Beria thought about it, he and Stalin were both Georgians, and he thought that there were quite a few people in Georgia who opposed the new Bolsheviks.
The reason for the opposition here is also very simple, because Soviet Russia cut off Georgia's efforts to become a nation-state by force. The so-called Russians and Georgians have hundreds of years of endless hatred that cannot be solved by a Soviet alliance.
Stalin said cautiously in a low voice: "Since you have always mentioned the powerful secret weapons that the Americans are researching. This is good. The Americans are working hard on research. How is the situation of our people? We must not lag behind the United States, but based on
The current situation in our country is that we do not have enough financial resources to do as much research and development as the United States does."
"Yes. The personnel we dispatched and instigated have been sending information, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs can basically grasp the research progress of the United States."
"That's good, you have to keep working hard. Now there's another problem."
"Please speak."
"Our own scientists cannot be idle. Now go and do some research and count the experts who can engage in this type of research. Our lack of funds does not mean that we can only wait for American research and development data. We must try it on a small scale.
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"Okay, I understand everything."
"Very good, you should consult Comrade Lysenko about this matter. Another thing is that Comrade Belekov's name was first put on my list. I have a hunch that this person is likely to give us great help."
"But, he is a foreigner after all. Maybe we shouldn't let..."
At this moment, Stalin interrupted Beria sharply: "He is already a Soviet citizen. I don't care what he has been. Now, we must use this person. Regarding these operations, you still carry out these operations secretly as before. Restrain your subordinates.
You are not allowed to mention anything to any foreigner, and if you violate it, you know what to do."
Using the principle of nuclear fission to create new weapons, the United States wanted to keep it secret at first, but now it is an open secret, and the significance of keeping it secret is very limited.
The Soviet Union's research on this project needs to be kept secret. Perhaps the Americans can secretly know about it, but Germany must do everything possible to prevent Germany from knowing about it.
Beria suddenly thought of something: "What if Berekov publicizes this matter with great fanfare? In terms of weapons research and development, this person is relatively high-profile."
"This..." Stalin fell silent, even grabbing his pipe and taking a deep puff.
Beria looked at him from the sidelines, waiting for the leader's exact answer.
"This is easy to handle. You finally tell Berekov that he cannot publicize this matter in a high-profile manner or reveal any details to outsiders, not even to his wife."
"What if he reveals it?"
"It's very simple." Stalin raised his head, "You really want to interrogate him, but you don't have a valid reason? If he does that, you will have a reason. However, if he does not submit, I prohibit you from interrogating him."
"Okay, I have a sense of discretion in this matter."
Beria said that he had already thought of a strategy in his heart.
Stalin warned himself from a high position and prohibited any act of insistence. Since then, the Ministry of Internal Affairs cannot use its own privileges to investigate such a general.
But Beria never fully explained the problem. He had his own considerations. Therefore, he had not immediately informed Stalin of some of the information collected by the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Some documents are still in the safe in his Beria office and have been kept by him.
It's under strict supervision by dedicated personnel.
In that dimension, with the establishment of the Russian Federation, a large number of Soviet historical archives were disclosed to the world, causing many historical perceptions of the Soviet Union to be subverted.
The "Great Purge" and "Elimination of the Kulaks" were launched under Stalin's orders, and Beria was more often the executor of the orders.
Regarding these events, Yang Mingzhi could not have any influence on them. By 1942, at this point in time, more than three million political prisoners were still detained by the authorities and engaged in heavy labor. This also included the outbreak of war.
A group of ethnic German citizens in the Soviet Union were regarded as enemies by default, and they were all dragged to Siberia to engage in agricultural reclamation.
The order was issued by Stalin and executed by the powerful Ministry of Internal Affairs, which was executed by Beria.
But there is no article in Pravda stating that Stalin ordered these things. Every issue of the newspaper has a large space praising Stalin. Criticizing him? Unbelievable!
The people saw that Beria had done a lot of bad things, and the people's hatred was directed at Beria. The so-called Beria's crimes were so heinous that the people complained.
Stalin was very happy to see that Beria had shouldered a lot of criticism for himself. He also saw that with the rapid expansion of Beria's power, if he did not dare to act quickly, he would soon be replaced.
