Struggle in Soviet Russia

The thick clouds of war hanging over the head cannot stop the passage of time. With the passing of the short summer, the autumn which symbolizes the harvest advances step by step.

Just as the granary is about to usher in the harvest season in Western Ukraine, Kiev issued an order to turn the entire Western Ukraine region into a gunpowder keg again, including Lviv, and the entire West Ukrainian folks are brewing. With great anger, the Ukrainian nationalist guerrillas, which had been wiped out, are showing signs of resurgence.

Kunokivli Village, a small village east of Lviv city, but 60 kilometers away from the border, this is the first of the four echelon lines of defense built by the Soviet army in the border area, and it is a reserve position.

On a small hill on the west side of the village, Victor and a few officers with the rank of second lieutenant gathered in front of a sand table, discussing something in a low voice.

Several lieutenants are from the internal guards directly under the Lviv People’s Committee of the Interior. The commanders of one regiment, three battalions under it, and the staff of the regiment headquarters are all here.

Recently, Victor is very annoying. The reason for the annoyance is that until now, the development of the current situation has completely transcended his vision, and to a large extent, it has disrupted all the ideas he had made before.

At the latest stage, the People's Committee of the Interior of Lviv received several orders.

First, the Kiev side issued an order to comprehensively promote the construction of collective farms in Western Ukraine. Before the autumn harvest, all land and self-cultivating farmers should be allocated to new collective farms.

The announcement of this order caused an uproar in the entire West Ukraine region. You must know that, as a region that has just merged into the alliance, whether the people’s sentiments and the situation in West Ukraine are good, they are far from stable, especially in Liberia. Wolf, the overwhelming majority of people living here, are always Polish or Polish descent. These people were originally dissatisfied with joining the alliance. At this time, they are depriving them of their land. Naturally, you can imagine how high their anger is.

The most critical point is that at this time the autumn harvest is approaching, but Kiev has to rush to push forward the construction of collective farms before the autumn harvest. Considering the harvest of collective farms, two-thirds of the harvest needs to be handed in. In the eyes of self-cultivators, this is undoubtedly It was a naked deprivation of them.

In this way, the originally peaceful situation in Lviv collapsed almost instantaneously. In the past two weeks, there have been several vicious incidents of burning farmland in various places. These are the extremely dissatisfied self-employed farmers who are using this method. Fight.

In the face of this situation, Kiev did not choose to back down, but adopted a more radical approach, demanding resolute suppression of sabotage activities in various places. Therefore, the internal guards of the regiment in Victor's hand were dismantled. Eight falls, scattered to various places in the state. Considering that such a situation could not be calmed down in the short term, Victor didn't know if he could still gather this force when the war broke out.

The second bad news is an "Order No. 149" issued by Moscow. According to this order, the People's Committee of the Interior will be split and the National Security Council will be independent and become a separate department.

Some time ago, Lieutenant Colonel Serov called him to Kiev and had a formal talk with him. According to the lieutenant colonel, he will be transferred to Moscow after the year to serve as the first deputy people’s commissar of the newly established National Security People’s Committee, which is the second in command of this department. He values ​​Victor very much, so he hopes that Victor will also Can choose to join the National Security People’s Committee, and will be responsible for the establishment of the Lviv National Security Committee for a period of time.

If he can follow Lieutenant Colonel Serov to Moscow, Victor will accept the offer without hesitation, but the problem is that according to Lieutenant Colonel Serov, he will need to stay in Lviv for a while until the National Security Council there is organized. Build up. Victor didn't know when this work could be completed, let alone when the order to transfer him to another place would be officially issued, so he hesitated.

You must know that in the current National Security Council organization sequence, the main tasks are intelligence, espionage, and anti-espionage work. Its subordinate agencies include the Intelligence Bureau, the Counter Intelligence Bureau, and the Secret Political Work Bureau. The original security forces, border guards, civilian police headquarters, etc., belong to the People’s Committee of the Interior. Under his jurisdiction.

Therefore, after a short period of hesitation, Victor still declined Lieutenant Colonel Serov's solicitation, and he decided to remain in the NKVD.

Of course, in addition to these bad news, Victor also got some good news during this time.

