Struggle in Soviet Russia

It is impossible to know how difficult many things are if you don’t do it yourself. For the same reason, you can also consider this problem from another angle, that is, people are not born with knowledge. It needs to be learned through actual contact.

Entering from the main entrance of the church, along the east wall, bypassing the tables and busy calculators, Victor walked directly to the second floor on the side stairs.

On the second floor, there is a cloister, which goes around the wall of the church. On the westernmost side, there is an office, which is the office of the person in charge of the computing support team. In addition, there is an expert office.

The calculators on the first floor are only responsible for calculating some basic data. Such complex formula calculations need to be summarized in the expert office on the second floor, and those experts will perform the calculations.

Victor walked around the corridor to the westernmost side. When he reached the door of the office, Comrade Fitin in military uniform just walked out of the office. Behind him, there was a tall and thin man with a **** face. Middle-aged man framing eyes.

"Ah, Victor, when did you arrive?" Comrade Feijing seemed to be thinking about something. When he went out, he lowered his head slightly, so that he almost hit Victor's body. He was startled, and after seeing Victor clearly, he faced him. Lu happily said.

"Just arrived, what's the matter?" Victor nodded at him, then reached out to the middle-aged man and said, "Hello, Comrade Sergey, how come you have time to come here today?"

"Hello," the middle-aged man said, shaking hands with him with a smile, "There are some things that need to be reported to the two committee members."

"Come on, talk in the office," said Comrade Feijing, putting his hand on Victor's shoulder and pushing him into the office.

The three people returned to the office again.

This office does not belong to Fijing, but to Kolmogorov. This mathematician, who is just forty years old, is already an absolute leader in the field of mathematics in the Soviet Union.

As for the middle-aged man behind Fitin, he is not a scholar in the field of mathematics, but a master in the field of electronic technology research in the Soviet Union, Sergey Alekseyevich Lebedev.

Although the office belongs to Kolmogorov, he still has other work to do. Therefore, he doesn't really spend much time here, and the whole office is relatively simple, even without a sofa.

Once in the office, Victor could only find a chair and sit down first.

"The calculation support group of the committee must be expanded." Fitin didn't even have a chair. He leaned on the only table in the office and said straightforwardly. "The current calculation efficiency simply cannot reach ours. need."

Victor touched his pocket, took out a pack of cigarettes, scattered them, waited until everyone put the cigarettes on, and then said, "Is there any breakthrough in the proving ground?"

"If there is any progress, we also need to expand," Fitin said. "Since the establishment of this calculation support group, a lot of work in various departments has been lost, including the Academy of Sciences. Kolmogorov has complained to me. Once again."

Initially, the opinion on the establishment of this calculation support group was put forward by Victor. Of course, it is obviously not accurate to say that. More accurately, it should be that this request was put forward by Grushko, and subsequently, submitted by Victor. Report.

The full name of this department should be "Rocket Technology R&D Engineering Calculation Support Group." In other words, its main task is to provide computing power support for rocket technology R&D. Other tasks are not the responsibility of this group.

However, with the establishment of this group, perhaps it is felt that it is easy to use, or because many mathematics experts from the Academy of Sciences have been transferred. Therefore, the Academy of Sciences has also begun to push some calculation tasks over. Afterwards, Comrade Malinkov squeezed some data calculation tasks from the aviation department.

In short, the work tasks of this department are beginning to become heavier and heavier, and the task volume is getting larger and larger. The direct consequence of this is that the efficiency is getting lower and lower.

Why is Fei Jing so anxious? This is not only because he is in charge of the work of the General Administration of Technology, but also because he is now in charge of the decryption of the German communication secret language, and that work also has a large number of computing tasks to be done, if there are not enough computing staff Participating in it, it is impossible to achieve a breakthrough in the short term.

At present, the National Security People’s Committee has as many as 40 "riddle" cryptographic machines and more than 60 related keys. At the same time, it has also mastered a group of German translators and correspondents. Provided by the military.

