Struggle in Soviet Russia

Comrade Kuznetsov is now under a lot of pressure. To a certain extent, the struggle between him and Comrade Beria is unavoidable, because his role in Moscow is to be a stab Comrade Xiang Beria's sharp knife, if his sharp knife can't do this, it is a piece of scrap iron, and scrap iron can't find any place in the Central Secretariat.

Comrade Beria is a threat, and perhaps in the eyes of many people, he is a threat, including Comrade Stalin. From Victor's point of view, Comrade Beria, who seems to be a bit taciturn, is not a shrewd politician. He has no research on the way of "choose and choose". If he knows what it means to retreat quickly, I am afraid that he will not be regarded by so many people. Treated like a class enemy.

The process of attending the meeting of the Central Secretaries last night was a relatively new experience for Victor. It was the first time he participated in such a meeting after he entered the Central Secretariat as the director of the secretariat. In his opinion , the secretary meeting is actually nothing, maybe because there are fewer participants, the atmosphere of the venue is not even as serious as an ordinary meeting.

Several comrades, including Comrade Stalin, talked for a while. After Comrade Malenkov left, Comrade Stalin still had no sleepiness, so he dragged Victor and drank a few more glasses of wine, and then he fell asleep on the sofa. past.

Leaving Comrade Stalin's office at this time, Viktor was also exhausted, and the eyelids of his eyes were heavy like lead, and he always wanted to close them completely without thinking about anything. However, even now, Victor does not dare to leave the Kremlin directly and go back to his residence to rest, because when he left Comrade Stalin's office, the other party just leaned on the sofa and took a light sleep. When I woke up, I might think of something again, and the other party might have to find him again.

Coming down from the upstairs, Victor went back to his office first. It was still early, and most of the people had not come back to work except for the night shift staff.

Victor made himself an espresso, lit another cigarette, and sat behind his desk, smoking a cigarette and reading documents.

The document, which was delivered by the People's Committee for Foreign Affairs last night, mainly contains some statistics on the current state of European countries.

The war in the past few years has done great harm to the alliance. Therefore, the post-war reconstruction is a very heavy and difficult task. According to the plan of the State Planning Commission, it is estimated that it will take a whole five years for the alliance to return to the level before the war. Years of planning, and that's an optimistic consideration.

The cruelty of war is the same for everyone, so it is not only the alliance that has been hurt in the past few years, but also all the countries in Europe, including Germany who started the war and its ally Italy, and this Both seem to have been hurt particularly badly.

Because the agriculture of Ukraine and Belarus was basically completely destroyed in the war, therefore, the alliance has been facing a situation of direct threat to food security since the end of the war. In order to alleviate the food tension, Moscow had to use a lot of gold to Americans get dollars in exchange, and then buy their much-needed food in the international market.

Due to the large amount of gold obtained from Germany and its servant countries, the alliance was able to survive the difficult period after the war, while other European countries other than the Soviet Union were obviously not so lucky. When the Germans surrendered , After the war, the disaster did not leave the European continent, it just changed a vest and came back in the form of famine.

According to the statistics of the People's Committee for Foreign Affairs, the whole of Europe is currently facing a difficult situation of food shortages. The most serious ones are Germany and Italy, the two former fascist countries. Among the two, Germany's situation is more serious. To be extreme, in today's Germany, no matter in the escrow area of ​​the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and France, the phenomenon of food prices breaking through the sky has already occurred. In order to reflect the humanitarian spirit, the military management committee established by the alliance in Berlin will distribute food every other week to 27 material distribution points in the urban area of ​​Berlin. However, such limited supply is only a drop in the bucket and cannot solve the fundamental problem at all. .

In addition to Germany and Italy, which are in the most serious situation, several countries currently under the control of the alliance, such as Hungary, Poland, Romania and other places, have also experienced food shortages one after another. Not to mention post-war reconstruction in these countries, it is a good thing that there is no widespread famine.

In view of this, the communist parties, workers' parties and left-wing coalition governments of various European countries have all sent requests to Moscow for assistance through diplomatic channels. They need all kinds of assistance from the alliance, and the top priority is food aid.

