Chapter 946: Ethnic Equality
Aliyev is an Azerbaijani, but this is not important. He is the first vice chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers. The nation is far from having a butt to determine its own position. He can maintain basic sympathy for his own people, but you have to count on a cadre who serves as the chairman of the Azerbaijan KGB for a long time, because a nation shows mercy, which is too naive.
Baku is of course important for Azerbaijan, but for Aliyev, the position of the Central Presidium member and the reputation left by the Soviet Union in the future. If some people don’t know each other, the gulags in Siberia still lack the free labor force to build socialism. Aliyev doesn’t mind adding a few names to the list of anti-counterfeiting. The charges are ready-made, and there are more than one, against the Soviets and against the Central Committee!
Aliyev came to Baku and was very low-key. He was here for many years and was the chairman of the KGB and the first secretary. He was very familiar with every tree and grass in Azerbaijan. Of course, there are feelings and responsibilities.
Aliyev, who got off the train from Baku Railway Station, did not hesitate and went directly to the central government of Azerbaijan. The current first secretary of Azerbaijan is Virgirov. Virgirov was once the ambassador to live in Pakistan, of course Pakistan no longer exists. Compared with Aliyev, who has been in charge here for a long time, Virgirov is softer, at least on the surface.
Virgirov was still very surprised when he saw his ex's appearance. Unlike Aliyev, after the Soviet Union took office as secretary of the provincial party committees in various places, he began to send cadres from the central government to govern the local area to prevent giants like Kunayev and Aliyev from appearing. Virgirov was an Azerbaijani cadre who lived in Moscow for a long time.
"Comrade Aliyev, why have you come to Baku?" Viriv greeted Aliyev to his home and asked.
"The Chairman knew something happened to Baku, so he sent me to come and have a look." Aliyev's first sentence was that the standard policeman was perfunctory, first saying the matter was not serious, and he could solve it by just talking about education, and then he suddenly took action to solve the problem.
Virgirov nodded, knowing that the chairman Aliyev mentioned was the general secretary who was still the chairman of the National Security Council. He did not ask how the central government got the news. In the era of Selov, the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs had been completely separated from the local government. The local state committees and the franchised republics did not have the ability to interfere with the security agencies. All security cadres and personnel organizations were appointed and removed by Rubiy Yangka themselves. Even if a KGB chairman accused the first secretary, Virgirov, as the first secretary, could not remove the KGB chairman, but would feed the news back to Rubiy Yangka and wait for the investigation team to come down to investigate.
The Soviet security department formed its own system, absorbed members and assessed themselves, appointed and removed cadres by themselves, prevented local cadres from interfering in the security department, and curbed local forces to expand. Others had no right to interfere except Ruby Yangka. Of course, Virgirov was dissatisfied, but the General Secretary himself served as the Chairman of the National Security Committee, and no one could say anything.
"Some cadres do not agree with the Baku directly under the Central Committee. I think this is still possible to communicate." Virgirov spoke with difficulty and chose to tell the truth. Aliyev came directly, and it was meaningless to conceal it.
"I should be very disagreeable! Especially some grassroots cadres." Aliyev slowly corrected the current first secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party. From being the chairman of the KGB to the first secretary, Aliyev knew Azerbaijan cadres very well. He was also promoted from the grassroots level, and of course he knew the grassroots' ideas.
There is no need to say much about the importance of Baku to Azerbaijan, and its population accounts for one-quarter of the entire Azerbaijan. Local cadres and masses except Baku are of course unwilling to be directly under the central government.
"I just came here to promote the central government's policies, and the General Secretary was also very concerned about this matter." Aliyev nodded. He did not say much, but downplayed his intention. The two soon finished their communication, Aliyev left to live in the KGB guesthouse, and he was not willing to return to the house where he originally lived.
In fact, the easiest way is to use interests to buy the place to create a fait accompli. However, after preliminary calculations, Selov, who was far away in Moscow, felt that in this period of full-scale confrontation, it was a little unprofitable to pay out funds to support Baku and Tashkent. In the Caucasus and Central Asia, the two cities are already very good.
Aliyev had no choice but to catch up with such a stingy general secretary. It was obvious that the general secretary was still holding his big move and fighting Reagan. He heard that the military expenditure this year must be on par with the United States, showing the Soviet determination to confront the end. Baikonur launch site constantly updated the spy satellite network. The ground-effect aircraft of the Caspian Sea has been approved for mass production by the central government, and heavyweight ocean warships such as the Red Navy heavy aircraft carriers and battle cruisers are still being manufactured in full swing.
