Struggle in Soviet Russia

"If Comrade Stalin is determined to promote the implementation of this policy within the party," Comrade Beria thought and said, "Then it is foreseeable that in a relatively short period of time, the number of coalition members will increase sharply. Process, will this affect the purity of our organization?"

"It is impossible for any organization to maintain a high degree of purity in the process of rapid growth. This is inevitable," said Comrade Malinkov. "What we must admit is that even now, the purity of our party members Sex cannot be guaranteed. Opportunists and speculators who lack faith cannot be absent. What we can do, or what we should guarantee to do, is to maintain the ideological integrity of the entire party organization. Being positive, in principle, can maintain the basic bottom line, nothing more."

"But we must also pay attention to one thing, that is, if the team is not pure, its role in grassroots organizations and grassroots party members will be harmful," Beria clearly disagrees with Malinkov's point of view, and he directly retorted Said, "In that case, although our team has expanded, the effect it can play is negative and negative."

"Everything needs a process," Malinkov said, spreading his hands.

Victor was listening. He did not do any work related to party affairs. Therefore, he did not have any experience when facing such problems. Even when he was thinking about such problems, his perspective was similar to that of Malinkov and others. This type of person is different.

However, Victor himself was not interested in party affairs, so he was not too concerned about the dispute between Malenkov and Beria.

"Victor, you participated in the meeting tonight. In your opinion, what is the attitude of Comrade Stalin?" Malinkov argued with Beria for a while, and the two of them naturally couldn't find a way to pick it up, so Malinko The husband asked Victor instead.

"Comrade Stalin meant that it should be the first to implement this system in the army," Victor said. "He hopes to achieve the party's absolute leadership over the army. In this process, it should be planned to raise the status of the General Political Department so that it will be in line with The General Staff and the National Defense Commission are in a relatively balanced position."

Comrade Malinkov nodded and said: "Comrade Stalin's idea should have been well thought out. After all, we already have such conditions in our Red Army system."

Afterwards, Comrade Malinkov gave a briefing on the state of party affairs in the army. He is a secretary and organizing committee member of the Central Secretariat, and he is naturally very familiar with the situation in this regard.

According to him, there are now 3.6 million Bolshevik members in the entire Union, of which nearly three-quarters, or 2.6 million members, are concentrated in the Red Army system, while the entire Union has nearly 5.3 million members. Nearly four-fifths of the probationary party members, or four million probationary party members, are also in the military system.

In other words, in the entire Red Army system, nearly 40% of the officers and men are Bolshevik party members. In a system with such a high number of party members, it is obviously more appropriate to implement a grassroots party committee system.

In contrast, in the entire Union, there are only more than one million party members in 15 republics, 155 states, six border regions, 20 autonomous republics, and eight autonomous regions. There are less than 3,000 grassroots party organizations in China.

“It’s one thing to have the conditions, but it’s another thing to actually implement it,” said Comrade Beria. “Considering the practical problems, it is almost inevitable to encounter resistance when implementing this system. The key question is whether the resulting contradictions will affect the battle on the front line."

"My opinion is this," Victor couldn't help but said, "As for the implementation of the grassroots party committee system, within the alliance, we can consider implementing it slowly and gradually, but within the military, this system is implemented. But it is necessary. We must ensure the absolute leadership of the Bolshevik Party Central Committee over the military, resolutely prevent the formation of vested interest groups in the military, strictly prevent the military from becoming a tool in the hands of a certain person, a certain faction, or a certain small group, and prevent the military from participating in politics. If this is not possible, then the alliance will not be able to talk about long-term stability and prosperity. Therefore, on this issue, I think Comrade Stalin’s consideration is very necessary."

"On this kind of big right and wrong issue, we shouldn't worry about conflicts," took the coffee in front of us, took a sip, and Victor continued. "From the history of our party, the contradictions have never been eliminated. It's nothing more than a certain stage when a certain contradiction rises to the main contradiction. When there is a contradiction, just solve it by hand. Avoiding or even retreating is not the solution to the problem. Therefore, on this issue, my opinion is, We should follow Comrade Stalin’s established strategy and implement this policy firmly. If there is any opposition, we will persuade him. If there is opposition, we will overthrow him. Although it is not realistic to solve the problem once and for all, at least we can avoid the future. Encountered more complex and difficult to solve problems."

