red moscow

Chapter 2299
In the following days, Sokov either took Asiya for a walk in the yard or read in the reading room every day.Otherwise, go to Lu Jin's room to chat with him. Considering that there may be a bug installed in the room, the content of his chat with Lu Jin is limited to the training of the army or some local customs and so on.

While chatting that day, a female nurse came in from the outside and said to Lukin respectfully: "Comrade Lukin, the Pravda you wanted has arrived!"

"Thank you, Natasha." Lu Jin took the newspaper from the female nurse, thanked her and said, "There's nothing for you here, you can go out first."

When Lukin was flipping through the newspaper, Sokov stood by and tilted his head to read the content. He saw a news article saying that several heinous concentration camp guards were captured and hanged. A photo of a person being hanged on a gallows with his hands tied behind his back.

"Comrade Lukin, good day!" Yakov's voice came from the door. He probably didn't see Sokov in the reading room, so he guessed that the other party was with Lukin, so he came here on purpose: "Misha , You are indeed here."

Yakov, who walked in, saw the two people reading a newspaper, and asked curiously, "Comrade Lukin, what are you reading?"

"Today's Pravda," Lukin handed the newspaper to Yakov, and said with a smile, "I just saw the news that several heinous German concentration camp guards were arrested and hanged."

Yakov took the newspaper and briefly browsed the news, then handed the newspaper back to Lukin, and said: "After all, there are only a few concentration camp guards who can be caught. Most of them changed their identities and hid, or I realized that the situation was not right in advance, so I packed up my things and ran away. These hanged people are just some young people, I don’t know when the culprits who started the war will get their due punishment?”

Hearing what Yakov said, Sokov immediately thought of the famous Nuremberg Trial, which should not start until mid-November, when World War II was completely over.Just when he was about to say a few words, he heard Yakov asking: "Comrade Lukin, you are very knowledgeable, I have a question for you."

"Yakov, if you have any questions, just ask." Lukin said with a smile: "As long as I know, I will definitely tell you the answer."

"Look at the faces of the Germans." Yakov pointed to the German guards in the photo, and said to Lukin: "Almost all have one or several scars. At the beginning, I thought it was left on the battlefield. Scars, but later it was found that it was not like that at all, and some officers who had just come out of the military academy had the same scars on their faces."

Sokov also had the same question in his heart, but he never thought about finding the answer.Since Yakov took the initiative to ask about this today, he just happened to hear what was going on.

"Yakov, sit down first." Lukin called Yakov to sit down: "Listen to me to explain to you slowly."

Like Sokov, Yakov was also a frequent visitor to Lukin, so he sat on the sofa next to Lukin without hesitation.

Seeing Yakov sitting down, Lu Jin said: "Universities in various countries in Europe have many fencing enthusiast groups and a long tradition. But the Germans are very different. For them, fencing is no longer a kind of sport. Hobbies or sports, but bloody duels and killings are the embodiment of the German Teutonic knight spirit. Through this barbaric fashion, they imposed the "will to fight" and "the glory of victory" on the vast number of German youths body.

Since the Prussian era, German schools have been keen on German-style fencing. On the first day of enrollment, freshmen will choose to join various fencing teams, just like a knight joining a knight order with strict discipline.

Fencing in German academies is a bloody sport that extremely pursues actual combat effects.Fencers do not use special equipment for fencing as in Britain and France, but directly use unsharp sabers or stabbing swords from the cold weapon era. In this case, it will definitely bring life-threatening danger.

