Chapter 196
Just when Andrei was doing his business here, Beria, who was far away in Moscow, also took out the files of the Ministry of Internal Affairs about Chechnya, because when the fierce battle of Stalingrad was in full swing, there were Chechens and the German army in the Caucasus, although due to the stubborn resistance of the Soviet army, the German army is now struggling in the Caucasus, but due to the support of the locals, the Caucasus has now been turbulent, the most important thing is that there are already Chechen imams and mullahs calling for cooperation with the Germans, and the local cadres have already appeared traitors, Beria took out the archives of that year and compared them with the investigation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the previous paragraph
In the early years of Soviet statehood, Chechnya joined the Terek Soviet Republic together with Ingushetia, and later joined the North Caucasus Mountain People's Soviet Autonomous Socialist Republic with other nationalities. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info but these mountain people are very independent, and they can't get a piece at all. The republic was soon abolished. At the end of November 1922, Chechnya was established as a separate ethnic autonomous region. In order to reflect the importance attached by the central power to this matter, in January 1923, the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party (CPB) sent Voroshilov, Mikoyan, Budyonny and other senior officials to the inaugural meeting of the autonomous prefecture. Experienced Voroshilov was very worried about the prospects of Chechnya. He reported to the Central Committee: in Chechnya, "the mullahs are the only civilized force and enjoy unlimited influence." "The inhabitants live in primitive ignorance and fear of God."
In 1925, when Chechens killed two Soviet soldiers, the Chechen issue once again came to the fore, and the party organizations in the North Caucasus made a judgment that "the political situation in Chechnya has become more acute." In order to stabilize the situation, with Stalin's approval, the parties concerned gathered heavy troops and launched a large-scale counterinsurgency operation in Chechnya in August and September of that year. During this operation, all those who were able to take up arms in Chechnya went into the mountains, leaving only the elderly, women and children in the villages. The Soviets had to disarm the Chechens village by village with the help of artillery and aircraft bombardment. In order to force the Chechens to hand over the rebel leader Goczynsky, the Soviets had to detain the Chechen elite in exchange. After the incident, the Soviet security agencies found out that some ethnic Chechen cadres in the local Soviet power and party organizations secretly supported and helped the rebels to fight against the Soviet army, and these people were severely punished.
On the face of it, the Soviets achieved a major victory in the 1925 counterinsurgency campaign in Chechnya. The Soviets not only captured 20,000 rifles, 3,000 pistols and 50,000 rounds of ammunition, but also captured Goczynsky, the leader of the rebels, and others. However, it's not that simple. Winshlicht, then deputy chairman of the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Soviet Union, warned the Central Committee: "If the Sovietization, the improvement of the economic situation and the raising of the cultural level are not carried out on a large scale immediately after the military operation." The positive results of military pressure will also be in vain".
Now it seems that Winshlicht was unfortunate enough to be right. As a result of the lack of follow-up work on the military counterinsurgency, the Chechen problem remains the same. In December 1929, March and April 1930, and March and April 1932, the Soviet army took encirclement and suppression operations more than once. In the 1932 "Nationalist Center Case", more than 3,000 Chechens were arrested on suspicion of "conspiracy to riot". This was followed by a purge of 1936-1938, in which 80,000 people were executed, equivalent to a quarter of the population of Chechnya. It was not until 1939 that the situation in Chechnya stabilized, but a small remnant of the rebels continued to operate until the German invasion.
In 1934, the Chechen Autonomous Prefecture was merged with the neighboring Ingushetia Autonomous Prefecture with an area of 20,000 square kilometers. In 1936, the Chechen-Ingushetia Autonomous Prefecture was upgraded to an autonomous republic, and Chechnya's national autonomy status was further enhanced. But the Chechens are not "grateful" to this, now these Chechens are really very restless, and at the same time there is their hometown Georgia, this country can be said to have its own backbone, they have a constant hatred of Russia, so it has always been a high-pressure policy for Georgia, as a Georgian Beria really knows how troublesome the Caucasus is, and it was not over for many years when Tsarist Russia occupied the Caucasus, and it was too late to completely consolidate the rule as in other places, As a result, after the establishment of the Soviets, the Caucasus was a powder keg.
Although the focus is now on the front line, as the Minister of Internal Affairs, he still has to pay attention to the rear, the situation in Georgia is better, this Chechnya and other mountain peoples are really restless, Serov has been to the Caucasus some time ago to investigate, and now it can be determined that the Caucasus and Stalingrad battles that began in June 1942 once occupied the western and northern regions of Chechnya. The Chechen national separatists wanted to realize their dream of independence with the help of fascist intervention, and encouraged some Chechens to support the Germans.
