Chapter 363
In Yuri's memory, there was a saying in his previous life that the AK could fire 15,000 rounds of bullets without deforming the muzzle. He didn't know if this was accurate, nor did he know if the 15,000 rounds mentioned here were continuous firing or life span. At least, there was no such statistic in the current test data. The existing statistics showed that after firing 15 magazines in a row, the accuracy would not be affected.
Of course, the current test is only a preliminary test, and there will be a series of more specific and more difficult tests in the future. However, those are not what Yuri needs to worry about.
In the past few years of war, Yuri has not used many firearms. Among the submachine guns, the one he has used the most is the PPSh. Today, he tried the AK for the first time. If he makes a comparison, he really thinks the PPSh is better. At least when shooting continuously, the recoil of the AK has a great impact on the shooting accuracy.
Moreover, Yuri also discovered that when the AK was unloading, the cartridge case flew too far. When a shot was fired, the cartridge case jumped out of the ejection chamber and flew two steps away. In actual combat, this could easily expose the shooter's position.
After firing three magazines in a row, Yuri was satisfied. He threw the hot assault rifle to a soldier beside him and said to Goldberg, who was standing not far behind him, with a smile: "Yes, if we had such an excellent assault rifle a few years ago, we would have shed less blood."
"Comrade Marshal is right," Goldberg said with a smile.
Yuri fumbled in his pocket, pulled out a pack of cigarettes, tossed one to the other person, lit one for himself, then looked up at the sky.
The originally hazy morning light had now completely dissipated, but what was revealed was not the sunshine, but dark and gloomy clouds.
Feeling a hint of coolness on his face, Yuri reached out and touched it, and found that it was water droplets. Oh, not water droplets , but snowflakes, as small as millet grains.
The first snow of this year!
Yuri took the initiative to shake hands with Goldberg, turned around and walked back. When passing by the gun platform, he picked up a brand new AK, threw it to his guard, and then walked straight to the parking lot.
Behind him , the second lieutenant in charge of firearms opened his mouth, looking as if he wanted to say something but hesitated.
According to regulations, these new firearms used for testing are confidential. Whether they are released from the warehouse or inspected, they need to be approved by the higher authorities, and the relevant personnel must sign the records. Now, Yuri not only tried these new guns, but also took one away. If he does not sign, the lieutenant will be in trouble.
However, the man of great skill would definitely not let him ask Comrade Marshal to sign, so he rushed over and signed first.
After leaving the shooting range, Yuri took Filia to the hunting ground. At this time of year, hunting deer or foxes are both good choices. The vast virgin jungles within the Soviet Union are home to a large number of wild animals, and hunting is an activity permitted by law.
However, Yuri was definitely not an expert in hunting. Real experts in hunting all had their own hunting dogs. There was a high degree of tacit understanding between hunters and their dogs. Although the hunting dogs provided by the hunting ground were all well-trained good dogs, they did not have that kind of tacit understanding. So after a morning of hunting, the only prey they got was a fat rabbit that had somehow injured its leg.
Filia was soft-hearted and refused to stew the injured fat rabbit. She was determined to take the rabbit home to heal its wounds and adopt it. So, the only prey flew away and turned from a meal into a godson.
After a relaxing morning, Yuri parted ways with Filia and took a car back to Moscow. As a marshal with real power, it was rare for him to have a day or two of leisure time. Even when he was on vacation, he had to deal with some official business.
This year, winter came a little early in Moscow, and with the arrival of the first snow of the year, many things need to be arranged.
First, the construction project of the Palace of Soviets had to be temporarily suspended. As the construction of the Palace of Soviets came to a standstill, Yuri then planned to include the construction project of the Ministry of Heavy Industry Building into the plan.
This winter, according to Yuri's plan, the Disarmament Working Committee plans to transfer the 24th and 31st Production and Construction Corps from eastern Poland to Ukraine and Kazakhstan respectively.
The mission of the 24th Production and Construction Corps was to go to Donetsk-Dnepropetrovsk to monitor the prisoners of war mining granite there. This stone was not only a much-needed building material for the Palace of the Soviets, but also the main building material for the seven important engineering projects planned by Yuri.
Ukraine's high-end granite slabs are famous all over the world and are called Ukrainian diamonds. On the line from Donetsk to Dnepropetrovsk, Ukrainian black diamonds, royal blue diamonds, and Santiago red diamonds are all produced in large quantities.
