Struggle in Soviet Russia

That's right, according to the power and responsibility distribution relationship of the Union, Victor, the incoming first secretary of the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic, is not responsible for administrative work. That is to say, Karelia's economic construction, postwar He is not responsible for rebuilding these tasks. He needs to be responsible for party affairs, such as propaganda, agitation, and personnel issues.

But having said that, the alliance seems to be not doing well in the division of the party and government. Most of the time, the secretary still has a lot of influence on the work of the People's Committee. Just like in Ukraine, Comrade Khrushchev not only He is the first secretary of the Central Committee of Ukraine and the chairman of the People's Committee of Ukraine. And in Belarus, the same is true of Comrade Ponomarenko.

To tell the truth, in the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic, if it were not for special circumstances, a Finn like Verolainen was needed to manage government affairs, and Moscow might not allow Viktor to also hold the power of the party and the government.

Even so, Viktor is not worried that Verolainen will confront him on governance issues, because he is a smart man, and he is not in the same situation as Kusinen, who is in the Finnish Communist Party or the Union. In the Bolshevik group, he occupies a certain position, and his qualifications are there. And Verolainen is much worse in this regard, so he needs to be cautious and conservative on many issues.

In addition, for Victor, he has no interest in competing for power, and he has never thought about adjusting personnel issues on a large scale in Karelia, replacing all important positions with his own people. In Victor's opinion , the Karelia-Finnish Soviet Republic, is a gilded place, all he needs to do is to make some achievements there, get the approval of the Politburo members including Comrade Stalin, and then jump out of that place , go to a more important post.

Although Moscow's job requirement for Victor is to develop Karelia and make this special area act as a good window to the outside world, from a practical point of view, it is impossible for Victor to stay there for many years. Therefore, what he needs to do is to choose a direction, do a good job in a key task, and make achievements, so that he can hand in a very dazzling report card to Comrade Stalin.

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In the villa by the boulevard, in the study on the second floor, Victor, dressed in light pajamas, sat behind the desk and flipped through the documents in front of him.

The hum of the air conditioner echoed in the room, and the sound was a bit noisy. In this hot weather, it is easy to give people a feeling of irritability. Fortunately, the cold air blowing in from the air outlet has lowered the room temperature to an acceptable level, so this level of noise is tolerable.

The ashtray on the desk was already stuffed with cigarette butts. One of the cigarette butts had just been snuffed out. At this moment, there was still a wisp of green smoke rising from the charred butt. However, Victor, who was sitting at the table, obviously did not notice this, and his attention was completely focused on the document in front of him.

Nino, who was wearing casual clothes, walked in from the door of the study. She walked to the desk, reached out and pinched the cigarette butt, pressed it against the edge of the ashtray, twisted it, and completely extinguished it. Then she said to Victor, who was at the desk: "The car is ready, are we going now?"

Victor's attention was interrupted, he looked up at Nino, and then at the alarm clock on the table, and then said: "Wait a little longer, um, let's go, you first transport all the things you want to take away. Go, I'll go later."

The appointment order to go to the Karelia-Finnish Soviet Republic to be the first secretary has been issued, and it is now placed in the right corner of the desk. According to the content mentioned in this appointment order, Victor now has many positions. He is a member (recommended) of the Central Committee of the CPSU. The label "recommended" is very important, which indicates his identity as a member of the Central Committee. It was not voted by the plenary meeting, but was recommended. Comrade Popov, the current First Secretary of the Moscow State Party Committee and the First Secretary of the Municipal Party Committee, is in the same situation as him.

In addition to his identity as a member of the Central Committee, his main position is the first secretary of the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic. At the same time, he is also the secretary of the Central Secretariat of the Karelian-Finnish Communist Party, mainly responsible for cadre work; he also serves as a concurrent He served as secretary of the municipal party committee of Petrozavodsk, the capital of Karelia; concurrently as chairman of the post-war reconstruction committee of the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic, and a series of other positions.

