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The peaceful handover was completed just in 1949. Although Sverdlov was very rare and unwilling to accept it, he knew that his general trend was going on, so he didn't struggle. In this regard, Xiao Si's ethics were still good. Unlike some people who knew that there was no chance but had to deliberately make bad things. Xiao Si did not do this. He accepted this fact calmly and officially began to enter the power handover procedures.
However, this time the power transfer was a bit strange. First of all, the Soviet political system was about to change. Previously, the nominal head of state was the Supreme Chairman of the Soviet Union, but in fact, the chairman of the People's Committee, and the general secretary of the Party was a little embarrassed. Whether in charge of party affairs or government affairs, it seemed a bit embarrassing.
Of course, this is also in the Soviet tradition. At that time, Lenin was embarrassed because the tutor had never been a member of the Party Secretary. However, because of the existence of the Political Bureau, the power of the General Secretary was actually dispersed. If the General Secretary did not serve as the Chairman of the People's Committee, it would be a blank space, just a little stronger than the Chairman of the Soviet Union.
Because the Chairman of the People's Committee was in charge of government affairs and had great administrative power, he became the actual ruler. Of course, the Chairman of the People's Committee, Xiao Si, was indefinitely counted because of the intervention of Li Xiaofeng and Lu Zutak, he was suspected of being undermined and seemed so powerless.
If Li Xiaofeng wanted to take over according to the Soviet tradition, he should be the chairman of the People's Committee and the chairman of the army and the committee, which would be awesome. However, Li Xiaofeng thought that he could formulate policies, but it would be a bit difficult to implement the Prime Minister's work in specific governance, and this guy was a bit lazy and didn't like the position of the Prime Minister as the steward.
In other words, even if Li Xiaofeng came to power, he had no intention of becoming the chairman of the People's Committee. This anti-Soviet traditional willingness brought certain problems to the current system. Before, everyone agreed that the chairman of the People's Committee was *oss, but now Li Xiaofeng does not want to be the chairman of the People's Committee, which makes people a little confused about who is the core of the leadership.
As the saying goes, if the name is not upright, the words are not right. Li Xiaofeng's personal wishes make the whole party feel awkward. He feels it is necessary to design a position to correct the name of a certain immortal. At least it cannot make people feel that the next chairman of the People's Committee is the boss, which is too embarrassing.
At least Gubischoff, who has been appointed as the chairman of the next People's Committee, will be very embarrassed. In order to avoid this embarrassment, he must create a position that is in line with a certain immortal, and this position cannot cause too much interference to the original political system of the Soviet Union. This is very troublesome.
After intense discussion and research, the Supreme Bureau of the Soviet Union made an unanimous decision to amend the Soviet Constitution and create the position of President of the State. The owner of this position will be the head of state of the Soviet Union. Only after the bill signed by the President of the State has a legal effect, and the President of the State should nominate the candidates for the President of the People's Committee to the Soviet Union.
This plan avoids embarrassing situations well, and indirectly clarifys the importance of the president above the prime minister. Of course, this approach is not without problems, that is, the constitution must be amended, and constitutional amendment is never easy. According to the current legal system of the Soviet Union, the revised version of the draft constitution must first be formulated to the whole people, and then passed by the Soviet plenary meeting with an absolute majority of three-quarters. This set of procedures is not enough.
But the good news is that it is only 1949, and there is enough time to amend the Constitution. Interestingly, after the idea of establishing a president of the state was proposed, the Soviet Union did not object, but felt that the title of president of the state was too lousy, because there were too many so-called presidents of the Soviet Union. The Supreme Bureau of the Soviet Union had a chairman, and the leader of the People's Committee was also a chairman, and all three were chairman, and the dignity of the president of the state could not be shown.
