Chapter 221 Tbilisi Railway Station Bombing
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Hassan's action was already very fast, but he still missed. Jamsahuldia cunningly escaped Hassan's pursuit and left his hiding place ahead of time. Hassan's men finally returned without success, and Hassan had no choice but to report the incident to Serge Sha.
Sergesha noticed the passport issue that Hassan mentioned on the phone. The Georgian opposition leader holds an American passport, which means that the Americans have already intervened in the chaos in Georgia and want to fish in troubled waters. Seryozha immediately felt a headache. If the US government was involved in the Abkhaz issue, those people like Hassan would definitely not be their opponents.
Seryosha asked Hassan to continue to win over the Abkhaz minority factions and strengthen the attack on the opposition. In addition, he asked Hassan to send his henchmen to send those passports and other evidence to Moscow.
During the phone call, as soon as Seryozha knew about the passport, he originally planned to let the "Komsomolskaya Pravda" expose the matter. But Seryozha thought about it again. I am afraid it is not appropriate to do this. Once the higher authorities ask how these evidences come from, it is possible to investigate Hassan’s activities in Georgia. In any case, gang activities are severely cracked down by the Soviet government. Object, although his merits are enough to go to the Kremlin to receive a medal, but Hassan's matter is still out of the question. So Seryozha can only find a way to hand over these things to the KGB. Only in this way can the higher authorities pay attention.
Seryozha waited in Moscow for a day, and Hassan's confidants returned to Moscow with evidence such as the list and passports found from Gamsakhurdia's residence. Under the arrangement of Seryozha, the Leningrad branch of the KGB obtained these evidences, and soon this matter was known to Dzerzhinsky Square at No. 11 Lubyanka. Immediately afterwards, the Politburo also grasped the situation.
Gorbachev convened his colleagues to revisit the Georgia issue. In the face of new evidence, the Politburo of the CPSU Central Committee no longer believed that this was a purely ethnic conflict, but a political crisis in which Western reactionary forces attempted to split the Soviet Union in an organized and planned manner. Faced with this situation, the Soviet central government must make a strong counterattack.
The meeting took a total of half an hour to reach an agreement. One is to allow Abkhazia to hold a referendum on whether to separate from Georgia and join the Soviet Union or become part of the Russian Republic. The second is to declare the Georgian opposition as an illegal organization, and to issue a nationwide arrest warrant for its leader Gamsakhurdia and others. These two important resolutions were sent overnight to the four major Soviet official newspapers, radio stations and television stations, and broadcast to the people of the whole country. Msahurdia and others carried out arrests.
This sudden decision made the Georgian opposition, which had been extremely arrogant, disappear immediately. The Georgian government, authorized by the central government, began to hunt down the opposition, and the Abkhaz Autonomous Prefecture also began to brew a referendum. In the Abkhaz State Committee, several members of the Standing Committee openly declared to the public that they would support Abkhazia as a part of Russia.
This made Abkhazia's ethnic minorities rejoice. Because once Abkhazia was freed from the control of the Georgians, the local Georgians did not dare to be so arrogant anymore. Once joined in Russia, everyone is a minority, who is better than whom?
Seryozha has been paying attention to the developments in Georgia. Seeing that the indecisive Gorbachev finally hardened up, Seryozha feels that the Georgian issue can finally come to an end. He called Hassan back from Georgia, leaving only some of Hassan's men to continue to maintain the underground order in Abkhazia and avoid the counterattack of the Georgian opposition before the referendum.
Although it is the coldest season in the Soviet Union, in order to complete the infrastructure construction of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone as soon as possible, Sergesha let his construction army carry out infrastructure construction on the planned special zone land against the wind and snow. The current task is mainly to level the land, build roads, and prepare for larger-scale construction after the beginning of spring. Seryozha has found the first large-scale project, which is the large-scale construction of Western Petroleum Corporation and American Enron Corporation in Leningrad. For the petrochemical project, they will process the high-quality oil produced by the Glencore Group's Samotloor oil field, and use it to occupy the European market. The first phase of the entire project invested 20 billion U.S. dollars. In addition, a natural gas pipeline from Tyumen to Leningrad has also been put on the agenda. With this natural gas pipeline, foreign energy companies can use LNG. The ship directly buys natural gas from here and then ships it away. Seryozha's plan has not only won the favor of American and European investors, but even the Nordic neighbors Sweden, Norway, and Finland, which have always been at odds with the Soviet Union, are all interested in this plan. Interested, they also have abundant natural gas resources. They intend to connect domestic natural gas pipelines with the Soviet Union to supply the European market together. At that time, natural gas from these three countries can be directly transported to Italy in southern Europe through pan-European natural gas pipelines. country.
This grand plan made the Baltic countries interact. As the head of oil and gas in the Soviet Union, Chernomyrdin began to frequently visit the Baltic countries, and devoted himself to various negotiations for the European natural gas business.
Seryozha focused on the infrastructure construction of the Leningrad Special Economic Zone, ignoring Abkhazia. The referendum in the Abkhaz Autonomous Region began as scheduled. At this moment, Gamsakhurdia, who had not been seen for a long time, read a statement to all Georgia through the underground illegal radio station. In this statement, Gamsakhurdia announced that the Georgian opposition had established the Central Committee of Georgia. The committee does not recognize the current Georgian government and calls on the Georgian people to stand up against the Soviet government's attempts to split Georgia. At the same time, Gamsakhurdia also denied the fact that he holds passports from the United States and Europe, and his father Konstantin also testified for his son on the radio.
Not long after this broadcast was sent out, a bomb placed in the luggage in advance exploded in the waiting hall of the Tbilisi Railway Station in the center of Tbilisi, the capital of Georgia. After the explosion, an unknown person who claimed to be The Abkhaz Truth organization claimed responsibility for the incident.