After the secret meeting, everyone dispersed with their own thoughts. Yanayev asked them to keep it secret for the time being, until they went to the banquet to meet with the heads of the three Baltic countries, and then spread the news through the mouthpieces of the Communist Party, and I don't know what kind of expressions and feelings the leaders of the countries who received Yanayev at that time would be.

The day after the meeting, the leaders of the three Baltic countries finally received a response, and the Soviet Union expressed Yanayev's willingness to hold friendly consultations on the independence of the member states and discuss the future direction of the member states. Moreover, he also suggested that the venue of the talks be set in Tallinn, Estonia, as a gesture to fully show that he had come with peace and friendship, and whether that meant peace or nuclear peace was known only to Yanayev himself.

However, he did this, and the Western world was still relieved, Mao Zi did not plan to go to war without a declaration, which showed that the upper leaders could no longer solve the problem by means of war. It also shows that the Soviet Union was oppressed under the previous Gorbachev policy. NATO has hinted that the Soviet Union, the president of the three Baltic states, is no longer capable of going to war, and that they will increase their verbal support for the three Baltic states, saying that if there is a real war, they will lead the charge.

Neither conventional nor nuclear war NATO combined was necessarily an opponent of the Soviet Union, but the polar bear, who was a conspiracy and straight-hearted, was probably no match for the cunning politicians of Western Europe.

Everyone knows that this is an unrealistic promise, and no one knows how many chances it will be redeemed. But the Estonian president, who rushed back from Finland, believed it. At the instigation of NATO, the people who were full of superiority shouted the arrogant remarks of "I would rather go to war than independence" and "the Russians get out of Estonia," and even instigated the people to storm the local CPSU office and demonstrate against the Russian nation and other nationalities, thus achieving the goal of obtaining more political benefits. For this, the top leader of Moscow with his hands on his back only smiled gloomily.

Things are moving in the direction he wants, and all that is left to do now is to wait and see what happens before the war brews.

The humiliation and calm appearance of the red polar bear made NATO begin to panic, and they began to gather think tanks to guess what the Soviet Union was secretly preparing, but the back and forth discussions came to the conclusion that it was impossible for the Soviet Union to send troops to suppress it, and they no longer had the ability to fight a war of attrition, not to mention that the member country was not Afghanistan, and even if they defeated the government army, they would have to spend a lot of money to rebuild and prevent nationalist attacks, which was not worth the loss.

And the reason why the red polar bears are calm is because they have already confessed.

Before the departure, Yanayev specially summoned Surkov, Secretary of the Party Committee of the whole army, Valentnikov, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, and Yazov, Minister of Defense, and General Arkhipov, Minister of Logistics, for a special meeting. For this reason, Yanayev also specially chose the meeting room in the place where the army held an emergency meeting on the Battle of Stalingrad that year, and the political significance contained in it was particularly obvious.

Everyone knows that the Soviet Union has now reached a critical moment comparable to the Battle of Stalingrad, and the motherland may collapse and disintegrate at any time because of internal problems.

The difference is that in the past, the CPSU was united, but now it seems that Yanayev alone is trying to turn the tide. Others, overtly or covertly, became the driving force behind the disintegration of the CPSU.

Yanayev sat in the chief position, and behind him there was only a portrait of Stalin on the wall, and there was no Gorbachev around, no Khrushchev and Brezhnev, not even Lenin. This substandard conference room has an even more profound meaning, and he will be the next Stalinist figure.

With the exception of Yanayev alone, the others were figures who had crawled through the army. However, these iron-blooded fathers were in awe of the general secretary, who was slightly younger than them, after all, he had cleaned up two tough people of the supreme leader in a row in just one day.

"I know you're all from the military, so there's not a lot of other meaningless words." As soon as Yanayev spoke, everyone sat and listened to him, "I think everyone here should know why the post of political commissar was created during the Great Patriotic War, right?" ”

Valennikov, who was very familiar with the commissar system, immediately gave the answer, "Because during the difficult Soviet Civil War, the Soviet Red Army expanded rapidly from scratch, and the workers and peasants actively participated in the army. However, there was a serious shortage of military commanders, and many old officers who showed loyalty to the Soviets were promoted and retained. Lenin established the political commissar system. Most of these people were old Bolsheviks drawn from the major factories. The political commissars of the Soviet army at all levels took the lead in all wars, cultivated the courageous and tenacious fighting style of all units, and took the lead in the charge was the basic quality of the communists and political commissars at all levels, ensuring that the troops did not surrender or disperse. Even during the Soviet-German war, there were basically no fully organized units surrendered. Later, however, commanders at all levels were basically party members, and the functions of political commissars were weakened. ”

As soon as the words fell, a trace of ominous premonition passed through Valennikov's heart, "General Secretary Mofiyanayev wants to restore the political commissar system?" But in the end, our commanders were all Communists, and in my opinion, the establishment of a political commissar system was completely superfluous. ”

Yanayev folded his hands on the table, and when he heard Varennikov's answer, he said calmly, "Oh, is it? Since those people were loyal to the Soviet commanders of the army, who can explain why there was a betrayal of the communists in the Taman Division, Major Yevdokimov, and why there were such betrayed scum as Lieutenant General Grachev, Major General Konstantin Kobez and Major General Lebed in the Air Ministry? Isn't it because our party's political and ideological work was not good enough during the Gorbachev period? ”

Valennikov had nothing to refute, although he opposed the two-chief system with the addition of political commissars, every word Yanayev said was true, and the political work of the Soviet army was indeed very bad. Perhaps their fighting style has become as fierce as it was at the beginning, but they are no longer loyal to communism and are biased towards ideological enemies.

Stalin and Zhukov had previously quarreled over the one-chief system and the two-chief system, and Stalin set up political commissars in order to divide the power of the army so that he could firmly control the Red Army. And Zhukov believed that only one supreme leader of the army could be most effective. In the end, of course, Stalin compromised, and Zhukov was run on because of this.

Now Yanayev's emulation of Stalin's example is undoubtedly the first step in taking full control of the army.

Surkov was a little smarter than Valennikov, and he said directly, "If I really want to form a political commissar, I will be responsible for setting it up, and with all due respect, General Secretary Nayev, it will take at least more than half a year to complete the full establishment of a political commissar in our army." ”

"It doesn't matter how long it takes, I can wait." Yanayev was quite satisfied with Surkov's answer, and he made another request to Surkov, "But our Soviet armored forces and infantry divisions in charge of the western defense line must have priority over other units to create commissars, oh yes, and the Baltic fleet." ”

"Wait, are we going to have a war with the armies of the three Baltic states? No, Your Excellency, the war is going on, and our current mobilization capacity can only last for about a week at most, and it may take more than a month to prepare for the long term. Logistics Minister Arkhipov said anxiously.

"Who said we were going to have an all-out war with the armies of the three Baltic states? Can we afford to fight now? Aren't you afraid of becoming the next Imperial Graveyard meat grinder? Yanayev reproached amusefully and angrily, and at the same time he glanced at Yazov, and the two smiled knowingly and tacitly.

Yazov cleared his throat, and everyone's eyes were attracted by his coughing voice, "That's right, our military came up with a detailed offensive plan a few days ago, of course, it has been shown to the general secretary, and it has also been approved by his final decision. ”

Just when everyone was amazed at how many secrets the general secretary still hid from them, Yanayev said innocently, "Everyone, this plan you have seen is the top secret of the Soviet Union, of course I hope you can keep it secret, well, until the war starts." ”