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Chapter 1 Personnel Transfers


When Seryosha met Gorbachev again, it was already a month after he became general secretary.

In the past month, a series of personnel changes have made people feel Gorbachev's determination to make great efforts to make the country prosperous and determined to carry out reforms.

Ligachev, who was originally a secretary of the Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee and was responsible for the organization of party affairs, took over the post of Secretariat of the CPSU Central Committee, a position that originally belonged to Gorbachev.

With Gorbachev's support, Ligachev crossed the invisible ceiling and successfully entered the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU as a member of the Standing Committee.

In addition, Gromyko, who had lost the struggle for the General Secretary, was promoted to the position of Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, a low-ranking post of Foreign Minister, which he vacated, was to be taken over by Shevardnadze, the first secretary of the Republic of Georgia and known as the silver fox of the Caucasus.

Yeltsin got his wish from the Sverdlovsk region to Moscow, where he became Minister of Construction.

Seryosha congratulated him at the first time.

Yeltsin will be responsible for the future construction of the Moscow Workers' New City, and a better future awaits him in the future.

And for Seryosha, the biggest obstacle for Minister Zhuravlyov was also reappointed to the House of Nationalities to take charge of work among the various ethnic groups of the country.

Nikonov, the first deputy secretary of the regional party committee, who was originally waiting for retirement in Gorky Oblast, was unexpectedly transferred to Moscow to become the new minister of foreign trade and economic cooperation, and became a member of the Central Committee in one step.

Nikonov knew how he got his promotion, and it was a delusional idea to go further in officialdom at his age, and it was very satisfying for Nikonov to retire as a minister.

Seryosha was Nikonov's old subordinate and one of the few people in Moscow who could be trusted, and Nikonov was not at all familiar with the work of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, so the first thing Nikonov did after taking office was to let Seryosha sit in the position of first deputy minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.

Seryosha took over most of the rights of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation as he wished, and as for the people who Zhuravlyov left in the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the Foreign Trade Bank, Seryosha will have to spend some time slowly adjusting.

The National Housing Bank has become a thing of the past, and its key employees have all been placed on the giant of the Foreign Trade Bank.

As one of the four largest banks in the Soviet Union, VTB controlled the settlement of all export operations in the Soviet Union, and it held the largest foreign exchange reserves outside the Central Bank.

Gaidar, who was sent by Yakovlev, was placed in the position of chief economist of the VTB by Seryosha, a position that was prominent but not specifically involved in the internal affairs of the bank, and whose main responsibility was to publish articles or academic materials on the economy in the main domestic media, which was really suitable for scholars.

To Seryosha's surprise, Zhuravlev did not intervene too much in Seryosha's acquisition of the Foreign Trade Bank, which allowed the friendly relations between the two to be maintained.

Seryosha also kept a department within the VTB dedicated to financing Yeltsin's workers' new city.

Towards the end of the month, Yakovlev, who had been on the cold bench for nearly 15 years, finally left the academic unit of the USSR Academy of Sciences and once again embarked on his political path.

Yakovlev became the head of the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

Although compared with Yakovlev's position in the USSR Academy of Sciences, he jumped several levels in a row, but in fact, Yakovlev had climbed to this position ten years ago, and if he had not published a series of articles attacking Brezhnev later, he would not have turned a big corner and returned to the original point again.

Seryosha and Yeltsin, naturally, went to the door in person to congratulate Yakovlev.

And on the same day, Seryosha and Yeltsin happened to meet General Secretary Gorbachev at Yakovlev.

"Seryosha, we just talked about your Youth Science and Technology and Culture Center, and you came to tell us about it," Gorbachev couldn't wait to talk about Seryosha Youth Science and Technology Culture Center as soon as he saw him.

"General Secretary, this department was originally a collective enterprise within our Communist Youth League, and I am also surprised that it can make its current achievements, mainly due to the fact that our Communist Youth League cadres have opened up a new road in practice."

Seryosha didn't want to talk too much about the issue of the Youth Science and Technology Cultural Center, because most of the business in it was gray, Khodorkovsky put it bluntly, was now buying and selling, and Yulia's video tape chain rental business was also playing hide and seek with the cultural regulators.

Even the company that researched the localization of video recorders now has the biggest source of profit by exporting reindeer antlers to Asia as medicinal herbs.

"Don't be modest, General Secretary Seryosha thinks that your Youth Science and Technology Cultural Center is a good form that is worth promoting in Communist Youth League organizations all over the country."

Yakovlev said in a slightly expectant tone.

"Do you really want to promote it to the district, the Youth Science and Technology Cultural Center has not been established for a long time, and I am afraid that it will bring any negative problems if it is rashly promoted to the whole country" Seryosha said somewhat conservatively, this department was originally only used by Seryosha to tap the black technology of the Soviet Union, but now it seems that it has not played its due role, but has become a chamber of commerce within the Communist Youth League under the support of Seryosha.

"Seryosha, economic reform has reached a critical juncture, and we no longer have time to spend on endless research and discussion.

Since the Youth Science and Technology Cultural Center can create huge social and economic benefits, then we should not worry too much about it, and take a brave step forward to pave a new path for our economic reform.

Gorbachev encouraged Seryosha with words, Seryosha listened to it in his heart and understood that this was already a matter decided by Gorbachev, so he did not plan to refuse, but it was still okay to have some benefits.

Seryosha said: "General Secretary, it is somewhat difficult for us in the Communist Youth League to spread the experience of the Youth Science and Technology Cultural Center to the whole country, and we need the support of the Central Committee in terms of policy and finance."

"Okay, no problem, the Central Committee will definitely support you, and in the future, we will give priority to the comrades of the Komsomol in terms of personnel and treatment," Gorbachev assured Seryosha. t1706231537: