Chapter 131: A Gaze Under the Snow

The question of ethnography was put aside for the time being, and in the afternoon he went to the Kremlin to report to Stalin, together with several members of the State Defense Committee, the details of the troop movements that would take part in the Northern War. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoWith Stalin signing his name on the paper, countless trains will be sent from all over Siberia to the Leningrad Military District, and these trains will be taken against the "Siberian wolves" who have been training for more than a whole year!

Lin Jun was busy like an ant on a hot pot, as the "overseer" and the chief of general logistics in the real sense of the war participating troops, a large number of official documents had to pass through his temporary joint office in the equipment department, not only involving the specific deployment of the troops, but even the distribution of each batch of canned food and warm clothes had to go through here, and all documents had to be signed by Lin Jun before they could be issued and implemented after being drawn up by the head of the competent department.

The cramps in his signed hand can well describe Lin Jun's current state, the only thing that can comfort him is that the new General Logistics Department is about to be completed, and the huge "temporary joint office" outside will be its foundation, of course the minister will not be him, Lin Jun can't do such a difficult job: he can't stand it for a few days, and the Central Committee will let a comrade with super-first-class coordination ability take up this position, and this time it will be considered a training for the operation of the General Logistics Department!

On September 7, Lin Jun's office was greeted by an apparently unexpected guest, also a comrade named Andrei, but people were more accustomed to being called Comrade Zhdanov.

It was the first time that Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov had visited Lin Jun's office in the armament department, and it was natural that this comrade who was also the head of the Central Propaganda and Agitation Department, who was currently in the process of reorganizing the Central Propaganda and Agitation Department, should be as busy as he was at the moment, and should turn the Propaganda and Agitation Department from a propaganda and education organization specializing in internal propaganda and education into a department that grasps both internal and external affairs.

"Is it because the workload is too busy to come to me to protest?"

When Lin Jun heard the news that Zhdanov was coming to visit his house, he thought with ill intentions: It was his opinion to establish a propaganda department specifically for the enemy and potential enemies, and the specific task of the Central Committee naturally assigned it to the Central Propaganda and Agitation Department to be responsible. Although many of his new suggestions are good in terms of actual results, they often make comrades anxious, and if it weren't for his identity, the threshold of the office would have been stepped on by the crowd of protesters a long time ago!

"Is there a threshold for my office? I don't think so. ”

So Lin Jun didn't have to worry about the momentary dissatisfaction of his comrades, but this time it was different, Comrade Andrei Alexandrovich Zhdanov was definitely one of the few people who dared to come to his office to "protest", and Lin Jun had to listen honestly -- not to mention Zhdanov's title of a member of the committee, as a member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Lin Jun had to happily welcome the visit of the secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Brazzaville.

After Danov expressed his intention that day, Lin Jun was a little crying and laughing: It turned out that the comrade of the Propaganda and Agitation Department heard about his summoning of Vasily Solovyov Sedoy and the summoning of musicians, and was very interested in Lin Jun's idea of holding that concert, so he specially went to the Equipment Department to discuss whether the Propaganda and Agitation Department could specifically operate this matter.

"Now he is busy and dizzy, but he is new to discuss literary and artistic issues with himself." Lin Jun was a little dizzy.

People are kind enough to come to him, and Lin Jun has to be warmly welcomed, not to mention that people are in charge of propaganda, of course he can intervene in cultural matters, and Lin Jun himself has no time to ask by himself, Zhdanov just happened to pull a heavyweight strong man, and it is difficult for the propaganda and agitation department to come forward.

But Lin Jun also had concerns: Zhdanov vigorously advocated the socialist realist line he himself envisioned in the literary and artistic circles, and he clearly tried to establish a new philosophy of literary and artistic creation, subverting the traditional cultural model and instead advocating a straightforward, scientific and graphical way of expression, closely linking a symbol with a moral concept. Branding any artistic issue as "politically in charge" even reaches the point of extreme rigidity.

