Struggle in Soviet Russia

Today's Sparrow Hill is still called Sparrow Hill, and Moscow University has not moved from the city center to this place yet. According to the history of Viktor's previous life, after the main teaching building of Moscow University on Sparrow Hill is completed, the site of Moscow University will gradually move. Come here, and at that time, Sparrow Mountain will be renamed Lenin Mountain.

The road conditions around Sparrow Hills were very bad, mainly during the Battle of Moscow. This area was heavily cared for by German bombers and suffered relatively large losses. After the battle, before Comrade Shcherbakov died, the city of Moscow The main reconstruction work in the north is concentrated in the industrial area in the north and the central area near the Kremlin in the east, while the reconstruction work in the area of ​​Sparrow Hills is lagging behind.

According to the work plan of Comrade Shcherbakov, the reconstruction work in the area of ​​Sparrow Mountain should be officially carried out at the beginning of this year, but unfortunately, this energetic comrade drank to death, and his work plan was naturally rejected. She was put on the shelf, and the newly appointed Comrade Popov changed the original reconstruction plan of Moscow City. He paid unprecedented attention to the northern industrial area. Therefore, the reconstruction work in the Sparrow Hills area was postponed again.

However, as far as Victor knows, this situation should not last long, because Comrade Stalin temporarily occupied a holiday villa in the imperial Russian period at the foot of the southern foot of the Sparrow Mountain. If nothing else, Popov Comrade will at least improve the road conditions in this area in the near future, otherwise, it is estimated that his position will be unstable.

In the intermittent bumps, Volga gradually moved away from Sparrow Hills and drove straight towards the Kremlin.

After being woken up just now, Victor's faint drowsiness disappeared. He reached out and wiped it on his face, turned his head to look, and took the newspaper that was left aside.

This is a copy of Pravda, published today. The front page is news about the visit of the Romanian-Soviet Association for Friendship Association delegation to Moscow. Viktor has read the report before, and he knows that the delegation is of high rank. , as the head of the delegation was Konstantin I. Bahon, President of the Romanian-Soviet Friendship Association.

Don't get me wrong, this person is not a member of the Romanian Communist Party, he is just a left-wing person, and at the same time, he is also a world-renowned medical scientist, whose political prestige and civil status in Romania is higher than that of the leaders of the Romanian Communist Party, In addition, among the members of the delegation that accompanied him to visit Moscow this time, whether it was Mikhail Sadovianu, Stefan Vojcze, Georgy Apostol, or It was Jan Stenescu and others. They were not members of the Romanian Communist Party. Their identities were similar to Bahon's. They were all intellectuals with a high reputation in Romania. From a certain point of view, today's Romanian-Soviet Friendship Association is more like the Political Consultative Conference, whose members have left-leaning political stances, but are not strictly communists.

As far as Victor knows, Moscow attaches great importance to the visit of the Romanian-Soviet Friendship Association delegation. Comrade Stalin, who is busy with his busy schedule, even took time to have a discussion with the members of the delegation. It can also be seen from the attitude of the comrades. Today, the Alliance does not firmly support the Romanian Communist Party to form a one-party ruling regime on domestic issues in Romania. Moscow’s position is that Romania has a left-wing government whose political stance is biased towards the Soviet Union. enough.

In fact, at this stage, the Alliance has not actively promoted the Communist Party and Workers' Party of various countries to come to power in dealing with the issues of European countries. Moscow's policy is to establish a coalition ruling government led by left-wing people as much as possible in each country, and even To a certain extent, supporting leftists to cooperate with parties and people of other positions, what Moscow pursues is that countries tend to lean toward the Soviet Union in their foreign political positions, rather than completely follow the Soviet Union.

However, a very real problem is that Victor also believes that this position of Moscow cannot be maintained for a long time. Even if Moscow does not take the initiative to move towards great power chauvinism, the confrontation and hegemony with the Americans on a global scale will inevitably promote Moscow's leaders are moving in this direction.

Just imagine, when the United Kingdom and the United States joined forces with Western European countries and various countries in the Far East to implement a blatant strategic siege of the alliance, when faced with the threat of a new round of world war, the alliance should shrink within its own territory. , waiting for the enemy to push the front to the door, or should we take the initiative to push the front as far as possible from the homeland?

