red moscow

Chapter 2677

The landlord's grandfather's diary began on February 1946, 2. On that day, he excitedly wrote: "I received a letter of appointment from my superiors, serving as the company commander of the third company of the first battalion of the 1th Guards Infantry Army Guards Regiment, and my rank was promoted from lieutenant to captain. This is just the beginning. If the fastest promotion place during the war years was the front-line troops, then in peacetime, the fastest promotion place is the guard force directly under the army. If nothing unexpected happens, I will be able to get the rank of major when I retire in five years."

Sokov agreed with the statement in the diary. In the war years, the commanders and fighters of the front-line troops had a high chance of making military achievements. As long as they survived, they could easily get promoted. In peacetime, there were no more wars, and the speed of promotion of commanders of grassroots troops was naturally not comparable to that of the guards responsible for protecting senior generals.

Before she finished reading February's diary, Anna came to the door and said to Sokov, "Misha, it's time to eat."

Sokov put down his notes, followed Anna to the kitchen, and started eating dinner.

"Misha, I'm sorry." Anna suddenly said halfway through her meal, "Am I too willful?"

Sokov looked up at Anna, wondering what she meant by that. But he soon realized that she must be talking about the house, so he waved his hand and said, "Anna, do you know why I don't want to lend the house to your friend?"

"Lena has already told me the reason." Anna lowered her head and said embarrassedly: "Misha, I'm sorry, I didn't think it through."

"That's just one of the reasons." The landlord came to take back the house today, giving Sokov another reason to convince Anna: "The house is not mine. The landlord might come to take it back someday. If she sees a group of people she doesn't know living in the house, she might call the police directly, and then she will get into unnecessary trouble."

"No way. If the landlord wants to take back the room, he will definitely give us a heads up in advance. He won't just come when he says so."

"The landlord came to me today and told me that she was planning to sell the house and asked me to vacate it as soon as possible." Sokov continued, "What would happen if your friends happened to move in today? If they were kicked out by the landlord, they would definitely blame you. Would you feel wronged then? You were so enthusiastic about helping them find a house, but in the end, it didn't end well for them."

"What? Your landlord said he wanted to sell the house?" Anna said in surprise, "Luckily you bought the house yourself, otherwise you would have been looking for a house everywhere in the past two days."

After they finished their meal, they sat in the living room and continued chatting.

When Anna felt sleepy, Sokov said to her, "Go and have a rest."

"how about you?"

"I want to stay in the study and read for a while."

After settling Anna down, Sokov went to the study again and continued reading his unfinished diary.

Starting from late February, the name of a woman named Maleeva began to appear frequently in the diary of the landlord's grandfather. She was a nurse in a military hospital. If nothing unexpected happened, she would become the landlord's grandmother in the future.

What happened next was just as Sokov had expected. On March 8, the landlord's grandfather expressed his feelings to Maleeva, and she readily agreed.

The diaries for the next half month were basically filled with content about their love life.

But at the end of March, the contents of the diary came to an abrupt end, as if it was interrupted for some special reason.

Sokov quickly flipped through the back of the diary and found it was completely blank. Only one-third of the book was used.

Opening the next diary, the date starts from May 1946, 5.

  In the diary, the landlord's grandfather seemed very depressed: "In late March, I was ordered by General Felix, the commander of the army, to lead the third company to escort the newly appointed commander General Sokov back to the headquarters. As a result, we were attacked on the way. Although I led my men to launch a counterattack in time and eliminated those damn attackers, General Sokov was unfortunately seriously injured. After this incident, the investigation team of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained me and several platoon leaders and interrogated us many times to find out what happened at that time?

I was really wronged. I only knew that General Felix, the commander of the army, had arranged for me to escort the new commander back to the headquarters a few minutes before departure. How could I have leaked the secret to others? Moreover, after the attack, I divided my soldiers into three teams. Two teams searched for the enemy in the woods, and the remaining team stayed to protect the commander.

