Chapter 139: Vasily
"All units under the General Directorate of Labor Management have been withdrawn, first secretary! All the prisoners have been handed over to the prison, and the more than 150 gulag camps in the country are currently empty! I have asked the border guards to continue the transformation of some camps in the mountains, all the archival documents have been counted, and the old archives have been sealed! The new archives are kept in the KGB Archives Bureau, so Comrade First Secretary can access them at any time if he needs them! In the Kremlin, Serov stood in front of Khrushchev and talked eloquently, read his report word by word, and then closed the document and handed it to Khrushchev.
"Yuri, this is a victory for us against Stalin's cult of personality, from which Stalin's mistakes can come to an end! I'll find time to look at the report, but I'm confident in your abilities! Khrushchev said flatly.
Serov was ashamed of Khrushchev's praise, Comrade First Secretary, did you not find that apart from yourself, the members of the Presidium of the Central Committee around you thought that Stalin was still stronger than you. In Serov's view, Khrushchev's anti-Stalin campaign was doomed to fail even more than the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the difficulty of success was similar to that of preventing the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Khrushchev's own abilities were far worse than Stalin's, and Stalin's kind of ability, which must be achieved when the plan is set, cannot be achieved by the first secretary in front of him.
A plan under Stalin is a plan, a plan under Khrushchev can be bargained, what is a plan under Brezhnev? What was the plan during the Gorbachev period? This kind of statement can completely summarize the style of the Soviet leader, thinking of this Serov always thinks of Andropov, if he lived ten more years will not make the Soviet Union change?
"I'm just carrying out the order of the first secretary, as for other issues, that's not what I should be thinking about!" Serov did not take Khrushchev's words about Stalin, if he had to worship a person. It would be better to worship a person who has passed away. And Khrushchev wanted to take Stalin's place among the Soviet people, which was basically impossible.
It was only in the evening that Tikunov and Serov came out of the Kremlin, and they could be regarded as completing the report on the abolition of the Gulag, less than half a month after Khrushchev ordered the abolition of the Gulag, and Serov not only abolished this institution, but also erased most of the traces of the existence of the Gulag in one fell swoop. Now, even the idle guys who have a pain in the egg go back to look for memories, and they can't find the place where they used to do the heavy work.
On the way out of the Kremlin, the senior cadres of the two security systems walked side by side, but there was silence. Serov's actions in front of Khrushchev just now, Tikunov was watching. This young man in front of him, who was a few years younger than himself, was able to avoid being dealt with during the Caucasus prison clearance operation six or seven years ago by relying on his own activities in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. In just a few years, he has become an equal to himself, although he is not equal to himself in rank, but according to Khrushchev's perception of Serov. It's a matter of time, maybe faster than you can climb! This made Tikunov feel a little complicated.
"Yuri, I now understand why you became the deputy chairman of the KGB so quickly, and I stopped, you seem to like working in the KGB very much, and treat the KGB as your home!" Titunov, who left the Kremlin, said something that made Serov stunned and replied, "I just do things according to the definition of a state security officer." Give me another month to get the whole thing done! ”
"Hasn't the Gulag been undone? It's over! Yuri! Tikunov asked stunned.
"It's over? Maybe? I'll just finish this matter, and it has nothing to do with the Ministry of Internal Affairs! Serov pulled the corners of his mouth coldly. I don't know if he was making a friendly gesture to Tikunov.
It wasn't until the two parted ways and returned to their respective cars that Serov returned to the sedan and said to himself coldly, "Tikunov? You seem to have mixed emotions when you talk to me, you must control your thoughts, otherwise Sherepin will not be able to protect you......"
Is the removal of the Gulag over? Of course not, a large group is missing. Not only was this group not released, but all of them were accepted into KGB prisons, and nearly a thousand management cadres from the Gulag across the country did not return, and were left in Moscow by Serov. More than 60,000 Gulag prisoners have been transferred to KGB prisons, and Serov will now be able to properly identify them in the coming month.
After coming out of Serov in the Kremlin. I went directly to Lubyanka Square 11, and it turned out that Shelepin had already left work, which is really rare! But it didn't matter, he immediately drove to Shelepin's villa, which was not far anyway.
