Struggle in Soviet Russia

Because in the fall, Victor has changed into the autumn and winter standard high-top military boots of the National Security People’s Committee. This kind of dog-skin military boots will make a muffled sound when stepping on the wooden floor, and the sound is a bit loud. Therefore, He just stepped into the corridor, and the two people standing at the door of his office heard it.

The two turned around and looked at where he and Varenka were. After seeing him clearly, they quickly greeted him.

"Comrade Victor, good morning," Bobansky, who was walking in front of the two of them, stretched out his hand first and greeted with a smile four or five steps away.

"Good morning, Comrade Chairman," behind Bobansky was his assistant, Lieutenant Anita.

"Good morning, Comrade Bobansky," Victor shook hands with Bobansky with a smile, then shook hands with Lieutenant Anita, nodded and smiled, "Good morning."

"We went to the military club just now," Bobanski said with a smile, "the people there said let us come here and have a look, so..."

In Orel, Victor’s resting place was arranged in the military club, which is similar to the military district guest houses in various military districts of the Soviet Union, and the military club in Orel is the guest house in the Orel military district.

As for Bobansky and Merkulov, they chose the reception hotel of the Workers’ and Peasants’ Police Headquarters. This is mainly because the People’s Committee of National Security does not yet have its own reception unit. During business trips and other operations and tasks, The staff of the National Security People’s Committee will still find the local military club to arrange board and lodging. As for the reception letter used, it is issued by the Political Department.

"Why, is there something urgent?" Victor asked curiously.

After asking this sentence, he remembered that this was still a corridor, and it was obviously not polite to pull the other person to speak here. So he gestured to invite them to sit in his temporary office.

"It's not a matter of urgency," Bobansky asked Victor to go ahead. He himself followed half a step after the mistake, and laughed at the same time. "The main thing is that the National Security Agency is in the initial stage, and we can use people. They are also people who lack relevant intelligence and national security work experience. For this reason, I am still a little uneasy about whether the organization can be successfully put into work in the shortest time after its establishment."

This time Bobanski followed Viktor to Moscow in order to report to the Polish National Liberation Committee who remained in Moscow.

The Polish National Liberation Committee is a very large institution. It includes not only a national committee composed of the Polish Workers’ Party and left-wing parties, but also an executive committee. Its subordinate institutions include military, cultural, educational, political, and international Relations and many other departments, it even has its own news agency and agency newspaper.

Prior to this, the institutions that were transferred to Lublin were mainly the social affairs, land affairs of the occupied country, and political and military institutions under the committee. The entire executive committee is still staying in Moscow.

Therefore, at least in terms of the situation, the Polish interim government in Lublin still has to accept the leadership of Moscow, and Bobanski, the newly-launched first deputy director of the Polish National Security Agency, also needs to go to Moscow to accept an appointment before it can be regarded as a formal inauguration.

Listening to what Bobansky said, Victor walked to the door of his office. He pushed the door open, and while inviting Bobansky to enter, he smiled and said, "You have to have confidence in yourself, Boban. Comrade Sky, at least, I have confidence in you."

When he finished speaking, seeing Bobansky insisting on letting him go ahead, he walked into the door first and said to Varenka who was following at the end: "Varenka, go get two cups of coffee."

"Yes, Comrade Chairman," Varenka replied and turned and walked towards the inside of the corridor.

When Varenka was gone, Victor invited Bobanski and Anita to sit down on the sofa, and at the same time said: "As I said to you before, Comrade Bobanski, Polish National Security Agency After the formation is completed, the work you will be responsible for will mainly focus on the issue of bandit suppression in the eastern region."

Walking to the opposite side of the two, Victor did not sit on the sofa, but instead sat on the soft armrest of the sofa: "In the past few weeks, we have launched a full-scale suppression operation in Western Ukraine, although Great results have been achieved, but it must be admitted that we have not been able to fundamentally eliminate the remnants of the Ukrainian resistance and the national army. The enemies of the alliance are still lurking on the north and south sides of the Carpathian Mountains. As well as in the jungles of Warren Heights, the elimination of these bandits will be a long-term and arduous task. The alliance needs your cooperation."

