Struggle in Soviet Russia

Where there are people, there will be fights, just as there is a combative gene in human nature.

As the current chairman of the NKVD, Victor has to fight against many people at his level. Under him, there are also struggles among the various departments of the NKVD. Of course, within each department, There will also be fights, and these are inevitable.

As a rebirth, Victor does not particularly like fighting, especially the kind of life-and-death struggle. If feasible, he would prefer to live in peace with others, but it is a pity that there are certain things, can you live in peace with others, and It's not something that someone can decide for themselves.

After signing the processing documents for Guchenko, Anna took it to the secretariat to prepare the files. Victor then called Comrade Molotov, who was in charge of the People’s Committee for Foreign Affairs, and informed him about the incident—or that. In other words, Guchenko is a member of the People's Committee of Foreign Affairs. Although the People's Committee of National Security has taken emergency measures against him due to the situation, he still has to greet him as necessary, so as not to offend people without thinking.

Victor has offended many people now, and he really doesn't want to offend all the members of the Politburo.

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After all, the conflict between Comrade Stalin and the military was not made public. Therefore, except for a limited number of people, no one knew how dangerous Vatutin's situation was, perhaps because he felt the crisis, or perhaps because of the war. The plan was adjusted and the plan to annex the German Southern Front Heavy Group in one fell swoop was abandoned, and the Ukrainian First Army quickly made a breakthrough in the Kiev region.

In early October, the Ukrainian First Front finally broke through the heavily fortified German-fortified southern area of ​​Kiev. Soon afterwards, the Soviet and German sides began a half-month repeated seesaw in the mud of early autumn. In the end, the Germans were forced to choose in late October. After retreating, the Soviet army immediately liberated important cities including Kiev, Zhitomir, and Fastov.

So far, the Soviet army has liberated almost the entire region of Eastern Ukraine and regained the capital of Ukraine in the two-month battle. At the same time, the overall situation of the Soviet-German battlefield is becoming more and more clear.

With the rapid advancement of the four major Ukrainian fronts in the Ukrainian region, the German defense on the entire eastern front has a huge gap. The Belarusian region, which is firmly held by its central army group, has formed a huge protrusion.

This protrusion forms a stepped structure with Ukraine’s retreating line of defense. The Ukrainian line is the first step, while the Belarusian region is the second step. To put it in a more vivid way, the German defense line in Belarus is like It is a huge balcony. Below this balcony is Ukraine that has been restored by the Soviet army.

At this point in the war, the high-level commanders of the Soviet army began to become more and more confident. The General Staff was keenly aware of the huge opportunities in Belarus. Therefore, it intends to launch a campaign aimed at recovering Belarus in the direction of Belarus. At the same time, looking for opportunities to encircle and wipe out the large-scale battles of the German heavy forces.

This battle, in conjunction with the counter-offensive campaign aimed at breaking through the Leningrad blockade, is part of a new round of winter offensive.

Initially, according to the plan of the General Staff Headquarters, a large-scale offensive campaign in the direction of Belarus will be directed by Comrade Zhukov. Rokosovsky will be transferred to Leningrad to command the battle to break through the blockade of Leningrad.

However, this time Comrade Stalin did not accept the opinion of the General Staff. He summoned the commanders of several fronts of the Soviet army to Moscow, including Torbukhin, Konev, Malinowski and others. All the few were summoned back.

According to Comrade Stalin, since the front-line command work needs to listen to the opinions of the first-level commanders of the front army, it must be discussed extensively, and the general staff cannot represent the front-line commanders.

As a result, after a short discussion in less than a morning, the resolution of the General Staff was overturned. Rokosovsky continued to remain as the commander of the Belarusian First Front and was jointly responsible for drafting the relevant combat plan for the Belarusian campaign with the General Staff.

Although he doesn't know the details of the whole thing, Victor can still get a little bit of news. He knows that the current alliance military has not yet formed a unified vested interest group, and factional struggles in the army are also fierce. Just as Comrade Stalin said, the General Staff cannot represent all front-line commanders, and those commanders are not all willing to listen to the General Staff.

At the same time, Rokosovsky, who was repeatedly squeezed out, was probably disgusted by this storm. He did something enough to irritate the General Staff: After the General Staff’s plan for the Belarusian campaign was formulated. , He made another copy himself, and overthrew the plan of the General Staff in front of Comrade Stalin, and insisted on adopting the plan he made himself.

