"General Chubiev is a bit of a coward. In fact, he was a soldier around the same time as my father-in-law. No one thought that one day he would be able to become a general, while my father-in-law only held the rank of lieutenant general.
"Major Butt said to Ye Kai.
General Chubiyev had quietly left after negotiating the business.
His identity is relatively sensitive and he cannot stay at the base for a long time. Naturally, his close associates will handle the rest of the matter. The intermediary is Major Butt, who is also a relatively reliable collaborator.
In previous cooperations, mutual trust has been established between General Chubiev and Major But. Although the amount involved this time is not very large, it involves sensitive equipment such as nuclear submarines, so it must be
Just be careful.
The most critical issue is that the nuclear submarines involved this time have all been declared scrapped by Chubiev. There is no need to hand over a penny to the military, and all the US$15 million can fall into his pocket.
.
In addition to sharing a little bit with the people doing the work, General Chubiyev will have to swallow at least more than 10 million US dollars. In addition to the benefits he obtained in the previous transactions, he is now considered to have assets of more than 20 million US dollars.
Rich man.
In fact, we can't say how greedy they are. Although they used their status as senior military generals to gain a lot of benefits, with the disintegration of the former Soviet Union, some things that did not exist in physical form disappeared into thin air, so the old man felt that
His life was in embarrassment, and the president was not interested in him, so General Chubiev had to find another way out, at least to give himself something to rely on after retirement.
Major Butt was introduced to General Chubiyev by his father-in-law, General Dyanov. The two hit it off and did several businesses. They all felt very good, so this was the big business.
You know, the last suitcase nuclear bomb was actually developed through General Chubiev.
"Is he cowardly?" Ye Kai asked curiously.
"That's right. When he was training for junior officers, General Chubiyev acted submissively. He didn't have any outstanding performance. He was often made fun of, but such a person actually had a prosperous official career. Five years ago, he was appointed
He was awarded the rank of general. He even received the Marshal's Star Badge, which is really incredible." Major Butt had obviously heard his father-in-law, General Dyanov, talk about this matter, so he knew better. "When he was appointed,
All Chubiev's relatives were shocked, they had never imagined that a coward could become a Soviet general."
"That should be the illusion seen from the outside." Ye Kai laughed after hearing this, "I remember. Your original leader, Comrade Brezhnev, seemed to be such a person. In the end, he was not
Has he also become the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union?"
In a party-state like the former Soviet Union, all other positions are irrelevant, and only the position of general secretary has the highest power.
Speaking of Brezhnev, the leader of the former Soviet Union, this man can be regarded as a strange flower.
Although Brezhnev participated in the Great Patriotic War and obtained the rank of major general, he had always been engaged in political work. After the war, he became Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and was highly appreciated by Stalin.
In the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union at that time, Brezhnev was recognized as a weak person and did not pose a threat to anyone. He himself also expressed "humbly" many times that he did not have the ability to lead.
He doesn't even have that kind of ambition. Therefore, in the dangerous power field, he has escaped countless disasters.
In October 1964, Suslov, Secretary of the Central Committee of the Soviet Communist Party, and Shelepin, head of the KGB, conspired to oust Khrushchev from power. At that time, someone asked Brezhnev to call Khrushchev who was on vacation, but he was actually afraid
I almost fainted, and then someone forced me to stand in front of the phone.
When he heard that Khrushchev knew about the coup, he immediately threw himself into his friend's arms and said in horror, "It's all over. Khrushchev will shoot us all."
After Khrushchev stepped down, Suslov and Shelepin were in a stalemate in their struggle for the top position. In order to avoid losing both sides, they had no choice but to elect Brezhnev as the supreme leader of the Soviet Union at the plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Later, he also served as the Russian Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
Chairman of the Federal Bureau and Chairman of the Constitutional Council of the USSR.
At that time, in the eyes of many people, he was just a transitional figure.
Whenever the Politburo met to discuss major issues, many of his proposals were often rejected, and he himself was repeatedly criticized by other members.
For the sake of his "prestige," Brezhnev even begged his colleagues, "Leaders need prestige, please help me!" He also asked his colleagues that when he reached a certain point in his speech at a mass meeting,
When doing so, please take the lead in standing up and applauding to encourage the crowd to cheer.
However, it was this seemingly mediocre Brezhnev who quietly eliminated the party members of Shelepin and others within a few years, and firmly established himself as General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.
