MTL - Big Time 1958-Chapter 882 Star Wars Project

   This is just a casual remark, placing hope on Shcherbitsky, who has been a waste for so many years. Believe that marriage can solve all problems? It didn't work in China, let alone in the Soviet Union. All he can trust is the agents of the Ninth General Directorate of the KGB, the KGB responsible for protecting the major leaders of the Soviet Union, is the power he can trust.

   He is the KGB, and he can only trust the KGB, any other consideration, to put it badly, is bullshit.

"Your probing skills are a little worse than Brezhnev. Do you need me to tell you? You, the chairman of the KGB, did it for nothing for so many years?" Shcherbitsky sneered. When won't I tell you directly?"

   "It's boring to talk like this. We are senior cadres, how can we talk like those gang of law thieves?" Shelov's face changed, and he persuaded, "That's just a backup method, can't you do it openly?"

   The Ninth General Administration still needs to detour to do this kind of thing. How could it be more convenient for this giant snake entrenched in Ukraine to take action?

   Always lying in the hospital, even a good person will become weaker and weaker, and while Andropov can still move, it is also a good choice for recuperation on the coast of the Black Sea with a better climate.

So when Chernenko proposed this proposal, no one objected. As for Andropov himself, it is the same whether he objected or not. On the one hand, it was for his own good, and on the other hand, it was for his current physical condition. , and can't do anything to Chernenko, just like Brezhnev in his later years, time has beaten them.

In this way, Andropov was escorted by a special train to the Black Sea for self-cultivation. Of course, this does not mean that Andropov was isolated from the power center. The whole set of institutions attached to the general secretary is still running, and Andropov is still the Soviet Union. the general secretary. And Ustinov, Gromyko, Serov, Chernenko regularly visited him.

   Each department performs its own duties. The leaders of the various departments in this state have learned as early as the late Brezhnev era.

   At the moment the special train set off, all the members of the Central Presidium seemed to breathe a sigh of relief. Grishin, the first secretary of the Moscow Municipal Party Committee, stayed in place for a while and left with a blank face. Romanov, the secretary of the Central Committee, stood still, waiting for other people's reactions, until Chernenko made a move, and everyone left the train station one after another.

   Everyone knows about Andropov's physical condition. This is no longer something the General Secretary himself can hide. After more than two months of hospitalization, these big figures in the Soviet Union can understand everything. In the current situation, Andropov does not say that he will die, and there is indeed little hope that he can persevere.

  Everyone was dormant, waiting for the next fight. Chernenko felt almost immediately that his biggest threat was the only remaining boss of the Communist Youth League, KGB Chairman Serov. In terms of qualifications, Serov was a member of the Central Presidium during the Khrushchev era, even earlier than Andropov.

   "It's very fast!" Serov also immediately felt that Chernenko was not very friendly, and there was nothing he could do. At this point, his figure has reached the point where no one can ignore it. There is no one with more prestige and seniority than him, and it would be strange if Chernenko hadn't noticed himself.

  So at this time, Serov can't leave Moscow, otherwise, there is no guarantee that there will be a conspiracy against him. History tells him, don't think that what happened to Beria will not repeat itself.

   But Serov believes that no one in Moscow can kill himself without knowing it. The Kremlin garrison, the Dzerzhinsky special operations division, and the Taman division could not have been mobilized without their knowledge. As for the police force in Moscow as a whole, it is itself an integral part of the KGB.

"The general secretary is recuperating, but the campaign against sabotage and anti-privilege will continue, so from today, I will live in Lubyanka and continue to promote the in-depth campaign." Serov said to all the members of the KGB Presidium, "All departments Each of you performs your own duties, you don't want to play tricks, I will keep an eye on you."

   Although before Andropov died, it is estimated that no one would use violent means against another member of the Central Presidium. But in case someone's brain cramps for a while, Serov wouldn't dare to try it with his own life. There are always people who want to harm me. The idea must not be given up. The general political commissar still feels that he is the safest in the rupee card.

   After all, this is the place where he has been operating for decades, and now even Zweigon does not dare to make small moves under his own eyes. Of course, this is not enough, some co-optation still needs to be done, but he will not do it himself.

   "Our family are all spies!" Shelov is not self-deprecating, this is a basic fact, and that's how it is.

When the Soviet Union was on the verge of another succession, Reagan could not wait to sleep with one eye open to look at the Soviet Union, and also keenly discovered that the Soviet Union seemed to be unable to accurately reflect the United States' attack after Brezhnev's death. . Even when the U.S. military attacked Grenada a month ago, the Soviet Union did not have any substantial counterattacks.

