Struggle in Soviet Russia

After the train stopped on the platform, a few minutes later, the door of the carriage with white curtains was opened by the guards accompanying the train. When the four-carriage iron ladder was lowered, the first one appeared at the door of the carriage. Yes, it is Comrade Malenkov, who is fat.

At this time, the platform was already full of officials and experts who came to greet them, as well as military generals-since the establishment of the alliance, whether it was the time of Comrade Lenin or Comrade Stalin, they have been fighting against bureaucracy. However, the essence of bureaucracy is closely related to human nature. No matter what kind of system it is under, its breeding and development are unavoidable, and the alliance is no exception.

Behind Comrade Malenkov is Comrade Beria, who is wearing the uniform of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. wear it on him.

After Comrade Beria got out of the car, it was Victor. He was wearing a light gray woolen trench coat and an equally gray peaked cap on his head. At first glance, he did not look like a high-ranking authority. The official, rather like a literary and art worker, came out of the metropolis to collect folklore.

Coming down from the iron ladder hanging from the door of the carriage, a general who had just shaken hands with Comrade Beria just happened to meet him. , hard work on the road."

The uniform worn by this general comrade belongs to the Air Force. Looking at the stars on the epaulets, it is obviously an Air Force general.

"Hello, Comrade Sergei Ignadyevich," Viktor responded with a smile, shaking his hand.

This person is Comrade Ludenko, a man who started as a pilot, made many military exploits in the Great Patriotic War, and finally became an air force general. Now, on behalf of the Air Force department, he is solely responsible for the auxiliary work in the research and development of rocket technology, and he will coordinate everything that requires the military to come forward.

In today's alliance, there is no Rocket Army, and the relevant work is all carried out by the Air Force agency. Before Rudenko, the person in charge of the relevant work was Alexei Ivanovich Shah. Comrade Hulin, however, Comrade Shahulin was directly arrested because he was involved in the troublesome affairs of Comrade Malenkov. Still in jail.

Of course, the troubles involved with Comrade Shahulin are still relatively complicated, and it is unlikely that he will return to work in the short term. Therefore, the series of work he was in charge of before naturally needs someone to take over.

Behind Rudenko are the representatives of the Armament and Equipment Committee of the People's Commissariat, Comrade Dmitry Fedorovich Ustinov, and Comrade Korolev, who is in charge of technical work in the development of rockets. When presiding over the work of the National Security People's Commissariat, I had dealt with the two more than once, and they have long been acquainted with each other.

Following these two was a middle-aged man with a mustache under his nose, who Viktor also knew, Comrade Artem Ivanovich Mikoyan, the Anas of the Politburo. Comrade Tas Ivanovich Mikoyan is a real brother, but the relationship between the two brothers is not very harmonious. No, to be precise, there are deep contradictions.

Comrade Artem Mikoyan came to observe the experiment on behalf of the Mikoyan Design Bureau. In the entire Mikoyan Design Bureau, not only he came, but his collaborator Mikhail Josephovich Gulie. Comrade Vych came too, along with, of course, Comrade Mikoyan's assistant, Comrade Sergo Lavrendievich Beria, who was Comrade Beria's own son, and that's why , Mikoyan Design Bureau has indeed obtained a lot of additional resources in the past few years.

In addition to these people, there are also some experts who came from Moscow, Ukraine and other places, such as Vladimir Nikolaevich Chelomei, the head of the sixth laboratory of the Moscow Institute of Rocket Science. Comrade, the air-launched rockets designed by his laboratory are highly valued by the Air Force. However, Comrade Chelomei is still too young, and his research does not threaten Comrade Korolev's status at all. If Victor knew more about the history of the former Soviet Union, he would know how important a place this young man who seemed too introverted would occupy in the history of the Union's ICBM research and development.

Of course, Chelomei is not the only one who is present in the field of science and technology. Comrade Petrovich Makeev, etc., a series of well-known titans of later generations are all present. Of course, some of them now have their own laboratories, but most of them are It's not famous yet, and it's basically still small and transparent.

