Chapter 314
His lover and his wife work in the same department and there is a subordinate relationship between them. Anyone would probably feel distressed. Fortunately, Angelica doesn't know about this yet, otherwise, no one knows how she would react.
Forget it, let's not think about such distressing things for the time being. As the saying goes: There is always a way out when you reach the mountain. No matter how troublesome things are, they will always pass. Yuri's mentality is still relatively good. People who are able to survive the war often have a very good mentality.
After smoking a cigarette, Yuri got up and went downstairs to the lawn to help with the decoration and wait for the first batch of guests to arrive.
In order to cope with the unfortunate rain, a white tent was set up on the lawn. It was not a tent with side walls, but just a tent roof supported by triangular iron frames, covering most of the lawn. The staff who helped in the villa area discussed that after the wedding, the tent could be kept and moved to the swimming pool, so that everyone could continue to use the swimming pool on rainy days in summer.
Yuri naturally would not pay attention to these details. This villa area itself belongs to the People's Commissariat of State Security, and its security work is the responsibility of the Kremlin Command Bureau. In other words, the expenses and security defense work here belong to the same system as the Kremlin.
It must be made clear here that the People's Commissariat of State Security is not the same as the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. In the history of the Soviet Union, the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs once existed as a long-term powerful department with a wide range of powers, including the police, militia, prison system, border guard system, internal affairs troops, counterintelligence, intelligence, etc. , all of which were under its control.
In 1941, before the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the People's Commissariat of State Security was separated from the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs and became an independent department, which was mainly responsible for intelligence work, counterintelligence work and security work. This department was directly under the jurisdiction of the Soviet People's Committee.
However, the People's Commissariat for State Security only existed for a few months. With the outbreak of the Great Patriotic War, the Germans launched . In order to more secure the national security situation, it was merged into the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs.
But last year, as the war situation improved, Comrade Stalin once again issued an order to separate the People's Commissariat of State Security from the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs and make it an independent department.
In fact, from these two department adjustments, we can also vaguely guess that Comrade Stalin was not at ease with the NKVD, which had too much power. This is also a very normal idea. After all, the NKVD before the split not only managed the militia and police of the entire Soviet Union, but also managed all prison guards, border guards, and the border guard system and internal security system with a large number of troops. To be honest, the military power in the hands of a NKVD is greater than that of any military district commander. The existence of such a department is not conducive to the long-term stability of the Soviet political situation.
Stalin's series of measures after the war were indeed intended to weaken the power of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs. For example, he separated the militia system from the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, handed over the prison and prison guard management system to the Executive Bureau of the Disarmament Working Committee, and then assigned the elite internal security forces in the war to the Moscow Military District. Under these measures, the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs is no longer as large as it used to be.
In fact, Yuri didn't know much about the Soviet organizational system in his previous life. Otherwise, he would understand one thing, that is, the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs is still very large. The KGB, which once made the entire Western world feel uneasy, was just an agency under the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs. Of course, it just hadn't developed yet.
Yuri stayed on the lawn where the wedding banquet was set up for a while, and guests came one after another. Of course, the first to come was Angelica's father, Kleinmov, and accompanying him was Comrade Sherbakov, who was in charge of hosting the wedding.
Following the two men came a group of military generals from the General Political Department, the General Staff, and the People's Commissariat of Defense, most of whom had fought alongside Yuri, such as Rokossovsky, Vasilevsky, Antonov, etc. In fact, there were many senior military commanders who were ready to attend Yuri's wedding, but because of their ranks, they could not come, so Yuri could only host a banquet for them later.
Nearing eight o'clock, Comrade Beria, a member of the Presidium of the Central Committee who was always serious and did not like to join in the fun, was the first to arrive. With him came a young man with an equally serious expression.
Sergei Nikiforovich Kruglov is indeed a young man. He was born in 1907 and is only 37 years old now. He is only four or five years older than Yuri. Moreover, from the speed of his rise, this comrade Kruglov climbed faster than Yuri. When he was 32 years old, he was already the deputy commissar of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs and the first deputy of Comrade Beria. There are rumors that the former Soviet Marshal Mikhail Nikolayevich Tukhachevsky was shot by him personally. In the Soviet military system, there are many people who hate this guy.
Yuri did not have the slightest favorable impression towards these two guys. On the contrary, he even kept a respectful distance from Beria. As for Kruglov, Yuri believed that this guy would not have any favorable impression towards him either. After all, he had taken away most of the power from him. Before the establishment of the Disarmament Working Committee, Kruglov was mainly responsible for the prison system and construction work in the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs. Now, the management authority of the prison system had been transferred to the Executive Bureau, and Kruglov's power had shrunk by more than half in an instant.
However, no matter how reluctant he was to deal with these two people, they were still guests after all, and it would be inappropriate for Yuri not to go up and say hello. Fortunately, not long after the two men arrived, Comrades Zhdanov and Voznesensky also arrived, and Yuri was finally able to get rid of the two bloody guys.
Both Zhdanov and Voznesensky were very enthusiastic towards Yuri, not only today, but also at other times. Perhaps this was because Yuri was from Leningrad and grew up there. At the same time, he could be said to have grown up there.
Although Yuri never had a clear political stance, nor did he get involved in any disputes between the Leningrad and Moscow factions, and he did not even have any obvious contact with any forces in Soviet politics, it seemed that people like Zhdanov still had a sense of closeness to him.
In fact, the reason for this situation is mainly because Yuri never accepted promotion from anyone during his growth. Of course, the appointment and promotion from Comrade Stalin cannot be counted.
His growth process started from graduating from the military academy, becoming a second lieutenant, and then obtaining an opportunity for further study through a false military merit. His subsequent promotions were all obtained on the battlefield. Even Comrade Khrushchev, who had a close relationship with him, did not promote him. After the war, he proposed a disarmament committee, and then became the chairman of the executive bureau of the committee through Comrade Stalin's personal appointment. It can be said that every step of his promotion was made by Comrade Stalin himself. If we have to talk about factions, then he is a real Stalin faction.
In the past, although Yuri had made the decision to cling to Khrushchev, his contact with Khrushchev was not close. Both their daily calls and meetings were kept at a very low frequency. At this point, even if Comrade Beria was monitoring him, he could not label him as a member of the same party as Khrushchev.
Fundamentally speaking, Yuri's belief was very clear. Before Comrade Stalin followed his predecessors, he would never lean towards any political faction. His only political stance was to follow Comrade Stalin closely. The reason for this was that he knew very well that as long as Comrade Stalin was still breathing, any political faction in the Soviet Union was scum.
As Zhdanov and others arrived, the people on the guest list also came one after another. By 9 o'clock, except for Comrade Stalin himself, basically everyone on the guest list was present.
In fact, the official wedding time was set at 10 a.m., but since Comrade Stalin said he was coming, shouldn't everyone rush to come early? Could it be that they wanted to wait until Comrade Stalin arrived before coming? Only a person with a low level of consciousness would do that?
In the living room on the second floor of the villa next to the swimming pool, Comrade Kleinmov, who was Angelica's father and had rushed back from Belarus, felt a little awkward. He stood in front of the French window in the living room, looking at the awning not far downstairs, and kept hesitating whether he should go down.
From the moment he went upstairs, he had been standing by the window, thinking that if someone he knew came, he would have someone to talk to during the wedding. He stood in front of the French window for nearly two hours, counting the number of guests in his mind... and finally came to a conclusion that he knew everyone who came, but he could not necessarily talk to them, because they were not necessarily familiar with him. After all, he had only heard of most of them in newspapers or on the radio, and in reality, he was not at a level that could reach them.
