Chapter 316
Yalta is a small coastal city on the southern coast of the Crimean Peninsula.
It is really a small city, especially in this day and age, the entire city has a population of only over 10,000 people, but even so, it is still a world-famous city. As for the reason, it naturally stems from the Yalta Conference that year. A place where the three giants met has reason to be famous anyway.
This was not the first time Yuri came to this place, but it was the first time he came here under the pretext of vacation.
In order to let him have a comfortable vacation and to show his preferential treatment to him, Comrade Stalin even arranged his own private plane to bring him and Angela over, and also arranged for Livadia Palace to be his place of residence.
However, Yuri is not a person who does not know when to advance or retreat. He and Angelica did not live in the luxurious Livadia Palace, but chose Swallow Castle on the cliff halfway up the mountain. In his opinion, this place is not so high-profile. At the same time, the scenery is very good. It doesn’t take much time to take a car from here to the beach, which is very convenient.
The Turkish-style Swallow Castle is located on a cliff halfway up the mountain. The castle faces the hillside , with a cliff tens of meters high behind it and the vast Black Sea below it. This castle, which was built decades ago, is extremely solid. Although an earthquake at the time shook off the spire on the top floor of the castle, it did not cause any damage to the overall structure of the castle.
At the back of the castle, on the second floor, there is a long corridor that surrounds half of the castle. Every morning and evening, Yuri and Angelia come here to enjoy the sunrise and sunset. The scenery is so beautiful that it is intoxicating. Of course, one thing they like to do more is to do the things that men and women like most on this corridor. Anyway, they don't have to worry about being seen, and they can also feel a different kind of excitement.
After the marriage, Angelica always behaved very submissively in front of Yuri, and almost always agreed to his requests in some private matters, even those that were a little excessive. This made Yuri feel that getting married was not a bad thing.
It was dusk, and half of the orange-red sunset had sunk below the sea level. The entire bay was reflected in a light golden color by the afterglow of the setting sun. In the reflection of the waves, dots of silver scales flashed, forming a very special beauty with the dark sky.
On the corridor at the back of the castle, Yuri, wearing only a pair of large shorts, sat on a sofa, looking down at a report in his hand. Even though he was on honeymoon leave, he still did not neglect the work that needed to be done.
His life is very regular now. He reads the newspaper during breakfast every morning. After breakfast, he takes a walk on the beach with Anjelia, which takes about an hour. At about nine o'clock, he handles some work on this corridor, then has lunch. After that, he accompanies Anjelia to play, swim, or go fishing. After five o'clock in the afternoon, he will come to this corridor to see the scenery or look at documents.
This kind of quiet and leisurely life may make people feel uncomfortable at first, but after a few days, they will feel obsessed with it and even have the desire to keep it forever and never change it.
Less than two meters away from Yuri, at a 45-degree corner of the corridor, Angelica, wearing a long skirt, was also sitting on a sofa, crossing her legs and flipping through a document.
Similar to Yuri, Angelica is actually very busy at work because she has just been transferred back to Moscow and has been promoted. However, her main task now is to familiarize herself with the work she will need to master in the future.
The full name of the Soviet Communist Youth League is the Leninist Communist Youth League. It is also the cadre reserve organization of the Bolshevik Party. However, its work tasks are slightly different from those in China because it has more functions and more practical things to do.
Throughout the Soviet system, the Communist Youth League controlled numerous "youth commandos" organizations, which were not used for combat, but to learn various skills and participate in various labors. As a member of the Communist Youth League, the main task was not to pay membership fees and participate in voluntary labor, but also to learn various skills. Almost everyone had to learn one or two skills and obtain the corresponding level certificate.
This kind of learning is not the kind of perfunctory learning that only learns the fur and pretends to learn, but real learning. The skills learned are similar to carpentry, leatherwork, electrician, tractor driver, etc. At a certain time, the Communist Youth League members who learn the same skills will form a "commando team" and use the skills they have mastered to participate in specific compulsory labor. According to the rules of the Leninist Communist Youth League, those who fail to obtain skill certificates or fail to meet the compulsory labor hours will be expelled from the organization.
