Chapter 158: Shaking in the Rain

At a time when a typical civilian aircraft could cover the journey in about an hour from a secret camp in northeastern Finland and a "sanctuary" base in northern Norway, the traditional combination of mule, horse, camel and trekking through this cold, pristine region with towering mountains was a great test of will and physical fitness. Throughout the middle of March 1946, Lynn and his colleagues in Task Force Sol had to complete this arduous journey, during which they had to climb Mount Harti, the highest in Finland. By the time they finally arrived at the long-lost "shelter", the calendar had turned to March 23. A month had passed since the Red Army Day in the Soviet Union, and this day in history was of extraordinary significance to the Third Reich and to Hitler's regime. The passage of any law by Hitler and his cabinet without the consent of the parliament was also widely seen as a sign that Hitler had the right to read the right to read legally...... Standing in the hall of the Imperial headquarters at noon on this day, Lynn once again received the commendation issued by the Führer himself and the congratulations of many colleagues. In his opinion, the success of directing the raid deep into the territory of the Soviet Union, which successfully caused Stalin to be seriously wounded and soon died, should not have overridden the merits of the frontal battlefield, but the sinking empire has lost the opportunity to fight with its opponents on the frontal battlefield, and the re-emergence was once a slogan, it was the start of atomic bomb technology and the violent death of the old enemy leader that gave them hope that could be attained, so the use of "savior" to describe Lynn's performance in these two operations seems to be accepted by most people, As for those fighters who provide support from all sides of the operation, especially those who are fearless and fearless on the front line, they are only a secondary role in the eyes of the higher-ups. In the limelight, the young "Special Brigadier General" was promoted to "Special Lieutenant General", a military rank that has not yet been accurately assigned, or simply a specific position, but not many people would have taken it seriously in this very particular time and context. Field Marshal Rommel, the commander-in-chief of the base, personally dressed the young hero with the Knight's Iron Cross with a diamond and gold oak leaf and sword, making him the second person to receive this top medal (the first was the Luftwaffe's best bomber pilot during the war, the "tank killer" Hans. Ulrich. Rudel).

Compared to the flattered surprise of the previous award, Lynn, who had returned from a long journey, took these honorary rewards lightly, and he was even more anxious to see his wife. After the official news of Stalin's assassination was announced, Andriy arranged for his family, including Dinah, to leave for the base early due to the foreseeable tensions. After learning that Lynn and his party had successfully escaped from the Soviet Union and arrived at a secret camp in Finland, the chief of intelligence of the Strategic Staff also returned to the shelter with a group of important people.

After the training ceremony, Lynn hurried back to her residence in the base, and Dinah, dressed in plain clothes, stood calmly at the door to greet her, her tearful gesture swept away all of Lynn's previous worries. Dinah doesn't show anger or resentment at her husband's dangerous mission to hide from her, and then she has to fight against the harsh natural environment, and she doesn't even mention the "why" that put Lynn in the first place. All the young wife did was rub her husband's face over and over again, kissing her with tears over and over again...... Stalin was dead, and the situation in the Soviet Union was slightly shaken, but there was no joyous atmosphere in the "refuge" base, and the next morning when he returned to work, Lynn learned that the invisible haze was made up for in the sky above the base. A series of news reports from the United States made the West wary of the Soviet Union again. While the Soviet Union was diplomatically passive in the public opinion offensive promoted by Bach's North American intelligence network, Moscow's new masters were not content to give in, not fighting a war of words with the West, nor putting a noose around the necks of the Finns, but looking for the remnants of the Third Reich. The existence of the Vault base was certainly the last and most important secret of the Third Reich, but there was no airtight wall in the world, and the operation of the base depended on secret supplies provided by Spain and Finland, and even though the exact location of the base was avoided by the other side during transportation, and the secret cooperation with Finland was terminated after Mannerheim went into exile in Switzerland, the Soviet intelligence services still set their sights on the cold northern Norway, and the airspace near the base was frequently visited by ships and aircraft belonging to the Soviet Northern Fleet recently, This forced the Base Command to take a series of defensive measures, such as turning off all radars, suspending radio communications, and reducing the activities of outsiders, while at the same time intensifying combat readiness training for the Imperial Guard. Nevertheless, a week before Lynn returned to the base, the outer outpost located north of the base observed the approach of Soviet patrols, the first time since the end of the war that Soviet troops had entered Norwegian territory by land!

