After the meeting, I chatted with my old comrades who were staying in Perm. After that, Yang Mingzhi was not idle.
I want to bring some gifts to my wife and the heroic sniper Natasha. What should I give them?
They were almost the same age, and they loved dressing up the most in their youth. Based on his understanding of women, Yang Mingzhi estimated that he would give them some cosmetics, which must be Tiger Balm, right?
It is a pity that women's cosmetics have almost disappeared without a trace due to material supply problems in the huge Moscow.
However, it can still be obtained through other channels.
Yang Mingzhi very wisely entrusted his contacts in the Ministry of Internal Affairs to handle this matter. He especially entrusted Captain Larin to "get some dressing things for his wife."
The result was really gratifying. Captain Larin did not explain where he sent his men to find some bottles and cans, but they were cosmetics.
In particular, some of the small glass bottles are marked with the words "Red Moscow".
Yang Mingzhi found it very novel, and Captain Larin explained happily: "They are just perfume."
In the pre-war development of the Soviet Union, when the Soviet Union lacked food and steel, it was a difficult but hopeful era, and Soviet women did not lack items to dress themselves up.
Regarding making Soviet women beautiful, Molotov, Stalin's close comrade-in-arms, and his wife Zhemchuzhena made outstanding contributions in this regard.
Once upon a time, Lenin's wife advocated that women should pursue a simple life, and that is the only way to live an innocent life.
In the 1920s, in the Soviet Union, which had just ended World War I and Civil War, as well as the famine, women did not have the conditions to dress up in luxury.
By the 1930s, the atmosphere in the Soviet Union was quietly changing.
After ten years of struggle, the vast majority of the people who were once impoverished have basically solved the problem of food and clothing, and they need a higher level of spiritual enjoyment.
Cinemas have become an important place for public relaxation and entertainment. Every urban citizen goes there at least twice a week. It is really an activity suitable for all ages.
Therefore, when entering public places, women had to dress themselves up better, which forced a huge demand for cosmetics in the Soviet Union.
In the 1930s, Zhemchuzhenna served as the manager of a perfume factory. Later, the factory was renamed "Essential Oil Joint Factory", and soon the factory became the largest state-owned cosmetics manufacturer in the Soviet Union.
Factories began to mass-produce perfumes, face creams, and hand creams. Taking advantage of the Great Depression, they introduced more advanced production equipment and technology from France and the United States. The Soviet Union has begun to produce world-class lipsticks and foundations.
The production of domestic cosmetics was included in the Soviet Union's Second Five-Year Plan, but during the Third Five-Year Plan period, the war broke out.
The most important factories were forced to relocate, not to mention that the cosmetics produced and developed by Zhemchuzhenna are still essentially defined as luxury goods.
The extreme war forced luxury goods factories to temporarily be unable to resume production even if they were relocated.
Captain Lalin, a volunteer from Yang Ming, received several bottles of perfume, several lipsticks, and hand cream packaged in tin tubes.
After all, Soviet citizens are generally Europeans. Since they are Europeans, they are more likely to emit body odor, which is body odor.
"Give them to Natasha, she will definitely need these. She must give them the star fruit, so that she will not have to make excuses to Anne again."
In addition to getting a small batch of cosmetics, Yang Mingzhi also bought a few sweaters in Moscow.
After all, it’s getting cold, and Moscow and surrounding areas are suddenly covered in heavy snow. Compared with last year, this year’s autumn rain season is shorter, but the first snow falls ten days earlier.
There are still many citizens in the city who have not evacuated. They are either elderly people or some workers who insist on production.
Those who stayed behind had a need for warm clothing, and the garrisons and training camps on the outskirts of the city needed a supply of cotton-padded clothes.
At present, clothing factories in many cities in the Ural region and the vast Siberia are going all out to produce cotton clothes.
The war was about logistics. The United States, which had resumed its transport fleet, simply transported cotton directly, and the Soviet Union was responsible for subsequent processing into garments.
Of course, the Soviet Union’s position in Central Asia was also the origin of wool and cotton.
Especially in Kazan and Ufa, there are a large number of Turkic-Mongolian herdsmen who supply a large amount of wool.
Therefore, this winter at least the Soviet army has no shortage of winter clothes.
Of course, the "military cotton coats" mass-produced by the Soviet Union were made of earth-colored linen stuffed with cotton and finally sewn with hemp thread. Its quality was average, but the advantage was that it could be mass-produced at low cost.
The grassroots soldiers of the Soviet army now generally wear this mass-produced cotton coat, cotton trousers and ear protection cotton hat, and then wrapped in a linen cloak that can be made into a tent. This is the image of a standard Soviet soldier.
