Struggle in Soviet Russia

Chapter 314: Katyn

Comrade Stalin’s birthday is undoubtedly a major event, not only in the entire league, even in the world, it is probably a major event that deserves the attention of many countries, not to mention, at least during Comrade Stalin’s birthday, diplomacy Corresponding blessings from the envoys are necessary.

In the memory of Victor's previous life, with the end of World War II, especially after the countries of Eastern Europe joined the socialist camp, every time Comrade Stalin celebrated his birthday, the entire socialist camp would celebrate, including China.

Although Victor knew a group of people from the Hongqi Song and Dance Ensemble, the other party obviously did not know him. When the two sides passed by, they just nodded and said hello, but Victor's mind was always thinking The question of Comrade Stalin’s birthday.

Considering that Comrade Stalin’s birthday is approaching, as the chairman of the National Security People’s Committee, Victor needs to prepare a gift, um, to be precise, he needs to prepare a gift.

This so-called gift is not necessarily a specific birthday gift. It can be an achievement or an action taken by the department. For example, in Victor’s memory, after the end of World War II in the former Soviet Union, the People’s Committee of the Shipbuilding Industry, to celebrate Comrade Stalin’s birthday, embarked on a “key project for celebrating achievements” and built a large number of firepower-class destroyers.

To be honest, the reason why Stalin’s birthday is so important is not because Victor likes flattery and flattery, but because this emphasis is itself a manifestation of political correctness.

What's more, this kind of gift is not the best way to urge various departments to actively promote work. If you carefully consider it, it is actually not much different from making a work plan.

However, for Victor, it is obviously not a particularly easy task to make such a "gift". After all, the National Security People's Committee is a security department in charge of intelligence work, not a department in charge of a certain kind of production work.

Those departments responsible for specific production tasks can give a very specific production plan to determine what production goals will be achieved in a certain period of time in the future, but the National Security People’s Committee cannot make a plan and declare the future. How much intelligence will be obtained and how many spies will be captured at a certain time is simply unrealistic.

Entering the office building, Victor frowned and went straight to Comrade Poskrebeshev's office, but unfortunately, Comrade Secretary was not in his office.

Coming out of Poskrebeshev’s office, Victor went straight to the second floor. According to his guess, the Secretary-General should be in Comrade Stalin’s office. Perhaps it is not just him who is attending the meeting today. Boskrebeshev has other reception tasks.

However, what was unexpected to Victor was that when he rushed to the second floor, he also did not see Poskerbeshev. On the contrary, he saw a tall, slender figure outside the door of Comrade Stalin’s office. Young man with short blond hair.

The young man wore a pair of black-framed glasses and stood in front of the office with his hands folded, with an unsmiling look.

This young man, Victor, knew him. He was also Comrade Stalin’s secretary, but he was an assistant secretary—an assistant secretary, or an assistant secretary. To put it bluntly, he worked with Comrade Poskrebeshev.

Seeing Victor appear in the corridor, the young man’s expressionless face quickly showed an enthusiastic smile. He turned around and walked up to Victor quickly. When he came closer, he smiled and said, "Chairman Victor. Comrade, good afternoon."

Victor smiled and nodded to each other, and asked, "Is Comrade Stalin convenient now?"

The department headed by Comrade Boskrebeshev mainly provides services for Comrade Stalin, but even so, this department is also very large, with more than a dozen staff such as assistants.

In the past, Victor had very few opportunities to deal with these people, but from the bottom of his heart, he did not have a good impression of these people, not for anything else, because these people are very arrogant and always give people a kind of superiority. feel.

It’s a little funny. From the administrative point of view, these people are all led by Comrade Poskrebeshev, and in dealing with people, Comrade Poskrebeshev is the most trusted secretary of Comrade Stalin. Has always been such a low-key and kind temperament. But the young people who helped him work and were led by him were more aloof... God knows what's going on.

"Comrade Beria just went in five minutes ago," the young man whispered, "Comrade Boskrebeshev gave an explanation before. When you come, let me take you directly to Comrade Stalin's office."

While speaking, the two happened to walk to the door of Comrade Stalin's office. The young man motioned to Victor to wait for a while, and he stepped forward and knocked on the door.