But the investigation team did not believe our testimonies at all. Because the new commander came to Vienna to command the troops to participate in the military exercises held at the end of April. Now the exercises have not yet begun, the commander was seriously injured, so the superiors had to send someone else to take over his position. Even Marshal Zhukov, who was far away in Moscow, came to Vienna to visit in person.

Fortunately, on the day we were sent to the military court, the commander, who had been in a coma for more than a month, finally woke up. He explained the situation to the investigation team and cleared us of the suspicion of leaking secrets. It was because of his plea that the original sentence of expulsion from the military and exile to Siberia for 20 years was changed to early retirement.

The subsequent diary content did not mention anything about the military, but mainly wrote about how Maleeva and he left Vienna, returned to the country, and started a new life.

Sokov closed his notebook and began to think seriously.

If the landlord's grandfather's diary is true, then he was in a coma after being injured in 1946 and did not wake up until mid-May. During the coma, Zhukov, who was far away in Moscow, also made a special trip to Vienna to visit his injuries. As for whether the large-scale military exercises at the end of April were carried out as scheduled, it was not written in the diary, but he was still in a coma at the time and definitely did not participate.

Sokov stood up and walked back and forth in the room, thinking to himself, the diary mentioned that he woke up after more than a month. Does this mean that after returning to modern society, he can only stay for more than a month before returning to 1946 again? If this is true, he should read more information during this period of time, because if he really goes back to the past, it will be of great use.

When I returned to the rental house today, I brought back the laptop that I left there. Although there is no internet installed in this house, I can use my mobile phone to open a shared network and search the Internet for the information I want.

He remembered that he had seen an article on the Internet a few days ago that specifically talked about the Soviet Union's food problem. Now that it is possible to go back to 1946 again, this article will be of great help to him.

After some searching, the article I was looking for appeared on the screen. Its title was "Analysis of the Causes of the Soviet Food Crisis in the Early Post-War Period (1945-1953)".

The opening chapter simply states: From 1945 to 1953, the Soviet Union fell into a serious food crisis, and the root causes were multifaceted. First, the Soviet-German War not only led to a reduction in Soviet grain production, but also caused long-term damage to the agricultural production base; at the same time, the Soviet Union, which had just emerged from the shadow of the war, suffered many natural disasters, which had an adverse impact on grain production. Secondly, the Soviet Union's agricultural economic system was tough, short-sighted, and ignored material incentives, which seriously weakened the production enthusiasm of farmers and restricted the increase in grain production. Thirdly, whether it was the implementation of the grain rationing system or the free purchase and sale system, the inherent drawbacks of the distribution system were not effectively corrected, resulting in the people's inability to freely and equally obtain enough food. Finally, the outbreak and escalation of the Cold War had a profound impact on the international grain trade pattern. The Soviet Union, which had always been highly dependent on grain imports, stopped grain imports and continued to export grain despite the difficulty of domestic self-sufficiency, resulting in an irreversible trade deficit and aggravating the severity of the domestic food crisis.

In the article, the author elaborated on the causes of the food crisis in four aspects: first, the objective factors and outbreak of the food crisis; second, the shortcomings of the Soviet agricultural economic system in the early post-war period; third, the negative impact of the food distribution system; and fourth, the food trade deficit exacerbated the domestic food crisis.

In particular, it was mentioned that in 1946, the Soviet Union experienced the worst drought since 1891. The drought affected important grain-producing areas such as Moldavia, Ukraine, the Volga River, the Don River, Rostov Oblast and the Central Black Soil Region. Many places did not see rainfall for 6 to 70 consecutive days. The annual rainfall in Ukraine was 16 mm, the annual rainfall in Kursk Oblast was as low as 10 mm, and the annual rainfall in the lower reaches of the Volga River was less than 9 mm. Severe natural disasters became the direct cause of the famine.

Sokov read the article over and over again five or six times and found that the serious food crisis that broke out in the Soviet Union in the early post-war period was affected by objective factors such as war and natural disasters. Even if he could go back to that era, there would be very little he could do.

He sighed softly, closed the article, and continued searching for content that might be useful.

