Struggle in Soviet Russia

Comrade Stalin is a grumpy person, and of course, he is also a person with a cool personality. Perhaps such things as affection are inexplicable things for anyone like him, and they have long been abandoned. NS. Anyone who wants to rely on past affections, get forgiveness from Comrade Stalin, or be given a high look, is destined to be disappointed.

Fortunately, the young Comrade Victor has never been so unrealistic. All the hopes he will gain a foothold in front of Comrade Stalin are pinned on his work attitude and performance. Of course, caution in words and deeds is also indispensable. .

At least Victor would never touch things similar to what Comrade Khrushchev did. In his opinion, being a man cannot be lucky. When doing anything, he should not consider: "If you are lucky. , I can do whatever I want," but the first thing to consider: "If I'm not lucky, what should I do."

To put it bluntly, before doing anything, we must consider the bad point of view, which is the so-called thinking about the bad and doing it for the good. The so-called cautious, but so.

Coming out of the Brizhnia villa, he got in his car. When Sofia started the car, Victor held his chin with one hand and looked at the three-story villa outside the car window with both eyes. A lightness appeared between his brows. Joyful.

"What's the matter?" Sophia turned the car up, and when she started again, she glanced at him in the rearview mirror and asked curiously.

"Huh?" Victor withdrew his gaze from the window and gave her a surprised look.

"You are in a good mood," Sophia smiled while holding the steering wheel in both hands, "I can see it."

"Is it so obvious?" Victor himself couldn't help but smile when asked, but then he thought of something and asked, "Right, to Maria Eugena. People, do you have any understanding?"

"Malia Eugena? The piano player?" Sophia said casually.

"That's correct, he is indeed a piano player," Victor nodded and said, "I remember that before the war broke out, it should have been before I went to Lviv. It seemed that I had read about this person in the "Izvestia". ."

"Indeed, I am also somewhat impressed," Sophia nodded and said, "However, I remember that the report seemed to criticize her, the writer...it seems to be Zagoyev, Mario Zagoyev, yes. ,it's him."

Victor had an impression of the reporter mentioned by Sofia, and the reason why he had an impression of such a reporter was because he was very active during the siege of Leningrad. He published many news reports about the battle of Leningrad. , Also won the title of "Socialist Labor Hero".

"How come I suddenly remembered that this person came?" Sophia asked curiously, "I remember that this person seemed to be investigated for his beliefs and disappeared after that."

"Nothing, just a little curious," Victor said. "Let's go find information about this person later, and send it to me as soon as possible."

"Okay," Sophia nodded without asking more.

In Victor’s impression, this Maria Eugena seemed to be in her forties. Of course, the reason why he was interested in a woman in her forties was definitely not because he had any thoughts about the other party, but since Stalin Comrades like this woman’s piano performance, so he naturally has to pay more attention to this person. If he wants to keep up with the leader’s pace, he must pay attention to whatever the leader pays attention to. If he doesn’t even have this awareness, Is there a future?

In addition, in Victor’s impression, Maria Eugena seemed to be in Leningrad. During the Leningrad battle, this woman also stayed in that city. For now, Leningrad’s Everything is also what Victor is concerned about.

The car returned all the way to the building of the People's Committee of National Security, Victor went directly to his office, and Sofia went to find information about Maria Eugena for him. Within half an hour, Victor got what he wanted.

To Victor's surprise, this extremely talented pianist is currently a lecturer at the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music.

Judging from this person's resume, she was indeed in trouble because of her personal beliefs in the 1930s. At that time, the literary and artistic circles even criticized her, which eventually caused her to withdraw from the public eye.

But her work at the St. Petersburg Conservatory has never been affected. Even when the newspapers and media verbally criticize her, she can quietly engage in her work in this higher school of music.

Victor felt a little strange about this.

