Struggle in Soviet Russia

"Dangdang..."

The grandfather clock rang exactly nine o'clock, as if to respond to the bell, and the door of the room was also knocked at the same time from the outside.

Victor sat behind the desk, leaned over, picked up the pack of cigarettes on the table, raised his voice, and said, "Come in."

The door opened, and Sophia, who had a happy face, walked in quickly from the outside, only to see Victor, and she couldn't wait to say: "I just received a call from Moscow, the liaison office of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet called, saying that it will let you stay overnight. Rush back to Moscow for the award ceremony scheduled for tomorrow."

After saying this, she happened to walk in front of Victor, and handed over a telegram draft in her hand.

Victor glanced at her, and then he took the telegram and browsed it quickly, and said, "It seems that there is good news from Kazakhstan to Moscow."

"Ten minutes ago, the accurate news had reached Moscow," Sofia said. "The Semipalatinsk test has been successful, but it will take some time for the data collected from various parties to be aggregated."

Victor nodded. In fact, Victor's point of view is similar to that of Comrade Stalin. In his opinion, the key to the test explosion of the first nuclear bomb lies in whether the test can be successful. To put it bluntly, as long as the nuclear bomb can explode Even if it is successful, as for the work of data collection, it can be reconsidered in the subsequent second and third experiments.

Why? Because when it comes to breaking the American nuclear blackmail, Washington's priority is not whether the alliance has the data of the nuclear test explosion, but only whether the alliance has a nuclear bomb that can be used in actual combat. Therefore, in terms of politics, What the coalition needs now is to detonate a nuclear bomb. As for data collection, that is a matter of science, not politics.

Looking at the telegram in his hand again, Victor asked, "Returning to Moscow tonight? Is there time to arrange the plane?"

It is now nine o'clock in the evening, and Viktor still needs to take a boat to leave Kizhi Island and return to Petrozavodsk. This trip will take at least three hours, which means that he can only arrive in the early hours of the morning. Board the plane.

"The plane has been arranged," Sofia said. "The landing airport in Moscow has also been contacted."

Speaking of which, she added: "Comrade Ludenko personally arranged it."

Viktor nodded. He knew that Rudenko in Sofia's mouth was referring to Sergei Ignadyevich Rudenko. He was working in the Air Force Department in front of him and was temporarily in charge of the Air Force Department in the Moscow Garrison.

Without saying anything off topic, Victor stood up from the chair, tidied up the things on the table briefly, and walked towards the door accompanied by Sophia.

Regardless of the aspect, the success of the nuclear test explosion is a major event for the entire alliance, and everyone involved is a hero of the alliance, there is no doubt about it. So, for this success, it makes sense for Moscow to hold a grand ceremony of honoring.

Victor is not a researcher in the nuclear weapons research project, but his work has played a huge role in the success of this project. It must be admitted that without the large amount of data obtained by the Foreign Intelligence Service from the United States, the Union No. 1 The test explosion of a nuclear bomb cannot be successful so quickly. You must know that in Victor's previous life, the Alliance was four years behind in this regard.

Obviously, Viktor's contribution over the past few years has not been ignored by Moscow, so he is also one of the main recipients of this award ceremony.

According to the work regulations of the People's Commissariat of National Security, as the former chairman of the department, Victor cannot publicly attend the award ceremony, because the intelligence gathering work involved in the process of nuclear weapons research and development belongs to national security work. Top-secret information that must be strictly guarded, let alone now, will not be lifted even in a hundred years. Just imagine, if the Americans knew that at the celebration of the Soviet Union's successful nuclear test explosion, the head of the intelligence agency received a medal, what would they think? There is no doubt that they will confirm at the first time that the Soviet intelligence agencies played an important role in the development of nuclear weapons. Considering that only the United States has successfully developed nuclear weapons in the world, where did the Soviet intelligence come from, is there still too much consideration?

So, considering these factors, Victor obviously shouldn't be present at the ceremony, but he was notified to attend the ceremony...why?

The reason is very simple, Moscow just wants the Americans to confirm a message - in their nuclear weapons research and development projects, there are lurking Soviet spies, and once the American intelligence services have such knowledge, a coalition code-named "Street" The action plan for Nosotho-on-River was fully launched.

