August 1936, Soviet Union, Moscow Kremlin.

"Comrade Stalin, Comrade Yagoda from the NKVD has come to see you."

In the Kremlin, Vlasik, the head of the internal guard who was responsible for guarding Stalin, knocked on the door and walked into Stalin's office.

Stalin stood in front of the world map, staring in the direction of Europe, his eyes resting on the German regions. While smoking his big pipe, he said without looking back, "Let him in." ”

"Yes, Comrade Stalin."

Soon, Yagoda, one of the leaders of the Soviet secret police, walked in, stood up and saluted, and stood aside with his military hat in his hat and waited for Stalin to finish his thoughts.

Comrade Stalin's absolute authority, even he did not dare to offend in the slightest, otherwise, he would be punished immediately.

After a long time, Stalin turned around angrily and said quickly to Youngolda: "This stupid short Hitler is trying in vain to buy the hearts of the whole world with an Olympic Games, damn Germans, damned Germans, damned Germans, short Germans who escaped from prison. Any Olympics without the participation of a strong Soviet Union would be doomed to failure. ”

Because when the Soviet Union was founded, the Olympic Committee did not invite this red regime to participate in the Olympic Games, and even in the subsequent Olympic Games, there were no Soviet people, especially the Germans, who never thought of inviting the Soviet Union to participate in the Olympic Games.

Since the founding of the Soviet Union, many athletes can only compete in the country, and are rarely invited by other countries in the world, and the entire Soviet Union, after being politically isolated, has been completely abandoned by the world in terms of culture and sports.

A strong sense of crisis came from all sides of the world, which was why the Soviet Union at that time firmly implemented the plan to support political forces in China, spread the red regime, and improve the Soviet Union's living environment in the world.

"Wise Comrade Stalin, Hitler was not a politician, he was a dirty actor who tried to exchange his clumsy performance for the support of the Nazis in the whole world. His plot was doomed to failure. The great USSR will be the first to stand in opposition to him. Once again, Yagoda stood on his legs and responded seriously to Stalin's complaints.

'Wise' Comrade Stalin nodded with satisfaction, he still saw Hitler's intentions very clearly, but what did it matter? No matter how much the Nazis expanded their armaments, the Soviet Union still had a powerful multi-million Red Army, heavily armed, always on guard against any possible invasion of the great Soviet Union.

In his opinion, the fear should be that the French and the British, who have a feud with the Germans, and that the outcome of the First World War will be a midfield contest between Germany and France, and if war breaks out again, the Germans will definitely take revenge on the French, and not attack the powerful Soviet Union, which has thousands of tanks and thousands of planes and millions of Red Army.

"Even if they attack, we will fight straight back to Berlin." This is what Stalin said at the internal high-ranking military meeting of the Red Army.

"Youngolda, how are the preparations for the cleansing going?" Stalin rekindled his pipe, and as he smoked, asked.

Yagoda: "Report to Comrade Stalin, on the basis of the information we have received from the German side, we have tangible evidence that the core members of the Trotsky-Linoviev Terror Center will be arrested later today. According to your instructions, the Party and the people will give them a final and severe trial after the investigation by the Internal Affairs Committee. ”

"Very well, the flower of the strength of the USSR needs to be watered with the blood of counter-revolutionaries and traitors." Stalin nodded with satisfaction, then remembered something else, and said in a tone that made Yakoda shudder, "Yakoda, have you carefully verified the list I asked Comrade Yezhov to hand over to you?" ”

Yagoda was stunned for a moment, and then his heart trembled, knowing what Stalin was referring to.

Three days earlier, Yagoda had been summoned to the Kremlin, and an enraged Stalin had personally thrown in his face a secret piece of information that he had obtained at the risk of his life, frightening him into thinking that he would be replaced by this Yezhov on the spot.

In the past three days, in addition to the list obtained by the German side, he has also been investigating this so-called new list.

He discovered that the so-called secret information that 'Comrade Yezhov obtained at the risk of his life' was actually obtained by Yezhov, one of the leaders of the secret police, from the Chinese Embassy in Moscow by extremely despicable means.

The document was originally accidentally obtained by a military attache at the Chinese embassy in Moscow from a French agent, a list of French bribes of Soviet Red Army generals.

Through his own intelligence network, Yezhov learned that the military attache had once spit out the truth after drinking at a drinking party and mentioned such an incident. It was only after he sent someone to contact the military attache that he learned that the military attaché's intention was to send the list back to China for reference by China's intelligence agencies. Yezhov immediately bought from the Chinese military attache this list, which was insignificant to Chinese, but crucial to Yezhov's personal promotion, for 500,000 gold rubles.

