How did Brezhnev, who had no background and mediocre ability, drove Khrushchev out of **?
In October 1964, Khrushchev announced on the radio station that the news of ** surprised the whole world, and what was even more surprising was that he was replaced as the leader of the CPSU by the mediocre Brezhnev, the supreme leader of the Soviet Union for 11 years, why did Khrushchev announce without warning?And why was his successor Brezhnev, who was mediocre in the eyes of everyone?
In 1953, Stalin died, but the political legacy he left Stalin's system is still firmly rooted in the Soviet Union and even the entire socialist camp, as a special wartime system, the Stalinist system to the Soviet Union's national strength is obvious, and the disadvantages of this physique are increasingly evident in the continuous development of the Soviet Union, and now that Stalin died, naturally there are people who want to subvert the system he left behind, and Khrushchev is one of the representatives. In fact, when Khrushchev revealed this intention, he immediately won the support of many people, but if Khrushchev wanted to really change the Stalin system, his first step was to ascend to Stalin's throne first, as the first secretary of the CPSU, now there is only one person in front of Khrushchev, that is, Marinkov, but as Stalin's designated heir, how can Marinkov be an easy person?
Although Khrushchev's offensive was fierce, Malinkev immediately counterattacked, you must know that although Khrushchev's position as first secretary was very high, the Soviet Union spoke of the minority obeying the majority, and in the top leadership, Malinkov was overwhelming in the number of Khrushchev's supporters, so Malinkov hoped to directly overthrow this deviant first secretary through a high-level Politburo meeting. But at that time, Khrushchev immediately thought of a way to deal with it, that is, to drag it out, and drag it into a meeting of the Politburo of the Standing Committee, which was limited to all members of the Soviet Union.
Facts have proved that Khrushchev's decision is incomparably correct, and this struggle is ostensibly a struggle between Malinkev and Khrushchev for the supreme leadership of the Soviet Union, but in fact it is actually a struggle between the two factions of defending Stalin and overthrowing Stalin; in short, now Khrushchev believes that among all the members of the Soviet Union, there must be more people who support him, and in order to achieve this goal, Khrushchev first used his position as first secretary to change the scale of the meeting, and then in order not to give Malinkov and others a chance to react, Khrushchev began to send special planes to various parts of the Soviet Union, trying to recall all the members to Moscow in the shortest possible timeFinally, Khrushchev's efforts paid off, and his victory over Malinkov at the plenary session was almost crushing, and after this palace coup, Khrushchev became the supreme leader of the Soviet Union.
As mentioned before, the Stalin system was no longer suitable for the national conditions of the Soviet Union at that time, so after Khrushchev came to power, he took it as his responsibility to change this system, and the first step of reform was to start with the agricultural production of the Soviet Union. Khrushchev was widely known for his love of corn, and his reform of the Soviet economy and production revolved around corn, which as a Ukrainian had saved his homeland, so Khrushchev had an almost paranoid love for corn, and he sincerely hoped that this crop would save the Soviet Union as much as Ukraine had saved.
But the Soviet Union is different from Ukraine after all, its latitude is too high, the temperature is too low, the corn that can be harvested well in Ukraine is not even harvested in most of the territory of the Soviet Union, and the land that has been reclaimed and prepared for corn planting has actually become wasteland, and the people's lives have not changed for the better but worse, so although Khrushchev's agricultural reform was initially well-intentioned, the final result was that he gradually lost the support of the Soviet people. In addition to economic production, Khrushchev also made a big mistake in diplomacy, at that time Khrushchev actually hoped to mend relations with the United States and rule the world with it, this kind of behavior of abandoning a group of younger brothers directly made the prestige of the Soviet Union in the socialist camp countries at that time greatly reduced, and Khrushchev's death was not over, in order to mend the relations with Western Europe at that time, he began to reduce ** As for military funding, this act directly offended all the top echelons of the Soviet military, and even the KGB began to discourage the supreme leader of the Soviet Union.
If the above two things only laid hidden dangers for Khrushchev's **, then Khrushchev's reform of the **cadre tenure was the real fuse that pushed him. During the Stalin period, the tenure of all cadres in the Soviet Union was lifelong, especially after Stalin's death, and the ** in ** no longer had to worry about themselves being purged on a large scale. But now, Khrushchev suddenly announced that he wanted to change this lifelong term system, he hoped to carry out a wave of blood change in the Soviet political circles through the method of selection, and the first to be laid off and retired is an old man like Brezhnev, this news directly made the people who supported Khrushchev come to power in the first place**panic, as the Stalin period**, they know how difficult it is to climb to this position, originally thought that after the fall of Stalin, they could be in peace and stability in the corpse vegetarian meal** corruption, But you, Khrushchev, suddenly did this for me, didn't it cost me my life. So a storm against Khrushchev began to brew in the top of the Soviet Union, and the person they chose to replace Khrushchev was Brezhnev, speaking of Brezhnev, everyone's first impression of him was mediocrity, not only other people saw it this way, but even Khrushchev thought so.
On October 12, 1964, Khrushchev, who was enjoying his vacation happily on the Black Sea, suddenly received a call from Brezhnev, in which Brezhnev resignedly told Khrushchev that there was an agricultural problem and hoped to get the other party's instructions. But what Khrushchev didn't expect was that as soon as he got off the plane, he was immediately controlled by the KGB, and Khrushchev, who started with a palace coup, immediately sensed the conspiracy, but Brezhnev and others did not give Khrushchev any chance to resist at all.
On the afternoon of the 13th, a vigorous criticism meeting against Khrushchev began, Khrushchev at the meeting did not have any ability to talk back, he could only watch Brezhnev belittle him on the stage for nothing, just as he did to Stalin back then, and finally Khrushchev signed his name on the retirement notice, and this reformist who had been in power in the Soviet Union for 11 years withdrew gloomily. After Khrushchev**, he was replaced by Brezhnev, who would do nothing during the 18 years of his rule, during which Brezhnev can be said to have brought his mediocre attributes into full play. As soon as he came to power, he abolished all of Khrushchev's reforms, and even said that the Soviet Union did not need to reform, which made the Soviet Union very satisfied with the vegetarian meal at that time, as long as Brezhnev reigned for a day, they could enjoy it without scruples until they died of old age, which made the class solidification of the Soviet Union very serious.
In terms of economy, Brezhnev completely restored the Stalin system, for enterprises, no matter what their products are made, as long as they meet the target, they will be acquired in a unified manner, such a system directly stagnates the vitality of enterprises and the development of technology, the Soviet economy began to steadily decline, and the Western Europe and even our country are in a period of rapid economic growth at the same time, and the Soviet Union began to gradually lag behind the times, and finally irreversibly towards disintegration. Compared with Khrushchev and Brezhnev, the former is irritable and rude and thinks very highly of himself, the latter is gentle and relaxed and is a well-known good old man, while Khrushchev is a real revolutionary, although his ability is insufficient, his revolutionary spirit is unquestionable, and Brezhnev is just a mediocre speculator, and the Soviet Union was destroyed at his hands.