Chapter 1545 A Wonderful Year (Third update, please subscribe)
This is a year that is destined to go down in history, and it would be difficult to overstate this year in the days to come.
Because during this year, mobile communications, optical cables, the Internet and other products that will lead the future of mankind were put into use one after another.
When people look back on this year in the future, they will find an amazing coincidence, that is, this year many inventions that affected their lives were put into practical use one after another.
Besides these amazing inventions, there’s another reason…industry.
"SEA has truly emerged as the world's third economy."
This is by no means a false statement. In terms of basic industries, SEA's production capacity has already left the United Kingdom, Germany, and France far behind.
This is true for coal, steel, and oil, which are the basis of heavy industry.
In this year, the Soviet Union's steel output was 85 million tons, coal was 550 million tons, oil was 223 million tons, and electricity was 459 billion kilowatt hours.
With this series of data, he is firmly ranked second in the world.
This year, SEA's steel output exceeded 60 million tons and coal exceeded 500 million tons. Although its local oil output was only 5 million tons, its total output in overseas oil fields in the Persian Gulf region and Libya exceeded 2 billion tons, as for electricity, it is 789 billion kilowatt hours.
In terms of these three industrial indices, SEA has even reached a level comparable to that of the Soviet Union.
Unlike the Soviet Union, SEA cannot support this industrial production capacity with its local resources. It has various differences. Although there are excellent super-large open-pit coal mines in the country, there is no metallurgical coal and there is a lack of iron ore in the country. , both coking coal and iron ore need to be imported from Australia.
In fact, SEA relies on imports for more than 70% of its resources to maintain economic operations. SEA's economy cannot be sustained relying on local resources. From a traditional perspective, SEA is a lame giant.
Because of this, for Li Yi'an, maintaining world peace is not for the sake of all mankind, but for the supply of overseas resources.
Therefore, most of the time, Li Yian prefers to maintain peace. After all, only in a peaceful environment can SEA obtain the resources needed for development from around the world through trade and earn foreign exchange by exporting industrial products. .
“This year has been truly remarkable!”
But while feeling emotional, Li Yian felt helpless in his heart. Although he knew the meaning of the Internet very well, although he knew the sentence in the newspaper "A gift to all mankind." There was no exaggeration in the slightest, but for this era, In the world, few people care about this great invention.
It’s not that they don’t care, it’s that they simply don’t realize how much the Internet will change their lives and the world.
Just like when the Internet was born, not many people thought it had great development prospects.
It just came to this world quietly in this way, and will continue to change the world in the days to come. It is not until the human world is completely changed that people will realize how great this invention is.
"Well, all great things ultimately start small"
While feeling emotional, Li Yian stared at the thin desk calendar and saw October written on it. He thought that it was this year, that is, in this month, that Khrushchev was ousted.
In fact, among the previous Soviet leaders, the one who impressed Li Yi'an best was the Corn Emperor.
As the leader of the Soviet Union, Heda Corncob was a man of true faith and was willing to build the Soviet Union according to his own understanding. The problems he saw were also problems that existed in the Soviet Union, so he was committed to change, and this was what he "repaired" The reason for getting up.
In other words, the Corn Emperor really wants to get things done, but his strength limits his performance.
Even to a certain extent, the Soviet Union really came to an end after Khrushchev, because it was also after Brezhnev that they really lost their ideals. For them, maintaining power and enjoying life are B's first goals. Everything they do is to maintain the status quo and facilitate corruption for themselves and other bureaucrats.
That's all!
Regarding Brezhnev and those who followed him, Li Yian didn't even bother to evaluate them, because it was really not worth evaluating, especially the Medal Emperor.
If you think about it this year, this year is really exciting - the escalation of the Vietnam War marked by the Tonkin Gulf Incident, then Khrushchev's resignation, and a certain major country entering the nuclear club.
Coupled with optical cables, the Internet, a series of inventions that open the door to the future of the world, has been put into practical use this year.
This world is too exciting!
While sighing at the wonderful world, Li Yian's brows knitted together. He walked to the window silently, and then stared at the night sky outside the window.
As he smoked a cigar, a thought repeatedly appeared in his mind. His brows became more and more wrinkled, and his expression became more and more serious.
Will Khrushchev step down as scheduled this year?
Is his ouster a good thing or a bad thing for the world?
Li Yi'an doesn't know the answer, because this is far beyond the future he could predict.
Moreover, who has the ability to prevent Khrushchev’s resignation?
Even if I remind him now, the question is...will he believe it?
But maybe a storm is brewing in Moscow now.
A "bitter fall" might be imminent.
Indeed!
On this day, Xie Leping returned home without saying a word, with a serious and cold expression that everyone could see. Now there are many members in the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union who have different aspirations.
Unlike many people, the most fundamental reason why Shelepin had different ambitions was that he believed that Rushchev had betrayed the Soviet Union.
To a large extent, Shelepin is an ironist and advocates being tough on the West.
But Khrushchev failed him again and again, and because of this, he turned to the conspiracy group.
In that conspiracy group, Shelepin was definitely not the only one who wanted to move to Khrushchev, but he was the only one whose position was not for power! Unlike others, Shelepin believed that what he was doing was for the sake of the country.
The young leaders headed by Shelepin believed that Khrushchev was too conservative. They believed that after overthrowing him, they could make great strides in promoting reforms.
