General Secretary
Names: General SecretaryMikhail SemyonovichComrade General SecretaryComrade SecretaryCommie leader
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 42 (20)
Appearances
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What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 42He travelled personally to Alma-Ata to meet Tamara, showing a populist style and shrewdness in handling nonconformist scientists.
- Ch 42He fears that peace will expose the Soviet Union's economic failings and ethnic disunity, and that popular expectations of disarmament will lead to catastrophe.
- Ch 56The General Secretary praises the Metapsychic Congress and lists world problems including plague in Africa, terrorism and the controversy over operant persons.
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 42General Secretary visits Tamara in Alma-Ata
The General Secretary visits Tamara, learns she spied on world leaders, and receives her portfolio proposing a psychic-observer corps, discussing the Politburo's reaction and the risks of the coming peace.
- Book 1 · Ch 56Assassination plot at the speech
As the General Secretary's speech winds down, Finster, controlling Sergei's body, prepares to kill him on television, a plan that would benefit both O'Connor and Kumylzhensky.
- Book 1 · Ch 56Delegates destroy Finster
As Finster approaches the General Secretary with the bouquet, the audience's minds meld into metaconcert, with Remillard and Tamara trying to hold back, and incinerate him. Sergei dies watching.