"Lavrenti, do you know who sued me against Stalin?"

As soon as the former political commissar of the Western Front and deputy People's Commissar of Defense Lev Mehris returned to Moscow, he went to the villa of Beria to file a complaint. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Lev, you calm down first." Probably because of the "compassion", Beria looked at Mehris's dejected appearance, and a sour feeling arose in his heart.

Beria hurriedly stepped forward, gently, holding Mecheris, who was soothing and staggering in his walk. The drunken and delirious appearance knew at a glance that he was a person who had experienced a major setback.

"How do you tell me to calm down!" Mehris was very emotional, and Beria, with his countless experience, could already see that the other party's emotions were uncontrollable, and he had almost become half a madman. "I have nothing left now, how do you tell me to calm down!"

Beria tried to comfort: "Don't be discouraged, Lev, maybe Joseph Vissarionovich (Stalin) is going to give you a better job in Moscow."

You have such a good relationship with him, he won't treat you badly. ”

"What's a better job?" When Mehris heard Beria's words, his emotions became even more agitated. The cheeks, which had been pale red, were now as red as the Astrakhan apples, and the body, which was already hot, was now burning. "What could be better to work on? For me, it's good to work in the army and have military power! ”

Mehris has always been reluctant to leave the army and serve elsewhere.

In the army, because he controlled the political apparatus and because of his close relationship with Stalin (he was a good sycophant), no one dared to disobey him and openly oppose him.

Otherwise, Mehris, who was also chairman of the General Political Department of the Soviet Union, would have branded those people as "enemies of the people" such as "anti-people", "saboteurs", "anti-Soviets", and countless people were eliminated by him for no reason.

In addition, because Mechris, who is also a member of the Organizational Bureau of the Communist Party of Brazzaville, his sphere of influence is not limited to the army, and the number of officials who have been rectified by him is indeed impossible to count, but fortunately he is only a member of the Organization Bureau, not the secretary of the Central Committee, and it is impossible to get rid of Manturov, deputy prime minister and alternate member of the Politburo, without Stalin's support.

"Comrade Mekhris, we are all working for Comrade Stalin, for this great country, for the broad masses of the people, and everywhere we serve is actually the same, isn't it?" Although Beria, who had the wrong mouth, said such righteous words, in his heart, he didn't think so at all!

In fact, Stalin had long been dissatisfied with Mehris the person. This Mehris, in addition to obeying the supreme leadership and obeying everything, only knows how to fight, how to brand the people of the whole world into *** elements, anti-Soviets, enemies of the people.

Thus, in 1940 Stalin dismissed him from the post of head of the General Political Department of the Red Army and deputy People's Commissar of Defense and assumed the post of People's Commissar of State Supervision.

This position of "People's Commissar of State Supervision" sounds like a very powerful position, after all, it is a position at the ministerial level, not a vice-ministerial position like the "Deputy People's Commissar for National Defense."

However, although this is a ministerial-level position, the power of the supervisory cadres is basically vacated by the State Supervision Commission and the Central Organization Bureau chaired by Andrei Andreyevich Andreyev, so Mehris was basically transferred to a vacant post.

However, after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, with the defeat of the Soviet army at the front, many shortcomings in political work were revealed, and the former head of the General Political Department of the Soviet Red Army and Deputy People's Commissar of Defense Zaporozhyets was removed from his post by Stalin.

Stalin could not find a suitable candidate for a while, so Mehris returned to the post of head of the General Political Department of the Red Army and deputy People's Commissar of Defense.

Although Mehris had little ability and no achievements in the army, because of his extreme loyalty to Stalin and his trustworthiness, the Iron Leader pulled him back to the post of head of the General Political Propaganda Department of the Red Army.

From then on, Mehris began to call for wind and rain in the Red Army again. In the whole army, with the exception of Stalin, who was also the People's Commissar of Defense, the second person was none other than the director of the General Political Propaganda Department.

Because in the Soviet Red Army at that time, the status of the political commissar was often higher than that of the commander. The existence of the commissar represented the absolute control of the Party over the Red Army.

As a representative of the party, as the coordinator of political work in the army, and as the leader of political workers, Mehris's power and status are basically the highest among the deputy People's Commissars of National Defense.

In the army, Mehris used his power to brand a large number of officers as "anti-Bolsheviks" and "enemies of the people", and he killed more people than he could, and the number of people he offended was too many to count.

The people who Mehris offended ranged from front-line soldiers to Soviet marshals, but whether it was a soldier or a marshal, almost no one dared to confront Mehris in front of him, only Stalin couldn't help but scold him on several public occasions.

Now Mehris has been removed from his post and replaced by Manturov. In the army, it was finally not Mehris, but it was not Manturov, it is difficult to say.

With Manturov's character, he would not be like Mehris, who engaged in the Red Terror in the army, offended the generals, and made everyone fearful of him; Instead, in his own way, he uses his special position to win the hearts of the people in the army, so that he can get the support of the soldiers and lay an important foundation for his future power career.

Stalin chose Manturov not only because of his ability, but also because he could be trusted. Manturov's sycophants were very few, not even so few that they could not be described by the word "less", but his political achievements and his frank attitude towards Stalin gradually won him the appreciation and trust of Comrade Steel.

Mehris was indeed quite honest in front of Stalin, but he was just a villain who could only pat himself on the back, only engage in sabotage, and could not engage in construction, and did not contribute to the country or the army.

And although Manturov does not know how to make sycophants, he has made a lot of contributions to the country, and Stalin sees them all, coupled with that attitude of neither humility nor arrogance, and the drive and maturity he shows, let the steel leader entrust the heavy responsibility to this young man.