USSR 1991

He expressed his thoughts helplessly, "If you really have to choose one...it's a difficult choice, but..."

"I will always be loyal to the Soviet."

Chapter 952 No one will let go

"How about we sit down and talk?"

"What else is there to talk about?"

Secherbycki and Vladimir, one is a powerful future leader of the Kremlin, and the other is a highly prestigious first secretary within the Ukrainian government.The two sides are already at the point of fire and water.

"I know you don't have a good impression of Comrade Yanayev behind me, and I know your relationship with some people in Moscow Central, but I still have something to tell you. I don't care what you want to do in Ukraine, once you get in the way General Secretary Yanayev's plan, we will eradicate them without mercy. Cameroslav, and you, and those who hide behind and try to defy Yanayev, we will kill them one by one find out."

Secherbitsky sneered, and he stared at the other party. Moscow’s thinking was as rigid as this machinery factory made of steel. After all, the heavy industrial area along the Dnieper River was a great building built by us Ukrainians. How could it be possible to transfer these industries to the Far East to feed the fragile industrial achievements that grew up in the cold wasteland.

Those smokestacks, which sit on the icy plains and emit black smoke, warm the people with natural gas and oil, but the desolate areas are not as prosperous and welfare as Ukraine, where the spring and autumn rainy seasons are full of yellow mud and gloomy weather , all of which disgusted Secherbitsky.

Ukrainians have a natural sense of superiority. They are the most prosperous states in the Soviet Union, second only to the Russian Federation. There are countless industrial processing bases in the country. In terms of importance, it can be said that without Ukraine, Russia can only hide in one A certain corner of the Far East is barely a second-rate country, and it has no chance of becoming a world hegemon.

But now, after finally owning Ukraine, the Baltic Sea, Azerbaijan and the Balkans, the Soviet Union has given back its great manufacturing achievements to the heavy industrial zone in the Far East, just because there is a lot of oil and rich assets there, but it has not considered Do they need it or not.

Secherbitsky obviously failed to combine the excavation of new oil fields with Yanayev's ambition to build the Far East. He just purely held prejudice and discrimination against Moscow, and this negative sentiment was just exploited by conservatives.Their purpose is the same, to pull Yanayev from the altar, let the conservatives regain control of the political situation, and ensure that their power and the interests of their families will not be interrupted because of a bullet.

Vladimir who came now not only wants to break this relationship, but also wants to wipe out those enemies who are on the opposite side.Sechelbitski was the first guy to be bloodied, but definitely not the last.

Vladimir still doesn't want to go to the point of killing them all. Ukraine has its own advantages and importance. They are also an important industrial base in the entire country after the Russian state.So Sechelbitski can step down, but the team that keeps Ukraine running must stay.

"Actually, you don't want to get involved with the conservatives at all, don't you? You also don't want to get involved in the internal struggles in Moscow. Since the reform of the system, the first secretary of the autonomous region can no longer step into the Politburo. As far as you are concerned, The struggle in Moscow has nothing to do with Ukraine."

"Yes, it really doesn't matter."

Secherbitsky said with a wry smile, "But we are allies. The general secretary wants to weaken Ukraine. We cannot make concessions. In this case, it is better to unite with the conservatives. At least we can keep our homeland. The Dnieper River The industrial base along the coast is our property, if these are gone, we will have nothing."

Ukrainians are afraid of Moscow's methods, and Yanayev's bloody massacre in Tbilisi is obvious to all Ukrainians.They are well aware of the character of the Moscow leader. He can be kind to the people, but he is absolutely decisive in killing those who block him and the Soviet, without blinking an eye.

In his eyes, there was only one Soviet, one Fatherland, and a protected people.

Others who hinder themselves will end up miserable.

Vladimir is not interested in the dirty business behind the scenes, and there will be filthy shadows under the great red light. The end of flies and bedbugs is nothing more than digging coal in cold Siberia. If you are lucky, what will happen? He was educated in Marxism in a heated prison.

"If you quit, I can let Secherbycki leave decently and not hold you accountable? You can't sit down as the first secretary, but your team can still stay. We No major changes will be made, and the Ukrainian government will remain. Tbilisi will eventually need Ukrainian government institutions that can suppress the rebels. Comrade Secherbitsky's is the most suitable."

Loyalty, Vladimir is to look at the loyalty behind the net to be lenient.This is Moscow's mercy. If he has other ideas, I am afraid that all Lubyanov's methods will not be able to stop Yanayev's determination to kill him.

The body of the former Ukrainian president has not been found yet. The official statement is that he is missing. In fact, just like Gorbachev before him, he did not know which nameless tombstone he was buried under.

Sechelbitski didn't speak, no matter what he said at this time, it was the opponent's lenient.The first Ukrainian secretary is gone, and the group of dragons without a leader left behind a team that can't stand up to the weather, which is nothing to fear for Moscow.

"I agree to your request."

"Don't rush to agree to my request. There is one more thing. I want to know whether those people in the central government are behind this incident?"

Sechelbitski's expression froze, he didn't expect Vladimir to want to get to the bottom of it.The other party looked at him with a smile, but there was no kindness and kindness in his eyes.He came to understand that the so-called open side was actually a deal, if he had to confess the secret behind it, he could leave here safely, otherwise those dark and dirty secrets would all be made public.

Then wait to accept the punishment of communism.

"I will keep this a secret, so you only need to know the name, and you don't have to tell me the rest. What do you think?"

