Grigoriev, as communications director of the Soviet Western Front.
His task was to establish continuous and smooth communications between front headquarters and combat units.
However, because Pavlov took the command team to the group army headquarters without authorization, Grigoriev, who was responsible for conveying the command to the front army headquarters, did not receive instructions from the front army commander, so he did nothing and did not use radio contact. As a result, in the first few days of the war,
, the military operations of each combat unit are in a state of no command.
Now, at the moment Pavlov was convicted of treason, Grigoriev was also convicted.
In addition, the Chief of Staff of the Western Front, Klimovskikh, was also convicted for going to the 13th Army Headquarters with Pavlov, causing the Front Headquarters to be paralyzed.
Of course, from Stalin's point of view, it was natural to convict these two men. He was ready to kill even Pavlov, so it was of no use to keep these two close associates of Pavlov in order to scare the monkeys.
However, when the execution order issued by Stalin himself came, these two senior officers of the Western Front were still staying in the encirclement of German Marshal Bock's Army Group Center and commanding the troops to resist!
"What?! The high command wants to arrest us and hand us over to a military court for judgment!" When the Chief of Staff of the Western Front, to be precise, the former Chief of Staff Klimovsky, was informed by two special committee members sent from Minsk
, he showed an expression of obvious disbelief.
Along with him, there is a long list of senior generals who were recalled to Moscow for trial:
For example, Commander of the Fourth Army of the Western Front, Korobkov.
The commander of the Sixth Infantry Corps, Major General Alexeyev.
Chief of Staff of the 56th Army, Major General Arushanyan.
Member of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the Western Front, Lieutenant General Ivanov.
Major General Kuzmin, director of the Tactical Teaching and Research Section of the Frunze Military Academy of the Western Front.
and the Chief of Staff of the Eighteenth Army, Major General Leonovich.
Major General Melekov, director of the Military Academy of the General Staff Headquarters of the Western Front.
Commander of the 4th Tank Division of the Western Front, Major General Potaturchev
Chief of Staff of the 27th Army, Major General Romanov.
Commander of the 30th Infantry Corps, Lieutenant General Selivanov
Deputy Chief of Staff of the Leningrad Front of the Western Front, Major General Semashko.
Director of the Military Transportation Bureau of the Western Front, Lieutenant General Trubetskoy.
The commander of the 15th Infantry Division, Major General Krunikov...
Various lists were compiled, and basically all the senior officials in the Western Front who were attracted or promoted by Pavlov were included.
This is not a good sign.
Although Pavlov was convicted of treason, it was still kept secret from frontline officers and soldiers for the time being.
However, as Pavlov's chief of staff, Klimovsky could probably guess what happened in Moscow.
With Pavlov's connections, it shouldn't be that no news had reached the Western Front Headquarters during the days after he was taken to Moscow.
If a supreme being like the Supreme Command hadn't blocked the news, Pavlov should have asked someone to send a message to the Western Front Headquarters.
On Klimovsky's side, everyone will be ready, and they will jointly sign a letter to the senior generals of the entire Western Front and send a letter to the headquarters to plead for Pavlov.
As a result, before they could even sign a petition, Moscow had summoned them all to face trial.
From this point of view, if you go to Moscow, you probably won't be able to return to the Western Front.
The best outcome is to be exiled to Siberia to freeze and starve to death.
If his luck had been even worse, he might have been shot directly in Moscow.
Even if we don’t know what crime Pavlov was convicted of, Zhukov’s lessons are there.
At first, Zhukov was charged with treason because he did not carry out the attack order and withdraw his troops.
Along with Zhukov, Kirponos and Purkayev were not convicted together.
Today, Pavlov and his subordinates, Klimovsky and others, have made far more serious mistakes than Zhukov did.
From this point of view, it is probably at least a crime of treason, right?
If it were a charge of treason, it would basically be a direct sentence of death.
"General Klimovsky, please come with us to Moscow for trial with the people on the list as soon as possible. You, General Pavlov, have already gone two days early." The special committee member sent from Moscow,
He said with a smile on his face.
"What about the troop command? If we leave, who will continue to direct the resistance of the troops in the encirclement?" Klimovsky was unwilling to just return to Moscow and continued to work hard to stay.
"You don't have to worry about this. Commander Timoshenko will take over the command of the Western Front. He will bring a group of new generals from Moscow to take over." The special committee member blocked Klimovsky's words.
"Please don't waste any time and come back to Moscow with us as soon as possible. There is no need to pack your things. We will set off directly at dusk today." One of the committee members said with a tone that was not warm at all.
Because they were afraid of being shot down by German planes, they arranged to fly back to Moscow on a special plane at dusk when the sky darkened.
Under the cold gaze of the other party, Klimovsky felt that he had calmed down a lot: "Do I have to go back?"
"Yes, everyone on the list must return to Moscow. This is a request personally issued by Comrade Leader Stalin." The two committee members said in unison.
"Then, that's easy to handle..." Klimovsky smiled.
Even Stalin personally intervened, and there was no suspense about what would happen to them when they returned.
At this time, Grigoriev, the communications director who had been sitting in the corner of the headquarters, silent as if he did not exist, spoke: "The internal communications of the front army have been restored. Within 12 hours, we can completely dispatch the entire front army."
action.”
"Even if you restore communication, you cannot stay. You must leave with us." The special committee member looked at Grigoriev who suddenly spoke at this time and insisted mercilessly.
"Comrade Special Committee member, you may be mistaken." Klimovsky immediately answered: "What the communications director meant is not what you think."
Don't you want to redeem yourself? The two special committee members looked at each other. They thought that the other party wanted to use their credit for restoring communications and stay here.
However, what Chief of Staff Klimovsky said next made the two special committee members, who had just been relieved, immediately turn pale again.
"Once communications are restored, we can inform the entire front of the order to surrender to the German Wehrmacht!"
Only then did the special committee member realize that the smile on Klimovsky's face was a sneer!
"We won't go back to Moscow, so... you two don't go back either!"
As he said that, the two special committee members saw Klimovsky's guards and strode towards them...
