The reason why Manturov agreed to Vasily was not because of how much he respected the person Starostin, but because he hoped to exchange it for Vasily's favor.

In the Novikov case, Vasily's role was undoubtedly enormous. The whole case began because of his dissatisfaction with the quality of Soviet aircraft and his promotion to major general, which ended in the purge of Novikov and other generals who had hindered his promotion, and Vasily began to rise through the ranks at a rapid pace, and by 1948 he became commander-in-chief of the Soviet Air Force.

Historically, when Vasily became Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force, he began to use his privileges as Commander-in-Chief of the Air Force to take Starosin away from Gulagli and send him to the Moscow Air Force football team as a football coach.

Soon after, however, Beria's secret police arrived at Starostin's residence in Moscow and ordered him to leave Moscow within 24 hours and return to the labor camp.

When Vasily learned about this, he actually went out and transferred Starostin to his own house. Since then, the two have been together almost all the time, and even sleep in the same big bed at night.

In order to prevent Starostin from being taken away in his sleep, Vasily even hid a pistol under his pillow and shot anyone away whenever they broke into his room.

With Stalin's son under his cover, Starotin's safety was naturally fully ensured, and none of the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who had been monitoring him all the time, dared to attack him.

But this situation did not last long, and once Vasily was drunk, Starosin sneaked out to see his family, but as soon as he got out, he was captured by Beria's secret police and sent him to the train to the Maikop labor camp.

When Vasily learned about this, he sent out counterintelligence officers of the Air Force to intercept it. The Air Force men managed to take Starosin out when the train arrived in Orel and escorted him back to Moscow.

Beria was furious when he learned about this, but he did not want to offend Stalin's son because of a football player, so he relaxed the personal restrictions on Starostin, allowing Starostin to live freely in the southern regions of Russia and become the coach of the local Ministry of Internal Affairs team (Dynamo Rostov).

Vasily and Staros agreed to Beria's terms, but after taking control of Starostin, Beria exiled him to Akmolinsk (present-day Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan after 1997) in Kazakhstan to coach the local team.

Soon after, Starostin was transferred to Almaty as the head coach of the Hellati Football Club. Under his management, Hellat became one of the strongest football teams in Kazakhstan at the time, and remained a Kazakh powerhouse for many years (runner-up in the Kazakhstan First Division in 2016).

It was not until the arrest of Beria in 1953 that Starostin was released and returned to Spartak Moscow as chairman and coach of the Soviet national football team.

In the plane that Manturov is in, Starotin's fate may change because of Manturov's appearance, but as for what kind of change will occur and how much it will change, even Manturov himself can't say.

The day after the meeting with Manturov, Vasily received an anonymous letter. The author of the letter, who described himself as a "good friend of Starotin", said that there was a way to deal with Beria and Malenkov and to save Starostin from the Gulagli.

In fact, this "good friend" is Manturov, whom Vasily met a day earlier. He wanted to help Vasily and rescue Starostin, but he didn't want to offend Beria in this matter, causing himself to become a key target for Beria.

As a last resort, Manturov had no choice but to "offer advice" to Vasily in the form of anonymous letters, hoping to get rid of Malenkov with Vasily's hand.

The letter begins with some intersections between the "author" and Starotin, praising Starotin's personality and his superb football skills, and then mentioning the intercourse between Beria, Malenkov and Starotin, and scolding Beria and Malenkov, saying that he wanted to defeat Beria and Malenkov and rescue Starotin, but did not dare to do so because of his humble status and small strength.

It wasn't until he went from a certain Moscow Spartak fan to the relationship between Vasily and Starosin that he saw hope for saving his idol.

Later, he pointed out Malenkov's role in Starotin's arrest, and also listed some of the mistakes Malenkov made during his tenure as a member of the National Defense Committee, believing that only by getting rid of Malenkov and letting Malenkov himself tell the reason behind the signing of the arrest warrant that year could the arrest warrant become a piece of waste paper, thus exonerating Staratin.

In fact, this letter is simply a trap set by Manturov for Malenkov, and if you analyze it carefully, it should not be difficult to see this.

But Vasily is too young, although he is in the circle of the top of the power, but he has no experience in power struggle, no power skills, and no leadership position in the government, so his thinking is still relatively direct, and his methods are a little reckless, and he was immediately caught by Manturov's anonymous letter, and was also misled by some of the contents of the letter, so that he thought that the person who wrote the letter was just an ordinary cadre.

Although Vasily would love to do something for Starotin, he is now only a major general of the Air Force, and his father is unwilling to rescue Starostin, nor to get rid of Beria and Malenkov. (If Stalin wanted to, why could Beria and Malenkov still sit in high positions?) Why hasn't Starostin been released yet? ）

In desperation, he had no choice but to write to his "ally", the second secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Zhdanov, to "report" the discovery and "present" the original of the anonymous letter.

Sure enough, less than a week later, anonymous letters accusing Malenkov were sent to the cases of Stalin, Zhdanov, Andreyev, Manturov, Abakumov and others, but not to the Minister of Internal Affairs, Lavrenty Beria.

Some of these anonymous letters accuse Malenkov of mistakes during his tenure as a member of the National Defense Committee, while others point out Malenkov's role in the Starostin case, "exposing" Beria and Malenkov for wronging Staratin and other high-ranking Spartaks in Moscow.