The power of the Ministry of Internal Affairs began to be limited. With the outbreak of war, Beria's main job became coordinating logistics and supervising weapons production.
Just supervising weapons production has diversified Beria's power. He has already served as a decisive figure in the Soviet war logistics management department. Objectively, his determination will be able to greatly influence the movement of the Soviet army.
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It was also Beria who began to be responsible for supervising the development and manufacturing of weapons. He was becoming more and more sensitive to new weapons.
The Americans said that there is a new type of weapon based on the latest physics research results and special experiments completed in the laboratory.
Originally, Soviet scientists also conducted experiments in the laboratory on "bombarding atomic nuclei to release additional energy."
Beria read a large number of reports in detail, and even took time to study physics materials. He did not encounter any obstacles in his study. After all, a large number of nuclear physics papers had been published long ago, including many from the Soviet Union.
Among them, the famous scientist Landau and his friends also wrote many articles.
Landau must know many detailed inside stories. Since Landau was arrested by his own people during the purge of counter-revolutionaries and was tortured and hanged in Lubyanka, Beria was unwilling to ask in person.
The facts are very conclusive. Landau is the real "anti-Soviet and anti-Stalin element." After all, he himself confessed, and tens of thousands of anti-Stalin leaflets were found at the place where he confessed. According to the law, such people should be sentenced to
Hanging and ultimately sentencing him to ten years in prison were extrajudicial mercy in view of his scientific achievements and influence in the Wendish Laboratory.
It was Stalin who pardoned this man leniently, and Beria had no choice but to comply.
Landau was already dying when he was released, one step away from death.
Regarding the torture of Landau, Beria never thought he was guilty until 1942, when he found out that he wanted Landau, and he had to face the past two years ago.
Beria knew very well that this scientist knew a lot of details. Because of the existence of those things, it was really difficult for him to come forward. Not only could he not order him to explain all this as the NKVD, it was even impossible to send people from the Ministry of Internal Affairs to hear the news.
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Why did you use corporal punishment on this man? Why use a whip?! This man's strength shocked Beria. In the end, he used very despicable methods and threatened his family to make him submit.
Want to expect him to cooperate deeply? Beria decided that it was impossible. It was not impossible to use roundabout methods.
At that time, it was Kapitsa who went to the Kremlin repeatedly to plead with Stalin. Kapitsa and Landau were close friends. If Kapitsa was willing to cooperate, the problem would be easily solved.
Beria sent someone to find Kapitsa. After explaining the details, Kapitsa bluntly criticized Beria's mistreatment of Landau.
But Kapitsa did not reject Beria. The matter was not that Beria wanted to "grow mushrooms", but that the Soviet Union needed "mushrooms" to avoid falling behind its allies and hostile countries.
Beria's persecution of scientific workers and human justice are two different concepts.
Kapitsa wrote an easy-to-understand article, which enabled Beria to fully understand the principle of chain reaction. Kapitsa even wrote down the name of a Soviet physicist to conduct research in this area on his behalf.
The reason for Kapitsa's refusal was also very good. He claimed that he only had a superficial understanding of nuclear physics, and his job was to study the properties and large-scale production of liquid helium and liquid nitrogen.
Of course, Beria is not a fool. Kapitsa either doesn't understand or doesn't want to do it. Although his current job is to study liquid nitrogen and liquid helium at a research institute in Kazan, he has legitimate reasons to refuse.
This person has a strong sense of resistance, and just like Landau, he strongly opposes the ideological struggle in international scientific research.
In Beria's view, Landau printed a bunch of pamphlets and prepared to spread them on the streets, while Kapitsa kept his opposition to Stalin secret.
In the end, Beria basically understood the principle of chain reaction, and he couldn't help but sigh: there really is no Creator, and the lyrics of the Internationale are the truth of the world.
If there really is a god, then human beings are becoming real gods, because humans have been able to disassemble and synthesize the basic substances that make up the world.
(Kapitsa's article is written more like a children's book. It is impossible to explain the detailed situation in a few words. After all, Beria only knows a superficial knowledge. This era is the initial period of quantum physics research, and the scientific community has no understanding of elementary particles.
