Chapter 319
As the Russian New Year approached, a heavy snow finally covered the whole of Moscow. The snow was so heavy that traffic in the city was even temporarily closed. Several old houses were collapsed by the snow. Fortunately, there were no casualties.
In order to ease traffic, the Moscow City Committee organized a large-scale voluntary snow-clearing activity. Hundreds of thousands of Moscow residents took to the streets to clear all the snow on the streets . Hundreds of trucks then transported the snow to the Moscow River and dumped it into the frozen river.
It was early in the morning. A black Volga sedan drove into the villa area and stopped outside the villa where Yuri lived. Young Kryuchkov got out of the car and saw that the door of the villa was open. Yuri and Angela were walking out of the door. He hurriedly quickened his pace and ran over to take the briefcases they were carrying.
During this period, Yuri had been going out to work with Angelica. The latter's level did not qualify her for a special car, so every day Yuri would first send her to the unit, and then go to the Disarmament Working Committee Building on Comintern Street.
Just a few months after her marriage, Angelica seemed to have gained some weight, which made her very uneasy. Recently, she has been trying to increase her physical exercise to maintain her body proportions.
After both of them got in the car, the driver started the car, left the villa area and drove onto the avenue along the river.
"Comrade Chairman, this is the letter I received last night," Kryuchkov, who was sitting in the passenger seat, turned around and handed a document to Yuri, saying, "Because it was too late, I didn't bother you."
Yuri reached out and took the document, opened the sealed envelope, pulled out the contents, looked at them carefully, and couldn't help frowning.
"What's the matter?" Angelica asked in a low voice.
"It's okay." Yuri folded the document and put it back into the file bag. He turned his head to look at his wife and smiled. "It's a document sent by the Central Supervisory Committee. They found some problems."
The document was indeed sent by the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection. It involved several corruption cases in the 4th Corps of the Propyat River Basin Production and Construction Corps. Basically, someone withheld the salaries of the Corps soldiers and enriched themselves. The amount involved was not large, less than 8,000 rubles, but the nature of the case was very bad. Most importantly, the four Corps cadres involved were all former commanders.
As a commander during the war, he drank the blood of soldiers. This kind of thing was unacceptable to Yuri himself, let alone the working group of the Supervisory Committee.
In fact, corruption is inevitable in any country, and the forms of corruption are generally similar. Take the problems found by the Supervisory Commission during this period. The most common problem is the replacement of disabled soldiers' jobs. The means are nothing more than prying away the positions originally assigned to disabled soldiers and assigning them to their relatives or friends. Another problem is withholding the resettlement fees of disabled soldiers, etc.
All issues investigated by the working group of the Supervisory Committee will be summarized to Yuri. At the same time, the Supervisory Committee will also seek his opinion on the handling of relevant cases. After all, he is the chairman of the Executive Bureau of the Disarmament Working Group. In the entire committee, he is the person who holds all the power. As for the members of the presidium of the committee above, they are just in name only.
In Yuri's opinion, the Soviet Union's supervision system is really fucked up, no, to be precise, the rules and regulations established by the relevant departments are fucked up. Take the Disarmament Working Committee for example. During the establishment of this huge organization, it was not discussed by the entire Central Committee of the Bolshevik Party, nor by the Council of People's Commissars. Instead, it was directly established after discussion by the Presidium of the Central Committee. The members of the Presidium of the Disarmament Working Committee are highly overlapped with those of the Presidium of the Central Committee.
This would give the impression that the disarmament commission was directly under the Central Committee Presidium, although this was true. It would also give the impression that the department was a temporary one and would not last long.
What about the Central Control Commission? This department responsible for supervising all party members in the Soviet Union was elected by the Central Committee and was directly under the leadership of the Central Committee.
There were two committees, one was under the direct leadership of the Presidium of the Central Committee, with Comrade Stalin as its chairman, and the other was under the direct leadership of the Central Committee, with Comrade Andreyev as its chairman. Comrade Andreyev, while serving as chairman of the latter committee, was also a member of the Presidium of the former committee.
