Struggle in Soviet Russia

Seeing Victor coming in from the door, the discussion in the combat room stopped instantly, and everyone's eyes gathered and fell on Victor.

"Comrades, this is Colonel Viktor Viktorovich of the NKVD in charge of domestic intelligence," Kulikov introduced to those present. "The intelligence information for the Transcaucasian direction was reported by the department under his leadership. , We want to know more about it, now we can ask Comrade Victor, maybe he can give us something useful."

Hearing Kulikov said this, Victor understood what he meant instantly. If nothing else, Kulikov’s "intelligence information in the Transcaucasian direction" did not refer to the German offensive. Because they have not advanced to Transcaucasus. However, the opposite was the rebellion in the Chechnya-Ingushetia region. He had just submitted a report to the People’s Committee for National Defense. The intelligence information listed in the report is all about this.

In fact, the rebellion in Chechnya began on the day when the German army launched an offensive against the Soviet Union. There were three main leaders: Hassan Israjlov and Hussein Israjlov. The two are brothers, and there is a Myrbek Sheripov. Among the three, the Israjlov brothers led the Muslim rebellion, while Sheripov led the Dagestan rebels.

Last month, the Internal Intelligence Agency led by Vic got the information that the Israilov brothers were planning a rebellion. They contacted the lurking in Grozny, Gujelmes, Margobek and other places. The "Mullah" is preparing to establish the "Chechen-Ingushetia Provisional National People's Revolutionary Army" and the formation of five military regions to initiate riots at the same time.

After learning the relevant information, Victor made a report to the People’s Committee for National Defense. At the end of January, the Transcaucasian air force bombed the assembly location determined by the Israilov brothers. At the same time, the People’s Committee of the Interior The operatives captured and shot the liaison personnel of the "Chechen-Ingushetia Provisional National People's Revolutionary Army", which led to the abortion of the Israjlov brothers’ rebellion.

But what makes people feel helpless is that in the subsequent encirclement and suppression operations organized by the North Caucasus Border Guard and the Civil Police General Directorate, not only did they fail to achieve any results, but there were a large number of border guard soldiers from Turkmen, Georgian, Armenian, and Kurdish origins. The police rebelled and turned to the "Chechen-Ingushetia Provisional National People's Revolutionary Army."

According to the intelligence held by Victor, in just over a month, as many as tens of thousands of border guard soldiers and civilian police have defected, which ultimately led to the failure of the encirclement and suppression operations, and at the same time strengthened the strength of the rebels.

Just three days ago, the Israilov brothers formed the so-called "Caucasian Brothers Special Party" and began to recruit members from the 11 ethnic minorities in the Caucasus. They formally launched their rebellion and quickly captured several Cities and residential areas.

As far as Victor knows, the Caucasus Front Army has transferred the Makhachkala Division of the People's Committee of the Interior of the 58th Army to the Grozny area, and they will be responsible for the subsequent encirclement and suppression operations.

Since the outbreak of the rebellion, the Caucasus Brothers Special Party has begun to carry out large-scale persecution of the Russians in the area under its control. At the same time, it launched an inventory operation on the intelligence network of the People’s Committee of the Interior, which led to the investigation of the Internal Intelligence Service. Information is poor. But even so, Victor was able to grasp some basic information.

At Kulikov’s invitation, Victor walked to the long table where the map was placed. He looked at the map on the table—the map was indeed a map of the situation in the Transcaucasus direction. From this map, you can see that the whole The mountainous areas in the Chechen-Ingushetia area are now completely under the control of the rebels. The areas controlled by the Soviet army are mainly city bases. Obviously, such a situation is very unfavorable for the Soviet army, especially In a situation where the German army has threatened the Caucasus frontally.

"The latest information we can grasp is from three days ago." After a cursory glance at the map, Victor explained the intelligence information he had. "The Dagestan rebels led by Sheripov have already taken control. After Novorakskaya to a large area of ​​Drem, their strength is about 5,000 people, of which there are about two regiments that can be regarded as paramilitarized troops."

What he meant by paramilitarized troops was those armed with rifles and light machine guns. As for the insurgents with cold weapons such as sickles and forks, they were not militarized troops.

"As for the Caucasus Brothers Special Party, their armed strength is stronger," Victor reached out and drew a large circle on the map of several cities, including Grozny, and said, "These areas are their activities. The range, its strength is about 25,000 to 30,000. Moreover, due to the rebellion of the Grozny border guards, their troops have a small number of heavy weapons."

