Struggle in Soviet Russia

Today's Romania, Bulgaria, there are alliance garrisoned troops, the entire national regime is greatly influenced by the alliance, but even so, do not regard them as puppets of the alliance, think Bucharest or Sofia , will be consistent with Moscow on any issue, will be at the mercy of Moscow, after all, that is simply not realistic.

Just imagine, if the alliance can control all countries such as Romania and Bulgaria in place, and Moscow will listen to whatever they say, then how can Tito's "Greater Yugoslavia" alliance plan be implemented in the market? After Moscow has already expressed its opposition, how can those people in Sofia continue to flirt with Yugoslavia, trying to go further and further on the road of a "Greater Yugoslav" alliance?

Therefore, realistically speaking, in today's environment, although the Alliance has troops stationed in most countries in Europe, and is trying to support the Communist Party, Workers' Party and the Left to jointly control the power of various countries, it is said that the Alliance has firmly controlled Considering the situation of each country, it is still a bit exaggerated.

To sum it up in one of the most logical words, the coalition still has not been able to fundamentally control the communist parties, workers' parties and left-wing alliances of various countries, and the communist parties, workers' parties and left-wing alliances of various countries have not yet firmly controlled. The domestic situation of each country, under this situation, how can the alliance firmly control the situation in each country through the control of the Communist Party, the Workers' Party and the alliance of the left?

Therefore, on the issue of controlling the Black Sea, if the alliance wants to get the absolute support of Bulgaria and Romania, it still needs to pay a certain price. Specifically, it is to provide certain assistance for the post-war reconstruction work of the two countries. This is Jacanozzo. The background and reasons for the submission of this report by Comrades Husband and Sulitz.

Going back and thinking carefully about the nominees for this report: Dekanotsov and Sulitz, the former in the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, who belonged to Comrade Molotov's camp, and the latter, Livino Comrade husband's camp. The recommendations put forward in this report have an obvious flavor of pragmatism in foreign policy-not discussing issues of ideology and diplomatic stance, but only discussing interests. This is the characteristic of pragmatism.

In the past, Comrade Molotov liked to consider ideological issues in terms of foreign policy. The fundamental reason why he took a tough stance when dealing with Soviet-US relations and Soviet-British relations was that the three parties had different ideologies. , the doctrines pursued are also different. Compared with him, Comrade Litvinov is closer to pragmatism.

Therefore, a hint reflected in this report is that Comrade Molotov and Comrade Litvinov, as the two major factions in the People's Committee for Foreign Affairs, are actually moving towards peace, and Comrade Molotov has accepted some practical the way of thinking, while Comrade Litvinov "turned to the left" to a certain extent.

Then, let’s take a closer look. The report of Comrades Derkanotsov and Sulitz actually represents the opinion of the entire People’s Committee for Foreign Affairs, that is to say, on the issue of providing economic assistance to European countries. In the past, the attitude of the People's Committee for Foreign Affairs is a pragmatic attitude: economic aid can be given, but the alliance also needs to obtain certain political benefits.

Now that the People's Committee of Foreign Affairs has reached a consensus on the issue of assistance, the next question is whether the Central International Department can also reach a consensus with the People's Committee of Foreign Affairs on this issue, and this is what Victor needs to talk to next. Comrade Molotov discussed the issue.

By extension, Comrade Molotov actually proposed to Victor a model for solving the competition and cooperation between the People's Committee of Foreign Affairs and the Central International Department through this foreign aid issue. This model is: when dealing with a certain foreign affairs On the issue, the People's Committee of Foreign Affairs and the Central International Department can have an internal discussion first. After the internal opinions of the two departments are unified, they can discuss it between the two departments, and finally make a decision based on the results of the discussion.

To be honest, the suggestion suggested by Comrade Molotov is actually unfair to Victor, no, to be precise, to the International Department of the Central Committee, because in principle, as a foreign affairs agency directly under the Central Committee, The status of the International Department was originally above the People's Committee for Foreign Affairs. After all, the latter is a subordinate agency of the People's Committee in terms of institutional level, while the People's Committee and the International Department are the same level of institutions, both of which are responsible for the Central Committee. Responsible.

