Chapter 258: KGB and GRU – SOVIET UNION 1991 – Light Novel
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Chapter 258: KGB and GRU
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The abolition of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will always arouse dissatisfaction with some vested interests. KGB Chairman Kryuchkov is the most criticized one. The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB The relationship between them is also very mysterious, even in Beria’s time, when the KGB, whose name was the National Security Council, was under the organization of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
However, the owner of Lubyanka won’t be caught so easily. He came to Yanayev’s personal apartment in the Kremlin and fought hard with the Soviet General Secretary in an attempt to keep him the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the CPSU. Traditionally, he does not want to disperse the power that is firmly in his hands to various departments. Then let the KGB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs change from a superior authority to a department that only enjoys certain special powers.
“The tradition of the Soviet Union is that there is a functional department that can firmly monitor and control the behavior of everyone. It is undoubtedly a wrong choice to reduce the power of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.” Kryuchkov’s deeper words Yes, the General Secretary, you are actually attacking the KGB.
But how can Yanaev’s determination to cut the Ministry of Internal Affairs be denied in a few words? In the Kremlin leader’s apartment, Yanaev sitting on the sofa refuted Kryuch on the spot. Cove’s view.
“Yes. From Cheka to the General Administration of Political Security, to the People’s Committee of the Interior, its functions include our current Ministry of Public Security, Ministry of National Security, Ministry of Justice, and the army. It integrates political security, domestic counterintelligence, foreign intelligence, and social security. Gradually evolved into a huge organization, managing labor camps, directly under the internal affairs troops, and even dispatched branches in the Soviet Red Army!”
Yanayev stared at Kryuchkov, and he said word by word, “The power of a department even covers all aspects. Anyone will be vigilant about this department. Although the Ministry of Internal Affairs actually belongs to the Council of Ministers, if the Council of Ministers is not concurrently served by the leaders of the Ministry of Internal Affairs or the KGB, they will put the Council of Ministers in their eyes? I am afraid that only our colleagues in the political-governance-bureau can suppress your domineering arrogance, right?”
From Andropov to Gorba-Chev, and then to Yanayev, almost all of them are working hard for the balance of power, starting from reducing the KGB’s right to supervise the people. Now that some powers have been further dispersed, the Ministry of Internal Affairs is like a victim who was precisely dismembered by a scalpel, step by step from being dismembered from a sturdy man to a poor creature who has lost his limbs.
Yanayev still reserved the most basic items for the Ministry of Internal Affairs to maintain domestic social stability and unity. In this regard, Yanayev did not reduce the power of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but expanded their powers.
“But if there is no strong department to supervise and lead other departments, it is easy to cause difficulties in the development of work.” Kryuchkov said, he tried to make Yanayev through his own words Change your mind.
“So you are saying that I keep a department that may launch a coup at any time. Is that a good choice? Comrade Kryuchkov?” Yanayev chuckled and shook his head, as if Telling jokes is the same as Kryuchkov.
“Do you remember the words I told you before? We don’t need democracy and freedom, because those are lies made up by the despicable Western politicians. Similarly, we don’t need national security The centralized rule developed as an excuse, because of the concentration of power, there will be terrible political struggles. With all due respect, you can see how many of the Soviet government leaders were elected to power? Stalin killed Trosky, Khrushchev managed Beria through a coup, but he himself was put to an end by his dear student Brezhnev. Gorbachev had better luck, after all, Andropov and Che The death of Ernenko one after another gave him a chance to come to power.”
Yanayev didn’t mind telling Kryuchkov about this. “At the beginning I stipulated that the position of general secretary should not exceed eight. Years, that is, to prevent the pros and cons of the chairman’s tenure, including political struggles. Now I am reforming the Ministry of Internal Affairs, also because of the elimination of political affair that will happen again, so that the power can be transferred and transitioned smoothly.”
“But Comrade Yanayev, how do you supervise the party and hostile elements from now on?” “Kryuchkov asked.
“The struggle of mind-consciousness-form is no longer the main factor. Economic development is the top priority of the Soviet Union. Do you still notice that posters of reaching American imperialism are posted everywhere? Those things are long gone. “Yanayev’s deliberate downplay of political struggle does not mean that the Soviet Union does not guard against the United States. The United States will always be the evil empire in Yanaev’s heart.
“Although there are occasional political frictions with the West, But we have also accelerated the transformation of the economic market. Not only did Lenin restore to some extent the measures in Lenin’s New Economic Policy, it also revised the shortcomings brought about by the Stalinist system. Although for a while, they still can’t clearly see their achievements.”
