Struggle in Soviet Russia

In the magnificent old Russian-style living room, a little light illuminates the small area in front of the desk. At this time, outside the curtains of the floor-to-ceiling windows, the light of the morning sun has penetrated in, but the fine raindrops have fallen on the window glass, making The light has dimmed a lot.

At the desk, Victor was scanning the personnel file with a frown.

The name of the person on the file is Semyon Kuzmich Tswigon. He is currently a second lieutenant at the People’s Committee of the Interior of Kiev. This person has a relatively high degree of education. He graduated from the History Department of Odessa Teachers College. Before joining the NKVD, he served as a middle school teacher and a principal. He joined the Bolshevik Party last year.

According to the archives, this person’s family background is “red” and belongs to the kind that can be trusted. In addition, his writing level is relatively high and he is good at propaganda work. The work he did in the Kiev People’s Committee of the Interior, It's also about propaganda.

For some reason, Victor always felt that this person's name was a bit familiar, but for a moment he still couldn't remember where he had seen it.

After hesitating for a while, he finally picked up the seal on hand and deducted a red stamp at the bottom of the personnel file.

The knock on the door rang, interrupting Victor's thoughts. He put the personnel file together with the twenty-nine files picked out last night, and then said, "Come in."

The door was pushed open from the outside, and Varenka in a brand-new military uniform walked in from the outside. He put a cup of coffee in his hand on Victor’s table and said, "Comrade Major, you haven’t had another night. Sleep?"

Victor nodded, reached for the coffee, took a sip to his mouth, and said, "What time is it?"

"It's almost seven o'clock," Varenka said. "You'd better sleep for a while, and I'll call you at half past seven."

"No," Victor put down the coffee, picked up the next document, and said, "Go and prepare. Let's leave in half an hour and go to the committee for breakfast."

Varenka didn't persuade him any more. He nodded and said, "Okay, then I'll call you in half an hour."

After speaking, he walked to the window, opened the curtain in front of the window, then walked back to the table, turned off the lamp on the table, and then left the room.

According to Comrade Serov, Victor will go to Transbaikal to participate in the formation of the 16th Army. To be precise, he will preside over the establishment of an anti-intelligence and anti-secret internal affairs organization within the 16th Army. Since this is the first time that the NKVD has established a representative system in the army, and the staff of the committee itself is tense, it is impossible for Moscow to equip him with enough staff. Everything needs to be done by himself from scratch. Arrangement, so Victor has been very busy these two days.

In order not to pick a group of idiots to follow him to Transbaikal, Victor has been going through thousands of personnel files every day for the past two days, and then choose the right person from them, but even so, he still has Failed to select enough places for 60 people.

According to Victor’s criteria for selecting candidates, he doesn’t care about anyone’s age, seniority, or even the origin of the other person. He needs the other person’s past work to have enough to persuade him, even though his past results are not. It must be able to represent the current ability, but being able to make achievements can explain certain problems.

Of course, Victor also pays attention to two standards, one is academic qualifications, and the other is Bolshevik party membership. These two standards are not required by him, but are rigid regulations set by the NKVD. Comrade Beria is promoting the policy of elitism of the internal staff, which are two basic requirements in the policy.

When Varenka left the door, Victor picked up a new personnel file, frowned and looked through it.

This time, the name of the person in the file is Nino Buzaradze, a Georgian who graduated from the Kutaisi Institute of Technology and studied electronic communications. The Nalchik Intelligence School received three years of training, during which time he joined the Bolshevik Party. After the training period, I worked in Tbilisi for a few months, and later transferred to Minsk, Belarus, where he had outstanding performance in intelligence collection and counter-rebel work.

However, this woman has some problems with her background. The reason why she was transferred from Tbilisi to Minsk that year was because the NKVD broke a Georgian nationalist separatist group in Tbilisi, and the woman’s younger brother Be a member of the group.

The situation is similar to Diana, because of such a stain on her family background. This woman has not been promoted in the past few years. She is still the rank of sergeant. After West Belarus was incorporated into the Union, she was even more He was transferred to a purely clerical job.

Seeing this woman’s file, Victor couldn’t help but think of Ji Ana. Speaking of it, this time he actually wanted to take the opportunity to bring Ji Ana to his side, but he finally gave up the idea, after all. Serov understands the relationship between him and Diana, and if he blatantly acts for personal gain, he will probably leave a bad impression on Serov.

