Struggle in Soviet Russia

It was late at night. In the villa on the tree-lined road, the lamp on the second floor was dark in the study room. At the open door, a golden light projected from the crack of the door, drawing a light and shadow on the dark green carpet, and went straight. Extending to the side of the large desk.

Behind the desk, a vague figure stood in front of the window. The expressionless face was faintly green by the moonlight outside the window, looking like a ghost.

There was a faint sound of footsteps in the direction of the door. After a while, the light that penetrated through the crack of the door was firmly blocked by someone. For a while, the study room became even darker.

The faint sound of footsteps stopped at the door, and the concealed door was also pushed open from the outside, and a figure stood quietly at the entrance of the study with its back facing the outdoor light.

The visitor was a woman, wearing a light pajamas, and the light in the outer living room projected from behind her, making her pajamas lined almost transparent, and the slender figure inside was completely exposed.

"Why didn't you turn on the light?" Standing at the door, Anrina asked in a low voice, "Do you want me to turn it on for you?"

"No," the black figure standing in front of the window was Victor. He still looked out the window and said without turning his head. "You don't need to worry about me, I just don't want to understand some questions, so I need it now. Quiet."

The tone of these remarks is not very good, of course, this is also because he is in a bad mood now.

An Lina pursed her lips, she walked in from the door, put the tray in her hand on the desk, and then walked back to the door silently.

"I made a cup of tea for you and prepared two desserts," she said cautiously when she reached the door, stopping a little.

"I see," Victor said in a slightly hoarse voice, "Thank you."

An Lina seemed to be relieved. She walked out the door carefully, and when she turned around to take the door, she hesitated. Finally, she closed the door slightly, but there was still a gap.

Victor is indeed in a bad mood at this time, his mind is still trapped in the small mortar he made, and he can't get out anyway.

This little mortal is called "guilt". It originated from betrayal, and it is an emotion that is difficult to smooth out.

After finishing the morning "outing" with Comrade Stalin, Victor used the afternoon to check Chaserov's whereabouts, and checked the incident in Lviv that year. The results of the investigation finally confirmed his Speculate.

Serov did go to the Far East, but why he went there was not found. Victor only knew that Pegov, the first secretary of the Far East Primorye Territory, and the commander of the Pacific Fleet Yumashev, jointly submitted a copy to the People’s Commissar of National Defense. The report, as for the specific time of the report, the Ministry of National Defense has kept it confidential, even the chairman of the National Security People’s Committee does not have the right to consult it.

In Victor’s view, no matter what the content of this report is, it must be more important. Otherwise, he wouldn’t even be ineligible to consult it. At the same time, Serov, the People’s Commissar of the People’s Committee of the People’s Committee, would not be at all. Without suspicion, he rushed over in person.

Victor believed that the black form he had reported last time still worked. Comrade Stalin had not taken any action for such a long time. It was not that he had forgotten about it, or that he didn't care at all, but because he was waiting for such a thing. Chance.

Although Comrade Stalin is the supreme leader of the alliance, he has unparalleled authority within the alliance, but when it comes to political struggles, it is not what he wants to do. He must also pay attention to strategy.

Take the case of dealing with Khrushchev, he could not get angry with others for no reason, or scold them. In the final analysis, Comrade Khrushchev was just in the Politburo. His colleagues are his comrades-in-arms in the work of building the alliance, not his servants. Therefore, whether it is to give Khrushchev eye drops or wear small shoes, he must have a reason and an excuse. Only with this reason and excuse can he uphold the righteousness and unite more comrades.

Therefore, fundamentally speaking, Comrade Stalin turned out Lviv's old accounts this time. In the final analysis, it was still influenced by Victor. In other words, Serov was unlucky completely because of him.

Now that Serov has gone to the Far East, and the NKVD is temporarily in charge of Merkulov, then Serov has truly become a rootless man. It is foreseeable that even with the hint of Comrade Stalin, Without the involvement of the People’s Committee of the National Security Council, just the investigation by the NKVD can find out a lot of things that are unfavorable to Serov.

