Chapter 51 Four major clusters
The small town of Tsoson is in southern Berlin. Even if it only limits its scope to Democratic Germany, Tsoson is not a famous place. Its reputation here started from the beginning of this year, when the Soviet Western Cluster Command in Democratic Germany moved here from Berlin. This made Tsoson appear from an unknown small town, at least in terms of military value, in the eyes of some people.
Western clusters have a special status in the Soviet Red Army, with the best equipment and the most neat personnel. They are on the front line of the Cold War, with a large scale of hundreds of thousands of people. They are far more people than the second-sequence troops in the rear. Not to mention that the military regions in the Soviet Union now have only a few tens of thousands of people.
General Matvi Vasilyevich Zakharov, who was in charge of the Western cluster, had the most warlike troops of the Soviet Union. Four-fifths of his troops were prefixed with guards or red flags, and each unit had a glorious history. In any aspect, the Western cluster was far more glorious than any military region's troops, even the Moscow Military Region.
Since the beginning of this year, there have been news that General Zakharov will be awarded the title of marshal before the end of the year and become a member of the general of the Ministry of Defense. If military personnel are also used as an industry, General Zakharov has undoubtedly reached the top of this industry. Compared with another General Zakharov who died two years ago, he is already very lucky.
But now General Zakharov is in a bad mood. The news from various troops stations made General Zakharov unable to help but caress his huge forehead, making his already very sparse hair look even thinner.
"Since yesterday, the telephone number of the commanders of the troops at various garrisons has blown up the command center! The agents of the General Administration of Military Administration rushed around the barracks and asked the soldiers without passing through the local commanders. Several soldiers were even arrested and sent to the Interior Bureau of the local Democratic Germany. The General Administration of Military Administration did not notify the action of the General Administration of Military Administration, and now it has caused a very bad impact in the army!" Admiral Sokolov, deputy chief of staff of the Western Cluster, introduced with a embarrassed look, "What I fear most now is to receive a call from the commander below, Comrade Zaharov, should we think of a solution..."
"Let me think of a way? What kind of way? Let me suppress Selov with my military rank?" General Zakharov said Lengsai, "Selov is a KGB man. Even if he is a soldier in name, he is not under our jurisdiction. With the style of KGB Chairman Xie Lieping, who can let Xie Lieping deal with him? And in terms of the nature of the work, only Selov is in trouble with the Red Army. The Red Army has no way of doing it. Some things have changed in twenty years, and some things have never changed..."
General Zaharov obviously made some point. Twenty years ago, during the period when Yagoda and Beria were in charge of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Red Army was like a lamb to be slaughtered in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, no matter how high the military rank or how high the status was. It was absolutely equal before the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The general's life was not more valuable than the life of a soldier, and the high military rank was more dangerous.
Times are different now, but as the successor, the KGB, like the Ministry of Internal Affairs, still has the right to point fingers at other departments. The Red Army seems strong, but after Selov took away the hats of more than 70 generals in the name of Bonaparte within a year, except for the high-ranking generals of the Ministry of National Defense, the general army's chiefs are really unwilling to oppose Selov.
Admiral Sokolov hesitated and said, "But this has some impact on the reputation of our Western cluster..."
"If I had known that there would be an impact, why didn't the military discipline be strictly enforced? In what name would I ask Selov to stop? I said that the General Administration of Military Administration has no right to punish Red Army soldiers? Or is it wrong to punish the punishment for friction with German residents?" General Zaharov said fiercely, "Which reason do you use to stop the internal reference documents?"
General Zakharov did not have the idea of protecting the reputation of Western clusters. Last night, he called Moscow's KGB chairman Sherepin and told the KGB controllers the news of Selov's investigation of Western clusters. Until now, he remembers Xie Liepin's words, "Once Yuri finds out the problem, no one in the KGB can stop him. If Yuri thinks he is clearing some problems for the sake of the country, then I can't even stop him! If I can still transfer him back at home, but I can't do anything in Germany. In fact, Yuri himself is conducting inventory work in the Caucasus, and I arranged him to Berlin..."
"Comrade Zaharov, if you have a good personal relationship with Marshal Baglamiyang, it will make Yuri less openly investigate. Otherwise, the problems you are facing may have just begun now!"
Thinking back at these words in his mind, General Zaharov said helplessly, "Didn't Serov not record it on the archives? This shows that he has shown mercy in his hands. If we forcibly prevent the investigation of the General Administration of Military Administration, the Caspian Hu will go crazy. Maybe several generals will retire early because they are Bonaparte..."
"If it were the time when the founding of the People's Republic of China was just now, Selov might be Comrade Derrensky's right-hand assistant!" General Sokolov's words changed General Zakharov's face. This was not a good joke.
There were frequent reports of good news in the front. Selov, who was in the 65th Guards Tank Regiment, received telegrams from representatives of the KGB garrison in various places. With the director of the General Administration personally supervising the formation, the agents of the General Administration of Military Administration showed 200% efficiency, reflecting the appearance of the KGB organization.
But this efficiency really made Selov not happy. He grinded his teeth and commented, "A group of bastards who occupy the pit and don't poop. Had this efficiency been there, I would have come to me personally? Even if I have the enthusiasm that appears one-tenth of the time, there will be no 200 friction incidents recorded in five months..."
"Notify the State Administration of Military Administration to station in the northern cluster, the southern cluster and the central cluster, and the central cluster will not be allowed! The inspection operation in the Western cluster is carried out at the same time in the northern cluster and the southern cluster. We must stop the backward trend of the Red Army soldiers on the land of the brother countries. Okay, let the comrades of the Eleventh Division contact the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Poland and Hungary! Invite the two Ministry of Internal Affairs to participate in the inspection operation together to resolve disputes between the Soviet garrison and the residents of the country where they are located!" The central cluster only has a command organization in name, and the specific troops have been abolished. The four major clusters mentioned by Selov are according to the traditional saying. In fact, except for the command organization, the other troops of the central cluster have been scattered among the other three clusters, so naturally there are no troops for Selov to investigate.
Chapter completed!