Struggle in Soviet Russia

In the dimly lit office, there is only a lamp like a bean. Behind the desk painted dark red, Victor holds a cigarette in one hand and a pen in the other, and he reads the documents expressionlessly on the front. .

The document is an execution order involving 12 defected intelligence personnel from the NKVD.

Since the Kotov case, the NKVD has launched a comprehensive self-examination and self-correction. This is a self-inspection of the entire system, and it takes the form of covert investigation. All officers above the rank of lieutenant In the survey.

Not to mention that such investigations are not ineffective. After a period of cleanup, some "special elements" have been cleared out. However, there are no traitors like Kotov. These so-called special elements are basically The corrupt elements, and the 12 people involved in the document, are among the more serious ones.

When he was still in Lviv, Victor would carefully consider all cases that required capital punishment, and review over and over again. He would not give his final opinion until it was determined that there were no problems in the investigation process of the case. But now...

He looked at the several review opinions outlined in the document with a red pen, and he felt a little uncomfortable in his heart.

Yes, for the 12 persons involved in the execution, he signed the review documents for approval. The most important thing is that when reviewing these documents, he just flipped through the files roughly and did not see any physical evidence. Under the premise of circumstantial evidence, an instruction to approve execution was quickly made.

To be honest, he is not sure whether there are unjust cases in this, no, more accurately, he can be sure that there must be unjust cases in it, but even so, he did not think about reorganizing these cases. Once again, find out some suspicious points or something, so as to overturn the following people's report.

Why? There are two reasons: First, Comrade Stalin and the People’s Committee for National Defense under his leadership had great opinions on the People’s Committee of the Interior after Kotov’s defecting case. Decision made by the Central Supervisory Committee. The meaning embodied in this decision is that the NKVD believes that there are problems in the NKVD. After large-scale personnel changes and organizational adjustments in the past few years, some "pests" have been mixed into the NKVD. They are unscrupulously corroding the muscles of this powerful department and making it more and more unrecognizable.

Therefore, the meaning of the Central Supervisory Committee is that there must be problems in the NKVD. Now they can self-examine and correct themselves. If the problem cannot be found, the Central Supervisory Committee will intervene in the investigation in the next step.

Therefore, the NKVD must make a choice: whether to find out its own problems by itself, or to let the Central Supervisory Commission pick it up. Therefore, Comrade Beria's subsequent order is that every department must find the problem, even if there is no problem creating a problem, it must be addressed.

The second reason: According to Victor, there are a series of problems in the internal intelligence department of the NKVD today. Under the leadership of Comrade Merkulov, the internal intelligence department of the Committee has undergone rapid expansion for several months. In the process of this expansion, of course, many professional intelligence personnel with strong capabilities and stable positions have been discovered. At the same time, a huge network of informants is rapidly spreading out. However, during this period, due to the sufficient funding and the tilt of resources, many people began to lose control of their greed, and they began to reach out to buy the funding of the informant.

For example, among these 12 personnel who are about to be executed, there is a captain in charge of the work of the New Volensko Regional Intelligence Network. He has been in the New Volensko area controlled by the Germans for less than four months. Over the course of time, more than 180 informants have been developed, and more than 60,000 rubles have been withdrawn before and after.

Well, if he really developed so many informants in such a short period of time, and he still has a certain value, then he will not only be punished, and even be rewarded, but the problem is that after actual investigation , He really has no more than 20 informants in his hands, and many of them are worthless to strive for goals. As for those funds, they were all used by him to raise his little wife.

In the 1940s, the empty payment and the huge amount involved, this kind of thing cannot be tolerated by anyone, so it is inevitable to give him a gun. To kill such a person, Victor will never Soft.

When any organization is expanding rapidly, it is inevitable that problems of this kind or that kind will inevitably occur. These are unavoidable. If you want to rectify these chaos, sometimes killing chickens and monkeys is the best method. Therefore, Victor will not be indecisive about the execution of these 12 people, even if some of them are actually wronged-now he doesn't have much energy to vindicate a certain person.

