Struggle in Soviet Russia

The same department is under the direct management of the People's Committee of National Defense or the People's Committee. Those are two completely different concepts.

For now, the People’s Committee of National Defense is considered a temporary institution. It was established to serve the war. It is similar to a joint meeting. It is headed by Comrade Stalin. The leaders of all key and key departments are included. Come in this department. In this way, it can not only guarantee the needs of war to the maximum extent, but also improve efficiency.

The People’s Committee is now just a branch of the People’s Committee for National Defense, which is specifically responsible for the operation of the entire government.

If according to Victor’s report, a department like "Science and Technology Approval" is really set up and it is under the direct management of the NKVD, then the budget issues of the NKVD will not belong to the Budget Committee and the People’s Committee of Finance. Ministry has jurisdiction.

At least during the war, the budget of the entire alliance will be: first allocate the budget needed by the military, and then allocate the budget needed by the National Security People’s Committee, and the rest will be uniformly distributed among the ministries and commissions of the People’s Committee. .

The budget, to put it plainly, is money. It is always the most critical factor restricting the development of a department. For a department like the National Security People’s Committee, if there is sufficient and inexhaustible funding, then anyone can Let it run efficiently.

But the problem is that no department in any country can have absolutely sufficient funds, including the United States in later generations. Therefore, how does the leadership ability manifest itself? It depends on how to rely on limited funds to make the best results.

In the past less than a year, the intelligence department of the People’s Committee of National Security, under Victor’s leadership, has made great progress. Recognition.

Now, what Victor’s report wants to achieve is to advance the work of external intelligence agencies to a deeper and broader field. If this report is approved, then the main infiltration work of external intelligence agencies will be It is no longer limited to military and diplomatic fields, but will penetrate all "technology-intensive sectors", which naturally also includes economic sectors and civilian sectors.

The first draft of the report was not made until almost five o'clock in the afternoon. Victor read the report carefully, revised some inappropriate sentences and words, added and deleted some content, and then copied four copies. They were given to Serov, Fitin and Aitingo.

Although he was responsible for drafting the report, there are four people’s commissars in the People’s Committee of National Security today. A formal document report like this must be approved by the committee at the same level before it can be submitted to the higher-level department. Otherwise, It is a leapfrog report, which not only offends people, but also violates the rules.

Since Serov and Eitingo are not in Moscow, the documents need to be sent to them in the form of a telegram, and the documents are long enough, so the waiting time is a bit longer.

It wasn't until nearly ten o'clock in the evening that the confidential secretary sent Comrade Serov's opinions. Victor, who was approved by the remaining three people's committees, rushed to Moscow as soon as possible.

At night, light rain fell for almost a day, and finally stopped, but the dark clouds covering the entire Moscow still did not dissipate. The sky above the head seemed to be covered with a piece of black cloth. No.

The Kremlin, in front of the white office building.

Victor got out of the car in front of the building. At first glance, he saw several jeeps with military special permits parked in the small parking lot in front of the building.

Because of the dim light, he walked forward and stared at the cars carefully, trying to see whose car was coming. As a result, he didn't pay attention to his feet. The toe of his shoes knocked when he went up the stairs. The whole person suddenly Lost his balance, planted straight forward.

At the moment he lost his balance, Victor had subconsciously stretched his hand forward, hoping to support him on the ground without falling down, but before his hand reached the ground, someone had reached out to support him. NS.

"Be careful!" The man who held him yelled, and then used his strength to help him up. "Is it all right, Comrade Victor?"

"It's okay," Victor stood up, glanced at the person holding him, and smiled. "Thank you, Comrade Mikhail."

"You're welcome." The man called Mikhail was a middle-aged man in military uniform. From his armband, he was an artillery lieutenant general.

This person is Mikhail Mikhailovich Barsukov, currently the artillery commander of the Western Front.

Nowadays, there are two well-known "Barsukov" in the Red Army system of the Soviet Union. One is the one in front of him, and the other is Yevgeny Zakhalovich Barsukov, which is also an artillery system. The commander in China, and he is still a doctor, but he is very old now, in his seventies, he retired nearly ten years ago, and is currently waiting for death at home.

