The Stormy Night Chapter 13 The Hut Leaks Again on a Rainy Night
As he came out of Stalin's office, Chu Si Nan felt his head swelling with pain, as if someone had forcibly poured several liters of boiling water into it, and all the brain matter was churning and surging inside, eager to find a gap to rush out.
Stalin has already made everything clear, Comrade Beria is indeed a traitor, but he knew it too late. The current Central Political Bureau seems to have become Beria's world, and the five major bureaus are all directly or indirectly controlled by him. As long as he wants to overthrow Stalin, the voting at the Politburo meeting will directly allow him to achieve his goal. To be honest, Stalin is not a good person, his violent temper, patriarchal style, and cruel iron-fisted policies have made enemies throughout the Soviet power system. If someone else seizes the opportunity to overthrow him, his downfall will be inevitable. Cunning and clever Comrade Beria has also seen this point, so he waited for the right moment to strike. At this time, the domestic war is intense, and the few marshals who supported Stalin's iron-fisted policies are all leading troops outside, like the cavalry marshal who always supported him, none of whom are in Moscow. As long as a Politburo meeting is convened at this time, Stalin's party and state powers are stripped away, and then it is announced to the outside world: "Comrade Stalin is unable to normally preside over the central daily work due to physical reasons, so someone will temporarily take his place." This way, even if someone opposes it afterwards, it will be too late. After taking down Stalin, Beria, who controls the secret police with one hand, can further exert his "intelligence" in a certain aspect, and take down those who oppose him and pose a threat to him one by one. The charges are easy to find: "treason", "fascist spy", or the term invented by Stalin himself - "enemy of the people". With these hats on, no one will have a good day again.
Chu Si Nan walked back to his residence in a daze, he didn't give Stalin any advice, not because of anything else, but because he himself didn't know what to do now. The current situation had obviously exceeded his understanding, history had changed, it had deviated from its predetermined trajectory and entered an unknown course. Having lost the predictive ability that was once his winning formula, Chu Si Nan could no longer be as confident as before.
He threw himself onto the sofa, and as he felt a sudden jolt, Chu Si Nan also suddenly realized the fatal mistake he had made. Ah, the change in history had begun from the moment he entered this time and space. When he confidently decided to rely on his own strength to change history, he never considered the impact of historical changes on himself. The existence of the "butterfly effect" tells people that even a small change in a historical event can affect the development of human history as a whole, but he didn't consider this issue at all at first, truly stupid to the extreme.
Now that things have developed to this point, how will future history be written? Beria has single-handedly buried Stalin's regime, and he must surely launch a large-scale purge of dissidents. A new round of purges may be unfolding, so who will be the first to fall? Malenkov? Molotov? Zhukov? Bulganin? Or will all these people escape unscathed? In the military, Beria is absolutely unlikely to let things slide, as he has almost no power in the army. To build his own power base within the military, a massive personnel reshuffle would be necessary. At this time of war, the ones who most eagerly await such a situation are undoubtedly the Germans. The Soviet army, with its morale unstable due to large-scale personnel changes, will probably be unable to withstand their attacks no matter what. The final fall of Moscow is likely only a matter of time.
The fall of Moscow, what a terrible thing! It would be equivalent to the Soviet Union having perished, although Chu Si Nan was extremely opposed to the Soviet Union's hegemonism and great-power chauvinism policies. However, he knew that in World War II, the Soviet Union absolutely could not perish; otherwise, it would be an unprecedented disaster for the world of humanity.
Once Hitler had incorporated the Soviet Union into the territory of German fascism, the Germans would be invincible in both military and national strength, and even the United States at that time would be far away from it in terms of distance. Most importantly, the Soviet Union spans Europe and Asia, occupying it, the Germans can connect their front line with the last "bandit" of the Axis powers - Japan. At the same time, crossing the narrow Bering Strait, the war maniacs could also bring the flames of war directly to the land of North America, Chu Si Nan couldn't imagine how long the United States, which had only exceptional economic strength but weak military power before the "Pearl Harbor incident", could resist the German armored forces that were rushing forward like lightning.
Disaster, thorough disaster. It seems that Chu Si Nan has realized for the first time the importance of the Soviet Union's existence in World War II. Indeed, no matter what, the Soviet Union cannot lose this war. No matter how its hegemonism and great-power chauvinism are disgusting, at least the role it plays in this war is just. Whether it is Nazi Germany with its "Eagle Emblem", Japan with its "Rising Sun Flag", or even the infamous "Corpse Imperialist" Mussolini regime of Italy, they are all out-and-out "anti-human experts" and genuine "implementers of racial extermination policies". If they were to win this war, perhaps in a few decades, there would be hardly any nations left on earth.
No, we must think of a way to stop Belia's current nearly frantic actions. This old fox, who has always taken it upon himself to catch spies and saboteurs, is now obviously playing the role of a genuine saboteur.
But the question is how to stop him? Now I have no power or influence, and even my life is tightly grasped in someone's hands. The only one I can rely on is Klyuchikov, huh? Klyuchikov?
Chu Si Nan suddenly woke up from the mixture of confusion, but it was just Klyuchnikov, didn't he give himself a note earlier? What could be on it?
He suddenly jumped up from the sofa, Chu Si Nan reached into his pocket and took out the neatly folded paper, then eagerly unfolded it and examined it carefully.
There were many words on the paper, densely packed, and it seemed that Kryuchkov had a lot to tell Chusun.
The first sentence on the note was "I killed Shcherbakov, Beria suspected that this was a sign of Stalin's hand against him, so he advanced the coup..."
"Kryuchkov! You bastard!" Chu Si Nan couldn't help but want to curse loudly after reading this sentence. Sherov was the most valued member of Bell's team, known as Bell's shadow, and his reputation was very great. Except for Stalin and Bell, who were high above, everyone else treated him with caution. Kryuchkov chose to assassinate him at this time, and his purpose was clear: to force Bell to jump into action prematurely and launch a coup.