There is one marshal alone, four generals, and hundreds of other generals.

Judging by Youngolda's intelligence experience, the veracity of this list is very doubtful, and if he were from a private point of view, he would never believe that so many Red Army generals betrayed the Soviet Union.

However, after some investigation, he was extremely surprised to find that half of the generals on the list had indeed been in contact with unknown foreigners for a period of time, some of them had really accepted the so-called 'Red Revolution Sponsorship Fee' from international friends who sponsored the Red Soviet Union, and some of them had received unnamed money from their immediate family members, although they did not receive it themselves.

At this time, he was keenly aware of why Yezhov, one of his damned competitors, had to pay a lot of money for this list.

Knowing Stalin, he knew that this list would be of the greatest help to Stalin's ideas of personal skepticism and individual rights.

Perhaps, Stalin himself did not believe that so many Soviet Red Army generals colluded with the French, but what does it matter? As Youngoda knew, Stalin also did not believe the list given by the Germans, but he still ordered a strict investigation, severe punishment, and a severe and speedy sentence.

Although the information obtained from the German side went through repeated so-called investigations, evidence collection, and committee discussions, no one dared to oppose Stalin's decision, and in the end, after these cuts, Stalin obtained a satisfactory result for him.

Whatever Stalin needs, he should provide, and as for whether this list obtained from the Chinese is wronged, it should be judged by the wise Comrade Stalin.

"The wise Comrade Stalin, who, after a detailed and meticulous investigation by the NKVD, has found out that at least 55 people have direct problems, 35 have indirect problems with their relatives, and the problems of others are not particularly clear, and these traitors may be as deeply hidden as the list of the Germans." Yagoda said without pause, several of the generals on this Chinese list even had a drink with him a few days ago, talking and laughing, but what does it matter? All for the great USSR, as well as power, status.

"Comrade Yagoda, you are doing a good job." Stalin nodded in satisfaction, then waved his hand and said in his usual tone, "I will give this list a very detailed and in-depth final examination, and the great Soviet Union will never wronged any real comrade, nor will it spare any counter-revolutionary and traitor." I will spend one night selecting the sinners among them.

Tomorrow, you come to me and take the vetted list. As the chairman of the NKVD, you have a very heavy responsibility, and you should know that this time, the enemies of the great Soviet Union are very insidious, they are hiding deeply, and the whole world is trying to treat us as enemies, then, even more, we should not keep the enemy in our own bodies. We are going to mobilize the forces of the entire Soviet Union and get them out together. Go ahead and do these three things well, my Comrade Yagoda. ”

"Yes! Wise Comrade Stalin, all for the USSR. ”

There was no unbearability in Yagoda's heart, but a trace of excitement flashed. There were three major things, one of which was to deal with the list that had been personally confirmed by Stalin from the Germans, one was to take the second list tomorrow, and the third was to bring out from prison 5,000 'opponents of the great Soviet cause' by order of the great Comrade Stalin and put them to death.

As soon as Yagoda left, Stalin put down his pipe, and the corners of his mouth showed the smile of his customary surname, which was a smile of control, and then he took up his pen, drew a small circle at random on the list, circled four or five names, and put down the pen.

He seems to see the future, the great Soviet Union, this red purge will go deep into the army, and these people will pay their own 'efforts' for the strength of the Soviet Union in an alternative way. And themselves, through this movement, will become the supreme power of the great Soviet Union.

Han Jing, Nan Yuan" Chairman of the Committee, this is a report that has just been sent back from the Soviet Union. ”

Luo Feng, Minister of Special Intelligence of the Republic, knocked on the door and walked into Zhang Shusheng's office under the guidance of Mao Yunxian.

"The personnel of the Soviet Special Intelligence Department are moving very quickly."

Zhang Shusheng stopped the pen in his hand, it took him two full hours to deal with the technical problem about the gyroscope used in the rocket just now, and Luo Feng had just finished writing it when he came in.

From time to time, a staff member of the Supreme Science and Technology Committee knocked on the door and walked into the office, took the scientific and technological information from Zhang Shusheng's hand after standing up and saluting, and walked out, and this S-class scientific and technological information will be secretly sent to the Rocket Research Center in the southwest in the form of the Science and Technology Committee. They have been waiting for this information for a long time, and the key surname information has not been able to be solved perfectly, so the problem can only be handed over to the Supreme Science and Technology Committee. Zhang Shusheng happened to be fine, so he dealt with it personally.