Comrade Stalin is only dissatisfied with Khrushchev. Therefore, he is unlikely to beat this guy with looser hair to death. Khrushchev's final result is probably to take some of his posts, even It was over only after being reprimanded.

In contrast, what about Comrade Serov? If nothing else, his future would have been completely ruined. In other words, the political struggle in the inner circle was just a small turmoil, and important figures like Serov had already ruined his future.

Of course, this is not what Victor is entangled with now, what he really entangled is his attitude towards Serov.

To be honest, even at this time, Victor’s feelings for Serov are very complicated. In the final analysis, when he had just crossed into this era, he was worried all day and couldn’t figure out where the future was. This person first valued him, and spared no effort to promote him, gave him a future, and also allowed him to gain a firm foothold in this completely unfamiliar era.

In the following period of time, Viktor’s promotion was almost inseparable from Serov’s help, until he betrayed Serov and expelled Serov from the National Security People’s Committee. Of course, at that time, he had already voted for Comrade Stalin. There is a bigger backing behind.

In his previous life, Victor had heard people say that he was a man of official career. There is no difference between who is sorry and who betrayed. There is only a difference between who goes faster and who goes slower.

Once upon a time, Victor felt that this statement was cold-blooded and negative, but now, he is already on this cold-blooded and negative road, and he is going further and further along this road.

This afternoon, through reading some materials before the war, Victor learned about the problems involved in the Gerstenmaier incident.

Just as Comrade Stalin suspected, the original "Gstenmaier incident" was not caused by Gerstenmaier alone. Behind it, it did involve the issue of the NKVD. To be precise, It involves the issue of border guards.

Because in Lviv at the time, it was not so easy for a person with Union nationality to enter the German-controlled area. Although the Soviet-German relationship was friendly at the time, behind this friendship was Moscow's relationship with Berlin. Deeply fearful, therefore, the border defense system is loose on the outside and tight on the inside, and the border area is also very strict.

In addition, the old archives of the People’s Committee of the Interior contain relevant preservation information, which involves corruption in the border defense system of the Lviv region. There are border defense officers, which are charged per person. Five hundred to one thousand rubles are allowed for those who try to sneak across the border. What's more, some people cooperated with Gerstenmaier to send people to the German-controlled area by collecting rebates.

Regrettably, the NKVD at the time did not pay attention to this matter at the beginning. By the time it began to pay attention, the atmosphere on the border line had already become tense, and the war followed. Therefore, there was no opportunity for further investigation. survey.

According to estimates by the NKVD, there were about 2,000 to 2,400 Soviet Jews who entered the German-controlled area through this method and ended up in Gerstenmeier’s hands. In this incident, so many people were sent to the ghost gate.

If you look at it from this aspect, Comrade Stalin asked for a re-investigation of this matter, to find out all the people involved in the past, and to give sufficient punishment, it is very necessary, after all, this is a real money and death.

But from another perspective, this is another political struggle under the guise of justice, and its starting point is problematic.

Well, Victor never thought of himself as a gentleman, and he was not interested in attacking Comrade Stalin in any form from a moral point of view. He was just...

Forget it, now it’s meaningless to say anything that I don’t want to target Serov and the like. What really makes Victor feel upset is that this investigation was triggered by the black situation he sued, and in the end The person responsible for this investigation is also himself. In other words, he is a bad guy inside and out, and he has to do it. Otherwise, Comrade Serov’s fate today may be his tomorrow.

After smoking a cigarette in his hand, Victor let out a long sigh, then turned around in front of the window, went straight to sit behind the desk. But when he reached out and turned on the lamp on the desk, a thick stack of documents appeared on the desk. This was the archives he had specially retrieved from the NKVD this afternoon. Among them were not only related to the Lviv Frontier Guards. The personal file also contains a brief record of the "Gstenmaier incident" that year.

In addition to these data from the NKVD, there is also an intelligence data transferred from the Foreign Intelligence Bureau of the NKVD. This data records the current situation of Gerstenmaier.

That's right, no matter what kind of emotions he has in his heart, the tasks that Comrade Stalin confessed still have to be completed, otherwise, it is not his sympathy for others.