When the Germans entered the village, they were warmly welcomed by some of the villagers; The Chechens lit bonfires in the mountains to guide the German paratroopers to landing; Sold coolies to assist the Germans in the construction of airfields, ammunition depots, grain depots, and repair shops; acting as a guide for the German forces attacking the Caucasus; Sheltered German paratroopers, spies, and shipwrecked pilots (e.g., two Chechens who rescued German pilot Langer and received a knightly medal for it, and were later airdropped to Chechnya to organize an insurrection). An armed militia was formed to fight directly with the Soviet army and anti-German partisans in coordination with the German army. The German army also used full autonomy to buy people's hearts and minds, lured Chechen separatists and local bandits to cooperate with the German army, and formed a so-called "Caucasian Brotherhood Special Party" to help the abuse. Later, in order to please Hitler, the organization was renamed the Caucasian Brother National Socialist Party, with a maximum of 5,000 members.
There were many Chechen national elites who defected to the Nazis: like Shamil? Said, this person is Shamir, the hero of the Caucasian War against Russia? Basayev's grandson, who infiltrated Chechnya in August 1920 to create a rebellion, failed a year later and went into exile in Germany; The first secretary of the party committee of the Itumkalje district, Don Guyev, and the second secretary, Sadkov, left their jobs and joined the pro-German partisans; The leader of the Shatoy district, Ishayev, and the leader of the Sharoy district, Pasayev, secretly mutinied; "Lenin's Road" editor Alice Bek? Timurkayev and Avtorkhanov defected to the pro-German partisans, with the People's Commissar for Education Khantaeva and the People's Commissar for Social Security Dakaeva as their liaisons; The leader of the NKVD of the Republic is glorious? He? Captain Albogaschev became the internal response of the Germans, and the commander of the suburban search battalion, the leader of the NKVD Staroyurti district, and the police chief of the Itumkalje district also defected; Ottoman, a German spy born into the Anwa tribe who was related to Chechnya? Gubai, who lived in Turkey, led anti-Soviet and nationalist separatist activities, and in particular, between 1941 and 1942, at the instigation of German agents, there were three large-scale armed uprisings in Chechnya and Ingushetia.
Now it's time to deal with the problem, and when the fighting in Stalingrad eases next year, Andrei will be transferred over, and these traitors to the Motherland will have to pay for their actions.
And Andrei, who was far away in Stalingrad, did not know that the Chechens, who would leave him forever in the Western world and forever praised the Soviets, would soon come to him, and at this time the investigation was completed and the people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs were taken away, and Andrei returned to the division headquarters in the afternoon, and Brezhnev was waiting for him there, as soon as Andrei entered, Brezhnev immediately asked: "How was Andrei's contact with Gusev?" And Andrei came to Brezhnev and said: "Ilyich, it is very good, then we just have to wait for them to hear from them, and we will go and meet them." ”
Hearing this news, Brezhnev often breathed a sigh of relief, you must know that if this rebellion is successful, it will be a huge benefit to the country and himself, and the benefits of his own political commissar are also indispensable, and then he discussed the next battle situation with Andrei, and now most of Stalingrad is in the hands of the Germans In addition to the factory area and the Mamayev post, the Soviet army is now compressed in these areas, Brezhnev is also worried and said: "Andrey, although I have been telling the soldiers to be firm in their beliefs, But now we may not see that day! ”
As a political commissar, although he was a little afraid of death, Brezhnev knew that he could not retreat, and it was better to die in the hands of the Germans if he retreated, and the political commissar in the Soviet army was the most unable to retreat, looking at Brezhnev's attitude, Andrei also said: "Ilyich, don't be so pessimistic, you must know that now we still firmly control the Mamayev Gang, as long as we stick to the Mamayev Gang, then victory will not be far away." ”
At this time, the deputy division commander Yanayev, who had just gone to inspect below, came back, and as soon as he entered the door, he saw Andrei and Brezhnev talking, and hurriedly came over and asked: "Division commander, seeing that you and the political commissar are all red-faced, it seems that the rebellion is going well!" And Andrei nodded and said: "Yes, Comrade Yanayev, then we can do the work of receiving it." ”
As soon as Yanayev sat down, he said: "I just went to a few regiments to inspect it, now the weapons and ammunition of the troops are relatively sufficient, and there are non-stop battles, and now the morale of the troops is still very good, but our heavy firepower is insufficient, the artillery regiment now has only 18 howitzers, the others were lost in the battle, there is not a single anti-tank gun, and the mortars are rich, as for the tanks, our tank battalion now has only three tanks and they are still spelled out with German parts, Now that this firepower is lacking, if the Germans attack us again, I am afraid that the technical equipment will not be enough at all! ”
And Andrei looked at Yanayev and said: "My deputy division commander, don't worry, I only know what the Germans have, I have it, when the army was established, there was not a single howitzer, I captured so many, rest assured, in a few days, I will get you a few guns." Then go to the Germans to go. ”
Yanayev asked in disbelief: "Comrade division commander, now we have to face the powerful firepower of the Germans as soon as we leave the city and position, even if you can get tanks and artillery, you can't move them in!" ”