Struggle in Soviet Russia

A person's political maturity is not achieved overnight. From ignorance to youth, and from youth to maturity, it takes a process, and it may even be a very long process.

Although Victor was reborn, even in his previous life, he never climbed to the position he is today, and he didn't even do the work he did after his rebirth. Compared with ordinary people, although he has A certain advantage, but this advantage is very limited and does not help him become a successful politician.

In general, Viktor's situation in the political arena is actually similar to the state-building of the Soviet Union. There is no precedent and experience to follow. Everything needs to be explored by oneself and seek progress through exploration.

However, compared to ordinary people, Victor does have an advantage that ordinary people do not have, that is, he inherited the blessings of his parents, and he has a special relationship with Comrade Stalin as the leader.

On the one hand, he was very active in his work, and he never disappointed Comrade Stalin in his succession. On the other hand, it was also because of this relationship that Comrade Stalin was obviously more tolerant and valued when he treated him.

Well, all the so-called advantages are actually not important. If you want to gain a foothold in the core of Moscow's power, you still need to see your own abilities.

After walking around the Yusupov Palace and inspecting all the security arrangements, Victor returned to the palace with an umbrella, had a little dinner, and fell asleep early when the night just fell. .

This whole day, he had been tossed to death for a long time, so despite the obvious smell of paint in the room, he fell asleep as soon as his head touched the pillow.

I don't know how long I slept, when Victor was suddenly woken up by a knock on the door. He opened his eyes in a daze, turned over on the bed, and looked up at the roof until the knock on the door sounded again. Wake up from a state of confusion.

Consciousness returned to his mind and wanted to understand where he was. Victor touched the watch on the bedside table, turned on the lamp and checked the time. It was three o'clock in the morning. Who would disturb him so late...

Before this thought was over, Victor shivered, rolled over, and got up from the bed. He didn't even wear shoes, so he ran out of the suite with bare feet.

This is Yalta, where the leaders of the three countries held talks. Now, someone suddenly knocks on the door at night, disturbing his rest. Don't ask, something must have happened, and here, any unexpected event will It won't be trivial.

The wind rolled to the door of the office, and Victor pulled the door open.

At the moment when the door was opened, he breathed a sigh of relief. The door was not locked. Since the visitor still had the time to knock on the door, instead of rushing in to wake him up, it meant that the matter was not serious.

At this time, three young men in uniforms of the People's Commissariat of State Security stood outside the door. They were obviously soaked in the rain and their uniforms were soaked through.

"Report, Comrade Chairman," the young man standing at the front gave a neat military salute when he saw Victor appear in the door, and said loudly, "Moscow has sent urgent top-secret information, please receive it."

After speaking, the young man put down his salute hand and raised his left hand.

Only then did Victor realize that the young man was wearing a handcuff on his left wrist, and the other buckle of the handcuff was locked to a black box.

Victor glanced at the box, then at the other two behind the young man.

As his eyes swept over, the other two young men took a step forward, and each took out a small document-like book from their pockets and handed it to Victor.

Looking at this posture, Victor knew that the contents in the box should be the latest information obtained by the Foreign Intelligence Agency, and top-secret information obtained from extremely important potential spies.

In the Foreign Intelligence Bureau, there are a series of spies who are deeply lurking abroad and play a very important role. The situation of these people, even in the presidium of the National Security People's Commissariat, is classified information, except for Victor, who is the chairman. In addition, in the entire committee, apart from the intelligence personnel who are in constant contact with these people, there are no more people who know the situation.

The intelligence information passed by these people will be sent to Victor as soon as possible. Even if he is no longer in charge of the work of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau, this rule has not changed.

Without speaking, Victor turned around and went back to his office. He took a pen from his desk and signed on the small notebook that the two young men took out, indicating that they had sent the information safely and that they had sent the information along the way. There was no accident, and no one opened the box without permission. That's right, the reason why a piece of information needs to be sent by three people is because these three people need to monitor each other.

