Chapter 299
In an almost new apartment on the banks of the Moscow River, Yuri woke up from his sleep, rubbed his eyes, lifted the thin blanket on his body, and turned over to sit up in bed.
The bedroom was dimly lit. The curtains in front of the window opposite the bed were closed. Only dim light seeped in through the not very thick curtains, providing some vague illumination in the bedroom.
I reached out and took my watch from the bedside, and looked at it in the little light. It was only six o'clock, so it was still early.
Wiping his face, Yuri turned his head to look at the bed. The space on the other side of the double bed was empty, with only a black pajamas discarded near the pillow.
Putting on his slippers, Yuri walked to the window and pulled open the curtains.
Outside the window, not far away is the quietly flowing Moscow River. The weather is very bad today and it is raining outside. A tugboat is slowly passing by on the river not far away. A man in a raincoat can be seen waving a small flag on the bow of the tugboat towards the other side of the river. No one knows what he is doing.
Rubbing his tense face vigorously, Yuri turned around and walked towards the door of the living room. This house was newly assigned to him by the General Staff. Planning began after the end of the Battle of Moscow, and construction was completed at the end of last year. It was specially provided as housing for the General Staff personnel.
Nowadays, housing in Moscow is not so tight, so this house is very spacious, with four bedrooms and two living rooms. In addition, there is a kitchen, balcony, toilet and bathroom. Of course, this is specially prepared for the leaders, and ordinary people don't have a large area.
Pulling open the half-open bedroom door, there is a spacious living room outside, with exquisite carpets from Turkey on the floor, and all the furniture was shipped from Siberia. No matter how he tried to avoid it, Yuri had to admit that with the end of the war, the Soviet leadership began to pay attention to the corresponding welfare issues. In an apartment like this, everything is provided free of charge, and the treatment that can be enjoyed varies greatly according to the level of position.
In the living room, a tall, slender woman was dancing on the carpet, her dancing was graceful and elegant, like an elegant ballet. However, in Yuri's eyes, he did not feel elegance, but sexiness, because the woman was only wearing a thin long-sleeved cotton shirt, which was a pullover style.
The hem of the cotton shirt was very long, covering the woman's buttocks. Further down were two long bare legs. Perhaps due to long-term dance practice, the muscles on the woman's calves were relatively developed, but it did not destroy her beauty. Moreover, her skin was very white, as white as cream.
As the woman danced, the hem of her cotton shirt was lifted up from time to time, revealing her naked lower body frequently, which was mouth-watering.
In fact, it seems inappropriate to call her a woman, because she is obviously not very old. Judging from her appearance, she is only about nineteen or twenty years old at most. Her delicate face still carries a bit of immaturity that shows she is ignorant of the world.
Seeing Yuri walking out of the bedroom naked, the girl stopped dancing, smiled at him, and then walked towards him quickly. When she was more than two steps away from him, her flexible body suddenly jumped up on the spot, her two energetic thighs spread apart, and she actually jumped towards him.
Yuri laughed, opened his arms, caught the girl just right, held her elastic buttocks with both hands, let her wrap her legs around his waist, and said with a smile: "Why are you up so early?"
" I'm used to it," the girl smiled and said, "Besides, I'm not used to the new place."
This girl is Ligia, a ballet dancer of the Red Flag Song and Dance Troupe, and now she is Yuri's lover. Although Yuri was criticized by Stalin because of this woman and even wrote a self-criticism, Yuri was not interested in changing his private life because he could see that Comrade Stalin not only did not intend to punish him for this problem, but on the contrary, he seemed to be very satisfied with his problem.
Yes, people who have problems are obviously easier to trust. On the contrary, those absolutely great and honest people who have no problems at all are the ones who are really hard to trust.
Look at Comrade Zhukov. Although he always wants to do everything to the best of his ability and looks serious all day long, once Comrade Stalin wants to make trouble for him, isn't it easy to find him? As for Comrade Yuri, hey, he likes to have affairs with men and women. As long as he has this problem, it is not too easy for Stalin to make trouble for him. Therefore, unless it is a special time, Comrade Stalin will probably not make trouble for him again. After all, a low-key and obedient guy with good personal ability but a lot of problems is the best to use.
