Struggle in Soviet Russia

"In the past two years, the internal intelligence bureau has some information related to him. Based on these contents, we have temporarily delineated his hiding place, perhaps in a place called Tatar in Zakarpattia Oblast. In the village." Victor explained what he had compiled earlier. Of course, he lied about the source of the information. A lie like this would not worry Comrade Stalin.

"Ivan Dicchuk you are talking about is related to this matter?" Comrade Stalin asked with a frown.

"I think there should be a connection, but maybe not so close," Victor explained.

"Then arresting this person will help the arrest of Kalpenko?" Comrade Stalin asked again.

It can be seen that what Comrade Stalin is most concerned about now is the case of Dmitro Kalpenko, the maker of the Lavalosskaya case. Also, in order to reduce international attention to this incident, The best way is to get Dmitro Carpenko out, give him a public trial, and give him the end he deserves.

Moreover, the time for arresting Dmitro Kalpenko cannot be delayed too long. Only by arresting this guy in the shortest possible time can it prove that the alliance's control over West Ukraine is not questionable.

"We also have a plan for the capture of Kalpenko," Victor groaned slightly and said.

"Oh?" Comrade Stalin looked at him, obviously waiting for him to continue.

"After analyzing a series of past intelligence, we have determined the possible hiding place of Kalpenko," Victor continued, "If nothing else, his area of ​​activity should be in the area of ​​Shatsk in Warren State. We plan to determine the focus of the next investigation in this area."

"Shatzke?" Comrade Stalin frowned, turned his head to look at the wall on the right, where the map was hanging, but unfortunately, the wall was empty today, and there was no map hanging there.

"How did you determine this range?" Turning his head again, Comrade Stalin looked at Victor and asked, "Is there any basis?"

Victor looked at his record book, sorted out the language, and then explained the basis of the cross-pointing method he had adopted.

Comrade Stalin was obviously very interested in this method he said. During the process of Victor's explanation, he asked some questions from time to time. Perhaps because he felt that Victor's account was not detailed and vivid enough, after his explanation, Comrade Stalin stood up again. He went back to his desk and made a call to go out.

After a while, Comrade Poskrebeshev sent a map, and Comrade Stalin asked him to hang the map on the wall. Then he asked Victor to demonstrate it on the spot for him.

The map sent by Comrade Boskrebyshev is a map of the Western Ukraine region. The scale of this map is slightly smaller, so the map itself appears a bit larger.

Victor handed his record book to Merkulov and asked him to read for himself the area of ​​Kalpenko's activities in the past two years, while he himself used a pencil to outline on the map.

As the locations increased, the lines on the map became more and more. In the end, these lines circled a nearly circular blank area on the map, and the core of this blank area happened to be Shatsk.

"Comrade Stalin, as I said before, the troops commanded by Kalpenko have always maintained a size of about two thousand people." After all these lines were outlined, Victor pointed at the piece with a pencil with his finger. District, said, "And for such a large-scale force to be maintained for a long time, it needs to have a stable logistics base, otherwise, their logistics supply will have problems, at least, a pure guerrilla. , There is no way to maintain such a large scale."

Listening to Victor's explanation, Comrade Stalin nodded with a pipe in his mouth. He was not a military blind, on the contrary, he was an experienced military man. Therefore, he was very clear about what Victor said.

"Since Kalpenko’s team has a fixed base area, their target must meet a condition, that is, they must be within their radius of activity," Victor continued, "According to the information we have, Karl Phenke’s rebel forces do not have the mobility of mechanized forces. They are not even equipped with war horses. Therefore, their radius of activity is very limited, and the targets they can attack are also relatively limited."

Comrade Stalin nodded again. This is not difficult to understand. For any team with a base area, it is impossible for them to leave the base area for too long, especially in Western Ukraine. The civilian police and border guards of the NKVD from time to time Investigations into their respective management areas will be carried out. If there are hundreds or thousands of people missing anywhere, and if they do not return for a long time, they will always show their feet.