Yang Mingzhi did not lack "military cotton clothes" at all. He also took away a wool coat and as many as 200 bars of soap from the underground warehouse of the Lubyanka office building. Especially the soap that almost emptied this office building.
in stock.
His demand for soap puzzled Beria, who also couldn't understand why Berekov liked to move the Ministry of Internal Affairs' inventory.
After paying a symbolic sum of money, Yang Mingzhi took away these important goods.
Why did Yang Mingzhi do this? The reason is very simple. The factory he is about to take charge of must be at full power, and the workers must deal with metal rust and engine oil all day long. Naturally, everyone needs a lot of cleaning supplies. Nowadays, the most cost-effective product is soap!
Yang Mingzhi was a little worried about the soap supply in Novosibirsk, so he might as well take away a batch of spot goods himself.
He was convinced that there were really only some special warehouses in the whole of Moscow that could legally take away 200 pieces of soap!
All kinds of things were added together, and Yang Mingzhi's luggage on the return trip contained two large wooden boxes.
Wool coats, lined sweaters, cosmetics, cleaning and sanitary products, a small amount of stationery, as many as twenty bottles of pickles collected from various state-owned stores, and some small items.
Yang Mingzhi was very helpless. Moscow could only provide these during the war. Even if the war was won, there would still be at least ten years before the Soviet Union's commodity economy was still extremely scarce.
Don't expect too much. If you can live a decent life without starving to death or freezing to death, you can satisfy thousands of Soviet civilians.
The other half of the Soviet citizens in the occupied areas were struggling on the verge of death due to the raids by the German army.
Snowfall swept across Eastern Europe in October, and millions of Soviet citizens in occupied areas would freeze to death in the new winter.
It is another winter, and Yang Mingzhi at least is not worried about the livelihood of the soldiers and civilians of the Guerrilla Republic.
During their time in Moscow, Yang Mingzhi and Ponomarenko talked many times.
He was very pleased that even in October, the guerrilla republic had no large-scale combat plan.
In addition to Yang Mingzhi's order "No fighting", the seriously injured Guerrilla Republic had to calm down and recover from its wounds.
To put it coldly, because more than 10,000 people died in the battle, the guerrilla republic's food supply became very abundant.
Before departure, Yang Mingzhi received the latest good news from Ponomarenko who was seeing him off.
It turned out that for a month, Yevlov, who served as a military leader, was training new recruits on a large scale.
The troops, which were once almost at combat strength, are now regaining their strength.
Because there is food in the swamp!
Now that the German army has no intention to launch any more large-scale encirclement and suppression campaigns, the Partisan Republic, taking this opportunity, under the auspices of Salinchkin, began to dispatch "guerrilla squads" on a large scale to conduct long-distance infiltration operations.
In addition to attacking puppet troops and German posts in German-occupied villages, village residents were also relocated.
In extraordinary times, Salinchkin used drastic and even cruel measures.
The current people in occupied areas, those who fought for the first time, have often joined the guerrillas, and the remaining ones are mostly old and weak.
They were monitored by the German army, plundered on a large scale, and everyone was on the verge of starvation.
Many people even lack the strength to escape.
Salinchkin wanted to compete with the German army for people. He needed a large population to restore the overall strength of the guerrilla republic. The performance of the women during the battle surprised him with tens of thousands of heroines.
Women who are young enough can become warriors capable of fighting tough battles after some training.
More than fifty "guerrilla teams" shouldered the important task of "rescuing the people."
They were sent out to actively attack small German-occupied villages, then execute traitors who surrendered to the enemy, kill German garrison troops, and then forcibly relocate villagers.
Those who were unwilling to leave were executed as traitors after warnings failed.
However, few of them actually shot anyone who was unwilling to leave, and none of the villagers were so open-minded.
Of course Salinchkin also made promises to those villagers.
Escape into the guerrilla republic and you can eat a lot of potatoes. Each person can eat no less than three kilograms of potatoes a day, even children.
What a temptation this is! It is the temptation of survival.
Throughout September, from the Chernigov region in Ukraine to the Pinsk region in the east, more than 30 villages suddenly disappeared after fighting.
In one month, the net population of the Guerrilla Republic increased by 6,000 people. Among them, the militia increased by more than 2,000 people.
But even so, the population of the Guerrilla Republic is still less than the 70,000 people when the June Low Campaign was launched. The worst thing is the combat strength. The Guerrilla Republic does not lack the most basic light weapons, and then counting those who have just begun to receive training
With the new female soldiers, the strength of the army was restored to 30,000.
