Chapter 1687: Vice President of the KGB

Secretary of Defense Dick Cheney, if Allen Wilson was here, it was immediately clear that this was still Bush Jr.’s Vice President, single-handedly manipulating the outbreak of the Yinlak War, and that this man didn’t have a good reputation in the United States.

But Allen Wilson is unavailable, he is busy setting up an Eastern European Policy Council, putting Middleton in charge of it, as well as Terry Pence, the two men, one a Deputy Secretary of the Cabinet and the other a Permanent Undersecretary of the Treasury, because the matter does concern the Treasury as well, and “with the current rate of indebtedness in Eastern Europe, the problem, once it arrives by virtue of them, simply can’t be solved. ”

Hearing the two men’s meaning is probably the same, Alan Wilson nodded, “It seems that it is still Poland’s problem that is the most serious, even if the Polish government is now able to shift the focus by using the news of the Solidarity labor union. Once the debt comes due, Poland will still have problems.”

Don’t think that Alan Wilson came a Ponzi scheme in Poland, and put the Solidarity labor union inside, Poland as a country in also not make trouble. The bigger problem than the few hundred million in the details of the Ponzi scheme is Poland’s debt, and indeed the debt of the Eastern European countries, including the Soviet Union, is huge.

At present, including the Soviet Union, the entire Warsaw Pact’s total debt of up to 100 billion dollars, just the number is actually not difficult to explain what, because the total number of U.S. is not targeting anyone, or would not be thinking of doing something to Japan and Germany. But these countries can be compared to the United States?

When Reagan came to power, the total debt of the United States is one trillion dollars, after eight years of President Reagan’s efforts, the United States of America’s debt has tripled, to nearly three trillion dollars.

The U.S. debt ratio has reached fifty-five percent of the total economy. What was the foreign debt of the Soviet Union, two hundred and thirty-five billion dollars.

In fact, from this comparison, it can be seen at a glance that Reaganomics is not sustainable at all, Reagan still got away with it, letting Bush Sr. take the blame for himself.

As of last year, of the $100 billion in debt, Bulgaria had $6.4 billion, Czechoslovakia had $4.2 billion, the GDR had $10.9 billion, Hungary had $15.6 billion, and the Soviet Union had $23.5 billion.

The highest, Poland, with a total debt of thirty-four and a half billion dollars, dominates the whole of Eastern Europe and also exceeds the Soviet Union, with a population of nearly three hundred million, by more than ten billion dollars. The debt of the whole Eastern Europe, Poland alone is more than one-third, in comparing the total economy of the Soviet Union and the total economy of Poland, we can see how terrible the debt of Poland is.

The United States of America, the highest debt in the free world, is only fifty-five percent, and Poland’s debt has nearly caught up with the total amount of Poland’s economy. Such a percentage of debt is not a big deal in the twenty-first century, but at this time in the eighties, it was a very scary percentage.

The exception for the Eastern European countries was Romania, which actually, going back twenty years, had the highest debt of any of these countries, more than any other country, including the Soviet Union.

But Ceausescu began to notice the debt problem late in his life, and after reaching a peak of nearly ten billion dollars in 1981, it is now only two and a half billion dollars, and after eight years, Romania’s debt has instead been reduced by three quarters, and there is no debt crisis in Romania.

That is why Ceausescu’s historical downfall is questionable; a political crisis triggered by a debt crisis does not hold true for Romania, and the Ceausescu’s had the worst of it. It is likely that the inability to overthrow him through an economic crisis led to more drastic means.

So Allen Wilson, when he was in Moscow, had talked to Alexeev about this, sending the families out if they had to mantle, and the route was all set to go through Romania.

And at that time, the two also discussed the status of Romania, if it is the free world side of the hand, he will leak, if it is the Soviet Union wants to overthrow Ceausescu, then Alexeyev play the role of ventilation.

Romania is going to have to stick to its policy of independence and autonomy for a long time, and Ceausescu certainly isn’t just talking the talk, just as France is the least infiltrated by the U.S. in Western Europe. Compared to other countries in Eastern Europe, Romania has a higher attribute of independence, almost as much as Yugoslavia. And Romania did have good relations with France during the Cold War.

As for the Good Lord, the Good Lord is busy right now, taking Irina Virganskaya on a rendezvous in the middle of his busy schedule, taking a rocket ride on the way, and making the First Daughter’s heart sing before he starts to talk about his recent work in the KGB, where it doesn’t really matter, it’s the threat that counts.

