The Rise of the Third Reich

"What? 2,000 people? How is this possible?"

In the city of Herat in northwest Afghanistan, in a building that used to be a mosque and now bears the sign of the First Cadre College of the Afghan People's Party in Herat Province, Comrade Rashidov, an Uzbek youth cadre who is only 24 years old this year and joined the glorious, great and correct Soviet Bolshevik Party when he graduated from university two years ago, has just received a task that is simply impossible to complete.

The First Cadre College of Herat Province must train 2,000 loyal GCist fighters within three months!

These are loyal GCist fighters. How many difficult tests and layers of selection can be passed before one can emerge - Comrade Rashidov joined the party after such a long test. How could 2,000 people be produced in three months in Herat Province, Afghanistan? If GCist fighters can be trained in this way, then the world revolution would have succeeded long ago.

"How is it impossible?" Shelov, the general adviser of the Afghan People's Party, glared at Rashidov, the special adviser of the Herat Provincial Committee of the Afghan People's Party, and pointed out seriously, "This is Comrade Stalin's highest instruction! Comrade Stalin asked us to produce 30,000 GCist fighters within 3 months!"

This Shelov is the former first secretary of the Georgian Autonomous Republic of Adjara and Secretary W of Batumi City. His full name is Yefimov Petrovich Shelov. He was the coachman for Hersman during the Russian Revolution in his early years.

He performed well in the Batumi bombing incident and led the people to put out the fire. Therefore, he was promoted and sent to the Uzbek Soviet Republic as the party's organization minister. I thought I could live a comfortable life in Uzbekistan for a few years, but I didn't expect to be involved in the liberation of Afghanistan.

Because he was an old cadre who participated in the August Revolution and had rich experience in struggle, he was recommended to the South Asian Bureau of the Third International by Y in the Uzbek Party. Now he is the general adviser of the Third International to the Afghan People's Party!

This is a very important position, in fact, the "Grand General Secretary" of the Afghan People's Party. If he does a good job, he can at least become the first secretary of a union republic when he returns to his country in the future. So Comrade Shelov's revolutionary enthusiasm, which had been extinguished for many years, has been fully boosted during this period.

"But, but... there are not so many progressive young people in Herat Province." Comrade Rashidov kept shaking his head.

He is Shelov's subordinate. Although he is young, he is an Uzbek cadre who can speak Uzbek and Tajik, and can speak a few words of Persian (Persian is also popular in Afghanistan). Therefore, Shelov promoted him to the position of special adviser to the Herat Provincial People's Party Committee and dean of the First Cadre College of Herat Province.

Although he knew that Stalin's instructions were not wrong, he really didn't know where to find so many progressive young people, and he had to turn them into loyal GCist fighters within 3 months.

Hearing his words, Shelov got angry and said in a calm voice: "How can there be no progressive youth? The Afghan youth and teenagers I saw along the way all looked very progressive! These are the progressive youth!"

"Are they progressive?" Comrade Rashidov asked.

"How can they not be progressive?" Shelov patted the table, "Those shepherds, handicraft apprentices, coolies, and beggars are all very poor, this is progress, you know?"

"Ah? Poverty is progress?" Comrade Rashidov was stunned again and again. He was a very young cadre and had not experienced the cruel era of civil war. Therefore, he did not quite understand the revolutionary truth that "the poor hope to rebel."

"Of course!" Shelov's eyes widened. "I was very poor back then. I worked as a child laborer to support my family when I was very young. I was bullied all the time, so I joined the revolution! I think people here in Afghanistan are even poorer than when I was young. Some of them must want to rebel against this world. As long as we let them know the benefits of following the party, they will become progressive youth! Comrade Rashidov, do you understand?"

Rashidov still shook his head, "Comrade General Counsel, what should we do? Should we send comrades from the internal security forces to recruit people?"

Shelov actually nodded, "This is a good idea! I will send people to arrest... No, not to arrest, but to mobilize! Herat Province needs to mobilize 3,000 people!"

"Comrade General Counsel, didn't you say that only 2,000 people were needed?" Rashidov asked puzzledly, "Why mobilize 300 0 people? " Shelov glared at Rashidov again and explained: "1,000 people must be eliminated! Otherwise, the team will be difficult to lead!" He counted on his fingers and said: "200 Trotskyists, 200 British spies, 200 pseudo-socialists (referring to the National Socialist Party), 200 religious extremists, 200 royalists, and 200 backward elements who sneaked into the revolutionary team... Among these 1,200 people, 700 will be reformed through labor, 300 will be subject to the highest security measures (shot), and 200 will be restored to their reputation after a while (released back to continue to serve as officials). In this way, there will be exactly 2,000 people left, all of whom are loyal GCist fighters. " Comrade Shelov is an old revolutionary after all, and he knows all the tricks of how to recruit people and how to clean up the revolutionary team. The Third International really found the right person to let him be the general adviser of the Afghan People's Party!

