Struggle in Soviet Russia

After the rain, the grass and trees in the mountains are as new. At the foot of the mountain, the slowly flowing Terek River is turbid. On the surface of the river more than ten meters wide, there are some dead wood and grass swept by mud-rock flows, and some animals can be seen occasionally. Corpse.

The turbid river water and the floating objects on the river surface illustrate one point, that is, there must be a flood or even a mudslide somewhere upstream, and this shows that the rainy season has continued to affect Mount Kazbek.

Here is the remaining veins of Mount Kazbek. Geographically speaking, it should belong to part of the North Caucasus mountain series. It extends from the Black Sea coast to the lowlands along the Caspian Sea, forming a mountainous area in the entire North Caucasus. The terrain, and because of this, the Republic of Dagestan is called the "mountain country".

Accompanied by more than a dozen officers from the People's Committee of National Security, Victor climbed up the hill with some difficulty, pinched his waist with one hand, and stood on the ridge line, overlooking the railway line that was based on the river bank and winding southward.

This railway was built during the Second Five-Year Plan period and connected to the railway line in Georgia. It is said that because of the complicated construction environment here, the construction department of the railway paid a great price.

The original purpose of the alliance to build this railway was not for economic development, but to achieve effective control of the North Caucasus. The economic and political radiation achieved based on the railway is very strong, there is no doubt about this.

At present, there are not many trains running on this railway line, especially passenger trains, which only run every three days. This is mainly because the war is not far from here. Therefore, this railway has to pay for it. Mainly for military tasks, not for people's livelihood.

Mount Kazbek is not far from the border between Dagestan and Azerbaijan. This railway follows the coastline of the Caspian Sea to the south, and the next stop is Baku.

After talking with Comrade Stalin that night, Victor left Moscow the next day. He took the train all the way to the south and walked through the areas that the train passed through.

Wherever he goes, he will coordinate and communicate with the local national security department to arrange relevant security work.

Before the train passed Stalingrad, the work was relatively simple, but after passing Stalingrad and entering the North Caucasus, as the geographical environment became more complex, related work became difficult.

The vegetation of Mount Kazbek is lush, and the railway runs through the mountains and valleys. It can be said that any place can be used as an ambush point. To implement comprehensive control in such a place, the manpower required will be huge, and the implementation is not high.

Victor stood on the ridge line, overlooking the train track below.

The ridge of this section is about 200 meters above sea level, but the mountain is gentle, like a soil platform. What is certain is that if there are people ambushing on the top of the mountain when the train is coming, it will only take less than a minute. In time, you can rush down from the top of the **** and attack the moving train.

Again, what the security work needs to do is prevention, rather than waiting for the enemy to appear before trying to find a solution, as long as all possible dangers are suppressed in the bud, it can be regarded as an outstanding work achievement.

Victor could not forget what Comrade Stalin said to him. The night before he left Moscow, Comrade Stalin had already spoken thoroughly. As long as he did his job well, he would not care about the messy things. , And looking at this sentence in reverse, it undoubtedly means that if his job is not done well, then...

Of course, Comrade Stalin’s remarks can be considered more deeply in the past. This time someone hit him with a small report about the relationship between men and women. Then, other than this time, on other matters, is there anyone who hits him? His small report?

Obviously, these are not good to say, so the only thing Victor can do now is to do what he should do well and do it well, at least to make Comrade Stalin feel satisfied.

Victor is not worried about his work in the Foreign Intelligence Agency, because the memory of his past life is his biggest advantage in intelligence work. As the head of the Foreign Intelligence Agency, he does not need to specifically arrange how the intelligence network operates. He only needs to point out one direction. In today’s world, who knows the development prospects of a certain technology better than him NS?

Needless to say, in Victor's intelligence work arrangement, even Pilkington in the United Kingdom was the target of his plan to arrange infiltration, and the purpose was only to obtain the float glass process that the other party was studying.

It is also because of such an advantage that Victor is confident that he can firmly control the dominance of the Foreign Intelligence Agency.

But this time the security work is obviously a challenge for him. If it is not done well, Comrade Stalin will certainly not spare him.

