Rasputin of the East

＜ Episode 342 >

Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire.

“Howdy! Pavlov.”

“Oh, Uncle Vladimir?”

Uncle Vladimir, who had been discharged from the military for several years, still insisted on wearing the military gym uniform he wore in the military, chuckled with a cigarette in his mouth.

“Are you kidding me again?”

“I’m kidding, this is all about networking later…”

Uncle Vladimir, a World War II veteran, grimaced.

“Come to work and sit down.”

“Yes?”

The squatted uncle opened his mouth.

“When I was young, I never dreamed of eating three breads a day. Nowadays, there is no house that can’t eat meat once a day, but I wondered if I should eat white bread like this once a year, and if I eat black bread, luckily, it is a dirty, tasteless porridge made mainly of oats…”

Pavlov complained of suffering at the words of his uncle who made a crackling sound and said ‘I mean latte’.

“So, this was all possible because His Majesty did a good job, but these days, young people all fall for and talk about democracy and what to do, but how is the world going to work? Your Majesty takes good care of you, but if you get involved in politics for nothing, you only get in trouble. These days, students say it’s a strange student movement, and no matter what you do, whether you’re in the youth business or whatever, your uncle won’t say anything, but you go into a strange circle…”

“iced coffee! I don’t do that! I don’t!”

“I mean, I happened to meet your friend Ivanov, and I heard something strange these days.”

“What?”

“Last time at your school, some students were caught holding incomplete books. By the way…..”

“I don’t know, no, how many students there are at my school, do I need to know them all?”

“I was talking about something like that at a student group, and someone reported it, so don’t go to such a gathering as much as possible, and the gangsters approach the gang like a friend or lover, and they color gang ideology. I am dedicating it for them.”

As for latte, I was given a medal for catching rednecks in the factory and spying on them after catching them doing nonsense~

“Have the Germans been parachuted in from Volgograd before? This uncle, who was in the Southern Front, had a sweeping operation with his comrades, and at that time, it was common to confront them over an alley. Machine guns worked a lot too, but submachine guns were better, whoever throws the grenade first wins.

“No, how many different positions does your uncle have? Sometimes it was Spetsnaz, sometimes it was the Ministry of Internal Affairs, sometimes it was the cavalry corps … Even though it was fought, it was the German front, it was Italy, it was the Far East.”

“Uh-huh, this uncle worked in a factory before the war, then went to the armored personnel carrier, showed an active role in the armored corps, and was transferred to the Interior Ministry Spetsnaz. After being reassigned and participating in the Manchurian Strategic Offensive…”

“Feel free.”

“ok?”

While they were talking, I heard laughter.

“uh? brother? Did you come early?”

“I was just shopping, but did you talk about the military?”

“What is it! This uncle is from Siberia…”

“Can I add a little more? Actually, your uncle…”

“Oh, wait a minute, brother-in-law, stop! stop!”

“……?”

He bragged about military sagas to his nephews, but there was something he could never reveal.

In fact, at the time of the war he was a Spetsnazgo Nabal and a ruthless Coast Guard administrator, even death could not tell.

***

CIA Safe House, Western Japan.

“The deaths of some agents can be buried. Losing one nuclear warhead is the real problem.”

“Where?”

“One of the nuclear warheads assigned to Hiroshima.”

“One foot in ‘middle’? Isn’t that one foot?”

“A large city of that size is sometimes assigned several feet. Because it is a nuclear backpack, its power is relatively weak, and of course, there was a schedule to replace it with the latest equipment recently, and many of them were actually replaced, but some of the old ones still remain.”

“Tell me in detail.”

The head of the CIA Tokyo branch laughed bitterly.

“The deployment of nuclear mines has been around for a long time. It was a plan to block the advance of the Russian army by detonating nuclear weapons not only in major cities, but also in transportation hubs and major ports in preparation for the Russian military to take over all of Asia. At first, there were areas where biological and chemical weapons were deployed due to insufficient production of nuclear weapons, but after about seven years, all of them were replaced with nuclear warheads. All nuclear warheads are carried by the agents, and the agents are made up only of the most elite who have been thoroughly trained in leadership, engineering skills, and mental strength. All of this was done under the direction of President Marshall, and was a top secret between the CIA and the US military.”

“And that top secret somehow leaked to Russia.”

“It must have penetrated quite deep, at least the deepest part of the CIA, or even the White House or the Pentagon should suspect, above all, the real question is where the nuclear warhead went.”

“Are you sure the Russian Empire is behind it? Jason?”

“It’s heartbreaking, none of the suspects we have identified are from Russia or any of its satellites. But the only country with access to this information and the capacity to do it is the Russian Empire.”