Luo Feng first handed over a simple report, and then said: "Judging from the current situation, Stalin's personal will has changed dramatically, and at present, the special departments of the Soviet Union are acting urgently, and they will carry out three large-scale purges. According to the analysis of our special intelligence, there is reason to believe that Stalin will unleash a great red purge throughout the Soviet Union.

In the list we have given, Stalin finally crossed out a few names, including Vasilevsky, and all the others were put into purge, and it is expected that the people on this list will be slightly later than those who are the so-called 'core members of the Trotsky-Linoviev Terror Center', and will probably be purged in the second group at the beginning of 1937. ”

"Well, well done. We must also get a good grasp of this work, and as soon as we have the opportunity, we should add firewood to the great purge of the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union has a thick foundation, and the fire is not big enough, and it is not burned thoroughly enough. Zhang Shusheng said with emotion, this Stalin is indeed very crazy, he is not stupid, but a very cunning politician, but because of madness, he has done some things that have left the Soviet Union behind.

Originally, in August 1936 and January 1937, the Soviet Union purged 30 senior Soviet party and government officials twice, and most of them were executed by shooting, from the former senior party leaders to the generals of the Red Army. During the entire purge, which lasted for more than two years, 1/5 of the total number of cadres in the army were executed and purged, including three marshals, Tukhachevsky, Yegorov and Bryucher; 17 of the 20 corps-level cadres, all 11 Deputy People's Commissars of National Defense; commanders of all military districts, nearly half of the military commissars and directors of political departments of military districts; All army commanders, almost all division commanders and brigade commanders, political commissars of most corps, divisions, and brigades, nearly half of the regimental commanders, and nearly 1/3 of the regimental political commissars.

The crazy Soviet Union, the crazy Stalin, even the Soviet Red Army, which was so badly damaged, was able to stop Germany in World War II, and it has to be said that the Soviet people had deep roots and a vast territory that could make the enemy desperate.

What Zhang Shusheng has to do is to add some firewood to this fire.

His idea is not extreme, he can kill more Soviet staff officers, kill more middle-level generals, after all, in the future battlefield, weaken some Soviet Red Army command class than in the original history, which is beneficial to the German offensive and the Sino-Soviet war.

Fighting with a regiment commanded by an old Soviet Red Army officer is certainly not as comfortable as fighting with a new officer who has just graduated from a military academy for two years, or an officer who has just risen from the rank of company commander or battalion commander.

As for the list provided to Stalin, Zhang Shusheng never particularly cared about it, even if this time failed, the Ministry of Special Intelligence would organize the next time, and since Stalin was going to be purged, then the Ministry of Special Intelligence would have the opportunity to add firewood to the fire.

After all, history is inhumane, and some things that seem ridiculous to later generations and will not even be able to do by a pig are ordered to be done by some so-called great men for various reasons in the original history.

They are not stupid, because they can derive huge benefits, especially political benefits, from these so-called 'groundbreaking events' that ordinary people are difficult to realize.

There are no most ridiculous political events, only the most ruthless politicians.

"Chairman ......"

Luo Feng paused slightly and said.

"Anything to say, there are no outsiders here." Zhang Shusheng waved his hand and signaled, if Hitler and Stalin both need henchmen in terms of safety work, they also need it, there is no doubt that Luo Feng is.

"I want to ...... I would like to be transferred to the Commercial Investigation Bureau. ”

Zhang Shusheng raised his head, looked at Luo Feng with a serious expression, and shook his head, "It's not the time yet, let's wait for next year." ”

Luo Feng said that he didn't understand the transfer. is in a high position and is in charge of one of the two highest intelligence departments of the republic, and after a long time, there will be a sense of crisis, or a sense of self-crisis.

After the founding of the Republic, the Commercial Investigation Department of the former Shusheng Company developed too fast, and under Zhao Ziyun's many years of operation, the intelligence work has been able to form a parallel reading investigation capability with the Special Intelligence Department.

Luo Feng meant that he wanted to change positions with Zhao Ziyun, and he had never shared his worries for the chairman.

However, what Luo Feng didn't know was that since he dared to use it, Zhang Shusheng had absolute hole cards and absolute and more secret supervision power. If there were no hole cards, Zhang Shusheng was just an ordinary visitor from time and space, then things would definitely be different.

At the moment when Luo Feng walked out of the door, Zhang Shusheng suddenly stopped him.

"Luo Feng, you have always been one of the people I trust the most. I hope that this trust will transcend politics. ”

(To be continued)