Struggle in Soviet Russia

The ringing of the phone rang, interrupting Victor's thoughts. He put down the pen in his hand, judged it for a moment, and then his face straightened, he quickly reached out and took the red telephone.

Holding the handset of the telephone, Victor coughed dryly and cleared his throat. Then he grabbed the handset, put it to his ear, and said, "Hello, Comrade Stalin, this is Victor..."

"Have you read the 16031 intelligence?" Comrade Stalin's obviously angry voice came from the receiver of the phone. He didn't wait until Victor finished speaking, so he asked directly.

Victor was silent for a moment, and quickly passed through his mind. He quickly found the information about this number and recalled the content. Then he said: "I have read it, Comrade Stalin, I think it comes from the content of this information. Look, German fascism has become hysterical."

"Very good," Comrade Stalin said on the phone, "Now, you immediately bring this information to my office."

After speaking, he hung up without waiting for Victor to say anything.

With a long sigh, Victor hung up the phone quickly, then took the black phone again and shook the handle.

The operator's voice soon came on the phone, and Victor said directly, "Take Comrade Sophia's office," without waiting for the other person to speak.

The call was quickly connected. When Sophia's voice came out of the phone receiver, Victor couldn't wait to say: "Bring all the information from Kiev in the last two days, immediately."

After speaking, he hung up the phone without waiting for Sophia to say more.

"What's the matter?" Nino, who just came out of the lounge, asked with a look of surprise.

"I need to go to the Kremlin," Victor stood up from his chair, put away the papers on the table, and said, "Get the military uniform for me."

"Okay," Nino nodded, turned around and walked back to the lounge. After a while, he took out a straight military uniform.

Victor walked around from behind the desk, and just walked to the door of the lounge, he heard someone knock on the door twice, and then Sophia hurriedly walked in with a stack of documents.

"What's the matter?" Sophia asked curiously when he first saw Victor.

"Comrade Stalin wants to know about 16031," Victor said, stopping at the entrance of the lounge, "I need to know all the information related to this intelligence in the last two days."

The so-called "16031 intelligence" was a top-secret intelligence sent back by the Kiev Intelligence Station two days ago. This intelligence station involved an order issued by Manstein, commander of the German Army Group Southern Army.

According to this order, during the retreat of the German army in the area east of the Dnieper River, it must implement a scorched earth policy, destroy all buildings that can be destroyed; blow up all bridges, roads, and railways that can be blown up; plunder all food, livestock, and belts. Those who do not leave will be burned; all factories, mines, dams and other facilities will be blown up.

In this order, Manstein even listed the dams that must be blown up on the five rivers. The purpose was to change the direction of the Soviet army's advancement into a piece of land, so as to delay the pursuit of the Soviet army.

If nothing goes wrong, Comrade Stalin must have been angered by this order issued by the German army. He should want to know about the German army in the direction of Ukraine and the implementation of this order, and then determine what retaliation measures should be taken.

After hearing Victor's words, Sophia did not hesitate, and immediately picked out two copies from the documents he carried, and read them for him in a clear but fast tone.

Victor returned his military jacket with Nino's help, and frowned as he listened to Sofia's report.

It must be admitted that in the early days of the war, the German Wehrmacht was somewhat dignified, and their style of conduct was somewhat different from the notorious SS. But to this day of the war, the German Wehrmacht's military dignity has also been lost, and they have begun to turn their guns at civilians, toward destruction and destruction.

According to the latest intelligence reported by Sophia, the German army has blown up the dam on the Sura River, causing a large area from Gorky City to Vasilisulsk to be flooded, and tens of thousands of civilians have been displaced. At the corner, a large number of drowned civilian corpses piled up.

There is no doubt that the war conducted in this form is no longer a simple war, but a crime against humanity. With this crime laid there, any form of revenge by the Soviet army later cannot be regarded as a crime. Excessive.

Keeping Sofia's report in mind, Victor changed his coat and took Sofia out of the office and drove to the Kremlin. On the way, Sofia would continue her reporting work until she arrived in the Kremlin.

Twenty minutes later, Victor’s car stopped in front of Comrade Stalin’s white office building. When he got off the car, Victor saw several cars from the General Staff in the parking lot in front of the building. Fowski’s car is also here.

