East Berlin's June Boat Song

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In April, the yard was sunny, and I was lying on a white-painted bench covered with a flannel blanket, touching the cross of Jesus on my chest, and dreaming of my friend who had passed away for two years, Alan G. lauder.

On weekdays, Julian and Sonia both work in the headquarters building in Karlshorst, and Ansolov and I are the only ones left in the white mansion.I used to sit out all day, waiting for Julian to come back.

One night, he suddenly told me that he was going to the headquarters of the intelligence service of the Soviet Army in Germany in Winsdorf.

"Well, it's the headquarters of the GRU in East Germany?"

"Yeah." He nodded, his expression a bit solemn: "I suspect that there is an inner ghost in the GRU."

My eyes widened in surprise, then I waved my hands and said with a smile: "You don't have to tell me this, I don't want to know too much."

He slightly raised the corners of his lips, took a sip of vodka, and leaned on the marble table in front of the window: "It's quite cautious."

I looked up at him: "So how many days are you going?"

"Not much time." He walked to the sofa and carried me into the bathroom: "You won't miss me for a long time."

I rolled my eyes, ghosts will miss you!

Julian traveled alone this time, and Sonia stayed behind.The beautiful female major always has no smile on her face, which makes me very worried. That day we were basking in the sun among the lily-of-the-valley bushes in the yard. I took her soft and slender hand and stroked her neatly trimmed, smooth and soft nails.

"What a beautiful hand." I praised her: "Like Mona Lisa's hands, elegant and gentle."

"Little Rhine, this hand is not gentle." Sonia smiled lightly like a lilac flower.

"I know." I looked up at her: "It hurts to beat someone."

She laughed happily, and tapped me on the head: "I haven't hit you much before, you know..."

She stopped talking suddenly, and her smile gradually dimmed.

"What happened before?" I leaned forward and asked, trying to restore the atmosphere, so I shook her thin arm and begged her to tell me.

"Did you beat people often? Who did you beat?"

Sonia gave me a blank look, and said angrily, "Rhein, you are already 27 years old, why do you still look like a child?"

I stuck out my tongue: "It's just in front of you."

She smiled softly, lit a cigarette, and her eyes became gentle amidst the smoke.I am familiar with this kind of eyes caught in memories. When the expression becomes lingering and tranced, the deepest memories buried in the bottom of my heart will be unveiled—that is the softest corner of the heart.

"Before, before... For me, those were all very good days, of course, only for me."

"Remember that friend named Sergey I mentioned to you?" She glanced at me and saw me nodding, so she continued: "At that time, the war had not yet broken out, and we were in the Dzerzhinsky High School. I met Sasha and Julian here. Of course, they are students, but Sergey and I are not, we are family members of the teaching staff..."

Sonia lowered her head showing a bit of shyness: "At that time, the two of them could not take their eyes off in the academy. They were so good, really, Sergey admired them, and of course, he even admired Yu Yu who was holding a high air. Lian, he followed him to the battlefield. When Julian told me that Sergey would never come back, I regretted how much I always beat him and bullied him when I was a child. He is a good boy, just like you. I am extremely miss him..."

I still remember Sergey’s desperate eyes on the battlefield. I was terrified at that time and turned a blind eye to his pain. Now that I think about how absurd war is, the enemy who can kill you at any time in the smoke of gunpowder is another person A person who is on top of his heart until death.I sighed and met Sonia's gaze: "Sorry my dear Sonia..."

Sonia shook her head with a smile, a hint of loneliness and sadness appeared at the corner of her mouth.She slowly exhaled a puff of smoke, and said in a daze: "Rhein, I like Julian very much, you know that. But to a certain extent, my relationship with Sasha is deeper. Julian's temper makes me Loved and scared at the same time, even when he smiled, I could feel the chill in that smile. And Sasha, my best friend, he was so kind and gentle, and he gave me selfless care and love in many dark times of my life. Warm. He's a poor kid, oh both, poor..."

Sonia's eyes were already beginning to tear, filled with deep sorrow.I handed her a handkerchief, and she shyly wiped away her tears.

