Struggle in Soviet Russia

Bolshoi Theater, on the balcony of the box facing the stage on the second floor, Victor smothered the cigarette between his fingers in the ashtray, then looked at the actors on the stage who were thanking the audience, and drummed softly. applaud.

Shown in the theater today is "The Fountain of Tears" performed by the Bolshoi Ballet, and the performers include the famous ballet dancer Galina Sergeyevna Ulanova.

In the past two years, Ulanova has stopped performing on stage frequently. More often, she is playing the role of a mentor. After all, she is also thirty-five or six-year-old, and her body is weak, such as She couldn't avoid common diseases such as measles, scarlet fever, mumps, and jaundice. Therefore, although she has not completely left the stage, she is in a state of semi-retirement.

However, today's situation is very special. The big-name ballet dancer still appeared in person. This is also the first time she has performed in person this year.

The box occupied by Victor was the fifth box on the east side of the second floor, and on his right, in the box facing the stage, sat Comrade Stalin, Voroshilov and Budyonny. , Zhukov three comrades. The auditorium on the first floor was filled with Soviet generals in military uniforms. Among them, those sitting in the back row and those with the lowest rank were all at the rank of colonel.

That's right, tonight's performance is a reserved venue for the People's Commissariat of National Defense. The people who came to watch the performance are all generals from the Soviet Red Army system, and they are generals who have performed well in the war in the past few years. This performance is also An integral part of the Victory Day celebration.

Although Victor also wears a uniform, strictly speaking, he does not belong to the military system. Affiliation, he is here because of the invitation of Comrade Stalin. Of course, the people who are not affiliated with the military, but who are also present at today's performance are not only Victor himself, but also Merkulov, who is in the same box as him. He is in charge of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. The identity of the person received the invitation.

To be honest, as far as Victor is concerned, he is not interested in this ballet performance tonight. He is not an elegant person, and his ability to understand and accept art is very limited. Therefore, he is a ballet. Really can't appreciate it. For the past half hour or so, he basically took a nap there, and then lit a cigarette to refresh himself.

Compared with him, Comrade Merkulov, who was sitting in the same box, was more involved, but he didn't know whether his attention was on the artistry of the performance or on the laps of the actresses.

At this time, the performance on the stage was completed, the actors were thanking and leaving the stage, Victor gave a symbolic applause, and was about to turn his head to say something to Merkulov, when he heard the door of the box being slapped lightly. Knocked lightly.

Standing up, Victor walked to the door of the box and stretched out his hand to open the door.

Outside the door, Varenka stood there with a captain in the uniform of the People's Commissariat for National Security. Seeing the door opened, Varenka said: "Comrade Chairman, the people from the Commissariat Information Center said that there is important information. ."

Victor nodded, turning his eyes to the captain behind him.

The captain gave him a military salute, handed over a briefcase in his hand, and said, "Chairman Viktor Viktorovich, this is the urgent information that Colonel Sofia ordered me to send you."

Viktor glanced at the briefcase in the other's hand, and gave Varenka a look, who took the briefcase in his heart.

The captain gave Victor another military salute, then turned and walked quickly away.

Taking the document from Varenka's hand, Victor turned around and returned to the box.

In the box, Merkulov just lit a cigarette and took a sip when he saw Victor walking back with a briefcase. He knew that there should be important information urgently sent over, so he used the toilet as an excuse. , got up and left the box.

After Merkulov left the box, Victor walked back to his seat, put the briefcase on the coffee table in front of him, and took out a gray document bag from it.

The document was sent from a New York intelligence station, and just by looking at the color of the bag, it was known that the document was sent back through the encrypted communication channel of the People's Committee for Foreign Affairs.

Due to the previous problems with the encrypted communication of the People's Committee for Foreign Affairs, the one-time password was partially cracked by the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom and the United States. Therefore, under normal circumstances, the intelligence of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau will avoid the channels of the People's Committee of Foreign Affairs as much as possible. way to deliver domestically. However, although the information transmission channel of the Foreign Intelligence Service is secret and highly secure, it also has a disadvantage, that is, the timeliness is too low, and it takes too long to transmit a piece of information from the United States. It is precisely because of this that the Foreign Intelligence Bureau still chooses to cooperate with the People's Committee of Foreign Affairs when information needs to be delivered quickly, or to obtain some very important information.

