Soviet Godfather

It took about a week for Sergei Shah to compile a plan for the transfer of the Workers’ New Town, which included the expenditure and income of the Worker’s New Town, the overall debt situation, and future planning plans. The redemption of the National Bank will only start after Gorbachev has found a suitable successor. Just after Sergei Sha submitted the plan to the Secretariat, it was almost not long before the Supreme Soviet and the Joint Council of Ministers reported that Gorbachev was looking for new candidates for the new city project.

　　 The development of the Workers’ New City has gone far beyond what Xie Liaosha had envisioned at the time. It is truly developing towards a comprehensive urban area, not just a sleeping area. There are not only modern houses with complete facilities, but also a shopping city where you can easily buy foreign goods. There are many parks and entertainment facilities around the Workers’ New Town, Moscow’s largest playground, the most modern theater, elementary schools, middle schools and the new campus of Moscow University, and even artificial ski resorts. This is far from the neat and uniform living quarters in the Khrushchev era. He has quickly become a fully functional satellite city within Moscow City. The Moscow City Government even considered upgrading him to a new administrative district of Moscow City.

Anyone with a discerning eye understands that the new head of the Workers’ New City project will be an excellent political springboard. Those who can get this position will definitely become the key training targets of the central government. The former head of this project, Sergei Sha, is only 24 years old. Climbed to a deputy ministerial level cadre, and even Secretary Gorbachev personally fought for him the position of a member of the Central Committee at the regular personnel arrangement meeting of the Central Committee. If Sergei Shah was too young, this would happen in all likelihood. It's done.

　　 Those cadres who are most interested in this position are naturally concentrated in the Central Committee. Those cadres who served as members of the Central Committee and alternate members of the Central Committee have stepped into the highest level of the Soviet political ecology with one foot. Most of them served as the top officials of the internal states of the Soviet republics, such as the state party secretary of Gorky Oblast. Member of the Central Committee. But not all members of the Central Committee are eager for this position. Those who have already taken refuge in the Central Committee of a certain tycoon are not very cold with the olive branch thrown by Gorbachev, and some have reached the retirement age. Naturally, he was not so eager. Only those Central Committee members who were eager to go further and had no background were the targets of Gorbachev.

　　 Yeltsin, the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk Oblast, was such a person. After Yeltsin, who was fifty years old, became a member of the Central Committee three years ago, he was never able to go further in his official career. Yeltsin has now been the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk Oblast for nearly ten years, and Ryzhkov, who is only one year older than him, is now a member of the Politburo Standing Committee. Both Ryzhkov and Yeltsin were cadres from the Sverdlovsk region. When Yeltsin became the first secretary of the regional party committee, Ryzhkov was still a heavyweight in the Ural region of Sverdlovsk region. The general manager of the machinery factory was just an industrial cadre, but Yeltsin would never have thought that he would have been standing there for nearly ten years. Now every time Yeltsin sees Ryzhkov, his heart will feel a lot of emotion and melancholy.

　　 Yeltsin is always waiting for his own opportunity. After the staff in Gorbachev’s office revealed that the Workers’ New City project will change hands, Yeltsin instinctively felt that his opportunity had come. Yeltsin is familiar with all the backgrounds of the hundreds of members of the Central Committee. Although the competition seems to be fierce on the Workers’ New City project, the Central Committee members who bear the deep Brezhnev stigma on them and those who rely on them are eliminated. In addition to the other members of the Central Committee, Secretary Gorbachev did not have much choice. And Yeltsin has an unparalleled identity and background among these people.

　　 Yeltsin is a cadre born in Sverdlovsk Oblast. He was born into a peasant family. After graduating from high school, he was admitted to the Department of Architecture of the Ural Institute of Technology. After graduating from university, Yeltsin became an expert in construction engineering. Has always worked in the construction department of the Sverdlovsk region and the Southern Urban Construction Trust Construction Administration. Before Yeltsin served as the first secretary of the Sverdlovsk region party committee, he had been in charge of industry and urban construction in the Sverdlovsk region. Over the past few decades, Yeltsin’s professional background and work background obtained through conscientious study and work are definitely not comparable to those of laymen. Yeltsin is absolutely confident that he can prove to Secretary Gorbachev that he is absolutely. The most suitable candidate.

But Yeltsin didn’t know how to clear the way for Secretary Gorbachev, because he had been working and living in Sverdlovsk Oblast, and after being elected to the Central Committee, he only came to Moscow once a month, but Yeltsin still failed to accumulate many relationships and outlets in Moscow. If this kind of proactive investment does not follow the path of an official Gorbachev absolutely trusts, it might have a bad impact. Although Ryzhkov was a good way, Yeltsin couldn't hold back anyway to ask Ryzhkov.

"It's difficult! It would be nice if Ulyanov, the current head of Workers' New City, could even recommend him! This person is really capable! He helped Ural Heavy Machinery Plant win Als during negotiations in the UK a few months ago. The part of the steam turbine technology transferred by Tongtong~www.readwn.com~ is one of the key technologies of the Su-Ou Natural Gas Project!" Yeltsin could not help feeling.

"Wait! Ural Heavy Machinery Plant! Steam Turbine! I have a solution!" Yeltsin was brainstorming while feeling melancholy, but suddenly realized that the steam turbine project at Ural Heavy Machinery Plant had already started production, so what should be done. Send an invitation letter to the leader of this project, Comrade Ulyanov! As long as you invite him to Sverdlovsk Oblast and find a chance to have a good relationship with him, then the Workers’ New City may really fall into your hands. At that time, I can take advantage of the Workers' New City project to go further in the official career.

　　 Thinking of this, Yeltsin immediately called and contacted the person in charge of the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant and asked them to postpone the launch ceremony of the steam turbine for a few days. Then he called his secretary and asked him to use the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant and the Sverdlovsk Oblast to give Ulyano, the assistant minister of the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation and the chief negotiator of the Soviet-European Gas Project. Comrade Husband sent an invitation letter inviting him to attend the commissioning ceremony of the Ural Heavy Machinery Plant steam turbine project, and must sign Yeltsin’s name at the end of the invitation letter.