Chapter 1532

After entering the office, Beria first asked me to sit down, and then asked me curiously about the cause of my dispute with the officer on duty. After I simply repeated the matter, I directly explained my intention.

After listening to my explanation, belia didn't answer me immediately. Instead, she walked back and forth in the room with one hand on her waist and one hand on her chin. She seemed to be thinking about how to arrange her hands to cooperate with my actions.

I carefully looked at this middle-aged man who made countless people turn pale. I found that the chairman of the people's Committee at home and abroad also looked very kind. If I met him in the street, I might regard him as a teacher in a middle school. As soon as I think of his identity, I can't help thinking of the royal guards. His current position is equivalent to the commanding officer of the royal guards. Although they belong to different countries, none of the successive responsible persons has been successfully killed, which is the same.

Belia stopped, looked at me and said, "Comrade oshanina, it's comrade Stalin who has personally told us that we have to deal with it carefully. Well, I'll let Comrade lunev go with you. "

"Lunev?" Hearing the strange name, I asked instinctively, "what does he do?"

"Comrade lunev is the newly appointed Deputy Minister of the interior and director of the war Bureau. Before the war, he has been working in Ukraine. It is most appropriate for him to accompany you to uman." Then, without waiting for me to respond, he went to his desk, picked up the phone, dialed a number and said, "Hello, comrade lunev? I'm belia. If you're ok now, just come to my office. I have important work to cooperate with you. "

A few minutes later, the door was pushed open from the outside, and a small, middle-aged man in military civilian clothes and thin face appeared at the door. After looking into the room, he went straight to belia and said, "Comrade belia, I'm here. Do you have any instructions?"

Belia shook hands with the visitor, pointed to my position and said, "Comrade lunev, let me introduce you. This is general oshanina. She has just been appointed by Comrade Stalin as the representative of the base camp. She is going to wuman on a special mission. I'm going to ask you to accompany her. "

After listening to belia's introduction, lunev came over, took my hand and politely said, "Hello, general oshanina. I'm lunev. I'm very glad to be on the mission with you."

I shook hands with lunev, exchanged a few simple greetings, then turned to belia and asked, "Comrade belia, I don't know when we can start?"

Belia raised her hand and looked at her watch. Then she said to me, "it will take time to mobilize the troops. I think you'd better leave tomorrow."

"Comrades of the people's Committee," as soon as belia finished his words, lunev said impatiently, "I think that since it is the task assigned by the headquarters, we should start as soon as possible and strive to complete the task of the higher authorities as soon as possible."

Belia gave a faint smile, then cast her eyes on me and asked kindly, "Comrade oshanina, I want to hear what you mean. Do you want to start overnight or tomorrow?"

"Comrade Beria," I asked tentatively, "I don't know how many troops you intend to transfer to accompany us to uman?"

"I'm going to send a battalion from the house service to accompany you." "It's a little too late now, and it's going to take a little longer to assemble the troops," Beria said apologetically

"Not so many troops." I know that belia only mobilizes so many troops for us because she attaches great importance to this matter, but it's really unnecessary. We just carry out the task of reorganizing the troops, not going to war. It's a bit superfluous to bring too many troops. So I said to him with a smile, "Comrade Beria, one company at most is enough."

"All right," belia said readily after hearing what I said, "I'll call rupiyanka and ask them to transfer a company from the house service to the railway station to join you."

Ten minutes later, lunev and I got on the black gas bus and went to the railway station.

On the way, lunev may be in order to liven up the atmosphere and intentionally say: "general oshanina, have you ever dealt with the internal forces before?"

"Yes, comrade lunev." I laughed at him and replied, "I've dealt with the house forces many times before, and even a guard company is all made up of the house forces."

Hearing my reply, lunev was a little surprised: "Oh, it's amazing that you have a guard company made up of internal forces. By the way, many people have prejudice against us. I don't know what you think of it? "

I was puzzled by this question. I frowned and pondered for a long time. Then I euphemistically said, "Comrade lunev, how can I say that? The internal forces and the field forces have their own strong points. When it comes to fighting, the interior forces are worse; When it comes to vigilance and adaptability, the strongest is undoubtedly the internal forces. As far as I know, in the early hours of the day of the outbreak of the war, when the ordinary frontier forces were still scurrying around in the German artillery fire, the comrades of the interior forces were fully armed, pulling machine guns into the defensive positions, ready to fight against the German charge after the artillery attack. "

What I'm talking about is the merits of the internal service. There is a smile on lunev's face. "As a part of the armed forces of the Soviet Union, the mission of our internal affairs forces is to protect national facilities and complete other combat tasks that the Ministry of internal affairs of the Soviet Union should undertake," he added

We got on the train to uman at the station after meeting with the internal forces of the company transferred from belia.

Although I knew lunev for a short time, I soon found out that he was a very cautious man. When the train started, he got up and went to the box door. He opened the door and looked out. When he saw no one, he closed the door. When he went back to the window, he put out his head again and checked the outside. He made sure that there were no walls with ears. Then he closed the window and asked me tentatively, "general oshanina, can you tell me now what mission we are going to perform in uman?"

"Yes, comrade lunev, our task this time is..." Since lunev cooperated with me in my work, I told him what tasks I was going to carry out sooner or later, so I nodded and told him the task of our visit to uman.

