Struggle in Soviet Russia

Compared with Lviv, the prosperity of Kiev belongs to another level. Moreover, since the end of the civil war, Moscow has attached great importance to the construction of military defenses against Kiev. For the Soviet land west of the Ural Mountains, Moscow and Kiev belong to two categories. The most important strategic city.

Controlling Kiev means controlling Ukraine’s grain, iron ore, coal mines, and heavy industry. At the same time, Kiev is also the main transportation link to the oil-producing areas in the Caucasus. Controlling Kiev, even abandoning Moscow, can still drag the Soviet Union down in the long-term confrontation.

In the first two days of arriving in Kiev, Victor was unable to see Lieutenant Colonel Serov. He visited the permanent fortifications No. 12, 14, 19 and 21 in the Kyiv fortification area under the arrangement of the Kiev People’s Committee of the Interior. At the same time, he also visited several military academies, including the Kiev Joint Military Academy.

It was not until the fourth day of his arrival in Kiev that Victor received a notice to attend the meeting at the headquarters of the People's Committee of the Interior in Kiev.

The meeting was held in the Sverdlov Hall of the headquarters building. The main persons in charge from various departments and branches of the Ukrainian People’s Committee of the Internal Affairs attended the meeting-it sounds like a large scale, but in fact there are only 43 participants. . It should have been 45 people, but just a week ago, the head of the Odessa branch was killed in a bomb attack. In the following two days, the head of the Stalino branch was shot dead at the door of his residence.

As stated in the first content of the conference, the current situation in Ukraine is still very unstable. In addition to organized crime, various nationalist organizations are the most important factor in the turmoil. As happened before, there is sufficient evidence to show that the attack on the People’s Committee of the Internal Affairs of Odessa is a nationalist organization belonging to the Crimean Tatars.

In view of the tense situation, Kiev requires that the People’s Committees of the Interior must take immediate action to resolutely crack down on various criminal organizations and ethnic separatist organizations, wipe out the active nationalist guerrillas, and deal with the 27 types of saboteurs and state enemies issued by the People’s Committee of the Interior. , Each branch can directly make appropriate punishment decisions without judicial trial.

Of course, for the superior performance of the Lviv branch in the capture of Kavac, Lieutenant Colonel Serov also gave verbal praise. As for the honorary award, it will be issued later. This time, the Lviv branch Won another collective commendation for meritorious service.

To be honest, Victor doesn’t long for anything such as meritorious service. What he wants most now is actually a transfer order. As long as he can be transferred away from the **** western border, then no matter where he goes, even if he is going. Siberia will do.

But having said that, for catching a big fish like Kavac, he can only get a commendation of collective merit. From Victor’s point of view, it’s still a bit regretful. To put it bluntly, he is relatively junior in the People’s Committee of the Interior. And because of the promotion just now, otherwise, the credit this time will at least move his rank up.

The weather today is really good. It was the first time that Victor saw such a beautiful sun and such a blue sky in the few days he came to Kiev.

Aleksandrov District, close to Chervono Zoriana Street, on a section of the Embankment of the Sovki River, a section of towering walls isolates a small campus, which belongs to the people of Kyiv’s internal affairs A national security personnel training school of the committee.

Victor was wearing a military uniform and holding his blue military cap in his hand, walking side by side with a middle-aged man who appeared to be in his forties.

The middle-aged man also wears the uniform of the People’s Committee of the Interior and the same rank of lieutenant. His name is Andrei Arsenievich Ivankov, and he is the head of the People’s Committee of the Internal Affairs of the Zakarpattia Oblast.

The Transcarpathians are adjacent to Lviv, and Ivankov will also face the problems faced by Victor. Moreover, considering that the Transcarpathians are a border region, not only Romania, but also the countries bordering it There are Hungary and the Czech Republic occupied by the Germans, so the situation there is more complicated.

Below the river embankment, on the muddy river bank, there is a specially opened training ground. At this time, dozens of female college students who have been trained are undergoing rigorous training. Wearing training brown-green sleeveless slingback waistcoats and wide-cut trousers, they fumbled in the cold mud in November, making them like clay figures. A female instructor holding a rubber stick, wearing black boots, patrolled a famous student back and forth. Once the speed of someone slowed down, the rubber roller would be beaten fiercely. Here, it is common for students to get injured.