Today's alliance is still in an extremely good rising period. For any country at this stage, various types of talents always seem to emerge in an endless stream. This is like when a country is on the verge of extinction. At times, there will always be countless heroes who are trying to save the nation and survive one after another.

In fact, the current research and development of Soyuz rocket technology is still in its infancy. The "Chief Designer Committee" led by Comrade Korolev and approved by the Union Central Committee has not yet appeared. When that famous committee After its establishment, the alliance's manned spaceflight technology has entered the orbit of full-speed development. Of course, that is a later story.

On the crude platform of Kapuskin Yar Railway Station, following comrades Malenkov and Beria, Viktor shook hands and greeted the main officials and technical experts who came to greet them, and then joined together at the edge of the platform. After a while, I took the car to the rocket test site.

There is a short distance from the train station to the rocket launch site. It takes nearly 40 minutes to get there by car. The key point is that the traffic conditions on this road are very bad, and there is no special construction for the rocket launch site. road.

Viktor was riding in an 80% new military jeep, accompanied by a middle-aged man with a slightly fat body, his name is Mishin, Vasily Mishin, Comrade Korolev , and is also one of the main persons in charge of the rocket test project.

In Viktor's previous life, when Korolev died due to an accidental operation, the person who replaced him in charge of the research and development of the Union rocket was this Comrade Mission, but this person's luck was very bad. In the past, there were several accidents on the Soyuz rocket launch mission, resulting in the sacrifice of some astronauts, and finally, his leadership was replaced by Glushko.

But in this day and age, Comrade Mishin is still full of energy and has a high-spirited meaning. In the car, he eloquently introduced Victor about the launch mission. The whole person seemed very talkative.

It is a pity that although Victor has been in charge of the rocket research and development project for a period of time, he himself does not know anything about rocket technology. Therefore, the introductions made by Comrade Mishin for him are tantamount to playing a piano to a cow.

The motorcade drove northward rapidly at the junction of the grassland and the desert. Nearly an hour later, a grayish-yellow desert appeared in front of the motorcade. At the same time, a road paved with gravel appeared abruptly at the edge of the desert. Continue to drive along this gravel road, and after another ten minutes, a barbed wire wall that stretches without end splits the entire desert into two sections.

"Our conditions are still a bit difficult," Comrade Mishin said, pointing to the outpost in front of the car, "Comrade Sergei Pavlovich plans to launch a mission to Moscow after the successful launch of the mission. Make a report and apply to the People's Committee to allocate sufficient funds to us to build a highway from the test site to Stalingrad, and once the highway opens, the construction of the test site will definitely speed up."

Victor nodded, agreeing with the other party's statement. Today's Kapuskin Yar is too inconvenient for transportation. The only railway is not directly connected to the test site. There is still nearly 50 kilometers from the previous temporary railway station to here. From Skinyar to Stalingrad, it is only 90 kilometers away. The backwardness and inconvenience of road traffic seriously affected the transportation of materials, and also delayed the advancement of the rocket research and development project. As the representative of Comrade Stalin, Victor believed that after finishing this observation activity, it was also necessary to report to the Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. Submit a report to the office that truthfully reflects the difficulties here.

Entering the area separated by the barbed wire wall from the checkpoint, even if it officially entered the rocket test site of Kapuskin Yar, from the bird's-eye view of the test site, the distribution of the entire test site is almost an "L" shape, the main The launch center and the technical body are all concentrated on the horizontal below the "L", and the vertical position is where the six launch sites are located.

Victor had done some understanding before. He knew that since the launch site of Kapuskin Yar was built, there have been a total of seventeen accidents caused by launch failures in previous launch missions. All are accompanied by a certain amount of casualties. To be honest, in the process of rocket technology research and development, the alliance has suffered a lot of losses. But from a practical point of view, these sacrifices and losses are obviously necessary, because the leadership of rocket technology is not only related to the military security of the alliance, but also affects the international status of the alliance.