The drizzle hit the window frames and made a soft "crackling" sound. The sound was so soft that it was almost hard to hear.

In the office in the window, Victor leaned back on the seat, his head slightly tilted, his head resting on the cushion of the chair back, and his eyes closed.

On the desk in front of him, there are a few thick stacks of documents. Among them, the one that is open is related to a person: Alexander Feodorovich Zastyko, born in August 1910, incumbent. Member of the People’s Committee of Ukraine, Deputy Minister of the Coal Industry of Ukraine.

These documents are all provided by the cadre's office. What Victor needs to do is to select the remaining vice-chairpersons of the presidium of the National Security People’s Committee from the 478 resumes of cadres.

How to put it this way, this job seems simple, but in fact it is very troublesome. It has been three days since these documents were sent to Victor, but until now, he has only selected four people.

In the list he has selected, the first one is Alexander Petrovich Volkov. This person was also born in 1910. In his resume, he did not have any experience in the work of the national security department.

This person is a standard technical talent. He graduated from the Moscow Aviation Institute and successively served as a design engineer for the Moscow No. 22 Aircraft Plant, the No. 84 Aircraft Plant and the Kazan No. 124 Aircraft Plant. Before the war broke out, he held the position of Deputy Minister of Defense of the Moscow State Party Committee, and after the war broke out, he began to serve as Party Secretary of the Moscow State Party’s Aviation Industry Department.

However, in the summer of last year, he shared something. To be more specific, when he was inspecting with Comrade Sherbakov, because of a technical problem, he had a problem with Sherbakov, the secretary of the state party committee. There was a dispute, and the scene was a bit ugly. As a result, he was removed from the position of secretary of the party group and demoted to deputy secretary of the party group.

The reason why he was not dismissed directly was because on the one hand this person’s professional ability was very strong, and some jobs were indeed inseparable from him, on the other hand, because Comrade Malinkov, who was in charge of the aviation industry, valued him more, and specifically shared with Schell. Bakov said hello.

But even so, from being demoted from a party secretary to deputy secretary, and from being a leader to being a deputy, it is estimated that Comrade Volkov will not have such a smooth life.

Of course, Victor is not a living bodhisattva who saves suffering. He serves as chairman of the National Security People’s Committee for his own work and future, not for saving others’ hard lives. Therefore, the reason why he chose Volkov was definitely not because of the other party's frustration, but because the copy of this person was placed on the top of the document sent.

Coupled with the relationship between this man and Comrade Malinkov, it is of course impossible for Victor to ignore him.

Well, to put it bluntly, this is a Marinkov man, and Victor must get him over to show his attitude.

The second person selected by Victor was named Zhumabay Shayakhmetovic Shayakhmetov. Just by looking at his name, he knew that he was from a certain Stan in Central Asia. The facts are true. So it is.

This person was born in 1902 and is forty-one years old this year. He is considered to be an older person selected by Victor. Don’t look at this guy who is only forty-one, but he has been in the party for 23 years. That’s right, he participated in the revolution when he was less than eighteen years old, and when he was in his early twenties, He assumed the post of Secretary of the Soviets of Akmola Region.

However, the 1920s happened to be during the Civil War. At that time, the cantonal Soviet secretary was not very valuable, not to mention that his Soviet secretary, who served as a local in order to balance, naturally became more and more worthless.

Therefore, after the end of the civil war, Kazakhstan merged into the Union, and his position as Soviet secretary disappeared. He moved to the People's Committee of the Interior, where he has been serving as the Deputy Minister of the People's Committee of the Interior of Almaty. Now, this person is the second secretary of Kazakhstan, and he belongs to the kind of existence that is somewhat powerful, but also relatively tasteless.

The reason why Victor chose this person does not seem to need to be explained too much.

The third person selected on the list, named Averki Borisovich Aristov, was born in 1903, an absolute technical cadre, once served as the party secretary of the Leningrad Institute of Metallurgy, and at the same time He is also a metallurgical engineer at the Leningrad "Central Factory" and holds a doctorate in technology.

Previously served as the second secretary of the Kemerovo Oblast, and Victor included him on the list because Comrade Zhdanov personally called him and "please" him to focus on this comrade.

