The Rise of the Third Reich

Suppressing counter-revolutionaries is a science!

It is the crown in the palace of human psychology. A truly successful counter-revolutionary worker must be an outstanding psychologist. He has fully grasped the weaknesses of human nature and can use simple words to make a person fall into despair and collapse, and then use simple words to make a person fall into despair and collapse. A few words can raise a glimmer of hope in the heart of a completely broken person... For this, which can be said to be an illusory hope, some people can even shout long live the executioner on the execution ground!

But such counter-revolutionary psychologists are rare even among the Soviet NKVD.

In fact, experts who have mastered the advanced counter-revolutionary psychology themselves are a threat to the Soviet regime, so they must be purged in time to ensure that the counter-revolutionary work is firmly in the hands of the fatherly leader.

Therefore, by June 1943, there were not many counter-revolutionary psychologists in the Soviet Union, and experts who could eliminate a group of heavily armed anti-GM family soldiers and Siberian reform-through-labor soldiers were even rarer, at least in There are almost no such figures under Comrade Abakumov, the second-level political commissar of state security (military rank).

Even Abakumov, Beria's most trusted genius in the counter-revolutionary community, has no experience in launching counter-revolutionaries in an unreliable army (most of the people with this experience are Trotskyists) , the place where he showed his talent was only the economic sector of the Soviet Union, and he had never worked in the labor camp system, and he lacked understanding of the mentality of those labor camp prisoners who had stayed in Siberia for several years or even more than ten years.

This lack of experience was very fatal to Leningrad in June 1943.

Before the "June Suppression of Counterrevolutionaries" in Leningrad officially began, Abakumov made his first fatal mistake - the news of the suppression of counterrevolutionaries was leaked, and it was already known to the whole city and the entire army!

Although Kuznetsov (who also lacked experience in domestic revolutionary struggle) and Abakumov characterized it as a "rumor", in fact it was a serious leak! The source of the so-called "rumors" is probably the Leningrad City W and the NKVD branch in Leningrad!

During the days when Leningrad was besieged, some cadres in Leningrad lost confidence in the cause of communism and thought that the Russian Empress Olga would soon return to Petrograd, which was loyal to her...

If the political commissars from the era of domestic revolutionary struggle were still there, they would definitely not ignore this issue, let alone eliminate enemies in the army when there are huge loopholes within themselves. And they will not ignore that a considerable part of the current army in Leningrad are "old reactionaries" who came out of the Siberian labor camps. These people, who have been taught by the party for many years, are the most dangerous enemies in the counter-revolutionary struggle.

Abakumov, who lacked experience and had no mastery of counter-revolutionary psychology, but whose enthusiasm for work was a little too high, showed up at the enlarged city W meeting on June 10 and the subsequent Front Army Party W meeting (he was also a Front Army Party member). Commissar W, who was the head of the Counterintelligence Department of the Front Army), he immediately devoted himself wholeheartedly to the work of counterinsurgency.

Based on past experience and the practice of the internal affairs department, Abakumov immediately worried the heads of the counterintelligence and special departments at the group, corps and division levels under the counterintelligence department of the front army, and issued their respective serious orders to them. Counter-indicators - including the number of places for review, the number of people admitted to punishment camps, the number of arrests, the number of people released after review (someone must be released, so that the subject of review can have a sense of luck) and the number of people released from punishment camps.

But it was completely beyond Abakumov's expectations. As soon as the various counter-revolutionary targets were issued and large-scale arrests and examinations began, the news was already leaked!

"Damn it, we're arresting people again!"

"Is the news reliable?"

"Of course! It has been spread in the military and division headquarters that 20% of the people will be tried and 10% of the people will be arrested. A three-person committee has also been set up to impose the death penalty!"

"Where did those who were captured go? Siberia?"

"How is that possible? We just came from there! If you catch him, you will be sent to the punishment camp. You will definitely die!"

"Punishment camp? Damn it, you're dead now..."

"If you die, you will die. The worst case scenario is that you have to fight!"

"Fight? What should we use to fight?"

"Gun! We have guns!"

In a forest near the southern front line of Leningrad, Kaminsky heard his boss, Lieutenant Colonel Voskoponiko, commander of the 644th Regiment of the Red Army, mention guns and fighting.

“Now we are not factory cadres,” Lieutenant Colonel Voskoponiko, with a gray beard, threw a cigarette butt on the dirt floor, then patted his own pistol, “We have guns, and... we are heading south. Russia is just a few kilometers away!”

"Run now?" Kaminsky hesitated.

Of course you can run now. The 644th Regiment is a front-line cannon fodder regiment. Beyond the front line is the "vacuum zone". As long as you avoid the Soviet army's own minefields, you can enter the areas controlled by the German and Russian troops. If he is not killed by the Germans and White Russian snipers, he can successfully abandon the light and surrender to the dark.

