Chapter 693

When gretka and safchenko were about to leave, I specially told them: "your action tonight is to sneak into the enemy's rear area and spy on their troops and weapons. If you have to, try not to fight with the enemy. Remember, in the independent division, every soldier is precious. Don't let them sacrifice for nothing. Finally, I would like to make one point clear that this mission was personally assigned by the head of the group army, which is a test for you. What kind of achievements you can achieve determines whether you can leave a good impression in the hearts of the superior leaders. Do you understand? "

"I understand!" Gretka and safchenko agreed neatly, saluted me and turned away. Gramms, who was very poor in Russian, didn't understand what I told them. Seeing his subordinates leave, he saluted us in a hurry, turned around and ran out.

Looking at Grimes' back disappearing at the door, kirilov raised his hand, looked at the watch on his wrist, and then said to himself, "I don't know when this comrade ellenburg will arrive?"

"Comrade political commissar," said razumeyeva in a timid voice, sitting beside the telephone, "is the comrade ellenburg the famous Jewish writer and journalist?"

"Yes, Lieutenant razumeyeva." Kirilov asked with interest, "have you heard of him, too?"

"Yes, comrade political commissar." When she mentioned the name of ellenburg, razumeyeva, who has always been calm, showed a flower crazy expression on her face: "when I was still in school, I read his poetry anthology songs of the night before.". Later, after graduation, he successively read his new poetry collections "pray for Russia", "fire", "the night before yesterday", "Capriccio" and "destructive love"

Kirilov heard razumeyeva say so, his face showed a surprised expression: "Comrade lieutenant, I didn't expect you to read his book. For a time, these poetry collections you just mentioned were forbidden books on the shelf. "

"Ah?" Razumeyeva was surprised and asked in a hurry: "Comrade political commissar, I think his poems are very good. Why did they become banned books?"

"In July of the year after the overthrow of the Czar's autocratic rule, ellenburg and a group of political exiles went back to their motherland by way of Britain and Scandinavia. After the victory of the October Socialist Revolution, ellenburg had a "new hope". He had worked in the social security department, preschool education department and theater administration of the Soviet government. But his thought is still complicated and contradictory. Faced with the fierce class struggle and extreme economic difficulties in the early years of the Soviet regime, ellenburg's hope and enthusiasm at the beginning were soon replaced by doubt and hesitation. In the past few years, he published several poetry collections. On the one hand, he welcomed the birth of "another great century"; on the other hand, he said that he was "ecstatic and frightened by the current reality", and called revolution "bloody whirlwind", "destructive love" and so on. As Comrade ellenburg admitted when he returned to his motherland again, he "did not understand the revolution and continued to be in a state of vacillation and confusion."

Kirilov and razumeyeva talked about ellenburg, and they were chatting about it all at once. Even Najia and basmanov, who were sitting beside them, came over. I felt very uncomfortable when I heard them talking about ellenburg. After I went back to the table and sat down, I couldn't help humming when I looked at the people who were still talking about ellenburg.

Akhromeyev, standing nearby, was startled to hear my hum. He looked around for a moment, went to my side and sat down, looked at the officers and men who were talking about speculation, and asked me in a low voice, "Comrade division, have you known Comrade ellenburg before?"

"Of course," I said angrily, "if I didn't know him, I would be a major general now."

After a moment's silence, akhromeyev asked carefully, "Comrade division, as far as I know, you were a major general during the Moscow defense war. Later, because of something wrong, you were demoted to major. Does it have anything to do with the deprivation of your rank as a major general? "

"No," I said to akhromeyev, who was deeply trusted by me, when I had a rare chance to complain: "because I saw the remains of Zhuoya, who was mutilated by the German, I was so angry that I ordered all the captured soldiers to be shot. I didn't expect that it was so unfortunate that ellenburg, who happened to be interviewed, saw this scene, took a picture and published the news in the red star. Because this news was reprinted by a number of bourgeois newspapers, which led to many adverse consequences, I was demoted and sent to the front army of Leningrad. "

"So it is." After listening to my story, akhromeyev nodded thoughtfully, and then suggested to me: "Sir, I'll ask them to stop talking about this annoying journalist." He was about to get up.

I quickly reached for him, shook my head and said, "come on, let them talk. Although there is a grudge between ellenburg and me, it is between him and me after all. Don't affect everyone's mood. Chief of staff, don't you see how much people like him? " After these words, I was silent, thinking that the reputation of this ellenburg was far beyond my imagination. Almost everyone knew his name, and more or less knew his experiences. If I continue to regard him as an enemy, will I become the isolated object of all people one day? Before I went to Leningrad last time, he came to the airport to see me off in person and sent me a lot of things to try to resolve the contradiction between us. However, I was dazzled by hatred and didn't accept his kind action. He will come to my headquarters in a little while. What should I do then?

Just as I was thinking and embarrassed, ellenburg, who had been talked about by kirilov and others, came. Maybe there are too many people talking about him. As soon as ellenburg, wearing a black woollen coat and a black top hat, walked into the headquarters, he sneezed loudly. Then kirilov and several of them said: "I wish you good health!" Ellenburg rubbed his itchy nose with his left hand and said "thank you" while holding out his right hand to kirilov. When they clasped each other's hands tightly, ellenburg said excitedly: "unexpectedly, comrade kirilov, we meet again. We haven't seen each other for eight or nine years, have we“ To be exact, we haven't met in ten years. " Kirilov corrected him and said, "when you came back to China in 1932, I accompanied you to visit Moscow Donbas trunk line project. I visited Kuznetsk and ellenburg. I laughed with embarrassment and replied," yes, I had a hard time when I learned the truth. When I heard that Comrade oshanina was going to the front army of Leningrad, I went to the airport to see her off in person and apologized to her in order to get her understanding. "