The director called a staff member, handed him the note he wrote, and ordered: "Take Karina and Lena to go through the formalities."
The staff member took the note and asked in confusion: "Comrade Director, why should I accompany Karina and the others?"
"After careful consideration, I feel that the pensions of Lena's two sons should be cut down." When the director said this, his eyes looked at Sokov, "Just as General Sokov said, they went
It was the most tragic place in the war at that time. Even the bodies of the victims could not be found. If we don’t take good care of their relatives, how can we be worthy of their bloodshed and sacrifice on the battlefield? Tell the accountant that Lena’s two pensions will be
Arrange for distribution as soon as possible.”
Faced with the director's arrangements, the staff dared not say anything. They could only nod in understanding, and then took Karina and Lena to go through the formalities.
"Comrade General," after the staff and Karina left, the director looked at Sokov and asked, "Are you satisfied with my arrangement?"
Sokov said with a smile: "I think you made a mistake. It's not whether I am satisfied, but whether the families of those martyrs are satisfied. I think if you can provide pensions to the families of all missing commanders and fighters in the city, everyone will understand.
Thank you."
Unexpectedly, after Sokov finished speaking, the director shrugged his shoulders, spread his hands, and said helplessly: "Comrade General, I also want to provide pensions to the families of martyrs in the city, but now the city is too
I'm poor and can't afford that much money. It's not a big problem to help Lena. If I want to help more people, then there's nothing I can do."
"Yes, the war has just ended, and everything is in ruins." Hearing what the director said, Sokov couldn't help but said with emotion: "Maybe everyone will have to tighten their belts and live a hard life for a few years."
"Do you still remember that classic line?" After the director finished saying this, he saw Sokov looking at him in astonishment and quickly continued: "It's Comrade Lenin in the movie "Lenin in 1918"
What the guard Vasily said to his wife..."
The director's words reminded Sokov, and he interrupted before the other party finished speaking: "Yes, yes, I remember the classic line: There will be bread, there will be milk, there will be everything. Next, there will be bread.
These days may be difficult, but they will gradually get better.”
"General Sokov, I agree with your statement." The director picked up the cigarette case and handed it to Sokov. When Sokov waved his hand and refused, he put the cigarette case back on the table and continued: "Listen
He said that the Moscow Industrial Bureau will send people over in the next two days to check the resumption of operations of factories and mines in our city."
The director's words reminded Sokov of the fat man with whom he had a conflict, and he nodded and said: "Yes, there is a guest from the Industrial Bureau. He is probably talking to your city secretary in the city at the moment."
"Oh, do you know the leader who came to inspect?" the director asked in surprise.
"I've seen him before." Sokov said lightly: "I can't say that I know him, but I have met him once."
Seeing that Sokov seemed unwilling to mention the representative from the Industrial Bureau, the director promptly changed the subject: "When the enemy's army was getting closer and closer to Moscow, the Supreme Command issued a relocation order to move all the factories in the interior.
The move to faraway Siberia, Vladimir, is no exception. About two-thirds of the factories have been demolished and relocated. To be honest, I even went to the factory to help dismantle the machines."
Sokov saw with his own eyes the whole process of dismantling machines when he was in Northeast China. He knew that these tasks are simple to say but very hard to do. He couldn't help but ask: "When I think of the past incident of dismantling machines in the factory, it must be your favorite memory."
Something profound, right?”
"Yes, that's it." Regarding Sokov's speculation, the director did not deny it, but answered truthfully: "It's just a small machine, not to mention the transportation of those large machines, even the disassembly
It's a very difficult thing." He gestured with both hands and continued, "For example, the bolts that fix the equipment are as big as a coffee cup and cannot be removed by one person. You need to add a four- to five-meter-long socket to the wrench.
Then about ten people shouted slogans and worked hard together, and then they could barely disassemble it. I worked for a week, and I almost fell apart from exhaustion, and some people were even so tired that they went to the hospital."
