"Comrade General Secretary, the situation in Leningrad is still very critical, the German troops have not withdrawn from outside the city, the south of Leningrad is still under the control of the German army, and the Red October Railway has not been restored. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

Moreover, the intelligence services also reported that the group of reactionary Polish servicemen headed by Sikorski had defected to the German emperor under the pretext of the Katyn Forest incident and had been appointed commander of the Polish army group, and it was estimated that they would soon lead the Polish army into our territory to fight, and it was likely to be used as cannon fodder on the Leningrad battlefield. At that time, the Germans may use the Polish White Army to attack the fortified positions.

In addition, the White Russian Empress is now based in Tsarskoye Village, on the outskirts of Leningrad, where at least 400,000 bad elements expelled from Leningrad gathered......"

Reporting to Stalin was Zhdanov, secretary of the Leningrad region and city, who was also a member of the Political Bureau and the military commissar of the Leningrad Front. The decision to expel hundreds of thousands of people from Leningrad in order to save rations was made by him and seemed very necessary at that time. But now there are serious sequelae...... Leningrad became the city of the families of *** elements.

But the families of *** elements cannot live in a big city like Leningrad! They had to leave and go to distant Siberia or Central Asia.

And in the Soviet Union, moving the hukou from the second capital to Siberia was certainly a severe punishment.

"The population of Leningrad must be evacuated immediately," Stalin immediately decided, "because there is a high probability that the city will be surrounded again!" In addition, many factories in Leningrad had to be evacuated to Siberia. ”

Stalin's evacuation plan, which he is talking about, has little to do with the change in the composition of Leningrad's citizens. Not only Leningrad will be evacuated, but also Kharkov and Donetsk, and indeed Moscow. A large number of people are going to be relocated, and a large number of factories are going to be relocated.

These were all necessary measures for the USSR to persist in a long war!

In addition, taking advantage of this opportunity to evacuate the population of the western region, the pace of construction in Siberia and Central Asia can also be accelerated. The State Planning Commission is planning to build a large number of factories in Siberia and Central Asia. Ambassador to the United States Litvinov has already been instructed to begin negotiations with the United States on the issue of "lend-lease" machinery and equipment.

Of course, the families of those who moved out of Leningrad are not the same as those who were evacuated from Moscow. They had no chance of returning to Leningrad...... When the war was over, the Soviet government would move people from elsewhere to Leningrad.

After all, the glorious second capital of the Soviet Union could not accommodate the families of so many *** elements - and they were not ordinary *** families, but the families of White Russians!

Hearing Stalin's order, Zhdanov said with some embarrassment: "Comrade General Secretary...... Now the situation in Leningrad is very delicate, and the hearts of the people are fluctuating. I am concerned that a sudden evacuation of the population could cause chaos. ”

"Chaos?" Stalin did not seem to understand, "What confusion? ”

"Riot!" Zhdanov gritted his teeth and said, "There may be people who will resist the migration!" ”

Leningrad has 300,000 families of armed *** elements...... And that's not the worst of it!

"In addition, during the siege of Leningrad, the internal affairs department of Leningrad cracked many cases of treason!" "There were some undetermined Leningrad militiamen or cadres who tried to defect, and there were others who secretly contacted the White Russians outside the city," Zhdanov said. ”

"Didn't these people all be arrested and shot?" Stalin knew these things, and the Leningrad Siege was a very hopeless thing, and there were many people who did not stand the test. Some people sneaked out of Leningrad and took refuge in the White Russians, while others secretly communicated with the White Russians outside the city and prepared to act as internal responses.

However, the NKVD dispatched office in Leningrad City did not fail to live up to the trust of the Party and the people, and during the days when the city was under siege, more than 10 cases of the NKVD were cracked in a row, and tens of thousands of people were shot dead -- they were all *** elements and not suspects, so they were shot instead of expelled!

However, people who know a little bit about the things in the Soviet Union know that the NKVD of the Soviet Union has always only talked about quantity and not quality when it comes to arresting *** elements.

Therefore, many of the people who were shot were not ****, and at the same time, there were many real *** elements lurking in the city of Leningrad, panicking all day long.

"The principle of our party has always been not to wronged a good person, nor to let go of a bad person!" Having understood that there were "no good people" in Leningrad, Stalin smoked his pipe and explained the party's policy.

"But we still have to talk about a little strategy of struggle, and we can't push all the enemies to a dead end at the same time." Stalin frowned and said, "In Leningrad, we should first concentrate our forces on a handful of forces, so that we can both defeat the enemy's core of leadership and deter other unscrupulous reactionaries." As long as they are afraid, then the next step of moving the population is easy. ”

The method he said was actually very simple, that is, to carry out a purge of the whole country. The Great Purge is not a "wash-out" at once, but a gradual process. Each time a small part is washed out, it is usually set in advance, such as 5%, so that most people will be lucky and become unusually compliant. And after a few 5% purges, the enemies you want to destroy are almost wiped out.

