Struggle in Soviet Russia

In addition, Victor is more concerned about the point that Comrade Stalin clearly stated: The National Security People’s Committee should set up a special department to "protect" the army. Of course, this kind of protection is not to protect the army from attack, but to protect the army from attack. Infiltrated by hostile forces.

The term "protection" is very interesting, because from another perspective, protection is actually restriction and supervision. Just like once a person hires a bodyguard, he must keep the bodyguard by his side at all times, and even his itinerary will be interfered by the bodyguard.

Victor proposed that the investigation of the army should be led by the General Political Department and the National Security People’s Committee would cooperate, while Comrade Stalin proposed to establish a brand new army security bureau within the National Security People’s Committee, and related investigations should be protected by this army. The bureau will take the lead, and the General Political Department and the Editor-in-Chief Training Department will assist.

This reflects from one aspect that Comrade Stalin trusts the NKVD, at least for now, and this is obviously good news for Victor.

When Poskrebshev left the house, Victor tentatively asked: "Comrade Stalin, if we re-organize an army security bureau, is the time too hasty? In addition, once such a department is formed, who will be responsible? To be responsible for its specific work?"

"My opinion is that the Military Security Bureau can be jointly established by the National Security People’s Committee, the General Political Department, and the Chief Editor Training Department," said Comrade Stalin. They are mainly drawn from the General Political Department and the Editor-in-Chief Training Department."

Speaking of this, he stopped, tapped on the desktop with **** of his right hand, and said: "Considering the priority of the Army Security Bureau’s preliminary work, I hope you will be directly responsible for this department for the time being. , You need to think carefully about what work should be done next and how to do it well."

Although Comrade Stalin did not speak thoroughly, Victor understood what he meant.

What is the priority of advance work? Undoubtedly, Comrade Stalin’s idea is to require the Army Security Bureau to focus its preliminary work on the formation of the grassroots party committee of the army, rather than actually investigating spies, traitors and the like.

If nothing else, Comrade Stalin would not put forward the idea of ​​forming a party committee in the army now. Instead, he would ask Victor to do part of the work first, that is, to form a grassroots party committee in the troops under the Chief Editor's Training Department.

The Editor-in-Chief Training Department has a certain degree of military power. To be more specific, the base camp reserve team is in charge of the Chief Editor-in-Chief Training Department until there are no new deployment tasks.

For example, when the Soviet Army launched the Battle of Kursk, several fronts were brought together, and all fronts controlled a certain number of troops. After the Battle of Kursk, some army groups that have suffered heavy losses will be dragged to a certain place to rest and retreat, thus temporarily withdrawing from the combat sequence. At this time, the troops that were pulled to rest and reorganization belonged to the base camp, but the chief editor training department was actually responsible for reorganizing these troops.

In addition, some newly recruited troops, or troops transferred from Central Asia, Siberia, and the Far East, were in charge of the base camp, that is, the chief editor training department when they had not completed their frontline deployment.

To put it bluntly, the so-called base camp directly under the base camp reserve team is actually a reserve force on standby in the training department of the editor-in-chief.

On the front-line battlefield of the Soviet Union, those troops that continued to fight did not always keep on reorganizing. For example, the 62nd Army continued to fight in the Battle of Stalingrad and later went to the battlefield of the Battle of Kursk. This was not It is said that those people are always fighting, and the only thing that remains unchanged is the field commander organization of the group army and its unit designation. As for the soldiers in the group army, they don't know how many changes have been made.

Comrade Stalin's idea was to first implement the system of the grassroots party committee in the troops under the training department of the editor-in-chief, and wait until it has a certain degree of influence, and then fix it systematically.

In addition, the relationship between Serbakov and Comrade Zhdanov is extraordinary, while Shadenko is from the old cavalry army, and is a very experienced "old military head"-Marshal Tukhachevsky, almost It just died in his hands. Furthermore, the relationship between this person and Voroshilov, Budionni, and Timoshenko are extraordinary, and the relationship with Khrushchev is a bit unclear.

Bringing these two people in will undoubtedly weaken the resistance to the implementation of the party committee system to the greatest extent.

Politics is nothing more than collaborating, uniting all those who can be united, and fighting against dissidents.