The understanding is also relatively limited.)
After this article, Beria lamented Kapitsa's talent and was quite disgusted with him. This person also included Landau and many people in the Soviet scientific community. They always looked at the so-called "sole scientific truth" and did not care about anything.
Fundamental ideological differences between the Soviet Union and Western countries.
Kapitsa and Landau seemed uncooperative, but it was not like the Soviet Union would just abandon the development of nuclear weapons without these two people.
There are many people who are willing to participate, including his own son. Beria is very happy that his only son Sergei is willing to be a physicist. Think about it, if the Soviet Union successfully completes this weapon, the sons who participated in it will also
Make great achievements.
After leaving the Kremlin and heading straight to the Lubyanka office building, Beria's eyes were bloodshot. He felt that he needed to find Ustinov himself directly for this matter. Time was tight and he should be found overnight.
In the Red Square late at night, patrols armed with live ammunition did not stop.
The air defense balloons still hung high in the sky, and their appearance was illuminated by air searchlights from time to time.
Beria was already very tired. Thinking of the tasks assigned by Stalin and the work in the next few days, Beria knew that he could not take a good rest.
Back in the office, he poured himself a glass of vodka and drank it in one gulp. The heat of the alcohol sobered his mind.
At this time, Feryudov and Castliura, the two smart guys who had followed Yang Mingzhi all the way back from Novosibirsk, had been waiting for a long time.
Beria did not summon the two men immediately, but first ordered his favorite deputy, Merkulov, who was specifically in charge of the "secret police" affairs, to come in.
The two had a conversation, and the task Beria received from Stalin was immediately handed over to his deputy, which was to find any scientific experts in the entire alliance who could engage in the research and development of nuclear weapons.
The conversation lasted for nearly half an hour before he invited the Felyudov duo into the room.
"You two, how did you complete the mission?"
"Comrade Comrade NKVD, the documents have been sorted out. Do you want to submit them immediately?" Felyudov asked seriously.
"Bring it immediately."
At this time, Castelliura took out a stack of documents from his briefcase and placed them on Beria's desk.
Beria nodded. He briefly looked through the documents a few times and basically confirmed the reliability of the documents. As a "secret police" for twenty years, he has sufficient work experience and is particularly familiar with nkvd's document recording method.
There is a thick stack of documents, and the contents recorded in it are quite detailed. The meticulous recording method can often perfectly record the key details. The disadvantage is also obvious, that is, it takes a while to interpret.
Beria's mind is not here at all now. He wants to know what Berekov experienced in Novosibirsk? What key words did he say? Did he have any disrespectful words towards himself, Stalin, or even the Soviet Union? Tonight
No need to look through it.
Beria put down the document and raised his head to look at the surprised Felyudov duo.
"Very good, your work in Novosibirsk deserves praise."
"Comrade committee member, don't you want to read it now?" Feliudov asked boldly.
"I won't read it for now, I have something very important. Now, you two listen to the order! You will live in the building with the documents, and you are not allowed to leave without my order. You can go out and go back to the lounge to sleep for now.
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Feryudov and Castliura were completely puzzled, and they happily waited for the committee member to come back and report the situation to him truthfully.
It seems that comrade committee members have more important tasks, so it is most correct for them to leave based on their own interests.
As soon as the two of them left, Beria made a phone call to the parking lot. After a while, he also changed into a set of clothes, wearing a thick black leather jacket and a forward hat. The same thing was the bridge of his nose.
Wearing glasses.
Beria's personal daily life is actually relatively simple. He works in an office building for many hours a day. If there is nothing important, he basically goes home directly after get off work to enjoy family life.
During this time, he had no time to spend with his family. Because of his duties, he spent most of his time traveling between Lubyanka and the Kremlin, and he listened to telephone calls and telegraphs to remotely control the work of his subordinates.
He then called Ustinov's apartment in Moscow. Regardless of whether the other party was resting or not, he asked him to stay awake as a NKVD and he was about to visit.
After a while, three cars stopped at the entrance of the office building.
Beria and the two personal guards walked into the howling north wind, then got into a car and went straight to Ustinov's villa.