Struggle in Soviet Russia

Golikov’s case proves that no matter how strong an individual’s abilities are, if you want to get involved in the official career, and to get involved smoothly, you must have someone at the top. You don’t want that person to promote yourself, but you want someone to promote yourself. When it's terrible, I can stand up and be fair to myself.

The so-called "fairness and freedom in the hearts of the people" is more reliable than this statement.

Just like Victor, he controls the intelligence agencies, and of course he knows what is going on on the southern front, and he also knows how much Vatutin’s so-called "orderly retreat" has had an impact on the entire front, but in this matter He is destined to not talk too much. The General Political Department believes that there is no problem with the results of the investigation, and he will sign the document.

Why? Without him, Golikov had nothing to do with him. The two had even seen each other several times, so he couldn't commit himself to being an unfamiliar person. And conversely, Vatutin's relationship with him now is the real "owner", so...

However, after all, everyone knows that Golikov was a bit wronged. Therefore, although he was held accountable, the handling advice given by the General Political Department only said that he was removed from the front-line command position, and he did not want him to be a stick. The meaning of beating to death.

As for Kulik, as I said before, Comrade Stalin is still very affectionate and doesn’t want the military leader who supported him when he started to fall away. Therefore, the opinions given by the General Political Department also think that He is relatively backward in command ability and command thinking, and is no longer suitable for the job of a front army-level commander.

Naturally, Victor would not question the decision of the General Political Department. In fact, the National Security People’s Committee is involved in such cases and only has the function of giving advice based on intelligence, and does not have the power to make final decisions. Therefore, Victor did not consider too much and directly signed the two documents.

"Send it to the General Political Department," Victor said, picking up the signed document and passing it to Sophia. "Hurry up, don't delay."

"Yes," Sophia said, taking the file and nodding.

Watching Sophia walk out of the office quickly, Victor squeezed out the cigarette in his hand in the ashtray, and took a red-covered document from the right hand of the table, frowning and looking up.

This is an investigation document transferred from the Special Ministry. The investigators involved three major generals of the Soviet Army. Commander who retreats without authorization.

The investigation of these people was handed over to the Special Ministry for handling, firstly because they were not of sufficient rank and not worthy of being responsible for Victor himself, and secondly because the General Staff and the General Political Department recommended that these people be dealt with seriously.

Anything, as long as it gets into the hands of the Special Ministry, or to be precise, once it gets into the hands of Comrade Aitingo, then it is no small matter. If there is no accident, it will either be sentenced or executed. And these three belong to the latter case, and the worst case, that is, shooting.

Victor read the document yesterday. All three people retreated without order. Considering that the base camp issued the "227" order in July last year, it is normal for these people to be sentenced to a shooting.

In his previous life, Victor knew about the "227" order, but now he has a real understanding of this order: retreat is not forbidden, but it must be approved by the higher-level command department.

From this perspective, Comrade Vatutin should have been shot. His retreat in the area east of the Donets River was also not approved by the base camp.

The red document in Victor’s hands is actually equivalent to a collusion letter. Eitingo signed it, Serov signed it, he signed it again, and then sent it to the General Political Department. After the procedure was completed there, the military court only Just need to make a verdict.

Victor has always been very cautious about signing such documents. He can't think of being an executioner, but even with today's document, to be honest, he doesn't want to sign it.

I lit a cigarette again, frowned and checked the entire document carefully. After confirming that there was no problem, Victor signed his document at the end, and then he threw it aside, not seeing it and not worrying about it. NS.

The light rain outside the window was still falling. It seemed that the wind direction had changed, but some rain was blown into the window, hitting the back of the neck and it was slightly cool.

Victor stood up, walked to the window, and was about to close the window when he heard a phone on the desk ring suddenly.

Closing the window, Victor walked back to his desk, determined which phone was ringing, and then reached out and picked up the receiver of a green phone.

The green phone was the internal phone number of the People's Committee of National Defense. Victor picked up the phone and said nothing. After the other party finished speaking, he said: "I know, I'll go right there."

