Gaidar did not choose the post of deputy editor-in-chief of Izvestia, but chose to side with Seryosha.
In fact, there is a deeper reason, that is, they are interested in the political future of the young cadres with "new thinking" represented by Yakovlev.
Gaidar is not blind, as long as you pay a little attention to what is reported every day in the major domestic media, combined with several major events happening in the country, anyone with a discerning eye knows what is subtly changing in this country.
Films that had been banned from showing in the past were back on the screen, and books that had been banned from publication were now available for public publication.
The most gratifying thing is that some music and film works from Western countries have also appeared on the screen of the Soviet Union.
Although Gaidar was an economist, he had a good sense of politics and felt the changes in state ideology.
So he rejected the conservative forces represented by Ligachev and instead expressed his loyalty to Seryosha.
After Seryosha made it clear that Gaidar really wanted to be loyal to him, he instructed Gaidar to pay attention to Ligachev's movements in turn.
Seryosha promised no less than Ligachev, promising to promote Gaidar to head the West German branch of VTB after the audit turmoil was over, responsible for negotiating the Soviet Union's state debt and financing.
It's a practical position, and it's easy to get results, because West Germany, out of fear of the Cold War, has always been generous with Soviet borrowing demands, and the Soviet Union can use resources to pay off West Germany's foreign debt, and in some ways the West German government's behavior is somewhat akin to paying protection money.
Ligachev's covert infiltration made Seryosha break out in a cold sweat and prompted him to speed up the work of cleaning up and rectifying the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.
In the days that followed, Seryosha overstepped the ranks and promoted a large number of his subordinates who had followed him since the Komsomol period.
Communist Youth League cadres, including Khodorkovsky, who had made a fortune by relying on Seryosha's care, were exceptionally arranged to be in the functional departments of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation, and relying on the internal network of the Communist Youth League, Seryosha extended his tentacles into every department of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation.
Because Yuri borrowed a large sum of money from Colombian drug lords, and one of the conditions was the arms deal of Valentin.
At a time when the top brass of the Gorky Brotherhood was busy with Japan's plans to make a fortune, Valentin recruited a few of his colleagues in the KGB to run the arms business with him.
The biggest problem that Valentin is facing now is the supply of goods, after all, the weapons management in Afghanistan is still very strict, and it is easy to attract the attention of others if he is always inexplicably missing.
In the face of increasing market demand in South America, opening up new sources of goods has become a top priority.
Valentin was shunted to the shipyard, while two other colleagues were assigned to the munitions factories in Gorky and the Urals.
After a long period of co-optation and corrosion, Valentin and them teamed up to set their sights on the Soviet Union's huge weapons stockpile.
In recent years, with the continuous deterioration of the international situation, the Soviet military has invested more and more in arms, and the upgrading of weapons has become more and more frequent.
The army units successively eliminated a large number of old models of equipment, and this batch of equipment was sent back to some places to be stored in case it was needed from time to time, but in fact, it was more discarded than a reserve.
According to the Ministry of Defense, these weapons would only be useful if the Soviet Union called up reserve troops to fight in the face of a large-scale war, but this possibility was too small.
Moreover, the current situation of these weapons is not optimistic because of funding and management lapses.
The cost of pulling these old models of weapons from combat warehouses is much less than the acquisition from the troops in Afghanistan.
And since these weapons are old models, even the military does not pay much attention to their existence.
But for the drug lords in South America, these weapons are more suitable.
Because the drug lords lack military literacy, their education level is generally not high.
Selling them the latest models of high-tech weapons from the Soviet Union is not very good at using them, but the old Soviet equipment, because of its simple structure and easy to use, is more suitable for the armed men of the militia in Escobar's hands.
As if he had broken into the robbers' treasure trove, Ali Baba, Valentin began to purchase conventional weapons such as guns, grenades, rockets and mines from warehouses of war supplies.
Thanks to the strong transport capacity of the Mediterranean Shipping, these weapons were sent to South America one by one.
Colombia's military police soon found that drug dealers were becoming more and more difficult to deal with, and even drug dealers who bought bulk goods on the streets used grenades and AK47s in a fight with the police.
The intelligence services of Colombia and the United States are feeling tremendous pressure in the face of the abruptly changing situation.
After repeated investigations, the CIA finally discovered the identity of the mercenary commander who had appeared during the battle of La Modero Prison, who was Ben Ali, a former member of the French Foreign Legion hiding in the Dutch Aruba in the Caribbean.
According to intelligence, Ben Ali has gained Escobar's trust and become the military leader of the Medellín group.
Ben Ali is now training fighters for Escobar in a secret stronghold of drug traffickers in the Medellín region.
But perhaps to prevent being completely controlled by drug traffickers, Ben Ali's family still lives in Aruba.
Now there is only one way ahead of the CIA, and that is to use Ben Ali's family to make a fuss and take advantage of Ben Ali's return to Aruba to arrest him.
So the CIA and the Dutch government intelligence agencies joined forces to form a bureau.
Ben Ali's wife lives in a newly bought garden-style villa by the sea.
On a most ordinary afternoon, officials from the Aruba Immigration Department knocked on the door of Ben Ali's house, and after they had shown their papers, they entered the manor house.
"Madam, we regret to inform you that there is a problem with the documents that you, your husband and children submitted to the immigration office, and I am afraid that you will lose your permanent residency here."
"It's impossible, our family has been living here for almost ten years, why didn't they inform us before" Ben Ali's wife heard the news like a bolt from the blue, he really didn't expect such a thing to happen, what would they do if they lost their permanent residency, and when they returned to their hometown of Mali, they were poor and backward, compared to Aruba, it was hell.
"I beg you don't let me get out of here, I love this country, and if we can keep our family, we will say anything," said Ben Ali's wife in a panic.
"Madam, you can reapply for residency, but all family members must be at the immigration office within seven days to be inquired about, by the way, where is your husband?"
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