At that time, there was a suggestion that the boss of the Soviet Union would change his name, such as the president, the head of power, and the ruler, were obviously the boss's name. However, this suggestion was ruthlessly rejected by Li Xiaofeng, because this suggestion made him think of the map head. Ge Map also changed himself to the name of the president of the Soviet Union. What was the result? It was killed by Russian President Yeltsin. It was really unlucky. Moreover, the Americans were presidents, and we, the Soviet Union, also had a president, and always felt that we were copycats. As for the head of state, this made Li Xiaofeng think of the beard. He thought that the president of the country was good, so don't mess around.
Well, who made Li Xiaofeng fall in love with the President of the State?*oss said, then that's it. Of course, this is not to say that there is no change, but to change the way of change. We the Soviet Union will have one chairman, and the other people's committees and the two chairmans of the Supreme Presidium of the Soviet Union will change it!
Among them, the chairman of the People's Committee was changed to the chairman of the People's Committee, which actually meant the same. The Supreme President of the Soviet Union was changed to the Secretary-General of the Supreme Executive Committee of the Soviet Union. In this way, the difference in levels was revealed.
However, when this plan was reported to Li Xiaofeng, he was shot again. Li Xiaofeng felt that this was completely nonsense and was completely unnecessary. Just imagine, adding a president of the country would be very creative, and he also changed the People's Committee and the Supreme Soviet Bureau. Damn, Lenin, Trotsky, the creators of the current system are still alive! This change does not mean that all the things of the older generation will be overturned. Isn't this arousing hatred?
Li Xiaofeng felt that Xu Ming was useless. Even if he did not have the title of President of the country and the title of Chairman of the People's Committee, he was not the core of the Soviet leadership. Compared with real power, these names are all intimidating.
So Li Xiaofeng immediately shot the proposal, thinking that it would be better to keep it true. However, the Political Bureau also joined in at this time. After some discussion, the Chairman of the People's Committee was changed to the Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, while the Chairman of the Supreme President of the Soviet Presidium remained unchanged. Because the Political Bureau was approved, Li Xiaofeng didn't say much, so he agreed.
At least Lenin's old revolutionary generation, although it is not ruled out that a small number of people gossiped about what happened before liberation, all prime ministers were capitalist. However, this kind of opinion was a minority after all. Except for a small number of old stubborn people, everyone was not particularly sensitive to the issue of name. Anyway, as long as they did not reduce their wages, they would not bother with how your ruling class changed their names!
So the proposal to change the name was quickly passed. By the second half of 1949, Sverdlov was honored to become the first president of the Soviet Union and the people's prime minister, which was also the last comfort to him.
But to be honest, these two names are only symbolic, what should they do or what should they do.
After the problem of name was resolved, the Soviet Union was happily ready to welcome the Li Xiaofeng era. However, for a certain immortal, in addition to being a little happy, there was more pressure. The head of state is not so easy to be a head of state. No matter how much credit you have made before, the people will scold you as long as their life is not as good as expected. Li Xiaofeng does not want to be in a late life without any protection.
The Soviet Union had to face only a few issues. The first is economic issues. This is a cliché. Even after four years, the Soviet Union has not yet fully emerged from the shadow of the Patriotic War. Of course, this does not mean that the Soviet Union's economy has not developed, but that the Soviet Union's economy is a little worse than the prosperous 1930s and seems to be insufficient in motivation.
Li Xiaofeng was not particularly worried about this issue, because it was inevitable to reform the Soviet economic model. The experiment conducted by Poland was quite successful. Poland's economy improved greatly in just one year, and workers' dissatisfaction disappeared. Given the success of Poland's new model, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Austria are ready to follow up. If the economies of these countries improve in another year, then the Soviet Union will start reforming according to the will of course.
Compared with economic issues, what Li Xiaofeng is more worried about is the strong rise of the Americans. As the biggest winner of World War II dividends, Americans' development after World War II has also entered the fast lane. The strong economic strength makes the United States easy to do anything. The development of high-tech industry can be said to be a thousand miles a day. Americans have made great progress in atomic energy, electronics industry and metallurgy, and have gradually caught up with the Soviet Union in atomic energy, especially in civil nuclear power projects, Shanghai led the Soviet Union, and was just a shortcut in military use. As for the electronics industry and metallurgy industry, except for some projects, it can almost be said to be ahead of the Soviet Union in all respects. Although it is not much ahead, considering the US's economic capabilities, its potential is immeasurable.
