Struggle in Soviet Russia

As a region that had just joined the alliance shortly before the outbreak of the German War, Volen Region happened to be located at the northwestern tip of Western Ukraine, in the southern tributary basin of Pripyat, and at the same time the upper reaches of the Sibug River.

Because of the vertical and horizontal water system, there are many lakes here, large and small, estimated to be no less than dozens. As for Shatsk, it happens to be in this lake area. In Victor’s previous life, the Soviet government established a sand In the Tsk National Park, a large number of Belarusians and Poles come here to vacation in summer every year.

At the end of summer and early autumn, when Shatsk was relatively rainy, a light rain that lasted for nearly two days in Lake Svetiyaz, which has the largest water system, caused the lake to rise a lot and covered it. The reeds on the lake surface are densely covered with little waves, giving people a feeling like a fairyland.

However, for Shatsk today, wonderland does not exist. In the past two weeks, this originally relatively calm place has once again become a battlefield. The Ukrainian Resistance Army and the workers and peasants police commanded by the NKVD , The battlefield of the battle between border troops.

On the shore of Svetiyaz Lake, Belotasev village, the temporary station of the 90th Vladimir-Volensky Border Guard Corps headquarters.

The misty drizzle enveloped the entire lakeside village, and the lush jungle did not seem to have been affected by the coming of autumn at all. The verdantness is still the main theme of this lakeside jungle.

On the side of the small road at the entrance of the village, an ox cart was driven by a fat and out-of-shape woman, creaking in the rain.

The woman wore a traditional Belarusian skirt, but she wore a traditional Contach belt worn by Polish men around her waist, which made her look a little nondescript.

Belotasev Village is close to the border area of ​​Ukraine, Poland, and Belarus. It not only has complex topography and landforms, but also a more complex ethnic environment. Not only Poles, but also Ukrainians live here. Armenians, Azerbaijanis, Belarusians, etc.

However, in the series of vendettas that have occurred in the last two years, the main contradiction is still concentrated between Ukrainians and Poles. victim.

The clothes on the obese woman are pieced together. She is Polish. However, for a long time in the past, she only dared to go out wearing Belarusian clothes. The reason for this is that the Belarusians were not murdered by both sides. The object is the most secure. Only recently, with a large number of border troops stationed in this area, the talents living here are a little bolder.

Next to the woodland at the entrance of the village, a row of gallows was erected crudely built with logs. Four or five decayed and smelly corpses, like hanging rotten meat, hung on the shelves almost desolately and terribly, with the light rain and breeze. Swing gently.

The fat woman drove by the ox cart not far from the gallows. She looked at the corpses and her eyes were filled with hatred and resentment. Perhaps she smelled the rancid smell in the air, and she was still rushing there. Several corpses spit fiercely.

The people who were hanged were all members of the Ukrainian rebels captured by the border guards. The soldiers of the border guards dealt with these people by pulling them directly to the entrance of the village to hang them. Burn these people to death. For fat women, she prefers to watch the guys with blood on their hands being burned into coke, rather than being hung into air-dried bacon like this, after all... this is too smelly.

Next to the gallows, there was a sign. The sign was very simple. It was a wooden board with burrs nailed to it. The notice jointly issued by the People’s Committee of the Interior and the Headquarters of the Ukrainian Border Forces was pasted on On this wooden board, notice boards like this one are found at the entrance of almost every village in the Western Ukraine.

The content of the notice is also very simple. It is to call on everyone in West Ukraine, whether it is Ukrainians or Poles, Belarusians, Armenians, etc., to stand up and expose members of the Ukrainian Resistance Army. According to the notice, once anyone who is reported has determined the identity of a resistance army member, his personal property will belong to the reporter.

This is the latest policy adopted by the NKVD in order to suppress the rebels in Western Ukraine. Facts have proved that this policy is very effective. In the past two weeks, many more people have secretly reported, including some. Many Ukrainians.

The impact of the Lavalskaya tragedy was too great. It angered Moscow and angered the high-level coalition including Comrade Stalin. In this situation, there must be someone who has to pay for this. Therefore, the extermination is active in the West. The resistance forces in the Ukrainian region have become a top priority for all departments.