Moreover, the biggest difference between Serov’s generation of Bolshevik cadres and the cadres sent by the Soviet Union to Afghanistan in 1979 is that people like Serov don’t care at all about killing more people! Not even caring about killing all the disobedient Afghans if he could catch them...

After arranging the work of mobilizing and educating the progressive youth of Herat Province, Comrade Serov did not leave immediately. In the name of celebrating the founding of the Afghan People's Party, he invited all tribal leaders and religious leaders in Herat Province to have dinner in the city of Herat.

Of course this is the Hongmen Banquet! All tribal leaders and religious leaders who attended the meeting were immediately taken hostage. All tribal leaders and religious leaders who did not attend the meeting would have their tribes and mosques wiped out by the Soviet Red Army within 30 days!

And such large-scale repressive operations did not only occur in Herat Province, but also in places such as Badghis, Faryab, Jawzjan, Balkh, Kunduz and Takhar, as well as in the south to outflank Kandahar. Wherever the Soviet Red Army passed through, it would encounter a large-scale suppression. At the same time, many progressive young people will be mobilized, participate in training, and eventually become communist fighters, or be reformed through labor, or shot...

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There are mountains upon mountains, mountains upon mountains, and beyond the mountains there are still mountains, and most of them are barren hills with little vegetation coverage. Only in the narrow strip between mountains and close to the Panjesh River can there be green farmland and villages with smoke curling up from cooking stoves.

This is the Panjish Valley, about 80 kilometers away from Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan (80 kilometers is the distance from Kabul to the entrance of the Panjish Valley). In the history of another time and space, it was known as the "Valley of Tears" of the Soviets. Now, it will become the first temporary residence of the Royal Government of Afghanistan after it moves out of Kabul. At the same time, it will also be a stronghold for Afghans to resist the Soviet invasion. Although the Afghan reactionaries will use guerrilla warfare to fight against the Soviet Red Army, this does not mean that a solid counter-revolutionary base is not needed.

"You three colonels, what do you think of it there?" A young Afghan officer wearing a Western-style military uniform asked Bond, Gingrich and Rothenberg, who were riding on horseback, in blunt English.

These three secret agents came to Panjixi Valley today to check the terrain and see if there is a suitable place for building an airport runway. The person who spoke to them was a major in the Afghan Guards, named Masoud. He is a Tajik, and his family is a prominent family in the Panjish Valley.

"It seems to be relatively flat there," Colonel Bond followed the direction Masud pointed, and saw a large piece of flat land on the banks of the Panjishi River. "What's the name of this place? Can planes take off and land?"

"Pasmazas," Massoud said, "This is the largest flat land in the entire Panjhi Valley, about 4.5 kilometers long from south to north. Going further north, the mountains on both sides will get higher and higher, and I'm afraid it won't be suitable for aircraft to take off and land. ”

"How far is it from Kashmir?" Colonel Bond asked again.

"About 110 kilometers," Massoud said with a smile, "but that's the straight-line distance on the map."

"If we have to walk, is there a way?" Bond asked next.

"Yes," Massoud said, "but it's not possible to walk all year round. In winter, the mountains are covered with heavy snow. Not to mention Kashmir, it's impossible to walk here even from Kabul."

"Does the road to Kashmir go straight along the river valley?" Bond continued to ask. He has realized the importance of the Panjixi Valley. The 150 kilometers of mountains are basically a forbidden area for large troops and a paradise for guerrilla warfare. And around the 150-kilometer Panjhi Valley, there are many other similar valleys.

"No, you have to climb over the mountain," Masoud said. "Going all the way along the valley will lead to other valleys. If you go all the way down, you will reach China and the Soviet Union."

The Panjhi Valley is one of the many valleys in the Hinduku Mountains. Most of the so-called "valleys" are river valleys. Melted snow from the Hinduku Mountains nourishes the land in the valleys, allowing these lands to feed local residents. Most of these valleys are connected. Following the mountains, the ends of these valleys can lead to China.

Bond thought for a moment and asked: "Is it possible for the Soviets to move south along the river valley from the north?"

Massoud shook his head and said: "Impossible, the terrain there is more dangerous and not suitable for large armies at all. We can block the valley with only a small number of troops. So if the Soviets want to attack, they can only come from the direction of Kabul. However, , they cannot capture the entire valley, no foreign army can do this, this will always belong to the Afghans!”