USSR 1941

Khrushchev walked up to Shulka, stared at Shulka blankly and looked up and down, as if standing in front of him was a piece of wood that he could dispose of.

Shulka doesn't like this kind of feeling very much, it's a feeling that someone is a knife and I am a fish.

But Shulka was helpless, because he knew that Khrushchev, as a political commissar, had this power.

At the same time, Shulka also knew that if Khrushchev wanted to harm him, let alone Akimovich and Golikov, even Zhukov would be helpless here.

Just when everyone, even Shulka himself, thought that this time was more ominous than good, Khrushchev nodded and patted Shulka on the shoulder, saying, "Very well, your tactics are mine. Frontline inspection of the few things that are right!"

Shulka was so surprised that he couldn't close his mouth from ear to ear. This reversal was a bit big, and he couldn't even believe what he heard.

"But!" Khrushchev continued pacing in front of the crowd, and continued: "Our soldiers are looking for various excuses to retreat. The brave are dealing with the enemy at the front, while the cowards are enjoying themselves in the rear. There are still many people who remain in the headquarters under various pretexts..."

As soon as Khrushchev waved his hand, the guards pushed several disarmed officers in.

"I think you must know them!" Khrushchev asked Golikov.

"No, I don't know them!" Golikov replied.

"But they said they were waiting for your order!" Khrushchev said: "Just outside your headquarters, there are a captain, three captains, and a dozen other officers and soldiers!"

As he said that, Khrushchev grabbed one of the captains and said, "Well, he told me that he just sent you a report! And this, he said that the communication was cut off and asked you for the next order. And this ,this……"

Angrily, Khrushchev picked them out one by one, and sometimes he couldn't control himself from punching and kicking them.

Then Shulka understood.

There is a group of "quasi-deserters" in Stalingrad.

The so-called "quasi-deserters" refer to those who did not flee the battlefield but avoided fighting or fled the most dangerous front line.

This is a smart approach, because the risk of being a deserter is too great, once found, there is only one dead end,

Especially from Stalingrad, there is no escape route at all.

Of course, they are also unwilling to surrender to the enemy.

They actually have a better choice, find an excuse to hide in the second line.

Or, just like these captured officers, they deceived their superiors and found an excuse to hide near the headquarters... The headquarters should be said to be the safest place on the battlefield. In addition, they can also claim to their subordinates that they received their orders from their superiors. The order went to the headquarters, and Golikov and even the guards of the headquarters did not know the existence of these officers.

Then all the officers had to do was wait.

If they were lucky, they could even become heroes by the end of the war, heroes who survived the vicious battle.

Therefore, this kind of person is the most hateful, even more hateful than deserters... Deserters just run away, and these people are still lurking in the dark while running away, taking credit for the subordinates and comrades who died on the front line whenever they have the opportunity.

Golikov, Akimovich and others were busy directing operations, so they had no time to take care of these problems and did not discover them. However, when Khrushchev came here to inspect, he immediately caught a lot of them.

"There are two hundred and seventy-two of them!" Khrushchev said: "This is only a small part. The other part ran back to join the frontline troops after hearing the news! If possible, I should get them out one by one!"

"Can you imagine? Just in Stalingrad, the city named after Comrade Stalin, I only took more than half an hour to catch more than two hundred of these cowards!" Khrushchev was angry Grabbing Golikov by the collar, he said viciously to Golikov: "And you don't know anything about it, even though they stay by your side!"

"Comrade Political Commissar!" Shulka explained: "Perhaps you don't know that one after another troops have been reinforced into Stalingrad. Most of them have been maimed and scattered. It is difficult for us to find them completely... ..."

"These are not reasons!" Khrushchev interrupted Shulka: "At any time, we need to be vigilant and not give these cowards a chance. This will seriously damage the morale of the entire army!"

Shulka had to admit that Khrushchev was right.

Brave soldiers die heroically on the front line but get nothing, people who are greedy for life and fear of death hide in the second line to survive and pretend to be military leaders... It only takes a few examples and spread the word, and it will quickly kill morale The blow, because everyone will want to be the one who survived the second line and lead the battle.

"Comrade political commissar!" Golikov swallowed, and replied: "I, I will immediately organize these bastards into the 'punishment battalion' and send them to the battlefield..."

"No!" Khrushchev interrupted Golikov: "They are not worthy of entering the 'punishment camp'!"

So everyone understood that these people didn't even have the chance to die under the enemy's guns on the battlefield.

Then, Khrushchev delivered a speech to various places through the radio... Although the Soviet army's communication equipment is very backward, it attaches great importance to propaganda, so the battlefield loudspeakers can cover one-third of the area even when the battle is very difficult.

Although it is only one-third, the soldiers on the front line will spread it by word of mouth, so it will soon spread throughout the entire army.

Khrushchev also wanted to use this to shock the army.

"Comrades who fought bravely at the front!" Khrushchev said impassionedly on the radio: "First of all, please allow me to pay tribute to your achievements and unyielding spirit. Your courage will eventually defeat the enemy and win the final victory However, there will always be some cowards among us who dare not face all this, or they used to be one of us, our comrades-in-arms..."

This is Khrushchev's clever point. Those "quasi-deserters" have been classified outside the Soviet army as a class enemy at this time, so the existence of these people has been cut off, and their impact on morale has also been reduced. be kept to a minimum.

Needless to say what the final result is, there are more than two hundred people, including officers and soldiers, all types of arms, and even the scarce artillery and tank soldiers. shot.

The shooting speed was very slow, and even every person who was shot was still broadcasting the name, serial number and other information on the radio, and then a gunshot...

There are also cries and begging for mercy from "quasi-deserters", but this obviously has no effect.