"Have all the equipment shipped to Siberia been shipped back?" Sokov asked with concern.
"Only a part of it was shipped back." The director said: "Some of the equipment was lost due to bombing by enemy planes on the way to Siberia. Although some of the equipment was barely transported to the destination, after several years
Even after being used, it is basically damaged and cannot be used.”
"Then where does the equipment you are using now come from?" Sokov asked tentatively: "Is it produced by a certain machinery factory?"
"That's not true." The director shook his head and continued: "As far as I know, the equipment installed in the factory was shipped from the Far East. I heard that it was trophies seized from the islanders and used to compensate for the losses of our country's troops.
"
When Sokov heard this, the muscles on his face twitched violently twice. He never dreamed that some of the equipment disassembled by the Soviet army in the Northeast had actually arrived in Vladimir and had even been installed in the factory.
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Just as Sokov was organizing vocabulary in his mind to see how he should explain to the director that these equipment from the Far East were actually plundered from factories in Northeast China, he heard a familiar voice coming from behind him: "Misha,
You are still chatting with Comrade Director."
Sokov looked back and saw Karina pushing Lena in. He smiled and asked, "Is everything done?"
"Yes." Karina nodded, glanced at the director, and continued: "With Comrade Director's approval note, our process of handling the matter was quite smooth."
"Comrade Director," after Karina finished speaking, Lena, who was sitting in a wheelchair, said with a grateful tone: "Thank you so much for your generosity! If I have been rude to you in the past, please tell me
Please forgive me."
The director may not have expected that Lena would suddenly express her gratitude to him. He seemed a little at a loss for a moment and felt embarrassed: "Lena, don't say that, this is what I should do. Now that you have received your pension, go home."
Have a good rest. If anything happens to you, I think the relevant departments will arrange manpower to take care of you."
"Thank you for your concern, no need." Lena said, "Karina usually takes care of me, so I don't need to trouble others."
After bidding farewell to the director, Sokov and others prepared to leave the Civil Affairs Bureau.
At the door, I met the guard named Bahadur again.
After the doorman saw Karina and Lena, he thought they had returned without success again, so he said in a sympathetic tone: "Karina, are you running in vain again? Hey, like Lena's son.
This situation is not uncommon in our city, and so far, no one has received a pension."
"Uncle Bahadur," unexpectedly, as soon as Bahadur finished speaking, Karina said unexpectedly: "You can't believe it, we have already received the pension."
"What, you got a pension?" When Bahadur heard what Corinna said, his eyes widened in surprise.
"Yes, I've got it."
Seeing that Karina was so sure, Bahadur realized that the little girl was not lying to him, so he asked with some urgency: "Karina, tell me, how did you get this pension?"
?”
"I don't know the specific situation." Karina tilted her head and looked at Sokov, and continued: "After Misha chatted with the director for a while, the director gave us a note and arranged manpower.
Take us to handle relevant matters."
"Comrade General," after listening to Karina's words, Bahadur immediately turned to Sokov for help: "Can you tell me what is going on? You know, Karina and the others are trying to solve this problem.
I have come here no less than twenty times, but every time I come back without success. But as soon as you come here today, everything is solved. Do you have any secrets?"
"What secret can I have? It's nothing more than persuading Comrade Director." Sokov didn't know whether Stalin would agree with him after he met Stalin and told him his true thoughts. So Sokov asked
Kove had to keep a low profile at this time: "Maybe he figured it out, so he readily agreed."
"I have a relative who encountered a similar situation. Her husband was killed in the Battle of Kursk, and his body was also not found. Some said he was captured by the Germans, and some said he surrendered to the Germans.
But some people think that he may have died in the intensive German artillery fire, so his body was not found."
"Comrade Bahadur," Sokov, judging from the director's willingness to help Lena solve the problem, felt that the other party was a real person who did things, so he said to Bahadur: "Bring your relatives here as soon as possible.