But the fencers seem to enjoy this bloody sport very much. Every time they fight swords, one or both sides must bleed before it comes to an end.They deliberately don't use armor with good protection effect, but only protect the eyes, the bridge of the nose, and the deadly neck, chest and abdomen, etc. Even if the rest of the parts are cut to bloody, they don't care at all. To be wounded by the sword is equivalent to gaining the honor of a 'man. '

Sword fighting in German academies is second only to the popular duels in Britain and France in terms of bloody and brutality. However, the two sides in their duels are not enemies like Britain and France. On the contrary, not only do they have no hatred, they may even be the closest friends.In their eyes, friendship means sharpening each other with sword blades, baptizing each other's new life with blood, commemorating youth and inspiring life with indelible scars.The shocking scars on their faces will not affect their image, on the contrary, they will become their medals of honor. "

"I really didn't expect that the Germans were so cruel to themselves." After listening to Lukin's story, Yakov couldn't help but said with emotion: "It's no wonder they provoked the two world wars."

What Sokov thought in his heart was different from Yakov's.He has watched the videos of the later generations of the German army. Compared with their predecessors in World War II, they are simply not at the same level. They have perfectly become a group of white-collar office workers.There was even an anecdote that the combat mission was halfway through, but it was time to get off work, which demonstrated the good style of strict punctuality of the Germans.

Even if overtime is required for combat preparation, overtime pay and immortality must be paid, otherwise the commander will refuse to carry out the orders of the superiors.If these commanders lived in the era of mustaches, they would have been shot or sent to concentration camps long ago.

"Comrade Lukin, do you think that the future World War III will still be initiated by the Germans?" Yakov asked.

But after hearing this, Lu Jin slowly shook his head and asked Sokov sideways: "General Sokov, can you tell me your opinion? Do you think the country that will initiate World War III in the future will be the Germans?" ?"

"No." Sokov said firmly: "Even if there is a third world war, the initiator will definitely not be Germany."

Sokov's answer seemed to be within Lukin's expectations. He asked with a smile, "Why?"

"The reason is very simple." Sokov said: "The leader of Germany during World War I was Kaiser Wilhelm, and the leader of this war is Mustache. Now that these two strong leaders are gone, I don't think the Germans There will be leaders like these two in the future."

After listening to Sokov's explanation, Lukin fell into deep thought, but Yakov retorted: "We have all seen how powerful the German army is. Even if they cannot produce any strong leaders in the future, they are still an important military force. A strong country.”

"France has gone downhill since the death of Napoleon." Sokov said: "Germany in the future will become a country with weak military strength, just like France. .”

Regarding Sokov's statement, Yakov questioned: "Misha, are you just so pessimistic about Germany? Do you think that once Mustache dies and Germany surrenders, this country will never recover?"

Sokov waved his hand and explained to Yakov: "I just said that Germany's future military strength is not good, not that this country is not good. According to the history between World War I and World War II, the future military strength of the Germans Probably not, but their economic development will be impressive."

"Misha, are you looking down on Germany like this?" Yakov asked back: "Is there really no chance for their military power to rise?"

"Yasha, I heard a rumor." Sokov remembered a joke on the Internet of Later Generations, and said to the two with a smile: "In the future, the Vienna Academy of Arts will not allow failure in the admissions examination. I believe there will be one." After this regulation, Germany has no chance to rise again."

What Sokov said made the two feel a little dazed.After a while, Lukin slapped hard on the armrest of the wheelchair and said excitedly: "I see, I understand what General Sokov meant."

Yakov was still confused and asked Lukin: "Comrade Lukin, what did Misha mean? Why didn't I understand?"

"Moustache has applied for the Vienna Academy of Arts twice, but failed both times." Lukin understood what Sokov wanted to express, and explained to Yakov: "If he did not fail the examination, but entered Vienna as he wished, Art Academy, maybe World War II can be avoided."

"That's right, Comrade Lukin, you're right, that's what I mean." Sokov went on to say, "I'm afraid the Vienna Academy of Arts has issued such a regulation, and I'm afraid that there will be students like Moustache who will endanger the world again in the future, so As long as the students who take the exam, regardless of whether they are good or bad, they will be recruited into the academy."

After listening to Sokov and Lukin's explanation, Yakov finally understood what was going on, but he still asked Sokov tentatively: "Misha, how did you know about the Vienna Academy of Arts?"