After carefully checking the seal on the document bag and making sure there was no problem, Victor opened the document bag and took out the documents sealed inside.

The content in the file is not very much, there are only two sheets of printing paper, and in addition, there are several black and white photos whose images are not very clear.

Victor did not directly look at the contents of the document, but first picked up the photos and looked at them one by one.

Just by looking at the first photo, Victor knew what the information was about. In this black-and-white photo with a blurred background, there is a towering iron shelf. At first glance, it looks like a rocket launcher that Victor saw in his previous life, but structurally, it is more than a real rocket launcher. Much thinner.

Seeing the rack that was photographed, Victor knew what this thing was for. If nothing else, it should be a detonator specially used to support the nuclear bomb. During the nuclear test explosion, the nuclear bomb was hung on this rack. , so that it has a certain distance from the ground.

After going through the remaining photos one by one, Victor confirmed his guess, and then he unfolded the file and took a closer look at the contents.

As he guessed, the contents of the document are closely related to the US nuclear bomb test. According to the document, the US Los Alamos Laboratory at Alamedo Air Force Base in New Mexico is carrying out a code-named "Resurrection". According to intelligence personnel, this plan is the test explosion plan of the first nuclear bomb in the United States, and in the Los Alamos laboratory, the researchers participating in the experiment are loading nuclear fission material into the name For the "Big Boy" bomb body, when this work is completed, the detonation experiment of the nuclear bomb will begin immediately.

From the work progress of the Los Alamos laboratory, it is speculated that the final date of the American nuclear explosion experiment should be at the end of this month or the beginning of the next month. Whether the first nuclear test explosion will be successful.

This information was obviously very important to the Alliance. Victor read the document carefully, and then he looked at the stage downstairs.

At this point, the second chapter of the ballet has begun on the stage. Victor folded the document, stuffed it back into the pocket with the photo, stood up, and walked straight to the door.

Coming out of the box, Viktor greeted Merkulov, who was smoking at the door, and walked straight to the box where Comrade Stalin was.

Outside Comrade Stalin's box, Comrade Boskrebyshev and two guards were talking together. When Victor came over with a document, Comrade Boskrebyshev came up to him and asked, "Why? La?"

"The latest information from the United States," Victor leaned in front of him and said in a low voice, "It must be reported to Comrade Stalin immediately."

"Comrades Zhdanov, Molotov and Malenkov are also in the box," said Comrade Bosklebyshev. "Do I need to report to Comrade Stalin first?"

What he meant by asking this was to let Victor weigh himself whether the content of the information should be kept secret from Zhdanov and the others.

"Comrade Malenkov?" Viktor froze for a moment, then asked without answering, "When did he come back?"

"Half an hour," Comrade Boskrebyshev replied simply, and asked again, "do I need to report to Comrade Stalin?"

"No need," Victor said, shaking his head, "I can just go in."

Comrade Boskrebyshev nodded, turned and walked to the door of the box. He knocked lightly on the door twice, and then, without waiting for a reply from the people in the box, he opened the door and walked in.

After a while, he came out of the room and gave Victor a wink.

Walking into the door with the document bag in his hand, Victor saw Malenkov smoking by the terrace at first sight. He quickly looked away and looked at Comrade Stalin, who was sitting on the chair.

"Is there any bad news to tell us, dear Vega." Before Comrade Stalin could speak, Zhdanov, who was holding a glass of wine in his hand, said first.

His remarks caused several people in the room to laugh out loud. There is a stalk in these remarks, that is, Comrade Stalin once commented on Victor, which roughly means that every time he takes the initiative to report on his work, he always brings some bad news.

"It's really bad news," Victor said, raising the file bag in his hand, shaking it gently, "the latest news sent by our intelligence officers in the United States, at the end of this month, at the latest at the beginning of next month, the Americans will To conduct the first nuclear test explosion, in other words, their nuclear weapons development has reached the final result."