"In charge of the Secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the Military and Defense Industry and Head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee?" Katya's expression was a little cold, and she didn't seem to be surprised and excited by Manturov's "ascension". Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

"What's wrong? Isn't that good? Manturov found something strange in Katya's tone and expression, Katia was very excited when she learned that she was going to be promoted and adjusted, but this time, Manturov is going to run for secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, Katia actually doesn't feel it at all, what's wrong?

"For you, perhaps, good, for Stalin, it is very good!"

"That's right, this adjustment does not help much in terms of my own real power, and the military and national defense work in charge of this secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee completely overlaps with the work I am in charge of in the National Defense Committee and the People's Commissariat of National Defense, and the actual power has not been increased much, and even decreased a little.

Although the head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee has a certain influence on the transfer of personnel in the Party, I actually only have the power to recommend candidates and inspect cadres, and the final decision rests with Stalin and the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee. Any personnel transfer would have to be approved with Stalin's consent and a vote of the Central Secretariat. ”

"It's good that you know. Then do you know what this transfer meant for Stalin? Katia still looked cold, as if she had guessed the "conspiracy" behind the matter.

"What do you think?" Manturov stretched out his hands, put his arms around Katya's thin waist, and sniffed the faint fragrance emanating from the woman's body. It wasn't that he didn't guess Stalin's intentions (or conspiracy), he just wanted to take the opportunity to test Katia's political level and give her a chance to play by the way.

Katya is not a simple person, she used to be a little childish when she was in the Moscow Communist Youth League Committee, but now she is the second in command of the Moscow Municipal Party Committee, and she has also become mature in terms of personal character and dealing with people, and she has a better understanding of the movements of the top level of the CPSU.

Stalin did this in order to balance the distribution of power among the various political forces at the top of the CPSU and to strengthen his own power. It is also possible that he wants to train you to be the successor of the party and government, but this is only his secondary purpose. Katia summed up Stalin's intentions in one sentence.

In the eyes of many, the reason why Stalin wanted to push Manturov to the position of secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee was to train Manturov as his successor.

After all, he was young, and he had made considerable contributions to the economic, industrial, and military development of the Soviet Union, excelled in various positions, had a wide range of work experience, and his "willingness to serve the people", and he was (ostensibly) in many points of view with Stalin, and he was also Russian, making him one of the most desirable successors.

However, Manturov's outstanding performance and rapid promotion aroused the jealousy of Malenkov and Voznesensky and others, both of whom wanted to become Stalin's successor, and when Stalin died, he would take over a powerful country like the Soviet Union, but Manturov's appearance caused a huge obstacle to them.

If the Georgian gangs behind Malenkov and the Leningrad faction behind Voznesensky had joined forces and concentrated their efforts on Manturov, even if Stalin had disbanded him with all his might, he might not have been able to keep Manturov.

But if Manturov had entered the Secretariat of the Central Committee, the situation would have been different, and almost no one except Stalin would have been able to shake Manturov's position, which many people had seen and thought that Stalin had put Manturov in the position of Secretary of the Central Committee

Keep this young "successor".

Was that what Stalin intended me? Of course not, behind this, there are more considerations, more "conspiracies".

Katya continued: "Now there are 5 secretaries of the Secretariat of the Central Committee: Stalin (General Secretary), Zhdanov, Andrei Andreevich Andreyev (Andrei's cubic side), Malenkov and Shcherbakov.

Shcherbakov had worked with Zhdanov, and the relationship between the two should be good, and if that were the case, the Leningrad faction headed by Zhdanov would have 2 votes in the Central Secretariat.

When they came up with any resolution, they only needed to get one more vote, and three votes were needed to pass a resolution in the interests of the Leningradists by a large number of votes (there were five members of the Central Secretariat, and each member, including Stalin, had only one vote).

The "Georgian gangsters" represented by Malenkov had only one vote, and the "Old Guard" did not have a single representative in the Secretariat of the Central Committee.

In this case, it means that the Leningrad faction may have a greater decision-making power in the decision-making of the party masses and personnel, while the "Old Guards" will not be able to participate in the decision-making of the party, the masses and personnel, and the forces will be seriously tilted in favor of the Leningrad faction, and the political forces will be completely unbalanced.

Stalin did not want the Secretariat of the Central Committee to be dominated by any one faction, so let you, Voroshilov's son-in-law, enter the Secretariat of the Central Committee as a representative of the "Old Guard", and then the Secretariat of the Central Committee would be represented by three different factions, and some decisions involving the interests of the faction would not be tilted in favor of the Leningrad faction.

Moreover, when you become the secretary of the Central Committee, it will be more difficult for the Leningrad faction to obtain a large number of votes, so that it can effectively check and balance the power of the Leningrad faction and avoid a situation in which one faction dominates.

In addition, in the past, Malenkov, as the Minister of Personnel of the Central Committee, had a lot of say in the appointment and dismissal of personnel, and Stalin probably wanted to break this situation, so expand the power of the Organization Department of the Central Committee, and let you, the head of the Organization Department, enter the Secretariat of the Central Committee to check and balance Malenkov. ”

Manturov hugged Katya tightly in his arms and said, "Very well, what else?" Why was Stalin's power strengthened? ”

"At present, the Secretariat of the Central Committee has a secretary in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of State Security (Andreyev), but for the time being there is no secretary who has the power to supervise the army and the defense industry.

At the end of the war, it is highly likely that Stalin will resign as People's Commissar of Defense, dissolve the National Defense Council and the Supreme High Command, and Stalin's control over the army will weaken.

If Stalin wanted to maintain military power, he could create a new secretary of the Central Committee who would oversee national defense affairs, which would give the Secretariat the function of supervising the army, thereby strengthening the power of the Secretariat and the General Secretary. ”

Katya's analysis is quite reasonable, in 1965, Brezhnev once appointed Ustinov as a secretary of the Central Secretariat, in charge of the military and defense industry, as a result, the Central Secretariat has the power to supervise the army, and the power of Brezhnev as the first secretary (general secretary) has also been strengthened to a certain extent.

But Stalin's aim was not so simple: he wanted not only to strengthen the power of the Secretariat of the Central Committee and even himself, but also to separate Manturov from the Ministry of Defense. In this way, although Manturov's position was strengthened, he had less opportunities to directly participate in defense work and contact with military personnel, and his influence in the army was weakened in disguise.