Things between men and women are not only infatuated by young and strong men, but also by girls who have just tasted the forbidden fruit. It was early morning, when people have the most energy in the day, and a man and a woman in the living room quickly became one.
There was the sound of rain outside the window, but inside the window there was a mixture of moans and gasps, with some inexplicable sounds in between.
I don't know how much time had passed, but when Yuri was at the window sending all his excess energy deep into the girl's body, there was a knock on the door at the right time.
He put down the girl's long leg that was on his shoulder and helped her stand against the wall. Yuri rubbed her large breasts greedily and asked with a gasp, "What's wrong?"
"Comrade General, the time is almost up and we should set off." Kryuchkov's young voice came from outside the door.
"Okay, I'll wash up and be ready soon," Yuri kissed and said, "I'm going to work now and come back in the evening."
In terms of status, Kryuchkov is Yuri's secretary, so he doesn't have to follow him around every day. But there is no other way. This young man is full of energy and works very hard. He has to follow Yuri almost every day and almost does all the work of a guard.
After a simple wash and a quick shower, half an hour later, Yuri was dressed and left the residence.
These days, the corresponding personnel work of the Executive Bureau of the Disarmament Working Group has been basically completed. The entire department has been rapidly expanded, the corresponding personnel have been in place one after another, and the functional departments have begun to operate normally.
As the head of the Executive Bureau, Yuri has now shifted the main focus of work from all aspects of the Executive Bureau to the "7102 Plan", because this is an order issued by Comrade Stalin himself, and all current government work must give way to this plan.
As one of the main assistants involved in the plan, Yuri only got the authority to understand the plan in detail from the previous meeting. Moreover, he only had the authority to understand the plan. He still had no power to access the progress of the plan and related core matters.
But even so, Yuri was very satisfied. From a practical point of view, it was already very rare to get the opportunity to participate in this project.
There were only three core decision makers for the entire "7102 Plan": Comrade Stalin, Comrade Beria, and Comrade Kaganovich. Comrade Stalin was in charge of the overall situation. To put it bluntly, this overall situation meant that he was in charge of everything, but he was also in charge of nothing. He cared about nothing but the progress. If the task was not completed, he would punish the person who had the problem.
Comrade Beria was responsible for intelligence and confidentiality, and in reality, he did a very good job in this regard. His intelligence organization even penetrated into the core area of the US "Manhattan Project".
As for Comrade Kaganovich, he was responsible for resource allocation, but Yuri had a feeling that Comrade Stalin seemed to be weakening Kaganovich's importance in this work, otherwise Yuri himself, Bervukhin and Vannikov would not have appeared in this project.
At the core of the research project, Kurchatov ranked first, followed by Azimovich. These two people led the entire so-called "Laboratory No. 2", whose main members included Kikoin, Flerov, Petzhak, Alikhanov, Hariton and hundreds of other experts in physics, geology, chemistry, mechanical engineering and other fields.
According to what Yuri learned in the past two days, in fact, the Soviet Union's plan to develop nuclear weapons began in 1942, the second year after the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War. However, it did not receive enough attention at the beginning. At the same time, the research progress made by related parties in more than two years has been minimal.
Until this period, the intelligence organization headed by Beria obtained sufficient intelligence from the United States, confirming the importance that Britain and the United States attached to this project. Stalin then found Kurchatov and asked about the specific power of nuclear weapons. When he heard that a successful nuclear bomb could destroy the entire Japanese Combined Fleet (this was bragging), he raised the importance of this project to the current level.
Comrade Stalin's working style was always simple and rough, especially when it came to specifying work plans. His requirement for the entire project was to produce the first nuclear bomb before Britain and the United States.
But his request was opposed by experts such as Kurchatov. The reason was simple: the Soviet Union could not even enrich uranium at present. What was worse was that there were no uranium mines in the Soviet Union that could be sustainably developed. Therefore, the first step to be taken was to find uranium mines.
