Chapter 50: Serov's Dog
Behind the garrison representatives of these General Directorates of Military Administration, Serov spun round and round like a tireless spinning top, which invisibly increased the pressure on these KGB officers, and the vests under the military uniforms were a little wet.
"I remember five months ago, at the year-end meeting, I asked the four clusters if there was a problem, and you told me that there was no problem. I will keep the review until the end of the year, and when you make it to my satisfaction, I should not have seen this review today! Serov, who was walking with his hands behind his back, said slowly, "But if this situation is now, the review will be recorded, and the situation has not improved, which means that you people have limited ability, the KGB is a department that values ability very much, I can only arrange for you to change jobs, and your positions will be replaced by graduates of major universities, and this review will also follow you to your new positions......"
Serov's words were like a sledgehammer hitting the hearts of these people, and the empty conference room was not very hot, but these representatives of the KGB garrison who were struggling to write their books felt hot and dry, as if they were in a big steamer.
After another half an hour, the already hungry people handed over the review to Serov, but as the boss of these people, Serov did not look at even a piece of paper, so naturally there was no way to check whether the review of these people was written profoundly. In this regard, Serov, who has not yet digested the pig's hand, said that the problem is not big, and the meeting will continue.
The basic meaning of the review is that there is a chance to mend oneself, not a written project, and it is impossible to beg for forgiveness by putting one's mind on it, and Serov himself is not good at writing a review, otherwise he would not have sent that self-praise to Shelepin, and asked Lukani to put away all the reviews before saying, "You only have one chance......
"Yes, Director!" The first meeting between the two sides began with a major review, but these people did not dare to be a little dissatisfied, and a review was still very merciful compared to Serov's words about changing jobs at the end of the year.
"The Eighth Guards Army, the First Red Guards Tank Army, the Second Red Banner Guards Tank Army, the Third Red Banner Guards Arms Army, the Twentieth Guards Army, and the Sixteenth Air Army garrison representatives, all stand up for me, and I'll see who they are!" Serov, who had plucked out his ears, looked at a few KGB colonels who stood up, waved his hand to let them sit back, leaned back in his chair and said, "Take back the files of your own troops, I will see the results within a week, and if anyone can't do it now, say ......."
No one responded to his superiors, although he was treated as air, but Serov did not mind, he just assumed that all of them could do it, and continued, "A small number of cases involving the nature of criminal offenses, after ensuring an impartial investigation, are directly transferred to the local Internal Affairs Bureau, tried by the judicial department of the GDR, and the KGB and the Red Army system must not interfere!" But don't record it in the file, the soldiers involved still need to be a new person after serving their sentences and return home, giving them a chance to mend their ways! ”
In all fairness, Serov thinks that he is quite merciful, at least he did not kick these wrongdoers into hell, otherwise it would be recorded in the archives, and it would easily make a person unable to turn over for the rest of his life.
"Director, there is no precedent for handing over soldiers to the country where they are located for trial!" The representative of the KGB garrison of the 1st Red Guards Tank Army reminded softly.
"No, yes, that's from now on! Do you want me to go back to Moscow now and convene a plenary meeting of the Third General Directorate to vote on it? Serov squinted his eyes and said gloomily, "This inventory begins when you return to the station, the motherland has laws, the Red Army has military discipline, and the Red Army is the people's army with a noble mission!" If it is not a colonial army, and other fraternal countries cooperate with the Soviet Union to fulfill their military needs, does it mean that you can take the people of fraternal countries seriously, and if you don't learn from them, you can learn from the US troops stationed in Japan? ”
"Let's go to the cafeteria and eat, I want to see the results in a week!" After Serov finished speaking, he first left the conference room, leaving these cadres of the General Directorate of Military Administration looking at each other, like the first shoots to drill out of the ground in spring, and the solemn atmosphere of the conference room was finally unraveled, and it had to be said that Serov, the head of the General Administration, gave them too much pressure.
"In this way, the commander of the Red Army may be dissatisfied with our ......," said the representative of the garrison of the 16th Air Army helplessly.
"So what to do, if we don't execute, the boss will let us change jobs at the end of the year! In fact, the director of the bureau said a sentence very right, we are the KGB, it should be the Red Army officers who are afraid of us, what are we afraid of? The 20th Guards Army clenched its fists and said, "The boss thought that our work was going well, but I didn't expect the GDR to poke such a big problem!" No one can hide this time, and if any Red Army commander protests, let them find the boss directly......"
Serov, who left the conference room, took several deep breaths in a row before the stagnant breath in his chest was cleared.
"Comrade Serov, the meeting is over!" The commander of the 65 Guards Tank Regiment, Colonel Oleg, seemed to have just returned from somewhere, and there was a noticeable oil stain on his trousers, but apparently he himself did not mind this.
"It's over, Comrade Oleg!" Serov took out a cigarette and lit it for the colonel, "Is it true that even the deepest faith will disappear with it after a long time of comfort?" I really hope that the Red Army will treat the people of the allies as if they were compatriots, as they do at home, and we are not a colonial army! ”
"Yes! There is absolutely no such thing in my troops......" Colonel Oleg said with a kind smile and spit out a smoke ring, "I will go to the cafeteria to eat first, and I will go to the division headquarters in the afternoon!" Watching the colonel, who was the same age as himself, leave, Serov smiled, and with the first feeling that this commander was quite good.
The weather in Berlin in May is very good, which is perfect for outings, and it is also a day when many Germans travel. Although the trauma of World War II has not been completely forgotten, it is not the most profound memory. One has to look forward, and the population of the GDR also accepted the fact that the Soviet troops were stationed.
The representatives of the garrisons who returned to their respective stations immediately convened a meeting of the representatives of their divisions at the next level, and the representatives of the divisions found all the representatives at the regimental level, and the heads of the General Administration were dissatisfied with the work of the KGB in the Western clusters.
"The state has laws, and the Red Army has military discipline! You immediately find out the problems of the combat divisions under you......" These are the words of the representative of the garrison at the level of the group army.
"To make a mistake is to make a mistake, and it is dereliction of duty for us to ignore it, and the boss has ordered that all the friction incidents that have occurred with the German people this year must be investigated clearly, and misunderstandings will be explained, mistakes will be reviewed, and criminals will be handed over to the local Internal Affairs Bureau!" Divisional representatives spat at the KGB at the regimental office.
All of a sudden, all the KGB people in the entire Western cluster were moved, woke up from their dormant state, took the documents they had retrieved from Serov and began to investigate, bypassing the local unit commander and going directly to the door to find someone. The only few cases involving soldiers involved in criminal offenses were directly arrested on the spot and taken to the local German Interior Office.
Groups of people from the Main Directorate of Military Administration moved around the barracks, protesting calls from regiments to divisions, to army groups, and finally to General Matvey Vasilyevich Zakharov, whose agents also had the nickname Serov's dog.