet Russia, which was on the edge of the European continent, was isolated and bullied from the beginning, so the Soviet Union would desperately develop and build the most powerful war machine in order to get rid of the situation of isolation. The reality was cruel, however, that the rise of the Soviet Union had provoked panic among other old capitalist countries, which had united in an attempt to strangle the greatest revolutionary regime and call the Soviet Union the evil Red Empire.

This also made Yanayev understand one thing: a country does not have a strong comprehensive national strength, and simply building a huge war machine is just an act of pulling seedlings to encourage it. Only with the same impressive economic power will the Western world bow down to the Soviet Union.

"And the country to the south also sends a copy?" Pavlov asked.

"In a few days there will be an opportunity to visit them abroad, and I would like Comrade Ryzhkov to personally hand over that invitation to them." Yanayev said that he had spent so much time in the country, immersed in the intrigues of political intrigue every day, that he had almost forgotten the lazy and comfortable life he had before he crossed over.

"I hope to continue to deepen the implementation of reform and opening up, especially in light industry. Although this was only a drop in the bucket for the backward light industry of the Soviet Union, the gradual convergence of all projects will become a force to be reckoned with. ”

Due to various institutional and economic reasons, the negotiations between the Soviet Union and its southern neighbor have been unusually slow, and in the end, Ryzhkov proposed to set aside a pilot area in the main border cities to carry out different commodity trading systems, that is, the so-called economic free trade zone pilot pilot, if it is really possible, then it will be successively extended to the whole Soviet Union, and even the member countries.

Of course, when this idea was proposed, Yanayev absolutely agreed, and now what he wants to do is to negotiate trade with China and make different reform attempts in the economic free trade zone.

"You mean that Minister of Economy Ryzhkov visited the Chinese side and, by the way, brought the invitation letter personally." Pavlov said with some incredulity, "This formation is inevitably too grand." Although the search for economic cooperation and strategic cooperation between the two countries has been in full swing recently, it is really ...... in this way."

"I know what you want to say, Comrade Pavlov." Yanayev nodded, stretched out his hand to interrupt Pavlov's speech, and said, "Although we have had a feud with each other, I am also clear about one thing, the United States has many powerful allies, and what about the Soviet Union? The last ally also fell apart in 1991. At this time, countries that are still in the same camp are even more of the objects we want to woo. If you keep staring at the past grievances, there will be no progress. ”

Yanayev said with some emotion, "Not to mention that they once believed so much in our Soviets and believed that the great communist ideal would be realized." ”

"So we can't let them down." (To be continued.) )