“How many nuclear warheads are deployed in Hiroshima?”

“Three feet. One of them is missing. A single nuclear warhead is not deployed in large cities of a certain size or larger. The damage range is smaller than expected, and the possibility of something wrong with the nuclear backpack cannot be ruled out, and 3 shots per city is the standard. What was missing was one new warhead.”

“Crazy, did you plan to kill millions of people to stop Russia? Deliberately killing people?”

“Because I am desperate enough to do that. We were in danger, we were being invaded, most people ignored us, and we were at war for a long time! Since the end of World War II, without anyone knowing, secretly!”

“I don’t know if it’s Spetsnaz, but anyway, they already sailed from Nagasaki.

“If there is a nuclear warhead in the port of Busan, go there and seize it.”

“First, there will be a lot of Russian Spetsnaz. It must have built a defense line that would never be able to break through without the mobilization of air support or armored vehicles. The Korean government is subordinate to the Russian Empire, and the ROK naval force has grown to compensate for the lack of naval and air force in the Russian Far Eastern Military District. The name of Asia’s strongest is not Heo Myung. It is suicide to go and hit him now.”

“Another problem is that there is a direct rail link from Busan to Moscow. The Trans-Siberian Railway, the Central Asian Railway, and the Busan-Vladivostok railway network are directly connected, so if a special train with permission from the Russian Empire departs from Busan, you can travel to Moscow without getting off the border without getting off the seat and, if necessary, to the Dover Strait. ”

“If you’re going to move, you have to hit Siberia or Central Asia. The air defense system is too dense to be attacked in Korea, and attacking after crossing the Ural Mountains is suicide.

“What if the target location is different? What if we bait the train and go to another facility?”

“In that case… there would be no hope.”

“It might be better to pick a region where Russia can hit. The CIA interprets this as a power struggle within Russia.”

“……What does that mean?”

“The emperor’s daughters have moved.”

daughters of the emperor. It was a name that could feel like a secret, female warrior group directly under the imperial family, but it wasn’t.

The emperor’s daughters are just that.

daughters of the tsar.

Whether illegitimate or illegitimate, the emperor’s daughters were in some way immersed in either the military or the intelligence service.

Even among the emperor’s sons, there were cases where they were involved in intelligence affairs, but they were close to cooperating with the intelligence service as part of the military.

“The emperor was old. Still energetic, no one wields enormous power to challenge that authority, but everyone’s power disappears the moment he dies. And no one knows when his death will come, and when the Emperor dies, the Crown Prince will inherit the power, but no one knows whether the Crown Prince will be able to fully embrace the Emperor’s mighty power.”

“Is this a battle for succession?”

“There are two possibilities. One is that the Crown Prince is trying to build a feat to seize control of the military, intelligence, and the two great axes that maintain the Russian Empire.”

“The other one?”

“The Crown Prince’s position is being shaken. At least that the intelligence department has moved away.”

“Ivan the intelligence service is unacceptable in the Russian Empire.”

“The ruler of an empire is the emperor, not the prince.”

“… the emperor is trying to replace the prince?”

“It is a possibility.”

“It’s a guess.”

“The worst-case scenario, and the worst ending in that scenario, is an all-out war between the Empire and the United States. The Pentagon concludes that the United States is not capable of stopping more than 10 percent of the Russian Empire’s ultra-long-range nuclear warhead fire, and SLBMs take too long to respond. In the Russian Empire, it is more than enough to monitor all areas with satellites, detect the moment the submarine is floating and refuel, and launch an attack. Even with the staff of the gods, it’s theoretically possible to preemptively strike that way. There is a high probability that unilateral confirmed destruction will occur.”

“A satellite weapon?”

“Russian Empire already has anti-satellite attack capability, and the wide-area attack capability of God’s staff is insufficient compared to nuclear weapons, and the Excalibur attack satellite is not a wide-area attack weapon, and its performance is halved in the atmosphere. Above all, considering the electronic warfare capability of the Russian military, it is not possible to actually expect counterattack capability, even if it is a preemptive attack with satellite weapons. This is the worst-case scenario that the Director and Code One are concerned about.”

“……”

“When a city is destroyed and the United States is vilified around the world or expelled from Asia, the worse, if not the worst. The destruction of our country is truly the worst.”

“If mutually assured destruction is not really complete, then the Russian Empire can take a risk.”

“The Emperor will not venture. However, humans in a corner do not know what to do, and besides, the authority of the emperor can be changed with a single word, no matter what political landscape it is. Any prediction of Russian politics is meaningless if you do not know for sure what his thoughts are.”