Comrade Zhdanov’s recommendation is naturally not so easy to refuse, but Victor is not a very obedient master. For this reason, he had a special talk with this Aristof yesterday. There is no problem with the other’s attitude, which makes Victor also included his name on the presidium list.

As for the fourth person, the name Usman Yusupovich Yusupov was born in 1901. He has no culture. He was a cotton ginner at first. Later he worked in Uzbekistan and served as the number one in Uzbekistan. A secretary.

However, this guy was more ruthless in the Great Purge. He was cruel and ruthless towards the ethnic separatists in Uzbekistan. He was an out-and-out executioner. Because of this, he was removed after the Great Purge was over. He became the first secretary of Uzbekistan and was demoted to serve as the first secretary of the Tashkent region. Then he was kicked to the Supreme Soviet of Uzbekistan, which was equivalent to entering the National People's Congress.

Among the four people, only the last Yusupov was selected by Viktor according to his wishes. He was going to let this person be responsible for the work of the Ideological Defense Agency-the work of the National Security People’s Committee has great particularity. Serving as chairman in such a department is unavoidable to do some "dirty work." If you don't want to do it, you have to let others do it. That's why.

Victor obviously doesn't want to do dirty work, so who can give him the dirty work? Ha, Comrade Yusupov, who has a grumpy temper and is full of cleanliness for the purity of the Soviet cause, is obviously a very good candidate.

It is also because of the special work of the People’s Committee of National Security and the issue of the establishment of the presidium that naturally attracted the attention of all parties. Not to mention others, even the old Voroshilov had a phone call to indicate that he The old man is also paying attention to things here, and the hidden meaning of the words is that he is also preparing to recommend someone.

At this moment, the person on the table named Zastyko was the one recommended by Voroshilov. It's just the candidate he recommended, which caused Victor a headache.

Judging from the resume of Zashyyako, this guy seems to have been promoted all the way in Ukraine. In the course of his promotion in the past few years, if you say that there is no relationship with the Khrushchev guy, it is estimated that there is no one at all. People will believe.

The current form is that in the ranks of the People’s Committee for National Security, there are already two people, Feijing and Eitingo. They are the people who stayed behind Serov, and they can naturally be regarded as Khrushchev’s people. Add another Khrushchev to the seat of the presidium, and the balance of power of the entire presidium will be broken, and the final result will be that Victor's status will lack guarantee.

At present, the voting principle of the presidium is that the chairman has two votes, and Victor, as the chairman, also serves as the director of the foreign intelligence bureau. In this way, he has three votes in his hand. In addition, for the presidium He still has the right to veto the resolution.

It is precisely because of this advantage that Victor doesn't mind that all parties come in. It can even be said that the more complicated the forces that come in, the more advantageous it is for him, because he has the right to speak when the number of votes is dispersed. Will appear heavier.

But if a certain force comes in with too many people and more than three votes, then Victor will naturally be passive. He does have the right to veto, but he vetoed it. People can mention it again. If he vetoed it If Quan is used frequently, the result will be ugly. At that time, Comrade Stalin will doubt whether there is a problem with his ability to control the situation.

Therefore, considering these complex issues, Victor will not allow potential threats to appear, and therefore, this Zatzykota will not accept it anyway.

But rejecting Zastyshko would be tantamount to rejecting the candidate recommended by Comrade Voroshilov. If anyone recommended by him would not accept it and set up the presidium completely based on his own ideas, then Voroshilov Comrade Husband may not have much opinion yet, the key is...

After closing his eyes and resting for a long time, Victor's mind did not come up with a very good idea, but an inappropriate idea gave him the urge to take a risk.

He sat up straight from the chair, took over Zha Xia Ke's resume, read it from beginning to end, then put it aside, reached out and took a stack of letterheads, and started writing on it.

He wrote the four people selected now, plus a Zastyko, along with the names of Fitin and Aitingo. In this way, counting him, there are eight members of the presidium.

The names of these eight people were all written on it, and he marked it at the end: I would like to ask Comrade Georgi Maximilianovic for instructions.

Yes, he is going to throw this trouble to Malinkov. If he really regards himself as "his own person", then this veto of Zastykov's proposal should be made by him, Voroshilov. On the other hand, he should naturally deal with it.

Conversely, if he had no opinion on this, then Victor would consider himself more of the next four personnel.