Struggle in Soviet Russia

There are no places of interest near Lake Preseyevo, but the natural scenery here is very good, mainly because the urbanization process of Moscow has not advanced here, and the impact of industrial pollution on this place is not great. Therefore, this area The natural features of the lake area and woodland are still relatively well preserved.

Comrade Stalin was going out for an outing. Of course it was not a simple matter. The people from the Political Security Bureau had already set up control in the vicinity, but they had all changed into casual clothes, so it was not so easy to detect.

Victor followed behind Comrade Stalin, with a slight smile on his face, and he looked like he was very happy, but in fact, he was a little nervous because he couldn’t understand why Comrade Stalin called himself Come here with you.

In the past, Comrade Stalin was not without traveling. However, in most cases, the Politburo members, including Molotov, Zhdanov, etc., accompanied him. During the year, Malinkov and Beria spent more time with him. As for the past few months, Comrade Zhdanov has assumed this role.

To be honest, for Victor, he has never left the Kremlin alone with Comrade Stalin. Similarly, he has not received an invitation, but he has participated in a private reception hosted by Comrade Stalin—yes, just like yesterday. A cocktail party like that in the evening.

Of course, Victor had also been to Tehran with Comrade Stalin before, but that was to perform official duties, and the nature was completely different. It was not the same as today's private outing.

Therefore, to a certain extent, this is a good thing, but the key point is that this good thing appears a bit abrupt, so Victor's heart will not have a bottom.

Comrade Stalin was obviously not the first time to come to Lake Preseyevo for leisure. He walked down from the top of the hill and walked straight to a simple dock by the lake. At this time, on the edge of the dock, he had already Several people were waiting there, and among them, Victor saw Flasik.

Taking the lead in front, Comrade Stalin walked straight to the pier by the lake. He stopped in front of the plank road on the pier, pinched his waist with his hands, and looked at the sparkling lake with his chest and head raised, but his mouth said: " I remember when Wanda Bandroska went to Moscow for a performance in 1949, she specially came here. She was full of praise for the scenery of Lake Preseyevo and made a request. Settle by this lake."

With a small smile on his face, Victor walked slowly to the lake and looked down at the clear water in front of him. Among the swaying water plants, he could even see small fish swimming slowly.

"Wanda Banderoska, do you know this person?" Comrade Stalin turned his head and looked at Victor and asked.

"I have some impressions," Victor thought for a while, and said, "In 1949, I happened to be in Lviv. At that time, when I led my department into Lviv, Lviv's city theater was performing her operas. . But it’s a pity that I was so busy at the time that I didn’t have time to watch her performance."

"Well," he groaned a little, then he continued, "Later, I heard that she accepted the invitation of our propaganda department to go to Kiev, Odessa, ah, and Moscow, to tour."

"Yes," Comrade Stalin nodded and said, "When "La Traviata" was screened in the Moscow Theater, I also went to see it. It was wonderful."

After a pause, he suddenly asked, "So, Victor, do you know Wanda? Banderoska is now?"

Victor was a little at a loss. He didn't think he needed to understand the movements of a Polish opera actress, even if the other party was so beautiful and weeping.

"She was in Berlin, performing to those brutal fascists," Comrade Stalin apparently didn't intend to wait for his reply. He just paused for a while, and said to himself, "She rejected the generous treatment given to her by the Alliance. And conditions, after telling a big lie, fled to Germany."

Victor put away the smile on his face, he realized that Comrade Stalin did not mention this man for no reason, he must have some deep purpose.

"Victor, as the head of the People’s Committee for National Security, you should have enough vigilance and a keen sense of smell," Sure enough, Comrade Stalin went on to say, "At the beginning, in Western Ukraine, there were a lot of problems, because the current situation is unexpected. In the war, many problems at the time were covered up, but we cannot ignore the covered up issues. On the contrary, the more such issues, the more we should attach great importance to them."

what is the problem? What problem is being covered up? Victor's mind is full of question marks. He feels that he can't keep up with Comrade Stalin's thinking. Of course, the most important thing is that what the other party said is too vague... Is this question related to that Wanda? Bandroska?

