Chapter 457 GCist Warrior
"What? 2,000 people? How is this possible?"
In the city of Herat in northwest Afghanistan, there is a building that was originally a mosque and now bears the sign of the Afghan People's Party's No. 1 Cadre Academy of Herat Province. Comrade Rashidov, a young Uzbek cadre who is only 24 years old this year and joined the glorious, great and correct Bolshevik Party of the Soviet Union only after graduating from university two years ago, has just received an impossible task.
The No. 1 Cadre Academy in Herat Province must train 2,000 loyal communist fighters within 3 months!
This is a loyal communist fighter. How many difficult tests and layers of selection must be passed before one can be selected? Comrade Rashidov only joined the party after a long trial. How could it be possible for 3 months here in Herat Province, Afghanistan? Just 2,000? If communist fighters could be cultivated in this way, the world revolution would have been successful long ago.
"How is it impossible?" Serov, the general adviser of the Afghan People's Party, glared at Rashidov, the special adviser of the Herat Provincial Committee of the Afghan People's Party, and pointed out seriously, "This is Comrade Stalin's highest instruction! Comrade Stalin asked us to 3 Bring out 30,000 communist fighters within a month!”
This Serov is the original First Secretary of the Adjara Autonomous Republic of Georgia and Secretary W of Batumi City. His full name is Yefimov Petrovich Serov. It was the man who had worked as a coachman for Hessmann during the Russian Revolution in his early years.
He performed well during the Batumi bombing incident and led the people to fight the fire. Therefore, he was promoted and was sent to the Uzbek Soviet Republic as the party's organizational minister. I originally thought I could live a peaceful and comfortable life in Uzbekistan for a few years, but I didn't expect that I would be involved in the liberation of Afghanistan.
Because he is a veteran cadre who participated in the August Revolution and has rich fighting experience, he was recommended by the Central Committee of the Uzbek Party to the South Asia Bureau of the Third International. Now he is officially appointed as the General Advisor of the Third International to the Afghan People's Party!
This is a very big official. In fact, he is the "Supreme General Secretary" of the Afghan People's Party. If I do well, I can at least be the First Secretary of the Union Republic when I return to China in the future. Therefore, Comrade Serov had extinguished the revolutionary energy he had accumulated for many years, but during this period he was able to muster up enough energy.
"But, but... there are not so many progressive young people in Herat Province." Comrade Rashidov kept shaking his head.
He is a subordinate of Serov. Although he is young, because he is an Uzbek cadre, he can speak Uzbek and Tajik, and he also knows a few words of Persian (Persian is also popular in Afghanistan), so he was promoted to Hera by Serov. Special Advisor to the Provincial People's Party Committee and Director of the First Cadre Academy of Herat Province.
Although he knew that Stalin's instructions were correct, he really didn't know where he could find so many progressive young people and turn them into loyal communist fighters within three months.
After hearing his words, Serov became angry immediately and said in a calm voice: "How come there are no progressive youths? The Afghan youths and teenagers I saw along the way all looked very progressive! These are progressive youths. !”
"Are they making progress?" Comrade Rashidov asked.
"How come there is no progress?" Serov patted the table, "Those who herd sheep, those who work as craft apprentices, those who work as coolies, and those who beg for food are all very poor. Do you know that this is progress?"
"Ah? Poverty means progress?" Comrade Rashidov was stunned again and again. He is a very young cadre who has not experienced the brutal civil war era. Therefore, we do not quite understand the revolutionary truth that "the poor want to rebel".
"Of course!" Serov's eyes widened, "I was very poor back then. I worked as a child laborer to support my family when I was very young. I was bullied all the time, so I joined the revolution! I think the people here in Afghanistan are poorer than when I was young. Poor people, some of them must want to rebel against the world. As long as we let them know the benefits of following the party, they will become progressive young people! Comrade Rashidov, do you understand?”
Rashidov still shook his head, "Comrade General Counsel, what should we do? Should we send comrades from the internal security forces to pull people away?"
Serov actually nodded, "This is a good idea! I will send people to arrest immediately... No, not to arrest, but to mobilize! 3,000 people will be mobilized in Herat Province!"
"Comrade General Counsel, didn't you say there are only 2,000 people?" Rashidov asked in confusion, "Why do we need to mobilize 3,000 people?"
Serov glared at Rashidov again and explained: "We need to eliminate 1,000 people! Otherwise, it will be difficult to lead the team!"
He clapped his fingers and said: "Arrest 200 Trotskyists, 200 British spies, 200 pseudo-socialists (referring to the National Socialist Party), 200 religious extremists, 200 royalists, and 200 more." The backward elements who sneaked into the revolutionary ranks... Of these 1,200 people, 700 were reformed through labor, 300 were subject to the highest security measures (shooting), and 200 were rehabilitated after a while (released back to continue serving as officials), leaving exactly 2,000. They are all loyal communist fighters."
