Chapter 1000 The Hypothetical Enemy Is the U.S. Army
The world, including the United States and the Soviet Union, celebrates great victories, but for different countries, the meaning of such great victories is very different. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć Info Serov can be sure of one thing, the security environment of the Soviet Union is at the best time in history, for this big spy rarely has some literary fan, took out a Soviet junior high school mathematics textbook to review, the time is as long as five minutes, and finally put it away, thinking that calculus and Euclidean space analytic geometry, he can't understand.
It seems that the Red Alert series is not without prototypes, in this game there are no computers in the Soviet Union, and the V3 rocket launchers are manually launched by the driver after calculation, which proves the mathematical ability of the Soviets. is so dark that it is naturally pink in the depths, and Americans are also black out of feelings.
"It's so funny that I can't find some colleagues to specify policies, and every time I encounter a problem, I need to find a group of retired people to discuss, which is not the sadness of our country." Serov shook his head and sighed, he always came to Shelepin's house to discuss some problems when he was confused.
In terms of age, the Soviet leaders of the eighties should have been such people as Sherepin, Semychasny, Egorechev, Goryunov, and Meshatsev. But Brezhnev wiped them out in their entirety.
Now Serov is very embarrassed, the Central Presidium does not have his peers, either the Dnipro gangsters who are dying and do not know when they will go to the coffin, or the cadres promoted by Andropov who came up as rockets. The problem is that the cadres promoted by Andropov are actually a few years older than Serov, and their work experience is not as good as that of Brezhnev's gangsters, which is very embarrassing.
"It also allows us to play boring retirement, in a sense, you take good care of us." Yegorechev laughed, but also said regretfully, "We were too young at that time to believe in Brezhnev, it can also be said that Brezhnev's character deceived us, probably deliberately." ā
"Don't talk about the past!" Tolstokov reminded his friend and glanced back at Shelepin, the meaning is self-evident, who is the most pity? Of course, it was Xie Leping, who was also secretary of the Central Committee, first vice chairman of the Council of Ministers, member of the Presidium of the Central Committee, and chairman of the Party and State Supervision Commission.
Sherepin's life can be described as smooth sailing before he met Brezhnev. If it is described as a novel, it is the life of the natural protagonist. Even during the most difficult period of the Great Patriotic War, Sherepin worked in the central organs, and Yegorechev and Tolstokov joined the army at the front.
"All the previous experiences are in the past!" Yegorechev also said that everyone is old, and the past should be seen openly, and Serov's arrival made everyone very happy.
If you add the words of the first secretary of the Sovietgrad city party committee, Kharazov, everyone is in order. It's a pity that Harazov is busy with work, and he is not as shameless as Serov, and he always asks for leave to rest for physical reasons. So? He can't come.
When everyone had arrived, Serov mentioned the idea of political supervision recently, and of course did not forget to talk about the question of raising the position of the Central Council of Soviet Workers, which had already been reported to the whole country, and Sherepin knew about it.
"Central Council, hehe!" After Brezhnev dismissed Sherepin from the post of chairman of the Supreme Soviet, he was ready to make Shelepin chairman of the Central Council. Sherepin categorically refused to retire directly, so after hearing about Yanayev, he let out a meaningless laugh.
"How our supervisory department supervises cadres has always been a concern for me. I have been the chairman of the KGB for so many years, and the Central Supervisory Commission has been in our hands for so many years. If I retire one day, the entire security system will be very strong, and every time I think about it, I can't sleep. Serov raised the question in his mind, "I am afraid that the conflict between the security services and the cadres will expand in the future, and I want to avoid this." ā
Sherepin nodded, this possibility is not impossible, on the contrary, it is quite large. Starting with Sherepin himself, to Semychasny to Serov, the KGB has been in the hands of a group of people for almost thirty years. It is impossible not to be branded to a certain extent.