However, whether it is Viktor or Ivankov, their attention is not on the training ground on the river beach, but on the conversation with each other.

After yesterday’s meeting, Lieutenant Colonel Serov held a small meeting for the two and announced a top-secret document issued by the Moscow National Defense Council. According to the relevant orders in this document, Lviv and Wakar The People’s Committee of the Interior in Pathian needs to do a good job of infiltrating Bessarabia and Bukovina in Romania from now on. In the related work, the Transcarpathians undertake the main tasks, and Lviv will do a good job of cooperation and support.

Yes, although according to internal documents, the Soviet Union's war in the north with Finland was not smooth, and even suffered a lot of losses at the beginning of the battle, but the big figures in Moscow did not slow down. Thinking, they are still pushing the western border of the country to move further west.

At the small meeting, Lieutenant Colonel Serov also brought a piece of news to Victor, that he submitted a report on the construction of the fortification area of ​​the Lviv region, which was rejected by the Moscow side. As for the reason, the above did not give a clear explanation. It just said that the construction of the fortification area is related to the military strategic deployment of the entire alliance. This is a macroscopic issue, and the factor of Lviv cannot be considered only.

Victor was very disappointed by the abortion of the construction plan for the fortification area. For him, this was a plan to save his life at a critical moment. The rejection of the report meant the abortion of the plan. At the same time, it also meant that in one year. In the subsequent war, his life-saving talisman seemed to be missing by one.

Of course, Lieutenant Colonel Serov also gave him some good news. For example, the Kiev side approved eight radio stations that he applied for. In addition, in order to improve the combat effectiveness of the Lviv security forces, Kiev also provided him Twelve DP27 light machine guns, four Maxim heavy machine guns, four 45 mm caliber and six 37 mm anti-tank guns were deployed.

These supplementary heavy firepower equipment will inevitably be able to greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the security forces previously equipped with only light weapons. If there is any regret, it is that among these deployed weapons, except for the 4 45mm anti-tank guns, which are new, the rest are old, especially the 6 37mm anti-tank guns. The artillery was completely drawn from the obsolete weapons warehouse of the Kiev Special Military District.

But even so, Victor is already very satisfied. At least with these things, the regiment he can command is no longer a paramilitarized force that can only be used to destroy the guerrillas.

After negotiating with Ivankov about some specific tasks after returning to Lviv, Victor reached into his pocket and was about to take out the cigarettes in his pocket, but he heard the sound of a car horn behind him.

Instinctively leaning to the side of the road, Victor turned around and looked at the car coming behind him.

A gray Volga car, very good, with a young man in military uniform in the driver's seat.

The car stopped beside Victor, and when the door opened, the person who got out of the car was Lieutenant Colonel Serov.

"Comrade Lieutenant Colonel!" Ivankov reacted first, standing up straight and saluting Serov. Victor also followed him in a salute, but did not greet him.

"How about, Comrade Andrei Arsenyevich, are you still used to living here?" Lieutenant Colonel Serov paid the military salute, took off his military cap again, and looked at Ivankov with a smile. road.

"I'm used to living, the student accommodation conditions are very good," Ivankov said somewhat against his will. In fact, the student dormitory in this college is very bad. In a narrow dormitory with 12 people, there are six bunk beds. , Even if it's just a room with two people, it will give people a feeling of being cramped.

"I'm really sorry," Serov naturally knew what was going on here. He shook his head and smiled. "This meeting happened to coincide with the meeting of middle and senior commanders of the Kiev Special Military Region, so all the accommodations he could choose were occupied. , I can only wrong you."

Ivankov just said that the accommodation conditions are good, it would not be good, then he looked at Victor and seemed to want him to take the topic. As a result, Victor stood there without saying a word, without any reaction.

"How are you talking?" Fortunately, Serov didn't care, he turned the subject off and asked.

"There is a framework," Victor replied this time. "For specific matters, we need to go back and make detailed arrangements."

Serov nodded, looked at Victor and said, "Come on, Victor, let's walk together. I have some questions about the work in Lviv. I want to talk to you."

Hearing what he said, Ivankov said hurriedly: "Then I will go back and deal with some housework first."

Serov waved his hand, not holding back.

"I read the personnel promotion report you submitted." When Ivankov left, Serov took out a letter from his pocket, handed it to Victor, and said straightforwardly, "Look at this first."