"Map," Victor said without looking back, standing on the ridgeline for a while.

Soon, a female soldier not far away hurried over, took off a tin bucket on her shoulders, unscrewed the lid, and poured out a rolled map from inside.

Victor helped, unfolded the entire map, and looked down with a frown.

After a while, he took out a pencil from his jacket pocket, and while looking around, he used the pencil to draw circles on two places on the map.

The many lieutenants of the National Security People's Committee who followed him up the mountain did not know what he was doing, and could only watch silently from a distance. Their level is so different from Victor, so even though they have doubts in their hearts, they dare not come forward to ask.

In order to achieve the purpose of confidentiality, Victor did not talk about the purpose of the visit this time. During the visit, although he had contact with officials of the People's Committee of National Security in various regions, he did not disclose any internal information or specific related orders. Only one week before Comrade Stalin's trip, it will be transferred to the heads of the people's committees for national security in various places.

Marking a few important coordinates on the map, Victor motioned to the female soldier to put it away, and then took a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, took out one point, and looked down the railway line down the mountain with an expressionless face.

After smoking a cigarette for a half, the sound of a train moving faintly appeared in my ears, turning my head and looking at the north side of the river, I saw a train galloping in the white smoke in the distance of the valley.

Victor looked at his watch, determined the time, and then quietly waited for the train to pass from below the mountain until the rear of the car was no longer visible, then looked at his watch again.

He calculated silently in his heart. He didn't say anything. He turned around and continued walking south along the ridgeline. The dozen or so lieutenants behind looked at each other, but they still quickly followed.

After turning around the complex Kazbek Mountain, in the afternoon, Victor drove to Tbilisi again.

As the capital of Georgia, the situation in Tbilisi is the same as that in other parts of Georgia. It has always been more complicated, whether it was Ordzhonikidze at the time, the follow-up Beria, and even Abakumo today. Although the husband has adopted high-pressure rule in the region, it has not fundamentally quelled the centrifugal turmoil that has existed here for a long time.

Fortunately, with the defeat of the German army under Stalingrad, especially the retreat in the Caucasus direction, the guerrillas hiding in the jungle lost their confidence to a large extent. In the past few months, a large number of Members of the nationalist guerrillas walked out of the mountains and forests and surrendered to the internal guards and border guards responsible for the work of encirclement and suppression.

But in the final analysis, the NKVD has not eliminated all resistance organizations. To this day, there are still small groups of guerrillas hiding in the high mountains, jumping out from time to time to make a sneer. If nothing else, the last guerrilla would not leave the jungle of hiding until the 1970s and surrender to the then Soviet government.

From this we can see how acute and complicated the ethnic contradictions in the Caucasus are.

Victor’s car entered Tbilisi and did not go to the local National Security People’s Committee. Instead, he went directly to the temporary residence arranged for him by the Committee. He would rest here for one night, the next day. Then proceed to Baku.

Although it is the capital of Georgia, the urban construction of Tbilisi is not very strong, let alone compared with Moscow, even compared with some large cities in the Far East, it is extremely backward.

The reason for this is that the situation here has never been stable. Ordzhonikidze implemented high-handed rule here, followed by Beria also implemented high-handed rule here, and Moscow’s policy has been weakening, even It can be said to be exploited here, it is strange that it can develop.

Victor’s temporary residence in Tbilisi, right on the banks of the picturesque Lake Lis, was a small house like a farmhouse, completely wooden structure, the whole house was built up with logs.

Although Victor had the first words and asked the local committee not to engage in mobilization, he is the second person in the entire committee. How could it be possible for the Georgian National Security People's Committee to really leave him here? Not to mention that the security situation in Tbilisi is not very good. Even if the security situation is good, there should be guards.

Therefore, in order to guarantee his absolute safety here, the Georgian National Security People’s Committee specially arranged a guard company here to block all the passages leading to the farmhouse.

At this time, it was dark. Although it rained in the morning, the weather cleared in the afternoon. At night, a full moon hung in the sky, shimmering the silver-ripened Lake Leith, like a fairyland.

However, Victor had no intention of admiring the beauty outside the window, he was still sorting out the report.