He took out a bunch of keys from his military uniform pocket, found one of them, and opened the handcuffs on the box. Victor shook hands with the three young men one by one and sent them out of his office.

After closing the door, the room fell silent again.

Victor went back to the desk, opened the seal on the box, lifted the lid, and took out the special document bag inside.

Looking at the photocopied rose on the file bag, Victor knew where this information came from. This was an intelligence from Washington, to be precise, from the White House.

After carefully inspecting the seal on the file bag and making sure there was no problem, Victor opened the file bag and took out a stack of letterheads.

The letterhead is written in secret language. If you look at the content, it is a family letter written by a person. In the letter, he tells his wife how much his business has earned this month and how much he has spent. He also mentioned a man named Whitney. 's niece, has been admitted to a certain university in California, and so on, it's all trivial things.

Victor did not read the contents of the letter. He took out a codebook from his briefcase and started translating according to the contents of the letter.

This letter was a bit long, it was three pages long, and it took Victor nearly an hour to translate them, but after the translation was finished, he read the information, but it only took him less than two minutes.

Leaning against the back of the chair, Victor took a pack of cigarettes from the table, lit it with a lighter, and then used the lighter to burn the information that had just been translated.

Watching the note gradually turn into ashes in the flames, and finally scattered in the ashtray, Victor got up from the chair, turned around and walked to the window not far away.

In order to ensure privacy, the glass windows of the room are made of carved glass, so naturally the outside cannot be seen from the inside.

Victor unlocked the window and opened a gap in the window. Suddenly, some cool night wind blew in from the outside, and the air still had a mist-like dampness.

As the window opened a gap, the sound of rain outside the window suddenly came in. I didn't know when the light rain had started to fall. No wonder the three people who came before were drenched like that.

However, now Victor doesn't have the heart to care about the situation of those three subordinates, let alone consider whether they will catch a cold or not. All his attention is on the information he just got.

This information passed back from Washington revealed a very important information to the People's Commissariat of National Security: from the end of the previous year, according to Carter Clark's order, the US military intelligence department was under the "Arlington Hall", A targeted intelligence gathering program was established.

According to this plan, the U.S. intelligence agency began to cooperate with the British intelligence agency to monitor and intercept the encrypted communications of the Soviet diplomatic service in the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia and other countries and regions, and to control the encrypted communications by deciphering these encrypted communications. The Soviet Union's intelligence information in various fields such as foreign trade, science and technology, military and diplomacy.

If it is just such intelligence information, Victor will not take it too seriously. Of course, as a spy who is lurking so deeply, this special "lurker" will not send it back to Moscow with great fanfare.

The most valuable part of this intelligence is the progress made by the United Kingdom and the United States in this plan.

According to reports in the intelligence, after more than two years of deciphering, the United Kingdom and the United States have made a breakthrough in this plan. They seem to have mastered the one-time password used by the Soviet diplomatic agency.

When the Soviet foreign affairs department transmits encrypted information, it has its own specific encryption method. During the transmission process of their encrypted information, there will be no information such as letters or graphic images, but only numbers, and these numbers correspond to with certain letters or words.

In order to ensure the indecipherability of information encryption, according to the regulations of the People's Committee of Foreign Affairs, the codebooks used in this type of encryption are all one-time, that is, within a certain period of time, the codebooks used will never be Use again in another time period.

If the People's Committee for Foreign Affairs can really implement this policy, then there is no doubt that because the codebooks used in different stages are completely different, such a code is basically impossible to decipher.

But the key point is that the people in the People's Committee of Foreign Affairs who specialize in communication encryption are obviously lazy in the process of changing the codebook. However, they directly copied a large amount of password-corresponding data from the original codebook.

In this way, the intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom and the United States have found patterns in the frequently repeated data, and have made great progress in cracking the encrypted communications of the Soviet foreign ministry.