USSR 1991

"I just knew that you, an old fox, would do such a thing, so I specially saved Drakama's life. Oh yes, Drakama is much more interesting than you. It's heart-pounding."

"You!" Chissano slammed his fist on the table, staring at Colonel Kozye with some indignation, but the other party ignored him, and still said to himself, "The Portuguese have enslaved you for so long, look I haven't learned the spirit of the contract yet, but the native Drakama keeps his promises more than you, as long as our army supports him, and the condition he offered is ten years of mining rights for all minerals, plus overseas military bases. Permit to stay."

At the end, Colonel Kozye added a sentence, "The opposition is much richer than your government army. It really makes my heart skip a beat."

"You guys are really despicable!" President Chissano gritted his teeth and pointed at Colonel Kozye, but he didn't dare to move his hair, because the Soviet Hind helicopter was hovering nearby, but the government forces had nothing to do.

"Yeah, I just like the way you look at me and can't do anything about me. Now let's sit down and talk about Drakama, or talk about mining?" Colonel Kozye revealed Showing a gloomy look, he added a sentence, "Or is the Mozambican government planning to start a war against us today?"

President Chissano stared at Kozye for a full minute, he sighed, and his tone softened, "Okay, I am willing to talk to you about the mining of the previous contract, but you must give it to me!"

"Mineral mining? In view of your attitude just now, my conditions have changed. My current condition is eight years of mining rights. Are you willing to accept me to talk to you about other things." Keziye directly sat on the ground and offered another more strict condition.

There was nothing Chissano could do. The black president had never seen the tough attitude and black-bellied spirit of the Slavic nation since ancient times, but he would never forget this incident.

"You Soviets are more like robbers than the opposition." Chissano clenched his fists and said indignantly.

The second volume of winter is coming

Chapter 72 Persecution

On December 1991, 12, the Soviet Union was calm, and there were no three relaxed-looking national leaders who appeared in the village of Viskul in Belovezh Forest in Belarus. In fact, apart from Kravchuk and Shushkovich In addition to being alive, Yeltsin has been buried in the New Virgin Cemetery forever.The butterfly effect has changed the direction of history, and the "Belovezh Agreement", which symbolized the prelude to the disintegration of the Soviet Union, has become a spring and autumn dream that will never come true.

Kravchuk was still the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine at this time, not the president of Ukraine.Shushkevich also just served as the chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Belarus not long ago. Yanayev managed to stabilize his position from the chaotic order in the Soviet Union. Most of the general power was in his own hands, and he was finally free. To cleanse the pro-Western forces in the major alliance countries.

And in just two months, he tried his best to raise a limited amount of war funds through arms trading and foreign trade companies. If a war broke out, he refused to let the Soviet Union's originally bad economy pay for the military expenses.This huge sum of money alone can get through the first few months of the conflict.

In Yanayev’s words, “Don’t teach the separatist forces of the member countries a lesson, the Soviet Union will always have the hidden danger of disintegration. Our long-term pain is worse than short-term pain. The Soviet Union would rather end its leadership in a tragic way of war than The glorious achievements of the past were divided by a group of shameless villains with butcher knives."

In the Soviet dictionary, there is never retreat and compromise.

There is no doubt that Kravchuk and Shushkovich are the first two to bear the brunt, because Ukraine and Belarus still hold the voting rights of the United Nations. For Jeff, it's not a good thing.

So Kravchuk and Shushkovich were summoned by Yanayev from Kiev and Minsk to Moscow respectively. Of course, Yanayev concealed their itineraries from each other, and even the emergency summons between them were only separated by For half a day, Yanayev had a dispute with Pavlov in the presidential office on their way to the Kremlin.

Pavlov paced back and forth with an anxious expression on his face. If he was 100% supportive of Yanayev's policy before, he is now on the opposite side of him.The turmoil of canceling the right of the member countries to withdraw from the Soviet Union in the constitution has not yet passed, and the turmoil caused by the cancellation of the seat of the United Nations is no less than another August [-]th crisis.

"I absolutely do not agree to do this, President Yanayev, you are playing with fire and setting yourself on fire. The situation in the member countries is bad enough. If we stimulate the nerves of the opposition, it is not guaranteed that they will all fall to the opposite of the West. Pavlov pushed his glasses and analyzed, "The previous high-pressure policy only temporarily suppressed the nightmare of separatism. They are just accumulating power in secret, waiting for the next counterattack. And your actions will Be the trigger for a counterattack."

"Comrade Pavlov, I would like to ask why we didn't take action in advance since we knew that the other party would fight back. Do you want to see the Almaty incident, the Tbilisi crisis or Fergana again? Black June?" Yanayev also raised the decibel, his patience with Pavlov was drained little by little.

