"After investigation, it was found that in all units of the Southern Front, soldiers and officers of all branches of the armed forces had violated discipline to varying degrees. Pen~Fun~Ge www.biquge.info these disciplinary violations, including snatching people's property, harassing local residents, and ** local women, etc.

These acts have not only brought a certain amount of damage to the Romanian people and damaged the lives and property of the local people, but have also dealt a certain blow to the image of our army, which is not conducive to our work in the occupied areas and makes it difficult to win the support of the local people.

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Manturov "truthfully" reported to Stalin on the issue of military discipline in the Southern Front. Although these problems will be prevalent in the "future of history", to the point that they are almost unmanageable and uncontrollable, this does not mean that Manturov will let them go.

Besides, Manturov's handling of the issue of military discipline this time was not purely for the purpose of rectifying the military discipline of the Soviet Red Army, but for the purpose of using this incident to rectify some people.

Although the whole incident is the responsibility of the soldiers of the Southern Front and officers and political workers at all levels, the occurrence of this incident actually has something to do with Manturov.

Just before the offensive was launched, Manturov had instructed the Southwestern Front to strengthen propaganda and supervision, and to ask the political functionaries and personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs to do a good job in political work, use their authority and influence, and use their own methods to advise, exhort, or warn the soldiers around them not to commit any violation of military discipline and to prohibit burning, killing, and looting.

After receiving Manturov's instructions, the political workers of the Southwestern Front began to carry out a great deal of political work on various units of the Southwestern Front, and the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, political workers, and commanders at all levels of the garrison all strengthened supervision and propaganda over the soldiers.

These political efforts, after the Southwestern Front's advance into Romanian territory, proved to be effective.

After a lot of propaganda, under the strict supervision of the political workers and the personnel of the Ministry of the Interior, coupled with the role played by the "herd effect", the soldiers of the Southwestern Front did not commit anything in Romania, and the number of cases of burning, killing and looting was much lower than that of the Southern Front, and the average severity of the cases was much lower.

However, Manturov did not give too many instructions to the Southern Front on the issue of paying attention to military discipline, still less did he ask the Southern Front to carry out political work, nor did he specifically ask the soldiers to treat the civilians in the occupied areas well, still less strongly demanded that the personnel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and political workers of the garrison carry out focused supervision of the soldiers after entering Romania, and did not ask them to take any action against the soldiers who had committed disciplinary violations.

As a result, after entering the territory of Romania, Soviet soldiers harassed the local population, looted people's supplies, and even ** women.

Although the performance of the Southern Front in Romania was not too bad compared to the situation in history after the Soviet Union entered Germany and Northeast China, it was much more serious compared to the Southwestern Front in the same period.

The reason why Manturov did not give instructions to the Southern Front on improving military discipline was because he wanted to take advantage of this incident to make some fuss and take the opportunity to get rid of some people, which would not only achieve the effect of establishing a prestige, but also cut off Brezhnev's chance of becoming the supreme leader.

In addition to the whole person, the reason why Manturov did this was also to avoid the two fronts being punished for this incident at the same time. If he sends a note to both fronts at the same time, both sides have done corresponding work in response to the soldiers' desire for "***** additional supplies", and then the situation of both fronts can be improved.

When the military discipline of the two fronts is improved, the situation of violating military discipline will naturally be similar. In the unlikely event that both fronts are found to have violated military discipline to a similar degree, then it will probably not only be the Southern Front that will be punished, but the Southwestern Front will also be involved.

Of course, whether there will be someone above to take care of the issue of military discipline is another matter. Historically, at least, there were not many constraints on the discipline of the Soviet Red Army, as well as the burning, killing, and looting of the Soviet army in the occupied areas.

In 1945, when the Soviet Red Army entered Northeast China, some soldiers who had "experienced a hundred battles" in the European occupation zone brought their "experience" of captivity to Northeast China.

In Manturov's view, these misdeeds of the Soviet Red Army in captivity were gradually cultivated from the beginning of the war. If you don't care about it at first, after the soldiers slowly develop habits, they can't manage it if they want to.

Manturov is not unclear about the truth that "the country is easy to change, but the nature is difficult to change", but he also knows the truth of "habitual nature", if you don't change it now, if you have to change it then, it will be too late.

But how to change the situation of the deterioration of military discipline in the Soviet army? In Manturov's view, it is certainly not enough to strengthen political and propaganda work just to be soft, after all, among the millions of Soviet Red Army, there are many people who are afraid of hard and soft, and the number will not be small.

In order to effectively solve the problem, it is necessary to use both soft and hard measures; while carrying out political propaganda work, it is also necessary to strengthen supervision, and at the same time, it is necessary to set up a single number of people to make sure that the soldiers and officers know the consequences of violating military discipline.

Otherwise, no matter how hard the political propaganda work is carried out, it is useless, and there will always be some sperm worms who have their brains and those who see the money and their eyes will defy the law.

"Did the troops of the Southern Front report these situations?" After listening to Manturov's report, Stalin immediately fell into deep thought. It stands to reason that violations of military discipline in the troops below should be dealt with in a timely manner and reported to the Ministry of Defense, but up to now Stalin has not received any relevant information from the Front.

"Not really." Manturov handed over several political reports submitted by the Political Department of the Southern Front, saying: "In the last few political reports submitted by the Southern Front, there is not a single mention of any issue of military discipline, only some heroic deeds of the troops in battle, and the progress of arranging for servicemen to join the party and handling the daily work of taking office. ”

After reading the report, Stalin's face became even more ugly, and what Manturov wanted, such a result.