Struggle in Soviet Russia

"Huh...Bah!"

A mouthful of thick phlegm was spit out on the dew-soaked grass. Victor took out a clean handkerchief and wiped it on the corner of his lips. Then he lifted his foot and used the sole of the shoe to force the place where the thick phlegm fell. Rubbed it.

At this time, the sun had just risen above the dense jungle, and the mist covering the river surface had not completely dissipated. The rays of the sun passed through the mist and outlined a faint rainbow at the river bend.

After nearly a week of training, Victor's body has almost recovered, except that a sore in the groin has not been completely healed. In addition, the left leg is still a bit inconvenient, and there will be a faint pain when walking. .

A war horse called Sergey stood beside him, with a bunch of white-haired horse faces buried in the grass on the bank of the river, two rows of yellow teeth, chewing on the green grass, From time to time, he snorted twice.

Reaching out and patted the powerful neck of the warhorse, and brought the two bite of apple to its mouth. After watching the old friend take the apple into his mouth, Victor turned around and walked over the river bank.

This is Sergei's last morning with Victor. Later, he will send the horse that has followed him for two years back to the cavalry platoon because he has received a new appointment and is no longer in the cavalry platoon. Take a post.

In this **** country, everything is so amazing. The same person may be sentenced to death in the first second, but in the next second, he may escape the death penalty and get a promotion. Just like Victor, he inexplicably escaped the fate of being shot this time, and then he was wounded for a week. Without doing anything, he received a new appointment from the State People's Committee of the Interior.

According to the order issued by the State People’s Committee of the Interior, it is: In order to wipe out the Polish enemies and armed traitors active in the Warren-Shepchenkovo ​​forest area, the State People’s Committee of the Interior decided to strengthen Shepchenkovo’s national security. Defend organizational capabilities. According to this order, Shepchenkovo ​​will set up the National Security Bureau, which is subordinate to the State Security Bureau of the State People’s Committee of the Interior. The main responsibility of this department is to coordinate the civilian police and border guards in the next three to six months. The forest rangers encircled and suppressed the guerrilla armed forces active in the Shepchenkovo ​​Forest.

Victor, who had just left his hospital bed, was promoted from Tuss to Second Lieutenant and became the first director of the Shepchenkovo ​​State Security Agency. There were two reasons for this appointment: First, he has been They are all on the front line against the guerrillas and have rich experience in this area. Second, during their tenure, they did not bow to the saboteurs headed by "Bogdan" and upheld what a Bolshevik member should have. The principle of party spirit has also withstood the test.

However, the real reason is also clear to Victor himself. In the past week, Shepchenkovo ​​was sentenced and expelled from Bogdan. More than a dozen people from a small civilian police department lost their positions. , It’s pretty good to be expelled directly, as well as sentenced and executed. The reason why he escaped this catastrophe was purely a coincidence. If he had not been sentenced to death and was thrown into a water jail, it is estimated that his fate would not be much better.

Today, the entire People’s Committee of the Interior has the main theme: everything that was reused during Yezhov’s period must be cleansed away. On the contrary, everything that was persecuted during Yezhov’s period can be promoted and used. Victor, who was rescued from the water prison, obviously belonged to the latter.

Standing on the riverbank, Victor straightened his military cap. His cap has been replaced with a brand new blue cap, and the cap is red. In today’s Soviet Union, only the State Security Administration under the People’s Committee of the Interior uses this. Kind of hat.

Do not underestimate the difference brought about by this hat. According to the order issued by Lev Zakhalovich Mehlis, the Deputy People’s Commissar of National Defense and Director of the General Political Department of the Red Army in March, it was specially awarded to the National Security Directorate of the People’s Committee of the Interior. The rank and treatment of internal personnel are two levels higher than the corresponding rank and treatment in other departments.

In other words, Victor's current rank of second lieutenant is equivalent to a captain in the army, and the same is true for the relevant treatment.

Moscow gave this order, on the one hand, because Beria has been pursuing the State Security Administration the most vigorously, and this department currently has the most serious shortage of personnel. On the other hand, the current State Security Administration has increased its functions. In order to enable the department to carry out its work better, it is necessary to grant more authority.

