MTL - Big Time 1958-Chapter 1005 Tikhonov's support
As long as Indonesia continues to advance, Australia will sooner or later be unable to bear it, mainly because it is only the first day. Timor Island is said to be big or small, and it is almost impossible for the Indonesian army to invade the whole island in one day. And the garrison composed of native Australians is in the east of East Timor, but like this, three days is enough.
"Is three days enough time for a country to respond quickly? If it is a socialist country, this period is enough time to assemble the army to fight back. If it is a capitalist country, it cannot make a judgment. At least East Timor is worth Australia's military action. Confrontation, the evaluation of this matter will take a long time.” Shelov said with a contemplative expression, “We know that the population of Indonesia is more than six times that of Australia, and Australia cannot compete with Indonesia in terms of manpower, because a small island actually competes against it. The gains outweigh the losses, and the dispute between the two countries cannot be resolved by one Timor island, but by the larger New Guinea.”
Whether is to repel the Indonesians from New Guinea or domestic forces needs to be discussed. Another question will arise. Is Timor Island worth it? If troops are deployed, will there be problems in New Guinea? These issues must be considered, the real world is not a game after all.
"General Secretary, then we have to wait now?" Because of his relationship with the KGB, Chebrikov has always talked in front of Serov. If others can't ask, he is often asked.
"Wait? Waiting is divided into how to wait. Let the Ministry of Defense send a report to the Pacific Fleet, and prepare everything to be on call at any time." Shelov gave a reply after thinking for a while, and then said, "Now let's talk about the next question. We can't just put all our energy into it. All of them are placed abroad, and we also have our own problems to solve. This problem has begun to appear in the socialist camp at least. We only care about ourselves, so we must prevent this problem in advance and avoid the Soviet Union in the future!”
Ligachev, Grishin, and Romanov were all nervous. The general secretary seldom spoke in this tone. Everyone else looked at each other and wondered what made the general secretary alert? Could it be that someone has made the general secretary distrust? Although the Soviet Union is now a lot more peaceful, for the Soviet Union and the socialist countries in Eastern Europe, it is very possible that a single movement will keep a group of people from turning over forever.
"In Romania and some of our allies, there is a not so good phenomenon that these countries choose their own children as their successors, and I mention Romania because this is the most obvious situation in Romania. Scu is the general secretary, his wife is the deputy prime minister, and his son is the provincial party secretary. All Romania knows that Ceausescu's son is the reserve force of the future general secretary." Serov shook his head with such a meaningful expression. He shook his head and said, "Okay, it's not like I didn't imagine that the father and son took over. Even the wife is the deputy prime minister. It's the first time I've seen him there."
Ceausescu concurrently served as the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Romanian Communist Party, the president of the Republic, the chairman of the National Defense Commission and the Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, and the chairman of the Supreme Council for Economic and Social Development. All the highest party and government positions. It is not impossible for Ceausescu himself to combine the power of the party, the government and the army. The general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union also has great power. He is also the chairman of the Supreme Soviet and the chairman of the National Defense Committee. He is also an absolute authority.
But at least the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, since it was stipulated that the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and the General Secretary shall not serve concurrently, no one dared to violate this rule. Ceausescu's wife, Elena, is in charge of personnel power within the Luo Party. In the government's deputy prime minister, Ceausescu's two younger brothers also served as the Romanian Republican Army, one as an important post in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the other as deputy minister of defense. His youngest son Niku also became the executive of the Romanian Communist Party Central Committee An alternate member of the committee, equivalent to an alternate member of the Soviet Central Presidium.
Shelov didn't dare to do this. The big spy thought he was big enough, and he didn't dare to think of his son as the general secretary. At most just think about making the KGB part of the Comintern as a tool of international dictatorship.
"It's really outrageous. Shall we put pressure on Romania through the Comintern?" Second Secretary Ligachev was also very annoyed at the thought of this issue. It happened that Romania had always been disobedient and beat Ceausescu by the way.
"Mind our own business, don't let the Soviet Union become like this." Serov shook his head and vetoed, "It depends entirely on our determination to clean up Ceausescu, but I don't want to let Romania's decades of construction be destroyed in one fell swoop. . Therefore, violent means must be excluded and cannot be considered."
"Until the end, we still have to maintain a little warmth. Now Romania just has some problems, not to deviate from the Soviet Union!" Grishin nodded in agreement, "Actually, it's not a big problem."