"But the current situation in the country is still unstable! It is impossible for us to attack the alliance countries in an unstable situation. God, the current situation is bad enough, do you still want to add fuel to the fire?" Puff Love almost slapped the table in front of Yanayev and roared angrily.

"If the moths in the allied countries are not completely eradicated, the Soviet Union will never be able to stabilize." Yanayev assumed the posture of a tough dictator for the first time, "Ethnic relations have become the battering ram to destroy the Soviet Union, and those damned The guys are still inciting the emotions of the local people and demanding the expulsion of the Russians. If we don’t take action, the whole country will not belong to the Soviets!”

"Damn it, Yanayev, what are you planning to touch the sensitive nerves of the opposition again and again, is this trying to force them into a civil war?" Pavlov was so angry that he began to speak, He completely forgot that standing in front of him was the Supreme General Secretary of the Soviet Union.

"Pay attention to your words, Comrade Pavlov." Yanayev turned around dissatisfied, leaving Pavlov with an elusive back, "Since the moths have formed a climate, then I want to oppress those The opposition, forcing them to do extraordinary things and oppose our policies, only for this reason can we march openly into the alliance countries to control the situation."

Yanayev turned his head, waved to the person who had been standing at the door, and said, "General Rogionov, please come in."

Also turning his head was Pavlov, who was surprised when he heard the name. General Rogionov, the former commander-in-chief of the Caucasus Military Region, was bowing slightly to Yanayev, with an unashamed expression, as if he was in the middle of the night. He had no regrets when he was unfairly judged years ago.

"General Rogionov will resume his position as the head of the Caucasus Military District, not the supreme commander of course, but the leader who has the authority to command everything in the event of turmoil within the jurisdiction of the military district." Yanayev said to Pavlo The husband introduced the reasons why he wanted to transfer Rogionov back.

"Also, Patti Ashvili has also been reassigned to the central government. I want him to serve as the future Soviet chairman of Georgia." Yanayev said that such a major event was as sparse and ordinary as drinking water.

"You are sending a signal to them, Yanayev." Pavlov swallowed, "Or you are deliberately showing Georgian President Zviad Gamsakhurdia to continue to persecute He made even more outrageous actions."

"What nonsense are you talking about, Comrade Pavlov. General Rogionov is a loyal member of the Soviet Union, and what I'm doing now is just compensation for his wrong trial three years ago, when he should have been hanged It was Gorbachev, Shevadnadze, Zviad, not Rogionov and Patyashvili who managed to stop the plot of the rebels."

It was the first time Pavlov saw Yanayev, who had always been calm, suddenly burst into temper. To be honest, Yanayev was indeed indignant at the Tbilisi tragedy on April 1989, 4. Those who successfully stopped the Georgian ethnic extremist forces Some people were convicted, such as Rogionov who mobilized the army, such as the Georgian Soviet Chairman Patyashvili, while those successful villains escaped trial and blamed all the faults on the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. On the head, the Tbilisi incident was described as an incident in which "the brutal Soviet army suppressed the Georgian patriots".

If Yanayev had been there at the time, he would have given a 7.62mm bullet to Zvyad and Shangglaia, the leaders of the civil movement who started the riots.

"If you don't want to support our actions, you can be a cold-eyed bystander, and I will take on the role of some bad guys." Rogionov calmly said to Pavlov, and at the same time hinted that he should not Go to stimulate Yanayev again.

"Okay, President Yanayev, please take care, no matter what decision you make, I will support you." Pavlov turned and went out, and he turned his head before taking two steps, and said with some self-deprecation, " What else can the central government do now besides supporting everything you have? We are all just continuing the life of this dying regime. I don’t know which day this building will suddenly collapse, and we architects are just doing A few tinkering repairs."

Pavlov was a little sad. These were words he had buried in his heart for a long time. Although it was not appropriate to say them in public, he had followed Yanayev through life and death in the past few months, and he had already regarded him as a reliable friend.

For the first time, Pavlov noticed that Yanayev’s eyes were as bright as stars, as if the difficulties in front of him were just a fog that temporarily covered his eyes. Yanayev said to him in the most firm tone, "You are wrong, Pavlov. For you, it is just to maintain the status quo of the country. For me, the Soviet will be reborn in the flames of war!"

Chapter 73 You choose

Kravchuk, chairman of the Supreme Soviet of Ukraine, rushed to the Kremlin, and was led directly to Yanayev’s presidential office before he stopped to rest. He was depressed about what happened, but he was in the corridor halfway I saw Shushkevich's back.

"Shushkevich, my friend." Kravchuk stopped Shushkevich from behind, but when the other side turned around, he was left with a pale and bloodless face, and squeezed out towards him. a smile.Seeing this situation, Kravchuk couldn't help but thumped in his heart, and quickened his pace to meet him.

