"The Southern Front?" Stalin frowned, carefully, reading the anonymous letter in his hand. www.biquge.info The more he looked down, the tighter his brows wrinkled, and the more ugly his face became.

"Smack!" Stalin stood up and slapped the table with great force, and the anonymous letter floated out of his hand and to Manturov.

"Comrade Manturov, as soon as you go back, you will immediately launch an investigation into the Southern Front and prepare a report summarizing the reasons for the deterioration of military discipline in the Southern Front, as well as the shortcomings of the political workers in carrying out political and propaganda work, and listing all those who need to be held responsible for these things."

The military discipline of the Soviet Red Army did not find anything wrong in peacetime, and there was nothing unusual in recovering the lost territory of the Soviet Union, but after entering the enemy's territory, their ferocious and barbaric side would be revealed.

The military discipline of the Russian army, since the time of Tsarist Russia, has not been very good. Especially when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, the Russian soldiers burned, killed and looted in China, and the military discipline was the worst in the Eight-Nation Alliance. It can be seen that the Russian army has corrupted military discipline and is brutal in nature.

Even in the Soviet era, the performance of the Soviet Red Army in World War II after entering the enemy country was very poor, and it was no different from the Tsarist army.

Historically, the Soviet Red Army, after entering the territory of Germany, launched a large-scale retaliation against the German population. Some villages and towns in eastern Germany were deliberately destroyed by the Soviet Red Army, and many German people's property, including some watches, clothes, shoes, etc., was robbed by the Soviet Red Army; The matter of the Soviet army's ** German woman is even more common.

The crimes committed by the Soviet army in Germany may have been motivated by the mentality of revenge against the German fascists, but after the Soviet army drove out the Japanese troops in northeast China during Operation August Storm, they still committed one crime after another in northeast China.

When the Soviet troops entered northeastern China, military discipline was very corrupt, and the indulgence of officers and men was very obvious. Some Soviet troops looted and brutalized the defeated Japanese, and at the same time harassed the civilians of the allies in China, and there were also typical cases of the murder of Zhang Xinfu, an official of the Nationalist government, and Lu Dongsheng, a general of the Chinese Communist Party.

The robbery and rape of women carried out by the Soviet Red Army in northeastern China caused serious panic among the locals and caused extremely bad effects, and many people who witnessed these events, even after decades, still remember these events vividly.

To change the discipline of the Soviet Red Army, Manturov's strength alone was not enough. Even if Manturov had the support of Stalin and enough power, I am afraid that there would be no way to solve this problem.

After all, man is an animal of desire, even if it is a disciplined unit like the German army, there is no shortage of burning, killing and looting, and there are more statistics showing that there were more than 600,000 children in the German-occupied areas during World War II (yes, children!). Not to mention that the military discipline of the Soviet army is not as strict as that of the German army, and the Russians and Central Asians are brutal by nature, and it is naturally difficult to stop the plunder.

As a time-traveler with a bit of research on Soviet history, Manturov certainly had heard of the military discipline of the Soviet Red Army.

Therefore, before the start of the Iasi-Chisinau offensive (the offensive against Romania), Manturov, in the name of Deputy People's Commissar of Defense and head of the General Political Department of the Red Army, gave relevant instructions to the side of the Southwestern Front.

He demanded that the military and political workers in the southwest do a good job in political work, and that the political workers, commanders at all levels, and personnel stationed in the army of the Ministry of Internal Affairs use their powers and influence to use their own methods to admonish, exhort, or warn the soldiers around them not to commit any act that violates military discipline and to prohibit burning, killing, and looting.

The Military Council and the Political Department of the South-Western Front, having received Manturov's instructions, carried out a great deal of political work on all units in accordance with his orders, and the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, political workers and commanders of all levels of the garrison intensified supervision and propaganda of the soldiers.

These political efforts, after the Southwestern Front's advance into Romanian territory, proved to be effective. The Southwestern Front, which had undergone a lot of propaganda, did not commit anything on Romanian territory under the strict supervision of political workers and personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, coupled with the effect of the "herd effect".

However, the Southern Front, which was also involved in the offensive, did not receive instructions from Manturov, did not notice this in terms of political work, and did not expect that the soldiers of the Soviet Red Army would do such a thing as ** captivity.

Therefore, after the Southern Front invaded the territory of Romania, there were some cases of captivity by the Soviet Red Army. Although the scale was not large, and the situation was not serious, it was quickly reported and attracted the attention of the above (especially Manturov).

Since Manturov knew about the problem of the corruption of military discipline in the Soviet army, why did he inform only the Southwestern Front and not the Southern Front? Did he forget? No, he didn't forget, he deliberately didn't inform the side of the Southern Front.

The anonymous letter, which Manturov had asked a member of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the garrison to write through Yakov on the basis of the information he had, was completely true and did not contain any falsehoods.

"Comrade Manturov, this is the information you want, there is a list of political workers at all levels of the Southern Front, as well as the resumes of the chief and deputy directors of the Political Department of the Southern Front, see if there are any problems."

As soon as he returned to the office of the People's Commissariat of Defense, Manturov asked his assistant Maxim to prepare some materials about the military and political workers of the South Front.

As soon as he got the information, he saw a very familiar name - Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev.

Brezhnev? Who are they? Those who know a lot about the history of the Soviet Union believe that they all have some understanding of this person. According to the development of history, in 1964 he would become the first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and become the supreme leader of the Soviet Union.

It has to be said that Brezhnev was an uneducated and intellectually poor man, who did not seek to understand many things, and his performance in any position was very mediocre, and he often prevaricated the questions raised by the other party with such words as "we will study and study" and "we will consider and consider". As long as he didn't have a script, he couldn't even say a complete sentence.

But his luck was so good that this mediocre Ukrainian was able to become the secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Party Committee in charge of defense affairs, and then gradually rose through the ranks, and finally became the supreme leader of the Soviet Union.

After he became general secretary of the CPSU Central Committee, although the military power of the Soviet Union developed and became stronger, economic development began to stagnate, and social order began to regress.

In addition, during the Brezhnev era, the Soviet bureaucracy also began to corrupt, and the situation of corruption and nepotism became more and more serious. This is due to the fact that Brezhnev, as the supreme leader of the country, was himself a corrupt element.

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