Chapter 105: Tikhonov's Support
As long as Indonesia continues to advance, Australia will not be able to bear it sooner or later, mainly because this is only the first day. Timor Island is not big or small, and it is basically impossible for the Indonesian army to advance in one day to occupy the entire island. Moreover, the garrison composed of Australian natives is in the eastern part of East Timor, but just like this, three days are enough.
"Is three days enough for a country to respond quickly? If it is a socialist country, this period of time is enough to gather troops to fight back. If it is a capitalist country, it cannot make a judgment. At least it is worth it to Australia to take military action to confront it. This matter will take a long time to evaluate whether East Timor is worthy of Australia's military action." Shelov said in contemplatively, "We know that Indonesia's population is more than six times that of Australia. Australia cannot compete with Indonesia in manpower, because a small island is actually not worth the cost. The dispute between the two countries cannot be resolved by one Timor Island, and there is a larger New Guinea."
Is it necessary to repel Indonesians from New Guinea or domestic forces? This matter needs to be discussed. Another question will be extended to whether Timor-Leste is worth it? If troops are drawn, will there be problems in New Guinea? These issues must be considered. After all, the real world is not a game.
"General Secretary, then we have to wait now?" Chebrikov has always been talking in front of Selov because of his position as a KGB. He often comes to ask questions about what others cannot ask.
"Wait? How to wait? Let the Ministry of Defense send a report to the Pacific Fleet and be ready to be on standby at any time." Serov thought for a while and gave a reply, and then said, "Now we are talking about the next issue. We cannot just focus all our energy abroad. 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 and avoid this problem in advance and then the Soviet Union will appear!"
Ligachev, Grishin, and Romanov were all nervous. The General Secretary rarely spoke in this tone. Everyone else looked at each other and didn't know what the problem made the General Secretary alert? Has anyone already made the General Secretary distrust? Although the Soviet Union has become much more peaceful now, for the Soviet Union and Eastern European socialist countries, it is very possible that a movement will make a group of people never turn over.
"In Romania and some of our allies, there has been a bad phenomenon, that is, these countries have chosen their children as successors. I mentioned Romania because this situation is most obvious in Romania. Ceausescu is the general secretary, his wife is the deputy prime minister, and his son is the provincial party secretary. The whole of Romania knows that Ceausescu's son is the reserve force of the future general secretary." Selov shook his head with such a meaningful expression, "Yes, it's not unthinkable that my father and son succeeded, even my wife is the deputy prime minister, and I will see him for the first time."
Ceausescu alone served as the highest position of party and government, including General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Romania, President of the Republic, Chairman of the National Defense Commission, Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, Chairman of the Supreme Committee for Economic and Social Development. Ceausescu himself combines the power of the party, government and military, which is not impossible. The General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union has great power, and is also an absolute authority.
But at least no one dared to violate this provision after the chairman of the Council of Ministers and the General Secretary of the Council of Ministers was not allowed to serve on the same time. Ceausescu's wife Elena was in charge of personnel power within the Ronaldo Party. In the government, Ceausescu's two younger brothers also served as the Roman Republic army, one held an important position in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the other was the Deputy Minister of National Defense. His youngest son Niku also became an alternate member of the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the Ronaldo, equivalent to an alternate member of the Central Presidium of the Soviet Union.
Selov didn't dare to do this. The big spy thought he was too brave and did not dare to think that his son would be the general secretary. At most, he just wanted to make the KGB a part of the Communist International and a tool for international dictatorship.
"It's indeed a bit unreasonable. Should we put pressure on Romania through the Communist International?" The second secretary Ligachev was also very annoyed when he thought of this problem. It happened that Romania had been disobedient and knocked on Ceausescu.
"Just keep our own affairs in mind and don't let the Soviet Union be like this." Selov shook his head and rejected, "It depends entirely on our determination to clean up Ceausescu, but I don't want Romania's decades of construction to be destroyed. Therefore, violence must be ruled out and cannot be considered."
"We should still maintain a little warmth before the last time. Now there are only some problems in Romania, not to deviate from the Soviet Union!" Grishen nodded in agreement, "In fact, there is no big problem."
