Struggle in Soviet Russia

Observing from the top of the building with a telescope, you can clearly see the part of the warehouse area that is not covered by dense smoke. Judging from the fire point and the emission of dense smoke, there are at least four main explosion areas.

At this time, there were a lot of fire brigade vehicles rushing into the fire site. The municipal party committee even mobilized a train of water tankers to extinguish the fire. But even so, several fires were still burning, which was obviously an explosion. Oil tank.

Victor tried to recall the sound of the explosion at that time. He remembered clearly that he only heard one explosion. From the numerous ignition points and only one explosion, he could preliminarily judge that this must be a man-made explosion.

On the top of the building, Victor put down the telescope in his hand and frowned his gray eyebrows tightly.

Whatever you are really afraid of, if it is finally determined that the explosion was man-made and that it was done by latent saboteurs and spies, then he, the person in charge of internal intelligence work, will inevitably be affected. However, this is obviously not the time to consider those issues. The key point now is to clarify the case as quickly as possible, and bring out the damned saboteurs.

Bringing the guards down from the roof, Victor returned to the main road. He asked the driver who sent him to drive him around the depot. He took a closer look at the general situation of the depot, and then he found it. The technical staff of the committee department who came with him directly issued an order to enter the fire scene to collect clues. He himself used the communication equipment carried by the technical staff to get in touch with Beria.

Reported the basic situation of the scene to Beria, and said his preliminary judgment. Victor was instructed to rush to the Kremlin immediately and report to Comrade Stalin.

Previous life experience tells Victor that when your leader asks you to report directly to his leader, there are generally only two situations: First, your leader is about to retire, and he wants to promote you before he retires. Second, your leader thinks the problem you are facing is very difficult. He doesn't want to carry it for you, but he doesn't intend to throw the pot at you. He just wants to let you face the trouble yourself.

Comrade Beria is in his prime, and of course he would not choose to retire at this time. Therefore, Victor understands what he means and reports directly to Comrade Stalin, which is equivalent to asking him to recite the incident directly. If he has merit, it is his opportunity to perform in front of Comrade Stalin. On the contrary, if he has, he has to carry it himself.

From this point of divergent thinking, Comrade Beria is so eager to disassociate himself from this matter, which in itself shows the seriousness of the situation. Comrade Stalin must be very angry at this time. Anyone who is responsible is probably not. It will be fine.

On the way back to downtown Moscow by car, Victor felt very heavy. However, he did not think too much about the bad situation he had to face at this time, but was more concerned about how to deal with the aftermath.

It’s already happened, and it’s impossible to remedy it. Therefore, what we have to consider at this time is how to figure out the truth of the explosion. If there are really saboteurs, they must be found out. Only in this way can Comrade Stalin’s troubles be put to rest. anger. If he only cared about self-pity and found reasons to shirk responsibility, Victor suspected that he might not even be able to live today.

Nearly forty minutes later, Victor’s car parked downstairs in the small white building. A young man waiting in front of the building saw him and immediately greeted him and asked: "Comrade Viktor Viktorovich, please follow me."

Victor nodded, followed the young man upstairs, and went directly to Comrade Stalin's office.

The two double-opened purple-red doors of Comrade Stalin’s office were open, and his cursing could be heard far away. Well, the cursing was awkward, and the person being scolded was Falceva. The explosion occurred. In her area, she can't get rid of this responsibility anyway.

Although Fortseva was a lesbian, Comrade Stalin did not save her any face. When Victor was waiting outside the door, he heard the last words he said to Fortseva, which was her Fulong. Don't do the post of Secretary of the Shiba District Party Committee. Go back and work as a deputy for the next secretary.

Victor would not think that this was an angry word. If nothing else, the organization bureau’s documents would be issued tomorrow. Comrade Foltzeva, who was once praised by the "Izvestia", may no longer be tomorrow. The district party secretary. The cruelest part of this appointment is that she was removed from the position of Secretary Fortseva, but she was not transferred. Instead, she was asked to serve as a deputy to the next secretary. This is no longer a simple punishment, but A humiliation.

Watching Foltseva coming out of the office at the door, Victor's mood became heavier. Foltseva's pale face shows how bad the mood of this female cadre, who is known for her bold personality, is at this moment. .