So the question arises, on the surface, which of the two committees is higher in level? Undoubtedly, the former committee is higher in level, and this former committee is the Disarmament Working Committee.
This disordered relationship between departments highlights a very important problem, that is, compared with party discipline, Comrade Stalin was more concerned about the national economic construction and the army construction. To a certain extent, he neglected the team building of the Bolshevik Party and the importance of party style and clean government. No, it was not just him who neglected these aspects of work, but all the successive Soviet leaders ignored this work.
In the past period of time, Yuri has received many similar documents. He knows that these are all forwarded to him by Comrade Andreyev, which means that he can handle it. If Yuri really has no principles, many cases will probably be sloppy. However, Yuri did not intervene in such matters after all. He personally fully agreed with the handling opinions made by the Supervisory Committee.
After sending Anjelia to the office building of the Central Committee of the Communist Youth League, Yuri went directly to the office building of the Disarmament Working Committee. He had a lot of work to do today. Not to mention the documents waiting for his signature and approval, there were two short meetings that needed to be held in just this morning: listening to the report of the prisoner of war management department, mainly the progress report of the construction of four special cities under construction; and meeting with the directors of several subordinate general bureaus to discuss the main work content for the next year.
Near noon, I had to go to the Kremlin to report to Comrade Stalin on the work done by the Executive Bureau in the past few months, mainly the achievements made. Of course, I also had to report on the main work priorities for the next year.
To be honest, since the Disarmament Commission officially started working, Yuri felt that his work was boring. There were very few things that he really needed to do personally. Each task had a specific person in charge, and he only needed to give instructions and listen to reports. In the past few months, he had rarely left Moscow to inspect work somewhere. Of course, he had no time to do those specific tasks, which was the most important thing.
After processing documents in his office and attending two more meetings, Yuri called the Kremlin at around eleven o'clock to inquire about Comrade Stalin's work arrangements. After confirming that Comrade Stalin had free time, he left the Disarmament Working Committee by car and went directly to the Kremlin.
The car stopped in front of Comrade Stalin's office building in the Kremlin. When Yuri got off the car, he saw Vasilevsky in military uniform walking quickly out of the building. Behind him was Zhukov, who was wearing a brand new military coat but had a stern face.
When Yuri saw the two men, a smile appeared on his face. He walked over quickly and stopped two or three steps away from Vasilevsky. He stretched out his arm to shake hands with him and said with a smile: "Alexander, when did you return to Moscow?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Zhukov had already walked up to the two men. The burly marshal, who seemed to have gained some weight recently, walked straight through the two men without stopping, and walked away without looking away. Yuri and Vasilevsky were about to shake hands, but he also pushed them apart.
Yuri pursed his lips, turned his head to look at Zhukov's back, then smiled and held Vasilevsky's hand.
"I came back last night and I have to go back now," Vasilevsky's face flashed with embarrassment. He first simply answered Yuri's question, and then explained, "Comrade Zhukov was in a bad mood and was a little rude."
Yuri smiled and did not talk about Zhukov's problem. Instead, he continued to ask: "How is the situation in the Far East?"
"It's going well, but the losses are a bit heavy," Vasilevsky said. "If nothing unexpected happens, the battle is expected to be over before mid-January."
The Soviet landing operation on Hokkaido, Japan, was officially launched a week ago. With the support of the US Pacific Fleet, the landing operation went smoothly. The so-called 100 million Japanese suicide operation was obviously not as good as they imagined. In the two battles of Asahikawa and Kitami, the Soviet army successively annihilated two Japanese homeland defense corps, and thereafter, they did not encounter any stubborn resistance.
According to the General Staff's estimate, the Japanese may have given up the defense of Hokkaido and prepared to concentrate all their efforts on defending the Honshu region.
In the south, the US military won the Battle of Okinawa after paying a heavy price, and its subsequent offensive plans will be launched in January.
It is estimated that the war in the East Asian battlefield should be over soon - of course, the so-called end of the war here only means that the war against Japan is about to end, but in the entire East Asia and Southeast Asia, the war will continue, because just half a month ago, China’s civil war finally broke out inevitably.
