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"Volodya, don't talk to me about personal matters." As soon as Katia received the call, she issued a warning to Manturov.

At work, Manturov is Katya's superior, but at home, Katia is the biggest. At least before Manturov makes every decision, he has to look at his wife's face.

"Comrade, this is business."

"What business? Wouldn't you ask me to accompany you to Moscow to meet Stalin, or to inspect some place, and then take the opportunity to spend your honeymoon? Katia said half-jokingly.

"No, it's business, it's about manpower."

"Manpower transfers? Are you going to transfer me over as your secretary? And then you ......," Katia teased again.

Manturov said in the tone of his superior: "Katyusha, be serious! I'm talking to you about business. ”

"Say it quickly."

"I'm going to swap secretaries with you."

"Swap secretaries? Are you kidding? Katia still wondered if she had misheard.

Manturov lifted his glasses and said solemnly: "I'm serious, I'm not joking." You know, Anna isn't in a good state right now, and she's not at all fit to handle the tedious and important work on the state committee's side, and yours has less work and isn't as important as mine. ”

"So, you just want to get Anna who is not in good shape to come to my side and snatch my good and motivated Irina over, right?"

"That's it, I need a secretary who is in good shape, doesn't make mistakes, and is motivated to handle the tedious and important work on the side of the state party committee."

Katia still didn't miss the opportunity to flirt with her husband: "To be honest, did you transfer Anna to my side so that she could make mistakes on my side, and then take the opportunity to remove me from my post and put me back home to be your housewife?" ”

"No, Katyusha, I don't want to eat what you cooked, even though you did a good job. I think that you have such a good relationship with Anna, and you know her personality, arranging for her to work next to you may make her feel more comfortable and less stressful.

And you have less work over there, so she won't be so tired from work, and she doesn't need to spend so much energy, and the chance of making mistakes is smaller, isn't it? ”

Katia nodded and said, "Okay, it's not bad to have Irina go over to your side to gain some experience, she's hardworking, active, and willing to learn, so she should be able to get started soon." She's young, capable, and definitely up to the big job on your side. ”

"You call Irina to report to me now, Anna has now packed her things and gone over to you."

Katia wasn't ready for any of this. "So fast?"

"Hurry up, isn't it?"

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Soon after, a beautiful blonde woman in a green dress walked into Manturov's office.

"Hello, Comrade Secretary, my name is Irina Egorovna Lavrova, I am your new assistant, how can I help you?"

Irina did not have Anna's aristocratic spirit, no perfume smell, and no smile on her face, she looked a little indifferent, but her highly focused eyes immediately won the good impression of the secretary.

Without saying a word, Manturov pulled out a large stack of documents on the "mountain of documents" on his desk and handed them to the new secretary.

Irina took the heavy stack of documents from the secretary's hand and asked, "Comrade Secretary, what is this stack of documents?" What do you want me to do? ”

"See for yourself, I think you know what to do."

"Okay."

Irina took the stack of papers to her desk and began to read them tirelessly. Those are all documents related to the operation of the state party committee, the state government, and some development projects in the state, and the reason why Manturov gave them to her was actually to let her know about the work here after reading them, so that she could get started as soon as possible.

At first, Irina looked very serious and showed a very energetic appearance, but when she saw Stalin's letter to Manturov, the expression on her face began to change.

Manturov did not intend to show her the contents of the letter, he had just finished reading it and put the paper on the pile of papers, forgetting to put it in a drawer.

As soon as Anna left, before Irina arrived, Manturov was already in a state of work, examining the reports handed in by the local party organizations in the region, and putting them on the pile of papers, layer after layer, on top of the important letter.

It just so happened that the letter happened to be sandwiched between the stack of papers that Irina had taken, and she inadvertently saw the letter.

After some time, Manturov remembered the existence of the letter, and he wanted to write a reply to Stalin, but after searching for a long time on the desktop and rummaging through the stacks of documents, he could not find the important letter written to him by Stalin himself.

He thought about it for a while, only to realize that he had put the letter in the file he had given to Irina.

Coincidentally, at this time, Irina walked in with a letter and said, "Comrade Secretary, are you looking for this?" ”

"Yes, that's what I'm looking for, thank you so much, I'm about to write a reply to Comrade Stalin. You're so diligent and shrewd that you can even guess what I'm looking for. ”

Irina smiled slightly, her expression was serious, and at the same time, she could make the other party feel cheerful, "It's just a small matter, those documents just now are all about the operation of the state party committee and some important projects in the state, and the content of this letter has nothing to do with those, so I think you accidentally sandwiched it in and handed it to me." ”

Manturov took the letter back from Irina and smiled with satisfaction: "Sure enough, shrewd. By the way, have you read the documents? ”

"After reading it all, I have a certain understanding of the situation of the state party committee and the state government."

Manturov nodded, expressing satisfaction, then took out a note, handed it to Irina, and instructed: "This is your work today, come to me if you have any questions." ”

"Okay." Irina suddenly thought of something, "By the way, Comrade Manturov, Comrade Mikhailov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Komsomol will come to Novosibirsk in a few days to inspect the work of the Komsomol side. ”

Mikhailov (Note 1)? The name is a bit familiar, isn't it? It was in the lobby of the Moscow Hotel that Manturov had met him, while Mikhailov was talking to Katya, calling each other by their nicknames, and the relationship was extraordinary.

"Okay, I got it. You can get busy. ”

Note 1: Nikolai Aleksandrovich Mikhailov (1906-1982) was the first secretary of the Komsomol of the USSR from 1938 to 1952, a member of the Organizational Bureau of the CPSU, and a member of the Central Committee.