"Comrade Stalin, Comrade Victor Viktorovich is here." The young man who led the way stood in front of the room and reported carefully.

"Look, our little comrade Victor, who is in charge of intelligence, is here," Comrade Stalin's voice came from the office. "Let's all come and listen to what he will tell us."

This seemed to be said with a smile, but the obvious sarcasm and chill in the tone could be heard by anyone.

Without waiting for the young man to wink himself, Victor bit his head and walked into the office.

There are many people in the office. In addition to Beria and Serbakov, there are also Molotov, Voroshilov, Kalinin and others. When we arrive, we can see from here how big the impact of this explosion is.

"Comrade Victor Viktorovich," the first person to speak was not Comrade Stalin. He sat on a sofa with frowning and smoking a pipe. The person who spoke for him was Voroshi, who had obviously seen him in the last two years. Love, "Comrade Lavrenji told us that you have gone to Oguliki. Now please tell us again what happened there."

Victor took a deep breath, calmed down his nervousness, and said in as calm a tone as possible: "It is now certain that the military warehouse in Lower Oguliki was destroyed by humans. Someone caused the explosion, but The specific person who did it, as well as the process and purpose of its implementation, still need to wait for further investigation results to be determined."

After saying this, Victor realized that Khrulev, who was closest to him, seemed to be relieved, and his upright upper body went straight down.

Victor could understand Comrade Khrulev’s feelings. If the incident was not caused by man, but because of lax supervision, then Khrulev’s responsibility would be even greater. Of course, even if it was caused by man, he would be the same. Need to take responsibility.

"On what basis did you come to such a conclusion?" Voroshilov continued to ask.

"I observed the fire scene carefully," Victor replied. "The current preliminary judgment is that the No. 11, No. 17 and three open rail tank cars should have been blown up at the same time. If I am not mistaken, The two warehouses No. 11 and No. 17 should be used to store flammable and explosive products."

Khrulev nodded hurriedly and added: "The two warehouses No. 11 and No. 17 are both ammunition warehouses."

Victor continued: “I’ve seen it carefully. The storage area should be for safety reasons. The storage warehouses for flammable and explosive goods are separated by a relatively long distance, and three rail tank cars are surrounded by fire-resistant sandbags. Isolation zone. Under such security conditions, the possibility of a large-scale martyrdom exploding in one location is very low, not to mention this kind of simultaneous martyrdom. Therefore, the greatest possibility is that someone will be killed in five. A timing device for simultaneous detonation was set up at a fire point. Therefore, I preliminarily concluded that this explosion should not be caused by an accident or management negligence, but should be man-made."

"So, who do you think caused this explosion?" Molotov asked.

"This still needs to be investigated," Victor said in a calm tone. It is a bit strange that after saying so much, his nervousness has eased a lot.

"Didn't the internal intelligence department get any information in advance?" Molotov asked immediately.

Can you be a bastard? !

Victor cursed inwardly. He wanted to say that this should be a matter for the counterintelligence department, but he also knew that it would be very demented to make such an excuse in this kind of thing.

"Yes, I didn't get any relevant news," Victor nodded without any nonsense to shirk responsibility. "This is my negligence. In the months since I took over the internal intelligence work, I didn't..."

"It's not the time to talk about this." Unexpectedly, before he could finish his words, he was interrupted by the ugly-faced Comrade Stalin. He knocked the pipe in his hand on the coffee table and said, "Who is it? Dereliction of duty, who is responsible, can be investigated slowly in the future. The key point at present is that the impact of this incident is very bad."

The tone paused, he took a mouthful of cigarettes, and then continued: "At present, nearly two thousand foreign journalists and observers have gathered in Moscow. What is certain is that this bombing will not even wait until tomorrow. All over the world. In such a sensitive time, this kind of thing is a great loss to the image of the alliance. Therefore, the saboteurs and the hidden behind the explosion must be removed in the shortest possible time. Destroy the clique, all uncovered."

Having said that, he turned his gaze to Victor for the first time and asked in a deep voice: "Comrade Victor, now you tell me, if you are responsible for investigating this case, when will you give me a result?"