The two walked side by side, and Kravchuk whispered to Shushkevich, "Why did Yanayev summon the two of us to the presidential office this time? Since August, the two of us have been keeping ourselves safe. Do something out of the ordinary."

"Hehe, are you and I able to figure out Yanayev's thoughts? What happened to those people who thought they lived in peace?" Shushkovich walked, almost in a low voice that only he could hear. The voice cursed, "I didn't expect a coward Gorbachev to leave, but the Soviet ushered in a lunatic Yanayev, and his reckless recklessness actually temporarily stabilized the country's situation."

"Maybe the other party is really like the outside rumors, the Kremlin inhabits an evil genius like Stalin." Kravchuk said, and added at the end, "But so what? He resisted." Is it the opinion of tens of millions of people?"

The door of the office was closed, and the two of them stopped at the door and waited quietly. Shushkevich was a little curious. Didn't the president specially come to summon the two of them?Why is there still the sound of someone talking to Yanayev in the house.

Just when the two people outside the door were thinking wildly, the closed door was opened, and the first person who came out was Pavlov with a frustrated face. He greeted the leaders of the two franchise countries outside the door perfunctorily. When the second person came out, Kravchuk suddenly raised his head, only to see a person he never wanted to see again in his life, the former commander-in-chief of the Caucasus Military Region, General Rogionov, was sizing up the enemy with cold eyes. Looking at him with good intentions.

"Chairman Kravchuk, it's been a long time. Let me think about it. The last time we met was three years ago." Up and down uncomfortable.

"I remember the trial at the USSR Congress of People's Deputies in 1989. You expressed your opinion at the time, insisting that the rioters were peacefully demonstrating and that the army beat innocent people. And I want to die in Tbilisi responsible for the [-] demonstrators, isn’t it? But looking at the situation today, I can’t help but think of a biblical adage: whoever sows the wind will be destroyed by the storm.”

Rogionov took a step forward, approached Kravchuk, and threatened with a cold smile, "Kravchuk, the disaster you sowed back then will come soon."

Kravchuk snorted coldly, pretending not to care about Rogionov's words, but when he stepped into the office, he kept wondering what Yanayev was thinking.He glanced at Shushkevich next to him, who also looked at him with the same complicated expression. The presence of Rogionov here was definitely not a good thing for them.

"Hey, comrades Kravchuk and Comrades Shushkevich, welcome to come, I have been waiting for a long time." As an excellent politician, Yanayev looked at the enemy in front of him and pretended to be happy came to meet them, but sneered at them in their hearts.

Kravchuk, an economics teacher who advocated the implementation of a market economy, the issuance of national currency, and the expansion of foreign trade, but caused a continuous decline in production and a high inflation rate, and Shushkevich, a physicist from the Belarusian Academy of Sciences Professor, it is really ridiculous for someone who came to power on the slogan of democracy to insist on instigating international politics.

"President Yanayev, is there something important about calling us in such a hurry?" Kravchuk glanced at Rogionov, who had just left the door, and turned around to meet Yanayev's order. People felt a little gloomy in the eyes, and couldn't help shivering.

"I want to ask you a question. At the end of 1988, the Supreme Soviet of the Estonian Soviet Republic adopted a declaration on the sovereignty of the Republic. Do you know about this?" Yanayev asked.

Kravchuk and Shushkevich looked at each other, but they both replied in unison, "We know."

Seeing that the two answered the question honestly, Yanayev, who was still holding back in his heart, continued, "It was also in that year that a wave of what was then called the Great Demonstration of Sovereignty arose across the Soviet Union. There are not only union republics, but also autonomous republics, border regions, ethnic regions, and even some regions that did not actually exist. Do you know the dangers of the Soviet declaration on the sovereignty of the Russian state, which directly declares that the highest legal body of Russia is above the laws of the Federation?"

Yanayev's questions became more and more targeted, Kravchuk rolled his Adam's apple, and answered with some difficulty that he did not know.

"I'll tell you the danger. It means that you are above the Soviet constitution. A confederate has the right to impose its will on a whole, and this thesis of a part over a whole is devastating. Sexual power, that's what I want to talk to you about!"

In the end, Yanayev's voice raised several decibels, and even the people passing by the door stopped, looking curiously at the closed door of the supreme leader, guessing what kind of dispute was going on inside.

"However, if the franchise countries do not have a manifestation of sovereignty, how can they show the democracy of the Soviet Union..." Kravchuk lowered his head and retorted in a low voice.

"Fuck your fucking hypocrisy, democracy, you fucking fuck!" Yanayev, who was almost dazzled by anger, suddenly realized that he was not speaking Russian, and quickly changed his words, "Hey, sovereignty is not controlled by you You use it as a banner of independence to oppose the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the Soviet Union, and to put it seriously, you are splitting and treason.”