Just as Kuznetsov, the deputy secretary of the Central Secretariat, has the power to supervise the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs and the People's Commissariat of State Security, Victor, the first deputy minister of the International Department, has the power to supervise the foreign affairs activities of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs. right.

But the problem is that the organization of the alliance is a bit rough, and in many places, the powers and responsibilities are unclear, and the affiliation is confusing. Although the People's Committee for Foreign Affairs has a low status, the work it is responsible for is very important. This has been carried over from the Union Civil War and has not changed until now. As the head of this department, Comrade Molotov also has The status of a Politburo member, at this point, Victor is lower than him.

In this way, the final result is that Viktor, who has a relatively low personal level, is in charge of a nominally high-ranking institution, while Comrade Molotov, who has a relatively high personal level, leads a nominally low-ranking organization. For institutions with relatively large real power, who do you think should listen to whom?

Therefore, in Comrade Molotov's proposal, although Viktor suffered a bit of a loss, but if he does not take this loss, the next work may not be easy to do, because on the one hand, he has to cooperate with Comrade Molotov. The leadership of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, on the one hand, did not receive the support of Comrade Zhdanov.

In his previous life, the reason why Comrade Suslov was able to do well in the International Department of the Central Committee and was on a par with Comrade Molotov was because he had the support of Comrade Zhdanov behind him. In this regard, Victor does not have the same conditions.

After confirming Comrade Molotov's attitude, it is easy to say what happens next. Victor timely brought up Comrade Zhdanov's report, and consulted Comrade Molotov's opinion on this. In the end, he got With the approval of Comrade Molotov, this report can be submitted to the Central Committee, but whether it can be approved by the Central Committee in the end depends on the results of the committee's discussions.

To put it bluntly, whether or not the report can finally be passed depends on the battle between Comrade Zhdanov and Comrade Molotov. Of course, in Victor's view, the possibility of this report not being passed is the greatest, because when Comrade Zhdanov presented this report, the candidate for the first deputy director of the Central International Department had not yet been decided. Now that Viktor has taken over this position, is Comrade Zhdanov still willing to continue to push forward the content of the report? This possibility is not high.

After confirming with Comrade Molotov the principles of future competition and cooperation between the two institutions, Viktor did not leave directly. As a newcomer who has just taken over the leadership of the Central International Department, Viktor is really inexperienced in foreign affairs. As an "old diplomat", no matter how many mistakes Comrade Molotov has made in his diplomatic work in the past few years, at least His experience was extensive, so Victor spent a little more time in his office, asking him some work-specific questions.

Recently, Viktor is preparing a relatively important report, ready to find time to submit it to the Central Committee, and in this report, there are many issues related to foreign affairs activities, if you can get some help from Comrade Molotov, It was also helpful for him to draft this report.

Viktor's two main jobs today are relatively retreats, which is not like when he was the first secretary of the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic. At that time, he didn't care about the local economy or government affairs. Once the work is done, there can be very specific measures, such as how much the economy has grown, what industries have developed, and so on.

But now, this kind of work that tends to be a retreat will reflect the achievements by writing reports or engaging in activities, so he must put more effort into this aspect.

As for the report to be drafted by Victor this time, it is also more important. The most important thing is that the issues discussed in the report have not yet received the attention of the Alliance, but they themselves will have great consequences for the international situation in the next few decades. important influence.

Yes, the question that Victor is going to ask in this report is about the hegemony of the dollar, in other words, he is going to go through this report to discuss in detail the "Bretton Woods system" promoted by the Americans, and its possible significant impact on the composition of the alliance.

As said before, today's coalition has not realized the importance of the "Bretton Woods system", nor the significant impact that the dollar-gold peg will have. In contrast, the representatives of the coalition did not However, the alliance is also actively maintaining the formation of this system because it has benefited from the reality that the dollar is pegged to gold.

As a rebirth, Victor is very aware of what the "Bretton Woods System" has brought to the Americans, and he is even more aware of the impact of the US dollar's hegemony on the entire world in the future. To be honest, the US dollar's hegemony status is better than that of the Americans. The military is much stronger. For now, only if the alliance realizes this as soon as possible can Moscow respond as soon as possible.