Struggle in Soviet Russia

In the center of Berlin, at the junction of Artdamlington Avenue and June 17th Street, Viktor, accompanied by dozens of soldiers and guards from the Politburo, walked leisurely through the ruined and riddled boulevard. The Landenburg Gate, and then, he stopped and looked back at the top of this magnificent Arc de Triomphe. On the top of the gate, the Goddess of Victory and the chariot she was driving had been completely blown up, and only one remained. The broken foundation still looms.

In a previous life, Victor dreamed of visiting Berlin one day, but in his short life, he never got such an opportunity. Who would have thought, now he is on the streets of Berlin, It's just that Berlin at this time is not like a city at all, but more like a large demolition site. The places that can be seen are all ruins full of pale bullet holes.

Not to mention that there is no scenery in the city in front of you, even walking on the street, stepping on those large or small gravel and rubble under your feet, after a long time, it will give people a feeling of stunned feet, and walking. very tired.

Stopping right in front of the Brandenburg Gate, Victor looked back and waved to Varenka who was following him, motioning him to notify someone to drive over. Next, he was going to visit the Reich Chancellery. , mainly to visit Bunker 2 where Hitler committed suicide.

This time in Berlin, Viktor can't stay too long. He must be back by tomorrow morning in order to prepare for the Victory Day military parade in Moscow. Later, he will also preside over a work of the People's Commissariat of State Security. The meeting is mainly to arrange a confidential work on the mobilization of troops.

Although at the previous Yalta Conference, Comrade Stalin made a promise to the Allies on behalf of the alliance, promising that the Soviet Union would officially fight against Japan three months after the end of the war with Germany, but this specific time was exactly three months after the end of the war. Comrade Stalin did not explain clearly when it happened, and the one-month interval between the two is not what Americans want to see.

At the same time that the Soviet army besieged Berlin, the Japanese also made some strategic adjustments in response to the US military's attack on the Pacific battlefield and the Chinese battlefield thousands of miles away.

On the Chinese battlefield, in early April, in order to destroy China's Zhijiang Airport, the Japanese army launched a large-scale offensive operation in the western Hunan area. , Wugang, Furongshan, the Japanese army suffered successive setbacks and suffered heavy losses.

At the same time, on the Pacific battlefield, after the U.S. offensive in Okinawa was frustrated, the U.S. military adjusted its deployment and launched a large-scale all-out offensive in the past two days. The so-called "Kamikaze" offensive launched by the Japanese army did not achieve much success. On the contrary, its defense on Okinawa is gradually facing the crisis of collapse.

Considering that the U.S. military is likely to launch an offensive against the Japanese mainland in the future, and its occupation in China is also at stake, the Japanese army base camp has also made corresponding adjustments. The newly issued order is to distribute it in Guangdong, Guangxi, Hunan and All Jiangxi troops retreated to shrink the line of defense and adopt a defensive posture.

In other words, under the oppression of occupation, the Japanese have given up their aggressive offensive and entered the stage of strategic defense. According to the information returned from China, the Chinese side is obviously aware of this, and the Nationalist government has also Strategic adjustments have been made, and its full-scale counter-offensive on the frontal battlefield has been fully launched.

Previously, in order to force the Japanese to surrender unconditionally, the U.S. military carried out a devastating large-scale bombing of Tokyo in March. There was no intention of surrender, on the contrary, their stubborn resistance seemed even more insane.

In the United States, there are already voices questioning Truman's ability in view of the huge casualties suffered by the US military. Those who are trying to drive him out of the White House in the new round of elections use the huge losses suffered by the US military in Okinawa to question Truman. , accused him of being incompetent for the presidency.

In fact, the losses suffered by the U.S. military in Okinawa really have nothing to do with Truman. Even if President Roosevelt is still alive, such losses are inevitable.

But politics is politics. Many times, problems in this area cannot be solved by rational explanations. Therefore, for Truman, he wants to remove the "interim president" from his head in the new round of elections. "To become the new official President of the United States, he needs a huge victory, and this victory must be in his pocket before the election begins.

Taking into account various factors of reality, after the Germans officially announced their surrender, the Americans' reliance on the alliance's war against Japan not only did not weaken, but instead increased. In general, they are not only looking forward to the Soviet army to declare war on Japan as soon as possible. , and also counted on the Nationalist government on the Chinese battlefield to launch a comprehensive counterattack against the Japanese army to prevent a large number of Japanese troops who invaded China from returning to the mainland.

