Struggle in Soviet Russia

Chapter 62: Almaty

Anyone who messes around in the world must have his own set of principles in life. What this principle is can not be influenced by anyone, but he also has to be responsible for it himself. If you want to be rebellious, high-tuned, and widowed, you must have the ability to match it. If you don’t have that ability, but you still want to be defiant, then don’t get any help from others at some point in the future. And blame the heavens and the others.

Victor would never choose to be Pavlov's type of person. To be such a person, he can usually do his own way, but when he is in trouble, he will often end up miserably.

In Victor's view, he now has a good opportunity in the NKVD, an opportunity that is vital to his future and his future.

Today’s NKVD has a drawback. After Yezhov’s transition to Beria, a large number of experienced agents and cadres have been eliminated, and the newly promoted newcomers, although in the background No problem, but good and bad in terms of work ability. Therefore, the entire NKVD was faced with a situation where a large number of posts were missing. It happened at this time when the war broke out. The People’s Committee of National Defense made a policy of promoting the internal affairs representative system in the army, which made the NKVD The department had to expand the staff again in the absence of posts.

In this situation, there is a certain result that will inevitably occur, that is, a certain part of outstanding performance and outstanding ability will be promoted quickly, at a speed that is often unimaginable. You only need to look at Serov to know this. Of course, you can also look at Victor's own situation.

For Victor, in addition to taking advantage of this opportunity to climb higher and higher positions, he also needs to promote some people, appoint some people, so that these people have the opportunity to show their talents, so that in the shortest time , Climb to the highest possible position.

Don't think that the NKVD is a place that doesn't pay attention to factional division. On the contrary, this department seems to value this in particular. Look at the people promoted after Beria presided over the work, look at the people promoted by Serov, and those who accompanied Kobrov to Kiev. Every aspect here reflects a kind of "circle". "The working relationship.

As a young rookie, although Victor can’t do too much, but within a reasonable range, it’s not a problem to make some arrangements and arrangements. What's more, the mission to the 16th Army this time was given by Serov. His choice of manpower by himself is also a regulation of the committee.

If you form gangs within the scope of legality and compliance, who will let this opportunity pass?

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Almaty in July is not very hot. The daytime temperature of 26 or 7 degrees does not make people feel hot, but the only shortcoming is that in this month, there seems to be a lot of rainfall. More than ten days are rainy days, giving people a feeling of entering the rainy season.

As the saying goes, "The wind is the head of the rain." When the thick rolling clouds cover the entire city, but the rain has not yet fallen, the hunting wind has already taken the first step to patronize the grassland.

In the Zambur training ground, tanks are parked in the wilderness on the east side of the training ground. The armored soldiers hurried out of the barracks are covering their own tanks with canvas-for these armored soldiers, the tank is For their lives, the commander has been instilling this thought into them from the first day of training, even though many of them have just been drafted into the army, and the training time is less than a week.

Engel Komerevich Karpov is also one of these armored soldiers. A week ago, he was only a tractor driver at the Sare Kuban collective farm, but now he has become a subordinate of the 16th Army. A tanker of the Mechanized 5th Corps with the rank of corporal.

Of course, the armored soldiers who belonged to this group with Engel now only know that they belong to the Mechanized 5th Army, but they still don't know which unit under the 5th Army, and they still need to wait for distribution.

Unlike his companions, Engel now knows which unit he will be assigned to. He even knows which tank company he belongs to, who is in the company, and the specific situation of the tank captains of the company. . But on the surface, he is indistinguishable from everyone here, just a recruit who has not been baptized by war.

Yes, Engel is of course different from his companions here. As early as five years ago, when he was just assigned to the Sare Kuban collective farm, he was drafted into the army by the NKVD and became a veritable secret police. But since two years ago, his superiors have never contacted him again, and even the monthly subsidies that used to be given to him have ceased. It is as if he was abandoned by the NKVD.

But the amazing thing is that just a while ago, he actually received a call from the NKVD, a notice, asking him to go to Moscow immediately and there was an urgent matter.