Sokov thought that a radio had recently been moved to the reading room, and he would occasionally listen to the radio while reading in it, so he explained cheekily: "I also listen to the new rules of the Vienna Academy of Arts on the radio. Arrived." The reason why he dared to say this was because he was sure that Yakov would not be able to verify it, and the other party would not be able to make a special call to the Vienna Academy of Arts to ask: Is it true that you are not allowed to have failed students?
"So that's what happened." Fortunately, Yakov didn't doubt Sokov's explanation, but nodded and said, "If it was said on the radio, it should be true. Unfortunately, I don't know how to draw. Otherwise, I also want to apply for the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts."

Lukin followed Sokov and laughed a few times before asking, "By the way, Yakov, what is your brother Vasily doing now?"

"He served as the commander of the aviation division in the Air Force and personally participated in the air strike on Berlin." Yakov said with emotion: "From the outbreak of the war to the present, I haven't seen him for several years, and I don't know him. What has become of him now, and whether he can be recognized when we meet."

"Yasha," Sokov heard Yakov mention his younger brother Vasily for the first time. Immediately thinking of his tragic ending, he couldn't help asking Yakov: "You don't have time to return to Moscow." It's short, why didn't you think of calling your father and asking him when he plans to let your family reunite."

Sokov's proposal sounded quite reasonable to everyone. After all, because of the war, Stalin's family was separated from each other, and there was no chance of reunion at all.Now that the war is largely over, it is absolutely necessary to reunite the family.

Yakov nodded after hearing this, and said, "Misha, you are right. I will call my father later and ask him when he will allow me to see my brother and sister."

"There is a telephone in Comrade Gurchenko's office." Lukin reminded Yakov: "This telephone can communicate with the outside world."

"Comrade Lukin, you are right. I will go to Gurchenko's office later and use her phone to call my father." Yakov said with emotion: "I also have more than half a year I haven't seen my father in time, if he is willing to reunite our family, I want to see him as soon as possible."

After Yakov left, seeing that Lukin seemed to want to say something, Sokov quickly got up and grabbed his wheelchair, and said first: "Comrade Lukin, you must be very bored after staying in the room for so long. Well, why don't I push you out to get some air."

Lukin is also a smart person. Hearing what Sokov said, he immediately realized that the other party had something to say to him, and there might be bugs installed in the room. If he talked here, he would be eavesdropped. Cove's proposal: "Then I will trouble you, General Sokov."

When Sokov pushed Lukin to go outside, the two nurses who were chatting in the corridor rushed up and tried to take Lukin's wheelchair from Sokov's hand.But Sokov rejected them with a wave of his hand, and said plausibly: "I pushed Comrade Lukin outside to get some air, so I don't need to bother you. If you are worried, you can follow us."

Hearing what Sokov said, the two nurses hesitated for a moment, and did not insist on taking Lukin's wheelchair from Sokov's hand. They just helped Sokov push the wheelchair outside, and then slowed down. Followed far behind.

Sokov looked out of the corner of his eye, and found that the two were following him five or six meters away.With such a long distance, they can come over as soon as possible if they have something to do here; if they want to talk to Lu Jin, they can't hear them.

"Comrade Lukin, these two nurses of yours are not bad." Sokov said to Lukin with a smile: "You don't even feel at ease when you go out to get some air, and you come out to protect our safety. You know, in this nursing home Except for a few of us and the fighters who protect us, it is impossible for any outsiders to sneak in."

Lu Jin smiled faintly and said, "If their duty lies, they can't help themselves."

"Does your superior have any arrangements for your next work?"

"Let me recuperate for a while." Lu Jin said, "After I recover from my injury, I will arrange work within my ability as appropriate."

"Comrade Lukin," Sokov hesitated for a moment, then said, "If the superior wants to send Yasha and me to the Far East, would you be interested in going there together?"

(End of this chapter)