USSR 1991

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Yanayev's voice was a little hoarse. In the past few years of becoming the General Secretary of the Soviet Union, behind the glory that was respected by thousands of people, there was a long and cold loneliness.He hopes that after retiring from the position of general secretary, he can be an ordinary professor of literature at St. Petersburg University or Moscow University, or return to Gorky State to accompany Natasha's tombstone, and no longer care about politics.

"General Secretary Yanayev, I will inherit your will and lead this country forward." Putin asked, "Is all this really worth it to you?"

"I don't know." Yanayev closed his eyes. He lost his wife in 1990, and now Yanayev, apart from his lofty title of general secretary and political rights, he no longer knows that he still has What's left.

The Slavs are really a sentimental nation.Yanayev smiled wryly and shook his head. Putting aside these sad emotions, he is still the most rational leader of the Republic with almost no emotion.

"I'm here to briefly tell you about the trends in the next few years. The development of oil in the Far East and the exploitation of the Arctic Circle are urgent. Bringing Japan and China into the game in different forms will have a very good effect on our financial relief. The Russian military must speed up its transformation. At least now the Americans know that an unequal nuclear war cannot be fought. They continue to cut down the army and liberate productivity. Reversing the deformed economic structure of the Soviet Union has changed a lot after years of hard work, but There are still a lot of thorny issues, and this is the key issue that you have to be aware of in the future."

After the strategic contraction of the Soviet Union, it is no longer able to single-handedly lead the way. Only the alliance of a third country with more matching strength can form a challenge to the authority of the Americans.

"Remember one last sentence, the Soviet Union's policy is centered on economic construction, not on international political struggle. Our purpose is to preserve the current strategic position, so as not to be further squeezed living space. If this continues Otherwise, the Soviet Union really can’t afford to lose. After annexing Eastern Europe, the United States is now at its peak, and we can only avoid its strength and wait for the other party’s decline.”

The wind was blowing Yanayev's gray hair, and Putin nodded silently as he watched the lonely figure receding away from him.

"Take care, General Secretary Yanayev."

The figure of Keizo Obuchi appeared on the drilling platform, and he was accompanied by a delegation from a Japanese oil drilling inspection company.They will conduct a practical assessment of the Soviet drilling rig, and then provide reference opinions for the Japanese government to intervene in the development of oil fields in the Arctic Circle.

"Master Megumin Obuchi, welcome to the Kara Sea." Yanayev said with a smile on purpose, "It's much colder here than Tokyo."

"But there is also much more oil than Tokyo." Keizo Obuchi answered perfectly. The change in Yanayev's attitude may also be due to Il-96.

Yanayev pointed to the oil drilling bit and took a few steps forward, not caring whether his suit would be stained by the oil. He said to the other party in a serious tone, "In a short time, this place will become another part of the whole world. An oil production center. We will have the same oil as the Gulf of Mexico and Saudi Arabia. Whoever gets involved in this development first will get the first opportunity."

Megumi Obuchi raised the corner of his mouth, what Yanayev said was exactly what the Japanese government expected.Oil, black gold.The strategic energy resources coveted by many countries, the oil resources Japan reserved during World War II can only last for a year or a half.And the Soviet Union has oil reserves that make the whole world crazy without paying almost anything.

"General Secretary Yanayev, I hope that Japan can participate in the development of projects in the Far East and the development of the Kara Sea Oilfield in the future." Megumi Obuchi bowed slightly to Yanayev, "This is also our The purpose of visiting the Soviet Union."

It seems that Yanayev's plan is quite effective, allowing a minister of an economically powerful country to bend over to the General Secretary of the Soviet Union.

Chapter 6 and Three: Looking for a Breakthrough

After the Japanese delegation concluded its visit, Keizo Obuchi asked about the results of the survey team, but he was shocked by the answer given by the other party.To paraphrase the politically incorrect words of a member of the right, if Japan owned one-third of such an oil field, they would not have lost so badly in World War II.Faced with such a result, Keizo Obuchi was of course very moved.He had to return to Tokyo clean and report the good news to Ryutaro Hashimoto.

Before leaving, Keizo Obuchi also bid farewell to Yanayev, and emphasized the new friendship and cooperation between Japan and the Soviet Union. No country can resist such a temptation, "President Yanayev Secretary, next there will be a special delegation to visit Moscow to cooperate with the Soviet Union. I think this cooperation is unprecedented, and we hope that Japan will increase its investment in oil development projects.”

For Obuchi Keizo's promise, Yanayev was not surprised. The cunning of the Japanese has been imprinted in his impression, so Yanayev seemed very cautious about Obuchi Keizo's words.After all, Yanayev still remembers clearly what he wanted to take advantage of the oil crisis to suppress oil prices.Of course, they also love and hate Japan and the Soviet Union. After all, the position of the Asian economic power is still there. As for the four tigers wanting to cooperate with the Soviet Union?go aside.

There is another reason. Yanayev hopes to use the oil cooperation between the Soviet Union and Japan to pull China into the water. After all, since 1993, China is changing from an oil exporter to an oil importer, and will become an oil consumer in the future. big country.So now participating in Yanayev's oil development club will have a profound impact on China's future oil strategy development.