Before leaving Moscow, Aliyev heard the General Secretary’s murmuring that it was a good thing to destroy the local party organization. Tashkent’s suggestion to the central government was very calm, of course, very calm. The Uzbek Communist Party was wiped out tens of thousands of cadres due to two major cases, and replaced by the KGB who was drawn from the country, saying that Uzbek is almost the same as military control now. Even if not, it was still under the control of the KGB police.
If the General Secretary personally inquired, I believe that the big stick of local nationalism will definitely hit the Azerbaijanis. Rather than this, Aliyev might as well go on the battle by himself. How could he say that he also has some feelings for his own nation? But this feeling does not exceed his feelings for the members of the Central Presidium.
"There are only these cadres who have excessive nationalism?" Aliyev held the investigation list handed over by the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Azerbaijan. There were not many real high-level cadres. There was only one first secretary of the municipal party committee, usually the district party secretary, the collective farm chairman, and the people's council chairman.
After all, for cadres like the first secretary of the municipal party committee, Baku's departure from Azerbaijan and belongs to the central government's direct jurisdiction means that their competition has become smaller, and for the chairman of the collective farm, the chairman of the People's Council is not like this. They value the financial appropriations and support of the Republic more. It is natural that Azerbaijan, which has lost Baku, will be damaged.
While looking through Aliyev, he looked for information that could be judged from the papers, and said to the Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Chairman of the KGB, "The ones who oppose the youngest first secretary of the municipal party committee are generally new generation cadres. They usually reach a very high level at a young age and think they are very competitive. On the contrary, many old cadres will not object, which is interesting!"
"The party debate is also solved. First, see how many cadres really oppose it and let them all come out by themselves. On the other hand, once the debate fails, if they still make trouble, we will arrest people. It is best to resolve things before the New Year!" Aliyev said to the two ministers. Now he is the first vice chairman of the Soviet Council of Ministers and does not have much right to interfere with the franchise republic, but the rank of the KGB general has not been lost. He can do things through two powerful departments.
"We can arrest people directly, but we don't need to do this." The KGB Chairman felt that it could be more direct.
"Every generation of our safety cadres must learn from Minister Beria's lessons. Even if we can do so, we have to wait until the resolution is made!" Aliyev looked up at the two safety cadres and said, "This is the consensus of our safety system cadres."
A few days later, the plenary meeting of the Central Committee of the Republic of Azerbaijan was held to discuss the work after the Baku directly under the Central Committee. This is a process of announcement. The verbal confrontation at the meeting cannot tell the people. The cadre class also needs to pay attention to unity, at least let the people think so.
The confrontation between supporters and opponents was very fierce. After all, the supporters were all old men. Even if there were many people and powerful people, the first secretary of Virgirov and Aliyev were on the sidelines, and it was very difficult to deal with a group of energetic young cadres.
"There are nearly forty first secretaries of the district committee against eight district committees, and they can actually make a similar match?" Aliyev was enough, but he is no longer the first secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party and cannot interfere with the meeting here on the surface.
Among the Central Committee members of Azerbaijan who support the Central Committee, they seem to be the most prepared and confident in supporting the Central Committee is the Secretary of the Prefecture Party Committee of Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Prefecture. This secretary of the Standing Committee is full of gunpowder accusations. Some Azerbaijani cadres have a clear tendency to oppose the Soviet Union and only know that they are Azerbaijanis, but they resist the concept of Soviet ethnicity advocated by the Central Committee.
The secretary of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Prefecture Party Committee has exploded with full combat effectiveness and has become the backbone of support for Moscow. If the secretary of the state committee committee was not an Armenian, Aliyev would definitely think that he had found a cadre with a correct view. The entire Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Prefecture is a gathering area of Armenia. Armenians agree with any move to weaken Azerbaijan.
Armenians do not care about unity with Azerbaijani cadres. The entire Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Prefecture agrees with the central government directly under Baku, and the secretary of the provincial party committee only conveys the opinions of the people of the state.
"After discussion at the plenary meeting of Azerbaijan's Central Committee, it was recognized that the Baku area was directly under the central government. I believe that with the support of the entire alliance, Baku's development will definitely get better and better." Virgirov, the first secretary of the Azerbaijan Communist Party, breathed a sigh of relief when he announced that he was very complicated about this resolution.
Chapter completed!