Soviet Union 1991

The third update

Yanayev's long-term dominant political policy has formed a stereotype within the Kremlin. According to previous experience, the line that General Secretary Yanaev insists on must be correct, no matter how incredible the order sounds. This also led to different voices within the CPSU, that is, they were worried that Yanayev would eventually become the country's well-deserved leader.

Agricultural reform has always been the most difficult link. Although the Minister of Agriculture of the Soviet Union was replaced after 1992, he also inherited the conservative style of the previous leader. This cannot be blamed on them. It is entirely due to the sequelae of the original "collective farm" model.

"We agree with General Secretary Yanayev's decision and have no opinion." The Minister of Industry did not express any opinion and fully agreed with Yanayev's suggestions. They are the executors of Yanayev's policies. In other words, whether agricultural reform can eventually develop as expected is completely in the hands of these people.

"Me too..." Others also followed Yanayev's suggestions, but were also unwilling to say a word.

But in Yanayev's view, the attitude of these people is worthy of vigilance.

All attempts made by the Soviet leadership to improve agricultural efficiency did not go beyond the rigid management model implemented by Stalin. Agriculture became the most conservative sector in the Soviet economy, and even no discussion was allowed on the feasibility of transferring agricultural production to the market operation mechanism. Because the government was unwilling and did not intend to implement painful but necessary market-oriented reforms in the field of agricultural production, this situation led to the complete collapse of the Soviet agricultural product consumption market between 1990 and 1991. The most obvious is Khrushchev's corn planting plan and Gorbachev's political reforms, which were completely blame-shifting leaders without any responsibility.

The integration of agricultural products with marketization was almost forced by Yanayev to start with this group of people. Reform has never been smooth sailing. If these people choose to go against the will of the central government, Yanayev would very much like to use their small actions to make drastic changes to the entire department.

"It is really a difficult problem to ensure that I have absolute power while worrying about the corruption of the bureaucracy." Looking at the committee members with different expressions on the table, Yanayev sighed. He broke the shackles of the old era, but a group of new vested interests are ready to move.

Yanaev was keenly aware that conservatives in the political community began to question Yanaev's position. After Stalin's death, the Soviet government's top leaders, based on their fear of strongmen, decided that all their decisions must first ensure that no strongmen would appear. This fear from the heart led to the more Yanaev led the Red Empire forward, the more their deep-seated uneasiness could be manifested. Although everyone still obeyed the orders issued by Yanaev, they began to worry about Yanaev's increasingly consolidated power.

Yanaev has always disdained a high degree of checks and balances, because the result of doing so is that the Red Empire can only move forward along the existing track at a faster or slower speed until it hits a boulder and then shatters. It takes a certain amount of strength to break the existing interest pattern, and a high degree of checks and balances means a high degree of incompetence. The current Soviet Union is not a time to stick to the rules, but needs a strong leader to lead the people out of the current predicament.

Anyone who hinders Yanaev's progress will be executed as a Soviet traitor!

"I can't fall down now. Before I see Western Europe in complete chaos, I am still the captain of the Soviet warship." Yanaev said.

Ryzhkov, who was sitting next to Yanaev, noticed that the Soviet leader was in a bad mood at the beginning of the meeting. After the meeting, everyone else dispersed. Ryzhkov found Yanaev privately to find out what he was planning.

"Eh? Actually, I'm fine, Comrade Ryzhkov." Yanaev said, "Maybe I'm just a little tired."

"Please take care of yourself, General Secretary Yanaev." Ryzhkov said worriedly, "After all, you still have to lead this country out of trouble."

Yanaev nodded to Ryzhkov's concern, "I know, Comrade Ryzhkov, I just don't like some food. The agricultural reform plan has been planned for more than a year, but it's really unpleasant to see what those guys in the Ministry of Agriculture are doing. Pedanticism and rigidity are obstacles to a The most deadly threat to the government departments, seeing the current appearance of these people, I feel that what I strongly opposed back then has returned. Now they are also becoming a roadblock, hindering the development of reform. "

Ryzhkov was shocked by what Yanaev said, and he subconsciously said, "General Secretary Yanaev..."

"I know what you want to say, Comrade Ryzhkov." Yanaev stood up, and after everyone left the office, he said to Ryzhkov in a heart-to-heart talk, "What you want to say is that before all this is completed, we still need to be patient, right?"

"Reform is a deep water area, and it is impossible to achieve it overnight. That is why we have revised policies based on the painful lessons of history to prevent tragedies from happening again. But no matter how we guard against it, there is one thing that cannot be prevented, that is, interests and people's hearts. The beneficiaries of the reform in the past will become new interest groups. When they become stumbling blocks to the arrival of the new era, they will be kicked away by the successor reformers. This is a very realistic thing."

"But the most important thing now is to ensure this important agricultural reform, and then deal with these guys after completing the final reform. But if they are unwilling to follow the route we have planned, then even if they are the Minister of Agriculture, I will make him a prisoner tomorrow. These people had better clearly realize that my temper is not good, and even a little bad. The most intolerable thing is that others do some small actions behind my back that I despise."

When Yanayev said this, the whole aura became very terrible. Only when it hinders his political and economic reforms will he show a firm look to eradicate all obstacles. It was at this moment that he would remind people of Comrade Stalin who issued the order for the Great Purge.

"Anyone who blocks reform will be crushed into pieces like a stone blocking the Soviet Union's progress! I will continue to implement the great plan of reviving the Soviet Union. No one can stop me, absolutely no one!" (To be continued.)