Although Comrade Stalin has the supreme authority in today's alliance, he cannot force a motion that everyone opposes. After all, the risk is too high. Once everyone jumps out to oppose him, his authority will be hit too much.

"Yes, Comrade Stalin, I know what to do," Victor nodded, trying to understand Comrade Stalin's intentions.

Comrade Stalin nodded in satisfaction. He retracted his hand on the desk, leaned his upper body back, and leaned into the back of the seat. Then, he raised one hand and rubbed the wrinkled sideburns.

"You better take a break," Victor stood up, holding the general cap in his hand, and whispered, "There are more than two hours to go to Moscow, and I can take a nap."

Comrade Stalin didn't say anything, but nodded insignificantly.

Victor took a breath, put the general cap on his head, and made a military salute to the opponent before he walked quickly towards the door.

"What do you think of Comrade Nikita Sergeyevich's proposal?" Just as Victor was about to walk to the door of the carriage, Comrade Stalin suddenly asked from behind.

Victor paused, turned around, and after a moment of indulgence, he said, "Comrade Stalin, I think stability is above all else in the current New Liberated Area."

Comrade Stalin remained in the posture of rubbing his sideburns without saying anything, as if he was not asking the question just now.

Victor stayed there for a while, seeing that he didn't mean to speak any more, he turned and walked out of the carriage.

Carefully closing the door of the carriage, Victor turned around and saw Comrade Poskrebeshev sitting in a chair smoking a cigarette in the opposite carriage, with a newspaper on his lap.

Perhaps seeing him coming out, the comrade the big secret stood up and greeted him with a smile on his face.

"I always feel that Comrade Stalin is a little hastily," Victor said with a bitter smile when he met Boskrebeshev.

He didn't say that Comrade Stalin acted too hastily on anything. The key is to see how the other party responds to his words.

If Poskrebeshev asked him something, he would take the opportunity to bring up the party committee’s matter. In Viktor’s view, there is a tacit understanding between him and Poskrebeshev. Things should ventilate each other.

If Boskrebeshev does not ask, it means that Comrade Beatrix Stalin has already disclosed the relevant information to him, and this will save him from talking more.

However, Poskrebeshev didn't say anything, but handed over the newspaper in his hand.

Victor took the newspaper over, looked at it, and realized that it turned out to be a "Red Star". On the front page of the newspaper, there was a report written by military reporter Vasily Grossman, only looking at the front page. The half-length photo of Comrade Vatutin from the side shows what the content is.

Not interested in watching such news, Victor smiled, folded the newspaper, and returned it to Poskrebeshev.

"Those people are now blindly emphasizing the role of the General Staff and the commanders of the Front Army in the victory process, but completely neglecting the leadership of the Supreme Command," Poskrebeshev took the newspaper over and shook his head. "This It has violated the principles that the propaganda and agitation departments should follow. Now, it is not just Comrade Stalin who is dissatisfied."

What are the propaganda principles that the propaganda and agitation department should follow? Emphasizing the correct leadership of the Bolshevik Party Central Committee is a principle, isn’t it? Ignore the main role of collective leadership and one-sidedly emphasize the role of the individual. This is a way of individual heroism.

Of course Viktor understood what Boskrebeshev meant, so he just shook his head and said nothing.

Soldiers like war. There is no doubt about this, because having war means having military merit, and only with military merit can we have the opportunity to form a vested interest group of sufficient scale.

This cruel Patriotic War not only achieved a fundamental baptism for the Soviet Red Army and tempered this huge army, but also completed a process of survival of the fittest, specifically, the old cavalry. The army members were eliminated, and a large number of commanders of the academic and young faction rose up.

Look at the senior commanders currently active on the front line. How many people belong to the old cavalry army? As for Comrade Stalin, the people he really trusted were those in the old cavalry army. He had also given the old cavalry army many opportunities, but, no matter what, these people's thinking is really behind and it is difficult to hold up the overall situation. .

But now, these newly emerging young and strong factions are not so obedient. Therefore, Comrade Stalin needs a new balance of checks and balances to limit the power of these people.

Sometimes Victor also thought, maybe in his previous life, Comrade Stalin didn't have to face such troubles, because there was a daunting NKVD at that time, and now...

Perhaps the trajectory of history has changed a long time ago, but he himself hasn't noticed it.