Last time, he was inexplicably transported to the Patriotic War period. He was able to achieve so many achievements because he knew that period of history and avoided some mistakes that should not have been made. But as time went by, the history he knew had already happened, and he had no idea what would happen next. Now that he is back, he must seize the time to make up for it and learn more about the unknown history, so that when he returns to the past, he can avoid making some low-level mistakes.

According to the landlord's grandfather's diary, he was still in Vienna when he woke up. That is to say, even if he is no longer the commander of the 4th Guards Army, he will stay in this country for a while, so it would be beneficial for him to know more about Austrian history.

According to the data: In the later period of the war, it was not only the Soviet army that occupied Austrian territory, but also the US, British and French armies, and even part of the Yugoslav army. But unlike other Central and Eastern European countries, Austria did not become a satellite state of the Soviet Union. Even after the signing of the Austrian State Treaty in 1955, Austria became a permanent neutral country like Switzerland.

On the Austrian issue, the Soviet Union's principles were: prohibiting the merger of Germany and Austria, preventing Germany from making a comeback, and demanding war reparations to the maximum extent. By the mid-50s, these goals of the Soviet Union had basically been achieved. Politically, Austria passed the anti-Nazi law and the war responsibility law, and more than 10 Nazis were dismissed and investigated. Economically, most of the former German assets in Austria were investigated and confiscated by the Soviet Union.

Since the goals of weakening Germany and demanding compensation had been achieved, the Soviet Union took the initiative to withdraw its troops from Austria. In September 1955, the last batch of Soviet troops withdrew from Austria. On October 9 of that year, the Western Allies also withdrew from Austria. In this way, Austria became a country with a peaceful purpose and did not join any military bloc in the Soviet-American Cold War.

While browsing himself online, Sokov heard another shout from inside the house: "Misha, Misha!"

Hearing this voice, he couldn't help but shudder all over. It was Asia's voice. Was she calling him in the dressing mirror again?

He turned his head carefully and looked at the dressing mirror beside him. Sure enough, he saw the familiar face of Asia. She shouted anxiously, "Misha, Misha, wake up! Wake up!" Standing next to her was Yakov.

But when Sokov walked to the dressing mirror, the scene inside disappeared without a trace, as if it had never appeared.

Sokov squatted in front of the dressing mirror and began to mutter to himself, "What is going on? I have seen my relatives and friends from the past three times in a row. Could it be that they are using a special method to urge me to return to that time and space?"

He reached out and touched the dressing mirror in front of him, but felt the cold glass, and no so-called passage appeared. He laughed, thinking that he was overthinking. He stood up and sat back in front of the computer, continuing to search for useful information.

  Although his eyes were fixed on the screen, he seemed absent-minded. He was thinking, if he really could go back to the past in more than a month, how would it appear? Would he go through time and space inexplicably when exploring underground fortifications like last time, or would a time-space door suddenly appear in the dressing mirror, and the huge suction force would allow him to return to the past?

The phone rang, Sokov picked up the phone and saw that the name displayed was Kononets. He was the one who followed him to explore the underground fortifications last time, and ended up traveling through time inexplicably.

After he answered the phone, he politely asked, "Kononets, what's the matter?"

"Misha, where have you been?" Kononets said angrily on the phone, "Khabarov and I came to have a drink with you, but we knocked on the door for a long time and no one opened it for us."

"Kononets, I'm so sorry." Sokov said, "The landlord wants to take back the house, so I've moved out." Considering that he had just moved in and Anna was still living with him, it was not convenient for him to entertain guests, so he said tactfully, "I'm staying at a friend's house for the next two days, so it's not convenient for me to entertain you. Let's get together another day."

"Okay, let's meet again some other day." When Kononets was about to hang up the phone, he suddenly remembered something and quickly added, "By the way, Misha, there is one more thing I almost forgot to tell you. We have rented a villa in the suburbs and are planning to have a party with a group of friends. You can come and join us."

Sokov was about to refuse, but suddenly remembered what Anna had told him about the villa party. He thought that seeing is believing. Only by experiencing it in person could he figure out whether what Anna said was accurate. So he readily agreed and said, "Okay, call me when the time comes and I'll drive over."