In the end, after repeated confirmations, Comrade Stalin really adopted Rokosovsky's plan, while negating the plan of the General Staff.

Throughout October, although there was no fierce fighting on the front lines of the Soviet-German battlefield, many things were undergoing significant changes in Moscow. Some contradictions that were temporarily concealed due to the war were increasingly exposed, and in many respects. Triggered a chain reaction.

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A rain last night lowered the temperature in Moscow by a few minutes.

Early in the morning, the morning breeze that shuttles between the shadows of the trees has brought a bit of obvious cold, half withered and half green leaves, falling with the morning breeze, like an out of control flat boat, swaying and falling to the ground.

There was a thin layer of dead leaves on the ground, and the thick soles of boots stepped on them, making a light click.

On the boulevard, Victor wore a navy blue windbreaker, two rows of golden buttons with the emblem of the People’s Committee of National Security on his chest, shining in the light of the morning light.

Under Victor's leadership, the uniform of the National Security People's Committee was eventually changed. The autumn and winter clothes included two windbreakers, two coats, and necessary uniforms, military boots, military caps, and so on.

With the complete reversal of the war situation, the Soviet Union's national power began to slowly recover in the war, and the shortage of materials was greatly reversed. Otherwise, the refurbishment plan of the committee would not be implemented so quickly.

Victor’s appearance was good, but now he puts on this uniform and this trench coat, the whole person is more energetic, and it can attract women’s attention. After all, the seduction of uniforms is not only effective for men, but also for women. The same is also effective.

Nowadays, the boulevard has become the direct management area of ​​the National Security People’s Committee. This street is no longer allowed to pass by ordinary people. On the right side of the road, a fence of barbed wire is also set up outside the woods, the purpose of which is to protect the headquarters of the committee. It's absolutely safe.

At this moment, Victor, who was walking on the boulevard, looked serious and frowned, obviously thinking about something.

As November approaches, the time limit for Comrade Stalin to go to Tehran to participate in the Allied Summit is getting closer. According to the previous work arrangement, Victor will leave Moscow tomorrow to go to Tehran to make some advance arrangements.

This time, he also won't take the plane, but will go there by train, and walk the road that Comrade Stalin will take three days later, to make sure that all the security work on the road can be done.

However, the question that Victor is considering now is not related to this trip, but a diplomatic note transferred by the NKVD last night. To be more specific, it was transferred by the Japanese Kwantung Army Command. Coming here, an official note regarding the exchange of prisoners of war and spies.

Regardless of how dirty the relationship is, at least in external public propaganda, the current Soviet-Japanese relationship is still friendly. Therefore, according to the usual practice, both parties will realize when there is a person of the other's nationality among the prisoners of war and spies to be executed. Send a note like this to see if the other party is interested in exchanging prisoners of war and spies.

In the past few years, the Soviet Union has captured many Japanese spies in the Far East. Especially after Victor went to the Far East to adjust anti-espionage work, the Japanese spy network in the Far East suffered a devastating blow, and the Soviets countered the spy. There are naturally many people arrested by agencies.

At the same time, the Japanese have also arrested many Soviet spies in the past few years. Some of them were captured in China and some in Japan. Among them, the main ones were captured in China. They have the largest number of people in that part of the country.

In the past, when the NKVD was in charge of foreign intelligence work, exchanging captured spies was not one of the options of the NKVD. Moscow’s attitude was that it did not recognize all captured spies.

However, the person in charge of foreign intelligence work is Victor. He is not only the chairman of the National Security People’s Committee, but also the director of the Foreign Intelligence Agency. Therefore, his claim is that there are some captured or exposed intelligence personnel. It is necessary to save it through the exchange situation.

In the past, the NKVD was too indifferent to the issue of captured spies. Fundamentally speaking, it was not conducive to the development of foreign intelligence work.

Indeed, the identity of the exposed spy itself loses its value. Even if they are exchanged back, they can no longer engage in related work. But the problem is that if the National Security People’s Committee abandons this type of person, its policy will be for those people. For latent intelligence personnel, it is very unfavorable and even affects their mentality.