In the 1930s, to be precise, in March 8th, when Comrade Zhdanov had just begun to take charge of the Propaganda Department, he began to engage in ideological and political theory from the first day he took office. Propaganda, attaches great importance to ideological work in the field of culture and art.

At the same time, Zhdanov was the secretary of the Central Secretariat, the Leningrad Oblast and the First Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee. Mario Zagoev, the reporter who criticized Maria Eugena, or Maria Eugena herself, can be said to be people who were held in the palm of the hand by Zhdanov.

Think about it, without the support of Comrade Zhidanov, could Zagoyev get to where he is today? Similarly, without the asylum of Comrade Zhdanov, is it possible for Eugena to keep her job at the St. Petersburg Conservatory under the circumstances? In addition, is it possible for her to survive the siege of Leningrad that lasted more than two years?

Yes, these are all questions. Victor believes that there must be a story behind this woman, perhaps a very wonderful story.

Sitting behind his desk, Victor looked at the thin stack of materials on the table in front of him. Indeed, there are only so many documents about Maria Eugena in the database of the National Security People’s Committee. After all, this woman is not the focus of the committee's attention.

Victor turned the file to the end and glanced at the provider of the information.

Information like this will be marked with the provider. This is a special request made by Victor after taking charge of the National Security People’s Committee. Of course, no one can read information like this.

The provider of this information is Mikhail Mikhailovich Semolov.

Keeping this person's name in mind, Victor reached out and took the internal phone on the desk, directly asked for the number of the secretariat, and issued an order asking the secretariat to contact Semolov.

After a while, Sophia knocked on the door and walked in. She took two file boxes and said when she walked to the desk: "Why, why did I suddenly think of looking for this person?"

"It's nothing, but there are situations that I want to ask him about," Victor said. "Why, are others still in Leningrad?"

"Yes," Sophia nodded, put the file box in his hand on the table, and said, "However, this person is not our person, but an informant who provides information, belonging to the Internal Intelligence Bureau."

Victor frowned, glanced at the two boxes of materials that Sophia had just put down, and asked, "Is this about him?"

"Ah, no," Sophia said, shaking his head. "If you need it, I can find it for you. I remember that this man seems to be teaching at the St. Petersburg Conservatory of Music and is a vocal teacher."

"Oh?" Victor asked casually. "Get in touch with him as soon as possible. It's best to let him come to Moscow. I need to ask him about some situations."

"Okay, I'll do it right away," Sophia nodded and said.

As the chairman of the National Security People’s Committee, Victor has at least one convenient condition, that is, no matter what he is interested in or who is interested in, he can quickly get the information he wants, and this, even if it is Comrade Stalin could not do it either.

Why did Comrade Stalin be afraid of Beria in the first place? And today, when I was in the Brizhnia Villa, why did he get angry because Eitingo failed to report Khrushchev to him in time? Nothing, because the nature of the work of the National Security People’s Committee is too special. It is a national security department that specializes in intelligence collection. It can be said that as long as this department wants to understand, it can always understand To.

But the problem is that Comrade Stalin may not be able to understand what the People’s Committee of National Security has learned, and the Central Committee may not be able to understand. Only when the Ministry of National Security People’s Committee reports relevant intelligence information, Comrade Stalin Either way, the comrades of the Central Committee can really get in touch with and understand this information.

In other words, including Comrade Stalin, the intelligence information that people in the coalition’s core power circle can learn from the National Security People’s Committee is all that Victor believes is necessary to report, and he believes that it is not necessary to report, or, The intelligence information he wanted to conceal could not be understood even by Comrade Stalin.

Of course, concealing key intelligence information is likely to cause terrible trouble to yourself, and wise people will not do that, but there will always be special circumstances in the world, such as when a coup occurs. Or when there are similar incidents?

Therefore, Victor’s slander of Eitingo by Comrade Stalin was actually very terrible. Similarly, when he slandered Eitingo, he was actually taking advantage of his hand-what Comrade Stalin had learned. All the intelligence information he believes is necessary to be reported.