On July 22, 1942, the Northern Front of the Soviet Workers' and Peasants' Red Army concentrated more than 60 divisions and more than 900,000 troops and began to launch an attack on Finland on all fronts. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

According to the operational plan of the Soviet High Command and the General Staff, the 14th Army of the Northern Front would act as the main force of the offensive, launching an offensive from the Murmansk region of the Soviet Union to the northeastern region of Finland, with the intention of occupying northern Finland, advancing to the Gulf of Bothnia (part of the Baltic Sea), and then moving south along the Baltic coastline.

The Soviet Seventh Army and the 55th Army were to take on the other main offensive force, attacking from the Karelia region towards the Finnish mainland, with the goal of breaking through the Mannerheim Line and capturing Vyborg, and then advancing west along the Gulf of Finland coast towards Helsinki.

It was still summer, and the temperature in Helsinki, the capital of Finland, was still around 14-22 degrees Celsius. Even in the cities of Oulu and Rovaniemi in northern Finland, the maximum temperature reaches 20 degrees Celsius, and the minimum temperature does not fall below 10 degrees.

Under such circumstances, it was difficult for the Finnish army, which was adept at winter snow warfare, to gain an advantage in snow warfare as it did in the Soviet-Finnish war in 1940, and some Red Army soldiers from the warm regions of the south did not have to worry about frostbite and freezing to death, eliminating the unfavorable weather factors.

For this war, the Soviet Red Army had long been fully prepared. As early as the last Soviet-Finnish war, the Soviet army had already figured out the terrain of the Finnish border area, and also drew a map of the location of the Finnish army's hidden forts and fortifications.

In reality, however, the Finnish fortifications were limited in their defensive role.

Because most of the fortifications deployed on the Soviet-Finnish border had already been destroyed by Soviet artillery fire during the Soviet-Finnish war, and after the Finnish army reoccupied these areas in 1941, due to insufficient financial resources and resources, these fortifications have not been effectively repaired, and most of the fortifications are still in a relatively dilapidated state, and it is difficult to stop the rolling Soviet Red Army.

"Yuri Vladimirovich Andropov?" When Manturov saw this name, his heart also trembled, he did not expect that this former subordinate, the "future" general secretary of the CPSU, would actually become the political commissar of the 7th Army and participate in the attack on Finland.

In 1938, when Manturov was appointed first secretary of the Novosibirsk regional committee, he transferred Andropov, who was still the secretary of the regional Communist Youth League committee in the Yaroslavl region, to Novosibirsk as the first secretary of the Novosibirsk regional Communist Youth League, and later brought him into the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and soon transferred to the deputy director of the Tashkent regional bureau.

In 1940, probably because of his Finnish roots (Andropov's maternal grandfather was Finnish), Andropov was suddenly transferred to the post of second secretary of the party committee of the Karelian-Finnish SSR.

Andropov's fate was no different from that of the same period in history, as he also participated in the Great Patriotic War and worked in the Karelia-Finnish Republic.

Although the place of work is the same, the job title is clearly different. In Manturov's world, Andropov had already become the second secretary of the Karelia-Finnish Party Committee and the military commissar of the 7th Army, while in history he was only the secretary of the Komsomol Committee of the Karelian-Finnish Republic and the leader of a partisan army.

Andropov is now the second secretary of a union republic, and his status is much higher than that of the same period in history, and his status in the party is not low at all.

But the gold content of the secretary of the party committee of the Karelia-Finnish republic is too low, and the position of the second-in-command of such a chicken region in the party is not as good as that of the second secretary of the Kiev regional party committee of Ukraine.

In such a situation, it is still a little difficult for Andropov to achieve further promotion, and judging from his current status, it is already very good to be a director of the Central Committee of the CPSU, even if he is transferred to a Siberian region as the second secretary of the state party committee, it will be regarded as a good promotion.

As a time-traveler from the 21st century, Manturov certainly knows what kind of person Andropov is.

If history were to follow, Andropov would have become the top leader of the CPSU in 1982. During his administration, the Soviet Union carried out a series of successful reforms, vigorously cracked down on corruption, improved the industrial and agricultural economy, and improved the quality of life of the people to a certain extent.

His low-key style, coupled with the success of his reforms, has won him the praise of the people of the present and future generations, and he is one of the best-rated leaders in the history of the Soviet Union.

The positive evaluation in history gave Manturov a good impression of Andropov in his heart. He knew that Andropov would become the chairman of the KGB in history, and he had a good performance in this position.

So when he was in Novosibirsk, he brought Andropov into the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, hoping to train him in advance to become the future chairman of the KGB and play a personal role as soon as possible.

However, Andropov was too young, he worked in the Komsomol organization for many years, but he had no experience in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, so he was still a little uncomfortable, and finally he was briefly transferred back to work in the Komsomol organization, and was subsequently elected second secretary of the Karelia-Finnish Soviet Socialist Republic, becoming the second in command of a union republic.

Manturov's impression of Andropov is indeed good, although he is young, he has a relatively high learning ability, a good memory, and also has a passion for contributing to the country and the people.

It's just that Andropov is still a little younger, his work experience is not rich, and he has not done anything that can be regarded as dazzling achievements in different positions, which poses a big obstacle to his further promotion.

As the head of the Organization Department of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Manturov also wanted to promote Andropov as a "potential man", but there are not many positions left for Andropov, and these positions are not of great importance, so it is difficult to have any positive impact on his political career.

If the Soviet army can take Finland and incorporate Finland into the territory of the Soviet Union, so that Finland becomes a member state of the Soviet Union, Andropov will have the opportunity to be promoted to the second or even the first leader of the Finnish republics, and the gold content will be much higher, which will be of decisive significance for his own growth.

But the relationship between Andropov and Manturov is not warm, what if Andropov rises to the top and appears in front of Manturov as a "political enemy"? Manturov wouldn't do such a stupid thing to dig a hole for himself.