First secretary of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara (equivalent to a state) under the Georgian SSR of the USSR and ******** of Batumi, named Yefimov. Petrovich. Serov.

He was actually an old acquaintance of Hersmann, who worked for a while as a groom for the pseudonym "Antonov" after the August Revolution in Russia, and was later assigned by the organization to work for the Russian-German Economic Promotion Company. Later, he was sent to Batumi, on the shore of the Black Sea, to participate in the construction of the oil city, and is now the first secretary of the Autonomous Republic of Adjara and ******** Batumi.

For an old comrade who had joined the Bolshevik Party before the February Revolution and had not been arrested by the NKVD, now he had only reached the level of secretary of the state party committee of the union republic, and his official fortune was really not good. However, he is very satisfied with the current situation, a "state party secretary" is not enough compared to the above, but it is still very much more than the bottom...... Many of his contemporaries who participated in the revolution are now mostly ruined, but he is living happily with his beloved wife and son, or the Tsar of the rich land of the Adjara Autonomous Republic, what is there not to be satisfied with?

Consider that a few years ago, when Comrade Beria was the first secretary of the Georgian Bolshevik Party, 425 of the 664 deputies of the Georgian Party Congress were arrested, and here in Georgia the old Bolsheviks, who were Serov's contemporaries, were almost swept away! And Serov was always ready to be arrested in those days, and asked his wife Yelena to reluctantly "say goodbye" every day, which was a rare beauty, and when he thought that she might also spend the rest of her life in a labor camp in Siberia or elsewhere, Serov felt very sorry for this wife, who was nearly 15 years younger than him......

Serov, of course, did not feel innocent. He is really guilty, and he is sorry for the party and the people. When he was working in the foreign trade system, he received gifts from German capitalists on many occasions (all good deeds were done by Gusinsky, the Jewish comprador of Hersmann), and he lived a corrupt and depraved life in Riga for a time!

So shortly after the start of the purge in Georgia, in order to alleviate his sins (which he thought must have been exposed), he took the initiative to write a confession of repentance to Beria, and incidentally exposed another high-ranking cadre of the foreign trade system, Natalie, who was just as corrupt as himself. Lesinskaya.

This woman was even more greedy than he was, receiving gifts in Riga, spending extravagantly, and even taking advantage of her position to go to Paris and London to spend money - he certainly did not know Natalie. Lesinskaya had long since betrayed the revolution.

However, what Comrade Serov did not expect was that his confession seemed to sink into the sea, and the leaders of Beria and the Georgian internal affairs department seemed to have forgotten the existence of such a bad person as him. Until the purge was almost over, no one came to arrest him.

Although no one came to arrest him, Serov was troubled by restlessness and nightmares, in which he often heard someone knocking on the door.

Knock knock, knock knock......

Serov, who was lying on the bed, heard a familiar knock on the door again. It must be another dream, Serov thought as he lay on his bed.

Suddenly, he felt his wife Yelena pushing him again, and was still shouting: "Yefimov, Yefimov!" Someone is knocking on the door......"

Serov snapped his eyes open, and he really heard a bang on the door - not the door of his bedroom, but the door of the first floor (he was the first secretary of the autonomous republic, and of course lived in the small building of Perak). The rough voice of the head of the NKVD Adjara Regional Directorate Martynov was faintly heard.

"Comrade Serov, Comrade Serov, open the door, something big is wrong!"

It's over, arrested...... Serov's heart sank suddenly, then he sighed and said to his wife beside him: "Yelena, bring me that bag......"

"That bag", many cadres of the Soviet Bolshevik Party in this period had such preparations. That's one heart, two preparations! Yelena is also a woman who has seen the world, and she did not cry at the moment, but first helped her husband to dress with tears in her eyes, and then handed a large suitcase to her husband Serov, and kissed him goodbye - although they were old husbands and young wives, and the two did not match each other, their relationship was very good.

Serov, carrying a large suitcase, went downstairs alone, but the door downstairs had already been opened, and it was the staff (servants) of Serov's family who had been woken up (it was now less than 6 o'clock in the morning) and opened the door.

"Comrade Secretary...... What are you doing with a suitcase? Going out? "Fifty years younger than Serov, a graduate of the Dzerzhinsky Specialized School, Martinov was a tall man, at this time he was already in full uniform, with a blue hat on his head, an armed belt around his waist, and a holster on his armed belt!

It seems that he has come to arrest himself, a counter-revolutionary corrupt.