"Yours is Comrade Stalin." Even though he didn't understand what the other party was talking about, Victor didn't dare to ask. On the contrary, he still had to pretend to understand, and said vaguely, "In the war Before the outbreak, I was the head of the Lviv Bureau of the People's Committee of the Interior, and I was deeply moved by this."

"I know where you were at that time, so I hope you can investigate these issues yourself," Comrade Stalin took a look at him and said, "Why can someone like Wanda Banderoska be allowed to do so by the Union in the first place? , Returned to Poland smoothly. Why those Jews, Poles, and even Ukrainians who are also hostile to the Soviets and socialism like her can cross the border and go to the German-controlled area. That is called Norbert Georg. Is Steenmeier’s Gestapo related to some people in the border guards? Is there someone who facilitated his actions?"

Victor frowned, and he finally understood what Comrade Stalin was talking about.

As he said before, when the Soviet army advanced into Lviv, Victor was among the first people to enter Lviv. Later, he became the head of the Lviv Bureau of the NKVD. , And stayed there until the war broke out, so he knew everything that happened in Lviv in those two years.

In what Comrade Stalin said, a Gestapo of Norbert Gerstenmeier was mentioned. That’s right, this German was the contact person of the Gestapo set up in Lviv. At that time, the NKVD and The Gestapo has exchanges, but Norbert Gerstenmeier's rank is a bit high, and he is a school-level officer. Therefore, the person who docked with him was Serov.

During the partition of Poland, the Soviet and German sides had an agreement. According to this agreement, after the Soviet army occupied Lviv, the Poles who originally lived in Lviv had the right to choose whether to stay in Lviv or Moved to German control area.

Remember, only Poles can enjoy this right, that is, people holding Polish nationality, but Ukrainians and people of all ethnic groups holding Soviet nationality are not included.

At that time, the NKVD was in charge of border management, and people entering and leaving the country were required to go through the NKVD, and the Gestapo named Norbert Gerstenmeier was responsible for this matter in Germany. People.

Victor remembers clearly that when he was implementing the population migration policy, it was very smooth at the beginning. Those Poles living in Lviv did not like the Soviet Union, and even less liked the Soviet socialist system, even though they lived on the east of the Bug River. On the other hand, they still live on the west side of the Bug River, and they can't get rid of the status of a subjugated slave, but those Poles, especially Polish intellectuals, are more willing to go to the German-controlled area.

So, in just half a year, a large number of Poles who originally lived in Lviv moved out one after another and moved to the German-controlled area.

If this were the case, then the whole thing would be fine, but as a large number of Poles in Lviv moved away, some people with Union citizenship also joined the westward movement. In the beginning, there were not many such people, but as the news spread, more and more people joined the westward movement, and most of them were Jews.

To be honest, the original NKVD did not do very well in intelligence work. In addition, at that time, Victor always wanted to leave Western Ukraine, and his whole mind was not used in the right place, so he did not notice. What's the problem behind this.

It was not until later that the German-controlled Poland began to arrest Jews on a large scale and confiscated their property. This abnormal migration phenomenon came to an end. At the same time, the small actions of the Germans were also exposed.

The fact is that the abnormal westward migration that occurred at that time was related to the underground propaganda conducted by Norbert Gerstenmeier, who was not only extremely anti-Semitic, but also greedy. He used some Polish underground organizations to secretly call on the Jews in West Ukraine to move to the German-controlled area of ​​Poland, saying that they would have their own land, their own wealth, etc., but the fact is, Once those Jews listened to this lie, as long as they crossed the border, they would go to hell.

However, after the incident was exposed at the time, it did not attract any major repercussions. After all, the relations between the Soviet Union and Germany were friendly at that time. At the same time, there was also a certain anti-Semitism in the Soviet Union. Furthermore, those Jews who crossed the border. , At the moment they secretly crossed the border, they had already betrayed the alliance, who would care about their life and death?

To this day, this matter has passed so long, to be honest, if it weren't for Comrade Stalin's mention, Victor would have forgotten where he was going.

(I’ve made a mistake, there is still only one change today, two more changes will be resumed tomorrow, sorry)