Struggle in Soviet Russia

Watching Comrade Molotov's car slowly drive away and finally disappear on the other side of the road, Victor couldn't help feeling a little emotional.

Recently, it is not only Comrade Malenkov who has encountered political troubles. Comrade Molotov, who has been presiding over the work of the People's Committee for Foreign Affairs, is now facing criticism from all quarters.

At present, the criticism of Comrade Malenkov mainly focuses on his appointment of cadres. He believes that in the process of appointing cadres, he overemphasized administrative orders and ignored professional aspects, which resulted in loss of work. As for the criticism of Comrade Molotov, it mainly focuses on his wife. Many people are criticizing his wife for focusing only on her Jewish attributes, but ignoring the attributes of being a Bolshevik party member of the alliance, thus blindly emphasizing Jews interests, even at the expense of the national interests of the alliance.

Of course, this kind of criticism is good to say, but if it is bad, it just says that his wife is an American spy.

Although he didn't know the current situation of Comrade Molotov, Victor could only imagine that the old comrade's life should be more difficult than that of Comrade Malenkov, because Comrade Stalin's attitude on this matter was clear. Yes, that is his wife should indeed be punished.

"Let's go," Comrade Boskrebyshev didn't know what Victor was thinking. When he saw Molotov's car had gone far, he patted Victor on the shoulder and said, "Comrade Stalin is still waiting. with you."

Viktor turned around, walked behind Comrade Boskrebyshev towards the door of the building, stretched out his hand and took out a red silk-wrapped box from his pocket, handed it to the chief secretary, and said, "This is I came back from Berlin this time with a special gift for you."

"Oh?" Comrade Boskrebyshev slowed down, looked down at the gift Viktor handed over, and asked in surprise, "What gift?"

Saying so, he reached out and took the red silk box, opened it in front of Victor, and looked at the contents inside.

There is a piece of porcelain in the box. To be precise, it is a beautiful ceramic coffee cup. This thing is not big, but the workmanship is extremely elegant. There is a gilt pattern on the wall of the coffee cup, which is a miniature palace painting. .

Comrade Boskrebyshev is not an ignorant person. The moment he saw the coffee cup, the pupils of his eyes shrank a little. He quietly held the coffee cup in his hand, looked at the pattern on the bottom of the cup, then put the cup back in the box, and whispered, "Nymphenburg?"

Victor nodded and said with a smile: "It is said that it was specially designed by Ludwig III and Marie Teresa to celebrate the 50th anniversary of their marriage. Unfortunately, we only collected this one, the rest has been taken away."

Victor is right in what he said. This seemingly inconspicuous coffee mug is one of the most exquisite King series in Nymphenburg ceramics, because he got this one and gave it to him Poske Lebyshev, resulting in the absence of antique porcelain from the collection.

"Thank you, I like it very much," Comrade Boskrebyshev was also polite, he closed the box again, carefully put it in his pocket, and then went upstairs with Victor, saying, "However, now you must Going to see Comrade Stalin, he has asked about your itinerary twice before, and I can't want to hear him ask a third time."

Victor smiled, said nothing, and followed him upstairs.

"... Nightingale stands on the branch and sings, Nightingale Nightingale I ask you, you sing beautiful bird..."

Just as he walked up the corridor on the second floor from the stairs, Victor heard a melodious singing faintly coming. It was not loud, but it was very clear, and it could not be a hallucination.

Surprised, he glanced at Comrade Boskrebyshev in front of him. He did not show any surprises. Victor knew that the voice must have come from Comrade Stalin's room. Otherwise, no one would dare to make it here. Such a big move.

Sure enough, as the two moved closer to Comrade Stalin's office, the singing became clearer and clearer, and Victor had already heard it. This was "Su Like", a popular folk song in the Union.

Soon, the two walked to the door of Comrade Stalin's office. Victor saw that the open doors were open, leaving a gap, and the clear singing was seeping through the gap.

Standing at the door, Comrade Boskrebyshev gave Viktor a wink, and then, without seeing him knock on the door, he pushed the door and walked into the room.

"Joseph Sarionitch, Comrade Viktor Viktorovich has arrived, do you want to see him now?" Comrade Boskrebyshev's voice overwhelmed the music in the room.

