Struggle in Soviet Russia

Sevastopol, Shaki military airport, a dark green US-made C-110 transport plane, with the roar of the huge motor, slowly landed on the runway.

When the plane finally stopped on the runway, Victor, who had already been beaten up, stood up from his seat with a pale face.

He stretched the hem of his military uniform, put one hand on Varenka's arm, and walked towards the hatch.

The moment he stepped off the plane, Victor couldn't help agreeing with Comrade Stalin's opinion that traveling by plane is indeed a very unsafe and unreliable thing. If possible, we must try to avoid flying.

This time, Viktor boarded the plane from Budapest. Instead of returning to Moscow, he flew directly to Crimea. According to the formation, he was going to land at the military airport in Sevastopol, and then take a car to go there. Yalta.

There is no airport in Yalta today. Just two days ago, President Roosevelt and British Prime Minister Churchill got off the plane at this airport, and then drove to Yalta.

Fortunately, Sevastopol is very close to Yalta, but it doesn't take an hour to travel by car for fifty or sixty kilometers.

As the head of the intelligence agency of the alliance, although Victor was in Budapest, he knew the itineraries of the leaders of the United Kingdom and the United States. , As for what was talked about specifically, the intelligence personnel did not fully grasp. But they still have some news coming back. For example, during the talks in Malta, there was a heated verbal conflict between Churchill and Roosevelt. The reason seems to be the issue of the Mediterranean Sea. Churchill believed that the Mediterranean Sea should still belong to the Mediterranean after the war. For the British, he cannot be "the gravedigger of the British Empire". Therefore, the British army will not withdraw from the Mediterranean countries after the war, which naturally includes Greece.

As president of the United States, Roosevelt believed that Greece should be handed over to the Soviets to avoid military conflict with the Soviets.

Recently, Victor has attached great importance to the collection of domestic public opinion in the United States, and according to the intelligence information collected by the intelligence agencies, at present, the think tanks in the United States are full of worries about the possible direct conflict between the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union after the war. They generally believed that the conflict between the Soviets and the British would likely lead to the outbreak of the Third World War.

And Roosevelt obviously attached more importance to this prediction. At the same time, in order to limit the power of the British, and also to allow the Soviet Union to join the war against Japan as soon as possible, Roosevelt was happy to stand on the side of the alliance on many issues and try to satisfy the alliance as much as possible. requirements.

Churchill has long been dissatisfied with Roosevelt's attitude, which may be the most direct reason for the dispute between the two sides in Malta.

On the way to Sevastopol, Viktor's plane encountered two air masses, so it was very bumpy. Unexpectedly, after arriving in Sevastopol, the weather here was good. The sun is very strong, the sea breeze is warm, and there are already signs of early spring.

The car that came to greet Viktor was already waiting beside the airport runway. All the work here was arranged by the People's Commissariat of National Security of Ukraine. Although it was a member of the republic, its independence was relatively high. A little bit, but after Victor's previous personnel rectification of the entire committee, the leaders of various hills have also become much more honest, at least they dare not ignore him as the chairman.

Getting into a black Volga sedan, Victor immediately closed his eyes as soon as he sat in the back seat. The bumps along the way had made him tossed enough, and he had to seize the time to take a good rest. Later in Yalta, he also needs to report to Comrade Stalin immediately. God knows if he has time to rest this evening.

Maybe he was really too tired. After leaning back on the seat for a while, Victor didn't even feel the car start, so he fell asleep in a daze, and when he woke up again, the car had stopped. It was Varenka who woke him up.

Victor came to his senses, and before he could get out of the car, a tall female captain was already standing by the door. The captain was holding a thick stack of documents in his hand, apparently preparing to give it to him.

For the three-nation summit meeting held in Yalta, the three palaces in Yalta have been rebuilt in the past few months, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and People's Commissariat is responsible for the reconstruction work. Comrade Merkulov personally came to Yalta to take charge this work.

The engineer specifically responsible for the construction work was Shavjiyang, while the one in charge of supervising the construction was Krugrov, and the representative of the construction supervision on the US side was Katherine, the daughter of the President's special envoy Harriman.