The call was made by Comrade Feijing, who invited him to the Computing Support Group of the State Administration of Technology.

The so-called calculation support group of the State Administration of Technology was just established after the rocket technology research and development began. It is not accurate to describe this department as a "group" because its organization is quite large, and there are only mathematics experts. There are more than 60 people, and besides that, there are nearly 400 researchers who provide assistance to these experts.

It is also because the staffing is too large, so this department does not operate in the building of the People's Committee of National Security, not even in downtown Moscow, but in Gork, 40 kilometers southeast of Moscow.

For now, it is not just Victor who pays more attention to the research and development of rocket technology. Comrade Feijing also attaches great importance to this work. Compared with Victor, he puts even more energy in this area.

Although Feijing didn't say anything on the phone, Victor hurriedly left the office after hanging up the phone and drove over by car.

Thanks to Comrade Serbakov for his hard work. By the beginning of this year, the roads in Moscow and its surrounding areas had been the best repaired, similar to those going to Klin, Borodino, Kolomna, etc. The road conditions have been greatly improved. Starting from Moscow to Gork, it does not take an hour for a car to run.

Because it is still in the war period, the alliance cannot provide enough resources to build office space for the increasingly large government agencies. Although the National Security People’s Committee has a lot of funds, it also has no spare money to build buildings for the various departments under its jurisdiction. . Therefore, the location of the calculation support group was to directly requisition an original church in Golke Village, and then simply repaired it and put it into use.

When Victor's car rushed to the old church in the rain, the spacious parking lot in front of the church was already full of cars, most of which were buses, only two dozen private cars. Those buses are used to pick up and drop off the staff of the computing support group. They have to take the morning bus every day, and then take the late bus back in the afternoon. To tell the truth, this is very hard.

Varenka saw the car directly in front of the church. Victor got out of the car, bypassed the guard in front of the door, and walked directly into the main entrance of the church.

Although it was still early spring at this time and the weather was still a bit cold, as soon as I walked in from the main entrance of the church, I could feel a heat wave on my face, and at the same time, there was an anxious noise in front of my face.

Looking in from the entrance of the church, you can see that in the entire hall on the first floor, there are rows of long tables. On the side of the long tables, there are hundreds of people shaking their heads. Shuttle back and forth between rows of long tables, sending a copy of the data or collecting it.

Today's rockets don't have the ability to electronically guide them. If they want to accurately hit a target hundreds of kilometers away, what do they rely on? Undoubtedly, the presupposition of the relevant data to rely on, and this presupposition data is not obtained out of thin air, but is calculated over and over again by a large number of computing personnel.

What does the computing support group do? They do this data work.

Since the launch of the rocket research and development technology, in accordance with the requirements of the National Security People’s Committee, the calculation support team has been cooperating with the artillery unit, and they have to provide eight to ten firing tables every day.

The so-called shooting table is a combination of theoretical calculations and live ammunition shooting. This thing is very complicated. Each table involves the calculation of hundreds of ballistics. At the same time, each ballistic corresponds to a very complicated one. Of nonlinear equations.

Nowadays, there is no computer available. All calculations need to be processed manually. The entire calculation support team is now composed of nearly 450 people, and so many people need to complete the calculation task of a table. It takes more than a month, and the complexity of the calculation can be imagined.

But this work has to be done, otherwise, even if the rocket is developed, it will be useless, because you can’t put a bunch of ballistics there, like a quasi-cannoned shot, and then a little bit more. To debug, in that case, the entire Soviet Union would go bankrupt if the shooting data were not adjusted.

What’s more troublesome is that the final calculated projection data, that is, the results of the nonlinear equations, is not an accurate value. In many calculation stages, only approximate methods can be used. calculate. The final result of this is that the shot is shot out. The drop point of the cannonball is not necessarily at the drop point you need, it will have an error.

In the beginning, Victor didn't understand these things either. Everything he knows now is only in touch with this work after presiding over this work.