Chương 40: New economic policy
"Four of us, we have been working for a long time, I believe in you all that you did not do such corruption. The reality proves that I am right, old comrades are always trustworthy. But the problem is, old comrades like us who are not corrupted are getting old and less, but those who are young and corrupted are getting more in power. How will our country be without us, it is hard to imagine."
Four of them were thinking almost the same thing in their hearts, but no one dared to say it out loud. Under Brezhnev's leadership, the government was corrupt, and many party members and even Brezhnev had forgotten what socialism was. What is the ideology of socialism? This is the truth that many people knew, probably in the spring of Prague.
When the Soviet's weapons are not used to defeat the enemies, to liberate those who are suppressed by colonialism, but to invade allies, invade the country that does not show submission to the USSR, forcing others to join their faction using all types of way, like give them a false intel, and create conflict between two countries and started war so that they can extend their strength.
Even officers inside the Red Army know how corrupt their government is, which causes Viktor Belenko to drive his MIG-25 to defect to Japan, and Valery Sablin to risk treason to launch a mutiny just to awaken the people to resist the rampant corruption of the Brezhnev government.
As a member of the organization of oil-exporting countries(OPEC), when they get the chance to create income for the country due to the oil crisis caused by the Fourth Middle East War, instead of using it to improve the light industry people's living standards increase.
They choose to invest more in heavy industry, producing more tanks, missiles and rockets, just to show their domination.
When high-rank officers are enjoying their privileges in their mantle, citizens are forced to wake up early every morning just to queue for bread.
The Soviet workers got highly paid, they could buy most of the things they wanted, and even houses were provided. The difference with those in Western countries, the Soviet's problem is not whether they are affordable to buy a product, it is whether they can buy the product.
A cough wakes everyone who is in the memories.
"Kosygin, are you alright?" Ustinov asked.
"Nah, just some old problems, heart disease, I am getting older, not much time has left for me. I can't imagine what our country is going to be like after all old guys like us have died. I heard that Suslov also have a similar problem with me."
"Then we should do it quickly, sniff out and eradicate all these corrupted traitors. We also need to train the younger generation. To be honest I trust these younger ones who just joined the party more than those who have joined for many years. These young ones grow in the the most prosperous era of our motherland, they are more patriotic, and have not yet been polluted by all kinds of dirty means." Andropov said firmly.
"You are right, well, where exactly should we start? We are going to have military and economic reform, but both of these are related and controlled by the politburo, I mean if we are doing this we might need to have another political reform as well." Kosygin said worried, it was not his first time doing economic reform, but sometimes the reform just failed due to political reasons.
"These will not be a problem, at least for now, if we can convince our comrade secretary of our plan, the KGB will clear the way for the reform."
"There may not be much resistance from the National Defense Department, most probably it is just the debate between the traditional ones and reformists, the problem can be easily solved after conducting some exercises. I believe there is not much problem from the military-industrial complex as well, no matter whether we are going to peace or war, reformation or not, they still get a great number of orders from us." Ustinov said.
This is one of the reasons why no one in the countries wanted to stop the war. The government had already been corrupted, and many of its interests were already tightly tied to the military-industrial complex.
During peacetime, they tend to build new vehicles instead of modernizing or upgrading the old model just because they can get more interest.
"The problem with the army reform is that how can we improve our electronic industry significantly in only two years, we are always behind the other countries. The only way I could think of is also by the economic reform development."
"At least some decentralized and even marketing should be introduced, or else we will never know which path of the research is the correct one. Just like Kosygin you said before, we have many results from research, but most of them are not applied, not only in the military but also in industry and life." Orgarkov said his opinion. His trip to America gave him a lot of new ideas about why the Soviets were always behind them.
"You mean transitioning to a free market? I agree that this could accelerate the growth of our technology, but we must ensure that there is no exploitation of workers or capitalist excess. For now, perhaps we should limit this to the technology sector, like the electronics industry you mentioned. Of course, we might also need assistance from the KGB to ensure compliance with the rules."
"It will be complicated to plan this policy. I will try to come out with a preliminary plan within a week." Kosygin said.
"Great, same to you Orgarkov, tell Kosygin more specifically what you need so that he can allocate more resources to that sector. Make a plan about what will be needed to develop for the army as a priority for these few years. The KGB will start to clear the way and corrupted ones at the beginning of this week."
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