Chapter 354： mafia

The crowd dispersed, and Andrei's mood has been unable to calm down. He wants to call Moscow now and tell Andropov that there are still serfs on the land of the Soviets. This is an independent kingdom. ! However, Andrei still held back. As the general secretary, Andropov is in charge of every day. It is too late now. Let's talk about it tomorrow.

Moreover, this place has already become like this. If Andropov has not noticed it, it means that the KGB organization here has also been corrupted, and it is colluding with the local government to deceive it.

"General Andre, our sisters have nowhere to go, we can't stay here, you just let us go with you." The next morning, the weather had become clear, and Andre was about to Returning to Tashkent, the two sisters came out of the adjacent room and pleaded with Andrei.

How to arrange this pair of sisters made Andre feel a little troubled. He originally wanted to find a local KGB agency to help arrange them. At their age, they should continue to go to school, but when I thought about it last night, maybe the local The KGB agency is also unreliable. It seems that I can only take them away first, but I don't know if Yekaterina will be angry if she finds out.

"Okay, you go to Tashkent with me first." Andrei said, "Are you willing to go to school?"

"General Andrea, we can do laundry and cooking, we can do anything, please don't drive us away." Sister Lilia had a pitiful expression.

Sister Lianna pulled her sister and said, "Okay, of course, we can do whatever the general arranges for us to do."

Last night, my own writer, the canvas-covered GAZ 69 was finally repaired. He also drove here and waited to pick up Andrei. Andrei got into the car, and the two sisters got into the back seat. Varissi watched. Arrived, only to sit in the front passenger seat.

With yesterday's experience, Andre deliberately kept an eye on it. The Mi-24 helicopter of Unit A was accompanied by the protection in the air, and it was going to return to Tashkent together anyway.

The car was bumping, and the bodies of the two sisters kept leaning on Andre's body, making Andre speechless for a while. If he knew, he would leave the car to the two sisters, and squeezed back in the helicopter. .

"General, last night you said that you want to rectify the order here. It's really good. Many people here are about to die. In the past, we were only forced to collect cotton, which made us miserable. Now, forcibly. Reclaiming the land will force us to death." Lianna said, her long eyelashes blinking, her big eyes staring at Andre.

"By the way, what's going on with this forcible collection of cotton?" Andre asked. The land here is fertile and the output of cotton is huge, but why is it forcibly expropriated?

"I don't know, in short, if we don't turn in enough cotton, people from the mafia come to beat and scold us. I have seen my neighbors being beaten and maimed." Lilia said, with fear in her eyes.

Cotton case? Andrei suddenly remembered this word in his mind. In history, Andropov vigorously punished corruption. One of the big cases was the cotton case in Uzbekistan!

Cotton is the main economic crop of the Republic of Uzbekistan, its sown area accounts for more than half of the country's farmland area, and its output accounts for 2/3 of the total cotton output of the Soviet Union. And Uzbek general secretary Rashidov, in order to cater to some corrupt leaders in Moscow, used cotton as capital to consolidate his power. From the late 1960s to the early 1980s, that is, during the years of Rashidov's reign, he formulated standards requiring Uzbekistan to turn over to the state at least 6 million tons of seed cotton each year.

If it's just his request, that's fine. The problem is that the top and the bottom are effective, and the cadres at all levels in the republic make false reports, and the annual cotton production is as much as 1 million tons! The state pays the money in full, so that the "heroes" from all walks of life will be full of fat and private pockets. And Rashidov won the post and medal of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, won the favor of Brezhnev.

And these, but the people of the lower classes suffer! I can't grow so much cotton in the first place, so I have to hand it in, and distribute it to everyone. In the eyes of these people, the people of the lower classes are like slaves!

But now, with Andropov's reforms, he is preparing to carry out reforms in land farming management, but these people have seized even more loopholes and madly sucked the wealth of the country and the people!

mafia! Such a dirty organization still exists on Soviet soil! The memories of later generations poured into Andre's brain like a tide.

In the Brezhnev era, the high-ranking Brezhnev created an environment of corruption unprecedented in history for the Soviet cadres. He not only restored the privileges of the abolished senior cadres, but also engaged in many new ones. In the Republic of Uzbekistan, this ethos has spread to all corners of the country! Uzbek Secretary Rashidov, Chairman of the Council of Ministers Hudai Berdiyev and other senior officials recruited many important officials of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and state and city leaders to form a huge corruption and theft group, which was called "black hand". party"!

Their organization network is similar to the "mafia" in Italy, and its activities are like mercury pouring into the ground, all-pervasive, and the black hands have reached almost every corner of the whole republic. The methods adopted are assassination, intimidation, blockade and complaint, turning Uzbekistan into their private territory. They are the landowners, and the people below are slaves!

Just later, Andropov made up his mind to punish and cover up. When the Uzbekistan Corruption Investigation Team entered this republic, it can be said that it was made difficult and threatened everywhere. The mafia even paid for the murderer, killing a member of the investigation team with a bounty of 150,000 rubles! How could such a thing happen on Soviet soil! The special investigation team established by Moscow has members from all over the Soviet Union to avoid local pressure and influence. Moreover, during the entire investigation period, the members of the investigation team were all in danger, facing the enemy. All are wearing body armor and are protected by armed police. For example, after the family members of the investigation team are exposed, they have to hide thousands of miles away to avoid retaliation by members of the "mafia".

These people are the cancer on the Soviet giant! Originally, Andrei came here only to deal with the Iran and Afghanistan issues and continue to open up a new situation for the Soviets. However, the reality forced Andrei to break the regulations of the military's non-interference in local affairs. I can't stand this corruption problem! Since you have encountered it, you must solve it!

and many more! Those villagers who ran to the base last night willingly? Andrei suddenly broke out in a cold sweat behind him.

"Quick, go to Yimia Village!" Andrei shouted. (To be continued.):