For example, Anjieliya, a pretty girl, actually has the certificates of Grade 3 carpenter and Grade 2 electrician. Who would dare to believe it? Moreover, since she joined the Communist Youth League, she has done more than 400 days of voluntary labor, which is more than a year.
Seriously speaking, Yuri, a former member of the Communist Youth League, does have some skills. His predecessor was a tractor driver, but unfortunately he did not inherit the tractor driving skills. In other words, if he and Angelica were unemployed at the same time, he might not be able to survive, but Angelica should be fine.
Angelica, who had just been transferred to Moscow, was full of energy. Based on her family situation and mainly Yuri's identity, she was planning to submit a report to the Central Executive Committee of the Communist Youth League, proposing a nationwide league member activity.
This activity is based on a number of "youth commandos" and cooperates with the Executive Bureau of the Disarmament Working Committee to organize a voluntary labor movement for young league members. Its main content is to let these "youth commandos" join different construction corps and participate in the construction of the motherland in the form of voluntary labor.
In Angelica's plan, the significance of this "movement" is that the skills and knowledge mastered by the young league members can be used to assist the various construction corps to do their work better. At the same time, during the labor, the skill level of these construction corps can also be improved through training.
As a youth league organization, its main work focus is to organize a variety of positive activities. Putting aside those lofty reasons, for a youth league cadre, his personal ability, professional and political level are reflected through the continuous organization of such activities. The more novel and positive the activities organized, the more comprehensive the consideration of issues, and the more enthusiastic the social response, the more it can reflect the ability level. In other words, a youth league cadre who can only convey spirit and make empty statements has no future.
In essence, Angelica herself was quite capable and at least had a keen political sense. She was aware of the problems that the Soviet Union urgently needed to solve, and she also understood the focus of the power core. At the same time, she had her own ideas.
Just like the activity she was planning now, she came up with this idea quickly after listening to Yuri's simple two complaints.
Problems in production and engineering construction of the Executive Bureau of the Disarmament Working Committee are currently being exposed. Among them, the most critical issue is that the soldiers who were laid off from the army and formed various construction corps generally have a low level of education. After all, those with a higher level of education are considered high-quality soldiers and will not be laid off in the first wave of disarmament.
As for the prisoners of war, it goes without saying that the German prisoners of war were relatively better, but those from Eastern European countries, especially the Japanese prisoners of war, had almost nothing but their strength.
The value of such labor is relatively low. If they are just doing some physical labor, there is no problem, but they generally cannot do any work that requires some skills.
The key issue is that whether it is the development of the Propyat River basin, the planting of farmland, the construction of roads, or the construction of projects, these tasks cannot be done by human strength alone, and at least certain technical guidance is required.
After nearly four years of war, the Soviet Union was still short of technical personnel in production and construction. The current situation was that nearly 2,000 destroyed towns needed to be rebuilt, tens of thousands of factories needed to be restored, thousands or even tens of thousands of kilometers of roads and railways needed to be repaired, and countless farmlands needed to resume production. This almost massive amount of work not only required a huge amount of labor, but also a huge amount of technical personnel to provide guidance.
Therefore, Angelica believes that calling on a large number of Communist Youth League members to participate in voluntary labor and voluntary training activities in the form of a "youth assault team" is a very meaningful thing. At the same time, it is also an activity that will inevitably have a great influence.
If this can be accomplished, it will definitely add a highlight to her personal resume, and perhaps entering the Executive Committee of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League will not be such a difficult task.
The most important thing is that she has a convenient condition for organizing such an activity. That is, at the beginning, she does not need to make such a big fuss. She can first cooperate with the Executive Bureau of the Disarmament Committee through Yuri's relationship, or even with a specific construction corps. After achieving certain results, she can transform this "activity" into a "movement" and promote it throughout the Soviet Union.
Of course Yuri fully supports his new wife's enthusiasm for work. After all, it is not a big deal for him. Moreover, he feels that he has an obligation to support his wife's ambition.