Fijing’s pressure is that Antonov will now look for him on behalf of the General Staff from time to time to inquire about the progress of the decryption of the secret language. The military does its best to support the People’s Committee for National Security in the matter of decrypting the secret language. All the captured German radio stations, cipher machines, keys, including the communication personnel, were sent to the committee department. Such input, of course, requires output. As for how complicated the work of cracking is, what does it have to do with the General Staff?

Don’t believe too much in the ethics of those in the army. In the case of war, every defeat requires someone to take responsibility. Not to mention anything else, just in the past two months, because of the defeat in the Southern Front, how many people have eaten. Melon? There were only three generals who were shot, and those who lost their future, even more died on the battlefield.

At this moment, don't those people in the general staff want to throw the pot? The reality is, don't give them an excuse to shake the pot, otherwise, a lot of black pots can be shaken for you in the first place.

"Of course I know that the calculation team needs to be expanded again," Victor said, spitting out a small piece of tobacco sticking to his lips, spraying blue smoke in his nostrils. Persuasive results, this report is not easy to beat."

"There are nearly three tons of calculation paper that needs to be destroyed every week. Isn't this a result?" Feijing complained.

Victor glanced at him and shook his head helplessly.

What kind of result is this? If it is true that according to Feijing's words, take a report as a result, it is estimated that Kosygin will have to bring the lawsuit to Comrade Stalin.

At present, Comrade Serov has been transferred to the southern route. To be precise, he has been transferred to Voronezh. The main work of the National Security People’s Committee has been lost to Victor. Reports like this must of course be drafted by him. ,submit.

Victor does know that the calculation support group needs to be expanded, but he also knows very well that the report is signed and the possibility of approval is very low. Why? Because there is not so much budget approved to the National Security People’s Committee.

It must be admitted that Comrade Stalin has given great support to the work of the National Security People’s Committee, and apart from other budgetary expenditures, the Committee has already spent a lot of money on just a salary of personnel.

When Victor went to report to Comrade Stalin on his work the day before yesterday, he met Zverev, the People’s Commissar of Finance, in his office. New initiative-issuance of bank notes.

Since the outbreak of the war, the coalition's fiscal revenue has fallen precipitously.

In desperation, the People’s Committee of Finance started the printing machine three times, so that the ruble currency in circulation was nearly three times more than before the war. In other words, the purchasing power of the ruble has actually fallen to a very dangerous level. .

It’s just that it’s a war period, and most people regard the rise in prices as a shortage of materials caused by the war, and they don’t take into account the currency devaluation.

In addition, in addition to printing money, there are also a large number of treasury bills that have been put on the market. According to Zverev, most of the treasury bills issued now have a five-year period, that is, by 1947, the People’s Committee of Finance will accept it. Treasury bills of nearly 60 billion rubles.

In general, the People’s Committee of Finance is definitely the most difficult department now. Zverev is very close to all aspects of expenditure. In this case, the People’s Committee of National Security wants to get More budget is tantamount to idiotic dreams.

"Let's talk about this after Comrade Serov comes back," said Victor after hesitating for a moment. He also wants to increase his investment in all aspects and make early achievements, but the condition is this condition, what can he do?

"What does Comrade Sergey need to report?" After giving Fitin a vague reply, Victor turned his gaze to Lebedev and asked with a smile.

"That's it," Lebedev stretched out his hand awkwardly, handed a document to Victor, and said, "I and comrades Yuri Bazlevsky and Boris Ramyev, I want to apply for a research project."

Victor reached out and took the file. The expression on his face didn't change, but he inevitably got a headache.

Lebedev and Grushko are in similar situations, and they are also scientific and technical experts who are still serving their sentences. He and the Bazlevsky and Ramyev that he said are all experts in electronic technology. talent.

But unlike Grushko and the others, Lebedev’s problem is not very serious. He was sentenced to three years in prison, and the limited work place was the Sorznovy Electronic Instrument Factory in Moscow. , He also enjoys a certain degree of freedom, free from personal restrictions.

"Comrade Tarashev, Comrade Fijing," Lebedev licked his tongue when Viktor took over the documents in his hand, and said, "If our research project is successful, it will ease your current situation to the greatest extent possible. The problems faced provide unimaginable assistance to the work of this computing support group."