Struggle in Soviet Russia

Moscow, rain and snow.

This is the first snow in Moscow since the beginning of winter this year. Compared with previous years, this snow came a little late. Just like this winter, it seems to be late inadvertently.

It was early in the morning, at the gate of the villa on the side of the boulevard, Victor, who was wearing a military coat, carefully walked down the front steps of the stairs, passed through the yard covered with a thin layer of snow, and came to the side of the road.

Varenka, who had been waiting at the gate of the courtyard, hurried up to meet him, took the briefcase in his hand, and opened the car door for him. When he got into the car, he quickly walked around to the other side of the car, turning the corner. Sitting in the cab.

The car started quickly and drove straight in the direction of the building of the People's Commissariat for National Security. However, when it passed in front of the building, the car did not stop, but drove directly past.

Viktor now needs to rush to the Kremlin to report to Comrade Stalin the results of the investigation into yesterday's attack on the Crimean peninsula.

Just yesterday morning, in Feodosia on the Crimean Peninsula, there was an attack on the Soviet garrison. The attack was on the garrison of the Macarei Bridge, which was a regular army.

The Macarei Bridge is a steel structure bridge in the northern outskirts of Feodosia. It was only recently built under the supervision of the Post-War Reconstruction Committee of Feodosia and has just opened less than two weeks ago.

Yesterday's early morning attack not only killed 9 soldiers of the bridge guarding force, but the attackers also blew up the bridge—yes, although it didn't blow up directly, it did blow up. This was obviously a well-planned event. And the organized sabotage, considering the losses suffered by the bridge guards, the group of attackers should not be small, and according to the information provided by the survivors, there were at least 30 or 40 gangsters involved in the attack at that time.

To be honest, in today's Ukraine, although the Ukrainian rebels have been hit hard, those extreme right-wing nationalists are still running around. If nothing else, this attack should still be nationalism. The elements were planned, but not necessarily Ukrainian nationalists.

In normal times, an attack of this scale would not cause a shock in Moscow, but the situation is obviously different now. After all, Feodosia is too close to Yalta.

It is now December. According to the unified opinion reached by the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom, the summit meeting of the three countries will be held in Yalta in more than two months. How could Comrade Stalin not pay attention to such a serious attack in Dosia?

The Volga sedan drove slowly on the way to the Kremlin. Because of the rain and snow, Varenka did not dare to drive the car too fast.

In the car, Victor frowned slightly, considering the intelligence message sent by Feodosia from the Internal Intelligence Agency.

Before he was actually in charge of the work of the Internal Intelligence Agency, Victor obviously lacked a fundamental understanding of the complexities of the job, and now, after being in charge of the work for a few months, he really felt a headache. .

The work of the Internal Intelligence Bureau is closely related to the work of the Counterintelligence Bureau and the Ideological Defense Bureau. At the same time, it is also very closely related to the work of the NKVD. In a sense, Victor even felt that the Internal Intelligence Bureau should It should be reclassified under the banner of the NKVD. After all, the NKVD is more violent.

The work of the Internal Intelligence Bureau is very complicated. The most complicated thing is that its work can be said to be on the front line of the alliance's domestic conflicts. For now, the alliance's domestic conflicts are also complicated. Among them are ethnic conflicts.

Yes, there are also complex ethnic contradictions in the Crimean Peninsula, but unlike the ethnic contradictions in Western Ukraine, it is not the Ukrainians who are clamoring for independence here, but the Tatars , the Crimean Tatars.

Previously, Victor had already dealt with some Tatar issues. After all, the punishment of Tatars was an important part of the post-war liquidation work.

As mentioned earlier, when the German army pushed the front to the Crimean Peninsula, the Crimean Tatars at that time regarded the invading German army as a "liberator" and "savior". They not only cooperated with the German army Military operations, providing them with Soviet intelligence, and even hunting down Soviet guerrillas and sabotaging Soviet supply transportation.