An hour later, he came out of Shelepin's dacha, took the KGB chairman's order, Serov returned home in a leisurely manner, the chairman's order was only a piece of paper, but in Serov's hand it was a talisman from hell, "Really wicked, how could I let you go and let you go to society to do evil?" That's so sorry for the law-abiding people......"
Serov, who took the chairman's order, returned home, which is a relatively rare situation recently, and a few days after the New Year, he began to deal with the work of abolishing the Gulag, many times Valya went to Fulcaiva with her child as a guest, because there was no one at home at all, and it was a little strange to see her husband come back, but she still took her husband's military uniform very gently, "Do you miss me?" ”
"yes, I miss my Venus!" Serov picked up Valya and whispered in the woman's ear with her eyes closed, "You're going back to Ukraine again?" I've been at home with you these days, and Venus is going to educate the people again! "And I'm going to kill again! Serov did not say this phrase.
Serov, who was at home with his wife, was not idle, and a special order was issued in his hand, "According to the order of the chairman of the KGB, all prisoners transferred to the prison in the gulag will be transferred to the Kazan prison!" The local jail can't keep one! ”
At the same time, let the Kazan prison transfer prisoners who commit crimes in general or who are not felons to other prisons, and make room for the Gulag prisoners! Two orders to execute together! With the issuance of the order, the train line with the Kazan prison as the central point suddenly became busy, and the time-limited KGB chairman's order from Moscow allowed the country's prisons to quickly maximize their efficiency.
The Kazan prison itself accepted most of the Gulag prisoners, and after sending his wife and son to Ukraine, Serov, with Mendelev and a company of fighters of the secret police, boarded the train to Kazan. It was a full week after Serov received the presidential order.
Serov's method of doing things is very simple, take the prison farthest from Kazan where Gulag prisoners are kept, slightly calculate the time for the prisoners to be sent to Kazan, and give the local prison an extra day of preparation time! A total of a week, and then a week later to Kazan, very much potential for the planning committee! As for whether it was snowing or not, and other factors delayed, it was not within his consideration.
This time he came to Kazan again after a few years and found that it seemed that this prison had become a little bigger, unlike Moscow and Leningrad where criminal prisoners were held either for criminal or civil crimes, Kazan Prison was a comprehensive prison, and it was also the first prison in the Soviet Union to be equipped with a psychiatric hospital system, although the number of psychiatric hospitals had increased a lot because of Khrushchev's anti-Stalin, but with the passage of time, people have accepted the status quo, so psychiatric hospitals in other places have been closed one after another, Once again, Kazan prison is one of the few prisons with psychiatric hospital facilities.
Compared with the last time I came, the first difference is that the prison director has changed, and Major General Goryushchenko, who is standing in front of him, is the new prison director, who is responsible for the management of the largest prison in Russia, which is estimated to be the largest prison in the Soviet Union.
"Vasily? Joseph Vich? Comrade Stalin, is it imprisoned here? Serov turned to Major General Goryushchenko and asked, "How is Vasily doing now?" Can you tell me about it? ”
Vassili? Joseph Vich? Stalin is Stalin's youngest son, and he is currently serving his sentence in Kazan prison, which is a general term, Vasily? Joseph Vich? The place where Stalin served his sentence was the Vladimir prison under Kazan. In fact, there is another reason why Serov came to Kazan prison, that is, on the orders of Sherepin and Prosecutor General Rudenko, to see Vasily? Joseph Vich? Whether Stalin was able to grant amnesty or not, when it came to the few departments in the Soviet Union that only had rights, in addition to the strongest Ministry of Defense, that is, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, which is now the KGB, if there is any department that can rank third, it is the Soviet prosecutor's office system, it can be said that without the cooperation of the procuratorate, the Ministry of Internal Affairs alone may not be able to launch.
Let Major General Goryushchenko arrange an office with a better environment for himself, and Serov visited this Stalin's son, and only the two of them even threw Isemotny out.
I had already expected that Vasily's condition might not be good, but when he saw Vasily, Serov was still deeply shocked, Vasily's mental trance, pale face should be the reason for not seeing the sun all year round, his thin figure could not see the heroic posture of the fighter pilot back then, Vasily came in on crutches, looking at him with a dodgy gaze, not at all like the hero who fought with the Luftwaffe.
"Comrade Vasily, you are in a very bad state!" Serov wanted to say and stopped, and finally could only say this. (To be continued.) )