Walking into the special conference room of the Kremlin's Party Central Organization Bureau, Manturov's mood was both nervous and excited. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

Although Manturov had already become the Deputy People's Commissar of Defense in charge of politics two months earlier and had taken over Mehris's post in the Central Organization Bureau of the CPSU, he had not attended any meeting of the Central Organization Bureau in the past two months because of his busy schedule in the army, because the affairs of the Organization Bureau had little to do with army building.

It was only on this day that Stalin made a special phone call to Manturov asking him to attend the meeting that he hurried from the People's Commissariat of Defense.

Organization Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU? It sounds awesome, but what does this department do? What powers does Manturov have as part of the Central Organization Bureau? Seeing this, I think readers will have such questions in their minds.

The Central Organization Bureau, whose full name is the Organization Bureau of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), is the decision-making body of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union responsible for the appointment and dismissal of personnel, the building of Party organizations, and the supervision of cadres.

As a decision-making body, the nature and composition of the work of the Organization Bureau of the Central Committee of the CPSU (in fact, there is no establishment to speak of) is similar to that of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU, with only nine members.

These nine members of the Central Organization Bureau all hold the same ranks, but their status depends on what position they hold concurrently.

Like the Politburo of the Central Committee, those who can enter the Organization Bureau of the Central Committee are some awesome figures in the CPSU. These people, in addition to being bullish and coaxing, also have some common characteristics -- they are all leaders of some important departments/organizations within the party, and they all have the trust of Stalin.

As the Deputy People's Commissar of Defense in charge of politics and armaments, and at the same time the head of the General Political Department of the Red Army, Manturov's status in the Organizational Bureau was not high, but it was not low either.

Stalin, as the general secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, was, of course, the person with the highest status and the heaviest weight in the Organizational Bureau.

Zhdanov, the second secretary of the CPSU Central Committee (in charge of ideology), Andrei Andreyevich Andreyev, secretary of the Central Committee and chairman of the Central Supervision Commission (equivalent to the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection), and Malenkov, the secretary of the Central Committee in charge of personnel, also had a higher status than Manturov and also had high decision-making power in personnel appointments and dismissals.

In addition to Stalin, Zhdanov, Andreyev, and Malenkov, the members of the Organization Bureau of the CPSU Central Committee also included Lazar Kaganovich, member of the Politburo and deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, Nikolai Mikhailov, first secretary of the Komsomol Committee, Nikolai Schvernik, first secretary of the Soviet Union of Trade Unions, and, of course, Manturov.

If you look at the power of the part-time position, Manturov's status in the organization bureau is similar to Kaganovich, and compared with Mikhailov and Schvernik, it seems that it is a little higher.

In order to give a better impression to several bigwigs of the organization bureau, Manturov arrived in the conference room 15 minutes early and sat in the pre-arranged position.

"Volodya, we haven't seen each other in a long time. You seem to be attending a meeting of the Organizing Bureau for the first time, right? The second person to walk into the conference room was Kaganovich, a member of the Politburo and People's Commissar of Railways.

The relationship between Kaganovich and Manturov was not ordinary, and Mikhailov, the first secretary of the Komsomol who had just entered the conference room, heard from the title.

In Russian culture, only people who are close to each other are called by nicknames.

As soon as Kaganovich entered the conference room, he called Manturov by his nickname, and this relationship was unusual as soon as he heard it.

What is even more unusual is that Kaganovich, the notoriously hot-tempered "Stalinist People's Commissar", actually became mild in front of Manturov, a young man who was not yet thirty years old.

It stands to reason that Manturov, the deputy People's Commissar of Defense, would not have no contact with Kaganovich in his work, and Manturov had never worked with Kaganovich, so he should have no contact. But these two people who have never interacted with each other, after meeting, they actually greeted each other like relatives, and the relationship behind them is not ordinary.

"Yes, Comrade Kaganovich. It's been two months since I was elected to the Organizational Bureau, but the affairs of the People's Commissariat of Defense are too busy. At the last meeting of the Organizational Bureau, I was in Kharkov to inspect the production of tanks, so I was not able to attend the last meeting. ”

"Volodya, if the comrades in the People's Commissariat of the Railway Work as hard as you do and run for the country, then there will be no delays in our railway system." Kaganovic has been suffering from a train delay these days.

Before the war, Kaganovich was able to use "Stalinist" (high-pressure, brutal) methods to punish incompetent railway cadres, forcing the cadres of the railway system to do their jobs well and try to control the delay of trains.

However, the problem of the railway system cannot be solved by shooting a few cadres, because it is not a question of whether the cadres are competent or not, but a problem of the entire railway system and management mechanism.

The railway system of the Soviet Union not only did not have a good management mechanism and management personnel, but also lacked sufficient hardware support. These hardware are matched. Even if there are not enough trains, there is also a lack of adequate radio stations.

As a result, while the train is moving, the conductor cannot contact the train station and adjust the speed of the train according to the situation, and the arrival time will inevitably deviate from the expectation.

Moreover, if there are many trains in the same section, without a complete radio communication system, the management personnel will not be able to effectively direct the traffic, and the chances of accidents will be greater. In the final analysis, it is a question of hardware, supporting and management mechanisms.

"Comrade Kaganovich, I just did my duty, and it is my duty and obligation to serve my country." The problem of train delays is a long story, and the discussion can go on for a long time, and the interesting Manturov knows that train delays are not a topic of discussion at the meeting of the Organizing Bureau, so it is not convenient for him to continue the topic at this time.

"Comrades, before the meeting begins, I would like to announce an appointment." Before Stalin could finish speaking, all eyes in the audience turned to a young man in a general's uniform.

Obviously, this appointment is related to the young man in military uniform, and it seems that the central government has decided to put Manturov in charge......