Struggle in Soviet Russia

Comrade Malinkov’s proposal is obviously a plan to promote the establishment of a department specializing in computer technology research and development, not to mention the purpose of his proposal, at least in Victor’s view, this idea is very insightful.

As a rebirth, his previous life experience has clearly told Victor how important the development of computer technology will become to a country in decades, even more than ten years.

In the future of China, the backwardness of chip technology is one of the main reasons why the entire country is subject to the West in terms of science and technology, and chip technology can actually be regarded as a branch of the development of computer technology.

Today, as a rebirth, Victor already has his own identity and status in the Alliance. From a personal perspective, he certainly hopes that the post-war Soviet Union can maintain its position on the United States in some major scientific and technological fields. Advantage.

Nuclear weapons technology, rocket technology, computer technology, aerospace and so on. In these many fields, the alliance should have advanced development plans.

There are too many differences between the alliance and the United States in terms of systems. In the United States, the evolution of technology actually depends to a large extent on the promotion of private capital. This is an advantage as well as a disadvantage. According to this method of promoting technological evolution, many projects that require large capital investment, and at the same time, projects with a relatively long profit return period are difficult to get timely promotion.

Because of the system, the Soviet Union mainly relied on the state’s power to promote the evolution of science and technology. According to the Soviet Union’s current working methods, the planning committee generally included technology research and development in certain key areas during the five-year period. In the national plan, the relevant departments will then allocate funds, draw up corresponding scientific research experts from the Academy of Sciences, and concentrate on making technological breakthroughs.

Compared with the US model, the Soviet approach has advantages, but it also has disadvantages.

The advantage is that at the level of national mobilization, all kinds of scientific and technological research and development work that are valued can be supported by sufficient resources, whether it is personnel, materials, or funds, it is not a problem. event.

The disadvantage is that since it takes time for the country to understand emerging technologies, there is often a lag in the establishment of various technological research and development projects. At least the sense of smell for emerging technologies is not as sensitive as private companies.

As an ambitious head of the Foreign Intelligence Agency, Victor certainly hopes that the Alliance can invest more energy in various fields of science and technology, because only then can the work achievements of the Foreign Intelligence Agency be more easily highlighted.

And, again, the memory of his past life gives him a special advantage in this area that is difficult for ordinary people. He knows which technology will be developed by leaps and bounds in the future, and even knows what the related technology research and development institutions are.

In a precautionary way, planning the layout of spy networks in advance is of course more advantageous and more efficient than blindly touching, or clinging to one's feet when something is about to come.

To be honest, in the current leadership of the alliance, people who are really interested in scientific and technological work, or who are willing to invest more energy in this area, seem to be the only comrade Malenkov in front of him. From this point of view , Victor felt that he and he had more common language.

"I support your opinion," after a brief hesitation, Victor nodded to meet Comrade Malinkov's gaze. "I think that as a brand-new technology, the role of computer should not be limited to simple Logic calculations should not even be limited to pure data calculations. Its application fields should be broader. Therefore, it is very necessary to make computer technology a key scientific research project."

Hearing his words, both Flyrov and Kurchatov on the side looked a little surprised. Although Viktor's words were very broad and did not reflect any professionalism, he was able to attach so much importance to computer technology. , In itself is precious enough.

Needless to say, in the eyes of scientists like Kurchatov and others, intelligence chiefs like Victor can only be regarded as bureaucrats. Since they are bureaucrats, how can they know too much about scientific and technological issues? Of course, unless it is specifically done in this area.

But now, Victor can say such a thing, being able to attach such a high degree of importance to the new technology of computer, at least it shows that he has done a certain amount of work in this area, and can invest in scientific and technological issues. A bureaucrat with a certain amount of energy is rarely seen in itself.

Comrade Malinkov was not too surprised. In fact, his perception of Victor has always been very good. Although this man is very young, he has always performed very well in his work.

As the current leader in charge of scientific and technological intelligence appraisal, Comrade Malinkov has frequently met with experts in various fields of the Academy of Sciences in the past period of time, and has consulted relevant experts on the list of intelligence work submitted by Victor.

