"Conceal! This is a deliberate concealment! Stalin looked a little excited, obviously unable to accept the practice of concealing military discipline on the part of the Southern Front. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Whether the Political Department of the Southern Front really deliberately concealed these things, Manturov did not know. After all, he himself is not on the side of the Southern Front, so he cannot look at the problem from the perspective of the military and political workers of the front, and he does not know what they think.

Even if he is a person from the Political Department of the Southern Front Army, he may not know about the abduction and plundering of some soldiers, and even if he does, he only knows the surface, telling the people below to do a good job, severely punish the soldiers involved, and solve it by himself if he can solve it, so it is enough.

If you meet lazy political workers, you will even treat these things as wind and rumors (how could we, the Soviet Workers' and Peasants' Red Army, be the people's army, behave like this?). I will not casually report these situations to the central government.

In the eyes of those political workers, if they report to the central authorities the circumstances of some soldiers' crimes, I am afraid that the central authorities, knowing that these incidents exist, will only blame the subordinates for their ineffective handling of affairs and for their failure to do political work and supervision work, and they will inevitably find out and criticize the political workers.

Because the people below don't want to cause trouble and don't want to be criticized by the central government, most of them choose to solve these military discipline problems on their own, and rarely choose to report them.

Not to mention the central authorities, even the front armies, group armies, and even corps-level and division-level troops may not be able to fully grasp the situation of the soldiers taking captivity in the occupied areas, and what they can often grasp is only the tip of the iceberg.

In reality, the situation is much more serious than they imagined; And the number of soldiers who commit crimes and go undetected will not be less.

Historically, there have been many serious (by modern standards) problems in the Soviet Union that have not attracted the attention of the central authorities, and the problem of the performance and behavior of the Soviet Red Army in the occupied areas has certainly not attracted attention.

In addition, even the quality problems of industrial production (including those in the military industry) have not attracted the attention of the above in time.

Because of this, although the military industry of the Soviet Union was required in terms of output, the quality of military products, including aircraft and tanks, became worse and worse.

However, these problems in the quality of production did not attract the attention of the leadership during the war, and as long as the production department met the quantitative requirements, basically no one would pursue it, but this does not mean that the person in charge of production does not need to pay the price for these actions.

Just after the end of World War II, the problem of aircraft production quality was found out again. The "Leningrad faction" headed by Zhdanov, secretary of the Central Committee, used the problem of the uneven quality of aircraft production during World War II as a lever to attack political opponents, and took advantage of this incident to pull Malenkov, who was in charge of the aviation industry during World War II, into the water.

As a result, Malenkov, who held a high position as secretary of the Central Committee, was demoted to Uzbekistan for dam construction because of this incident.

If Beria hadn't disbanded with all his strength and said good things about Malenkov in front of Stalin, I'm afraid Malenkov would have retired in Uzbekistan.

It is indeed a fact that the quality of Soviet aircraft production in World War II was uneven, and Malenkov did bear a certain responsibility for this problem, but these problems were only discovered after the end of World War II, which shows that the Soviet Union's supervision system for cadres is actually not very perfect.

In the Soviet Union, if you do everything to the best of your ability, it is not so easy to be caught, but being above board does not mean that you will not be plotted by others.

Even if you have the handle to rectify someone's house, it doesn't necessarily mean that your plot will succeed. Manturov had been in the Soviet power field for a while, and he knew a little about the history of the Soviet Union, so he naturally understood this truth.

Therefore, before he reported to Stalin on the military discipline of the Southern Front, he did a lot of preparatory work and collected enough evidence to make his conspiracy better carried out.

Now, now that the matter has developed to this point, and since this matter has aroused Stalin's dissatisfaction, this work of purging military discipline against the Southern Front is already in place, and only the east wind is owed.

"Comrade Stalin, I don't think they are necessarily deliberately hiding our ...... from this"

Before Manturov could finish speaking, Stalin interrupted him and said: "In any case, some soldiers of the Southern Front did take the property of the local women in Romania, even if the relevant political workers and supervisors of the Southern Front did not deliberately hide from us, they must bear the corresponding responsibility for this matter."

The failure of the political workers in the armed forces to do a good job in the political work of the troops, and the failure of the supervisory personnel to even supervise the behavior of the troops, is obviously a sign of dereliction of duty.

What do you think should be done? ”

As for Leonid Brezhnev, deputy director of the Political Department of the Southern Front, Manturov, of course, knew how to deal with him, and it was nothing more than demoting him to his post, delegating him to a local area, becoming a sesame officer, and cutting off his path to becoming general secretary.

But for the rest, Manturov could not think of a good way to deal with it for a while, and could only reply in general terms: "Comrade Stalin, I think that political workers who are responsible for these events should be divided into two categories.

The first type of responsibility is relatively large, should be arranged in the local government, to hold some less important grass-roots positions, so that not only to achieve the effect of punishment, but also not to waste human resources, the most important thing, can let them start from scratch, in the grass-roots units to accumulate work experience, temper, study, understand the needs of the grass-roots masses, this is not a bad thing for their physical and mental development.

The second category, that is, those with relatively small responsibilities, should be sent to the military-political academy to study, and future work should be arranged according to the progress and performance of the study. ”

Manturov's proposal, though rather general, also points out two directions - either to be relegated to the local level, to become a sesame officer, to prevent them from harming the army; Either they were sent to the political academy of the Red Army to study, and then their future work was arranged according to their academic performance and reused.

These two proposals seem to be no problem, and no matter how they are arranged, they are not a bad thing for the physical and mental development of the cadres themselves. But what if Brezhnev was classified in the category of "less responsible" and was sent to study at the Political Academy? Will he be relegated to the grassroots, as Manturov wanted?

In fact, no matter which category Brezhnev falls into, the final result will not make much difference. If he can be directly demoted to the local level and become a grassroots cadre, it will certainly be in line with Manturov's wishes; If Brezhnev had been sent to study at the Lenin Military-Political Academy or the Military-Political Academy, he would eventually have been transferred to the local government and become an ordinary grassroots cadre.

Let's not forget that as the Deputy People's Commissar in charge of politics in the People's Commissariat of Defense, both the Lenin Military-Political Academy and the Military-Political Academy are under Manturov's purview.

With Brezhnev's political literacy, it will be difficult for him to excel in this study, and even if he can, he will not be able to meet the requirements of the leadership (Manturov).