As a full-time department in charge of intelligence work, the People's Commissariat of National Security naturally also participated in the construction of the project, and also supervised the construction of the project. In order to ensure the safety of the meeting, there is no room for error anywhere in the entire project.

In addition to the construction work, in today's Yalta, it is still a large barracks. In addition to the 250 fighter planes on standby at the Shaji Military Airport, the three palaces where the leaders of the Three Kingdoms stayed are the center and surrounding areas. More than 90 air defense positions have been arranged, with a total of more than 300 anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, lest someone carry out air strikes here.

Glancing at the captain who was waiting for him, Victor didn't pick up the documents. He picked up the military cap that was on the side, bent over and got out of the car.

At the moment when he got his feet on the ground, Victor only felt his legs numb slightly, as if he had just gone through a marathon and his whole body was out of strength.

He held the door with one hand and looked up at the building beside the car.

This is a pyramid-shaped three-storey building with a huge dome on top, and a huge cross statue on the outer wall between the second and third floors. It's like a church up there.

He adjusted his collar, put on General Viktor's cap, and closed the car door, and then signaled Varenka to take the documents in the captain's hands-the building in front of him was the famous Yusupov Palace, which was also during the Yalta meeting. The place where Comrade Stalin and Soviet representatives stayed.

According to the arrangement of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs, the place where President Roosevelt will stay is the Livadia Palace not far away, which is also a place with the best conditions, and the reason why he gave it to Roosevelt and his entourage is mainly because Because this Mr. President is not in good health, and at the same time, he has a very good personal relationship with Comrade Stalin.

As for Churchill, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, he was placed in the Vorontsov Palace in Arupka.

That's right, Comrade Stalin was in the building in front of Victor at this time. Despite the unremarkable appearance of this building, there are actually hundreds of rooms inside. In addition, the roof of the building has been rebuilt. , a concrete roof with a thickness of two meters is laid, and the outer wall of the building is an explosion-proof and anti-gas partition wall with a thickness of more than one meter. From an engineering point of view, even if the roof of this building is directly bombed by 500 kilograms of explosives, it can be guaranteed to be unscathed.

Of course, as Comrade Stalin's entourage, and also the person who is mainly responsible for the security work, Victor's residence is also in this building, and it is on the easternmost side of the main corridor on the first floor.

Watching Varenka take the document, Viktor gestured to the captain, and then walked up the steps first.

The captain was the person in charge of the internal security work of Yusupov Palace during the meeting. She was subordinate to the Political Security Bureau of the People's Commissariat of State Security. She followed Victor up the steps and reported the past two days as she walked. condition.

This meeting is different from the previous Tehran meeting, because this meeting was held within the Union, and all issues will be handled by the Union, while in Tehran, Victor only needed to be in charge of the security of the embassy. It's alright, nothing else is up to him.

Because of this, the security work this time is more complicated, and there are many details. Just like the Livadia Palace where President Roosevelt stayed, there were 91 rooms, twenty telephone lines were installed, forty cars were prepared, and sixty service personnel, Victor needed to know the situation of each room, every The situation of each service staff, the daily outbound calls of each telephone line, etc., etc., he needs to know all the details.

"Which room is Comrade Boskrebyshev resting?" Entering the palace, just as Victor was about to turn into the corridor, he suddenly thought of something, he stopped and asked the captain who fell behind him.

"It's across from your room," Victor's fork was a little big, and the captain had to speed up to keep up with him. At this time, he didn't notice that Victor suddenly stopped, and the captain rushed a little too far, but she still stopped in time, "Ah, it was Comrade Poskrebyshev who himself asked for that room."

Victor frowned, his room was arranged by himself, a very remote place, and opposite his room was also a very cramped small room, without even a bathroom.

"Has Comrade Stalin rested?" After thinking about it, Victor turned around and asked while continuing to walk into the corridor.

"I don't know," the captain replied first, but then he added, "but it shouldn't be there yet. Comrade Stalin asked for a cup of coffee earlier."

Victor was a little disappointed. If Comrade Stalin had a rest, he could naturally rest for a while, but now... he must report to the leader as soon as possible, even though the news that Budapest was conquered, the other party probably already knew about it.