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Ukraine.

Two Austin armored vehicles galloped along the road from north to south towards the Krivoyosh steel plant in Ukraine. The funeral processions seen outside the car window and the starvation on the streets made Qin Jian, director of the All-Soviet State Political Security Bureau, constantly frown. This pseudonym Ivanmyr, who lurked into the Soviet Union before the October Revolution and followed Stalin and saved his life, did not retract his gaze in the face of the tragic situation.

Now Ukraine is simply hell on earth, the great famine that has lasted for more than a year has made the whole region silent, from children to the prime of life, a large number of people die quietly every day, and there is even cannibalism in remote areas! To make matters worse, no one knows the exact number of deaths, and the cadres below have tried to shirk their responsibilities by concealing and not reporting them, so even he only knows that the death toll is between 2 million and 4 million.

In fact, famine is not uncommon in this era, but two great famines in just ten years can no longer be explained by normal natural disasters. If the first famine was caused by civil war turmoil, then the famine on Ukraine's grain-producing plains was largely due to Moscow's misguided policies. Because Stalin pursued industrial development faster than he could do, he had been exporting large quantities of grain and raw materials for ten years in order to obtain sufficient funds, with the result that food reserves were seriously insufficient.

The Soviet leadership, however, did not see this danger and carried out a large-scale collectivization of agriculture with insufficient reserves, extending the political struggle to the peasants, suppressing the kulaks and confiscating their means of production, leading to the deportation of millions of kulaks. In the Urals or Kazakhstan, where the impact of this policy is not significant, because almost all of them are poor peasants. However, Ukraine has always been the richest land in Europe, and there are many kulaks, and after the kulak class with rich experience in land cultivation was eradicated, it was not possible to find a replacement immediately, resulting in a decline in land utilization, insufficient yield from extensive farming, and so on.

Grain production plummeted from an estimated 90.7 million tonnes to 55 million tonnes, but Moscow was running out of reserves because it had sold too much grain. Therefore, since the famine, only 320,000 tons of food have been allocated for disaster relief. Use 320,000 to make up for the gap of 35 million, and everyone knows what will happen.

This tragedy also made Qin Jian admire Yang Qiu even more, because he took the opportunity of the European war to take the lead in introducing the "Cheng Cheng Act" before industrialization, which greatly promoted the enthusiasm for land reclamation and grain production, which ensured the balance between workers and peasants. Although there have been disasters for decades. But there has never been a famine of this magnitude.

When approaching the Krivoyrosh Iron Works, the vehicle suddenly slowed down. A scrawny father walked in front of the armored vehicle with his long-dead child with drooping limbs, and Qin Jian could even see the hatred and numbness in his eyes as the soldiers yelled at him to get out of the way.

After the convoy arrived at the factory area, the crowd of people waiting for work at the gate blocked the traffic again, fortunately this is a key project of the second five-year plan, so a large number of guards and soldiers were deployed, and when they saw the convoy, they quickly came over to disperse the crowd and welcomed Qin Jian into the factory.

Krivoyosh was one of the most important steel plants in the Second Five-Year Plan, which began in 1931. It is still under construction. So along the way, you can meet American, German, and even French and British technicians, and unlike the outside world, it is very bustling and prosperous, and the workers and technicians are well fed.

As soon as Mir and the soldiers got out of the car, there was a commotion, especially the armbands worn by the soldiers, which frightened everyone around them. This is a soldier of the Security Bureau! Who wants to provoke these killers? This kind of fear and panic could not hide from Qin Jian's eyes, but he was used to this kind of panic. So under the leadership of a trembling cadre, he walked to the factory area.

Qin Jian was not interested in collecting information about the factory in front of him, in fact, there was very little information worthy of his help now. The infiltration of the dragon's teeth is pervasive, and with the cover of him, the director, he has long infiltrated all walks of life in the Soviet Union.

"Comrade Kuibyshev."

"Comrade Mill? How did you get here? ”

Qin Jian quickly found the target of this trip, the Soviet industrial designer Kuibyshev. Kuibyshev was equally surprised at the sudden sight of him, and the people around him saw the bearded Tatar man walking towards him. Even more heartbeat, a few people were even frightened to take a few steps back.

"It's so big, it's no wonder you need to come and see it yourself." Qin Jian pretended to marvel at the scale of the steel plant, and pointed to the blast furnace being installed in the distance and asked, "Is it American?" ”

"It's not. It was sourced from Germany. While Kuibyshev replied, his eyes never left Qin Jian. It's not that the two have any personal relationship, but that he knows very well how terrible Qin Jian and the Political Security Bureau are, the Trotskyists, the hostile forces, the internal purge, the current round of extermination of the kulaks, and even a lot of central personnel

In the Soviet Union, they were veritable secret police and butchers, and even had the right to execute enemies without trial.

