Struggle in Soviet Russia

"The current situation in Karelia is very bad," Victor said after a moment of silence. "In addition to a series of problems left over by the war, there are also widespread social and emotional instability. People everywhere are fluctuating, and they are uncertain about the future. Doubtful."

What Victor said is reality. After all, Karelia today is completely different from Karelia before the war. Before the war, although the Alliance had already controlled the current territory of Karelia, after all that The period was too short, only a year later, with the German invasion of the Soviet Union, the Finns made a comeback and took back the territory lost in the Soviet-Finnish war, so in general, especially those living in this area. Finns, the sense of belonging to the alliance is basically non-existent.

Now, with the end of the war, the coalition is in control of the area again, and from a practical point of view, this situation will not change at least in the short term. For this reason, there are many Finns living in the area. Most of them have their minds floating. On the one hand, they are unwilling to leave their homeland, and on the other hand, they are worried that they will be discriminated against if they stay, so they are undecided.

"My view is that, while the post-war reconstruction work is underway, another important task for Karelia at the moment is to do everything possible to soothe the restless social mood," Viktor continued. The adjustment work can continue to be carried out, otherwise, there will be no establishment of a window area."

Both Karelia and East Prussia should be regarded as areas newly included in the Union territory, but Moscow's attitude towards these two areas is completely different. On the issue of East Prussia, what the alliance needs is to carry out rapid Soviet transformation, and to simply and rudely incorporate it into the administrative map in a quick and cluttered way. Therefore, the best way is to bring the local Germans with the majority of the population. People drove away and stripped away as much of the original German elements as possible.

The situation in Karelia is completely different. Moscow’s ambition is to include all of Finland into the alliance’s territory, and at least to form a certain geopolitical influence on Finland, thereby affecting the political situation of the three Nordic countries. Under the decision of this intention, in the way of treating Finns in the Karelia region, it is obvious that a simple and rude way of relocation cannot be adopted. Finns in the Relia region will be given preferential treatment, and certain special policy support will be given to them under the condition that the region does not appear to have centrifugal tendencies.

Comrade Stalin obviously agreed with Victor's idea. He nodded slightly and said, "It's good that you can consider these issues. In fact, within the Politburo, the comrades also have concerns about the situation in Karelia. There are certain doubts, as you said, that social stability there will be quite a challenging issue, and closely related to this is the local ethnic issue."

After a pause, he stood up from the sofa, walked back to the desk not far away, picked up a pack of matches, lit his pipe, then picked up another document and walked over, saying, "Kareli Although the ethnic issue in A has not been very prominent in the past period of time, it does not mean that it does not exist, on the contrary, under the seemingly calm waters, the ethnic conflicts there are still relatively sharp."

Saying so, he handed the document in his hand to Victor, and continued: "The old 'Great Finnishism' did not die in this land, they just lurked and may resurface at any time."

Recently, Victor has made a lot of in-depth understanding of the situation in Karelia, and he has come into contact with all the things mentioned by Comrade Stalin.

Just like what Comrade Stalin said, the Finns in Karelia seem to be peaceful, and they don’t show extremes in the area’s belonging to the Union, but in fact, they just hide their dissatisfaction, not Accepted the fate of eventual incorporation into the Union.

In today’s Karelia-Finnish Soviet Republic, in addition to the active Finnish Communist Party, there are also underground Finnish nationalist organizations that envelop the former Finns’ party. A set of profits, they considered Eastern Karelia, the current Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic, to be "the cultural homeland of the fine traditional Finns that have not been polluted by the Scandinavians and Slavs" , Therefore, in various senses, only a purely Finnish country can be established on this land, as for minorities such as Slavs, Karelians, etc., should be expelled from this area.

That's right, these Finnish nationalist organizations active in Karelia are even more extreme in nationalist ideology than the nationalist organizations in Finland, because in their opinion, not only the Slavs are the "source of pollution" , Nordic Scandinavians are also "sources of pollution", their existence is to blaspheme and defile the Finnish nation.