"They must have had a very difficult time in the Cheka."

"Yes, Rhine, it's hard beyond your imagination. A gentle person like Sasha can kill people without blinking an eye, and Julian is even more vicious to the bone. When I knew them, they were still trapped In the struggle of murder, but now... Rhine, do you know what is more terrible than ending the life of others? It is playing with people's hearts. The two of them have reached this point now. They are suffering, but they can't turn back. "

I am silent, I have already experienced this.

Sonia let out a long sigh and continued: "Remember the scar on Sasha's neck? It was done by Julian. 38 years ago, I remember, when they were 17 years old, Sasha was ordered to execute a family during the purge. Finally, unable to get out of the pain of killing the child, Julian wanted to end his own life in a daze. Julian was terrified. He didn't know how to stop him. He could only hold a knife against his neck and threaten him viciously. If he dead, he would cut his own neck as unhesitatingly as he would have cut his neck."

"He let Sasha remember the pain, because he knew that Sasha couldn't bear to let him suffer. You see, the two of them walked over with support like this. But because the emotions between them were too complicated, they were both dizzy , the emotional boundaries became more and more blurred, that day... that day, someone caught the two of them kissing in the birch forest behind the college."

Sonia burst into tears: "Do you know what it means? What does it mean to be gay in the army? Beria knew about it, but he completely suppressed it. Because he was afraid of Julian very early on. And Sasha, he wants to use these two people for himself, but he is afraid that they will join together. So he threatened Julian with Sasha's life to break away from the Cheka and go to the Wehrmacht to serve as his dark hand."

"Julian had to leave because of Sasha, but Sasha didn't know anything. Sasha was heartbroken during those days. He was not allowed to meet Julian, and he was not even allowed to communicate with him. After that, the war intensified, and they believed in each other. The chances of seeing him are even slimmer. Sasha was sent to France as a spy, and Julian almost lost his life on the battlefield."

"The misunderstanding is getting deeper and deeper. No one knows how Sasha persisted when he thought he was abandoned. After the war, the two finally met and the misunderstanding was resolved. But everything changed, the war changed Too much, and they can never go back to the past. You must have heard about the later things. They used Beria to climb to a terrible height, and in turn put Beria to death. This kind of thing, not only happens Once, if my guess is right, maybe someone is going to come down now, this is... this is their revenge."

I remembered that Sasha and Julian always avoided the conspiracies I discussed. The two extremely beautiful faces looked at each other with bright and clear smiles, but there were life-killing knives in their gentle words.

Sonia wiped away her tears, looked at me who was a little dazed, and smiled softly: "Do you think they are scary? But who was born like this?"

"This is a mistake of this era." I said in a daze, and the beautiful scenery of the Suzdal River appeared in my mind.Two angelic children who end up on the path of demons.

Should I sigh?Am I eligible?

"Over the years, I've felt that Julian felt guilty about Sasha. At first I thought he was guilty of leaving him behind, but then I realized it might not be that simple. Of course, they've reached this level now, Many things are no longer spoken to me."

"Our teenage years will never come back..."

Sonia looked disappointed, and turned to look at me: "But even if they are like this, I love them deeply. But what about you? Rhine, what do you like about them? They hurt you so much, why can you forgive them?"

I twitched the corners of my mouth and sighed: "I don't want this, Sonia, do you still remember 1952? In that year, I experienced the happiness that I had never had in my life, because I had that kind of happiness. I can no longer look back. Even though the subsequent injury made me completely heartbroken and I can no longer trust them, the love I once had cannot be erased no matter what."

Sonia's eyes became sad, I held her hand and said softly: "But why do I only love them?"

"I love you too, Sonia, and you, and Ansolov, are very, very important to me. I sincerely hope that you will be happy, my good Sonia. You are between Julian and Evgeny these days." I'm so sorry, it's all because of me, and I'm sorry."

Sonia stared at me, tenderness flowed from her moist eyes, her lips trembled imperceptibly, and her hands trembled slightly, she suddenly hugged me into her arms, hugging me very tightly.

"Rhein, we love you too, really, I'm also sorry for everything in the past, I'm really sorry."

