Struggle in Soviet Russia

At the mouth of Vipley Bay, Pier No. 4 at Vyborg Wharf.

The patrol boat that Victor was riding in slowly leaned towards the extension of the trestle. The sailors on the boat rushed to the deck and threw the cable onto the trestle. The soldiers on the shore dragged and buckled it on the bollard. fix.

At the other end of the trestle, dozens of figures are walking towards this side, and at the front of the crowd is a general in the uniform of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. Although he is not very tall, he is very There is momentum.

On the patrol boat, Victor followed Varenka out of the cabin and walked towards the trestle bridge. He obviously saw the group of people who were approaching quickly on the trestle bridge, with a faint smile on his face. He waved his hand in the direction of the crowd, and then followed the two on the trestle.

"Comrade Viktor Viktorovich," the first person to greet him on the trestle was the general of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. His square face was full of smiles, but his facial features were sharp and decree The lines are also surprisingly long, giving people a very serious and unsmiling feeling. At this time, the face is full of smiles, which will not make people feel friendly, but will feel that the smile is fake, it seems that white Behind the skin, there is an indescribable misfortune.

Using his first name, his father's name, and the manner of a secretary, he greeted Victor respectfully. The general held his hands for the first time, shaking it, and said enthusiastically: "You have worked hard all the way, I represent Jin. The Karelian-Finnish SSR NKVD warmly welcomes you and awaits further instructions on your work."

That's right, this person is the people's commissar of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Karelia, Major General Ravel Chanawa. The reason why he smiles so enthusiastically at Victor is really not a smirk, but in fact the one with evil intentions. One, on the contrary, he smiled sincerely, because he was in the NKVD of the Union, he followed Comrade Beria and was very loyal.

Before the outbreak of the war, to be precise, during the period when the Soviet Union entered Poland, Tsannavar served in the Belarusian NKVD. At that time, he followed Beria. At that time, his submission to Moscow A well-known report from , in which he described the chaos in the region of West Belarus just taken over by the Union, where large numbers of Polish soldiers trying to flee were everywhere, and the Red Army did not take the necessary action to capture them, thus resulting in It also created difficulties for the stability of the West Belarus region.

Don't underestimate such a report. In a sense, it is precisely because of the appearance of this report that Moscow has increased its attention to the defeated Polish soldiers, which has also triggered a series of subsequent problems. After the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War , When the investigation into the Katyn Forest incident was launched, the report submitted by Tsanawa was leaked out through unknown channels, and it became one of the few pieces of evidence that the Poles could produce. Very unfavorable evidence.

At that time, the NKVD jointly launched a series of investigations into the Internal Intelligence Agency, but in the end, no result was reached. However, Chanawa himself was transferred from Belarus after that, and he was still completely in Finland at that time. Karelia, which is under the control, took up the post of the People's Commissar of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Karelia. Although this appointment was a bit derogatory, it also saved him from subsequent troubles. Beria is also grateful.

"Thank you, thank you for your hard work, Ralph," Victor said with a smile, holding the other's hand, a simple address that invisibly brought the relationship between the two closer.

For Viktor, his coming to Karelia to serve is not without foundation, at least the head of the Karelia People's Commissariat for National Security is inclined to him in terms of position, plus Chanawa's Cooperating, he means that he has already grasped the situation of the two powerful departments in Karelia region before he takes office. It can't cooperate with his work well, at least it won't cause trouble for him. If you are optimistic, then this kind of start is obviously good.

When talking with Chanava, Viktor glanced at the people behind him out of the corner of his eyes. In the past period of time, he had already carefully understood the situation in the Republic of Karelia-Finland. Among the people who came, he took a cursory glance. Although he couldn't match all their information with himself, most of them could still be recognized.

It can be confirmed that most of the people who appear on the trestle at the moment are from the Central Committee of the Karelia-Finnish Soviet Republic. With just a cursory glance, Victor recognized the people walking at the front of the crowd. , there are the heads of the Organization Departments of the Central Committee of the Republic, the heads of the Supervisory Committee, the heads of the propaganda and agitation departments, and so on. After all, Viktor was the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Karelia-Finnish Soviet Republic, and these people were all led by him in terms of organizational relations. Therefore, when Viktor arrived in Karelia on the first day, as long as these people had leisure, they would It's all about showing up. But having said that, these people who came to greet him might not necessarily be on his side, nor would they necessarily fully cooperate with him in actual work in the future.

To put it bluntly, coming to meet him is a gesture, and it is a gesture that must be made. It shows a subordinate relationship, but it is not a further station relationship. Of course, Victor didn't imagine that the people who came to greet him would be defeated by his personal charm as soon as they met, or would choose to stand on his side obediently frightened by his background. In reality, the integration of political resources will always take a certain amount of time.

After a few simple greetings, Major General Chanawa acted as the introducer and began to introduce Victor to all the people present.

As Victor had guessed before, the people present today are basically from various agencies directly under the Central Committee. In addition, there are several people from the Vyborg Municipal Committee. In addition, as the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the Republic, Comrade Kuxinin also arranged for his administrative secretary to come, but he himself did not show up because he was ill.

Of course, according to the constitution of the Union, the Supreme Soviet is the highest authority of the country. Therefore, from a legal point of view, the status of the chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet is also higher than that of Victor. Therefore, Comrade Kuxinin does not appear. It's okay, Victor can't pick on this kind of thing yet.

With a smile on his face, Viktor shook hands with everyone present, and tried his best to briefly greet everyone. Although he was the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Republic, ideologically, he really did not despise the presence. anyone's thoughts.

Practically speaking, the situation in the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic is not the same as most of the Union today, if an analogy is to be made, it is more like Lviv in the early 1940s, which had just been incorporated into the Union. Territory, the leaders of various departments in local organizations have all experienced war, and their willpower and ideological maturity are definitely not comparable to ordinary local cadres.

For example, Isaac Nordfeldt, who was in charge of propaganda and agitation, knew from the name that he should be a Swede, of course, that was the case. This person is a member of the Swedish Communist Party, but he has always been active in the alliance. During the Soviet-Finnish war, he had already served in the Republic of Karelia, and in the Great Patriotic War, he led the famous Karelia guerrilla. team and was wounded twice in the war.

Among these people who came today, there are still many people like Isaac. Most of them are people who have always fought on the front line of Karelia during the war in the past few years. With the end of the war , who are directly appointed and promoted locally, and dealing with these people does require strategy.

While Tsannavar was making the introduction, Viktor noticed a person—a pale, thin young man named Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov, a week ago , Moscow has just issued an appointment and removal order, removing this person from the post of the second secretary of the Petrozavodsk City Committee, and instead appointing him as the second secretary of the Central Committee of the Karelian-Finnish Soviet Republic.

This appointment came as a surprise to many people, because before this, many people believed that the more hopeful should be Comrade Alexei Vodov, who is not only a member of the Petrozavodsk Municipal Committee The first secretary, at the same time, is relatively neutral in terms of political stance, neither favoring Kuprianov, the former first secretary of the republic, nor Kuxinin, chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, but as the new first secretary of the republic. , Victor should obviously choose such talent in his own best interest. As for Andropov, one is that he is too young, and the other is that he is too close to Kusinen, which many people know.

Andropov is indeed very young. He was born in 1914 and is about the same age as Viktor. At the same time, his education is relatively low. , he has a very poor physique, he has diabetes at a young age, and it is very serious.

However, this person also has his own advantages, that is, he has a wealth of work experience in the Communist Youth League, and he has stayed in the Karelia region for a long time, and he is familiar with all aspects of the situation.