Struggle in Soviet Russia

For the post-war ownership of East Prussia, the Allies have already made a conclusion.

As early as March 1943, just before the Tehran Conference, the Allies held their first discussion on the question of the ownership of East Prussia after the war. The requirement to assign East Prussia to the Soviet Union.

During the Tehran Conference, the heads of the three countries finally determined that East Prussia would be completely separated from Germany after the war, but they did not reach a consensus on its final ownership.

It was not until October last year that the issue of East Prussia’s ownership was finally settled. Churchill made concessions and accepted the request that East Prussia should be assigned to the Soviet Union after the war. Prussia launched an all-out attack.

It is precisely because East Prussia will be completely assigned to the Soviet Union after the war. Since October last year, the British Air Force has launched two large-scale bombings on Konigsberg. In fact, before the Soviet army arrived at Konigsberg, this The city with a long history has been destroyed.

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In the Royal William Square at the entrance of Konigsberg Castle, a military jeep, accompanied by four military trucks, slowly drove into the square full of broken bricks and tiles. Unfortunately, the wheels of the jeep got stuck in the mud. Can't get out.

Victor in a military uniform got out of the jeep, took the umbrella handed over by a soldier, propped it on top of his head, and walked towards the castle.

The siege of Königsberg ended only yesterday. Although the sky was still raining, the smoke from the city still did not dissipate. The thick or thin smoke columns dotted the ruins of the city, showing that it is difficult to share. Concealed desolation.

Not far away, the Konigsberg Castle has been devastated by the war, and half of the square tower with the spire has been blown up. On the other half of the tower that is still standing, a red flag is flying.

The bodies of some German soldiers who fell on the square have not been cleaned up yet. It can be seen from their age that these soldiers are not the official German Wehrmacht, but members of the so-called "people's stormtroopers" who were recruited temporarily. The cannon fodder, either underage children, or old men, but the weapons in their hands are equally deadly, of course, the Soviet weapons are equally deadly to them.

Hearing the crackling sound of the drizzle hitting the umbrella canopy, Victor walked around a huge pile of gravel in the square with a blank expression, and walked straight towards the castle ruins in front of him. Politburo guards with guns.

Crossing the dilapidated square, Victor walked to the crumbling castle gate.

At this time, at the entrance of the castle, there were more than ten meters of Soviet soldiers gathered there. A reporter with the army was taking pictures of them. When Victor came with a group of people, the Soviet soldiers hurriedly took two pictures. Zhang Zhao left the castle in a swarm.

Walking up the steps in front of the castle, Victor walked into the main entrance of the castle.

The castle is also a mess, dust covers almost everything, and the ground is densely covered with messy footprints. In addition, there are some broken enamel pieces and broken glass on the ground.

Victor ignored this. He found the location of the stairs, and then, following the half-collapsed stairs in the middle, he carefully went upstairs and entered a room on the second floor opposite the entrance of the stairs.

This room should be considered relatively well-preserved, at least the walls are intact, but the three windows in the room have been completely broken, and the wall on the right is not only full of bullet holes, but also a lot of sputtering of blood. In the corner of the wall, there were two corpses lying on their backs, which should be a machine gun group, because next to the two corpses, there was a machine gun abandoned there.

Victor ignored the two corpses. He went straight to the window and looked out through the half-broken window.

Outside the castle, all the places that can be seen are ruins of ruins. In the streets full of rubble, there are Soviet soldiers in ponchos and staggering civilians.

Victor knew that the troops currently stationed in Konigsberg were the 31st Guards Infantry Division commanded by Major General Bulmakov. After the Battle of Nice, they were ordered to enter a period of rest.

Considering that Viktor's work in East Prussia must be assisted by a regular garrison, the division was temporarily separated from the combat sequence of the 11th Guards Army and placed under the command of the Military Management Committee.

For now, the 31st Guards Infantry Division has entered a state of rest in Konigsberg. In order to ensure the integrity of the establishment, according to the order of Comrade Vasilevsky, commander of the Front Army, the 43rd, 50th and Guards No. Some troops in the 11th Army with relatively large losses were temporarily integrated into the infantry division. Therefore, if only from the perspective of the size of the troops, the infantry division was not only short of numbers, but also swelled a lot.

