In the afternoon, more than 2,800 kilometers away in Novosibirsk. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Comrade Manturov, this is a telegram from the Kremlin."

As soon as he heard about the Kremlin, Manturov knew who sent it. "Anna, may I ask if this is from Comrade Stalin?"

"Yes. See for yourself. ”

Manturov took the message, read it carefully, and saw that something was wrong.

The message reads: "Comrade Manturov, please come to the Kremlin as soon as possible - Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin"

"A trip to the Kremlin? What do you mean? Manturov asked to himself.

Anna thought Manturov was asking her a question, so she replied: "What do you mean?" Comrade Stalin wants to see you. ”

Manturov came back to his senses and responded: "Why did he want to see me? Why are you calling me? ”

"Is that still a question? As soon as Comrade Kaganovich left, Comrade Stalin called you to the Kremlin, and probably Comrade Kaganovich praised you in front of Comrade Stalin, and he was very satisfied with it, so he summoned you to commend you. ”

"Commendation? He just sent a congratulatory telegram to come, can I go there in person? ”

Anna shook her beautiful leg and said, "I don't know about that." Probably he ...... I'm going to move you to the center. ”

"Go ahead, I'll leave tomorrow. During my trip to Moscow, the work of the state was entrusted to Comrade Chernenko, the second secretary of the state party committee, and you stayed to help him. ”

"Don't I have to go?"

"The leader wants to see me, not you. You just stay and help Comrade Chernenko, don't think about desertion. ”

"Alright then, I'm busy."

Contrary to Anna, Manturov was not optimistic about the summons.

He felt that the reason why Stalin did not give the reason in the telegram was because he wanted to hide the real purpose of the summons.

Why hide? Because he was afraid that Manturov would abscond abroad after knowing the real reason, and did not dare to come.

Why did you abscond? Manturov always felt that Stalin's real purpose was to purge himself.

Of course, this is not the case, and Manturov does not think it will be so. But he always has a bad habit of being a human being, and he always plans for the worst before something happens.

As a cadre under Stalin, he had no reason not to go at all. And according to an objective assessment of the situation, Stalin should have no intention of purging him.

Why? First, his political achievements are not bad, and Stalin may not have purged such a talent, which is too wasteful.

Second, if Stalin really had any intention of purging him, then he would have made a phone call or sent a telegram directly to the Novosibirsk Oblast Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and there was no need for such trouble as a young man.

After much thought, Manturov came up with a fairly close answer. He felt that Stalin had summoned him to learn information about the Ehe case from him.

In the morning, Manturov had already learned from Pravda that Yezhov had been arrested, and that Ekh, the former secretary of the Novosibirsk regional party committee, was actually a member of Yezhov's clique.

Of course, this is only one of the purposes of the summons. To find out the ins and outs of the Ekh case, Stalin could just call him or send a telegram, and there was no need to summon Manturov to him.

As soon as Anna walked out of the office, she was called back by Manturov.

"Anna, I forgot to tell you something."

"What's the matter?"

"Buy me two train tickets to Moscow at eight o'clock tonight."

"Two? Who else will accompany you? Anna asked curiously.

"You can just buy it, don't talk so much nonsense!"

As soon as Anna left, Manturov peeked outside, and when he saw that there was no one outside, he called Katia.

"Is it Katyusha?"

The woman on the phone replied in a gentle, feminine tone, "It's me." Do you have any work to give me? Or tell me something personal? ”

"Private matters."

However, Katia doesn't like to talk about personal matters during work hours, which he thinks will affect his work, "Private matters? We'll talk after work. Don't disturb my work. ”

Manturov hurriedly added, "It's an urgent matter!" ”

"What urgency? You're not going to ask me out for afternoon tea, are you? ”

"No, it's more urgent than that!"

Katia shook her long, snow-white, smooth legs as she said, "What's the matter?" Let's hear it. ”

"Get off work early tonight and go home and pack your bags. I bought a train ticket to Moscow at eight o'clock in the evening. ”

"What? What are you going to Moscow for? What's the business? ”

"Comrade Stalin told me to go to the Kremlin."

"Oh, did he call me?" Katia asked.

"Nope."

Actually, Katia knew the other party's intentions, but she still deliberately asked, "Then why should I go?" ”

"Since I went to Moscow, I can't help but go without my father-in-law, Comrade Voroshilov. Besides, you've been in Novosibirsk for months, and you can't help but go home. ”

"At the end of the day, you still want to find a woman to accompany you around Moscow."

"Yes, so what? If you don't agree, I'll ask a second woman to accompany me. Don't go back then. Manturov deliberately teased.

"You dare?"

"So are you going or not going?"

Of course, Katia didn't dare not agree, otherwise what if Manturov really found a second woman? "Go. Tonight at half past seven, Novosibirsk train station, etc. ”

"Okay. Momda. ”

"Mo-da-da."

At this time, the first secretary of the state Komsomol Yuri Andropov walked into Katya's office. He snatched the phone with one hand, and then said to Katya: "Comrade Voroshilova, who are you talking to on the phone?" ”

"My husband."

"It's time for work, who told you to talk about personal matters on the phone?"

No way, Yuri Andropov is like that. This person has very strict requirements for others and himself. It was this strict and serious attitude that made him the best rated Soviet leader in our outstretched world.

"It's business." Katia replied aggrievedly.

"Really? Is there such a thing as business? Don't think I can't hear you just now. ”

"Ask him yourself."

"Okay."

Yuri picked up the phone and said to the person on the phone: "This comrade, do you have any business to discuss with Comrade Voroshilova?" ”

Manturov crossed his legs, held the phone and asked, "Are you Comrade Yuri Andropov?" ”

"Yes, who are you?"

"I am the first secretary of the Novosibirsk regional party committee, Viladimo Fedorovich Manturov. I just had some business to discuss with Katya. ”

"What's the matter? Why did you ask her to go to the train station? Yuri Andropov asked uninterestingly.

"That's right, Comrade Stalin told me to go to the Kremlin. I wanted to take Katia with me and let her go to meet Stalin as well. ”

"Oh, I see. I blamed her just now. Oh, by the way, Katia said that the person on the phone was her husband, are you really her husband? ”

"Don't you know? We have been married for four months. ”

Although Andropov was strict with others, the person on the phone was his boss and the most powerful person in the state. Although he objected to Manturov's forcible removal of Katya, he did not dare to express his opposition at all, after all, he was above him.

"I'm sorry, Comrade Manturov, but I never ask about the private life of cadres, so I don't know about the relationship between the two of you."

"It doesn't matter, just do your job. Private life doesn't need to be taken care of at all. ”

"Okay, I'll give Katia the phone. You talk slowly, I'm busy. ”

"Пока (Bye-bye)"

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