Although not the Maphead’s son-in-law, Alexeyev had apparently come to the realization that he was on equal footing with his son-in-law, and the conversation gradually began to move into the question of what to do with the disarmament of half a million people, especially the 240,000 of the Soviet Army in Eastern Europe, when they returned home. “I’m afraid, Irina, in fact, of the movement of these servicemen after they return home, now that there is a great deal of pressure on employment in the country itself.”

“That is indeed a problem.” Yinlina Vilganskaya, who had a red flush on her face that hadn’t faded, replied with a slight lurch in her dressing, “Right, you’re a security cadre, surely you’re afraid of this kind of thing.”

“That’s for sure, when something really goes wrong, it’s not us purge workers who get picked up and criticized.” Aliksheyev sighed languidly, “Now that we’re all scared to death, we’re afraid that something will go wrong, and as you know, the Kazakh affair was alarming in itself. It is not impossible that this could happen.”

As early as 1986, there had already been the case of the map head and in and love with the results of the play off, when the map head wanted to cut out the local powerhouse Kazakh first secretary Kunayev. As a result, the Kazakh Soviet was paralyzed, and now, with half a million troops disarmed and 240,000 Eastern European troops returning home, the map head can’t even cover up in case something happens.

Even the head of the map can not cover, obviously not Alexeyev can also cover, but he must remind at least in the resettlement of the above, the Kremlin can not be a little bit not to show, even if it really does not show, let the local to handle, but also to give the local government a little bit of policy support to be able to, if this is not even able to do, then it is too incompetent, although his father has always been said that the head of the map is incompetent.

Alexeev took his first daughter into his arms and seemed to have forgotten what he had just talked about, “Elena, I wish I had known you earlier, I had the urge to get a divorce more than once.”

Divorce that is impossible, Arikseyev’s wife was carefully selected, the most important thing is absolutely reliable, his mother herself is the culture tsar, at that time there is no need to marry with some local powerhouse, not to mention that because of the relationship of the late birth, he simply could not find the right candidate, the children of the Central Presidency in the same period, are nearly twenty years older than him.

Heart know that it is impossible, but is already a senior cadre of Aliksheyev, the mouth of a steady stream of expression of regret, if Alan Wilson is here, instantly can conclude that this is pua, really good not to learn, bad all learned.

Good big children even in the face of the cultural tsar did not miss and the first daughter of the mouth, reflecting the integrity of a professional purge workers, not to mention the Cabinet Secretary far away in London.

Out on a vacation, the first daughter, back in Moscow, has been completely persuaded, in order to be on equal footing with her husband’s men, looking for an opportunity to blow the whistle, so that the head of the map to take note of the problem, “Alexeyev is like a big enemy, listening to Alexandra said, watching a large number of military personnel discharged from the army, he, the head of the Security Service can not sleep. ”

Maphead was stunned, there was indeed this problem, he was not without talent, Maphead was sharp when it came to specific issues, such as his leadership position in the Soviet Union. Indeed there was this problem, the issue of half a million veterans was not solved well, there would be a mass incident, and if it happened, the loss would be his authority.

Surprisingly, he also had to be reminded by his own daughter, the map head’s face did not move, “He is comrade Furtseva’s child, I remember that you are quite close.”

“Yes, Alexandra and I are on good terms.” Irina Verganskaya was a little embarrassed to say this, after all, it was a little hard to tell with a good friend’s husband the way he was now.

“The country also needs more young faces, the future will be yours sooner or later.” The map head snorted officially, the KGB really should pay attention to this aspect, in case these veterans really make trouble, he still had to find a way to shirk his responsibility.

After the Council of Ministers of the USSR carried out the decision, the head of the Moscow Security Service, Lieutenant General Alexeyev, was appointed as the deputy chairman of the KGB, and this appointment was quickly passed and sent in front of Alexeyev.

At the same time, he himself continued to serve as the head of the Moscow Security Service, after all, he was a credible person in the mouth of the First Daughter, and this is not a violation of the rules, and even if it is, the rules are not inflexible.

Alikseyev held the letter of appointment in one hand, and in the other he gripped the hilt of his Damascus steel blade, which traveled nimbly in his hand, the blade flying as if it were part of his body.

Theoretically, with this order, he was able to have influence over the security organs of the entire Soviet Union; the head of the Moscow Security Service, while also important, and the members of the KGB’s full council, while also part of the leadership team, were not as much of a name as they would be once this appointment came down.

Although it seems, he is now only the most senior, the most unimpressive vice-chairman, is not responsible for specific work, but this name is there, mother Foltseva is also a long time is the Central Presidium of a dry bar member, what positions are not concurrent, but as long as the status is there, is not also so many years for the city of Kalinin to do a lot of contribution to it?

After a while, Arikseyev has appeared in the Lubyanka KGB headquarters, to the current chairman of the Kryuchkov report, and express their own support.