"I didn't expect that just after you were free, you felt like you had lost all your spirit, and it was really unaccustomed to seeing you like this. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 info I knew I would have found something for you to do..."In the Moscow Central General Hospital, Serov was sitting in front of the hospital bed carefully peeling an apple, and lying on the hospital bed was the Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko, who, according to history, had lived a little longer.

"People always have such a day, and I have been luckier than many people to see this change in our favor!" With a relieved smile, Gromyko's somewhat dim eyes looked straight at the ceiling and smiled leisurely, "What are we fighting all our lives for?" Isn't a person with ideals fulfilling one goal after another set by himself all his life? ”

"That's right, even mediocre people are accomplishing their goals, but big or small." Serov handed the peeled apple to the other party with some empathy, if he was still in the Northeast, the goal to be accomplished was nothing more than the ones pursued by ordinary people, such things as the wife of the garage. Of course, if you're unlucky, you might go to ask for food, and who can tell the fate of this thing.

Gromyko said very freely, "Whether you can rest this time or not, I have no regrets, of course you are more fortunate than me, I have seen the changes in our favor, you may be able to witness the establishment of the order belonging to the working class, and now you have no rivals in the world." ”

"Yes there is no visible opponent, the real opponent of our USSR is invisible, we all understand where the real opponent is, thought! Why is Comrade Suslov called the second secretary? We all know that the only thing that can really kill us is the inside! Serov laughed, turned to a low voice, "Don't talk about ordinary people, none of us have allowed ourselves to become flawless, Comrade Suslov, there is only one." ”

"Actually, I have a question, aren't you afraid that after your retirement or death, conflicts between the security services and administrative cadres will break out? You have been strengthening the authority of the security system from the sixties to the present, the entire USSR has not been the head of the same department for such a long time, the security system is too strong, is it a good thing or a bad thing for us? Gromyko asked a question that had been bothering him for a long time, a question he desperately wanted to know, or rather a wish of his.

"I'm always afraid that our supreme leader will become a person with a weak will, and as you know, our general secretary has a lot of power than the president of the United States, so we have to set up a strong department that integrates police, intelligence, military forces, and supervision departments, so that the general secretary must consider what the consequences of being a traitor will be, and I don't know if it succeeds." Serov, who was impassioned at first, was instantly deflated, but as soon as the conversation changed, he immediately said, "After thinking about it, I think that as long as the general secretary wants to dismantle such a department, as long as it takes some time, he can still do it." Therefore, delegating some of the power to other members of the Central Committee is another way. ”

"The supreme leader has become a traitor?" Gromyko looked thoughtful, thinking that this was just an excuse for Serov to abuse power, how could a general secretary become a traitor, what reason did he have to do so, idiot?

In the Stavropol Territory, a certain map header, which is making changes to the government report, sneezed several times in a row.

Serov didn't know that he had become a benchmark for power in Gromyko's thinking, but he knew that he couldn't do anything with this old man, he was so old, Gromyko didn't care about any personal interests, he was about to reach the end.

Just after the Russian New Year in '90, the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper published news that Foreign Minister Gromyko had died of illness, and that Serov, Tikhonov, Ligachev, and other party and state leaders had expressed their grief, and the Soviet Union had a three-day holiday to express their condolences.

"After one year, I will formally establish the term of office of the members of the Presidium of the Central Committee, which will be written into the Constitution, and the term of office of the General Secretary and the members of the Presidium of the Central Committee will be six years, and they can be re-elected for one term, which is equivalent to three presidents of the United States. It will be officially announced at next year's National Congress that each time the next five-year plan is implemented, one year will be set aside as an adjustment period in the sixth year. The five-plus-one model is used to ensure the smooth progress of the five-year plan, and the external name remains unchanged. Serov held his cheek with one hand and said to himself, "Some plans cannot be completed within ten years, and too short a term of office is very unfavorable to the development of long-term plans, and the current development of the Soviet Union has also reached a certain stage. ”

"I personally agree with the general secretary's opinion that we must take into account that in the Ninth Five-Year Plan, we will not be able to complete the tasks assigned by the Central Committee in some areas on a large scale!" Ligachev was referring to the situation in the late seventies, when the indicators of the Soviet Union's five-year plan fell sharply, but the problems at home were supplemented by the aggressive Soviet offensive around the world. This kind of problem is exposed when the external offensive is unfavorable and the domestic cannot be replenished.