Various intelligence acquisition projects, including penicillin pharmaceuticals, have been unanimously recognized by experts. Not only that, but the experts even attach importance to the frontier technology in these fields from the Foreign Intelligence Service, which is very incredible, because in some areas They also learned about the research projects of the People’s Republic of China through those internationally published papers, and the Foreign Intelligence Agency has been able to pay attention to these studies. It is difficult for those engaged in intelligence work to begin to collect cutting-edge papers in various fields. ?

If only the scientific and technological research projects in these different fields are included in the intelligence list, it’s nothing. The key is that the Foreign Intelligence Agency quickly launched deployment and produced some results, such as the purification of penicillin and Industrialized production technology, another example is the acquisition of computer prototypes.

In Comrade Malinkov’s impression, the former Foreign Intelligence Agency was not so efficient. Of course, the field of vision was not so broad. All these changes seemed to have occurred after Victor became the head of the Foreign Intelligence Agency.

This is the case between people. In the absence of contact and understanding, no one knows what kind of person the other person is, and it is always inevitable to judge a person based on characteristics such as age and appearance. Wrong.

This is how Comrade Malinkov knew about Victor. In the past, he didn't pay much attention to Victor, but thought that he was too young, and at the same time, he took too much weight in the work he was responsible for.

And after this period of contact, his perception of Victor has deepened a lot, and he really admires this young man.

Facing Victor's reply, Comrade Malinkov nodded, but said nothing more.

It is not a simple matter to set up a department dedicated to research and development of computing technology, although Comrade Malinkov is now a secretary of the Secretariat, an organization committee member, and even confirmed news that he will formally join the Politburo at the end of this month. , Became one of the Politburo members, but things like this are not his alone.

But what is certain is that if he really wants to promote this matter, it will certainly not be too difficult.

Several people were talking at the end of the corridor, and a middle-aged man with a thin face and working clothes came up from the steps in the basement.

The middle-aged man wore a pair of round-framed eyes with half of the lens torn, and his body was sweaty. When he walked up the stairs and stood in front of the crowd, his expression was very cramped.

"How is it?" Kurchatov asked first.

"I encountered some problems," the middle-aged man's sweat dripped down the spectacle frame, and he said nervously, "We have completed the assembly, but when we tried to run the test run, we encountered a problem of insufficient voltage. In order to avoid the parts After being melted down, we can only suspend the trial operation."

Sure enough, there was still a problem with the electricity.

Victor knows how big the ABC computer is. Thousands of transistors are put together. The cabinet alone blocks almost half of the wall. A transistor is a resistor. When it is running, how can it not consume electricity?

Why didn't Americans pay too much attention to this computer? Isn't it because it consumes too much power, it is because of its super high power consumption that the designer Atanasov thinks it is not practical, so he didn't even apply for a patent.

However, Comrade Malinkov’s thinking is obviously correct. This thing cannot be evaluated only by the current energy consumption. This is a kind of technology. Its precious thing is that the appearance of this kind of equipment has opened a door for mankind. There is no problem with its structural principle. Now, what Soviet scientists have to do is to update and extend the most technology on the basis of this machine, and finally make it more practical, higher in science and technology, and in more application fields. Wide range of equipment.

Facing the question raised by the middle-aged man, Comrade Malinkov frowned. He turned to look at Wannikov and said, "Make some adjustments to the work. I will come back and have a look at another time."

Vannikov didn't dare to say anything. Even though Malinkov was younger than him, he still had no room for bargaining in front of the other party.

"Comrade Victor, do you have any other work arrangements next?" Comrade Malinkov turned his head again and said to Victor.

"It should be gone for the time being," Victor thought for a while and said. In fact, he still has a work meeting to attend today. However, since Comrade Malinkov asked him, there is obviously something to do, and he can only postpone the work meeting.

"That's right," Sure enough, Comrade Malinkov said immediately, "I want to talk to you about some work matters here, mainly to ask your opinion."