The 31st Production and Construction Corps will be transferred to Aktobe in Kazakhstan, a place that not only produces various colors of granite, but also high-quality marble. Marble slabs are also urgently needed by Moscow.
To be honest, the Soviet economy has not yet truly recovered to its pre-war level, and there are huge gaps in funding and resources in all aspects. At this time, carrying out large-scale engineering projects like this is really a waste of money and time. The greater the investment, the more serious the damage to the national economy.
But fortunately, Yuri has a large number of prisoners of war at his disposal. These prisoners are the best labor force, and labor is also the most scarce resource in the Soviet Union. The use of prisoners of war can minimize the impact of such large-scale projects on the national economy. After all, these are a group of people who eat the least but can do high-intensity physical labor.
It was during the five years after the war that the Disarmament Committee led by Yuri carried out a brutal treatment of prisoners of war in World War II. Death from overwork, injuries and other factors resulted in a large reduction in the number of prisoners of war. For this reason, Yuri became the devil portrayed by the Western world in the Cold War confrontation between the East and the West.
However, this was somewhat unfair to Yuri, because his job was to complete his assigned tasks. In the process, he only knew which places lacked labor and which batch of prisoners could be sent there. As for what kind of life those prisoners lived, how bad the working environment was, and how many people died every day, he would not pay attention to it - he was a soldier, just like when commanding a battle, he would only determine the corresponding battle plan and require the troops to capture a certain place at a certain time. As for how cruel the battle was and how many people died, he would not pay attention to it either.
One general's success is the result of the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers; it is nothing more than this.
As the construction of the Palace of Soviets in Moscow stalled, the development of the Propyat River basin entered its second phase.
According to Yuri's plan, the production and construction corps responsible for the development of the Propyat River basin will continue to expand arable land to the outskirts of the Polesye swamp during the four months of this winter. The work is expected to open up 8,000 to 10,000 hectares of arable land in the outskirts of Polesye before the beginning of next spring.
In the Soviet Union, not everyone agreed with the development plan for the Propyat River basin. Within the Soviet Academy of Sciences, meteorologists and biologists had already raised objections to the project. They believed that the erosion of the Polesye swamp area would have a significant impact on the local climate environment and was a foolish move for human activities to interfere with the natural landscape.
Yuri was naturally aware of these objections, because later science had proven that the existence of swamp terrain was indeed necessary, but the problem was that in human society, science often could not influence politics, and the development of the Propyat River basin had very important political factors.
Therefore, before Yuri could even react to such objections, countless people had already jumped out to refute them, saying that those who opposed the development project in the Propyat River basin were opposing the construction of the great Soviet motherland, opposing the Soviet people, and being traitors and spies. It was so easy to put such accusations on people.
Since the end of the autumn harvest not long ago, the whole of Moscow has been won over by the fruitful prospects of the Propyat River development project. According to the estimates of the Ministry of Agriculture and the Agro-Industrial Complex Committee, once the twelfth phase of the Propyat River basin development project is completed, the newly developed arable land will be as much as 5 million hectares, equivalent to one-eighth of Ukraine, and the total amount of grain submitted annually is expected to reach 1 million to 1.2 million tons.
For the Soviet Union, which had a huge food gap, this temptation was irresistible. Comrade Stalin dreamed of making his empire self-sufficient in food. Therefore, the entire Soviet leadership will not only not give up the development project in the Propyat River Basin, they are even planning to include the development project in the Volga River Basin in the work arrangements in the next five-year plan.
The first three generations of Soviet leaders had an almost paranoid concern for food, because everyone knew that people's stomachs were related to the stability of the entire regime. Yuri was very clear about this, so he tried his best to make achievements on this issue. As for the impact of occupying swamps on the environment, to be honest, he didn't care at all.
In addition to quarrying and developing arable land, Yuri has another thing to do right now. As December approaches, a very important day is about to arrive - Comrade Stalin's birthday.
Last year, Comrade Zhdanov proposed to celebrate Comrade Stalin's birthday properly, but because the war had just ended, Comrade Stalin rejected the proposal. This year, Comrade Zhdanov once again made the suggestion, and Stalin did not agree, but did not oppose it either.
"You guys figure it out," was Yuri's understanding.