In order to prevent the Soviet troops from approaching the base, the high-level officials who were lurking in the Norwegian political axe guided the Norwegian military to discover the fact that the Soviet troops were crossing the border, but the Norwegian political axe lacked the courage to make a big deal about the situation, and only negotiated with the Soviet side through the diplomatic department. The Soviet political axe abandoned the Stalinist posture and consulted with the Norwegian political axe on the pretext of sweeping away the remnants of the Third Reich, and expressed its willingness to accept Norwegian political axe representatives to supervise the actions of the Soviet army in the border area. In the end, although Norway repeatedly insisted on the inviolability of its own sovereignty, refused to send representatives of the political axe to participate in the Soviet army's operations, and even protested to the Soviet side for the first time, this was only an itch in the boot for the Soviet army's determined action. Soviet planes and ships continued to operate frequently in the waters of northern Norway in the face of bad weather, and they even went deep into some fjords to conduct patrols and surveys, and ground troops continued to operate in uninhabited areas of northern Norway, until the US press once again reported the situation in sharp and sharp writing, causing an uproar in the Western world, and misleading reports about the appearance of unidentified aircraft and ships near Antarctica, in an attempt to confuse people's public opinion.

At the United Nations conference held at the end of March, the British political axe, which had always been concerned about the situation in Norway, formally submitted a bill to the General Assembly requesting a review of the Soviet Union's extraordinary military operations in many countries, and the Soviet representative submitted a detailed report to the General Assembly, proving that the remnants of the Third Reich were still operating rampantly in Europe and even in the world, and that they were actually endangering the national security of the Soviet Union, and thus formally called on all countries to unite to eliminate these war criminals who had escaped punishment. If the non-political acts of the remnants of the Third Reich were to be considered terrorism, it would be the first time since the founding of the United Nations that a joint counter-terrorism initiative had been launched by a member State, which had been endorsed by a significant number of participating countries, including France, as a permanent member. However, the British and American representatives had a different view of the Soviet initiative, and the American representatives dropped a bombshell at the meeting: they called for the establishment of a body composed of permanent members to investigate the attacks on the United States atomic bomb agency, the assassination of Stalin, and the remnants of the so-called Third Reich.

The proposal of the representative of the United States sounded reasonable, but the establishment of a joint structure and a joint investigation would mean interfering in the internal affairs of the Soviet Union, and in order to prove the Soviet Union's innocence in atomic bomb technology, it would even be possible to visit their atomic bomb testing facility. Not only that, as soon as the news was revealed, it immediately aroused public indignation in the Soviet Union, believing that the voice of the Western world leading the assassination of Stalin behind the scenes clearly overpowered the "theory of the remnants of the Third Reich." With the deliberate instigation and connivance of some political forces, the people held protest marches in Moscow and other major cities on 4 and 5 April, demanding political axes and expressing their strong dissatisfaction with Western countries. On April 7, a rocket suddenly fired from the side of the U.S. occupation zone on the military demarcation line in Berlin, and it landed in a Soviet barracks in the Soviet-occupied zone. Subsequently, although the US side explained to the Soviet Union through diplomatic channels -- stating that this was not the work of the US [***] team, but that unknown personnel had set up the proposed launcher in an abandoned house and fired the 150-mm German-made rocket in a regular manner. Before the Soviet official could express it, the news caused a sensation in the Soviet Union, and people began to point the finger at Malenkov and the other four-member leading group, believing that they had been adopting an attitude of connivance and appeasement after the assassination of Stalin, resulting in the failure to catch the real murderer for more than a month, and the Soviet Union fell into passivity everywhere in the international community. As a result, at the subsequent meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU, Molotov and a number of members severely criticized the weakness of the current strategy, especially pointing the finger at Kaganovich, chairman of the Council of Ministers, believing that his misjudgment had caused the Soviet Union's international status and image to plummet, and demanded that a tough hand be taken immediately to deal with the provocations of Western countries.

At a time when the Soviet top brass was tired of arguing, a small French newspaper carried a shocking news that published an original leaked by Soviet intelligence, which belonged to the atomic bomb technology lost by the United States in the fall of 1945, which meant that the Soviet Union did have an unexplored connection with this evil surname incident. The newspaper, which has a circulation of 50,000 copies in Marseille and the surrounding area for more than 20 years, was immediately investigated by the French police and security services, suspended the printing of newspapers and magazines, and even recovered some newspapers that had been printed and sold, but it nevertheless became another fuse that caused panic in the Western world.

(To be continued)