Note that the most combat-experienced veterans here have less than 10,000 troops. The strength of the guerrilla republic has reached a very bad low point, but their strength is gradually recovering, isn't it.
Everything will be fine, Yang Mingzhi is confident about it.
What's more, the nearly two thousand reinforcements from the 234th Paratrooper Brigade completed the airborne landing with various equipment.
The Guerrilla Republic can at least organize its "front-line force" infantry divisions, and their combat effectiveness is definitely stronger than those of the second- and third-line German troops in Belarus, and it is far better than the puppet army whose main purpose is to make a living.
The main force of the Soviet army wants to recover the Pripet Swamp. Recovering this place means liberating Kiev.
To achieve this goal, the Soviet army still needs to make huge efforts and make huge sacrifices.
The problem at hand is to inflict a heavy blow to the German army in the north. It is best for the Soviet army to really capture and hold Smolensk, and eat the entire German Ninth Army in one go.
At present, Yang Mingzhi is confident that the Soviet army will achieve this strategic goal, and the significance of his decision to get off the bus in Perm has become very important.
It is a personal matter to meet Natasha and give her some gifts that girls like.
A good chat with the three old subordinates is the highlight.
On October 8, Yang Mingzhi boarded a special train at Kazan Railway Station in Moscow.
The so-called special train actually has only five carriages, and the core luxury carriage is occupied by a few people headed by Yang Mingzhi. According to the proposed itinerary plan, the special train will arrive at the Perm Railway Station on the morning of October 11th.
The train stayed here for one day and departed again before noon the next day.
The busy train station was shrouded in steam and snow. Sitting in the carriage, Yang Mingzhi looked through the glass window. A strange feeling struck his soul, as if he existed in a steampunk world.
In the well-decorated luxury carriage, young Dobrov and Kalashnikov sat opposite each other, two talented men of similar grade chatting about their dreams for the future.
Yang Mingzhi did not intervene in their conversation. He held his chin and looked at the busy people outside the window, thinking deeply in his heart.
His ears were always sensitive, and he could only hear the two young men concentrating on chatting about the prospects of firearms.
"Haha, light weapons can only bring tactical advantages. What the army needs is heavy equipment. If their numbers are constantly stacked to achieve a qualitative change, they can influence the course of the war."
Yang Mingzhi was thinking about what he would say when he saw his old subordinates. Of course, he also shouldered the heavy responsibility of producing new weapons.
However, as far as the current situation is concerned, he recruited young Kalashnikov under his command, although he can only keep him for up to half a year, which is enough.
A factory is fully engaged in the production of assault rifles and various firearms of this gun family. Kalashnikov will have no problem being the technical director and production supervisor.
And Dobrov, this young man is in another factory, supervising the production of individual heavy weapons.
Suddenly, the train trembled, and then the world outside the window slowly moved backwards, and the journey to Perm officially began.
It’s almost mid-October, and night falls earlier and earlier in Russia.
After dinner, the group held a normal after-dinner discussion.
Yang Mingzhi sat on a soft leather stool with his back against the lathe, his legs crossed, listening to all the news about the young Kalashnikov.
Carlisle's question has never been better than what kind of guns we produce.
Since his organizational connections have been transferred to Novosibirsk in an unexpected manner, Kasikovich really has no worries. He has become a member of the "Pripyat Weapons Design Bureau" and will receive a subsidy from the Academy of Sciences at the end of the month, as well as room and board.
Solved by the Academy of Sciences.
After all, the young Kaiser had already met Stalin up close. Because of the recommendation of the elderly Fedorov and Yang Mingzhi's kind words in front of Stalin, Kaiser's status was immediately improved.
Kaspersky was originally a firearms designer from a remote area, and he still has war wounds on his body. He has certain achievements in scientific research, but the local treatment that can be given to him is very limited. Originally, he was an ordinary skilled worker.
It was a coincidence that led him to devote himself to firearms design, and it was also a coincidence that he became a disciple of Fedorov.
Today's Lieutenant General Kaiser will go to a military higher education institution for further studies. Before that, he will work at the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union for half a year and obtain a bachelor's degree, which is completely equivalent to a university graduate.
As a result, the current treatment of Kaspersky and Dobrov is exactly the same.
Kaspersky is also very self-aware. He is very young. Due to family reasons, he was unable to enter the university. Unexpectedly, because of the opportunity to meet the leader, he got a degree that only university graduates can get. Happiness came very suddenly, and
Having experienced a real battlefield and being injured, he understands why the leader should grant this favor.
All for the country! Only an obvious person can give significant help to the country!
After chatting with Berekov, the director of the design bureau, for several hours at the Moscow Grand Hotel, Kaiser came up with a bold idea.