The Romanian security system was established by Sakhatovsky when he was the general counsel. Of course, Serov had a way to reach Romania. In fact, the reason why Romania caused national chaos in history was related to the fact that the Soviet Union had always retained this power, and even the Romanian People's Army was influenced by the Soviet Union to some extent. The Romanian internal affairs force was truly loyal to Ceausescu.
When discussing the Romanian issue, these members of the Central Soviet Union were like moral saints. It seemed that the trend of hereditaryization in other countries did not exist in the Soviet Union. Of course, this was impossible, but the existence of different places. The Soviet cadre class has been stable for so long, which has caused different results in the local and central governments. Local cadres are more courageous, while central cadres are more courageous. There has been a situation where father and son take over, but Moscow has not. Because these old people have not died yet, it is the first time that Selov has discovered that this group of old people has a good side to occupy the pit and not shit.
But just as Grishin said, he thought the problem was not because his eyes were only among the central organs of the Soviet Union. In fact, local provincial committees also had this trend.
"Romania is OK, any country can do it, but we cannot. We are the first socialist country, and this trend must not occur, otherwise Americans will have more excuses to attack us." Selov said with his eyes drooping, "I won't say much about foreign countries in the next few years. At home, the General Secretary, the Supreme Soviet Chairman and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers cannot be a part-time position on one side. You should have no objection to this, right?"
"General Secretary, you will lead us to the final victory, don't say that." Zvegon and Chebrikov quickly stopped him, or it can be said that he was expressing support when he spoke.
"Shut up!" Shelov stopped several supporters without hesitation, "Do you think I said this on purpose, see who supports me and who doesn't support me? Then find an opportunity to replace disobedient cadres?"
Zvegon, Chebrikov and others seemed to be kneeling down and licking without understanding. The two of them had no positive effect on their statements, but instead reminded people of Stalin's retreat to advance and testing the level of support he received in the Soviet Union. This was already seen from the drastic changes in expressions of other members of the Central Presidium.
After the severe criticism, Selov, whose thoughts were interrupted, took a short time to reorganize the language, "General Secretary Stalin: the son of the shoemaker, Comrade Molotov: the family of the clerk. Khrushchev's first secretary: the son of the poor peasant in Ukraine. Burganin: the family of ordinary staff. Comrade Kagannovic: the family of the shoemaker. Comrade Migoyang: the son of the carpenter. Comrade Jihonov: the family of the workers. General Secretary Brezhnev: the son of the metallurgical worker. Comrade Kosigin: the worker's worker. General Secretary Andropov: the son of the railway worker. Comrade Chernenko: the son of the Siberian peasant."
"As for me, everyone knows, I was born in the Caucasus region, and my parents both died in the battle of Kiev, there is nothing to say!" At this time, Selov realized that this body seemed to have a very miserable background and could participate in some variety shows such as China's Bissaurus King.
"As the motherland of the proletariat, the children of leaders are not unable to continue to hold leadership positions, because these children have been influenced by this since childhood and are extremely familiar with the operation of the entire country. They have an innate advantage. But the highest leadership is still not suitable for the children of cadres to hold positions." Speaking of this, Selov listened, "So, in the future, the Soviet leadership, except for the General Secretary and the Chairman of the Council of Ministers and the Chairman of the Supreme Soviet Union, cannot serve on the same position. The children of leaders are not suitable for nominations to be the Supreme Power Organization of the Central Bureau."
"We do this first. When we do it, no country can find fault with it. Only then will we be qualified to influence other countries and let them introduce the same system to curb this kind of thing. Do you understand?" Shelov pointed to himself and said, "If my children have political talents, they should not enter the position we are now."
There was no reply in the conference room for a long time, which made Selov very uncomfortable. He should have responded a little, right? Even if he felt that he was great after these words, why didn’t others react at all?
Jihonov, who is already 84 years old, was the first to react and said with great emotion, "General Secretary, in fact, I have always been worried about you, but today this worry disappears and you have no selfishness."
Chapter completed!