In the past two years, affected by the Great Purge, the security situation in various parts of the Soviet Union has become a problem. In Moscow, Leningrad and other places, organized crime has been closely combined with the sabotage activities of foreign forces, which has constituted a serious threat to national security. threat. Therefore, since Beria took over the main work of the People’s Committee of the Interior, he insisted that in the current complex situation, to quickly rectify law and order, it is not enough to rely on the General Police Department alone. The work of public order rectification must be upgraded to affect national security. Therefore, it is necessary to improve the authority of the State Security Administration.

Take Shepchenkovo ​​as an example. As the head of the newly established National Security Agency, Victor, with the rank of second lieutenant, can mobilize powerful departments such as the civilian police, border guards, and militia organizations to work together. In addition, he can also Apply to the higher-level national security department for intelligence and secret political support.

In short, the only goal of all work is to significantly improve the public security environment within a short period of time. This is also the core spirit of the two speeches made by Comrade Stalin in the past March.

Not far from the embankment, there is a used Gazjeep parked. A young man who also wears a blue hat is standing by the car carefully wiping the high leather boots on his feet. The leather boots are of the same style as Victor's feet, they are all deerskin, hey, before that, Victor's leather boots were all pigskin.

Looking at the endless grassland not far away, and the horses running on the playground, Victor walked back to the jeep unhurriedly.

"Comrade Chief, are we going back?" The young man at the side of the car asked with a grin when he saw him walking back.

The young man is Varenka, the only person Victor took away from the Civil Police Headquarters, and now, this young man is his guard.

Since the reform of the ranks in 1935, the term "chief" has been established in the Red Army system. Officers above junior commanders can be referred to as "chief", but this is not a rigid rule, and there are not many in the army. People really obey.

Varenka didn't know where he heard this name, and he has used it now.

"Go back," Victor said casually, getting into the car, leaning against the hard seat.

"Yes!" Varenka got into the driver's seat happily, started the car, turned a corner, and drove straight towards the town.

New positions mean new tasks. Sudden promotion is not for nothing. The appointment order is very detailed. Victor must be active in the Shepchenkovo ​​forest in the next three to six months. Armed with the guerrillas, if this task is not completed, he will definitely have nothing to eat.

It is not a simple matter to wipe out the guerrillas in the Shepchenkovo ​​jungle, because the so-called guerrillas are not only one, but several, with the number ranging from three to five to dozens. . Some so-called guerrillas are not equipped with any decent weapons. Broadswords and spears are their standard equipment, but some guerrillas are well-equipped and experienced in combat. Their members are mainly veterans from the regular Polish army. At the same time, they There is also military assistance from Poland.

In the history of World War II, Poland was called a victim of the Anglo-French appeasement policy. In Western history books, it was a tragic character worthy of sympathy, but in fact, the victim itself was not so glorious, before being divided by the Soviets and Germany. , It is also an ugly mad dog. Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Germans to expand everywhere, Poland successively annexed parts of Lithuania and Czechoslovakia, and also joined the "Anti-Communist International League" formed by Germany, frequently creating tension on the Soviet-Polish border.

For Warsaw, their ambition and territorial appeal is to continue eastward, annexing the entire Ukraine and Belarus, and pushing the territorial border to the outskirts of Moscow. For this reason, since the end of the First World War, Poland has never stopped harassing East Ukraine and East Belarus. The separatist forces in these two places have basically been aided by Poland.

In Victor's view, in order to eliminate the guerrillas active in the forest, the first problem to be solved is to cut off the guerrillas' logistics supplies. And this logistics supply is divided into two aspects: food and weapons and ammunition.

Weapons and ammunition should all come from Poland. Considering the complex geographical environment near Shepchenkovo, if the Poles want to smoothly transport weapons and equipment, they will inevitably have secret transportation channels. Therefore, the main task at the moment is to find out and completely cut off their secret transportation channels.

As for food supply, the issue is more complicated. In fact, due to the violent methods used in the implementation of the collective farm system, the tendency of centrifugation has always been very serious in Eastern Ukraine, and the guerrillas can easily get the food they urgently need from the local residents.

In response to this, Victor is going to propose to adopt strict grain statistics policies in the surrounding areas of Shepchenkovo ​​Forest, especially in the 13 collective farms scattered in this area. The statistics are in the book, even if it is a corn or a handful of wheat, you can't miss it.