"Does Comrade Kuibyshev like German goods very much?" Qin Jian carried a gun and a stick, but Kuibyshev had a secret hatred in his heart! What the hell does this guy mean? If two years ago in the Soviet Union said that there was no problem with liking Germany, but after Hitler became chancellor, he repeatedly stated that he wanted to destroy the Soviet Union, and the contradictions between the Soviet Union and Germany increased several times, who would dare to say that he liked Germany at this time?

Kuibyshev was very annoyed, he was a commissioner no matter what he said, and when he got a secret police leader who was presumptuous, he asked him with a cold face about his intentions for coming here: "Comrade Mir, are you here to see the German steelmaking furnaces?" ”

After successfully angering Kuibyshev, Qin Jian was not angry but happy, and said with a smile: "Comrade Kuibyshev, you misunderstood, I don't mean anything else, I have come here to hope that you are worthy of explaining something." After he finished speaking, he beckoned, and the secretary behind him took out a thick stack of materials, and the soldiers who followed immediately separated the two from everyone. But even if they don't, everyone can't wait to get as far away from these "butchers" as possible.

After Kuibyshev took the document, a hint of nervousness jumped in his eyes. Because all of this is the information he led the Soviet delegation to make a big purchase in the United States at that time, and the content is outrageously detailed!

This incident has always been a thorn in his heart! Due to the Chinese sweep at that time, many of the machinery and equipment they wanted to buy were snatched away, and the price skyrocketed several times overnight, and finally the first five-year plan was completed half a year late, and the cost was billions of rubles higher than expected. After returning home, Stalin lost his temper about this, but fortunately, the United States later opened up the free convertibility of national bonds, and many countries that sold dollars used the American machines they bought to exchange gold and hard currency with the Soviet Union, and this was over.

Originally, he thought that this matter would pass like this, but he didn't expect it to be turned out again after a few years! Was it the private actions of the Security Bureau, or was it Stalin's instructions? It's not a big secret, but what if someone makes a fuss about it? You must know that Moscow now is not ten years ago, and every step must be taken carefully! So he immediately became nervous, his throat seemed to be holding a fire, it was itchy and uncomfortable, and even his fingers trembling slightly when he was looking through the documents.

These subtle movements did not hide from Qin Jian.

Others may not know, but he knows that outsiders think that Stalin was the chief architect of Soviet industry, but in fact Kuibyshev was the head of the Soviet economy. Expanding grain and oil exports, exchanging confiscated gold and silver for industrial equipment, clandestine deals with Germany and France, and finally taking advantage of the economic crisis to implement the first and second five-year plans. This man is almost a microcosm of Soviet industry and economy, and the secrets hidden in his body, if they can be made public, are enough to rewrite a lot of history!

After Qin Jian waited for him to finish reading, a cold smile slipped through the corners of his mouth, and his voice suddenly became gloomy: "Comrade Kuibyshev, please turn to page 29." This is the bill provided by Comrade Konitsev, and we found out that there are several of them with very wrong prices! Several of them were more expensive than their American counterparts at that time. ”

"That's because it was at the time when China was buying ships aggressively, which caused price volatility."

Although Konitsev was not a confidant, he was an important assistant to Kuibyshev at that time, and defending him was also defending himself. But Qin Jian didn't have a smile on his face, and waited until he finished listening to it and then took out a piece of information: "This, you can take a look at it again." ”

When Kuibyshev opened the information again, a cold sweat suddenly broke out on his back! Because it is the account of a Bank of America, and the name of the account is actually the name of Konice and his wife! That long list of numbers undoubtedly told him that someone in the delegation had taken bribes! To be honest, he really didn't know about this matter, and the American businessmen who were eager to sell and cash out at that time did show great hospitality to the delegation, and it was normal for one or two people to have problems.

But the question is, Stalin was already secretly angry because of the overtime and overspending of the five-year plan, and now that it suddenly broke out that some people in the purchasing group had taken bribes, would he be angry with himself? As if seeing his anxiety, Qin Jian suddenly changed his tone: "Comrade General Secretary is very concerned about this case, but he also does not want to wronged good people, so he specially asked me to personally invite you to return to Moscow to investigate together. I know you have nothing to do with this, but these corrupt people must be punished severely! They must not be allowed to undermine the hard-won gains of the revolution. ”

One sentence of the revolutionary achievement was equivalent to the complete declaration of Konitsev's death sentence, and even Kuibyshev's forehead began to sweat, and he now only hoped that this matter would not implicate him.

Since it was an instruction from Comrade Stalin, Kuibyshev dared to slack off and immediately got into the armored car after arranging the work. Looking at the head of the Soviet economy who was sitting beside him uneasy, the smile on the corner of Qin Jian's mouth became even bigger, and after a while, he slowly turned his head and looked at the sky when he came.

It's been almost 22 years? The teeth that were hidden back then have finally waited for the order to wake up! I just don't know what the motherland has become now......______________________