Because the official appointment and dismissal documents have been issued, the current Victor is no longer the chairman of the People's Commissariat for National Security. Therefore, he cannot continue to live in this villa on the boulevard. Of course, if he had to live here, no one would drive him away, but Viktor was still very conscious. He took the initiative to request the exchange of villas, and handled the handover with the relevant departments of the People's Commissariat of National Security. formalities.

For Viktor, even if he left here, he would not worry about where to live. In fact, his new address was arranged by the Moscow Municipal Committee after Comrade Stalin personally asked him, and it was in Lublev.

Lublev is a district in Moscow. Driving westward from the ring road, it is no more than three or five kilometers at most. If you pass by the Kremlin, you will go straight on Kutuzov Street, which is less than half an hour's drive. Not too far.

In Moscow, the Lublev district is a special place. Since the imperial-Russian period, the construction of "any factories that can emit smoke" has been strictly prohibited in this area. Therefore, the local environment is very good, and now, people who can live there The identities are basically very unusual. Comrade Boskrebyshev lives here, and there are also Comrade Mikoyan, Comrade Kaganovich, Comrade Voroshilov and so on. Of course, in the world before Viktor was reborn, President Putin also lived here.

According to Viktor's itinerary, he will move out from Linyin to the villa today and live in the villa in the Rublev district. The day after tomorrow, he will leave Moscow and go to Petrozavodsk to take up his post. Before Rozavodsk, he may have to go to Vyborg, provided that the city just received from Finland will not be assigned to the territory of Leningrad Oblast.

As a port city and an important industrial city, Vyborg enjoys a very special status in the Karelia region, even within the territory of Finland, the city is a large and important place.

Before the outbreak of World War II, through the Soviet-Finnish war, the alliance incorporated the city into its own territory, but it was taken back by the Finns during World War II. With the signing of an armistice agreement between the Soviet Union and Finland, Finland had to return the city again. to the league. Because of a series of factors in the war, Vyborg did not suffer much loss during World War II. The city is basically well preserved. The key is that its location is too special. It is a foreign trade port, which is very important to the whole of Karelia. The economic driving effect of the region is very large.

However, before that, Comrade Zhdanov had already made a report requesting that Vyborg be allocated to the territory of Leningrad Oblast, and his proposal was not met by the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic. The opposition, even Comrade Kuxinin did not show a clear opposition.

However, as Viktor, who is about to take over the work in Karelia, this proposal is obviously unacceptable, because if Vyborg is assigned to Leningrad Oblast, Karelia will lose more than just a city. It is the estuary of the entire Vipli Bay, an important hub for Karelia's foreign trade, and a well-preserved industrialized town.

To this end, Viktor submitted a report to Comrade Stalin detailing the importance of Vyborg to Karelia before he received the official appointment documents.

As his report was submitted, Kuxinin, who did not express his opposition at first, also expressed his opposition. At the same time, a series of cadres, including Verolainen and Andreyev, also proposed clear objections.

Because of the voices of opposition, the final ownership of Vyborg has not been finalized yet. If the city ends up staying in Karelia, Victor's first stop on his appointment will be Vyborg. From the itinerary point of view, it can fully highlight the importance of this city.

At this time, the documents in front of Victor were also related to Karelia. One of the most important things he needs to do now is to make sure that after he takes office, the first thing he needs to do is to arrange the work.

Previously, Viktor had discussed with Woznetsensky, when he said that one of the first things to do is to rebuild Karelia's transportation system, this is not his whim, but he Really ready to do that. In addition to rebuilding the local transportation, Viktor is also planning to focus on a large project to establish a large enterprise in the Karelia region.

In fact, looking at the actual situation in Karelia, the local natural resources are not very poor, especially forest resources and water resources. The former is the basis for the prosperity of the paper industry, while the latter is the basis for the power industry. It is not a problem to take advantage of these two advantages to drive at least some economic growth. The key point is that these two industries have existed in Karelia for a long time, and it is not so easy for Victor to make achievements in the short term.