"Nosotto" is a code name that Viktor used when he was working in intelligence during the war, and "Stry River" is a river near Lviv where Viktor once worked. In other words, this The action plan was formulated by Viktor when he was in charge of the People's Commissariat for National Security. The content involved was to set off a panic of intelligence leakage within the United States, thereby stimulating and guiding the US government to take aggressive counterintelligence actions.

At that time, British and American intelligence agencies carried out large-scale monitoring and deciphering of the temporary encrypted communication network of the People's Committee for Foreign Affairs of the Union, and mastered a series of encrypted messages and one-time password data. At that time, the Foreign Intelligence Bureau led by Victor learned of this information, but did not take action and did not replace the leaked one-time pad data. Instead, it continued to send a large amount of true and false information to the British and American intelligence agencies through this communication network. Mixed intelligence information.

Among the false information deliberately leaked to the British and American intelligence agencies, there is a series of so-called "intelligence personnel lists", which involve as many as 250 people. The name of the leader, Oppenheimer, was also included in those specious lists.

Victor believed that the joint intelligence agencies of the United Kingdom and the United States would decipher those lists, but they could not be sure whether the lists were true or false, so at that time, Victor formulated such a spy plan, when the alliance first The day when a nuclear weapon is successfully developed is the day when the operation is officially launched.

Therefore, Victor must participate in the award ceremony tomorrow, but he will keep a low profile as much as possible. If nothing else, the British and American intelligence agencies will receive the information he wants to reveal. At that time, the Americans will Wouldn't the authenticity of those lists be reconsidered?

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Early morning, Moscow.

At the entrance of the US embassy in Moscow, a black Ford sedan slowly drove into the shadowy embassy compound under the attention of the guards.

Inside the car, George Kennan, the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, was frowning and flipping through a newspaper in his hand—this was the Red Star, which should be regarded as the military newspaper of the Soviet Red Army, and was of an official nature. In the official newspaper of the Red Army, which was issued today, the headline on the front page carried a "good news": The Alliance detonated the first nuclear bomb developed by the Alliance Academy of Sciences at 8:45 last night.

In the report of this newspaper, a photo of the mushroom cloud caused by the explosion of the nuclear bomb was distributed, and at the same time, some irrelevant data were also given, for example: the name of the nuclear bomb, its yield is 20KT, the core substance The mass of 6.2 kg blah blah blah.

To be honest, just from the report itself, it is not certain whether this information is true, but as the ambassador to the Soviet Union, George Kennan is very clear that if this report is true, then his country will be at the diplomatic level , fall into absolute passivity.

"People are cheering and jumping... They think the war is over, and the war has just begun." A few months ago, when the whole of Moscow was celebrating the signing of the German surrender agreement, celebrating the end of the war and the arrival of peace, Mr. George Kennan In a lengthy report he sent to Washington, he wrote such a paragraph that he believed that with the end of the war between the Allies and the Axis powers, the confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union would be in full swing.

Of course, at this time, George Kennan didn't know that his report had been completely cracked by the Soviet People's Commissariat for National Security at the same time that his report was sent to Washington. Friendly relations lost hope.

George Kennan believed that when Washington mastered the technology of nuclear weapons, it could force the Soviets to make concessions on many issues, and these issues not only included the establishment of the post-war pattern in the Far East, but also included a series of problems in the European continent. question. Some time ago, the alliance's concessions on a series of issues such as Turkey, Greece, Yugoslavia, Austria, etc., obviously perfectly confirmed this, but sadly, the time for Washington to grasp the absolute advantage is too short, who can think of a short period of time A few months later, the Soviets' first nuclear bomb was successfully tested.

The Soviets have nuclear weapons, what does it mean in the short term? There is no doubt that that means that the United States will be at a disadvantage in the struggle for hegemony on the European continent, and once the war with the Soviets breaks out, their steel torrent will rush from Berlin to On the west coast of France, in this open land, nothing could stop them.

"This is a disaster!" George Kennan had only one thought in his mind when the car stopped.