The stunningly beautiful female major was crying in the lily of the valley garden. I stroked her back and hugged her slender and thin in my arms.She's right, I'm 27 years old, now, it's my turn to guard them.

A week later Julian returned from the Winsdorf headquarters with a terribly gloomy expression on his face.I didn't want to ask at first, but seeing how he hesitated to speak but wanted to speak very much, I could only sigh secretly, and stretched out my hand to him.

"Come here and give me a hug."

He pursed his lips and chuckled, sat beside me, and I hugged him in my arms: "Why, is it a big problem?"

I kissed him on the forehead.

"There are some." He pressed it against my chest and said eloquently: "Marshal Zhukov visited the corps stationed in the Soviet Union last fall. He gave a secret speech to me and some senior commanders. The content of the speech involved several Sensitive areas, such as disclosing Soviet military secrets to the East German People's Army should be cautious, details of Soviet military intervention in Hungary, etc., especially important, he also talked about the combat readiness and discipline of the Soviet Army in Germany and the development of new Soviet weapons. development, he also envisioned surpassing the U.S. military in atomic capability..."

"And the contents of these secret conversations were leaked to the CIA Berlin Operations Base in West Berlin."

He rubbed against my neck, and said a little tiredly: "Tell me, how did such a very secret conversation leak out?"

"It must be someone who was there."

"Well, but I investigated around, and the senior commanders who were present at the time were all free from suspicion."

"How is this possible?" I thought for a moment, "Unless there is an eavesdropper."

He chuckled a few times and patted my head appreciatively: "Then, who can install bugs in the GRU headquarters?"

"The people inside are not necessarily senior generals, sometimes even a cleaner."

"That's right, you're right, Rhine, I caught that lawnmower, he was actually an American, and he committed suicide by taking poison before the interrogation began."

"The clues are cut off like this? No way! How did he enter Winsdorf's headquarters? The review of this kind of personnel must be very strict."

He nodded slightly: "He was transferred from the Schwerin intelligence station. According to the information in hand, he has worked in Schwerin for several years."

I sighed and shook my head: "It seems that someone paved the road for him from the very beginning."

Julian got up from my arms, sat up straight and kissed my lips: "You are right, so who is paving the way for him?"

The end of his eyes suddenly flew up, and the inner corners of his eyes were hooked down, shooting out a shrewd cold light.

"I suspect that the phone I was looking for you was tapped, Polish military secrets were leaked, Allen knew that the Soviet military knew about the tunnel plan, and the content of Marshal Zhukov's conversation was leaked this time, and there are even many data such as Soviet military freighter data. A series of things, such as leaks, are all behind the same person."

I took a deep breath: "How could..."

He raised his eyebrows and smiled: "Why not? Tell you some interesting news. Please don't mind my dear, I want to talk to you about it calmly. "

I nodded blankly.

"Alan Crowder, your friend, had plenty of time to escape from East Berlin at that time, but he didn't leave. During that time, he attributed all the sources of intelligence sent to the Berlin operation base to himself. For example, in the file of the lawnmower at the Schwerin checkpoint this time, the name of the sponsor was crossed out and an irrelevant name was filled in, and I tracked down the name and found that it was Ai Len."

He stared at me deeply: "This kind of thing happened more than once, dear, can you understand what it means?"

He stroked my face and whispered in my ear: "He is covering someone, using his life to cover someone."

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PS: The Soviet anti-revolutionary movement, also known as the Great Purge, was led by Stalin and assisted by Beria. Beginning in 1934, the period from 1937 to 1938 is known as the period of the Great Terror, so I won’t go into details here.

Winsdorf Headquarters: GRU headquarters in East Germany.

Schwerin: A city in eastern Germany where the GRU has an intelligence station.

The leak of Marshal Zhukov's secret conversation is a real historical event, but the time and method are slightly adapted.In the real history, it was Colonel Popov of the GRU who leaked this matter. He died a miserable death and was captured by the KGB and burned alive (this shows what happened to traitors in the Soviet Union).The data leak of the Soviet freighter is also a real historical event, so I would like to explain it here.