Now, the 31st Guards Infantry Division is tasked with selecting a young workforce from the surviving citizens of Koenigsberg and transporting them to the Union in coordination with the relevant departments of the NKVD - after several years In the war of 2009, the population loss of the alliance was extremely heavy, and the economic recovery after the war required a large amount of labor. Therefore, the capture of the population from Germany became a policy that must be implemented.

In the process of the Soviet army advancing into Berlin, this work has always been carried out jointly by the "special committee" led by Comrade Malenkov and the Ministry of Internal Affairs and People's Commissariat, and in some newly occupied areas, the garrison will also undertake certain tasks.

In addition to hunting down the labor force, the 31st Guards Infantry Division was also tasked with driving the old, weak, sick and disabled who were not young laborers from the East Prussia region centered on Königsberg, driving them to in Poland. Of course, Poland will definitely not allow these old, weak, sick and disabled Germans to stay in the country. Once they enter Poland, they will be immediately taken over by the Polish People's Army and driven to Germany.

In the process of signing the relevant orders, Viktor also has a part, and the purpose of this is to purify the ethnic composition of East Prussia. To Sovietize this region, at least the current ethnic composition of East Prussia needs to be changed. Originally, almost more than 80% of the Germans had to migrate out of the region as much as possible, and fill the missing part of the population with Russians, Belarusians, Poles, and the ethnic populations of the Baltic countries. , in a realistic sense, this is the most direct and effective way to rapidly "Sovietize" East Prussia.

Of course, for now, in East Prussia, including Königsberg, there are only a few German men in their prime, and those prime-age laborers have long been taken away by the Germans themselves, otherwise, the so-called "people's stormtroopers" "There won't be so many old people and children anymore.

In addition, affected by the war, most of the local Germans became refugees. They had fled the area before the Soviet army surrounded Konigsberg. Therefore, as the capital of East Prussia, Konigsberg After the Soviet army entered, the remaining population of the city was only tens of thousands. Before that, it was a big city with a population of hundreds of thousands.

The war destroyed everything, and the so-called "everything" here is not just cities and buildings, but also order and ethics.

A few years ago, when the fanatical Germans, under the call of Hitler, carried the banner of destroying the fallen Slavs, and launched an all-out attack on the Soviet Union, they probably never imagined that they would face the crisis of being wiped out by the Slavs one day.

As an option for retaliation, after the 3rd Belorussian Front captured Königsberg, the military committee responsible for military discipline did not strictly restrain the behavior of the soldiers. A larger escape operation.

Of course, compared to the Germans, the Alliance at least did not organize an orderly massacre here. The garrison even opened the passage to Pillau, allowing the Germans who wanted to leave Königsberg to join the camp in Pillau. The Germans - although Pillau's Germans were also surrounded by the Soviets, militarily, they couldn't hold out much longer.

Standing in front of the broken window for a while, Victor turned around, glanced at Varenka who was following behind him, and said, "Bring me the map."

Varenka hurried forward, took out a map from the briefcase she was carrying, and spread it out in front of Victor.

This is the latest map of the city of Konigsberg provided by the Front Army Command. From the map, the entire city of Konigsberg has been almost completely destroyed, especially the southwest and west areas of the city. In the past few days During the period of time, the Soviet aviation troops dropped nearly 1,700 tons of bombs in these two areas, and the buildings in the two areas were almost wiped out.

Victor found a place marked with a red circle on the map. It was the headquarters of the Military Management Committee recommended for him by the Front Army Command. It was the main building of the University of Albertina, a three-story building.

In the next period of time, except for this three-story building, all the surviving buildings in the urban area of ​​Konigsberg, all those that can reflect the Germanic style, will be blown up one by one and completely erased from the urban area. The post-war reconstruction agency, under the responsibility of the Military Management Committee, will build new, clearly Soviet-style buildings in the city of Konigsberg as part of the Sovietization effort.