MTL - Big Time 1958-Chapter 908 Central plenary session

  Because of Reagan's private words, the Soviet armed forces entered a state of alert, but this process only lasted less than two hours, and the general secretary of the Kremlin ordered to lift the alert.

   NATO, who was very nervous about the actions of the Warsaw Pact, secretly breathed a sigh of relief. The storm about this joke has just begun. As the president of a country, Reagan's words can become news, not to mention that this sentence affects more than one country.

When   Reagan's words were heatedly discussed, people also wanted to know the reaction of the Kremlin, with fear and anticipation, and everyone wanted to know how the owner of the Kremlin would respond.

  Because the end of the year is approaching, in Time Magazine's Person of the Year selection, General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Serov and US President Ronald Reagan are far ahead. This was originally a poster for American conservative propaganda, but it became the most influential iconic poster at the end of the year and entered Time Magazine's Person of the Year selection.

Reagan is the strong president of the United States since the Vietnam War. It has been almost 20 years since Kennedy's tough diplomacy against the Soviet Union. The United States has not felt the status of the world's first brother for nearly 20 years. , the economy was dragged to stagnation. Reagan's coming to power restored the confidence of Americans. During his first term, he proposed an economic recovery plan to make the US economy develop healthily and win the momentum of continuous economic growth.

  Although two general secretaries of the Soviet Union died one after another, Serov, a notorious Soviet hard-line leader in Europe and the United States, and a police cadre, finally gained the highest power in the Soviet Union, and he came to power and began to vigorously promote the anti-sabotage and anti-privilege movement. Strengthen the planned economic system, face the menacing Reagan, and call for an international democratic movement against the United States.

   The Soviet planned economic system was strengthened again, and computer networks were first proposed to be used in economic development. The establishment of a comprehensive social monitoring system was completed. Contrary to the United States, the new general secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union tried his best to strengthen the Soviet Union's government institutions. After a lapse of two years, the economic growth rate of the Soviet Union once again rushed to more than 10%. The anti-sabotage movement and the anti-privilege movement, as well as the strengthening of the planned economic system, began to be extended to Eastern Europe by the Soviet Union.

Two kinds of values ​​that represent diametrically opposed ideas, because Serov and Reagan, the Soviet Union and the United States met each other with fierce sparks. Of course, the two have one thing in common, that is, they chose to strengthen their armaments at the same time and engage in a wider arms race. Defeat your opponents, and chase down opponents within your sphere of influence.

   This kind of confrontation between an actor and a spy not only makes people excited but also fearful. Reagan, who had changed his policy of avoiding the Soviet Union, chose to lead the United States to fight back. He was greeted by the Soviet Union's mysterious and KGB-born general secretary Shelov.

  It is a pity that for a whole day, neither the Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko nor the Central Office of the Soviet Union, nor even Lubyanka responded to Reagan's attack on the Soviet Union, as if they never knew about it. This is of course impossible, and everyone believes that Serov will never be seen as not seen.

"Why should I respond to an Alzheimer's patient? He wants to send a nuclear bomb? Ask those American consortia to agree? Do you think it's a Cuban missile crisis? Nuclear superiority is on our side." Sheloff yawned and waved, " Get off work early, and the Central Plenum will start immediately."

  Ligachev nodded, he really needed to prepare his speech at the Central Plenary Session, and the other members also got off work. In the Greater Kremlin, there are only old hooligans who are male and female...

  Serov has a question. Regarding the method of changing cadres, Stalin's method is a little softer than Khrushchev's method for whoever fails to complete the task, and just let him get out of the way. After Stalin's death, all his assistants except Molotov betrayed completely, and Khrushchev needless to say. It was not that he led the KGB to stare at him, and he was overthrown by his subordinates long ago.

  The only relatively stable period was the Brezhnev era, but the results of this kind of stability can be seen by everyone. If it is really more than the loss, it may have a greater negative impact than the previous two general secretaries.

  If Serov learns from Stalin, the future general secretary is learning from him, and it is absolutely impossible for the general secretaries from generation to generation to rely on the cleaning of their predecessors to stabilize the country. From time to time every leader is a leader of steel. Serov had a bunch of children, and from the fate of Stalin's son, he couldn't do it. He is not Tykhonov...

  Khrushchev's method of retiring immediately seems fair, but it must be explained that the Soviet Union's pension issue, the Soviet Union stipulates that a retiree's pension is only half of the working period. Serov would say that this is perfectly logical and mathematically ok.

   A person's contribution to society is completely different when he is in his prime and when he is old. In addition to being inhumane, half of the pension after retirement is more sustainable than the over-inflated benefits in later generations in Europe.