After the rumors of counter-revolutionary suppression spread, there were many unusual disappearances among the "cannon fodder troops" on the front line. The same goes for the 644th Regiment. Dozens of them disappeared within a few days. Some were from Leningrad and some were labor reformers from Siberia. The political deputy commander Ivanov had already lost his temper and scolded the political deputy battalion commander and political deputy company commander below several times.

But Kaminsky was a little reluctant to be a deserter... because the rewards for escaping to Belarus alone were limited, and in the future, ordinary people in Petrograd would have to spend their lives in poverty.

If you want to be reused in Belarus, you have to bring your troops to join them!

"Look again..." Voskoponiko snorted coldly, "There are many people who don't want to die!"

"But there are not many reliable people..." Kaminsky whispered.

The most reliable people came out of the labor camps together with Kaminsky and Voskoponiko. They were all uncles whose lives had been ruined and would no longer believe in the Bolshevik Party... Many of them simply did not believe in the Bolshevik Party. He is an old party member and has been deceived once. How can he be deceived so easily again? Even if I can get some benefits now, I will definitely have to go to Siberia for reform through labor later!

The unreliable ones are the "anti-GM family soldiers" in Leningrad. These people are just going to be unlucky, and they are different from those who have been reformed through labor in Siberia.

"Send someone to contact us first, negotiate good terms, and give up the position..." Voskoponiko ordered, "We have to ask the Queen to make us nobles!"

"Okay!" Kaminsky nodded. "I asked Vaznetsov to go. His wife starved to death in the labor camp. He has no children and no worries."

"Okay! Let him go." Voskoponiko went on to say, "From now on, don't be alone. Take a few reliable brothers with you. You can't eat and sleep separately, and you can't leave your gun. If If they want to take action, fire first!”

"knew!"

…

When Kaminsky had a secret conversation with Voskoponiko, he did not know that he was actually on the review list - not until his comrades in the Counterintelligence Service were aware of his relationship with Voskoponiko. Conspiracy, but people are needed to fill the indicators. Recruiting people based on indicators is a rigorous science. We cannot only arrest soldiers but not officers. Instead, there are indicators at all levels.

What Kaminski is filling is an indicator of the major level. It is not an arrest yet, but an examination.

According to the situation known to Comrade Fedorchuk, who was responsible for taking Kaminsky to the Army Counterintelligence Division for review, if Kaminsky had a better attitude, he would most likely be sent to death in the punishment camp. If the attitude is bad...then the choice is between release and execution.

What? Can you let it go even if you have a bad attitude?

In fact, that’s it…resist to the end and go home for Christmas! This is also the practice in the Soviet Union. However, because their trials are relatively easy and do not require a court hearing, a three-person committee can make the verdict, so most of those sentenced to death will resist to the end.

As for what resistance is, in Fedorchuk's view, the most serious form of resistance is not to mention being beaten to death, but to endure torture. Fedorchuk has only heard of shooting to resist in the internal security department of the army for so many years. When Marshal Yegorov was arrested, he fired a gun, which seemed to kill two people. He went to capture the blue hat and then shot himself.

Fortunately, such a vicious incident only happens once (maybe more than once, but it is definitely rare), otherwise the work of suppressing counter-revolutionaries would not be as easy as it is now... If Cheka soldiers perform a mission every time, they may be shot randomly. Who can bear to be beaten to death?

It is precisely because all kinds of arrest activities are one-sided violence - basically as long as a group of blue hats appear in front of the arrested person, the unlucky guy's own hands and feet will become soft, and someone will shout: "So-and-so, you are under arrest" Alright!" The arrest is complete.

If it is not an arrest, but just a review, then the other party's attitude will be better, and they will be more well-behaved than a sheep, for fear of offending the reviewers.

Therefore, Comrade Fedorchuk and his comrades-in-arms all believe that today's task of taking the reviewers (not just Kaminsky, there are many people to be taken away) to the Army Counterintelligence Department can be easily completed.

"Is Comrade Kaminsky here?" a "blue hat soldier" who followed Fedorchuk to the station of the 644th Regiment asked loudly.

It didn't take long for a major in his forties, with an unshaven face and a somewhat forlorn look, to be escorted over by several elderly veterans - these veterans all held Bobosha submachine guns in their hands and looked as if they were menacing. !

Fedorchuk thought to himself: Let’s go back and transfer these old guys from the 644th Regiment to the Counterintelligence Department.

"Kaminsky?" Fedorchuk looked at the old major with contempt and said, "Come with us."

Boom, boom, boom... Then Comrade Fedorchuk heard the sound of a gun bolt being pulled!