The secretary hesitated for a moment, and said the mastermind behind the scenes, "Lubyanov, the head of the organization department. This is the only person on the stage, and he is also the person I often contact with. As for the other guys who are still lurking behind the scenes, I don't know." I know. If you want to know more details, you need to dig deeper yourself."

Vladimir searched that face carefully in his mind, with slightly bloated cheeks, and always liked to look at others with gloomy eyes. Although he had no objection to the decision made by General Secretary Yanayev, he always It is because I have heard what policies the other party has criticized in private.

The representative of the conservative faction fits that gloomy and terrifying image of the opposition...

Vladimir recovered from his contemplation. He looked at Secherbitsky and said, "What you said is the truth? Is Lukyanov the agent behind the scenes?"

"Everything is the truth. Is there any need for me to lie to you at this time?" Secherbycki looked very helpless, "If I insist on standing with the conservatives, they will not expose themselves for a Ukrainian secretary. In other words, from the moment I miscalculated, I was an abandoned child. Since you are willing to give me another chance, why should I stand on their side?"

Secherbitsky is a smart person, and he will not follow other people to the dark in vain. In fact, after feeling that they have no future, he decisively began to look for other ways out.

"You are very smart, Comrade Secherbitsky. If you hadn't been on the wrong team at the beginning, maybe we would be collaborators now, but unfortunately, you may have to be transferred to other places next. The Moldova Autonomous Region is missing A deputy secretary, this can be regarded as keeping you away from the political center and not being affected."

Secherbycki could only happily accept this condition. Conservatives must know that he was the one who released the information, and staying in Ukraine or Moscow would be tantamount to suicide.

"What else can I say but accept? After all, I have nothing now..."

Sechelbitski's answer was very flat, and he was resigned to his future. Since the other party did not kill him, he should be grateful for such an ending.Demotion is better than going to prison.

But what Vladimir said next made him dare not complain anymore.The person sitting opposite knocked on the table and said indifferently, "This is your luck. After all, the Soviet Union will have a series of actions next. Maybe many people will get in, and you just escaped a catastrophe."

Secherbitsky opened his mouth, but could not speak.If the other party is telling the truth, then there should be a very dangerous and brutal struggle, and the loser will be permanently removed from the political list.

He shouldn't know how many political forces are turbulent behind this, but everything will not be as simple as it appears.

"By the way, there is one more thing I forgot to tell you."

Fledimir turned around and said without any haste, "Actually, Cameroslav didn't say anything, I made up everything, just to make up what you said just now, I'm sorry, Sechelby Comrade Tsky, you have lost."

Sechelbitski clenched his fists. It was the absolute worst news he had ever heard.

"So it's me... too stupid?" Vladimir said seriously, "No, your choice is very wise, because the conservative ship doesn't have much time."

Chapter 953 His Name

No one thought that the massive Ukrainian strike would end in silence. On the day Vladimir announced his visit to Warsaw, the large-scale demonstrations and protests organized by various places dispersed on their own, and no troops from the Ministry of Internal Affairs were present. There was no riot police, and the streets became deserted again. Those slogans that were popular for a while were thrown all over the place. The workers' righteous indignation retreated quickly, as if nothing had happened.

The reversal of the plot makes people feel very weird, and even a little confusing.

The streets of Tbilisi have returned to the desertedness of the past. The West’s idea of ​​seeing another color revolution in Ukraine has come to an end. They thought they could meet the bloody storm in 1989, but they were dismissed with a few words. disintegrated.Those who still thought that Vladimir was only relying on Yanayev to climb up also understood that the political skills of the successor of the general secretary are not inferior to the leaders in power.

Only some ambitious people were left, and finally left the banks of the Dnieper River in frustration.They can no longer see the good drama between Ukraine and Russia, and the resentment and anger have all drifted away in a calm manner, leaving only the silent river flowing far away as always, and the conspiracy is buried deep in the riverbed, waiting for the rust and decay of the flowing water.

A few days later, an even more astonishing news came from Moscow that the former Ukrainian first secretary was removed from his position and transferred to Moldova.Faced with this "punishment" that could be regarded as a demotion, Sechelbitski accepted the assignment willingly and willingly went to that desolate and barren land.

Secherbycki's transfer order had just been issued, and Yanayev met another important figure almost at the same time, Lubyanov, who was enough to affect the political changes in the Soviet Union.

At this time, the head of the Organization Department was in a very complicated mood. Before the news of Sechelbitski's transfer came out, the other party had approached him in private and told him the bad news of his failure.

Faced with a miserable defeat, Lukyanov could hardly believe his ears.He thought that Vladimir had at most solved a workers' strike, but he didn't expect that he would also find out the mastermind behind the scenes.

"You guessed it wrong, Comrade Lukyanov, they didn't take the workers' strike seriously at all, and I didn't understand it until Vladimir finally appeared at Yuzhzhomin In the beginning, they didn't take the chess pieces on the table seriously, and the targets were all the guys hiding behind the scenes."

Lukyanov's heart was instantly tightened.

"Ukraine has been completely defeated, and now the Central Committee of Moscow probably knows who is behind it. Comrade Vladimir will attack you when he returns to Moscow. Do it yourself, Minister Lubyanov. If I were you, immediately Stop acting, and if you continue, you will only get deeper and deeper, and in the end... I don't know how it will end, but I am not optimistic."

"You betrayed us?"