   But the cadres were not satisfied, so Khrushchev did not end well. This problem must be solved. If Serov uses the KGB to force these cadres to accept the current conditions, it is ok, and the validity period will last until the day he dies. This is just delaying the problem, and no one knows how the general secretary can solve the problem later.

"It seems that I need to make a certain compromise. Gulag alone cannot solve this problem." Forcing this group of cadres to be obedient, after he died, he could not guarantee that the next general secretary would make the next group of cadres obedient, and exchanged conditions what is it? this is a problem!

   Shelov knows what the current Soviet cadres want, and it is not much different from what ordinary people want. A house, a car, and some state care, no problem, these can be given to them. Fortunately, the general environment of the Soviet Union is relatively closed. These cadres have not seen much of the world. It seems that they want a lot. In fact, in Serov's eyes, this is nothing. Even if the cadres in the Soviet Union are replaced, that is, 10,000 apartments, 10,000 cars and some medical expenses, for a country, it is nothing...

   However, the general secretary of a department like the advisory committee will never be established, and he will retire cleanly after retirement. He also does not plan to reform the pension, half the amount is very good and will not cause too much pressure on future generations.

It is a privilege to give full pensions to the cadres. If the whole country is given full pensions, it will not take twenty years for the Soviet Union's biggest expenditure to be military expenditures. Money tossed in benefits. It is better to be dragged to death by the arms race than to be dragged to death by welfare spending. When the former collapses, there are weapons that can scare people, while the latter collapses and the whole country is not much different from the refugee camps.

   "The general secretary takes care of you so much, why don't you kneel down and follow me to defeat the United States?" Sheloff laughed at himself, his thinking now is completely different from when he was a spy chief. However, 10,000 apartments and 10,000 cars don't add up. Is it 100 million rubles? It's still very reasonable. Plus the network whistleblower platform established by the KGB.

   One cotton case would cost the Soviet Union billions of rubles in expenses. If there were a few cotton cases, the money would have come back long ago.

  The mobile phone on the table made the general secretary have to temporarily stop thinking, and took the phone to answer, "You can't come here, I'm done taking a shower!" Little Valya's slightly dissatisfied voice came from the phone...

uh-huh! Although there was no one around, he couldn't stop the guilty general secretary from looking around, clearing his throat and saying, "Okay, I'll be there in a while!"

   "It's swollen, it's swollen! I won't take the initiative to find you in the future, I'll wait for you to come over by yourself." Little Valia pleaded with a smile on the corner of her mouth.

"If you're not obedient, I'll make your belly bigger." Sherov gritted his teeth and threatened, little Valya forgot to even scream, Mengmeng said, "It seems that you really did this, you Is it more affected? Old rascal..."

Yes! The next morning, Serov, who was dressed in the marshal's dress, put on his hat, gave the overworked secretary two days off, and went to the auditorium to attend the upcoming plenary session, surrounded by reporters from the Warsaw Pact countries.

"General Secretary Serov, how do you plan to respond to Reagan's declaration of war?" A reporter from the Central Organ of the GDR just got out of the car and squeezed over to ask what the Soviet Union thought about Reagan's claim to attack the Soviet Union. .

The general secretary, surrounded by reporters, pondered for a moment, stretched out his hand to signal silence, and waited for the scene to quiet down before slowly saying, "The remarks of a third-rate actor and an Alzheimer's patient don't need to be paid too much attention, of course, I understand this kind of person. Come on, don’t overestimate the basic knowledge level of ordinary people in the United States. Many Reagan supporters don’t know where the Soviet Union is. Stupid people support stupid presidents.”

"Please remember what I said next!" Shelov beckoned all the cameras to focus on him, and said word by word, "Reagan, listen, your dementia that affects your thinking should be treated as soon as possible. Otherwise, the consequences will be Very serious!"

  Then the security personnel around the General Secretary separated the crowd and let Serov step into the Kremlin Hall. For the first time, he said in front of the whole world that there was something wrong with Reagan's head. If Reagan couldn't kill the Soviet Union in one wave in the future, he was found to have Alzheimer's attack again? How would Americans react? A name in American history? Okay, leave the name of Ge Maps behind...

   Will Reagan commit suicide in order to prove Shelov's guess is wrong? That's the real question to consider. It is also a joy to be able to kill Reagan, but would such a person commit suicide? Sheloff is in disbelief...

   "Hello, comrades!" Serov, who came to the rostrum, raised his head slightly and looked proudly at the members of the Central Committee present.