Judging from the history of the world, the path of any expanding country's external expansion is unchanging: first, it believes that its homeland is threatened by war, so the ruler wants to establish a strategic buffer zone on the periphery of the homeland , and after the strategic buffer zone was obtained, the strategic buffer zone was gradually incorporated into its own local category, so it was necessary to continue to look for new strategic buffer zones...

In this tireless, greedy cycle, a country that was only looking for strategic security has become a country that is downright aggressive. The Americans can't jump out of this mold, and neither can the alliance. Out of this rut, this is the fundamental reason for the frequent outbreak of conflicts in the current world.

Victor could foresee that a series of policies in Moscow were changing rapidly.

In Bulgaria, on the border with Romania, the activities of the Foreign Intelligence Service are rapidly expanding, and various messages are being relayed to Moscow almost continuously. If you want to say which country Moscow is most concerned about in today’s Europe, then the answer must be Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, whether it is Tito or Dimitrov, they are currently engaged in a plan, both Comrade Stalin was extremely annoyed.

Just last month, as the leader of the Bulgarian Workers' Party and a politician who quickly took control of the situation in Bulgaria with the support of the coalition, Georgy Dimitrov Dimitrov engaged in Sofia. That speech gave enough surprises to Britain and the United States, but enough shocks to Moscow. Therefore, despite the good personal relationship, Comrade Stalin's trust in Dimitrov is probably running out.

Of course, from the point of view of a Bulgarian, Comrade Dimitrov's position is undoubtedly correct. He is a true patriot who is trying to merge with Yugoslavia to form a powerful "Balkan federation". The idea is not only conducive to the development of Bulgaria, but also to the promotion of peace and stability in the Balkans, removing the title of "World Powder Keg" from the Balkans.

But the reality is that the idea of ​​forming a "Balkan Federation" can get the full support of the United Kingdom and the United States, but it is almost impossible to get Moscow's approval. After all, the "Balkan Federation" in this plan is too close to the Soviet Union, and it is impossible for Moscow to allow its side. , the emergence of another powerful Slavic country, even if this country, in political and diplomatic stance, is inclined towards the Soviet Union.

In other words, Comrade Stalin's antipathy towards Comrade Dimitrov was not based on personal feelings, but on the national interests of the alliance, and on the consideration of geopolitical interests.

More than a month ago, when Comrade Dimitrov just proposed the plan to form a "Balkan Union" with Yugoslavia, Moscow's attitude was naturally opposed. At that time, Comrade Stalin specially summoned Comrade Dimitrov to Moscow. , and clearly conveyed to him the views of Moscow, but fundamentally, Comrade Stalin at the time had no idea of ​​a further reaction.

Now, a month has passed, and according to Viktor's information from Sofia, the Foreign Intelligence Service has begun operations in Bulgaria, preparing to take measures to overthrow Comrade Dimitrov's leadership within the Bulgarian Workers' Party, with a An obedient person replaces him.

Yes, now the Foreign Intelligence Bureau of the People's Commissariat of National Security has added a major job content besides intelligence search, that is, in a specific target country, using various means other than military invasion to promote regime change .

This operational function of the Foreign Intelligence Bureau was also actively promoted and deployed when Victor was in charge of the work of the People's Commissariat of National Security. Now, this **** flower of evil has finally opened.

As far as Victor knows, there are two regime change operations currently being promoted by the Foreign Intelligence Service. One of them is in Bulgaria, trying to overthrow the Bulgarian Workers' Party provisional government that Dimitrov has just formed, and the other is in North Korea. The peninsula, to be precise, was in North Korea, trying to oust Cao Wanzhi, who opposed the Soviet escrow.

Considering that it is the first time that the Foreign Intelligence Bureau has instigated a similar operation, it still needs more training.

The newspaper in his hand turned to the second page, and the entire second page was filled with a piece of news about Comrade Andreyev. Victor read it from beginning to end and summarized it. The main content is to expound a series of views of Comrade Andreyev on the agricultural work of the Union, mainly the main tasks of agriculture in the post-war reconstruction.

When he saw this report, Viktor knew that Comrade Andreyev had been in the Central Supervisory Committee for a short time, and it was estimated that he was going to be transferred to take charge of agricultural related work.