Let me put it this way, the Americans have wiped out some of the first-mover advantages that Li Xiaofeng brought to the Soviet Union before. If the Soviet Union's economy does not improve greatly and cannot invest huge investments, it will only take a few years for the United States to surpass it in full. This means that once the Americans break through the window paper of thermonuclear weapons, it means that the United States will shift from the strategic stalemate of World War II to a strategic offensive. In the future confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union, the United States will no longer tolerate it, but will choose an aggressive strategy.
At this time, the Soviet Union had not yet completely digested the results of World War II victory, and there were still unstable factors in a series of regions including the Middle East, the Balkans, Asia and other regions. For example, there were still Iran, Israel, and Türkiye problems in the Middle East, Japan problems in Asia, and Yugoslavia problems in the Balkans.
Once the United States launches a counterattack on these Soviet strategic weaknesses, it will be difficult for the Soviet Union to choose. Not giving in would mean head-on conflicts, and the Soviet Union does not have much chance of winning in this regard; and choosing to give in would mean spit out a portion of the fat meat it had eaten, which is something the Soviet Union would not want to see and intolerable.
In fact, the Soviet Union not only had to face the external threats brought by imperialism such as the United States, but it was not a monolithic part within the camp. Central and Eastern European countries, including Poland and other countries, also hoped to achieve normalization, rather than exist as puppets of the Soviet Union, so the leaders of these countries were also intrigueing with the leaders of the Soviet Union, and they tried every means to play the edge. Anyway, it was annoying.
Not only social but also socialist camps, but also within the Soviet Union. The religious and ethnic issues in Central Asia and some border areas bordering Turkey are also relatively serious. The religious policies formulated by Li Xiaofeng in the past greatly damaged the interests of some mullahs and chiefs, and these people tried every means to rebel and cause trouble for the Soviet government. Moreover, there have been shadows of foreign interference forces, including MI6 and MI6.
This issue cannot be underestimated. Once it is handled improperly, the Soviet Union's Central Asian territory will become a pot of porridge. Now Li Xiaofeng must also think carefully about how to deal with this difficult trouble.
Of course, these problems are many and complicated, and it can even be said to be complicated. It is unlikely to solve them quickly. Li Xiaofeng is also mentally prepared for this. He is ready to solve problems one by one from easy to difficult, and the problem that is the first to bear the brunt is the so-called Japanese problem.
Some comrades may ask, what other problems can Japan have? A defeated country dares to challenge the Soviet Union? This is to start from the beginning. Japan was divided into two before, and Hokkaido established the Soviet puppet state of the Hokkaido. Although this Hokkaido holds the sign of the Hokkaido, there are not many pure blood Sokkaido, and there are still many Japanese in Hokkaido.
Some of this group of devils were deeply poisoned by militarism and were very aware of the Japanese subject. Some of them were colluding with imperialism and causing trouble in Hokkaido almost every day, which made a bad impact. The nominal consultant sent by the Political Bureau to be the People's Republic of the Essay, was actually a pure academic school. It really seemed very fleshy to deal with such practical problems, so the matter was getting bigger and bigger.
Before, Li Xiaofeng was busy fighting with Sverdlov, but he really didn't care about the Essay. Now Sverdlov has raised his hand to admit defeat, which gives Li Xiaofeng the energy to deal with the Essay problem. In fact, this problem is also easy to solve. Just replace a strong governor to take charge. What makes Li Xiaofeng more troublesome is the candidate issue.
It’s not that there are no candidates, but that there are too many candidates, because the hawks who want to choose hawks and go to the strong market to choose people from the military. After a World War II, there were more than a dozen marshals in the Soviet Union. These marshals were so idle in the country that they all wanted to find something to do. When they heard that they could go to the Españo to be powerful, they were all "excited"... (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!