"I hope to have more in-depth cooperation with Japan in the future, instead of stopping at the surface. By the way, since Minister Keizo Obuchi thinks Il-96 is good, then Aeroflot will also use Il-96 to send the Soviet delegation back to Tokyo." [-] returns."

Yanayev did everything he could to promote the Il-96. He not only turned the Il-96 into the special plane of the Soviet general secretary, but also let the delegations from various countries to the Soviet Union take the Il-96. Anyone can do it. It can be seen that Yanayev is trying to vigorously promote the rhythm of the Il Airliner.At this time, if Japan does not buy one or two Il-96s to go back, such a large oil transaction order will be a bit embarrassing.

"About the issue of Il-96..." Megumin Obuchi paused for a while, and finally said with determination, "I will report this matter to Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto."

"Then there will be the third minister, Lao Xiaoyuan Hui."

Facing the future Japanese prime minister, Yanayev did not dare to demand him too much.Anyway, there are still opportunities for future cooperation, as long as Japan can accept it.

"There is one more thing, Minister Megumi Obuchi, if the Japanese government encounters economic difficulties in the future, the Soviet Union is willing to provide paid assistance. In the future, Minister Megumi Obuchi, please remember my words." Yanayev threw After the next sentence of unclear meaning, he left, leaving Megumi Obuchi standing there, not knowing why.

What you don't understand now, you will understand someday in the future.Yanayev has even seen how the future Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi was helpless in the face of the 1998 Asia-Pacific financial crisis.After all, he was trapped by the chaotic political situation in the transition period, died of illness, and became a cross-century prime minister with unfulfilled ambitions.

In silence, Yanayev laid another dark line on Japan, and this dark line will gradually become clear with the coming of Keizo Obuchi.

Yanayev is very busy. Even after the groundbreaking ceremony of the oil rig in the Kara Sea, he needs to return to the Kremlin to deal with a lot of problems.Floating on the icy waters of the Arctic Circle, Yanayev is fully prepared to keep warm. He doesn't want to be like the former Soviet leader Brezhnev who was physically weak and frozen after a winter military parade and died. .

However, just after recovering from the joy of oilfield development, Yanayev had to face a bad strategic situation.The deployment of the anti-missile system has entered a critical moment. Except for Turkey's half-push attitude, Bulgaria and Romania are at a stalemate with the United States. The reason is that the high price of the anti-missile system discourages Bulgaria and Romania.Although the United States emphasized that it is willing to bear half of the cost, they are still unwilling to agree, and the cost is still too high.

And since the Soviet Union's natural gas pipeline transportation and oil extraction projects began, the attitudes of Romania and Bulgaria have become somewhat ambiguous.And as long as Syria curbs Saudi Arabia's attempt to build an oil pipeline project through the Middle East to Europe, then the Soviet Union can use natural gas and oil to threaten Eastern Europe with confidence.

As for the anti-missile project, as long as you observe the offensive and defensive game between the United States and the Soviet Union around missiles, you can see that the United States is currently building a multi-layered defense system, that is, the defense of Europe and the United States.

The deployment of the United States in Europe has entered the land-based level. At present, it is stepping up preparations for the establishment of detection systems against the Soviet Union in Poland and the Czech Republic. It uses long-range radars to provide early warning and continuous warning of Russian missile launches.

Yanayev predicted that the United States will deploy many interception weapons in the vicinity of the Soviet Union in the future, such as using the Patriot missiles that will be put into service to form a relatively complete terminal defense capability; It will be stationed in Spain; it is not even ruled out that the THAAD system, which is being developed and tested, will enter Europe in the future.

In the United States, the defense system will become more abundant, including terminal defense, land-based mid-course, THAAD system and sea-based terminal.If the defense network of these two large regions is formed, then the Soviet Union’s strategic attack on the United States will have to go through multiple levels of penetration. This is also what prompted the Soviet Union to take “offensive and then offensive” as the core principle of Russia’s strategic attack.And this will also set off a new round of competition between the United States and the Soviet Union on missile offense and defense.

In other words, once a complete anti-missile interception system is established, the strategic space of the Soviet Union will be further compressed.

Looking at the dazzling information, Yanayev said with some emotion, "The multi-layer anti-missile interception system is really an unsolvable chess game so far."

Even Yanayev came up with the idea of ​​​​war to solve everything, but the anti-missile system is destined to be a long battle. As long as the Soviet Union does not fall, then Yanayev has a chance to come back in the future.

Turkey can't count on it now, so Yanayev can only try to find breakthroughs from Romania and Bulgaria.

Chapter 6 and Four Iskander

To curb the development of anti-missile systems in Eastern Europe, Yanayev must have his own anti-missile technology.NATO's eastward expansion plan has begun to stir Yanayev's nerves, just as Mario emphasized that cooperation with Poland is only aimed at Iranian countries in the Middle East, but Yanayev will not believe such nonsense.

Marshal Ogarkov, who was also the former commander-in-chief of the Strategic Rocket Force, also proposed a plan to vigorously develop anti-missile and anti-missile technology at this time.It coincides with Yanayev's idea.

