Struggle in Soviet Russia

After hanging up Comrade Kuznetsov's phone, Victor quickly picked up the red phone, put the receiver to his ear, and said, "Comrade Stalin, I..."

"Call all the comrades of the Politburo members in Moscow immediately and ask them to come to my office for a meeting within half an hour." Before he could finish speaking, he heard Comrade Stalin's slightly hoarse voice coming from the receiver. , He had just woken up, and his tone of voice was obviously tired and anxious. Don't ask, he must already know what happened.

"Yes, I'll call right away." Viktor glanced at Comrade Boskrebyshev, who was facing him, and nodded.

Viktor is only Comrade Stalin's assistant and secretary in the Central Secretariat, and the assistant work on the Politburo side should be contacted by Comrade Boskrebyshev, who is in charge of the special section. However, at this moment Comrade Boskrebyshev In his office, considering the time, Comrade Stalin should have called the special office and got the whereabouts of Comrade Boskrebyshev from there.

There was a busy tone on the phone, Viktor put the receiver down, glanced at Comrade Bosklebyshev nonchalantly, and said, "Comrade Stalin asks you to contact all the Politburo members in Moscow immediately and inform them for half an hour. Go to Comrade Stalin's office for a meeting."

This is obviously not the order of Comrade Stalin. However, this is how Victor understood it. Comrade Boskrebyshev is responsible for the work of contacting the members of the Politburo. He will not take the work of the other party into his own hands. Not a smart move.

Comrade Boskrebyshev obviously didn't hear what Comrade Stalin said on the phone. Therefore, after receiving Victor's retelling, he didn't think much, just nodded, turned and walked towards the door. There is a special line for direct contact with members of the Politburo. It is more convenient to make a phone call there than to call Victor.

Watching this comrade Secret hurriedly leave his office, Victor had time to pick up the document again and take a closer look at its contents.

Just now, when he was on the phone with Kuznetsov, he heard the other party mention something, such as the term Korean peninsula. If nothing else, there should be something wrong on the Korean peninsula. Considering the current situation of the Korean peninsula, there are only two possible problems there, one is a possible conflict between the Soviet Union and the United States, and the other is the antitrust movement of the Korean nationalists, and in these two problems, The latter is obviously not enough to cause too much shock in Moscow. Therefore, according to Victor's prediction, the problem is likely to appear between the Soviet Union and the United States.

Sure enough, after reading the documents brought by Comrade Boskrebyshev, Viktor finally confirmed that his guess was correct. Near the 38th parallel on the Korean peninsula, to be precise, in the Sanjuli area, the Soviet Union A fierce conflict broke out between the Military Management Committee of the Army and the "United States Military Government" formed by the U.S. Army. By the time the Maritime District sent a telegram to Moscow, five Soviet troops had been killed and thirteen wounded. On the other hand, the U.S. military, mainly the Japanese army commanded by the U.S. military, suffered about 30 casualties.

In fact, since the successful test of the Soviet Union's own nuclear weapons, the 25th Army of the Soviet Army and the North Korean police force stationed on the Korean peninsula, and the U.S., Japanese and South Korean police on the other side of the 38th parallel, have been in close contact with each other. There has been constant friction, and incidents such as mutual shelling and gunfire have never stopped, but the problem is that this is the first time such heavy casualties have occurred. This is no longer a simple firefight, but a face-to-face attack on each other, which indicates that the situation on the Korean peninsula is going out of control.

Now the situation in the Far East is very complicated, but the situation on the Korean Peninsula can no longer be described as complicated, because it is much more complicated than complicated.

Since the end of the war against Japan, the confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States in the Far East has been formed, especially after the successful test explosion of the alliance's nuclear weapons, in order to strengthen the influence and military deterrence in the Far East, Moscow will be in the first aspect of the former Far East. On the basis of the army, the headquarters was formed in Voroshilov, which is the Primorsky District of Ussuriysk.

The military region is not large in scale, but has a high level. Its commander is Comrade Meretskov. Its jurisdiction includes the entire Primorsky Krai, Lushun temporarily under the escrow of the Soviet Union, and the entire northern region of the Korean Peninsula. In addition to serving as the commander of the military district, Retzkov also served as the military chief of the North Korean Military Management Committee.

