Chapter 52 Low Risk and High Reward

The director of the Third General Directorate of the State Security Committee ordered that the garrison offices of the Third General Directorate of all Soviet Red Army units stationed in Eastern Europe begin to investigate the following problems in the four major clusters as soon as the order was issued, focusing on investigating the relations between the local Red Army garrisons and the residents of the countries where they are located, and investigating the friction between the Red Army and the local population in an impartial manner. It is the responsibility of all the agents of the garrison of the Third General Bureau to put a stop to the corrosive effect of this backward ideology on the Red Army and to correct some unhealthy tendencies in the Red Army. The code name of the inventory operation, the east wind is moving westward. May 13 in Berlin, Head of the Third General Directorate Yuri Efimovich Serov.

After giving the order of the director, Serov sent a backup of the director's order to Moscow by telegram. He told the current chairman of the KGB Serepin about the action, and he was already mentally prepared for this report, and secretly sighed and signed his name on the report.

Earlier, that is, before Sherepin received the telegram, Polish Minister of Internal Affairs Kolzinski and Hungarian Minister of Internal Affairs Lasak had already received Serov's telegram, and the content of the telegram was only glanced at in a hurry, and the content was far less attractive to the two than Serov's signature.

Korzinski and Lassac, respectively, are the ministers of the interior of their country, and they have not met each other. But if there is one thing in common between the two men, it is only three years ago when Poland and Hungary were in turmoil, they cooperated with Serov in their respective posts, and finally allowed Serov to successfully quell the very bad unrest.

With their knowledge of Serov, a meeting was held immediately after receiving the telegram and an order was issued to cooperate with the work of the Third Directorate, and in every respect, this inventory was a good thing for the inhabitants of their two countries. Even if you package it well, it can be a political achievement.

In this way, under Serov's strict orders, this campaign to correct the erroneous thinking of the Red Army quickly spread from the Western cluster in Germany to the entire Soviet Union in Eastern Europe.

The liaison between the advisers of the 11th Division of the 1st Directorate throughout Eastern Europe, the implementation of the special tools of the garrison of the 3rd Directorate, and the support of the national personnel of the local Ministry of the Interior system as the supporting force, the joint efforts of the 3rd Directorate and the 1st Directorate immediately had an invincible effect, and the advisers of the 1st Directorate transferred the files from the local Ministry of the Interior to the garrison agents of the 3rd Directorate, and the agents of the 3rd Directorate immediately searched for the soldiers involved according to the records on the files.

Among the four major clusters, the central cluster is only an empty shelf, the northern cluster and the southern cluster do not have many troops, and the most difficult thing is the western cluster, there are many troops here, and each unit has a glorious history, so Serov's eyes are mainly focused on here. Serov's operation to check the Red Army was unusual from the very beginning, and under the strict orders of the chief, the agents of the 3rd Main Directorate, without the usual laziness, like hungry wolves roaming the steppes in packs, suddenly appeared in the field of vision of ordinary soldiers with great density.

To be honest, ordinary soldiers basically don't see these KGB personnel wearing blue-bordered big-brimmed hats for a year, and many soldiers see such a force in the barracks for the first time.

However, the first time a soldier meets a KGB agent for the first time does not have a good impression, because he soon sees one of his comrades being called away by these KGB personnel in a blue brimmed hat, and given the nature of KGB work, it is difficult for these soldiers to have a good impression of these agents. However, the actions of the Third Directorate were able to win the favor of the local population, especially under the guidance of Lassack and Korzinski, and public opinion in Poland and Hungary was quickly attracted by the actions of the Third Directorate. The Warsaw Youth and the Hungarian Capital newspaper followed up from the start.

"There has always been some friction between the Soviet garrison and the local population of our country, and some of the residents in the vicinity of the garrison are also very troubled. But now the Soviet Union has apparently noticed this problem and has begun to solve such problems! So says the Warsaw Youth.

"As the initiator of this movement, we are no strangers to the current director of the Third General Bureau, three years ago, when Hungary was facing a national confrontation, the then director of the Third General Directorate, Serov, came to Hungary and coordinated our domestic dialogue, so that Hungary did not fall into the danger of ideological split...... "The Hungarian Capital newspaper put the main target on Serov, the initiator of the operation, and accompanied it with a photo of Serov in the uniform of a lieutenant general, and marked, "The youngest lieutenant general in the Soviet Union ......"

At present, the youngest lieutenant general has wasted all his efforts to send away Major General Chuikov, deputy commander of the 79th Guards Tank Division, who came to the back door, and the second lieutenant who drove an armored car to destroy the land of local peasants was the child of Major General Chuikov's brother, who died during the Great Patriotic War. I took great care of this nephew, Major General Chuikov, and this time I just heard that the Third General Bureau had begun to investigate, and there was also my nephew's file, so I hurriedly came to the door.

Facing Serov, who was more than ten years younger than himself, Chuikov still did not dare to slack off, after all, in the eyes of the Red Army, the head of the General Bureau, who had fallen on his hands and did not know how many generals had fallen, had formed a natural fear.

"Children, it's normal to make mistakes, just apologize to that farmer and accompany some symbolic money!" Serov, who is not very old, is serious and Major General Trekov pretending to be the same age here, as for the second lieutenant in his twenties, he immediately became Serov's nephew, you must know that Serov's son is still conceived in Valya's belly, and it is not necessarily a son.

After sending Chuikov away, Serov rubbed his face vigorously before returning to his room, and this time in the eyes of some people he may be dying again, offending a large number of people in vain. But in fact, it is not as serious as the newspapers portray, and it can even be said to be a low-risk and high-reward action, which not only calms the dissatisfaction of some allies with the Soviet Red Army and revives the reputation of the Red Army, but also allows the Red Army to wash away some dirt, killing two birds with one stone! As for the offended, it may be a problem in the eyes of ordinary people, but in the eyes of Serov, how can the ordinary soldiers who were dealt with be compared with the group of high-ranking generals a year ago.

It was precisely because the ordinary soldiers who were dealt with had problems, and Serov did not use the knife against the officer class, that the commanders of the four clusters kept silent and let Serov play as he pleased. What a ruthless director of the General Bureau, what a ruthless style, were blown out by the newspapers, at least in this operation.