When Ogarkov, a veteran marshal who was determined not to step down from his position, approached him, Yanayev knew what he was going to say.What Ogarkov brought with him was a full-fledged development project, not an imaginary technology.

"General Secretary Yanayev, here I have drafted an important plan on the development of Soviet tactical missiles. It is specifically aimed at anti-missile systems in Europe." Ogarkov pointed to the missile model on the document and said, "This is what we are doing The missile program that was revived two years ago, the Orka missile, is also the missile development plan that you approved and reviewed back then. It has made considerable progress, especially in the recent experiments, and has achieved impressive results."

"Oka missile?" Yanayev suddenly remembered the resurrection of the Oka missile plan that Ogarkov had suggested to him before, and at that time Yanayev faced NATO's eastward expansion plan without hesitation Supported this decision as a weapon of retaliation against NATO.It's just that there has been no progress in the improved version of Oka, and Yanayev almost forgot about it.

Ogarkov introduced to himself that the Orka missile has a range of about 400 kilometers and a hit accuracy of 30 to 150 meters with a circular probability error. This missile was the pinnacle of tactical ballistic missiles in the early 20s.High precision, nuclear warheads, and powerful defense penetration capabilities have put enormous pressure on NATO countries on the front lines of the Cold War.

It’s just that it met the INF Treaty at an untimely time. After all, this undefensible weapon poses a huge threat. Therefore, even though the negotiations on the INF Treaty decided to destroy the medium-range missiles with a range of 500 to 5500 kilometers The range of the Orka missile is less than 500 kilometers, but the United States still uses various means to exert pressure, forcing the Soviet Union to agree to destroy the Orka missile in the "Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty".After the destruction of the Oka missile, only the 611K9 short-range tactical ballistic missile developed from the B-79 air defense missile remained among the short-range ballistic missiles of the Soviet Union and later Russia. The 9K79 missile has a range of only 120 kilometers and replaced the earlier Frog 7 There are only more than 100 uncontrolled rockets in number, and they don't have the defense penetration ability that can be called undefendable like the Orka missile.As a last resort, Yanayev asked the Design Bureau to continue to deepen the reform of the Orka missile to form a strong deterrent.To block NATO's threat of eastward expansion.

"Three years ago we completed the improvement of the Orka missile, and now it is in the testing stage. At the same time, in order to attract potential foreign customers, the Orka missile weapon system is based on the Arabic language of Alexander the Great of Macedonia, who is respected in the Middle East and India. Name it after Iskander."

Marshal Ogarkov likened Iskander to a trump card for boycotting and countering East Asian countries, especially Bulgaria and Romania, which have wavering attitudes towards suppression.Let the opponent create an illusion that the anti-missile system is not reliable.So as to win the opportunity.

Using the MZKT-79306 8X8 chassis of the Minsk Automobile Factory in Belarus, the Iskander launch vehicle loaded with 2 missiles in a single vehicle will appear at the Moscow Air Show in 1999, but Yanayev, in order to threaten Bulgaria and Romania, It was decided to let Iskander appear in everyone's sight in advance.

"How long will it take for the Soviet army to serve this kind of missile?" Yanayev has high hopes for Iskanbul.Using Iskander to block NATO's anti-missile program is like a race against time, constantly buying time for both parties at the negotiating table.

Marshal Ogarkov's answer made Yanayev a little disappointed, "The experiment is still going on, and there are at least two years left before the real service."

"Then we will give NATO the illusion that Iskander is about to enter service. Most importantly, we will make all countries that are going to deploy anti-missile systems aware of one thing, their systems are in front of Iskander There's no chance."

"Wrong guidance of public opinion by propaganda?" Marshal Ogarkov immediately understood what Yanayev was thinking. As the head of the former Soviet Union's General Bureau of Strategic Deception, Marshal Ogarkov did indeed deceive the West. Has its own set of tactics.And this set of tactics has been tried and tested. The powerful illusion created during the August [-]st military exercise and the signing of the INF treaty are all credited to Marshal Ogarkov. The Americans thought that the development of Soviet missile technology was restricted by a single treaty. , but was actually pulled to the same level by the Soviet Union.

It seems that under unavoidable circumstances, Yanayev must continue to fool the West like he did in the 80s.

"To expand Iskander's functions infinitely, we need to use all available means of publicity to emphasize the horror of Iskander. Just like Alexander back then."

Marshal Ogarkov also agrees with Yanayev's idea very much. Since the current strength has not reached that level, let the other party think that he has reached that level at the negotiating table, causing a certain amount of psychological pressure.

"This is a disinformation campaign that is a headache for the West. In the 80s, we were proficient in this tactic, and some secrets are still kept in the dark by the West. What is covered up is what NATO thinks it has obtained The information is actually what we want them to know.” When mentioning the American think tank at the time, Marshal Ogarkov said with disdain that although he was about to retire from his position, he also hoped to do it again before retiring. An unusual event, to draw a successful conclusion for his comeback.

Yanayev followed Marshal Ogarkov's words, "I hope Iskanbul can also bring awe and fear to NATO."