So, when Viktor came to power in the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic, he had to ensure the national power of the Finns on the one hand, and to prevent the development of Finnish nationalism in the region on the other hand, it seemed that both There are some contradictions, but a balance must be maintained, otherwise, his work will not be able to achieve the situation that Moscow expects.

He took the document that Comrade Stalin handed over, opened it and looked at it carefully. Victor pursed his lips and said, "Comrade Stalin, I have already prepared enough mentally. In fact, when I was working in Ukraine, I Just had a lot of dealings with those dangerous Ukrainian nationalists, in my opinion nationalists and nationalism are not the same. My opinion is that in Karelia we can acquiesce to Finnish nationalism but there needs to be a ceiling for their activities, in other words, we can tolerate the legacy of Finnish nationalism, but we must not tolerate open Finnish nationalist groups or nationalist activities.”

The document that Comrade Stalin brought over, Viktor has read in the past, and the content involved in this document is basically the Finnish nationalist organization that is still operating in covert activities in Karelia. The information provided by the Internal Intelligence Service, in other words, Victor had read the documents before Comrade Stalin had seen them.

What Victor said, that is, the argument that Finnish nationalism is allowed, but the existence of nationalist organizations is not allowed, is a solution to the national problem that he first proposed, and it can also be regarded as a solution. This theory, to put it bluntly, is to allow the Finnish minority in Karelia to retain their national identity, such as language, festivals, customs, etc., but never allow the emergence of organizations that seek national independence. To illustrate this theory from another angle, the Karelian Finns can maintain their basic national characteristics on the basis of supporting Moscow, the unity and territorial integrity of the Union State, and at the same time, Moscow will give them certain ethnic treatment.

Comrade Stalin was obviously very interested in this point of view put forward by Victor, because in the history of the national question of the Union, no one has ever put forward such an interesting theory.

"The legacy of Finnish nationalism can be tolerated, but open Finnish nationalist organizations or nationalist activities must not be tolerated." After whispering what Victor had said, Comrade Stalin frowned for a long time and thought for a long time. , He took a few puffs of his pipe, and the smoke from his nose covered his entire face.

"Your point of view is very interesting," after a long time, he raised his hand and waved in front of him, waving away the condensed smoke, and then said to Victor with a smile, "Well, my idea is that in In the past two years, you can draw up a detailed report based on this idea, and I hope to take it to the Politburo meeting to discuss it.”

"Okay, Comrade Stalin, that's my honor too," said Victor hastily.

In fact, the set of theories he put forward did not come up by himself, but came from what he heard and witnessed in previous lives, and he just made some brief generalizations on that basis.

"Furthermore," Viktor said, without losing the opportunity to divert the topic, "I would like to have a basic understanding of the next step in the government's work in Karelia-Finland."

"Well," Comrade Stalin raised his hand and touched his lips, as if he was thinking about something. After a while, he said, "Verolainen seems to have submitted a report on this issue before, but I didn't give enough. focus on."

The so-called Verolainen refers to Waldemar Verolainen, the current Chairman of the People's Committee of the Karelia-Finland Republic, to put it bluntly, the head of the government of the Republic, who is responsible for the administrative work of the Republic, equivalent to the Prime Minister of the State Council.

This person is a member of the Karelia-Finnish Communist Party and is a diehard loyalist of Comrade Kusinen. He also enjoys a certain status in the Karelia region. However, Victor has never had any contact with him, and the two are completely strangers. human relationship. However, after Victor will take office in the Karelia-Finnish Soviet Republic, as the first secretary, he will definitely need to deal with Verolainen, and it will be quite frequent, so Victor thinks it is necessary for him to advance Meet with this person as if he were about to meet Andropov ahead of time.

"If you think it is necessary, you can communicate with Comrade Verolainen in advance." Comrade Stalin obviously understood Victor's idea, he said with a smile, "You can decide the way of communication."