After all, Comrade Serov is an old revolutionary, and he knows all about how to win people over and how to clean up the revolutionary ranks. The Third International really found the right person when it asked him to be the general adviser of the Afghan People's Party!
Moreover, the biggest difference between Serov’s generation of Bolshevik cadres and the cadres sent by the Soviet Union to Afghanistan in 1979 is that people like Serov don’t care at all about killing more people! Not even caring about killing all the disobedient Afghans if he could catch them...
After arranging the work of mobilizing and educating the progressive youth of Herat Province, Comrade Serov did not leave immediately. In the name of celebrating the founding of the Afghan People's Party, he invited all tribal leaders and religious leaders in Herat Province to have dinner in the city of Herat.
Of course this is Hongmen Banquet! All tribal leaders and religious leaders who attended the meeting were immediately taken hostage. All tribal leaders and religious leaders who did not attend the meeting would have their tribes and mosques wiped out by the Soviet Red Army within 30 days!
And such large-scale repressive actions did not only occur in Herat Province, but also in places such as Badghis, Faryab, Jawzjan, Balkh, Kunduz and Takhar, as well as in the south to outflank Kandahar. Wherever the Soviet Red Army passed through, it would encounter a large-scale suppression. At the same time, many progressive young people will be mobilized, participate in training, and eventually become communist fighters, or be reformed through labor, or shot...
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There are mountains upon mountains, mountains upon mountains, and beyond the mountains there are still mountains, and most of them are barren hills with little vegetation coverage. Only in the narrow strip between mountains and close to the Panjesh River can there be green farmland and villages with smoke curling up from cooking stoves.
This is the Panjish Valley, about 80 kilometers away from Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan (80 kilometers is the distance from Kabul to the entrance of the Panjish Valley). In the history of another time and space, it was known as the "Valley of Tears" of the Soviets. Now, it will become the first temporary residence of the Royal Government of Afghanistan after it moves out of Kabul. At the same time, it will also be a stronghold for Afghans to resist the Soviet invasion. Although the Afghan reactionaries will use guerrilla warfare to fight against the Soviet Red Army, this does not mean that a solid counter-revolutionary base is not needed.
"You three colonels, what do you think of it there?" A young Afghan officer wearing a Western-style military uniform asked Bond, Gingrich and Rothenberg, who were riding on horseback, in blunt English.
These three secret agents came to Panjixi Valley today to check the terrain and see if there is a suitable place for building an airport runway. The person who spoke to them was a major in the Afghan Guards, named Masoud. He is a Tajik, and his family is a prominent family in the Panjish Valley.
"It seems to be relatively flat there," Colonel Bond followed the direction Masud pointed and saw a large piece of flat land on the banks of the Panjish River. "What's the name of this place? Can planes take off and land?"
"Pasmazas," Massoud said, "This is the largest flat land in the entire Panjhi Valley, about 4.5 kilometers long from south to north. Going further north, the mountains on both sides will get higher and higher, and I'm afraid it won't be suitable for aircraft to take off and land. ”
"How far is it from Kashmir?" Colonel Bond asked again.
"About 110 kilometers," Massoud said with a smile, "but that's the straight-line distance on the map."
"If we have to walk, is there a way?" Bond asked next.
"Yes," Massoud said, "but it's not possible to walk all year round. In winter, heavy snow covers the mountains. Not to mention Kashmir, it's impossible to walk here even from Kabul."
"Does the road to Kashmir go straight along the river valley?" Bond continued to ask. He has realized the importance of the Panjixi Valley. The 150 kilometers of mountains are basically a forbidden area for large troops and a paradise for guerrilla warfare. And around the 150-kilometer Panjhi Valley, there are many other similar valleys.
"No, you have to climb over the mountain," Masoud said. "Going all the way along the valley will lead to other valleys. If you go all the way down, you will reach China and the Soviet Union."
The Panjesh Valley is one of the many valleys in the Hinduku Mountains. The so-called "valleys" are mostly river valleys. Melted snow from the Hinduku Mountains nourishes the land in the valleys, allowing these lands to feed local residents. Most of these valleys are connected. Following the mountains, the ends of these valleys can lead to China.
Bond thought for a moment and asked: "Is it possible for the Soviets to move south along the river valley from the north?"
Massoud shook his head and said: "Impossible, the terrain there is more dangerous and not suitable for large armies at all. We can block the valley with only a small number of troops. So if the Soviets want to attack, they can only come from the direction of Kabul. But , they cannot capture the entire valley, no foreign army can do this, this will always belong to the Afghans!”