This behavior of the Tatars aroused the anger of the core leadership in Moscow, especially Comrade Stalin, who was even more angry about it. Objects after liquidation.

For the past few months, the government of the Ukrainian republics, led by Comrade Khrushchev, has been conducting a census of the Tatars in the Crimean peninsula. According to Moscow's orders, once the census is completed, The NKVD will be responsible for relocating the Tatars counted in the demographic data, whose final destination is Central Asia.

At present, the relevant demographic work has not been finalized, so the official migration work has not yet started, but Victor has reason to believe that with the occurrence of this attack, the relevant migration work should start immediately.

Viktor is also clear that the attack that occurred in the early hours of yesterday morning was planned by the nationalists among the Tatars. A report came up, but no one can say how true this report is.

It's not that Victor is suspicious, or that he doesn't believe the people who work under him, but because according to the information obtained before, the attacker did not leave a body, and the survivors did not see the appearance of the attacker. In this case, it is obviously not an easy task for the intelligence agency to determine the identity of the attacker in less than 24 hours.

Put yourself in his shoes and consider, if Victor himself is the head of the People's Commissariat of National Security on the Crimean side, on the one hand he faces pressure from above, on the other hand, the Crimea he faces is in such a form, What choice will he make?

Moscow did not give him enough time to investigate, but asked him to submit the report within 24 hours. At the same time, Crimea was preparing to relocate the "traitor" Tatars to Central Asia , and there are indeed many restless nationalists among the Tatars. So, isn't this report not easy to write? Wouldn't it be a neat solution to simply push everything on the Tatars? On top of that, there is a very high probability that the attack was instigated by the Tatars.

As for Victor, although he knew the inside story and could guess some possibilities, he was not interested in going deeper, after all, he was also facing pressure from the Kremlin.

Humans are really complex creatures. In many cases, when faced with many things, it is really not an easy task to maintain one's conscience. It can be said that the higher a person's status is, the more It is more difficult to keep one's conscience. After all, mastering power itself is not a simple thing, what you do is not a simple thing, how can your thoughts be simple?

Raising his hand and pinching his forehead, to drive the bad things about the Tatars out of his mind, Victor turned his head and looked out the window.

Going to the Kremlin today, in addition to reporting the details of the investigation of the Feodosia attack, Victor has one more thing to report to Comrade Stalin, and this should be considered good news—after the efforts of the agents, a German scientists specializing in gas diffusion technology were sent to Moscow and are currently temporarily arranged at the Academy of Sciences.

The German scientist, Gustav Hertz, is very well known internationally, and if nothing else, Americans and British have been looking for him.

In today's Soviet Union, it is estimated that not many people understand gas diffusion technology, and for Comrade Stalin and his staff, it is estimated that they have never heard of this technology, let alone understand the role of this technology.

To be honest, Victor didn't understand this thing before. He also went to the Academy of Sciences specially and communicated with the nuclear physics experts of the Academy of Sciences before he figured out what this technology was for.

To put it bluntly, this is a technical means of uranium enrichment, and this Gustav Hertz has made great achievements in the research and development of this technical means. If the uranium enrichment technology used by the alliance is used by the alliance, both the performance of the compressor and the performance of the separation membrane will be improved by a large factor.

Victor needs to report this situation to Comrade Stalin. On the one hand, it is a show of merit. On the other hand, he also hopes to make suggestions to Comrade Stalin again. In the process of the Soviet army advancing to Berlin, not only must pay attention to the resources and equipment. We must also pay attention to the seizing of scientific and technological talents.

Just when Victor was thinking about how to report to Comrade Stalin, the black Volga sedan slowly drove into the Red Square, and then rolled over the ice ruts and entered the Kremlin.

When the car finally stopped in front of the small white office building, Victor suddenly thought of something... In two weeks, Comrade Stalin's birthday will come. I don't know if this year's festival is anything arrange.

However, Victor shook his head and smiled. He could probably guess how Comrade Stalin's birthday was going this year.