Of course, what Viktor didn’t know was that the comrade Barsukov in front of him was not the best "Barsukov". This man’s younger brother, Ivan Mikhailovich Barsukov, would A few years later there was one son left, named Mikhail Ivanovich Barsukov.

Half a century later, his nephew, Mikhail Ivanovich Barsukov, will become one of the chief culprits in splitting the Soviet Union. The White House’s military operations.

"Is it here to see Comrade Stalin?" Barsukov shook hands with Victor and said.

"Yeah, why, are you leaving?" Victor asked.

"A document was forgotten in the car," Barsukov said, pointing to the parking lot not far away, "I'll get it, you can go up first."

Victor nodded, said nothing, and continued to walk into the building.

Without going to Poskrebeshev’s office, Victor walked into the building and went straight up the stairs to the second floor. As a result, as soon as he entered the corridor, he saw Poskrebeshev heading towards this from the door of Comrade Stalin’s office. Walk over.

Because there were still a few staff members in the corridor, there was not much communication when the two met. Boskrebeshev led Victor to the door of Comrade Stalin's office, and while reaching out to knock on the door, he whispered, "Comrade Zhukov and Comrade Vasilevsky are right there." Then he pushed the door and walked into the office.

Victor was not surprised by Zhukov and Vasilievsky's presence here, because during this time, these two would go here almost every day.

With the defeat of the Soviet army on the southern front, neither the Soviets nor Germany have the ability to continue to attack each other. Therefore, the current situation is that the distance from Leningrad to the Sea of ​​Azov is more than 1,500 kilometers. On the front line, both sides have entered a rest period, large-scale battles rarely occur, and each other is accumulating strength for the summer offensive.

As for the base camp, the main task now is to determine the combat plan during the summer war, but this plan has not yet been determined, because the general staff, the front-line command and the base camp each have a plan, which cannot achieve unity of opinions.

It is precisely because of this that, recently, Zhukov, who represents the front-line headquarters, and Vasilievsky, who represents the General Staff, have reported to Comrade Stalin almost every day.

When Victor got permission to walk into the office, Comrade Stalin, Zhukov, and Vasilevsky were sitting on the sofa in the center of the office. On the coffee table in front of them, a large pile of documents were scattered. When Victor walked over, he saw a green cover at first sight, marked "нг-13045".

This document was sent to the General Staff Headquarters a week ago. It is a piece of military intelligence from the Berlin Intelligence Station. The content involved a new tank T-VI that the Germans had just put on the battlefield, which is the so-called "Tiger" tank.

Three days ago, the Soviet Army captured two of this new tank on the battlefield in Leningrad. The artillery unit is formulating a countermeasure against the technical parameters of this tank.

"Sit down," said Comrade Stalin when he saw Victor coming over, pointing to an empty sofa opposite, "put your business off first, and wait for Barsukov to come back to see the new strategy formulated by the artillery unit. You can also make some comments."

"Okay, Comrade Stalin," Victor nodded, holding the report in his arms, and sat on the empty sofa.

Sitting down on the sofa, Victor saw the open report in front of him at first sight. He reached out and took the report and looked through it.

If nothing else, this is clearly the combat strategy developed by the artillery to counter the T-VI tanks.

This kind of report is in a fixed format and needs certain data support. This includes the analysis of the relevant technical data of the enemy's T-VI; the analysis of the organization of the T-VI tank unit; the tactical analysis; the summary of the combat experience of our army against the T-VI tank unit; the enemy's T-VI unit against us Analysis of the corresponding strategy of military shelling. The last is the tactical guidance of artillery troops against the T-VI troops in future operations.

This report is very thick, hundreds of pages, from the company level to the division level. There are operational doctrines for artillery units at all levels. It is this guiding document.

Victor did not look at the previous analysis part, but went straight to the last part and looked at the targeted tactical guidance department, that is, the artillery combat command doctrine.

Just looking at the battalion-level combat doctrine, Victor couldn’t help frowning because he found a problem. According to the description of this doctrine, the artillery was obviously focusing on fighting T-VI. 76mm gun.