Victor raised his eyebrows unconsciously. In his memory, Comrade Boskrebyshev rarely used such a nickname to address Comrade Stalin. In the past, he used his full name more, but it was held at Comrade Stalin During the reception, he would use this title.

There was no reply from Comrade Stalin, but after a while, Comrade Boskrebyshev appeared at the door again, he nodded to Viktor, and he came out of the door and walked towards the other side of the corridor.

Victor stepped through the door and immediately saw Comrade Stalin standing in front of the window, wearing his favorite old French gray military shirt, perhaps because he felt a little cold, on his shoulders. Also put on a trench coat.

Seeing Victor coming in from outside the door, he turned around, facing the direction of the door, and said, "Do you know Matthias?"

Victor was stunned for a moment, wondering why the leader comrade would ask him such a question.

Rakosi Matthias, the founder of the Hungarian Communist Party, has been staying in Moscow until the beginning of the year. At the beginning of the year, he had just returned to China with the Soviet troops advancing into Hungary. At present, he has been elected as the general secretary of the Central Committee of the Hungarian Communist Party.

However, Victor quickly reacted, he knew that Comrade Stalin should be hesitant about the Hungarian leader, because among the well-known figures of the Hungarian Communist Party in exile in the Soviet Union, there was not only one Matthias, like some Falkash · Mihai, Gro Eno, Nagy Imre, these people have a high reputation in the Hungarian Communist Party, especially Farkas Mihai, who also leads the entire Hungarian People's Army Woolen cloth.

Comrade Stalin chose Matthias because this comrade was an old Bolshevik. He was captured by the Russian army during the First World War and was kept in a prisoner-of-war camp in the Far East until after the victory of the October Revolution. escape. It was at that time that Matthias, who had fled to St. Petersburg, was exposed to communism, and since then he joined the Bolshevik Party and became a staunch revolutionary.

Comrade Stalin knew Matthias as early as when he was working in St. Petersburg. From this point of view, the two were old acquaintances, which is why Comrade Stalin trusted him.

However, it is precisely because he is an old acquaintance that he understands Matthias better. In his opinion, Matthias has a rough character and is not very good at the work of unity within the party. Therefore, considering The situation in Hungary after the war would be very complicated, and Comrade Stalin hesitated to appoint this man.

"That's right, Comrade Stalin," said Victor after thinking for a moment, "I think that a comrade with a rough character, although many mistakes will be made in the issue of party unity, such mistakes are not irreparable. Compared with rude characters, I think comrades with weak and swaying characters are more likely to make irreversible mistakes in specific work."

His remarks are not indifferent, and his criticism is directed at Bulgaria.

In today's Bulgaria, the development of the situation is obviously not as smooth as Moscow expected. Some people are too weak in their positions, while others, got together with the Yugoslavs and got a small group out, um, People like Trejo Kostov, in short, Moscow is very dissatisfied with the situation in Bulgaria.

Comrade Stalin obviously knew who Viktor was referring to. He smiled and changed the subject, saying: "The comrades in the Politburo discussed the report you submitted earlier and think your opinion is very important."

Victor hadn't submitted any suggestion reports recently, and of course he didn't know what Comrade Stalin was talking about, so he didn't speak, just walked straight to the sofa in the middle of the office and waited for Comrade Stalin to continue talking.

"The problems in post-war Europe are very complicated. If we want to establish a post-war government in Eastern European countries that is inclined to our position, we must ensure that the communists can control the main violent agencies and intelligence agencies." Comrade Stalin waved to him, Signal him to sit down.

Victor did not refuse, and sat down directly in front of a sofa. At the same time, he also understood in his heart which report Comrade Stalin was referring to.

As early as when the Soviet army invaded Poland, Victor once submitted a report to Comrade Stalin, suggesting that in the process of the Soviet army advancing westward, the intelligence and internal affairs departments of Eastern European countries, including Poland, should be controlled. Because, according to him, only by controlling such powerful sectors can Moscow be able to exert influence over the country's political situation.

However, after submitting this report, he never received any form of feedback. He thought his proposal was unrealistic, so it was rejected by Comrade Stalin. Who would have thought that it would be brought up again now.