"Another point," Victor continued after a few seconds of silence, organizing the language, "If nothing else, from the beginning of next year to the end of the year, the alliance may reach an agreement with the Lublin government to fundamentally To resolve the contradiction between the two ethnic groups of Upo, the way to solve it is to end the current chaotic state of mixed living of the two ethnic groups of Upo. Specifically, all Ukrainians currently living in eastern Poland will migrate to Western Ukraine. At the same time, Polish people living in Western Ukraine will be moved to Eastern Poland."

Bobansky was stunned for a moment. It was obviously the first time he heard the news, and it was a bit difficult to digest for a while.

The issue of ethnic migration, how can I say it, does not want to be so easy to say.

Although the ethnic conflicts in the Soviet-Polish border areas have been sharp in the past half a century, the Ukrainians in eastern Poland believed that the Polish government discriminated against them and regarded them as second-class citizens, while the Poles in the West Ukraine Think the same. But if they are allowed to leave their homeland and move to another place, they may not be so easy to accept, especially the elderly.

"It might not be so easy to carry out this matter," Bobansky said worriedly after a moment of silence.

"Of course, I also know this. Not only me, but Moscow can also expect it," Victor nodded and said, "It is precisely because it is not easy that you need your National Security Agency to take it seriously."

Bobanski nodded. As a Polish, he has no opinionated standpoint on this issue. Moreover, as far as the issue of ethnic migration is concerned, it is impossible to say whether Poland suffers or the Soviet Union suffers.

If you calculate the number of people, according to the statistics of the previous census, there are almost 300,000 Poles living in West Ukraine, while the current number of Ukrainians living in eastern Poland has exceeded 300,000. The final statistics are estimated to be no less than 500,000 people.

It is obviously more advantageous for Poland to remove all the Ukrainians from eastern Poland. After all, this policy can guarantee the ethnic unity of eastern Poland to the greatest extent, and ethnic unity means more stability.

So leaving aside the position of the country and the nation, considering only from the perspective of personal interests, Bobanski has no reason to object. As a former member of the Polish National Army, he lacks the foundation and contacts in the Lublin Provisional Government. Many of those bureaucrats are even hostile to him.

This is quite natural. The Provisional Government of Lublin was established on the basis of the Polish National Liberation Committee. In the military, they rely on the power of the People’s Army. The Polish National Army, which has recently been incorporated, can only be regarded as New members of the periphery. To a certain extent, the Provisional Government in Lublin is more like a vested interest group, while people like Bobanski suddenly rushed in to share the power cake with others, and of course they were not seen by others. .

But even so, what Bobanski can be sure of is that as long as he can get Victor’s support, then his position in the interim government, at least in the Polish National Security Agency, is stable, and no one can move him. To be precise, no one dared to move him—for those of the Polish National Liberation Committee, the People’s Committee of the National Security Council of the Union is also a chilling existence.

Therefore, whether in public or private, Bobansky could not find a reason to violate Victor's position.

"I see, Comrade Victor," said Bobansky after hesitating a little. "After the work of the Security Agency is on the right track, I will actively coordinate the two aspects of work."

After a while, he took advantage of Victor’s opportunity to take out a folded document from his pocket and held it in front of Victor with both hands. I submit a list of appointments for the relevant personnel of the Security Bureau so that the committee can discuss it. Well, this is the list of appointments I plan to recommend. See if there is any lack of consideration."

The "Committee" mentioned by Bobansky refers to the "Lublin Committee", which is now the official name of the Provisional Government of Lublin. As for Edward, it refers to Edward Osobka-Moravsky. This person is the chairman of the Lublin Committee.

For now, the Lublin Committee has no plan to form a National Security Agency. After all, as a national security agency, how can it be formally established after the establishment of a real interim government? However, the Lublin Committee had to consider the recommendations and requirements of the People’s Commissar of National Security of the Soviet Union. Therefore, they had to ask Bobanski to recommend the National Security Agency before the candidate for the head of the Polish National Security Agency was established. The cadre candidate, after all, this deputy director was recommended by Victor, who was also recommended by the Soviet People’s Committee for National Security.

"Comrade Bobansky, you don't need to give me this list," Victor smiled, and did not receive the list handed over by the other party. "Just hand it over to Comrade Edward. We don't have the right to interfere with your personnel appointments."