Looking at this document, Victor couldn't help frowning. As I said before, the life of the alliance is also not very good. In terms of assistance to European countries, Moscow is actually powerless, but... ..

Putting the document aside, Victor took the coffee in his hand and took a sip.

In Victor's memory, the Americans in the previous life engaged in a European revival plan, the so-called "Marshall Plan". It is through this plan that the United States has provided massive economic assistance to European countries, which has actually promoted the overall revival of the entire Western world after World War II. This is also the most direct reason why the United States can eventually replace Britain and France and become the world hegemon.

Considering that the alliance's foreign policy has the purpose of competing with the United States for world hegemony, when the Americans fully implement the European revival plan, the alliance must not sit on the sidelines, and Moscow must also follow in the footsteps of the Americans. By means of meta-diplomacy, we strive to expand our influence in the widest possible area, which is a big test and challenge for the national power of the alliance.

In Victor's impression, there seems to be an explanation for the collapse of the Soviet Union in the previous life, saying that the collapse of the Soviet Union originated from the "Star Wars Project" provoked by the Americans. It was this plan that brought down the Soviet Union's economy. led to the collapse of the entire country.

However, in Victor's view, this view obviously places too much importance on the weight of the "Star Wars Project" and underestimates the strength of the Alliance. Compared with the "Star Wars Project", Victor believes that the alliance's foreign aid is the expense. The biggest place, just like now, even in the reconstruction of a Warsaw city in Poland, is reaching out to Moscow for assistance, but this assistance must be given by Moscow.

"Boom thump..."

A light knock on the door interrupted Victor's thoughts. He put the coffee cup in his hand back on the table, coughed lightly, and said, "Please come in."

The door was gently pushed open from the outside, and the middle-aged nurse who was at the door of Comrade Stalin's office walked in. She stood at the door, smiled at Victor, and said, "Comrade Viktor Viktorovich, Comrade Stalin has already rest."

"Okay, I see," Victor subconsciously stood up from his chair, nodded slightly towards the other party, and said, "You should also go to rest."

The middle-aged nurse nodded and turned to leave the room.

Victor took a long sigh, stretched one hand behind his neck, held the back of his neck, and while holding it firmly, he bent down and tried to sit back on the chair - the middle-aged nurse was specially here to report to him, She said that Comrade Stalin had rested, which meant that the leader had entered the bedroom and fell asleep soundly. If nothing else happened, he would have been able to sleep until three or four o'clock in the afternoon, and during this period , Victor can also rest well.

Just when Viktor's **** was about to touch the chair, the office door that had just been closed was pushed open again, and Comrade Bosklebyshev in a gray Lenin suit walked in.

Comrade Poskrebyshev's footsteps were a little hurried, and the expression on his face was very unpleasant. Walking in quickly from the door, he walked straight to Victor, and was about to hand over a document he was holding when he heard the black phone on the table ring suddenly.

Viktor nodded to Comrade Boskrebyshev, who had come to the table, and while reaching for the document he handed over, he picked up the telephone receiver with the other hand.

The call was made by Comrade Kuznetsov, who immediately said, "Comrade Viktor Viktorovich, has Comrade Stalin rested yet?"

"Just fell asleep," Viktor said into the telephone receiver, having already taken Comrade Bosklebyshev's file, trying to open it.

"I tried to contact Comrade Boskrebyshev just now, but he couldn't get through," Kuznetsov said. "Please wake up Comrade Stalin immediately and report to him that the situation on the Korean peninsula has emerged. I will bring the complicated changes and relevant information in the telegram later, and I will contact Comrade Vasilevsky immediately..."

On the phone, Comrade Kuznetsov was still talking when another phone rang on the desk in front of Victor, this time the red phone.

"Comrade Stalin has woken up," Viktor said directly into the receiver, not caring about anything else. "If you have important questions, you can come to the Kremlin immediately."

At this time, although he didn't know what happened, Victor could already be sure that this sudden incident was definitely not small, otherwise, no one would disturb Comrade Stalin at this time.