"Comrade Chernenko, I understand your feelings. I don't agree with some of your actions. For a long time, we can be regarded as enemies! But one's destiny, of course, must be tested by self-struggle. But also Consider the course of history! I am a KGB, and under the users of my comrades, I was chosen to lead the country." When the situation was set, Serov did not show the joy of victory, which he deserved. of.

   How much did he prepare for this day? There were so many ways to prepare that he couldn’t remember them. There were so many that just before the vote, he remembered a nail that was buried before, but well, it’s no longer needed, and no one will notice…

   Later, the Soviet Evening News and TASS began to report that Andropov died of a worsening kidney disease. The time was on the evening of February 10. After more than a year, the second general secretary of the Soviet Union died of illness.

   "I'm a little reluctant to be here!" Almost every day, Serov would stand by the window for a while, looking at the back of the bronze statue of Dzerzhinsky in front of him, as if he wanted to draw energy from this stalwart back. But he was not as dazed as he is today. Almost every day, he imagined what it would be like if one day he ordered the whole country in the Kremlin.

   But things are coming, and Serov has a feeling of nothing more than that. He seems to have lost his goal all of a sudden.

"Is it very empty? It's been thirty years, when did we meet? In 1953, right?" General Alexey of GRU touched his gray hair and said, "I didn't expect that. It's unbelievable that you really succeeded."

"Today's KGB has already surpassed the strength of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Of course, the main reason is that I am not in a hurry!" Shelov looked at his old friend and said, "Give Beria thirty years, and he will definitely be able to do it. But he It has to take three months to do it, he chose that path by himself."

"You won, everything you say makes sense. I'm back to GRU, and it's not the last time. I'm still watching for you!" Alexis waved his hand and was about to leave. Looking back, "Goodbye, General Secretary..."

"All men are created equal, no distinction is made between high and low." Serov asked again, looking at Dzerzhinsky's back in the light, "Is that so, Comrade Dzerzhinsky? I want to protect the idea of ​​equality. , which is more difficult than protecting the Soviet Union."

   Early the next morning, Andropov's coffin was transported to Moscow, and all members of the Soviet Central Presidium attended to greet him. Everyone had red armbands wrapped around their left arms to show their condolences to the former general secretary. The difference from a year ago is that Chernenko, who is the second secretary, is still in second place, and Serov, who is the chairman of the KGB, has become the leader of the group...

  The entire Soviet Union has set up a four-day mourning day for Andropov. Black yarn is wrapped around the chandelier in the stairwell of the Union Building, and mourners slowly walk to Andropov's coffin. On the stage to the left of the building's "Pillar Hall", among the flowers, an orchestra in black tuxedos played classical music. Andropov's body lay in a carnation-filled, open-lid coffin, dressed in a black suit, white shirt and tie with red and black strips. Red roses and tulips face the long dragon of mourners. On the right side of the hall, the leaders' families sat on chairs, his wife Tatyana Lebedeva, with red hair in a large hairpin, and their two children, Igor and Irina, sat Together.

   Serov, who was wearing a gray military coat, brought his family. After the condolences, he stepped forward to give Andropov's widow a hug. This scene was clearly spread all over the world through the TV. Compared with all the former general secretaries, the blue hat with a big brim on his head is particularly conspicuous, which is a sign of the anti-revolutionary workers.

   "I hope my brother and sister will not be immersed in grief, we still have a long way to go." Yulia stretched out her small white hands, shook hands with Andropov's son and daughter respectively, and said coldly.

   This is obviously my line, this daughter is really worrying, and my wife has just stopped a little when she is older...

   Four days later, the funeral began. Two officers led the funeral procession with a large portrait of Andropov, followed by a large number of garlands. Officers in high sheepskin hats appeared with twenty-one medals and medals in small red boxes. After them was the olive-green gun cart carrying the coffin, with a gun on the coffin, behind which Andropov's family walked. The Politburo leaders all wore the same fur hats, similar fur coats, and red armbands on their sleeves, making it almost impossible to tell who each was. The leaders led the official condolence procession at the end. After the coffin arrived in the center of Red Square, it was unloaded from the car and placed on the red coffin facing Lenin's tomb with the lid open. After some speeches, the military and political leaders on the viewing platform of Lenin's tomb carried Andropov's coffin to the cemetery behind Lenin's tomb.