Yanayev’s method is more inclined to the state to control the economic lifeline, and then to reform the market economy. Most of them follow the reform system of China. Control is in the hands of the political-government-bureau It’s better than being taken over by those oligarchs.
“So, the same functions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB are very different from before. For you, it is more important now to be dedicated to homeland security. In particular, the rise of ***** extremism and national separatism in Russia’s countries should be more vigilant in this regard.”
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“So Comrade Kryuchkov, now do you know why I want to weaken the power and functions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs? “Yanayev put his hands on his knees, looking at the silent Kryuchkov in front of him. The words have already been said so clearly, the Ministry of the Interior is now the function of homeland security, as for other mind-consciousness-form-states. Such important tasks are handed over to the Soviet Propaganda Department and the Central-Yang-Shu-Ji-Division. They don’t have to worry about these things anymore.
Kryuchkov knows that it will continue to struggle. It doesn’t make sense. Simply choose to respect Yanayev’s decision. Intuitively tells myself that fighting against the general secretary will not end well.
“Farewell, General Secretary Yanayev. “Kryuchkov got up and left after speaking to Yanayev. After the Ministry of Internal Affairs is weakened, there is no doubt that the next one is the KGB. Yanayev will never hope that there will be a department that can challenge authority in this country.
“GRU. “Yanayev whispered softly. As the Intelligence Department of the General Staff of the Army, Yanayev also began to think about this department. Although these intelligence agencies outside the government department have always been unpopular and unwelcome, this That’s why the People’s Security Council had Marshal Beria, but GRU only had General Berzin.
GRU, also known as the All-Soviet Military Intelligence Agency, was initially responsible for the military intelligence of the Soviet army. It made many contributions to the Soviet Union during the Civil War and the Great Patriotic War, but its scale was far less than that of the National Security Council. The biggest difference between the two is that the GRU plays a greater role at the military level, while the KGB plays a greater role in maintaining the country’s political order, but their authority is also higher than that of the GRU. And most importantly, the KGB belongs to the government to a certain extent, while the GRU belongs to the military intelligence agency of the Soviet General Staff.
Obviously, GRU was also used by Yanayev to disperse the KGB’s power departments, especially the General Administration of Border Guards. The KGB is known to have a large number of border guards. The General Administration of Border Forces leads the frontier military districts, border troops and outposts. Although the headquarters of the border troops are not large, the total number of border troops exceeds 220,000. For a large country like the Soviet Union with long borders, this is the lowest number allowed by actual needs.
At the end of the 1980s, Kryuchkov wrote a letter to Gor Bachov, telling Go-R-Ba-Jo-F that he urgently needed to expand the border troops and improve their material conditions. To increase financial investment for them. The border defense funds have accounted for half of the total budget of the National Security Council, and a considerable part of it is used to update or maintain border technical equipment, military technical weapons, construction of target facilities, communications, and payment of salaries to major units.
After removing the border guard from Lubyanka, it was placed under the banner of GRU, which means that the budget of the National Security Council will be reduced by half, and the same KGB rights will be Compressed in half. Because Yanayev’s previous disarmament actions also made those people in the Soviet staff quite complain, and the expansion of GRU’s functional authority can be used to silence these people. Look, Moscow does not treat GRU as an outsider. So you had better give me some relief on the issue of disarmament.
“As a result, we finally managed to reach the ideal balance. The reduction of KGB rights should be lengthy, not radical in the short term.”
The border defenses were removed. After the game, for Yanayev, the KGB finally returned to a relatively safe level. At least it should have the same rights as the CIA in the United States, but it will not reach a position above the party.
After Yanayev wrote a series of lists of characters on paper, he put the pen on the side of the table. In addition to Kryuchkov and Pugo, there are also Comrade Sergei and Slitchenkov of the First General Administration. As a group of three members of the KGB, their right to speak out in the government is not small.
In the past, Yanayev used a lot of KGB personnel in his anti-government corruption actions. However, Yanayev was also worried about corruption and bureaucratic problems within the KGB, so he was pursuing the Central Cleanup. Yev chose to ignore and compromise with certain KGB officials.
After gradually consolidating his rights, Yanayev finally won the opportunity to reorganize. He wanted to let the entire Soviet system know that no one has authority over the party.
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Author: 陈家过河卒, Chen Guohe CuTranslation: Artificial_Intelligence
