At twelve o'clock in the afternoon, the First Deputy Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR and Minister of Foreign Affairs Molotov, addressed the people of the whole country, bringing the situation of the war to the people of the whole country. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

"Citizens of the Soviet Union, men and women!

At four o'clock this morning, without any prior demands on the Soviet Union and without a declaration of war, the German forces began to attack our country, attacking many places on our borders and bombing Tomyr, Kiev, Sevastopol, Kaunas and other cities close to the western border with aircraft, resulting in more than 200 casualties.

In addition to air strikes, the enemy inflicted air strikes and artillery strikes on our country from Romanian and Finnish directions, the losses caused are incalculable, and the war has broken out!

The German attack on our country was unprecedented. There is no precedent for such perfidy in the history of any civilization or people......"

Manturov sat at the radio, handling the clutter in his hands while listening to Molotov's speech. At this moment, his mood is more complicated than anyone else's, because he is the only one who predicted the occurrence of this war in advance, but he could not prevent it, and what was going to come would eventually come.

"Now, at the moment of the attack on the USSR, the Soviet government has ordered our troops to strike back and drive the German fascist troops from the territory of our homeland.

It was not the German people, not the German workers, peasants and intellectuals who imposed this war on us, and we knew their plight very well.

It was the most brutal group of fascist traitors in Germany who imposed the war on us! They have turned the French, Czechs, Poles, Serbs, Norwegians, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands, Greece and other peoples into slaves!

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The Soviet Government is convinced that all the inhabitants, all workers, peasants and intellectuals, men and women of our country, will treat their duties and their labor with due consciousness!

Now more than ever, all of us should be united and united! In order to ensure all the needs of the Red Army and the Red Navy, and to ensure the victory over the enemy, each and every one of us should demand that we and others have the discipline, organization, and dedication that a true patriot should have!

The Government calls on you, the men and women of the Soviet Union, to rally more closely around our glorious Bolshevik Party, around our Soviet Government, around our great leader Stalin!

Our cause is just, the enemy will definitely be defeated by us, and victory will be ours! Ulla! ”

As soon as Molotov finished speaking, bad news came from the front line of the battlefield, another division was surrounded, and another city was attacked by air strikes, and the situation was terrible.

In order to facilitate command, the Soviet Army established a supreme high command and reorganized the Baltic Coast Special Military District, the Western Special Military District, and the Kiev Special Military District into the Northwestern Front, the Western Front, and the Southwestern Front.

In addition, the mobilization of persons born between 1905 and 1918 who were subject to military service and the order for the imposition of military control in the European part of the Soviet Union were adopted by the Supreme Soviet.

All military districts in the country, with the exception of the Central Asian, Transbaikal and Far Eastern Military Districts, must mobilize men between the ages of 23 and 36 who are obliged to serve in the military to replenish the ranks on the battlefield.

In areas under military control, all functions of the organs of state power in the areas of national defense, the maintenance of social order, and the guarantee of national security are to be placed in the hands of the military authorities. The military authorities have the right to deploy the population and all means of transport to complete defence works and to defend the most important military and economic objectives. That is, the USSR has entered a state of wartime.

"Bell bell bell! Bell bell bell! "In the office of the Minister of Construction, a rapid telephone rang. Manturov, who was sitting next to the phone, did not hesitate to pick up the phone.

As soon as Manturov picked up the phone, the person on the phone could not wait to say: "Comrade Manturov, I am Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin, please come to the Kremlin for a visit, I have something very important to talk to you about." ”

"Yes! I'll be right over! Manturov judged from Stalin's tone that the matter he had discussed with him this time must have been very important and urgent. Not a minute or a second can be delayed. In order not to delay this urgent matter, he decided to put down his work and immediately rushed to the Kremlin.

In addition to Manturov, there were also Manturov's former comrades-in-arms, the current Chief of the General Staff of the Soviet Army, General Georgy Zhukov, who were summoned by Stalin at the same time, of course, for the same thing.

When the two arrived, Stalin was frowning, sitting at a large table made of African ebony, holding a large pipe full of tobacco in his hand.

As soon as the two walked in, Stalin immediately explained the purpose of this summons, without a moment's delay, "Comrade Zhukov, Comrade Manturov, the commanders of our various armies lack sufficient experience in operational command, and it seems that they are a little panicked.

The Politburo decided to send Comrade Zhukov to the Southwestern Front as a representative of the High Command. It was also prepared to send Shaposhnikov and Kulik to the Western Front. The two of them have come to me to receive instructions.

And Comrade Manturov, I know that you still have a lot of work to deal with, but so far you are the only political worker with experience in successful operational command. So, you have to fly to Kyiv with Georgy and go with Khrushchev to the headquarters of the Front, in Ternopil, where you will serve as military commissar of the South-Western Front. ”

Zhukov asked him: "In such a complicated situation as now, who will lead the General Staff?"

"Let Comrade Vatutin lead for the time being"

Manturov had a similar problem, if he left, who would lead the dozen or so industrial and construction departments of the Soviet Union? Before he could get the question out, Stalin gave him an answer: "Comrade Manturov, your work on the construction of the People's Commissariat will be entrusted to your deputies Eugene and Sokolov."

As for the leadership of the industrial sector, the Politburo decided to temporarily hand over the leadership to Comrade Voznesensky. He was a brilliant economist, a brilliant leader. During this period, you remained the Vice-Chairman of the People's Commissariat (equivalent to the Vice Premier of the State Council).

Hurry up and get to the airport right away, and the plane will take off in an hour! ”

Manturov thought of some questions, "Can the plane take off later?" I also need to go home and pack my bags. ”

At this time, Stalin's face was flushed, and he added impatiently: "You don't have to bring anything, whatever you need will be arranged at that time, just go over." ”

Somehow, Manturov saw something unusual in Stalin's eyes. He always felt that the reason why he was transferred to the Southwest Front Army was not because he had command experience, but because he had done something bad a year ago.

Stalin's sending Manturov to the front was most likely a ploy to divert the tiger from the mountain. When Manturov is gone, his power in Moscow will also be hollowed out, and the people in the Ministry of Internal Affairs will be able to investigate Manturov without any scruples.

? (To be continued.) )