The   coffin was lowered into the tomb amid the screeching gasps of mourning bugles, sirens and salutes. All the members of the Presidium of the Soviet Central Committee shook hands with the guests attending the funeral, and then the Central Plenary Session was held. Serov officially served as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Chairman of the National Defense Committee, and Chairman of the National Security Committee. At the same time, Serov nominated Chernenko as the chairman of the Supreme Soviet, which was approved by all the Central Committee members. The Soviet Union officially ushered in another general secretary.

"We must say that recent years have been a difficult time for our country and our party. Comrades Brezhnev and Andropov have left us one after another. Each generation of leaders has its own mission, The great Lenin shaped our country, and General Secretary Stalin made our country grow and develop with his steely style. First Secretary Khrushchev led us through the difficult years after the war, Brezhne During the tenure of General Secretary Fu, the Soviet Union has completely become a decisive force in the world. General Secretary Andropov, let us regain a pragmatic attitude." Officially become General Secretary Serov on the rostrum silently facing all the committee members Said, "Today, the eyes of the party, the country, and the people are once again focused on us. They want to know whether today's Communist Party of the Soviet Union is still not a working class, a spokesman for the proletariat."

   The entire auditorium was extremely silent, and the members of the Central Committee participating in the conference were silent, and no one dared to take a nap at this time. Since Stalin, no one has worn military uniforms at such meetings, and now, there is a second one. The iconic blue hat makes everyone dare not slack off, for fear of being seen by the general secretary who has worked in anti-revolutionary work.

"Of course, all men are created equal! Some enemies, both internal and external, sleep every day expecting something to happen to the Soviet Union. These bed bugs hiding in the corners are just raving about curses. , can't change the world. Everyone must believe that the Soviet Union has been greater than all the countries of its time from its establishment to the present. If you doubt this, you are not a Soviet person, not a real Communist Party Staff." After saying this, Serov raised his head slightly, looked around the auditorium carefully, and suddenly shouted, "Proletarians of the world, unite..."

   "The proletarians of the world, unite." The more than 200 members of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union all stood up, raised their right hands into fists and swore, "The proletarians of the world, unite..."

"The proletarians of the world, unite!" Valiya raised her fists and looked at her husband on the rostrum. Their eyes met each other. They both saw different colors in each other's eyes. ten years.

In the villa on the coast of the Black Sea in Bulgaria, Yelena, Isamotni, and Lukani looked at the man on the TV affectionately, and their expressions were full of pride. Behind several women, their children were also infected by this atmosphere .

  In London, England, Los Angeles, USA, at the same time, there were two women with outstanding temperament watching TV leisurely, not knowing what they were thinking, and finally sighed deeply.

   watched the media of various countries on the Soviet TV station and analyzed the general secretary of the new generation of the Soviet Union for the first time. Because the general secretary had been chairman of the KGB for nearly two decades before he came to power. Therefore, it is very mysterious among the people of all European and American countries.

  Moscow has not even finished the Central Plenary Session, and various predictions about the next policy of the Soviet Union have flooded. But most forecasts are pessimistic, because Serov has long been an icon of Soviet hardliners. Much of the Soviet expansionary policy was in his hands. For such a person to become the leader of the Soviet Union, it is really not a good thing for the countries of these opposing camps...

  In London, the capital of the United Kingdom, Mrs Thatcher, who tried her best to fight the British Federation of Trade Unions, looked at Serov's speech in the auditorium of the Soviet Kremlin with a headache, and whispered, "This is a dangerous enemy!"

   Of all the members of the Soviet Central Presidium, this KGB chairman had the most obvious hostility to the West. And it seems that this enemy is still the youngest among the opponent's group, so it seems that NATO will have to face this enemy for a long time.

"Isn't this very good? Use our economic advantages to defeat the Soviet Union!" President Reagan said to Secretary of Defense Weinberg and CIA Director Casey, "We have to believe that the cost disadvantage of a cold country like the Soviet Union, our country is much stronger than the Soviet Union!"

   "Our country is much stronger than the United States. Any country that challenges us is doomed to fail!" Shelov shouted in the name of the general secretary, "We will defeat one enemy after another, from one victory to another victory."