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Chapter 1410 A New Journey (Second Update, Please Subscribe)

In Moscow, a big city of millions of people, there is always something happening.

However, for ordinary people, Moscow will always be Moscow, the best place in the world - here, young people can be the first to move into new buildings, large houses with four or even five bedrooms, which are so perfect, although only two or three bedrooms face the sun, but what else do they want?

Between the buildings, in the summer fountains, the children had long since turned it into a swimming pool, where they played to their heart's content.

When he walked out of the corridor and saw the children, a smile appeared on Alyosha's face. His wife was pregnant with their second child.

Although he was a criminal policeman, Alyosha still had to wait four or five years before he could move into a new house. But starting last year, everything changed - married young people could move into the house earlier, and older people could get the qualification to buy a car earlier.

With such changes, Alyosha, who already had a child and his wife was pregnant again, moved in here in the spring.

Here, there are the most children and young couples, and they live happily here. Of course, it would be better if the sound insulation of the walls could be better. They always think that the sound insulation is very good, but in fact... who can't hear such a loud noise!

While thinking this in his mind, Alyosha quickly rode a 750 sidecar motorcycle towards the unit.

The criminal police station where he worked was on the other side of the city. About half an hour later, when Alyosha had just arrived at the police station, someone shouted:

"Alyosha, hurry up, there is a case and we need to go over there."

It was the deputy captain. After the deputy captain Nikolay jumped into the sidecar, they rode their motorcycles to the scene of the crime. On the way, he asked:

"What's the case?"

"Don't ask questions, we're just going to take a look!"

After that, they continued on their way. A few minutes later, the motorcycle drove into a residential area and saw a patrolman standing in front of the corridor. Before Alyosha could go up to say hello, a car suddenly stopped over there and several officers got out.

They were KGB officers. As soon as the leader got out of the car, he asked:

"Who is the officer in charge at the scene?"

"It's me, Major."

Nicholas stepped forward and said:
"How is the situation at the scene?"

"I just arrived here, but according to previous reports, the death should be suicide."

"Oh……"

The major nodded and said:
"Ah, what a poor fellow! Perhaps he is just feeling miserable and blaming himself for his dead friends!"

After saying this, the major looked at Nicholas and said:
"Let's go up together!"

Soon they went upstairs and entered the sealed room. In the study, Alyosha saw the dead man, a man about fifty years old, hanging there.

"Did he commit suicide?"

The major asked:

"This... requires forensic judgment, but judging from the scene, this probability is very high."

As soon as Nicholas finished speaking, the major emphasized:
"He's our colonel, officer. You must take this matter seriously. Do you understand?"

As a police officer, Nikolai seemed to understand something, and Alyosha also seemed to understand something, indeed - he did commit suicide.

At least that was what it looked like at the scene. Soon the forensic doctor arrived and his investigation results came out - suicide.

There is no doubt about it.

Just like that, on this day, a KGB colonel chose to commit suicide out of self-blame because he could not face the reality that many of his subordinates were killed and his intelligence network was destroyed by foreign spies.

His death is certainly sad, but life must go on.

The same was true for Alyosha and others. From beginning to end, he did not express any opinions. He just performed his duties and signed the report.

It's all over after all.

This was just a trivial matter on that day and no one would care.

At most, in Lubyanka, some people discussed Sergei's death with slightly sad words, but soon, someone was promoted and took Sergei's position, and then continued his unfinished work. People also devoted themselves to new work. After all, the best commemoration is to complete the unfinished work of the deceased.

At the same time, in the Kremlin, Khedavite looked at the report in front of him with a frown, and said after a long time:

"So they are trying to cut off our access to processors?"

In response to his question, Shelepin replied:
"From what we can see so far, they are indeed doing their best to prevent us from obtaining processors and integrated circuits from them. However, considering that most of their processors are sold publicly, we can still get some of the processors we need. But processors for military or aerospace purposes such as radiation protection may require some trouble..."

After a brief pause, Shelepin added:

"However, Bureau T will try its best to get the processors we need from them. Although it is difficult, there are many opportunities there. There are too many companies that need funds. As long as the price is right, they don't mind selling their processors. And its size is small. We can bring back what we need through airlines or even embassy parcels."

