(2nd update completed)

Yanayev's speech at the command of the Northern Fleet was seen as a precursor to the purge of the naval forces, and although he was not named, everyone knew that it was aimed at the Commander-in-Chief of the Navy Chernavin who framed Captain Remus. After the news leaked, those who had not yet boarded the pirate ship began to secretly distance themselves from the members of the liberal faction of the Navy, and some of the officers who had already boarded the pirate ship were thinking about how to jump off the ship. With just one sentence, Yanayev began a crisis in the internal clique of these people.

They were all afraid that in a week the fellows of the Disciplinary Committee would inexplicably show up in the offices of some of the hapless guys, and tell the poor creatures with gloomy faces to come with them. And then? Then they never came back, as if they had disappeared out of thin air. All of a sudden, the ruthless style and efficiency of the Disciplinary Committee made the corrupt bureaucrats of the military tremble.

Everything is as Yanayev said, he will never allow moths and scum in the army, and all those who go against the will of the Soviets and betray the people will be thrown to Vorkuta to dig coal, without exception.

It's just that Yanayev did not go directly to the headquarters of the Soviet Navy in St. Petersburg to settle accounts, but first went to the Black Sea shipyard in Ukraine. He didn't have any special plans, he just went on a whim to see how far the Varyag had been built, which had not yet been completed.

Thanks to Yanayev's change in the historical timeline, the Varyag project, which was supposed to be stopped this year, has the possibility of continuing, and the director of the Black Sea Shipyard, Makarov, who is in charge of the overall construction of the Varyag, does not have to stand in front of the unfinished project all day long, babbling to me to look at it again.

And this time Yanayev's surprise visit caught Kravchuk off guard. Because of the turmoil of the situation. There is no love in the near future, and there are no projects worth looking at. But Yanayev was more concise. He said that he was not interested in anything other than going to the Black Sea Shipyard.

Hearing that Yanayev was going to the Black Sea Shipyard, Kravchuk expressed his relief, it seems that Yanayev's goal is the unfinished Varyag, not the problem of corruption and bribery in some member country, and the resources of the army are the top priority in Yanayev's heart.

Accompanied by Kravchuk, Yanayev visited the Nikolaev shipyard, the only aircraft carrier assembly plant in the Soviet Union with a 900-ton crane. In January of last year. The Kuznetsov, which was launched from here, has already begun official service in the Northern Fleet, while the unfinished Varyag and Ulyanovsk continue to be built with the help of the Soviet Union's gritted teeth in military spending.

The Varyag's hull docked at the port of the Nikolaev shipyard, and unlike the wind and rain that was treated after the disintegration, the Varyag at this time was treated with care by the director of the Nikolaev shipyard, Makarov, as if he were his own child.

Yanayev refused Kravchuk's escort and opted for a visit by car. Accompanied by an entourage, visited the shipyard where the Varyag was built in full swing. Numerous cranes and a dizzying array of heavy industrial machine tools made Yanayev feel for the first time what it means to be a truly developed country with heavy industry.

"Every day, the director of the Makarov plant led us on board the Varyag and walked through the places where there may be hidden dangers and where we must always be under supervision. Over time, we would privately refer to the road that the director inspected as 'Makarov Boulevard'. Praise was expressed for the meticulous rigor and loyalty to the tasks of the state of the director of the Makarov plant. One of the workshop directors who supervised the work of the workers at the site told Yanayev that everyone at the Nikolaev shipyard mentioned their director with sincere admiration.

At this time, Makarov was still inspecting the work on the ship, and Yanayev was too embarrassed to disturb him, so he had to stand quietly in the shadow of the behemoth of the Varyag, admiring the war machine that only industrially developed countries could build. When this aircraft carrier actually enters service, it is also the time to issue a statement of challenge to the United States for sea power.

"Sea power is sacred, challenging sea power is evil, and challenging sea power will end badly." Yanayev's mind suddenly popped up with this sentence that he had seen in "Imperial Sea Power", and then smiled and said to himself, "Sea power consciousness? The lesson is that our red flag will be planted in the four oceans of the world, letting everyone know that we have not only a huge torrent of steel, but also an equally terrible wave of steel. ”

However, the ideal is full, the reality is skinny, and the follow-up funding of the Varyag and Ulyanovsk is still a headache, after all, there are too many places to spend money throughout the Soviet Union, and the war conflict just experienced in Chechnya almost exhausted the small treasury of the Soviet government's gray income.

When the director of the Makarov plant came down from the Varyag, someone ran up to him and said to him, the general secretary was waiting for him at the pier below. Makarov hurriedly tidied up his clothes and hurried in the direction of Yanayev. When he walked up to Yanayev, Makarov was already out of breath, and Yanayev grabbed the almost sixty-year-old director of the factory Makarov and said, "Please slow down, Director Makarov." Don't be in such a hurry to come to me, completing the Varyag construction task is your top priority. ”

"No, General Secretary Yanayev." Makarov panted, "I want to ask another question, when exactly will the follow-up funds for the Varyag be ready." Our construction task has been slowed down due to financial problems. ”

Yanayev's face was embarrassed, not because he did not want to complete the task of building the Varyag, but under the policy of the Minister of Economy Ryzhkov to focus on economic construction, even the vast majority of the gray income from the arms trade was used to support the construction of light industry, and in addition, many military projects in the Soviet Union were discontinued, and it was reasonable that the construction of the Varyag and Ulyanovsk gradually slowed down.

"Comrade Makarov, I hope you will be considerate of the country's suffering." Yanayev sighed and told him the truth, "It's not that we don't want to speed up the construction of the two aircraft carriers, but that the state finances have really stretched to the point of being stretched in the past two years." The cost of a Chechen war is no less than the construction of two aircraft carriers in the first or two phases, so I hope you can bear with me, and I am also trying to raise funds to complete this project. ”

Seeing that Yanayev confided the truth to Makarov, the director of the Makarov plant did not continue to insist, he said worriedly, "This aircraft carrier is a feat that I have devoted most of my life to accomplishing. I don't want him to die in my hands. ”

"Believe me, Comrade Makarov, I will not let your hard work go to waste." Yanayev remembered the history of the director of the Makarov plant, who went to visit the Varyag rain or shine.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in history, the Ukrainian government was unhappy in the negotiations with Russia because it was unable to continue to build the Varyag, and could only let the unfinished aircraft carrier be left to the wind and rain and abandoned in the port. At that time, Makarov had to visit the last work he had not finished every day, and he would ask me to see it again.

Thinking of this, Yanayev asked inexplicably, "Comrade Makarov, if one day the Soviet Union collapses, and only the Russian Federation or Ukraine remains, can we continue to complete the construction of this aircraft carrier?" ”

Director Makarov turned his head, looked at Yanayev with an incredulous look, shook his head and said, "No kidding, General Secretary Yanayev. To complete this aircraft carrier, I need the USSR, the Party Central Committee, the State Planning Commission, the Military Industrial Commission, nine ministries of defense industry, and 8,000 supporting manufacturers. And they are scattered in the various union republics, and it is simply impossible to accomplish this difficult task if the state is dissolved. ”

Makarov's tone became a little agitated, looking at the Varyag's increasingly perfect hull, with a determined and divine light in his eyes, he looked at Yanayev as seriously as he introduced his great ideals.

"Only a great country can accomplish it." (To be continued.) )