In Victor's previous life, although he didn't know much about the history of the Soviet Union, he also knew that Beria's failure was closely related to the military. Perhaps he could not care about Beria's life and death, but they are now in the same camp. Once Beria fails, his new spy chief will certainly not end well.

Therefore, what Victor really meant was that the implementation of the grassroots party committee system should not be delayed, especially after the death of Comrade Stalin. Otherwise, there will be one person sitting here tonight. Don't even think about living comfortably.

Comrade Stalin is now pushing this matter forward. Whether it is based on his personal authority or his position within the party, when this policy is promoted, there is minimal resistance, and those who really dare to jump out to oppose it must be the same. The least.

Just imagine, if you wait until Comrade Stalin's death, who else can promote this system? Comrade Khrushchev? Or Brezhnev after Khrushchev? To be honest, they are not the ones who do this kind of thing, and whether they have the will to do this kind of thing are also put aside, even if they want to do it, they can't do it at all.

Victor can clearly see the shortcomings in the personality of Malinkov and Beria. As far as Malinkov is concerned, his personality is somewhat weak in general. He doesn't like contradictions and confrontations, especially walking. To the forefront of opposition.

On the other hand, Beria's character defect is that he is a little impatient and adventurous, as if he wants to do everything in one step, and lacks the patience to turn around.

To be honest, if Victor were the two of them, he would not have any hesitation in this matter. As long as Comrade Stalin said that this matter should be done, he immediately nodded in agreement and shouted to tell. Everyone, this should be done, and no objections will be accepted.

Such a realistic situation is still not clear, but I still want to discuss it, discuss it!

Today, Malinkov is a secretary and organizing committee member of the Central Secretariat, and he is in charge of party affairs. In the past, because he rose directly from Moscow, he lacked sufficient influence locally and at the grassroots level.

Now that Comrade Stalin wants to promote the formation of the grassroots party committee, who is most likely to be responsible for the formation of the local grassroots party committee, regardless of the part of the military?

There is no doubt that as long as Malenkov stated his position this morning and stood firmly on Comrade Stalin's side, he would be responsible for 99% of the work. As a result, he will not only have the opportunity to further expand his influence within the party, but at the same time, he can also take the opportunity to extend his tentacles to places.

Shouldn't he grasp this opportunity?

For Beria, his previous work has made him all over the enemy in the army. What is certain is that even if he works hard to show favor to those military leaders, the other party will not necessarily abandon his hostility.

That being the case, what else can he worry about? There is such an opportunity to restrict the power of the military, shouldn't it be grasped firmly?

Why did Victor submit such a report to Comrade Stalin? Why did he deliberately re-implement the "dual chiefs system"? The reason is not because he knew that those in the military did not favor him, and worried that after Comrade Stalin's death in the future, someone would use the power of the military to kill him.

Therefore, the difference between Victor and Beria is that the latter always wants to ease the contradiction with the military, and wants to soften those hundred steel-making steels with finger softness, while Victor has never thought about it because he felt That's too passive, and it is tantamount to handing over the decision-making power to others. Therefore, his decision is to take precautions and put on the curse on the army first, so that the soldiers lack the opportunity to directly participate in the political struggle.

As long as the army can't bring the influence derived from the violent machine into the circle of political struggle, Victor doesn't care how those in the army view him, he still likes others to hate him and hate him, but what is it? Nothing about his appearance.

The lights in the lobby on the first floor of the villa were on all night. When Victor left the villa and got in his Volga car, there was already a hint of whiteness in the eastern sky, and the snow at night did not know when it stopped.

Looking at the villa that was going away from the rear window, Victor suddenly unconsciously gave a shock. At this moment, he suddenly thought of a question: Comrade Stalin pulled Serbakov and Xiazhenko into this game. , In order to gain the support of Zhdanov, Voroshilov and others, then, who is he going to use to win over Malinkov and Beria and gain the support of both of them?