“But this is not a long-term solution.”

He Dayu took a puff of cigarette, paced back and forth in the office, pondered for a long time, and then said:
“We can get the processors we need from them in this way, but there are too many uncertainties. Just like now, they can cut off our supply at any time if they want. This is a very dangerous situation. If a war breaks out in the future, how can we get the advanced processors we need from them?

We have a group of students studying with them, if…”

Then, staring at the intelligence chief in front of him, He Dayumi added:

"You guys continue with your work. I will inform Xiao Jin and the others to find a way to continue their research in this area. I believe that if they can do it, we can do it too. After all, they are not much ahead of us in this field!"

At this moment, the Soviet Union seemed to have embarked on another path. As the first deputy chairman of the Soviet Radio Electronics Committee, Shokin was very clear about what difficulties this path of microelectronics faced.

Xiao Jin talked to He Da Yumi many times about the importance and magic of chips. Once, Xiao Jin said to He Da Yumi:
“Imagine a TV the size of a cigarette box.”

Then last year, with the support of Khrushchev, Shokin created the Soviet Union's "Silicon Valley" and built the Soviet semiconductor city - Zelenograd!

The city has everything, including schools, nurseries, cinemas, libraries and hospitals, specifically for scientists and engineers. It is a scientific paradise. All they have to do is work hard.

But if they want to turn Zelenograd into the Silicon Valley of the Soviet Union, it is not enough to just have these, they also need other things.

"Now, the miniaturization of electron tubes has come to an end..."

Although the Soviet Union had finally broken through the difficulty of miniaturizing vacuum tubes several years ago, the microprocessor from the Equator silenced all the academicians and vacuum tube experts with its amazing performance.

When they saw the Athlon processor, they understood that the fate of the vacuum tube had been sealed. No matter how small they made the vacuum tube, it would be impossible to reduce it to such a small size.

It was also for this reason that the Soviet scientific community finally turned to transistors and integrated circuits.

But the reality of backwardness is something Shokin cannot avoid. In Zelenograd, facing Salant, Joel and others, Shokin said directly:

"Now, their blockade of us has changed everything. Perhaps, we can still continue to copy their processors, but this is not enough. According to Comrade Khrushchev's request, we must carry out independent research."

The will of the leader is everything. After the Kremlin made the decision, all Shokin needed was to obey, to obey with all his might. And to prove with facts that the Kremlin's decision was wise.

This is the biggest feature of Moscow. Therefore, even if he formulated a replication strategy at the beginning, he must change everything now!
"Compared with those companies in Silicon Valley, we have advantages that they can hardly match. We have the power of the entire country and can gather the best scientists in the Soviet Union. This is our advantage, so I believe we will be able to surpass them."

“…We need to find a new way and look for opportunities to “overtake on the curve”…”

On this day in Zelenograd, Shokin's speech changed everything. The Soviet scientists who had been poured cold water on the "copying strategy" all cheered loudly with excitement. After all, they knew very well that the gap between them and the Western world in transistors and integrated circuits was not as big as they had imagined.

The Soviet Union now has a large number of world-leading theoretical physicists, which are in no way inferior to the Western world.

After receiving this news, scientists like Zoris Alferov, who were already angry at the relevant departments for abandoning the excellent scientific research foundation and simply copying foreign products, were excited. They understood that the real challenge had now begun!

Although they opposed 1:1 replication of foreign processors in the past, they had to admit that they had to produce them in the same way as foreign countries did, without any deviation in imitation. Although there was no innovation, the results were significant and fruitful.

But now?
After the bureaucrats have satisfied their opinions, they need to use facts to prove to those officials that this decision is correct!
"If we fail, we'll go back to our old ways!"

In the laboratory, Zoris Alferov, a Soviet semiconductor expert, said this to his friends.

He would never know that in another world, at the turn of the millennium, he would share the Nobel Prize in Physics with Jack Kilby, the inventor of the integrated circuit.

And now, he and the Soviet scientists in Zelenograd are heading towards a new goal.

Although this road is difficult, as for the future... no one knows!
(End of this chapter)