In the first few years after Brezhnev came to power, he put more emphasis on collective leadership and the core leadership was relatively stable. Since the 1970s, he gradually promoted people he trusted and established a team of personal secretaries composed of "assistants to the general secretary"
, often involved in government affairs and diplomatic work.
In 1971, he participated in the Soviet Council of Ministers to discuss the targets of the Ninth Five-Year Plan, and broke precedent by having it announced with his personal signature. His name, photos, and quotations filled various Soviet newspapers and periodicals. According to statistics, after 1971, his name
It has appeared in newspapers more often than Lenin.
At this time, he had changed his past practice of participating in major events with Kosygin and Podgorny. He watched the "Dvina" military exercise held by the Soviet army alone, inspected the exercise troops, made a concluding speech, and expanded his influence on the military exercise.
Influence in the military.
In 1976, on Brezhnev's 70th birthday, he, who had never commanded a battle, was appointed Chairman of the Defense Council of the Soviet Union and received the title of Marshal of the Soviet Union.
That day, Brezhnev wore a marshal uniform, pointed to his marshal epaulettes, and said happily to his relatives and friends who were waiting to congratulate him, "Guys, look, I made it to this day!"
Brezhnev's words are meaningful. Before that, he had defeated the ambitious Shelepin, squeezed out Podgorny who challenged him, sidelined Kosygin, and won the title of "Marshal of the Soviet Union"
This high honor.
After 12 years of "collective leadership", he finally took over the power of the party, government, and military, and was finally free to do something big.
In June 1977, he concurrently served as Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, and the collective leadership that had been in vain finally disintegrated. At this point, Brezhnev finally became the supreme leader of the Soviet party, government, and military.
"Comrade Brezhnev is still very talented..." Major Butt nodded. "At least during his rule, the Soviet Union's national strength reached its peak."
From now on, Brezhnev should be a truly smart man, a man of great wisdom and foolishness.
There are at least two things about Brezhnev that make others unmatched. He has the most jokes about him and he has the best reputation.
However, the biggest reason why the Soviet Union's economy developed during Brezhnev's administration was because the Soviet Union discovered the Tyumen Oil Field, a large oil field whose reserves at that time exceeded 40% of the world's oil reserves.
Because of the development of the Tyumen Oilfield, the Soviet Union received a large amount of foreign exchange and was able to import all daily necessities.
It was precisely because of its over-reliance on oil exports that the collapse of the Soviet Union was actually caused by oil exports.
Because of the cooperation of Western countries, international oil prices plummeted, which made the Soviet economy even worse, and finally collapsed.
Now, in addition to acquiring the nuclear submarines of the former Soviet Union, Ye Kai also seeks market share in its domestic oil and other energy industries.
"I believe that Comrade General Chubiyev should be able to help us in many aspects." Ye Kai said to Major But, and then he expressed his interest in petroleum energy.
Major Butt was not very interested in this. He was more advocating the spirit of adventure. Moreover, the Soviet Union eventually perished due to oil problems, which also made people in the former Soviet Union wary of the oil industry. This also led to the complete privatization of the oil industry.
Transformation, to use an idiom to sum up, means overcorrecting.
"He should be able to play some role, as long as you give him enough leverage." Major Butt said to Ye Kai, "My father-in-law, General Dyanov, can also be of some help."
Ye Kai nodded. As the president's national security adviser, Dyanov should also have a certain say in this aspect, especially his influence on the following state-owned enterprises.
In fact, Ye Kai is not worried about the acquisition, because under the leadership of the Americans, Russia is comprehensively promoting privatization, and the oil industry is also a highlight. He has no reason to worry about this, but in order to reduce trouble, he got the military
Support from favorable figures in the party and government is also necessary.
After resting for a night at the military base, early the next morning, Ye Kai, accompanied by the person in charge of the base, inspected and accepted the nuclear submarines he wanted to receive.
"All dismantled scraps can be entrusted to be taken away by freighters, but these complete nuclear submarines must be driven out through secret waterways, and then our people will be responsible for sending them a hundred nautical miles away, and then your people will receive them.
." The person in charge of the base said, "Of course, the training of relevant personnel can start from today."
"Very good." Ye Kai nodded to express satisfaction, and then said, "Then let's go take a look at our ship first!"
"As you wish." The person in charge of the base nodded.
"This is my boat?! Isn't this too bad?!" Half an hour later, someone let out a shocking roar.