>>2812019I think he was talking as an individual in Gorby's position in terms of immediate actions to take.
>>2811998Ironically, I would promote Gromyko to the politburo in exchange for overall loyalty of old guard elements. The marked one historically betrayed him and it actually was one of the reasons he couldn't act that quickly & instead went for acceleration before perestroika.
Otherwise, since the goal is to "restalinize" the economic structure (read: Empower Gosplan to have for e of law directives over all other ministries, reduce/restrict/remove enterprise level investment decisions & supply chain decisions, sharply reduce enterprise profit retention, have all investment be done via loans from the state bank, move towards piece rate wages, start the process of having an independent quality control office, etc, etc.) the personnel changes would have be carefully considered:
O think you could lean on empowering Grigory Romanov to assure a base level of competence & limits to corruption. People like Kosolapov could be invited to the ideological department. My own favorite for high ranking military positions would be Akhromeyev.
One big challenge would be in how to reduce military related spending & especially reallocate some of the specialists into civil industrial innovation. Just flat austerity wouldn't do, you have to make strategic cuts. I think the is probably dome decent room to reduce ground forces. On the flipside, basically everything ballistics related has to continue to grow & expand because its hhe backbone of detterence.