Struggle in Soviet Russia

After finally dismissing Sophia, Victor sat alone behind his desk and lit a cigarette. After taking two puffs, he got up and walked to the wall with the window on the south side, looking up at the large map hanging on the wall.

This is a map of the Lviv region, which belongs to the administrative division map. It only has the locations of some cities and villages, and the other is the labeling of some roads. There is no more detailed content, which is very common.

Staring at the map for a while, a flash of light flashed in his mind.

Taking a bit of a cigarette, he walked quickly to the east corner of the office, opened the door of the password safe, took out a folded kraft paper map from it, unfolded it on the desk, and examined it carefully.

Compared with the map hung on the wall, this map is obviously a dedicated map. It shows the deployment of frontier troops in Lviv and the location of some permanent fortifications.

This kind of map is a top-secret map. If it is numbered, if the owner loses it, he must bear political responsibility.

With a cigarette in his mouth, Victor stood on the edge of the desk, carefully examining the map on the desk. What he is concerned about is the surrounding area of ​​Lviv, or to be precise, the two fortifications near Lviv.

The two fortifications were centered on the village of Rawa and Strumilov in Russia. During the imperial Russia period, in order to deal with the resistance of the Poles, Moscow built permanent fortifications in these two areas. During the civil war, the Poles occupied Lviv and renovated and maintained the fortifications in these two areas. So now, the two permanent fortification areas in the shape of "several" still exist. It's just a little ruined.

In Victor’s heart, he has never forgotten the war that will come after more than a year. Considering that he is unlikely to be transferred from Lviv in the short term, and considering his position, if he does not want to break out in the war If he died early, then he must make some preparations in advance.

According to Victor’s idea, once a war breaks out, as the head of the People’s Committee of the People’s Committee of the Lviv Region, if he runs away directly, it is estimated that even if he is safe to the rear, he will be liquidated. After all, if the national security personnel escape before the battle, the punishment will be required. More severe than soldiers.

But if he doesn’t run away, as a rebirth, Victor knows very well how low the odds of survival as a middle and low-level commander of the Soviet Army in the early days of the Soviet-German War were. Most importantly, he was his mother’s national security officer. Once his identity was captured by the Germans, he would not even have the opportunity to be a prisoner, and he would be shot directly.

Therefore, Victor's idea was that at the beginning of the war, he should choose the most suitable location, command the troops he can command, make a symbolic resistance, and then retreat decisively before the situation completely deteriorates.

Yes, Victor's idea at this time was to safely withdraw to the rear at the beginning of the war. With his identity and position as a national security officer, there is no need to go to the front line to smash the Germans. Victor, who was reborn, didn't have much ambition, he just wanted to spend his life in this world safely.

So, to return to the premise of everything: he must make some resistance in the Lviv area before he can find a way to retreat. Now, there are troops that can be used to resist. Next, it seems that choosing the best place to resist has become the first priority.

In the past period of time, Victor considered the Lviv city as a front for organizing resistance, but now, an idea that happened to flash in his mind caused him to change his mind. He is preparing to draft a report and propose to Kiev. Renovate and reinforce the two fortification areas of Lava and Strumilov in Russia.

Why choose these two fortification areas? It is very simple. There are two main reasons: first, the old fortifications in the old Russian period and the Polish rule facilitated the construction of the fortification area; second, the two fortification areas are back from the Ivisva River The current of the San River, once the war is unfavorable, the defenders can choose to withdraw across the San River and blow up the bridges on the San River to delay the German offensive.

Victor is very confident. As long as he can escape the San River and travel less than 40 kilometers east to enter the Warren Forest, then the Germans are unlikely to catch up with him even if they have four legs, because for Warren He was more familiar with the forest situation than the Germans.

After reading the map carefully and keeping the general contents in mind, Victor put the map away temporarily, put it aside, sat down on a chair, took a letter paper and placed it in front of him, lit a cigarette, and began to think about it. How to write a report.

Reports like this are not written arbitrarily, and the minimum format needs to be followed. For example, at the beginning of the article, we must first analyze the situation in the border area, and use this to explain the necessity of the construction of the two fortification areas.

