"You said that this Gaidar was introduced by Yakovlev," Zhuravlev asked uneasily.
"Yes, minister, I just can't tell how to arrange this Gaidar so I came to ask you.
I don't know what you think, minister," Seryosha asked respectfully.
"Let me think about this matter, and I will reply to you in a few days" Zhuravlev is not sure for a while where this Gaidar is sacred, so he plans to drag it out first.
Seryosha said goodbye to Zhuravlev and left his office.
As soon as he walked out of the room, he suddenly found that all the people in the corridor were running forward, Seryosha didn't understand what was going on, and quickly grabbed a person and asked what was going on.
"Minister Ulyanov, General Secretary Chernenko seems to have died," the man finished and ran forward, and Seryosha ran two steps to follow, and walked to the hall, where the TV was crowded with people.
Seryosha pushed aside the crowd and walked forward, and when people saw that it was Seryosha who came over, they consciously moved out of the way.
The announcer on TV was announcing Chernenko's death in a somber voice.
Seryosha was a little surprised at first, and then a little sad.
Then came a rush of excitement.
"Today is really a sad day," Seryosha said to the crowd, who immediately bowed their heads in silence for General Secretary Chernenko, who joined them.
After the silence, Seryosha left the unit early and returned home, and Seryosha did not plan to do anything during this time.
The news of Chernenko's death disrupted all political activity in Moscow, and even before the news was announced, there was a lot of debate within the Politburo about the chairmanship of General Secretary Chernenko's funeral committee.
The tug-of-war process within the Politburo Standing Committee made it impossible for either of the Gromyko or Gorbachev factions to gain the upper hand.
Tikhonov, who was now in charge of the situation as a centrist, could only reluctantly say: "Comrades, since we cannot reach an agreement, then I propose to leave this matter to the Central Committee to decide."
After all, we have just finished the meeting of the Supreme Soviet, and all the members of the Central Committee remain in Moscow. ” Soon after Tikhonov made his proposal, another round of voting was held, and this time, since the Tikhonov faction and Gorbachev's people were on the side, the proposal was adopted.
Gromyko felt that he might not have a chance to leave it to the Central Committee to make the final decision, so he reluctantly accepted the result.
On the same day, the Kremlin notified all members of the Central Committee that it would convene a plenary session of the Central Committee.
The members of the Central Committee, who had already prepared to return home, were told to attend a special meeting of the Supreme Soviet the next morning.
Yeltsin soon learned through Seryosha the real background behind this sudden meeting, and Yeltsin has now put all his bargaining chips on Gorbachev, not only him, but many cadres who have been beating in the local government for many years are optimistic about Gorbachev.
For them, officials like Gorbachev and Ryzhkov, who joined the Politburo Standing Committee in their fifties, were role models in officialdom, and officials like Yeltsin were stagnant at the level of local state committees in large part because the central government did not have any spare posts to offer them, unless an official of Gromyko's age died or made a serious mistake before leaving his job.
Since the plenary session of the Central Committee was not open to the public, Seryosha, like most ordinary people, could only wait quietly for the final result.
The meeting was convened under the chairmanship of Tikhonov, first of all with a collective expression of condolences to the deceased General Secretary of Chernenko, and then after Tikhonov announced his candidate for the next general secretary, the voting began.
Every member of the Central Committee in the Great Hall had a ballot paper that would decide the future of the Soviet Union, and some did not hesitate to fill out the ballot, while others hesitated and were in a dilemma.
The ballot box in the center of the Great Hall is visible to everyone, and the fate of many people will be changed by the result.
After Gorbachev finished voting, he returned to his seat with a smile on his face, and enthusiastically joked with Tikhonov and other old comrades, but only he knew that his heart was about to stop.
Yeltsin put his ballot in the ballot box and returned to his seat with a blank face.
He raised his head and looked enviously at Ryzhkov in the distance.
Feeling a little sad in his heart, he blamed himself for why he didn't work harder so that he could be promoted earlier and leave Sverdlovsk.
The Central Committee waited in silence for the final results of the vote count.
Forced himself not to pay attention to the numbers on the electronic display, Gorbachev played with the pen in his hand, calmly waiting for his fate.
As the counting of votes progressed, the votes of several candidates on the electronic display screen began to widen, and Gromyco's votes temporarily led all the candidates, Gromyko glanced lightly, and then leaned back in his chair, his tense body gradually relaxed.
Yeltsin clenched his wounded fist tightly, and a sense of desperation rose in his heart.
As the counting continued, Gorbachev's votes magically caught up, and the rest of the candidates began to be left far behind by Gromyko and Gorbachev.
Gromyko couldn't sit still, frowning slightly, staring at the numbers on the display.
Gorbachev didn't bother to the display, he looked coldly at his votes, and his heart twitched every time the numbers changed.
The growth rate of votes under Gromyko's name began to slow down, and the number of votes under Gorbachev's name began to increase rapidly.
Grischen glanced at Gromyko, and then stared at the change in numbers, if Gromyko was carried today, he would not be far from retirement.
Gorbachev's votes finally surpassed Gromyko's votes at an incredible speed, and as the vote count came to an end, the audience began to burst into applause, and Ryzhkov whispered congratulations to Gorbachev.
When the counting of votes was finally over, the audience burst into thunderous applause, the new general secretary Gorbachev stood up and greeted the comrades present, and Tikhonov and other members of the Politburo began to leave their seats and come forward to congratulate Gorbachev on his election. t1706231537: