Hassan's action was already swift, but it was still a no-brainer.
Gamsahurdia cunningly evaded Hassan's pursuit and left his hiding place ahead of schedule.
Hassan's men eventually returned in vain, and Hassan had no choice but to report the incident to Seryosha.
Seryosha noticed the passport issue mentioned by Hassan on the phone, and the Georgian opposition leader has a US passport, which means that the Americans have intervened in the chaos in Georgia and want to fish in troubled waters.
Seryosha suddenly felt a headache, if the Abkhaz issue has the US government involved in the back, Hassan alone will definitely not be an opponent.
Seryosha instructed Hassan to continue to co-opt the Abkhaz minority faction and intensify the crackdown on the opposition.
In addition to this, he asked Hassan to send his henchmen to Moscow with the passports and other evidence.
In the process of making a phone call, as soon as Seryosha learned about the passport, he originally planned to let the Komsomolskaya Pravda expose the matter.
But Seryosha thought about it again, I am afraid that this is not appropriate, once the above asks where the evidence came from, it is possible to investigate Hassan's activities in Georgia, in any case, gang activities are still the target of the Soviet government's severe crackdown, although his merits are enough to go to the Kremlin to receive a medal, but Hassan's affairs are still not on the table.
So Seryosha can only find a way to hand over these things to the KGB, and only in this way can he make the higher authorities pay attention to it.
Seryosha waited in Moscow for a day, and Hassan's henchmen returned to Moscow with the list and passport evidence found in Gamsakhurdia's residence.
Under the arrangement of Seryosha, the Leningrad branch of the KGB obtained this evidence, and soon the matter became known to Dzerzhinsky Square, 11 Lubyanka.
Immediately after that, the Politburo also grasped the situation.
Gorbachev summoned his colleagues to revisit the Georgian issue.
In the face of new evidence, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU no longer regarded this as a simple national contradiction, but a political crisis in an organized and planned attempt by Western reactionary forces to split the Soviet Union.
Faced with this situation, the central government of the Soviet Union had to make a strong response.
In total, it took half an hour to reach an agreement to allow Abkhazia to hold a referendum on whether to secede from Georgia and join the Soviet Union on its own or become part of the Russian Republic.
The second is to declare the Georgian opposition an illegal organization and to make a nationwide arrest of its leader, Gamsahurdia, among others.
These two major resolutions were sent overnight to the four official bulletins, radio and television stations of the Soviet Union, and broadcast to the people of the whole country, while the KGBs stationed in Abkhazia and Tbilisi were also notified of the immediate arrest of Gamsakhurdia and others.
This sudden decision made the originally arrogant Georgian opposition disappear in an instant.
The Georgian government, which has received a central mandate, has begun a large-scale hunt for the opposition, and a referendum is beginning to be brewed in the Abkhaz Autonomous Oblast.
At the Abkhaz regional party committee, several members of the Standing Committee openly declared to the population that they would support Abkhazia as part of Russia.
This is a source of rejoicing for the minority in Abkhazia.
Because once Abkhazia was able to get rid of the Georgians, the local Georgians would not dare to be so arrogant anymore.
Once you join Russia, everyone is a minority, and who is better than whom Seryosha has been paying attention to the dynamics in Georgia, and seeing that the indecisive Gorbachev finally has a rare hard hand, Seryosha feels that the Georgian issue can finally come to an end.
He summoned Hassan back from Georgia, leaving only some of Hassan's men to continue to maintain order in Abkhazia and avoid a backlash by the Georgian opposition before the referendum.
Although it was the coldest season in the Soviet Union, in order to complete the infrastructure construction of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone as soon as possible, Seryosha had his construction army carry out infrastructure construction on the planned land of the Special Economic Zone in the face of the wind and snow.
Now the task is mainly to level the land, build roads and prepare for larger construction after the beginning of spring, and Seryosha has already found the first large-scale project, that is, a large petrochemical project in Leningrad by Occidental Petroleum and Enron, which will process high-quality oil from the Samoterol oil field of the Glencore Group, which will be used to occupy the European market.
The first phase of the project is worth $20 billion, in addition to a gas pipeline from Tyumen directly to Leningrad, with which foreign energy companies can buy gas directly from here in NG ships and ship it away, Seryosha's plan is not only favored by American and European investors, but also the Nordic neighbors Sweden, Norway and Finland, which have always had bad relations with the Soviet Union, are interested in this plan, and they also have rich gas resources.
It is intended to connect the domestic gas pipeline with the Soviet Union and supply the European market together, so that the natural gas of these three countries can be directly transported to Italy and other countries in southern Europe through the pan-European gas pipeline.
This ambitious plan brought the Baltic states into play, and Chernomerdin, the head of the Soviet Union's oil and gas industry, began to make frequent trips to the Baltic states to negotiate for Europe's gas business.
Seryosha focused on the infrastructure of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone and neglected Abkhazia.
The referendum in the Abkhaz Autonomous Region began to take place as scheduled.
At this moment, Gamsakhurdia, who had not been seen for a long time, read out a statement to all of Georgia through an underground illegal radio station, in which Gamsakhurdzia announced that the Georgian opposition had formed a Central Committee of Georgia, that the Central Committee did not recognize the current Georgian Government, and called on the Georgian people to stand up against the Soviet Government's attempts to divide Georgia.
At the same time, Gamsa Khurdia also denied the fact that he held a passport from the United States and many European countries, and his father, Konstantin, also testified about his son on the radio.
Shortly after the broadcast was issued, a bomb pre-planted in luggage exploded in the waiting hall of the Tbilisi railway station in the center of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. t1706231537: