Struggle in Soviet Russia

As he went downstairs, Victor was still thinking about the reaction of Comrade Beria on the phone.

How to say it, at least from the tone of voice, this old leader whose power has been taken away by more than half still speaks with his usual enthusiasm. He congratulated Victor on his promotion and then told him. After arriving in a new position, you must be diligent and cautious. From Victor's personal feelings, he couldn't hear anything unusual.

But even so, Victor is still very clear that from now on, it is impossible for himself and Beria to go on the same path. Even if he gives up his dignity and goes to the past, his status cannot be compared with his cronies.

People, dignity is not important. The key is whether the choices you make have prospects when you give up your dignity. If you have it, your dignity is worthless, and if you don't, your dignity is more serious than Mount Tai.

In the living room downstairs, Sophia was sitting on the sofa with two people in the uniform of the NKVD, talking, hearing the sound of footsteps from the stairs, the two people turned their heads to look over, and waited to see that they were walking slowly. When Victor went downstairs, the two got up from the sofa like an electric shock, saluted quickly, and said, "Comrade committee members!"

Victor nodded with a smile, and didn't return the courtesy. He walked down the stairs unhurriedly. When he walked to the sofa, he smiled and said, "Let me guess..."

He looked at the middle-aged man on the sofa with a thin face, like a dry wood, and a two-centimeter long scar on his right cheek, and said: "You are Comrade Sergey Abramovich Zobnin. "

Immediately, his gaze shifted, and he looked at another middle-aged man who was well-proportioned and tall, and smiled: "You are Comrade Artem Alexandrovich Smolov."

After he finished speaking, a trace of embarrassment flashed across the faces of the two middle-aged men. Then, the thin-faced middle-aged man gave a light cough and said, "Oh, comrade committee member, this is Sergey Abramo. Comrade Vicki Zobnin."

"Huh?" Victor was stunned, and then laughed, "I'm sorry, I made a mistake, oh, sit down, sit down and talk."

How could Victor recognize the wrong person, although he did not meet these two people, but he has seen their archives, and there are photos of them. The reason why he deliberately admits someone wrong is actually hitting each other with this, that means "I have been in the Far East for so many days, and you first showed up, and I don't know who you are anymore."

They were both adults. How could the two of them fail to hear Victor's sarcasm? They didn't dare to have any opinions, but felt a lot of pressure.

Regardless of what the two of them thought, Victor first sat down in front of the sofa, took a pack of cigarettes on the coffee table, drew a cigarette in his mouth, and shook the cigarette case towards the two of them, and asked: " Do you smoke?"

The two of them just got on the sofa. Hearing these words, they hurriedly got up again and said in unison: "Thank you, Comrade Committee Member. I don't smoke."

"Yeah," Victor nodded, holding the lighter in one hand, and swaying the other to the two, motioning them to sit down and talk.

"I have talked with Comrade Cherikov before," Victor said after lighting the cigarette and taking a sip. "I have some understanding of the situation in Khabarovsk and Binhai. Let’s take a look at the situation on Chita's side, but I haven’t found time to come. It just so happens that you are here today, and we can discuss it in depth."

It was another hidden thorn, which pierced the lung tubes of the two of them.

Zobnin opened his mouth, seeming to want to speak, but was taken a step ahead by Smolov next to him: "Comrade Committee members, Chita is a de facto border region, and at the same time, it is an area where ethnic minorities live together. The situation is more complicated. In addition, since the outbreak of the war, Chita has been a key area for recruiting soldiers from the Far East Front. Therefore, in terms of work arrangements..."

When Smolov introduced the situation, he strictly followed the "three-stage" report format: first set out the difficulties, then the main work done to overcome the difficulties, and finally the results achieved in the work. For more than half an hour, the situation of Chita was introduced very clearly.

Compared with other states in the alliance, the situation of the People's Committee of the Interior of Chita State is indeed special, because it is not only responsible for the work of Chita State, but also for the "cultural cleaning" of the two ethnic minorities. The two ethnic minorities are Buryat and Jewish.

The so-called "cultural clearance" is actually a kind of mandatory national integration. Since the 1930s, the Chita People’s Committee of the Interior has been doing this work. The Jews are relatively better, especially for the Burri At the time of the Yat ethnic group, a large number of Buryat ethnic intellectuals were purged, and the writing, history, music, religion, etc. of the ethnic group were forcibly annihilated. In the areas inhabited by this ethnic group, the NKVD cooperates with the People’s Committee of Education to promote Russian language, Russian history, and Russian culture.

It is also affected by this that the Chita People’s Committee of the Interior has a large management scope. In addition to Chita Prefecture and the Buryat National Autonomous Prefecture, there is also an enclave in Birobidzhan, which is a Jewish settlement. It is the so-called Jewish Autonomous Region.

Since the outbreak of the war, especially after the start of the Anglo-American assistance to the Soviet Union, Jews and Jewish organizations inside and outside the Union have vigorously promoted the "upgrade" movement of the Jewish Autonomous Region. To put it bluntly, it is the Alliance of Hope to upgrade the Jewish Autonomous Region to a member state. The Republic gives the same rights as the republics of the Union.

Moscow is now publicly stating that this issue requires careful study, but the order received by the NKVD is to closely monitor the activities of Jews and Jewish groups in the Far East. This work is the responsibility of the Chita NKVD. .

For this work, Victor has his own understanding: the Soviet Union recognized itself as a confederate country at least in the Constitution and in its external rhetoric, and no matter how it was implemented, at least in the provisions of the constitution, each member republic has the right to do so. Announced his withdrawal from the alliance.

In Victor’s previous life, the Soviet Union had three seats in the post-war United Nations. These three seats were held by Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine. This is the fundamental reason.

From this perspective, in fact, the disintegration of the latter period of the Soviet Union has hidden dangers in its constitution. Under the leadership of Comrade Stalin, the alliance has actually been weakening the autonomy of the republics. How could someone allow another republic dominated by Jews to appear?

It is precisely because of the different work priorities that the main work content introduced by Smolov is related to ethnic issues. In addition, it is the work done for conscription, and finally the construction of the intelligence network.

As an audience, um, to be precise, as the leader of listening to the report, Victor felt a very strange mentality when listening to Smolov's report.

Where is the weirdness? What position is Smolov? The person in charge of the intelligence work of the Chita NKVD is more in place. He is only the second-level leader responsible for a specific task in the Chita NKVD, and above him is the big leader Zobnin.

Imagine if it was Victor and Beria who were going to report to Comrade Stalin. Comrade Stalin said: "Please tell us about the recent work of the NKVD." Then Beria hadn’t spoken yet, but Victor rushed to say something. One pass, what will it be like? Needless to ask, Comrade Beria has to die him alive.

At the same time, will Comrade Stalin admire him for this? No, Comrade Stalin would only think he was unruly.

Now, this weird thing happened in the Chita NKVD, and it happened under Victor's nose, which made him doubt the work of the Chita NKVD.

Victor will never have an attitude of appreciation for Smolov. In his opinion, this person is too strong and domineering. Of course, it is not a bad thing to be strong at work, but he has to abide by the rules. But still showing such a strong presence in front of the leaders, and even not saving face to the direct leaders, is a manifestation of non-politics and a factor of instability.

Victor has just been appointed as the first deputy people’s commissar of the National Security People’s Committee, leading the intelligence work. Considering that after the merger of the work, the leadership of the local ministries and bureaus must be adjusted.

Considering this aspect, the reason Smolov rushed to speak may be because the department under his leadership will be transferred to the People's Committee of National Security in the future, while Zobnin is still a member of the People's Committee of the Interior. Therefore, in Smolov's eyes, Victor is his future leader, and Zobnin is an outsider.

Besides, there must be some contradictions before Smolov and Zobnin, and the two of them didn't deal with them in the past, which may be the reason why he rushed to speak.

But if you think about it from this aspect, Victor's impression of him will only be lower, because it shows that this guy is a white-eyed wolf, who belongs to the kind of person who climbs up and down, and no leader likes this kind of person.

Compared with Smolov, Victor’s feeling for Zobnin is not very good. For nothing else, because this person lacks self-confidence, he was robbed of the opportunity to speak by his subordinates, and he never thought of taking the initiative again. return.

Of course, this may also be because Zobnin is not interested in being transferred to the National Security People’s Committee, so he has no desire to show in front of Victor. For Victor, since others are not interested in himself, what else can he say?

To put it bluntly, Viktor has actually entered his new role. He is selecting suitable people to build the structure of the People’s Committee for National Security in the Far East. However, the two people in front of him are obviously not suitable for him. Mind.