"Are you afraid that the future general secretary will be among the security cadres?" Yegorechev shook his head and said, "This possibility does not exist, if it really turns out like this, the KGB will be purged." It's like the Ministry of Internal Affairs was replaced by the KGB, but it won't happen while you're alive. ā
"It doesn't work after I die, it's finally come to the point where the self collapses and it becomes a big joke in the world, and the protagonist of this joke is the ideal we have been fighting for decades." Serov kept shaking his head and said as if he didn't want to think about it, "If it happens, it is estimated that I will be dug up from the grave." ā
"And how are you going to balance?" Sherepin laughed, "You can think about digging up Brezhnev and letting him come up with ideas, I'm not the best choice." ā
As soon as Shelepin's words came out, everyone burst into laughter, and Goryunov thought for a moment and said, "Actually, it's too early to think about these questions, Yura's age is not very old, and it is still the golden age of cadres." ā
"It's not too early, sooner or later we have to complete the upgrading of cadres, but it is more difficult to maintain the tradition, and make the judicial and security system more independent, so as to ensure that our country has the momentum to move forward." "I would like to subordinate the judiciary and security departments to the Comintern without direct interference from the General Secretary, but this involves a problem. ā
"Did the Comintern serve the USSR, or did the USSR serve the Comintern?" Semychasny's statement hit the nail on the head.
"That's the problem, in fact, it's not a problem, of course the Comintern served the Soviet Union, but in a sense the Soviet Union also served the Comintern, and the question of what proportion. After the KGB is placed under the command of the Comintern, the scope will be broader, and at the same time I will make it clear that the general secretary cannot interfere in the operation of the KGB. Serov recounted what he was thinking, and that the Comintern, a supranational organization, could give the KGB the ability to supervise in the name of justice. Not to be interfered with by the political structure of the USSR itself, but to complete this step, it is imperative to recruit members from other countries in the future.
"The best security officer is actually you, and we can't really help with this problem." Tolstokov shrugged his shoulders and said honestly, "It's better to talk about other issues, such as retirement age, and things about collective leadership." ā
Collective leadership has always been advocated by the Soviet Union, but in the end it was always an insurmountable problem, because the power of the general secretary was too great.
"Truth be told, the General Secretary and the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet can no longer serve at the same time. Moreover, in the same government, the general secretary cannot be dismissed from his post as a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee. Serov sighed and said, "All members of the Presidium of the Central Committee have the same status and should be written into the party constitution." ā
"That's good, if there is a problem with the cadres in the previous term, it can be solved by later generations, but will mutual checks and balances cause efficiency to be reduced? As for the general secretary's authority being restricted, I am not worried about this. Sherepin said appreciatively.
In this way, the real power is still in the hands of the general secretary, but it prevents the general secretary from using his power to pull his cronies into the highest authority of the Soviet Union. Serov, who was affirmed by Sherepin, has confidence in his heart, and after five years, he can initially try the effect.
The most urgent thing at the moment, or rather the more important thing, is the question of how to overcome the United States. The reform of the USSR itself could be before and after the victory over the United States. However, Serov preferred to defeat the United States, so that it was easier for him to adjust the balance of power in the various sectors of the Soviet Union.
Every bit of change in the Middle East was observed by the Soviet Union, including various indicators in Iraq and Iran, and was constantly sent to the Kremlin, including the will of the two governments and public opinion.
Now the Soviet Ministry of Defense has received an order from Serov to simulate the Soviet Union's response plan if the United States intervenes militarily after the outbreak of a major war in the Middle East. In fact, it is a war plan, and it is not surprising that the Ministry of Defense has no surprise in the Kremlin's orders, and a country's army itself is carrying out various war plans in the face of different imaginary enemies.
It's just that this time the designated plan is the hypothetical enemy is the U.S. military. The situation in the Middle East in this era was completely different, and the Soviet Union had an absolute geographical advantage. The layout of military bases and the control of important communication routes are all above the United States, and once a war breaks out in the Middle East, at least according to the current situation, the Soviet Union will have an advantage.
Defense Minister Marshal Akhromeyev also maintained an optimistic attitude, "If the Mediterranean Fleet snipes at the US Sixth Fleet, we will be able to prevent the US military from moving troops from around the world with Egypt as the center." ā
"If the United States wants to mobilize its troops, it will not stop just because the Suez Canal is no longer in its hands. This deduction is wrong, and I envision a scenario where our aid package is in the event that U.S. forces have already assembled in Haiwa to attack Iran and Iraq. "It is we who help Iraq and Iran fight back, not that we prevent the United States from going to war, in fact we can't stop it, and the United States will not stop its military operations just because we say two words." ā
Let Akhromeyev revise the battle plan, Serov began to reply to Iraq and Iran, it is better to wait!