So Engel, who was notified, went to Moscow, met with the Major Victor, who was nearly ten years younger than him, and received a brand new task: to join with the secret identity of an intelligence officer of the People’s Committee of the Interior The 16th Army became a glorious Red Army soldier.

Engel is not a person willing to live a dull life. He wants to pursue a higher life goal. Even without this sudden sign, after a while, he will be ready to join the army and fight the Germans on the front line. And this call-up order obviously gave him a stronger sense of mission.

The task he received was very simple. It was to record the words and deeds of the soldiers and commanders around him while fighting, and form a report to submit before the weekend of each week. Of course, another hard requirement was that he must be right. His own identity is kept secret and cannot be told to anyone except the superiors who maintain single-line contact with him.

Engel is not the first day to do this kind of work. He has not forgotten the original working principles. Therefore, he naturally knows how to keep his identity secret, and he also knows very well that once his identity is exposed, right There is no benefit to him.

The wind blowing from the depths of the grassland seems to be getting stronger and stronger, and the moisture mixed in the wind is getting heavier and heavier, which is a sign of the coming heavy rain.

Just when Engel tied the last canvas cable to the bottom of the tank track, the surrounding comrades suddenly began to make buzzing noises. He stood up straight, looked around curiously, and drew several people nearby. They were all tiptoeing looking towards the north, one by one, their expressions were still very excited.

Almost subconsciously, Engel followed everyone's sight to the north, and saw a military jeep parked there next to the guard duty room in the north.

Is it a jeep? What's there to see? Engel was a little puzzled. However, just before his thoughts left his mind, a tall woman walked out of the guard duty room.

The woman was wearing a military uniform of a medical soldier, and on her calf under the skirt were a pair of black high boots. Her dark over-the-shoulder hair was draped from under her boat hat to her back, and was blown by the wind, dancing around.

Although he is more than 30 years old and has his own wife and children in the family, Engel was still attracted by this woman. The bright face of the woman almost satisfied all his illusions about an angel-like beautiful woman, even Even her wheatish skin is exactly the same as in the fantasy.

The comrades around were quietly discussing who the woman was and whether it was a new medical soldier. If so, they would be happy to get hurt or something in order to get close to her.

The female medical soldier didn’t know what she was doing here. She just went around in the guard duty room. After coming out, she stood by the car and looked at the place where the tanks were parked. Then, she turned and returned to driving the jeep. Room, started the car.

It wasn't until the woman got in the car that the comrades around Engel were surprised to find that this nearly perfect female medical soldier turned out to be a second lieutenant rank, several levels higher than their corporals.

The jeep drove around the door of the guard duty room, then drove away like a whirlwind, leaving only the eyes full of longing and frustration in the vicinity.

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In the training center dispatch center, on the only two-story small building, Victor stood alone in front of a window on the second floor, overlooking the endless prairie. Covered by thick clouds all over the sky, this green looks a little gloomy.

Except for the wind, there was no sign of the slightest. On a heavy rainy day, the window glass suddenly fell on the window glass. Amid the crackling noise, the window glass was quickly dripped by the rain, that is, in this torrential rain. , The jeep that had just left soon drove back quickly and stopped downstairs.

Victor looked down at the female medical soldier coming out of the driver's seat. When the door was closed, the military cap on her head was blown away. The woman put her hair in one hand, stretched forward and stumbled to pick up her hat.

Shaking his head, Victor turned around and couldn't bear to look straight, walked back to his desk, picked up a document and turned it absently.

The female medical soldier downstairs is Nino Buzaradze, a Bolshevik party member who came from an Islamic family but gave up his religious beliefs. Victor transferred the woman to her side as an assistant to intelligence analysis, and her public identity was the medical officer of the Index Artillery Division of the 16th Army.

Through the contact over the past few days, Victor found that this woman is good in everything, looks good, has a good figure, has a good EQ and IQ, and has a good work ability, but she has messed up everything in dealing with personal life issues.