Oh, and it wasn't wiped out! Because this Great Patriotic War took place...... As a result of the losses of 1942 and the huge losses that are now taking place, the Soviet Red Army is now in dire need of replenishment of troops and officers.

Therefore, the requirements for the officers and soldiers of the Red Army in politics are also declining, and many *** elements who should have rotted in the labor camps have now been recruited into the Red Army and have been given the opportunity to be new people.

And the families of the 300,000 armed *** elements in Leningrad, of course, cannot all be sent to Siberia.

"The militia in the city of Leningrad should be transferred in batches, dispersed and integrated into the units of the Red Army." Stalin continued. "This should be done before the *** elements are eliminated."

First transfer the army that may be infiltrated by the *** elements, and then carry out the suppression...... Stalin's art of struggle was still very clever.

After arranging the handy purge work, Stalin began to discuss with his comrades in the Supreme Command the military problem that gave him a great headache -- the *** elements inside Leningrad were easy to deal with, but the Germans and White Russians outside Leningrad were not easy to deal with.

"Comrade Zhukov, tell me what you think." Stalin named Zhukov, the former commander of the Kalinin Front, who had replaced the weak-minded Shaposhnikov as chief of the General Staff of the Red Army a few days earlier. And Shaposhnikov was reappointed Deputy People's Commissar of Defense and President of the Military Academy of the General Staff...... In fact, it's just an idle errand.

"Okay." Zhukov stood up, walked over to a large map that took up almost a wall, and then took the whip from one of the staff officers and pointed to the Leningrad-Smolensk line on the map.

"Comrade General Secretary," Zhukov said, "the current situation on the Soviet-German battlefield is such that the German forces are concentrating on attacking our Southwestern Front, while at the same time our Central Front, the Leningrad Front, and the Kalinin Front (the commander is Fedyuninsky) are under less pressure and are still in a comparative position on some battlefields. ”

Since the main objective of the 1st Panzer Army (which reinforced the 2nd, 24th and 60th Panzer Armies) was shifted to left-bank Ukraine, the Soviet Southwestern Front was now under extreme pressure.

At the same time, the German armored clusters in the center and north were weakened. The 3rd Panzer Army and the 4th Panzer Army, which were used for the center, had only 3 Panzer Corps in total (5 Panzer Divisions plus 5 Panzergrenadier Divisions).

And near Leningrad on the northern road, the German Army Group North did not even have a single German panzer division, only 3 panzergrenadier divisions, 1 Hungarian panzer division and some White Russian panzer divisions.

Zhukov continued: "Due to the weakening of the enemy's central and northern routes, at the moment the Kalinin Front still controls part of the Pskov-Velikiye Luki railway line. The Central Front still controlled the city of Smolensk, where it engaged in fierce battles with the main forces of the German Central Army. ”

"That means we can fight a battle near Leningrad or near Smolensk to annihilate the main forces of the German army?" When Stalin listened to Zhukov's introduction, he immediately became a little energetic.

"It is impossible to annihilate the main forces of the German army," Zhukov will not speak according to Stalin's intentions, "because our Kalinin Front, the Central Front of the Leningrad Front do not have many tank units." ”

There was a vague blame for Stalin, because it was Stalin who constantly transferred tank armies from the north and center routes to fight the joint battles.

"Moreover, the Germans also had overwhelming air superiority, which greatly limited the offensive operations of our army." "So the success that we were able to achieve around Smolensk and Leningrad was to push the enemy back in order to relieve the crisis in Leningrad and Moscow," Zhukov said. ”

Stalin nodded again and again, Zhukov's proposal this time was very much in line with his heart. Because the crisis in left-bank Ukraine would not in any case immediately threaten the rule of the Bolshevik Party in the USSR. The crises in Leningrad and Moscow threatened to bring about the demise of the Bolshevik Party.

As long as the Bolshevik Party was not in danger of losing its country, then the Soviet Union would have bargaining chips at the negotiating table in Switzerland.

"Comrade Zhukov, how are you going to force back the German troops around Leningrad and Smolensk?" Stalin asked with interest.

"First launch a feint on the territory of the Baltic, and then concentrate on the German Army Group North around Leningrad." "As long as we can push Army Group North back, then the German armored cluster that broke through near Smolensk will appear isolated, and its logistics will become difficult (because it will not be possible to restore railway transport), and a retreat from near Smolensk will become inevitable." (To be continued.) )