The Romanian security system was established by Sakhartowski when he was the general counsel. Of course, Serov had a way to reach out to Romania. In fact, the reason why Romania has caused chaos in the country in history is related to the fact that the Soviet Union has always retained this kind of power. Even the Romanian People's Army was somehow influenced by the Soviet Union. The ones truly loyal to Ceausescu were the Romanian Internal Affairs Forces.
When discussing the Romanian issue, these members of the Soviet Central Presidium were like moral saints, as if the hereditary tendency of other countries did not exist in the Soviet Union. This is of course impossible, but it is different in different places. The Soviet cadre class has been stable for so long, which has caused different results at the local and central levels. Local cadres are more courageous, while central cadres are less courageous. There has already been a situation where fathers and sons have taken over, but Moscow has not yet, because these old people have not died yet, and Serov is the first time to find that these old people occupy the kennel and do not shit. There is a good side.
But just like what Grishin said, he thinks that the problem is not big because his eyes are only in the central organs of the Soviet Union. In fact, the local state committees also have this trend.
"Romania can do this, any country can do it, but we can't. We are the first socialist country, and this trend must not occur, otherwise the Americans will have more excuses to attack us." Serov said with drooping eyelids, " I won’t say much about foreign affairs in the next few years, but domestically, in the future, the general secretary, the chairman of the Supreme Soviet and the chairman of the Council of Ministers will not be able to be concurrently held by one person.
"General Secretary, you will lead us to the final victory. Don't say that."
"Shut up!" Shelov stopped a few supporters rudely and said, "You think I'm saying this on purpose, see who supports me and who doesn't? Will you find an opportunity to replace the disobedient cadres?"
Tsvigon, Chebrikov and the others, as if they were going to kneel and lick without understanding. The two people's statements have no positive effect. On the contrary, it will remind people of Stalin's retreat to advance, to test the level of support he received in the Soviet Union. Serov can already see this from the changes in the expressions on the faces of other members of the Central Presidium.
After harsh criticism, Serov, whose train of thought was interrupted, took a moment to reorganize his language and said, "General Secretary Stalin: the shoemaker's son, Comrade Molotov: the clerk's family. Khrushchev's first secretary: Ukraine The son of a poor peasant. Bulganin: a family of ordinary employees. Comrade Kaganovich: dropped out of school and became a shoemaker. Comrade Mikoyan: the son of a carpenter. Comrade Tykhonov: a family of workers. President Brezhnev Secretary: son of metallurgical worker. Comrade Kosygin: worker of Leningrad. General Secretary Andropov: son of railway worker. Comrade Chernenko: son of Siberian peasant.”
"As for me, everyone knows that I was born in the Caucasus, and my parents both died in the battle of Kyiv. This is nothing to say!" At this time, Serov realized that it seemed that this body came from a rather miserable background. He could participate in some competitions such as China. Variety shows like The Bad King.
"As the motherland of the proletariat, it is not that the children of leaders cannot continue to hold leadership positions, because these children have been nurtured since childhood and are very familiar with the operation of the entire country. They have an innate advantage. But the top leadership is still It is not suitable for the children of cadres to hold positions." Serov listened to this and said, "So in the future leadership of the Soviet Union, in addition to the general secretary who is also the chairman of the National Defense Committee, the chairman of the Council of Ministers and the chairman of the Supreme Soviet cannot be concurrently. It is not suitable to be nominated for the highest authority, the Central Presidium."
"We do this first by ourselves. When we do it, no country will be able to pick out the fault. Only then will we be qualified to influence other countries and let them introduce the same system to curb this kind of thing, understand?" Serov pointed out. He said to himself, "If my children have political talents, they should not be in the position we are now in."
There was no reply from the conference room for a long time, which made Serov very uncomfortable. Should he respond? Even he himself felt great when he said these words, why didn't anyone else react at all?
Tikhonov, who was already eighty-four years old, was the first to respond, and seemed very moved to say, "General Secretary, in fact, I have always been worried about you in my heart, but today this worry has disappeared, you have no selfishness. ."
What an illusion this is! Serov's selfishness was on the side of the Comintern, but since Tikhonov said so, he took it and accepted it calmly. Under the leadership of Tikhonov, the entire Central Presidium responded with warm applause to the General Secretary's speech. Tikhonov's advocacy is easy to understand, he has no children.