At the same time that the NKVD was separated from the National Security Council, Beria, who felt that the war was approaching, began to strengthen some of the NKVD’s military functions. Under his suggestion, the part-time job of the NKVD was expanded to the military level. Ivan Ivanovich Maslennikov, with a military rank, served as the Deputy People’s Commissar of the Interior and Commander of the Internal Defense Forces.

Subsequently, the NKVD issued Order No. 74, drafted by Maslennikov and issued by Beria himself, requesting the internal guards of various regions to strengthen their combat effectiveness and build elite troops.

In order to achieve this goal of building a strong army, the General Directorate of Military Operations Forces, which was just established by the People's Committee of the Interior, began to operate at full capacity to replace equipment for the internal security forces in various regions.

Lviv’s internal defense regiment received a number of brand new weapons and equipment, including two hundred SVT-40 rifles, twenty anti-tank rifles, four Maxim heavy machine guns, and six anti-tank 45 mm calibers. Cannon, 12 mortars.

In addition, the troops also received six trucks and two brand-new GAZJEPs. Most importantly, Victor also received four German-made Torn.Fu.d backpack radio stations, which were used by the Soviet Union. Resources and minerals were exchanged from the Germans-the interesting point is that although Moscow and Berlin both know that each other is preparing a war against themselves, the two sides exchanged equipment and technology for the trade of mineral resources and food. But it never stopped. On the contrary, in the last two months, the speed of the Germans sending equipment and equipment to the Soviet Union has even accelerated. Even radio stations that were rarely exported in the past are now on the export list.

In Victor’s view, the Torn.Fu.d radio is not easy to use, because when it is in use, it must be connected to a separate battery box. Just such a radio station requires two or three people to come. Serve it.

But having said that, something like radio is better than nothing. In the current situation, Victor can't help but pick and choose.

On the sand table in front of us is the general deployment of the German forces on the line from Przemysl to Zamosc. As the atmosphere of war became more and more intense, the Germans stepped up their anti-intelligence work in the area under their control, Sophia The intelligence agency under command was severely damaged, and it was already difficult to send accurate information back. Even worse, with the reorganization of the People's Committee of the Interior, the department led by Sophia will be placed under the National Security Council. At that time, it will be difficult for Victor to get the latest intelligence information from her.

Today, the reason why Victor summoned all levels of commanders of the internal guards was not for them to watch this sandbox, but to tell them through this sandbox that the war is really near, so everyone must stand up. Be vigilant and make all preparations for war.

Victor asked the Internal Guards Corps to do a major job in the next few months, that is, to cooperate with border guards, railway forces, and bridge guards to set up extensive countermeasures on the main traffic arteries leading to Lviv in the border area. Penetration checkpoint.

Although he didn’t know much about the Soviet-German War in his previous life, Victor still knew one thing. At the beginning of the war, the Germans were very active in infiltrating the border areas of the Soviet Union. The uniform of the army sneaked into the rear of the Soviet army and seized key passages and facilities such as bridges, railways, and radar stations. This kind of penetration created a major obstacle to the Soviet army's operations. For this reason, Victor believed that he had to guard against it.

In order to be able to support the reverse osmosis work at the outbreak of the war, Victor required that these checkpoints must be equipped with wired phones. At the same time, each checkpoint needs to build two or three machine gun fire bunkers, and the corresponding work will be handed over to the border guards. Do it.

Through more than a year of work in Lviv, Victor has established a certain degree of personal prestige in the entire system. After all, the entire Lviv People’s Committee of the Interior was formed step by step by him. Yes, including the person in charge of some major posts, he also applied for appointment.

In today's Lviv People's Committee of the Interior, although Victor cannot be said to have made a statement, there are no people who can really jump out to oppose him. Therefore, the orders he has issued can also be executed accurately.

No one likes war, especially for a person who lived in a peaceful age in his previous life, he hopes to stay away from war as much as possible. It is best to not smell the smell of gunpowder.

But helplessly, not everything in this world is satisfactory. Victor was unfortunately reborn in this era of war and was unable to escape from Lviv, a place destined to be destroyed by war. Therefore, he couldn’t. Without fighting up all the energy, I went all out to deal with this disaster.

This disaster is now imminent.