Go to the director. If you come too late, if there are too many people looking for the director, you may not know when it will be your turn."
"Yes, Uncle Bahadur." Karina leaned close to Bahadur and whispered: "While not many people know about this matter now, it is more efficient for you to handle it as soon as possible. If you wait a few days, the city will
After everyone here knows about this matter, if you rush here to deal with it, I'm afraid you will have to wait in a long queue."
"Don't worry, Karina, I'm going to find someone right now and try to get things done today." Bahadur said this, but did not leave immediately. Instead, he walked into the duty room, apparently preparing to make a phone call.
Someone comes to guard the door for you.
"Let's go, Karina." Sokov felt that his mission for today was completed, so he said to Karina: "It's time for us to send Lena home."
After sending Lena home, the two returned to the municipal building.
On the way, Karina said to Sokov in a grateful tone: "Misha, thank you so much for today. Without you, I think our trip today would have been in vain."
"It doesn't matter." Sokov waved his hand and said magnanimously: "It's just a small thing. There is no need to thank me all the time."
"For you, this may be a trivial matter." Karina said: "But for Lena, it is a huge matter, otherwise she would not go there again and again.
She ran away to the civil affairs department. In fact, she was not doing it for the pension, but for an explanation for her two sons, so that everyone would know that her sons neither surrendered nor were prisoners, but were defending
He died gloriously in the battle for his motherland."
Sokov was thinking to himself: The situation of Lena's son was not bad, but he was included in the list of missing persons. And several generals died in the battle because their remains were not found in time.
As a result, they were deemed to have surrendered to the enemy, and they were even sentenced to death in absentia. Some of them were vindicated shortly after Stalin's death; but many more were redressed only in the 1980s, or even after the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Snow.
When the two walked into the municipal building, they saw that the extras who had gathered in the hall had dispersed, and even the cameras were gone. It seemed that they had moved to other places for filming. Seeing this, Karina quickly asked
Kov said: "Misha, don't worry, I'm going to find someone to ask where the people watching the show have gone."
Sokov wanted to agree to Karina's proposal, but suddenly he saw a somewhat familiar photographer walking towards him, so he stopped Karina: "Karina, no need, I saw the photographer walking towards me.
Come over here, I'll just ask him." After saying that, he walked over to the photographer.
"Comrade General," the photographer suddenly said when the two were still five or six steps apart: "Where have you been? I've been looking for you for a long time."
Sokov remembered that the other party's name seemed to be Yekalenchenko, so he called the other party's name and asked: "Comrade Yekalenchenko, do you have anything to do with me?"
"I'm not looking for you, it's him who's looking for you." After Yekalenchenko finished speaking, he stepped aside, revealing a short man behind him: "It's him who is looking for you."
Sokov looked at the strange man in front of him, and his mind began to think quickly. He didn't remember that he knew such a person. And judging from the way he was dressed, he was just an ordinary person, and it was impossible for him to have any interaction with him.
He asked tentatively: "Hello, who are you?"
"Hello, General Sokov." The short man came over, held Sokov's hand, and took the initiative to introduce himself: "My name is Werner, and I am the screenwriter of this movie."
When he learned that the other person was actually the screenwriter of the movie, Sokov couldn't help being surprised. He quickly held the other person's hand, shook it vigorously a few times, and said repeatedly: "Hello, comrade screenwriter, it's a pleasure to meet you. Welcome to Vladi
Come Mir."
"Comrade General, I came to see you today because I have something to discuss with you."
"I wonder if we should talk here or somewhere else?"
"Let's find another place." Werner shook his head and said, "There are so many people coming and going here, it's not convenient to talk."
"Karina," Sokov turned around and asked Karina: "This screenwriter from Moscow and I have something important to talk about. Can you find us a quiet place?"
"Of course, Misha." In response to Sokov's request, Karina replied very readily: "I happen to know such a place, which is very suitable for talking about important things. Come with me, and I will take you there.
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