In the recent period of time, the border guards assembled in the Warren area are not just a 90th Vladimir Volensky Border Guard Corps. In addition to them, there are also the 20th Slavuta Border Guard Corps and the 22nd Warren. Rockysk Border Guard Corps. These border troops were not originally stationed in Warren. Even the 90th Vladimir-Volensky Border Guard Corps had its original headquarters located in Lviv, and the reason why they were concentrated in Warren Lun, all came for the Ukrainian rebels in the area.

As the fat woman drove an ox cart into the village, a convoy of two trucks and two jeeps broke through the rain and slowly appeared in front of the village.

In the first Jeep, Victor, sitting in the back seat of the car, looked down at the window, his handsome face expressionless.

And beside him, is Comrade Merkulov in the uniform of the NKVD.

That is, the Ukrainian rebels active in the Warren area didn’t know that these two people were here. Otherwise, even if the price is high, it is estimated that the desperadoes will swarm in and try to kill the two. ——For anti-government armed forces like the Ukrainian Resistance Army, Viktor and Merkulov pose a threat to them far more than those of the Red Army generals.

In the car, Merkulov looked at Victor's back, and tried to speak several times, but he could not help it.

The recent frequent mobilization of the border guards came from the orders issued by Merkulov, and the reason why these orders were issued quickly was because Victor had already made a judgment, and Kalpenko was hidden in this area.

"parking!"

Just as the convoy was about to pass through the entrance of the village, Victor suddenly patted the back of the front passenger seat and said.

The driver in the car was not Varenka, but a second lieutenant of the NKVD. After hearing Victor's words, he hurriedly stepped on the brakes and stopped the car.

When the jeep stopped, Victor didn't wait for Varenka, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, to act. He pushed the door ahead and got out.

Meerkulov, who was sitting aside, saw him, and hurriedly jumped out of the car with a piece of it. Then, stepping on the mud on the ground, he walked around the car with one foot and one shallow, and followed Victor's back—now the West The Ukrainian region is really insecure, and this time I left Moscow with Victor and came to West Ukraine to supervise the work of suppressing bandits. Merkulov must be cautious.

Now Merkulov knows very well that when he was with Victor, if he was attacked by the Resistance, in case he had an accident, then Victor might not have anything to do, but if it was the other way around, in case Victor happened. In the event of an accident, it is foreseeable that Comrade Stalin must not spare him.

Therefore, even if he does not consider Victor's rank and rank higher than him, just for his own consideration, he cannot let Victor have any accidents here.

Following Victor's footsteps closely, Merkulov looked around vigilantly while waving his hand to let the soldiers of the internal guard who had jumped off the truck set up their defenses.

Fortunately, Victor did not leave too far, so he walked to the gallows, covered his nose with one hand, bent down to pick up a branch from the ground, and then moved to the side of a corpse. The branch fiddled with the corpse's drooping wrist.

This corpse should have been hanging here for two or three days. The smell of the corpse is already very strong, the abdominal cavity has begun to swell, and the limbs have long been stiff.

Victor fiddled with the branches for a while, and carefully looked at the corpse's fingers. After seeing the index finger and the cocoon at the tiger's mouth, he nodded silently, stepped back two steps, and dropped the branch in his hand.

Immediately afterwards, Victor walked to the front of the sign at the entrance of the village and reached out his hand to remove the wet sign from the sign.

In the last two days, Victor has seen so many such notices. From this notice alone, he can tell how tense the social atmosphere is in the Western Ukraine.

Of course, in Western Ukraine today, the military control policy is still being implemented. Look at this notice. In addition to the seal of the NKVD, it is the seal of the Ukrainian Border Force Command. As for Lviv, it is also Warren's state committee has no power to intervene in these things.

Victor knows very well that with the outbreak of the Lavalskaya tragedy, this state of military control will definitely be maintained for a longer period of time, at least until the Ukrainian resistance is almost wiped out, the military control will not end.

And if the military control is not over, the West Ukrainian region will not want to restore normal social order. These things are all linked together.