But in order to overthrow the Soviet Union's supreme authority, there was one department that could never be bypassed: the KGB.
As the former leader of the KGB, Shelepin resigned three years ago, but the current head of the KGB, Semichasny, is his confidant.
Semichasny was basically brought up by Shelepin single-handedly. It is simply that Sheleping has stepped up to a higher level, and Semichasny has taken over another level. Starting from the secretary of the Moscow Municipal Party Committee, the two have had this kind of relationship. Until Shelepin took over as Chairman of the KGB, the position of Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet League was left to Semichasny. Shelepin entered the Central Presidium, and Semichasny became Chairman of the KGB.
Because of this, in the eyes of everyone, Shelepin and Semichasny were brothers, and their relationship was absolutely close.
In Moscow, the KGB was not only the Kremlin's defense force, but also its eyes and ears.
As long as this department exists, no one can bypass Lubyanka and pose a threat to the Kremlin. It is precisely because of this that after Khrushchev defeated Beria, his cronies, namely Shelepin, took control of the KGB. It was precisely because he took control of the KGB, the ears and eyes of the Kremlin, plus control of fist. Only then did he turn defeat into victory in the subsequent attack by Malenkov and others, and thus take charge of power.
Now Shelepin has entered the Central Presidium, but the KGB under Semichasny still takes orders from him.
After all, Semichasny was Shelepin's confidant. So in theory, Khrushchev's position is impregnable.
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"Now the imperialists must be very happy with our repeated compromises."
Shelepin had no conspiracy in front of Semichasny and expressed his dissatisfaction with Khrushchev. The compromise he mentioned refers to the concessions Khrushchev made to Western countries on many international issues over the past two years.
Semichasny did not speak. He was only forty years old this year. In fact, he became the chairman of the KGB at the age of thirty-six. His backer was Shelepin. It was with the support of Shelepin that he achieved this position. .
"How many supporters are there."
"Many people, look at what he has done in the past few years? In order to obtain grain from Ethiopia, he provides hundreds of millions of rubles in loans to Ethiopia every year, and a large amount of fertilizers and machinery are provided there, which directly leads to a reduction in domestic grain production. , and finally needed to take hundreds of tons of gold to fill the domestic gap
The domestic food shortage has led to rising prices, and people are complaining.
Not to mention the humiliation of the Cuban Missile Crisis. We can think that we took advantage, but in fact? We were so humiliated that we not only publicly withdrew our missiles from Cuba, but also promised not to continue to deploy those weapons there.
He said that the Americans gave in, but they quietly withdrew their missiles from Italy and Turkey. ”
Shelepin's tone was full of dissatisfaction. As a steelist, his complaints against Khrushchev actually originated many years ago, at the moment when Khrushchev overthrew Steel. It was just that he had always hidden his inner thoughts. .
Listen to Shelepin's complaints. Semichasny shook his head and analyzed,
"We alone cannot do it, and Suslov is not enough. We must understand Brezhnev's attitude. In the Central Presidium, Brezhnev is the second person. Without him, we would not be able to do anything." Unable to achieve success.”
Then, Semichasny said:
"And there is also the military. When Malenkov and others launched an attack, it was only with the support of the military that Khrushchev was able to deploy military planes to send all the Central Committee members from across the country to Moscow. It was with their support that Khrushchev Only the husband can make a comeback. Be careful of the Ukrainian gang, they are a big force.”
The Ukrainian Gang has nothing to do with Brezhnev. As the second largest among the union republics, the Ukrainian Gang has always existed. This is a force that cannot be ignored. At that time, Khrushchev received support from the Ukrainian state because he was an official from Ukraine.
The so-called "Ukrainian Gang" is actually a small group composed of officials from Ukraine. This small group has great influence in Moscow.
"There is no problem. After the missile crisis was over, although we seemed to have maintained face, the military's dissatisfaction has been building up."
Xie Lieping smiled and said,
"It is impossible for the military to support Khrushchev like last time. As for other committee members, they will not support Khrushchev again. After all, everyone's interests have been affected in the past few years. damage.”
In the final analysis, everything is interests. One of the reasons why they stood on the opposite side of Khrushchev is that their interests have been harmed.
After all, among Khrushchev's reforms, the first blow was to strike at himself and their privileges.
"As for Brezhnev..."
After a slight pause, Shelepin said.
"He himself is in this group, and he is even the one who connects everything."
Xie Leping's answer. Semichasnyre looked at his backer with wide eyes. Obviously, he did not expect that Brezhnev was the leader of this conspiracy group, but he was relieved after just thinking about it for a moment.
After all, Bonezhlev himself is the number two figure in the Central Presidium. As long as Khrushchev is ousted, he will be the master of the Kremlin.
Who can resist such temptation?
Now that I think about it, I feel relieved. After all, they have been preparing for all this for a long time. If it wasn't Bonezhlev, who else could it be?
After a while, he said.
"Well, I really didn't expect that. If that's the case, then there should be no problem.
I think that if we want to take action, we have to wait until Khrushchev is not in Moscow before we do it. ”
Semichasny said as he made his suggestion.
"After all, he is in Moscow and he is not in Moscow are completely different concepts. In a few days, he is going to the Black Sea for vacation!"
(End of chapter)