As the young man said before, at this time in Comrade Stalin’s office, in addition to Comrade Stalin himself, there was Comrade Beria wearing a black Lenin suit. When Victor walked in from the door, he saw Comrade Beria was sitting on the sofa in the middle of the office, talking quietly with Comrade Stalin who was sitting opposite him.

Seeing Victor coming in from the door, Comrade Beria nodded and smiled at him, while Comrade Stalin pointed to the side of the sofa and motioned to Victor to sit over.

As is customary, Victor first salutes the two of them. Then he takes off his cap and quickly walks to the sofa to sit down. Although Victor is now the chairman of the People’s Committee for National Security, Comrade Beria is the Politburo. The committee members, at the same time, are also responsible for overseeing the national security work of the alliance. In name, they are Victor's immediate boss, and it is necessary to pay him a military salute.

Sitting down in front of the sofa, Victor discovered that on the coffee table in front of him, a few documents were scattered. The top one of them can be seen on the cover with the words "61 Commune Member".

Victor is very familiar with the name "Member of the 61 Commune". In fact, the name is called Quan. It should be "Member Shipyard of the 61 Commune". Yes, this is a large shipyard in Nikolaev, Ukraine.

Although the name of this shipyard is a bit weird, but its shipbuilding ability is very outstanding. What kind of "Anger" class destroyer, "Firepower" class destroyer, this shipyard can build, and in the memory of Victor's past life, this shipyard In the 1970s and 1980s, the shipyard was even able to build 70,000-ton nuclear-powered cruisers.

As far as Victor knew, after the outbreak of the war, to be precise, after the Soviet army suffered a disastrous defeat in the Battle of Kiev, the shipyard was urgently moved away and moved to the vicinity of Baku, and as the Soviet army advanced into Eastern Ukraine, The shipyard seems to be considering moving back. Now, a document related to this shipyard appeared in front of Comrade Stalin, and Victor wanted to know what was inside.

However, Comrade Stalin was obviously not interested in satisfying his curiosity. After watching him sit down, Comrade Stalin reached out and took a document from the table, threw it directly in front of him, and said, "Look, this is The newspaper issued by the British yesterday."

Victor took the file and glanced at it roughly.

This is a photocopy of The Times, but only the content of the first edition has been photocopied, and the photocopy has also been translated into Russian.

Victor looked at the content on the photocopy, and as expected, the report contained a public statement from the President of the Polish government-in-exile, Vładsław Ráčkiyevich. The statement stated that the Polish government-in-exile will form an investigation team to investigate the truth about the Katyn Forest incident in the Smolensk region. If Moscow confirms that it has nothing to do with the case, it should give the investigation team public permission.

Today, the Soviet army has taken Smolensk back from the Germans through a series of counterattacks. Therefore, Polish talents will make such a request.

There was not much content on the photocopy, and Victor read it through without even five minutes of use.

"Look again at the diplomatic letter that the British transferred today," Seeing him put down the photocopy in his hand, Comrade Stalin pushed another piece of letter paper in front of him, saying without expression.

Victor put the photocopy in his hand back on the coffee table, and reached for the letterhead again.

As Comrade Stalin said, this letterhead came from the United Kingdom and was a letter from Churchill handed over by the British Embassy in the Soviet Union. It was written to Comrade Stalin by Churchill, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.

Victor read the letterhead from beginning to end, then put it back on the coffee table.

The content of the letter is also not much. In summary, Churchill believes that the Katyn Forest problem must be resolved, because the Poles are still a force that can be used on the battlefield against Germany.

Of course, Churchill does not think that the Katyn Forest case needs to find out any specific results. He believes that the most urgent task is to appease those Poles who are noisy. If you want to appease Poles, the best way is to ask. Moscow handed over the existing Polish prisoners and allowed them to leave the Soviet Union.

In the process of dividing Poland with the Germans, the Soviets captured nearly 300,000 Polish soldiers. Among these Polish soldiers, forty to fifty thousand were handed over to the Germans after the war, and some officers were executed. In addition, there are about one hundred thousand Polish prisoners of war who are still being held in prison. In the labor camp.

After the Soviet-German War broke out, some Polish prisoners of war joined the Soviet army, which is the so-called Polish First Division of the Soviet Red Army. What the British want now is obviously those Polish prisoners who are still in the labor camps. .