The significance of the Five-Year Plan to the Soviet Union is very important, this year is also the last year of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan, the tasks of the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan have begun to be formulated, Serov must of course join in the discussion, history, the last year of the Twelfth Five-Year Plan of the Soviet Union, did not see any information about this Five-Year Plan, even the State Development Plan and the budget of the ninety-one years were not submitted to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for discussion, and the work of formulating the Thirteenth Five-Year Plan was postponed. All this proves not that perestroika failed, but that perestroika had completely destroyed the political structure of the Soviet Union.

"We must rapidly promote the coverage of the whole country by computers, which is already in the five-year plan, blindly expanding production is no longer very suitable for our motherland, today's world is completely different from the bad situation faced by the Soviet Union forty years ago, we can not help but take into account the problem of production costs, the Middle East oil is lower than our cost, that is, the cost is low, the rare metals of the Congo, the copper ore in Chile is more concentrated, that is, more concentrated, and the pace of foreign cooperative enterprises must also be accelerated." Serov thought for a moment and said, "For the consideration of confrontation, we have always taken the initiative to export the revolution, and with the improvement of the external environment, we no longer need to do this, and it is more important to mediate the problems of our motherland itself than other problems." ”

"In our future external work, we must prove the superiority of socialism, but we will not take the initiative to prove anything, and our country is getting better and better, which is itself an example. In terms of military strength, we have never lacked it, and in this regard we can appropriately slow down the pace, not to cut military spending or disarmament, but to invest funds in the security of our soldiers and improve the living conditions of our Red Army soldiers! In fact, there are many more tasks for us to take a closer look, and this is not even considering whether the United States will suddenly return to trouble us, although this is no longer very likely. Serov thought about it, and now he is really learning to be the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and not just the chairman of the State Security Committee of the Soviet Union.

"Are we going to cut it with the Socialist International?" Second Secretary Ligachev raised this issue.

"It's only a matter of time before we cut off them, the whole of Western Europe is lifeless, and the most energetic are the pacifists, and after many years we may be able to rescue them!" Serov closed his eyes and thought for a while, "But not now, this matter will ferment for a while, or that sentence, take care of our own problems." ”

"Since we fought with the United States in the Middle East, it seems that the entire Central Presidium has gained a lot of vitality." Serov smiled at the other committee members, "Comrades, is it time to consider the question of our successor, I have no doubt about your ability, but Comrade Gromyko's matter, I don't want to happen the second time. Further, Ustinov, Chernenko, Kosygin, Andropov, Brezhnev and many other comrades all died in office, not a day after they were not from work, and in fact they owed a certain amount to their families. ”

"In the coming time, we have to start looking for the next generation of cadres, and we still have plenty of time to see if they are reliable, but we can start now." Serov did not rush the question, nor was he ready to let the old men start to get out, he gave plenty of time.

Romanov, Grischen and others did not object, it was indeed time, they also knew in their hearts that sooner or later there would be such a day, Serov had already given time for them to observe for themselves, and they had no reason to object.

On the whole, the plenary meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union was spent in a very relaxed state, like a celebration banquet, and in the evening Serov invited everyone to his home as guests, bringing the most powerful people in the Soviet Union from the Kremlin to his own home, and only the general secretary had such a big face.

"I'm sure I slept soundly tonight!" After the guests had said goodbye, Serov, who had been holding Valya from behind, squinted his eyes and whispered in his wife's ear.

"After a decisive victory, did you relax in your heart?" Valya felt the smell of wine in her ears, and sniffled helplessly, "Your alcohol consumption is very poor, it seems that you are really relaxed." ”

"Finally worthy of my oath under the red flag, I am happy to think about it, you don't know how many lives and ideals I have saved, now I feel great when I think about it." "There are too many people, more than I killed because I was a spy, and according to the standards of the Orthodox Church, I should be canonized." ”

"Uh-huh, yes, yes!" Valya showed the fierceness of a Soviet woman, carried her husband upstairs, and tossed and turned before falling asleep.