The secrecy work that the People's Commissariat of National Security will arrange next is related to the eastward advance of the Soviet troops. According to the order of the Supreme Command, starting from three days ago, the Karelian Front, which was originally stationed in Karelia, The redeployment to the Far East has already begun, and the field commander of the entire Front, including Comrade Meretskov, commander of the Front, has actually been secretly transferred to the Far East.

Recently, especially after the alliance refused to renew the Soviet-Japanese friendship treaty, the activities of Japanese intelligence personnel in the alliance have become more frequent. On the other hand, it was to monitor the movements of the Soviet army in order to obtain useful intelligence information before the Soviet army launched an operation against Japan.

The order from the Supreme Command to Viktor, that is, to the People's Commissariat of National Security, was to try to ensure the confidentiality of the Soviet military deployment in the Far East, but Viktor was very clear that it was impossible to keep this kind of thing secret. .

The distance from the western region of the alliance to the Far East region is thousands of kilometers. At the same time, the mobilization of the Soviet army is not a regiment or a battalion, but a large-scale troop mobilization of the group army as a unit. According to the estimates of the railway department, as many as 140,000 train cars will be used for this deployment.

How can such a large-scale military operation be kept secret?

Therefore, from a practical point of view, Viktor believes that the best result that the Internal Intelligence Bureau and the Counterintelligence Bureau can achieve is to prevent the Japanese or Soviet troops from making specific attack plans and attack times.

Victor's car was arranged by the Soviet Union's Berlin Control Committee. It was not the Volga that Victor was accustomed to, nor was it a military jeep, but a Mercedes-Benz sedan. More specifically, it was a Mercedes-Benz 770K bulletproof car. This kind of car was used by Hitler. There are 17 cars in the world. The car that Victor was in was seized by the control committee from Goering's villa. Later, when Comrade Stalin came to Berlin to attend the meeting At that time, this car will serve as his old family's car. After Comrade Stalin left Berlin, the car was transported back to Moscow, where it was collected in the National Museum of the Union.

In a comfortable Mercedes-Benz car, Victor went to the Reich Chancellery, visited the bunker where Hitler committed suicide, and asked the technician in charge of the identification work about the identification results of Hitler's body - this is actually a process, symbolic is more meaningful than it actually is.

After visiting the Reich Chancellery, Viktor left the city of Berlin by car and went to the Cecilinghof Palace in Potsdam, 30 kilometers south of Berlin.

Unlike the previous Tehran and Yalta conferences, this time, the talks between the leaders of the Soviet Union, the United States, and the United Kingdom in Berlin are no secret. The media of various countries have already disclosed relevant news. The location, that is, Potsdam, is absolutely no problem in terms of security. After all, only the Soviet army has deployed two army groups in the area.

Today Potsdam is under the absolute control of the Soviet army. As a British and American security team, the two countries only sent a small-scale security force to settle in, and this security force did not live in the Cecilinghof Palace. Instead, they settled down in a private apartment by Yongfen Lake.

Victor inspected the Cecilinghof Palace, and later, he also met with the representative of the United States, the famous Mr. Stimson, and briefly discussed the distribution of security guards in the Cecilinghof Palace.

Stimson is indeed a very famous person. As early as the 1930s, he served as the Secretary of State of the United States. The famous "Stimson Doctrine" was proposed by him and named after him.

Speaking of which, the "non-recognition policy" proposed by Stimson was beneficial to China's anti-Japanese struggle to a certain extent. This cannot be denied. However, Victor still doesn't like this person, and the reason why he doesn't like this person , was influenced by a piece of intelligence from the Foreign Intelligence Service.

According to the intelligence provided by the Washington intelligence station not long ago, Stimson submitted a secret report to Truman, suggesting to revise the policy previously proposed by President Roosevelt that the three fascist countries of Germany, Italy and Japan must surrender unconditionally. , to give Japan "equivalent to unconditional surrender" in order to preserve Japan's emperor system.

It must be clear that this person was the first to propose to preserve the Japanese imperial system after the war, and to a certain extent, this person was also the first to revise the agreement between the Allied Powers, which had been reached since the Casablanca Conference. Spirit.