To illustrate this point, you must target the Germans. Taking into account the current friendly situation between the Soviet Union and Germany, Victor wants to state in the report that the Germans are a threat. Obviously, he needs to take certain risks. However, as the head of Lviv’s People’s Committee of Internal Affairs, Victor’s various official contacts told him that Moscow was not unsuspecting Berlin. Just like the previous order he had received, people who cooperated with the Industrial Committee would have Wolff’s series of removable factories are dismantled and shipped to the rear together with equipment and materials. Such an order suffices to show that Moscow already has the idea to develop with the Germans sooner or later, and now the honeymoon between Soviet and German is nothing more than plastic love.

After explaining the necessity of building the fortification area, it is time to analyze the feasibility of this plan. The content in this area is relatively complicated, because it requires a lot of engineering knowledge, and Victor needs to arrange technical personnel in this area. Visit the two fortification areas and come up with a rough budget figure.

In the Soviet Union, there are relevant standards for building fortification areas as permanent fortifications. This standard mainly follows the series of standards listed in the report "We Need to Build fortification Areas" submitted by Voroshilov in 1928. In the following years, the military committee made several amendments to this standard, so the fortifications in the fortification area were not repaired by anyone who wanted to.

According to Victor’s vision, if the two fortification areas are to be connected to form a strong defensive position that can be horns to each other, and to form a fortification group on the opposite bank of the San River that is sufficient to block the Sanhe Bridge, then at least On the basis of the original fortification area, no less than 400 permanent fortifications were added, including 150 reinforced concrete bunkers, 100 artillery fortifications, and more firepower points that can be supported by artillery.

This is undoubtedly a very large project, but once it is completed, when the fighting breaks out and Lviv is lost, the retreating Soviet troops can evacuate a short distance of less than 40 kilometers from the city of Lviv. Fire support in the fortified area. The most important thing is that the line of defense constructed by these two fortified areas lies between the Stir River and the Dniester River, with the back of the Isan River, thus forming a solid line of defense in the east of Lviv. If the Soviet army can firmly defend this line of defense, it will effectively block the enemy's attempt to make an offensive from Lviv to Kiev.

In order to draft this report, Victor put aside other tasks at hand and spent nearly a week on three trips to Russia’s Lava, Strumilov and other places. Not only that, but he also visited Lviv’s Several engineering experts were specially invited from several colleges and universities to make detailed demonstrations on the entire project.

On the first weekend of October, Victor submitted the sixty-page report to Kiev. At the same time, he also sent a copy and sent it directly to the headquarters of the People’s Committee of the Interior in Moscow.

When submitting this report, Victor absolutely did not know one thing, that is, in today's Moscow, within the People's Committee of National Defense, two completely different views on the construction of fortification areas are being heatedly debated.

As the world's first socialist country established in accordance with Marxism, the Soviet Union has always had a strong sense of anxiety. It can even be said that this huge red empire itself is strong in the sense of worry and destroyed by it.

It is precisely because of this sense of worry that since the end of the civil war, in order to defend against the next possible aggressive war, the Soviet Union has built fortifications mainly based on permanent fortifications throughout the country, from the Far East to Belarus, from From Murmansk to the Black Sea, fortifications can be said to be everywhere.

Among them, the most famous one is undoubtedly the "Stalin Line" from Karelia in the north to the Black Sea in the south. This long fortification, known as one of the four major lines of defense in Europe, has been repaired since 1928. It was repaired until 1939. The construction was completed in 1939, not because it was completed, but because with the return of West Belarus and West Ukraine, the Soviet territory expanded eastward. Therefore, as the border moved westward, this line of defense seemed a bit outdated. NS.

As a result, starting with the partition of Poland, the high-level Soviets came up with two views: one is to continue to complete the Stalin line of defense, and to use this line of defense as the focus of national defense. The other is to abandon the construction of the Stalin line of defense and build a new line of defense across the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea on the new border.

The divergence of these two views mainly stems from the time evaluation of the German offensive. Those who advocate the former view think that the German attack on the Soviet Union will not be prolonged for too long. The war will break out before 1942. Therefore, the Soviet Union has no time to build such a new line of defense.

The advocates of the second view believed that the Germans could only launch an offensive against the Soviet Union after they conquered France and Britain. Therefore, this war would not come so soon.

Victor's report was submitted at a time when the two views were fiercely confronting each other.