Victor did not go directly upstairs, but went to Poskrebeshev's office first.

Fortunately, Poskrebeshev happened to be staying in his office. When he saw Victor walk into the office, the secret comrade stood up with a serious face, hurried to the office door, and reached out to close the door first. He said quickly: "Comrade Stalin is going to replace Vatutin and transfer Comrade Rokosovsky to Kiev to command the Ukrainian First Front."

Victor was taken aback, and then he felt a headache.

Beginning half a month ago, the Ukrainian First Front Army under the command of Vatutin launched an offensive campaign aimed at liberating Kiev. According to the combat plan formulated by the Vatutin Field Commander’s organization, the front army plans to move from Burke south of Kiev. The forest landing field launched the main assault, while the auxiliary assault was launched in Liujieri, north of Kiev.

At this time, the Ukrainian 1st Front Army can be said to have many soldiers. The 13th Army under the command of Lieutenant General Pukhov, the 60th Army under the command of Lieutenant General Chernyakhovsky, and the commanded by General Moskalenko. The 38th Army, the 40th Army under the command of Lieutenant General Zimachenko, the 27th Army under the command of Lieutenant General Trofimenko, there is also a 47th Army and a Guards Tank 3rd Army as a reserve, plus one Air Force 2nd Army provides air support.

But with such a huge corps, the two offensives were repelled by the Germans. In more than half a month, the Ukrainian First Army had obtained a small teetering position at the Bucklin Landing Field. There is no further progress.

Before, Comrade Stalin was quite dissatisfied with the small group of the General Staff. Now that this situation has appeared again, it is no wonder that he took the opportunity to go wild. One thing that is certain is that once Vatutin is removed from Ukraine. If the position of the commander of the front army is taken down, then his next destiny will definitely not be better.

But to be honest, Victor also disagrees with Vatugin. This guy is a man who can only fight the wind. He is impatient, impatient and without self-knowledge. He is talking about this guy.

But the problem now is that the direction of Kiev is tense. At this moment, if the front army-level commander is directly removed, it will definitely cause some bad effects. What's more, Vatutin is only commanding the battle and not causing it. Major failure.

From this, Victor thought that Comrade Stalin at this time was not necessarily angry at the order given by Manstein. He was probably planning to take advantage of the problem and use the serious harm caused by the German order to report to the General Staff. put pressure on.

"Comrade Stalin needs the National Security People's Committee to provide evidence to support his views," Poskrebeshev put his hand on the doorknob and said in a low voice.

This sentence made Victor not only a headache, but also a little embarrassed.

Hearing what Boskrebeshev said, it seems that Comrade Stalin removed Vatutin and replaced it with Rokosovsky’s proposal, which was resisted by the General Staff. It is hardly possible that this is a tearing face. Yet?

Comrade Stalin needs evidence provided by the National Security People’s Committee to support his proposal to replace Vatutin. What does this mean? Is it to mark Vatutin as a traitor or a German spy? If this is the case, then things can get bigger.

No, Comrade Stalin is a veteran old politician. When he was playing politics, Victor’s predecessor was still playing in the mud. Therefore, this kind of thing that Victor seemed to be very unreliable would certainly not do. of.

That is to say, what Comrade Stalin needs is to take Vatutin from the position of "Kiev Liberator", and at the same time, to support Rokosovsky, who has always been incompatible with the General Staff.

Comrade Stalin did not need to raise Rokosovsky to a high level. He only needed someone to come out to disperse the prestige of those in the General Staff. As for why this candidate was Rokosovsky. , Victor couldn't figure it out.

To be honest, the "evidence" that Comrade Stalin needed was not so easy to find, but Victor really had a reason in his hands.

Just two weeks ago, Vatutin’s younger brother had just died in a battle in Ukraine, and last month, his own brother had just been attacked and killed by a nationalist guerrilla in Ukraine. In two months, one of Vatutin's brothers died one after another.

So, in this case, how could Comrade Vatutin's personal emotions not be affected? Therefore, will the grief caused by the death of hatred and relatives affect his rationality as a front army commander?