After listening to my story, lunev could not help frowning and said after a long time, "general oshanina, I know about uman prison camp. According to our plan, they will be loaded on the train in two days and transported to Siberia to be transformed in Gulag concentration camp."

After listening to lunev's words, I couldn't help but take a breath. I said that it was very dangerous. If Stalin was convinced a day or two later, maybe these 20000 soldiers would be sent to Siberia. However, to be on the safe side, I specially asked: "Comrade lunev, I don't know who is responsible for transporting them to the rear?"

"Who else." Lunev shrugged his shoulders, spread out his hands and said, "the matter of sending prisoners of war has always been the responsibility of our combat Bureau."

"Do you need to inform uman that they should not send prisoners of war for the time being?" I thought that I had never seen him contact with the outside world since I met lunev, so my heart became a little impatient again.

Lunev stood up and said to me, "although Comrade belia may have informed uman side, for the sake of safety, I still personally sent a phone call to uman side to ask them to cancel the task of transferring prisoners of war."

After lunev left the car, I leaned against the bed and closed my eyes. I don't know how long later, when I was already in a daze, I suddenly felt someone pushed the door open and came in from the outside. I opened my eyes and looked towards the door. I saw that it was lunev who strode in. I quickly asked with concern, "Comrade lunev, what's the situation?"

"I have telegraphed the uman side to stop the transfer of prisoners of war." After sitting down opposite me, lunev replied as usual, "but before I sent a telegram, belia had informed them in advance to cancel the transfer of prisoners of war."

After two days of bumping on the road, we finally arrived at uman. As soon as I got off the train, a group of people came to meet me. A major general walked in front of me. He raised his hand and saluted me: "Hello, general oshanina. I'm the garrison commander of wuman. Welcome to wuman."

As the purpose of my trip is to reorganize the rescued prisoners of war, as soon as I finished shaking hands with the major general, I asked frankly, "Comrade General, where are the prisoners of war liberated by you?"

"In the forest area north of the city." The major general replied respectfully, "it's about an hour's journey from here."

As soon as he finished, I said, "take me now."

"But, Comrade General." The major general already knew that the person who accompanied me was an important person in the Ministry of internal affairs, so he took a look at lunev behind me and said carefully, "Comrade General, you've been on the train for two days in a row. Don't you need to have a rest before you go?"

"Comrade General." Lunev said impatiently, "we need to start work immediately. Please take us to the prison camp in the suburb immediately."

Major general's jeep was leading the way, while lunev and I were in the second car. I can't help sighing when I look at this city which was beaten up in the war.

"Comrade oshanina, why do you sigh?" Asked lunev, who was sitting beside him.

Pointing to the city outside, I replied, "Comrade lunev, you may not know that the sixth group army of the guards under my command had approached uman in October last year. Unfortunately, we did not find this prison camp. Otherwise, we would have rescued these officers and men and organized them into a unit."

"Comrade oshanina, there is a saying that I have never known whether to ask or not." With my permission, he went on to say, "is there any guarantee of loyalty in bringing so many prisoners of war into our army?"

I looked at him with a bitter smile and said, "Comrade lunev, as far as I know, almost all the prisoners of war in uman POW camp were captured at the beginning of the war. If they had not always maintained their loyalty to their motherland and people, they would have joined the "Eastern battalions" formed by the German army and met us on the battlefield. "

"You have a point." As the director of the war Bureau of the Ministry of the interior, lunev knew much more information than I did. So when he heard what I said, he nodded and said with approval: "yes, there are many soft bones. They were scared away by the Communist Party. In order to save their lives, they did not hesitate to betray the motherland and the people and work for the German army. It seems that the commanders and fighters in these camps are still very strong. "

I heard that he had unconsciously changed the name of "prisoner of war" to "commander" and understood that his attitude towards the implementation of this mission had also changed. At least he no longer resented the commanders who had just been rescued. When our motorcade came to the middle of the forest, I found a huge area surrounded by barbed wire. There were a lot of wooden houses and guard towers around. I think that was the German guard's residence and the guard tower for prisoners of war. The commander of the garrison came up from the car in front of him and said to me, "general oshanina, when we get to the place, we can see the prisoners of war through the barbed wire."“ Comrade general, "lunev, who was walking side by side, said to the major general," while there is still time, you can tell us something about the prison camp. " The major general nodded, walked forward sideways, and introduced to us: "we call this newly liberated concentration camp" wuman pit ". It is located in a brick factory, in which there is a huge pit 10 meters deep formed by quarrying. All our captured officers and men were driven to this pit by the German army, without any facilities. They were exposed to the sun and rain all day long. There has been no accurate account of the number of prisoners of war in this concentration camp. According to the records of the German army we captured, we can barely understand that on August 10, 41, the number of prisoners of war here reached 50000, while on August 12, it was 70000. Food began to be seriously scarce, and there was no water in the kitchen. On August 13, the commanders and fighters without food supply, led by a small number of grass-roots officers, launched the first riot. But because of the lack of weapons, the riot soon failed, and thousands of people were killed by the German army... "Before the major general finished, I found myself standing on the edge of a huge sinkhole. I looked inside carefully and was surprised to find that in the pit below, there was a dense crowd. It seemed that they were the prisoners we were going to adapt.