Serov smiled bitterly: "Comrade Martinov, you are here to arrest me, right?" ”

"Arrest?" Martinov was stunned, then stomped his foot, "Comrade Serov, what are you kidding?" How could I have come to arrest you? ”

Not an arrest? Serov was still in a daze, and Martinov had already jumped up and pulled Serov out.

"Something is wrong! Comrade Secretary, imperialism is coming! ”

"What? What the? Who's calling? Serov was even more confused when he heard Martinov's words.

"Turkey!" Gritting his teeth, Martinov said, "Turkish imperialism has launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union!" Just now the comrades of the border guards (also under the NKVD) called me and said that a large number of Turkish planes had crossed the border! I called you but no one answered, so I came straight over (the two are neighbors). ”

Turkey attacking the USSR? How is this possible?

When Serov was really confused, a series of explosions suddenly came.

"This is ......" Serov hurriedly threw away the suitcase, ran out of his small building as if flying, and then looked around in the courtyard, only to see that the sky that had just been bright in the west had been reflected red by the firelight, and from time to time there were huge fireballs raised, accompanied by a loud rumbling sound, and the ground trembled. Faintly, in a sky illuminated by firelight, you can still see a group of small planes hovering high in the sky that I don't know which country it is......

"Refinery! It's the refinery that was blown up! It's really blown up......" Serov shouted loudly, with an expression of disbelief on his face.

Turkish imperialism was so mad that it dared to bomb the Soviet Union! It seems that Comrade Stalin's judgment is correct, the closer the USSR gets to GCISM, the more the situation of the class struggle intensifies, because the imperialist will not die to destroy the USSR!

……

"What? Batumi was bombed? Stalin received a call from Voroshilov at breakfast reporting that Batumi had been bombed, "Anglo-French planes?" Are Baku and Grozny next to each other? ”

Stalin was not so confused as to think that Turkish planes had bombed Batumi. In fact, as early as last year, he received reports from the Red Army Intelligence Directorate that "Britain and France could bomb the oil-producing areas of Baku, Grozny and Batumi." Later, he also ordered the Red Air Force to mobilize more than 300 fighters (both obsolete I-16 and I-153) and three anti-aircraft artillery regiments to be stationed in Baku, Grozny and Batumi. It also led to the deployment of the newly invented radar on the border between the USSR and Turkey.

Voroshilov's voice on the phone was quick and fast, "Comrade General Secretary, at the moment only Batumi reports that it has been bombed, Baku and Grozny have not been bombed. ”

"Oh," Stalin nodded, "how is the situation in Batumi?" ”

"Batumi was suddenly attacked by about 100 enemy aircraft, the time was 6 o'clock this morning, the radar station of our border guards detected the invading enemy in time, but the I-16 and I-153 stationed in Batumi did not have time to take off (at this time the detection range of the RUS-1 radar used by the USSR was insufficient, only more than 30 kilometers), so ...... The Batumi refinery suffered relatively serious losses! ”

"Serious losses?" Stalin's face suddenly darkened, "How can this be?" Isn't there an anti-aircraft gun? Did you shoot down an enemy plane? ”

"Shot down one, look at the sign on the wreckage is a French plane......"

"Only one?" Stalin was a little annoyed, "A whole anti-aircraft artillery regiment, just shoot down an enemy plane?" ”

"There's only one." Voroshilov said.

Stalin frowned, "And what about the fighters?" Took off? ”

"27 I-16 and 19 I-153 took off, but ......"

"But what?" Stalin asked in a calm voice.

"These enemy planes quickly increased in altitude, and our I-16 and I-153 were out of reach."

At this time, the Soviet Yak-1 and MiG-1 had not yet been put into production, and only a small number of Lager-3s were delivered to the Red Air Force, but they were all used against the Finnish Air Force. So there are only the old I-16 and I-153 in the Caucasus Mountains, the performance of these two aircraft is too backward, and there is no closed cabin, so the ceiling is not high, and the LeO-451 bomber, which threw the bomb, pulled up the height and swaggered away.

"Can't reach it?" Stalin's face turned pale, "Doesn't that mean that they can come when they want and leave if they want?" ”

"This ......" Voroshilov did not know what to say.

Because Soviet-German aviation-industrial cooperation was interrupted a few years ago, the development of new fighters in the Soviet Union was affected, so it went from being a leader a few years ago to a backward ......

"What is the situation at the Batumi refinery?" Stalin suddenly remembered that the petrochemical city of Batumi was the most important oil processing center in the Soviet Union, "How much is the loss?" Will production be affected? (To be continued.) )