   This is a good opportunity, although Grenada has a worse environment after the US military operation, a large number of weapons of unknown origin flooded this small country and began to spread around. If we go deeper, it seems that because of the US invasion, the environment in Central America seems to be worse, but Reagan did not care about this small threat. He saw that the Soviet Union did not make a decent counterattack, and the attack on the United States was limited to public opinion. Aspects, in other words, mouth cannons.

   The discovery was justifiably exciting to Reagan, the Soviet Union’s aggressive state of affairs seemed to be ebbing. Or a more optimistic guess, there are problems within the Soviet Union, and the current expansionary policy can no longer be supported. No matter which point of view is right, it is a good thing for the United States. Unfortunately, there are still a large part of the American public who think that the Soviet Union is extremely powerful and do not agree with Reagan's judgment. Sometimes Reagan will think, "Why can't Americans be smart?" A little?"

   Regardless of what those people thought, Reagan, who had stood his ground, felt that it was time to pursue a plan he had been planning for a long time.

   In fact, he had already articulated this plan a few months ago, when Reagan delivered a speech to the nation entitled "Peace and National Security", which was the first formal proposal that the United States would conduct a study of strategic defense against ballistic missiles. In his thirty-minute speech, Reagan pointed to the inadequacies of existing deterrence strategies that rely on the "threat of retaliation."

   He said that advances in science and technology in recent years have made it possible to build truly effective missile defenses that would better safeguard the security of the United States and its allies if ballistic missiles could be intercepted and destroyed before they arrive. Reagan declared that he had taken an important step toward this goal, "I am directing a comprehensive and intensive effort to develop a long-term research and development program that begins to move toward our ultimate goal of eliminating the strategic nuclear missile threat." .

   When Andropov just came to power and didn't have time to pay attention to the outside world, Reagan has already won support step by step. Now is the moment when the plan is officially launched. Whether it was persuading Congress or liaising with the allies of the United States, Reagan had already finished taking advantage of the alternate time of the Soviet general secretary, and now there is only one last step left, signing the order to be officially implemented.

   On January 1, 1984, Reagan officially issued Reagan signing National Security Directive No. 119, formally approving the Strategic Defense Initiative. He has a more accepted name, Project Star Wars.

The core content of    is to use various means to attack the enemy's intercontinental strategic missiles and outer space spacecraft in order to prevent nuclear strikes by hostile countries against the United States and its allies. Its technical means include deploying high-energy directional weapons or conventional strike weapons in outer space and on the ground, and conducting multi-level interception at various stages of the enemy's strategic missiles. Many U.S. allies, including the United Kingdom, West Germany, Israel, Japan, etc., also participated in the program to varying degrees at the request of the United States.

Reagan, in a fighter's attitude, expressed his desire to reshape the national security of the United States in his speech, which aroused cheers from the crowd who came spontaneously. In the office of the chairman of the KGB headquarters in Lubyanka, in a room like a fairyland on earth, Serov put out the cigarette **** in his hand. . Compared with Reagan's high-spiritedness on TV, he seemed more silent, staring straight at the president of the United States on TV, and a smile slowly emerged from the corners of his mouth, this smile getting bigger and bigger...

   This is a smile from the heart, what a lovely enemy, what a lovely Republican. This is what the enemy should look like. Compared with the small moves of the Democratic Party, the presidents from the Republican Party are very like men.

   "What's so happy about it?" Little Valia pushed the door open and came in smiling, then saw Reagan on TV. She didn't know the former Shelov, and thought that the general political commissar was very concerned about every American president.

"When I saw a very tough enemy, when I cut off his head like this, I believe he would not beg for mercy." Sheloff was really in a good mood. The reason why the Star Wars plan was proposed has a basic premise, that is, the nuclear balance is in the process of invalid. The United States now has 23,000 nuclear warheads, and the Soviet Union is not many, 37,000.

   Faced with this situation, Reagan played the Star Wars plan to deceive the Soviet Union, and at the same time played with public opinion to reduce the number of nuclear weapons at the same time as the Soviet Union. Sure enough, after Reagan officially announced the start of the Star Wars program, a worried public opinion emerged in Western Europe, calling for simultaneous reductions of nuclear warheads by the Soviet Union and the United States. And some countries are ready to mediate the highest summit between the Soviet Union and the United States, which is to cooperate with the United States to balance the nuclear threat of the Soviet Union.