Looking at the face with the obvious characteristics of a Persian beauty in the file photo, Victor rubbed his chin and hesitated for a long time. After all, he buckled the chapter at the bottom of her file and selected so many people. So far, there is no woman. , Victor felt that he should be a little fake for his own sake. Well, he lacks an intelligence analysis assistant by his side, and this woman is very good.

Of course, he didn't think that his approach was too much. After all, among the piles of personnel files, there were beauties. Didn't he miss all of them? The reason for choosing this woman is because her abilities are there, and the two hard standards are met. What else can be said?

Placing Nino's files among the selected files, Victor looked through a few more copies, but when Varenka called him, he didn't select another one.

For the current Victor, his time is really tight. These candidates are not just to be selected. He also needs to submit the relevant personnel files to the personnel department of the committee. There needs to be reviewed again and there is no problem. , Will contact the relevant departments and call these people to Moscow.

Afterwards, Victor will meet with these people one by one and ask them their own intentions: Comrade Beria’s opinion is that the relevant personnel must be consulted for this work. If the other party is unwilling to accept the call, then it will be replaced. To impose an administrative order, let alone force it. Of course, Comrade Beria still has an undisclosed opinion, that is, those who refuse the enlistment have the idea of ​​fear, cowardice, and avoiding the front line. People who do not have similar ideas are not. Suitable for some important tasks. To put it bluntly, anyone who doesn't want to do it can do it, but as long as you don't want to do it, then don't want any future.

Regarding the decision to establish an internal representative system in the various combat units of the Red Army of the Soviet Union, the National Defense Commission has officially issued Order No. 53 two days ago, requesting the General Political Department, the General Staff Headquarters, and the leading organizations of the front and group armies to deal with this issue. Cooperate with the establishment of the system. According to the provisions of this order, internal affairs representatives at all levels have the right to know the decisions and resolutions of various combat troops, but they have no right to speak or make decisions; internal affairs representatives at all levels have the right to develop and recruit internal intelligence personnel in their respective units. The commanders and staff of the People’s Republic of China have no right to obtain the list of internal intelligence personnel by means of inquiry, investigation, etc.; internal affairs representatives at all levels are only responsible to the higher-level internal affairs departments, and are not responsible to the command institutions of relevant troops, etc.

If Victor had any knowledge of history, he would know that this was the predecessor of the “227” Order of the National Defense Commission. Well, it can be regarded as the predecessor. It laid the foundation for the implementation of the “227” Order.

While Victor selected personnel and met in batches with the candidates who came to Moscow, the most influential and most interesting military trial since the outbreak of the war is also being conducted in Moscow.

The large-scale defeat of the border battle, especially the complete collapse of the Western Front, always requires someone to stand up and take responsibility, and the big-headed Pavlov is obviously the best candidate for that.

Victor in Moscow can understand the trial process. In his opinion, Comrade Pavlov was sentenced to death without being unjust at all.

This comrade, who controls the entire Western Front, not only was rebellious before the outbreak of the war, and he could not listen to anyone’s suggestions. He always felt that he was the only one in the command system of the Soviet Red Army. The most outstanding one.

After completing his inspection of the fortification area of ​​the Western Special Military Region, Kobrov made a number of suggestions to Comrade Pavlov, pointing out that there were problems with the construction and layout of the fortifications. The People’s Committee made a sarcasm; Voroshilov reminded him to pay attention to the defenses of northern Grodno and southern Brest. He turned his head and said that they should retire; Timoshenko reminded him to pay attention to the movement of the German army and improve. Be vigilant, it is best to supply enough ammunition to the frontline troops. He felt that he could not irritate the Germans. He did not arrange this until the day before the war broke out. As a result, the ammunition in the Western Front Army’s arsenal was sent in batches. To the Germans...

The most terrible thing is that when he was tried in Moscow, he even said that the defeat of the Western Front was not entirely his responsibility. The Special Military District on the Baltic Sea under Kuznetsov’s command had to bear 50% of the responsibility. Kiel The Southwest Front Army commanded by Ponos also needs to bear certain responsibilities. To put it bluntly, the troops he commanded were defeated, and he only had to bear the least amount of responsibility.

Therefore, during the trial that lasted for several days, none of the hundreds of senior commanders in the Soviet Red Army system stood up to speak for him. Who would die if this kind of person died?