In fact, the role that Meretskov played in the northern part of the Korean peninsula was similar to that of MacArthur in Japan. They were all imperial figures who dominated the power, but Meletskov was much more restrained than MacArthur. After the successful establishment of the Binhai District, the power structure in the northern part of the Korean peninsula was adjusted, and the original North Korean Military Management Committee was divided into two parts. The post of the commander of the garrison headquarters, while the civil affairs are in charge of the so-called "people's government". The person leading the organization is the former member of the military committee of the First Far East Front, General Shtkov.

In order to stabilize the situation on the Korean peninsula, in the past few months, the Military Management Committee has ruthlessly eliminated members of the so-called "anti-trusteeship" movement, while on the other hand, it has planned to support the pro-Soviet politics dominated by Kim Il. strength.

In South Korea, the Americans have done a rougher job since they took over the local situation. After entering the South Korea area, the Americans did two things. First, they banned the People's Committees at all levels that already existed in the South Korea area. The military government headed by Xin Xing, the Japanese army stationed in the DPRK and the Japanese police did not even change their uniforms. They just changed a flag in the office and transformed themselves into officials of the South Korean government.

In this way, the civil antitrust movement in south Korea has become even more violent than in northern Korea. Under the leadership of the people's committees at all levels, there have even been anti-American and anti-Japanese armed riots in some places, and they are responsible for their implementation. It was the Japanese garrisoned troops who suppressed it.

Just talking about the Sanju-ri area where the armed conflict broke out this time, the local People's Committee has been fighting the south Korean police for the past few months. The people of the People's Committee have been active in the US-trusted side of Sanju-ri. Once the south Korean police took action, they quickly withdrew to the Soviet-mandated area, causing a headache for the south Korean police in similar guerrilla warfare.

And this time, those South Korean policemen who were transformed from the former Japanese policemen did not know what medicine they took. Rifles and other weapons crossed the dividing line in the Sanjuli area and launched an offensive against a building in the area controlled by the Soviet army, destroying and burning the building.

According to the report submitted by the Binhai District, this building belongs to the People's Committee of the Sanju-ri Area, and the actions taken by the South Korean side this time are aimed at destroying the foundation of the committee in the Sanju-ri area.

The action taken by the south Korean police lasted for half an hour. Afterwards, they had a fierce battle with the North Korean police who had arrived after hearing the news.

At three o'clock in the night, a Soviet unit arrived at the request of the North Korean police for help. Subsequently, the front moved to the side controlled by the Americans. After that, the scale of the conflict further expanded, and the American garrison in the Sanjuli area joined the battle. So far, a direct military conflict broke out between the Soviet Union and the United States.

In the office, Viktor read the document from beginning to end, until he saw the signature of Comrade Meretskov at the end, he let out a long breath, closed the document gently, and threw it aside.

Judging from the actual situation, the military conflict on the Korean peninsula stemmed from the provocation of the US military. Of course, this report drafted by Comrade Meretskov himself was only the words of one family. What was the real situation at that time? In this way, it is not yet certain, and it can even be said that the real situation can never be determined.

However, what is certain is that although the scale of this conflict is not large and the number of casualties on both sides is still within a controllable range, its nature is bad, and it is likely to become a beginning - the United States and the Soviet Union The end of mutual restraint on both sides in the Far East is likely to be used as an excuse for further hawkish policies on both sides.

In addition, Victor considered that the military conflict this time may have been carefully planned by the Americans. It may be a test, a test of the attitude of the Alliance, or a response to the alliance's deployment of rocket troops to the Far East. a response.

If the first possibility is true, then the alliance will naturally respond with a tough attitude, because once Moscow shows a weak attitude on this matter, the issue of the ownership of Hokkaido and South Korea will be directed towards The league is going in an unfavorable direction. However, if the second possibility is established and the alliance still takes a tough stance, then the conflict on the Korean peninsula is likely to intensify further and ignite a direct war between the United States and the Soviet Union.

Given that Moscow doesn't want war, just as Washington doesn't want war, Victor believes that Moscow's eventual response will likely be tough.