Chapter 185: Support from the top
Of course, this kind of big thing can't be done, just pat his head and do it, Andrei quickly asked his subordinates to send a telegram to Beria, and soon the high-frequency phone of the division headquarters rang, and the staff officer on duty almost didn't die of fright as soon as he picked up the phone, he just asked who it was, and said on the other side: "I am Beria, Deputy Chairman of the Council of Ministers, People's Commissar for National Defense, NKVD." Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info "The staff officer directly felt that his legs were going to be called non-stop, Beria, this name had the miraculous effect of making children stop crying in the Soviet Union at this time!
The staff officer covered the microphone and said tremblingly: "Comrade division commander, it is the phone number of the NKVD. And Andrei hurriedly came over to answer the phone, and everyone next to him immediately stood far away, and when he came to the phone, he quickly grabbed the microphone, put it close to his ear, took a deep breath, and said respectfully: "Hello, Comrade NKVD, I am Yakov, do you have any instructions?" ”
Beria asked in a cold tone, "You just sent me a telegram saying that you are trying to rebel against a rebel army that has betrayed the motherland. Tell me, what do you think, don't you know the duties of our internal affairs forces? ”
As soon as Beria opened his mouth, he characterized the Eastern Battalion as a rebel, so that Andrei didn't know how to answer for a while. Seeing that Andrei didn't speak for a long time, Beria immediately said coldly: "Hey, Andrei, why don't you speak?" My time is very valuable, I can only give you a few minutes to explain your reasons, and if you can't convince me, then this plan of yours must be canceled unconditionally. ”
Beria said so. Andrei, on the contrary, calmed down. After sorting out your thoughts. Andrei said slowly: "Comrade NKVD, many people may have told you that the officers and men of the Eastern Battalion are very weak in combat. But no matter how bad their combat effectiveness is, after all, they are also soldiers who have fought in battle, and as long as we engage them, even if we have the advantage, we will still have losses. And not all of them were traitors, some were forced, and you can imagine if we could get them to turn their guns and fight the Germans. It is inevitable that the Germans will be able to draw up some of their forces to guard against or even suppress them, so that the pressure on our fronts will be reduced, and the saved troops will be put into the areas where they are urgently needed, and even the contrast between the enemy and our forces on the local battlefield will be changed, and this will also save the lives of countless Red Army soldiers. ”
"Even if you rebelled against this battalion, their strength is also limited, and it will not have a great impact on the comparison of enemy forces in the entire Stalingrad region. Is it necessary to spend so much effort? From Beria's words, Andrei could tell that although he was interested, he also had obvious scruples.
"Comrade NKVD. I think so. Andrei immediately said in a very affirmative and certain tone: "If the troops of the Eastern Battalion can succeed anyway, the significance will not only be a change in the strength of the enemy and us, but also a blow to the morale of the German army against the rest of the Eastern Battalion troops." From then on, the Germans would be wary of the rest of the Eastern Battalions, and would no longer allow them to participate directly in the fighting, and even move them far away from our troops, so that the pressure on us would be reduced to varying degrees. Finally, Andrei added: "Comrade NKVD, I think we must fight not only a military blow to the enemy, but also a political battle with them, to divide those units that are alien from them from their midst, and to fight for all the forces that can be fought for to strengthen us." Even if those units are not on the same side as us, we have to make sure that they remain neutral in our battle with the Germans, which will reduce the pressure on us in the war, and at the same time we in the Ministry of the Interior will not have to deal with these problems so much. ”
"There's a lot of truth in your words." Beria finally said a word of praise for me, and then Beria said decisively: "Then let's proceed next, as you just said, if the Eastern Battalion is anyway, the significance is not only to change the strength of the enemy and us in the local battlefield, but also to shake the enemy's morale and effectively hit the enemy's morale." ”
Beria's words made Andrei feel that a big stone had fallen to the ground, and because of his clear support, Andrei became more confident in the next rebellion. So he said to him with confidence: "Comrade NKVD, rest assured that I will fulfill the tasks you have entrusted to me. ”
Beria then said: "However, the plan must be well thought out, and it must be kept secret, and I will report this matter to Comrade Stalin, you have to plan it well!" From Beria's tone, Andrei also heard Beria, who felt different from usual, and felt that Beria was the one who wanted to kill everyone, but not only from the perspective of interests, it seemed that Beria just felt a kind of ease, yes, I remember someone said, no one likes to stay in the dark all the time, and no one likes to be a butcher all the time, you must know that Beria himself proposed to reduce the power of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, you must know that the head of the secret police is hated and feared in the eyes of countless people, but there is no way to do these things that lack morality and smoke, If you don't do it, someone will do it, someone has to guard it in the dark, and at the same time, I have to say that Beria has been a secret police officer all his life, has handled many big cases, and killed many people, and he used to worry that he would one day die at the hands of the families of those death row prisoners, but he did not expect that he would die in the end at the hands of his own people. Those who have befriended him weigh the people who hated him, and they couldn't do anything with him. But what Beria didn't expect was that his own people would come with him and fall into the ground. There are so many things that he has been involved in and know that many people will never be able to sleep if he does not die. If you don't kill him, there will be endless troubles. It is better for them that he dies. It is said that he is a demon, but Beria is a father and a husband, and he is not so vicious to his family. Many people wished that Beria would die immediately. It is said that he killed so many people and played with so many women. No one denies this. But it's not his fault either, of course Beria is very responsible. But whoever puts Beria in that position will kill so many people, play so many women, and even more.
Countless people hated the Internal Affairs Forces but did not think carefully about a question, who made the Internal Affairs Forces what they are now, countless people said that the Ministry of Internal Affairs was the devil and hell, when the Soviets were able to stabilize the regime, how much role did the Ministry of Internal Affairs play, countless Soviet people still hoped for the emergence of the all-powerful secret police in an emergency, and when countless people joined the Ministry of Internal Affairs, they all held the lofty ideal of protecting national security and safeguarding socialism, but who made him like this!
Looking, Andrei put down the phone in a daze, Brezhnev came over and asked: "Andrey, is it not that Comrade NKVD disapproves?" ”