Afterwards, Victor gave a detailed introduction to the situation of the Caucasus Brothers Special Party, including the establishment of its troops, the commander of each unit, the high-level leaders of the special party, and so on.

In Victor’s view, the armed rebellion in the Chechen-Ingushe region must have a great relationship with the German attack on the Caucasus towards the German army. It is good to say that they are taking advantage of the fire and looting or responding far away. In short, if there were no Germans on the Caucasus direction. Offensive, this rebellion cannot be so big anyhow, and there will not be a large number of border guard soldiers and civilian police surrendering to the rebels.

Victor believes that for today's Caucasus Front Army, the top priority should still be frontal battlefield operations. As long as the German offensive cannot cross the Caucasus Mountains, the rebellion in the area will eventually be subdued.

However, Victor’s judgment was wrong. He underestimated the rebellion led by the Israilov brothers. In the history of his previous life, this rebellion lasted for more than 30 years until 1976. At that time, the last rebel was killed by the Soviet army, and at that time, the last rebel was over seventy years old.

Of course, for everyone in the war room, they are not really paying attention to this rebellion in the Chechen-Ingushetia region. Although the size of the rebels has reached tens of thousands, it is still impossible to get a total of such rebellions. The attention of the General Staff, after all, on the frontal battlefield, there are still millions of well-equipped German troops there.

Similar to the situation of the NKVD, it is impossible for the General Staff to achieve unity of ideas. Considering the importance of the General Staff and Intelligence Agency, there are people who hold different opinions on the appointment of Victor as the Director of the General Staff and Intelligence Agency. There are also many. And what happened here today is actually an investigation of Victor's ability. Victor's talk here is undoubtedly a good demonstration of his ability.

At present, the head of the General Staff Organization Bureau is Major General Sarayev. After the inspection of Viktor, he went through the entry procedures for Viktor. As Viktor’s predecessor, Kulikov brought him personally. The military uniform of the General Staff and Intelligence Bureau and the corresponding badges convened a short meeting with the heads of a cadre of the General Staff and Intelligence Bureau to introduce Victor, the new director, to everyone.

In other words, starting from this time today, Victor will temporarily leave the NKVD and will serve as the head of the intelligence department under the General Staff and serve as the director of the Foreign Intelligence Service.

Compared with the work of the NKVD’s work with the Internal Intelligence Bureau, the post of the Director of the General Staff’s Intelligence Bureau is relatively more leisurely, because he does not have to deal with the trivial information, nor does he have to deal with those related to domestic intelligence. The arrest mission.

But from another perspective, this job is not considered idle. First of all, Victor must be familiar with the work of the General Staff Intelligence Bureau in the shortest possible time. He needs to grasp the basic situation of the various intelligence stations set up by the Intelligence Bureau abroad, and needs to understand the information of more than 1,400 overseas intelligence personnel. Secondly, he has to do his best to solve the funding problem of the Intelligence Bureau—yes, the annual funding of the NKVD is a staggering number. At the same time, each labor camp can generate income on its own. Therefore, the funding problem has never been It is not such an important issue. But the General Staff Intelligence Bureau is different. Each of their expenses needs to live within their means. At the same time, the overseas intelligence expenses are huge. Once the funds are insufficient, Victor needs to figure out his own solutions.

During Kulikov’s tenure, the Intelligence Bureau of the General Staff would draw large deficits every year. Fortunately, Comrade Shaboshnikov attached great importance to intelligence work. As the Chief of the General Staff, he would find ways to make up for these deficits. Qi, will not affect the work of the Intelligence Bureau in the new year.

But now, not only Kulikov is gone, but Shaboshnikov is also gone. Vasilevsky will take the post of chief of staff, and the deputy chief of staff in charge of the Intelligence Agency will be Anton. Nov, Victor was the first director of the General Staff Intelligence Bureau who did not concurrently serve as the deputy chief of staff. Imagine, in the face of such a situation, how could the heads of the various branches of the General Staff Information Bureau have no idea in their minds?

Therefore, at this meeting hosted by Kulikov and attended by the leaders of the twelve business bureaus and ten auxiliary bureaus of the General Staff Intelligence Bureau, Victor could even feel the slack and contempt of everyone.

However, Victor himself does not care about this. On the one hand, he has a general idea about his future work. On the other hand, it is because of his position and rank in the General Staff. The heads of these intelligence bureaus, even Antonov, who headed him in name, couldn't show him anything.