"Comrade Stalin, thank you for giving me the opportunity to run for the post of secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, and if I am elected, I will definitely do my best to do things for the country and serve the people. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info"

"Very well," said Stalin, with a fatherly smile, "after your election as secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, the first task in charge of your duties is to lead and supervise the military and defense industry sectors, and to coordinate and direct the research and development of various weapons in academic institutions and design bureaus.

In addition, I intend to reorganize the Organization and Guidance Department of the Central Committee (hereinafter referred to as the Organization Department of the Central Committee), expand the functions and powers of this department, and change its name to the Central Party Organization Inspection Department (Управление_п o_ проверке_партийных_органов_ЦК_ВКП (б))

After the reorganization, this department will be mainly responsible for managing the building of the party's organizations, supervising and inspecting the leading cadres of local party organizations and leading cadres, and proposing candidates for leading cadres of local party organizations and cadres under the management of the central government.

What do you think of the fact that Comrade Chamboldt, the current head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, lacks competence and does not have sufficient knowledge of the affairs of the local party committees, so I intend to let him work in the Kostroma regional party committee, and you will take over his position, and at the same time be the secretary of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee and the head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee, responsible for the building of the party organization? ”

Director of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee? This position is very attractive for the Chinese, after all, this department can be said to be very important in our country and is one of the most important departments of the Party Central Committee.

But what about in the USSR? Quite the opposite. Although the power and functions of this department are no different from those of the Organization Department in China, their weight is far from that of the head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee, whose position in the Party is not even that of the secretary of the Novosibirsk Regional Party Committee, and even the status of Katia is higher than that of the current head of the Organization Department, Mikhail Abramovich Chamboldt.

In a communist country in East Asia, it was customary for the head of the Organization Department of the CPC Central Committee to concurrently serve as a member of the Secretariat of the CPC Central Committee, but in the Soviet Union, it was quite difficult to even enter the Central Committee, let alone be elected to the Central Committee.

A typical example is the then head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU Shanpott, the leader of this "important department" who did not even have the qualifications to be elected as an alternate member of the Central Committee.

And Manturov was elected to the Central Committee and became a full member of the Central Committee as early as the secretary of the state party committee in Novosibirsk. What does this mean? The secretary of the Novosibirsk Oblast Party Committee has a higher status than the head of the Organization Department, so what else can the head of the Organization Department do? What power is there at hand?

In history, Stalin also discovered this phenomenon and felt that the weight of the head of the Organization Department was too low, so at the regular meeting of the Central Committee of the CPSU in 1946, he announced the reorganization of this department, strengthened the power of the department, and made Patolicev, then the head of the Central Organization Department, concurrently the secretary of the Central Committee, and this department began to have some weight.

In Manturov's world, the reorganization of this department was brought forward to 1942!

Manturov did not know why the trajectory of history had changed so much, probably because the Central Committee had moved forward to 1942.

In the history that we are familiar with, the Central Committee of the CPSU did not convene a single plenum of the Central Committee during the Great Patriotic War at all.

In other words, during the three years from 1942 to 1945, the CPSU did not hold a single regular meeting of the Central Committee, and everything was put on hold until the 1946 regular session, including the reorganization of the Organization Department, the election of new members of the Secretariat of the Central Committee and members of the Politburo Standing Committee, which were not dealt with until 1946.

However, according to the usual practice, the CPSU had to convene a plenum of the Central Committee at least once a year, and Stalin's practice of not holding regular sessions for three consecutive years clearly violated the basic principle.

In Manturov's world, this convention has not been broken! The fact that the Party Central Committee had decided to convene a plenary session of the Central Committee on June 22, 1942, and that the subsequent sessions in 1943, 1944, and 1945 would also be set for these days, indicating that the war did not affect the functioning of the Central Committee of the CPSU.

The 1942 plenum was held on June 22, 1942, the first anniversary of the outbreak of the Soviet-German war.

On this day, Stalin will deliver a speech on the first anniversary of the anti-fascist war in front of 69 members and 68 alternate members of the Central Committee, as well as journalists from major media outlets, to demonstrate his determination to resist a strong enemy.

Later, Stalin will announce the reorganization of the Organization Department of the Central Committee and the election of new members of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, the head of the Organization Department and the full members of the Central Committee.

Manturov is the only candidate for the new post of secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee and the only candidate for the post of head of the Organization Department, with almost zero chances of losing the election.

In addition to the election of Manturov's secretary of the Central Committee, Melkulov and the new director of the General Political Department of the Red Army will also be elected on the same day, adding regular members of the Central Committee, and if there is no accident, they will also be approved by a large number of votes, which means that Merkulov and the new director of the General Political Department of the Red Army will enter the core of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

"I accept this arrangement, but if I stay in another position, I am afraid that I may not be able to cope with so much work.

Therefore, I would like to step down as Deputy People's Commissar of Defense, Director of the General Political Department of the Red Army, and People's Commissar for Construction, and devote my energies to the building of the defense industry and the Party organization. "Although Manturov is young and vigorous, no matter how vigorous he is, it is difficult to cope with the work of so many positions at the same time.

Stalin felt that this young man was not necessarily as "pure" as he imagined, and the reason why he offered to step down from these three posts was nothing more than to keep the existing three positions of considerable power: vice chairman of the National Defense Committee, member of the Supreme High Command, and deputy chairman of the Central Supervision Commission (deputy secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection).

Removing the least powerful positions not only retains the existing power, but also reduces the workload of the individual, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

Stalin clearly saw this, but he did not choose to debunk it, nor did it negatively affect Manturov's perception, after all, everyone has a desire for power, as Napoleon said: "A soldier who does not want to be a marshal is not a good soldier".

"Okay, so which comrade do you think is suitable to take over these positions?" Stalin asked.

"I consider Comrade Yevgeny Pavlovich Rykov, Military Commissar of the South-Western Front, to be a good comrade who has served in the army for many years, has good political and moral qualities, has a wealth of experience in political work, and is a rare good comrade.

The post of People's Commissar of Construction could be taken over by Comrade Pavel Aleksandrovich Eugene, First Deputy People's Commissar for Construction. He has a serious work attitude, has a wealth of construction expertise, and has also worked in the construction department for many years, with rich construction work experience, is a very suitable candidate.

In addition, I think that after the reorganization of the Central Organization and Guidance Department, it should be called the Central Organization Department (Отдел_партийных_органов_ЦК_ВКП(б)), which would be simpler. ”

Stalin pondered for a while, and then said: "Okay, then it's decided." ”