Zhdanov's intentions were obviously good, but they were overdone, and few people would like the art of "configuring" according to the icons, otherwise everything would be rigid. Fortunately, for the concert that Lin Jun wanted to hold this time, Zhdanov was very cooperative and said that he would follow Lin Jun's idea as the leading idea, and the Propaganda and Agitation Department would only do a big job in terms of publicity and coordination.

"Comrade Andrei, when do you think the concert will be held?"

"It's up to you to decide, as far as I know, it will take a while for the new songwriters and singers to practice, and it will be the end of the year soon. As you know, I'm all focused on Finland at the moment, and I'm going to Leningrad in the near future, and I still need you to care about the concert. ”

Lin Jun made it clear that he wanted to give up the decision to Zhdanov, and he didn't have time to take care of it himself.

"What do you think about the event on Comrade Stalin's birthday? If the war in Finland can end before that, the concert will be even more significant. ”

Lin Jun has no opinion: "If the time is the best, but I am not so optimistic about the military operation against Finland, the season has decided that the offensive will not be launched until the end of November, and half a month may not be enough, the Finns are not Poland." ”

Zhdanov was optimistic, apparently agreeing with Voroshinov's opinion: the Finns would be finished in half a month.

It's good to have a concert as a birthday present to Stalin and a gift for victory in the war, but you also need to have that ability, and the Finns don't make tofu, and everything is likely to become a black joke when it's timed.

、、、、、、

The hands of time kept turning clockwise, and the preparations for the war in Finland proceeded step by step, and finally, at the suggestion of Lin Jun, the Red Army set November 30 as the final timeline for the offensive, and the time before that belonged to Molotov.

In September, the People's Assembly of Western Belarus and Western Ukraine proclaimed the establishment of Soviet power and submitted a request to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR for the admission of Western Ukraine and Western Belarus to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.

On October 1, 1939, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a decree on the accession of Western Ukraine to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics and its reunion with the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. On October 2, 1939, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR then adopted the same decree on the accession of Western Belarus to the USSR and its reintegration with the Byelorussian SSR.

At this point, Lin Jun was finally able to resign from the post of "commander-in-chief of the Liberation Army", because with the formal merger of these regions, the "Liberation Army" was successfully concluded.

The end of the march meant the arrival of more onerous work, and it was Zhukov, not Lin Jun, who took on this task: Zhukov would remain in Ukraine for some time, as a direct representative of the Military Council, in coordination with the two military districts in the construction of the defense of the new western border zone.

On October 1, Lin Jun arrived in Kyiv with Kalinin to participate in the celebration of joining the Soviet Union in Kiev and awarded medals to those who had made meritorious contributions to the "Liberation March".

Zhukov finally received the "Golden Star Medal", which was "late" for more than a month (the first time in history Zhukov was awarded the title "Hero of the Soviet Union" was on August 29, 1939. He was honored by Kalinin himself.

After the banquet that night, Lin Jun had a separate conversation with Zhukov.

"I'm going to Leningrad the day after tomorrow, and I'll leave it to you. You must personally supervise the defense construction of the border areas, because what we will face in the future is an unprecedented fierce war, and I am not at ease if others take care of it. If there is any need, discuss it with the two commanders, and if you have any difficulties, come to me. ”

"Rest assured, I will make the fortified area of the border a nightmare for the Germans."

"If the Germans attack first, we will set the area of the first wave of all-out counterattack on the original border, you know this policy, and you can do it boldly in the future."

Lin Jun and Kalinin rushed to Minsk the next day to participate in the same type of celebrations, Kalinin will stay in Minsk for a few more days and will inspect the liberated areas, and Lin Jun will fly to Leningrad on October 3, where the troops to participate in the war against the country are basically in place.

、、、、、

At noon on December 1, in the forests of central Finland, the temperature has risen to minus 12 degrees.

It's only 5 kilometers from the Soviet-Finnish border, and a forest path winds its way deep into the forest, and it's quiet all around. Since the beginning of winter, it has snowed several times, and the ground is covered with a thick layer of needle-like fallen leaves with a thickness of more than 20 centimeters of snow, and several old trees have fallen horizontally in the snow, everything seems so peaceful.

Here, under the snow, two pairs of sharp eyes are quietly observing everything in the forest. (To be continued.) )