"Boom boom boom!"

A soft knock on the door sounded, interrupting Victor's thoughts, he put down the pen in his hand, closed the document in front of him, and said, "Come in."

The door was pushed aside from the outside, and Varenka, dressed in casual clothes, walked in and said softly, "Comrade Chief, Assanizze is here. I arranged for him to go to the waiting room."

Victor nodded and said, "I see. Bring him here in five minutes."

"Yes," Varenka replied, turning around and closing the door.

The windows of the office were open. Varenka obviously didn't notice this when he closed the door. He took the door lightly and left. Although he didn't use much effort, the door was still heavy in the air flow through the hall. Smashed on the door frame.

Hearing the door bang shut, Victor shook his head helplessly.

The committee department arranged many assistants and secretaries for him to assist him in his work, but for Victor, those people were not easy to use, mainly because those people were arranged for him by the committee department, and what did the committee department do? NKVD! Those engaged in spying and surveillance, who would dare to use people of unknown origin?

Because of this, Victor has always entrusted Varenka to some more important or private matters. He also intends to train Varenka now, so that he can be exposed to civilian jobs. Well, how can I put it, although this young man is very progressing, it is obviously not satisfactory.

Not to mention anything else, just such a door-closing action. Let’s see how the secretaries who arranged for him in the ministry did it. People were very careful and brought the door to the room. At the end of the door closed. At a moment, the leaders can see their faces—on the one hand, they show their respect to the leader, and on the other hand, they are also worried that the leader will suddenly have new instructions, but he cannot hear it because he closed the door prematurely.

Details determine success or failure!

If it hadn't been for a long time to get along and had enough trust in Varenka, Victor would have kicked this fellow who didn't understand and respected him far away.

Without thinking too much about Varenka, Victor quickly turned his attention to the young man named Asanidze again.

Otar Asanidze, Georgian, captain of national security, deputy director of the Special Division of the Internal Intelligence Service of the NKVD, the previous investigation of the Kiev region was presided over by him. For this, he also offended him. Few people.

This time this person was specifically called back from Ukraine because Victor had some ideas and he wanted to appoint this person as the head of the Internal Intelligence Agency's intelligence network in Ukraine.

Yes, after a long period of thinking, Victor finally made a decision. He was going to add sand to the internal intelligence bureau appointed by Comrade Merkulov, and use this to weaken its presence. The influence in the internal intelligence bureau.

In the current Internal Intelligence Bureau of the NKVD, the heads of the various departments are all appointed by Comrade Merkulov. Although he has to report to Comrade Beria on the issue of organization and personnel, Considering his close relationship with Beria, Merkulov must have a lot of autonomy.

Now, Merkulov has been temporarily revoked from the post of the head of the Internal Intelligence Service, and Victor concurrently serves as the head of the Internal Intelligence Service. He never thought of operating the Internal Intelligence Service as a monolith and replace all positions. Own people. But if you do a little bit of tricks and poke a hole in the "personnel network" of Comrade Merkulov, there should be no problem.

The current head of the Ukrainian Intelligence Network of the Internal Intelligence Agency is Merkulov’s ironman, named Ilyas Amanov. He has worked for the People’s Committee of the Internal Affairs of Turkmenistan for 12 years and is an experienced veteran. The agent is out. It is precisely because of his rich experience that he is very arrogant and rude in his work.

And this Asanize is also a hot-tempered person, and he also has a wealth of work experience as an intelligence agent.

Viktor arranged this person in the Ukrainian intelligence network for the purpose of tying the reins to Amanov, and at the same time, to cultivate his own power in the Ukrainian intelligence network.

Yes, after being reborn in this world for so long, Victor finally decided to train his own people in the NKVD. He also needs to place some of his own cronies in certain vital positions.

Don’t talk about a gentleman who is not a party. In a department like the NKVD, there is no gentleman. Even Serov is not an innocent person. The reason why he can be in the NKVD is because The identity of the Leah faction exists, and the position is stable. It must have used enough means. If it were not, he would have been cleaned up by others long ago.