Based on this, it is impossible for this group of bandits to leave the base area for too long, and their range of activities is directly restricted by their mobility.

"So, taking these factors into account, I think the Kalpenko gangsters, their range of activities in the past two years, especially in the past year, should have been around their base areas," Victor tapped on the map with a pencil. He knocked, and said, "According to the theory of the shortest line between two points, the area bounded by these intersections is to all the attacked locations..."

"I understand what you mean," Comrade Stalin showed a joyful smile on his face. He stood up from the sofa and interrupted Victor. "This method is very good. There is no doubt that it is scientific and also It should be the closest to the facts."

After he finished speaking, he took the pipe into his mouth again, slapped his hands twice, and smiled: "This is a genius idea. I think it can not only be applied to the capture of Kalpenko, It should also be able to be applied to specific criminal investigation work."

"Yes, Comrade Stalin," Victor said with a smile and nodded, "I named this method cross-pointing method. It is a derivation method specifically used to narrow the scope of criminal investigation. It can indeed be used in the field of criminal investigation. Widely used."

"Is this the method you imagined?" Comrade Stalin looked at Victor with approval and asked.

"Yes," Victor didn't mind putting the credit on his own head, "I thought of it accidentally while observing the map last night."

"Very good, this kind of work attitude is very good, Comrade Viktor Viktorovich," Comrade Stalin laughed. "In the process of working, we should not be overwhelmed by the difficulties and clueless confusion in front of us, but should do our best. It is possible to give play to subjective initiative, find patterns, explore methods, and finally solve the problem..."

As he said this, he turned his head to look at Merkulov, and his mouth pointedly said: "In Comrade Viktor Viktorovich, I see this advantage, hehe, just by virtue of this. , Victor, I believe you are very competent in your position as Chairman of the People’s Committee of National Security."

"Thank you Comrade Stalin, I just did what I should do," this is the first time Victor has received such a high evaluation from Comrade Stalin in person, and he said embarrassingly.

"Yes, you just did the job you should do, but the question now is how many comrades of us can do the job that we should do," Comrade Stalin sat back on his sofa.

Having said that, he turned his gaze to Merkulov, whose expression was also embarrassed, and then said: "Comrade Merkulov, although you are only acting as an agent for the People’s Committee of the Interior, you should do it even if you are only acting as an agent. Be as competent as possible."

"Yes, Comrade Stalin." The sweat on Merkulov's forehead was coming out. Today only he and Victor came to meet Comrade Stalin. In this situation, the better Victor's performance, the better his situation. Oops.

"You must remember that the NKVD did not give you too much time," Comrade Stalin continued to stare at him and said, "Although the NKVD is in charge of intelligence work, they need to provide information for your cleanup operations. Information, but this does not mean that you can wait there and do nothing. At least, on the issue of hunting down the Kalpenko gang, the National Security People’s Committee has provided you with an idea. On this basis, You should come up with a score, don’t you?"

"Yes, Comrade Stalin," Merkulov said quickly. He may not remember anything else, but at least he must remember the results of Viktor's analysis just now. Kalpenko is likely to be lurking in Shatsk. Ivan Dicchuk is likely to be lurking in Wakarpak.

Regardless of whether Victor’s analysis is accurate or not, Merkulov must later arrange enough manpower to conduct a rigorous investigation of these two places. In terms of searching for intelligence, the NKVD is indeed inferior to the Internal Intelligence Bureau. But when it comes to criminal investigation, the NKVD is definitely the strongest.

Now that Victor has delineated the areas of focus, Merkulov doesn't think his people will get nothing.

Beside the map, Victor pursed his lips. He could think of Merkulov's thoughts at the moment. This guy is only acting as the NKVD now. Of course, he hopes to remove the title of "Agent", but it is obviously one right now. A rare opportunity.

However, Victor didn't mind the people from the NKVD coming to grab the credit, mainly because they couldn't grab the credit.