Chapter 2677

The landlord's grandfather's diary started on February 1, 1946. In the content of this day, he excitedly wrote: "I received a letter of appointment from my superiors and served as the commander of the third company of the first battalion of the 20th Guards Infantry Army Guards Regiment. My rank was also promoted from lieutenant to captain. This is just the beginning. If the fastest promotion place in wartime is the front-line troops. Then in peacetime, the fastest promotion place is the guard force directly under the army. If nothing unexpected happens, I will be able to get the rank of major when I retire in five years."

Sokof agreed with the statement in the diary. In wartime, the commanders and fighters of the front-line troops had a high chance of making military exploits. As long as they could survive, they would be easily promoted. In peacetime, there is no war to fight, and the speed of promotion of the commanders of the grassroots troops is naturally not comparable to the guard force responsible for protecting senior generals.

Before I finished reading the diary in February, Anna came to the door and said to Sokov: "Misha, it's time to eat."

Sokof put down his notes, followed Anna to the kitchen, and started to eat dinner.

"Misha, I'm sorry." Just halfway through the meal, Anna suddenly said, "Am I too willful?"

Sokof raised his head and looked at Anna across from him, wondering what she meant by that. But he soon figured it out. She must be talking about the house, so he waved his hand and said, "Anna, do you know why I don't want to lend the house to your friend?"

"Lena has already told me the reason." Anna lowered her head and said embarrassedly, "Misha, I'm sorry, I didn't think it through."

"That's just one of the reasons." The landlord came to collect the house today, and Sokov found another reason to convince Anna: "The house is not mine, and the landlord may come to collect the house one day. If she sees a group of people she doesn't know living in the house, she might call the police directly, and then she will get into unnecessary trouble."

"No way, the landlord is going to collect it If you want to buy a house, you must give me a heads up in advance, and you won't just come when you say so. "

"Today, the landlord came to me and told me that she was going to sell the house, and asked me to vacate the house as soon as possible." Sokov continued, "What do you think will happen if your friends happen to move in today? If they are kicked out by the landlord, they will definitely blame you. At that time, will you feel wronged? You are obviously enthusiastic about helping them find a house, but in the end, it didn't end well. "

"What, your landlord said to sell the house?" Anna said in surprise: "Fortunately, you bought the house yourself, otherwise you should have been looking for a house everywhere in the past two days."

After the meal, the two sat in the living room and continued to chat.

When Anna felt sleepy, Sokov said to her: "You go to rest."

"What about you?"

"I want to stay in the study and read for a while."

After settling Anna, Sokov came to the study again and continued to read his unfinished diary.

From late February, the landlord's grandfather's diary began to frequently mention the name of a woman named Maleeva, who was a nurse in a military hospital. If nothing unexpected happened, she would become the landlord's grandmother in the future.

The following plot, as Sokov expected, on March 8, the landlord's grandfather expressed his feelings to Maleeva, and the other party readily agreed.

The diary for the next half month was basically full of love affairs between the two.

But at the end of March, the content in the diary came to an abrupt end, as if it was interrupted for some special reason.

Sokov quickly turned the back of the diary and found that it was all blank. Only one-third of this book was used.

Opening the next diary, the date started from May 17, 1946.

In the diary, the landlord's grandfather seemed very depressed: "In late March, I was ordered by General Felix to lead the third company to escort the newly appointed commander General Sokov back to the headquarters. As a result, we were attacked on the way. Although I led my men to launch a counterattack in time and eliminated those damn attackers, General Sokov was unfortunately seriously injured. After this incident, the investigation team of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained me and several platoon leaders and interrogated us many times to find out what happened at that time?

I was really wronged. General Felix, the commander of the army, arranged for me to escort the new commander back to the headquarters. I only knew about it a few minutes before departure. How could I leak it to others? And after the attack, I divided my soldiers into three teams, two teams searched for the enemy in the woods, and the remaining team stayed to protect the commander.

But for us The investigation team did not believe the testimonies of several people at all. Because the new commander came to Vienna to command the troops to participate in the military exercises held at the end of April. Now the exercises have not yet begun, the commander was seriously injured, causing his superiors to have to send someone to replace him. Even Marshal Zhukov, who was far away in Moscow, came to Vienna in person to visit.

Fortunately, on the day when we were sent to the military court, the commander, who had been in a coma for more than a month, finally woke up. He explained the situation at the time to the investigation team and cleared us of the suspicion of leaking secrets. It was because of his plea that the original sentence of expulsion from the army and exile to Siberia for 20 years of labor reform was changed to early retirement. "

The content of the diary later did not mention the military affairs again. It mainly wrote about Maleeva and him leaving Vienna together, returning to the country, and how to start a new life.

Sokov closed the notebook and began to think seriously.

If the landlord's grandfather's diary is true, then after being wounded in 1946, he has been in a coma until mid-May. During the coma, Zhukov, who was far away in Moscow, also made a special trip to Vienna to visit his injuries.

As for whether the large-scale military exercises at the end of April were carried out as scheduled, it was not written in the diary, but he was still in a coma at the time and certainly did not participate.

Sokov stood up and walked back and forth in the room, thinking secretly in his heart that the diary mentioned that he woke up more than a month later. Does this mean that after returning to modern society, he can only stay for more than a month, and then he will return to 1946 again? If this is true, I have to read more information during this period. If I really go back to the past, it will be of great use.

When I returned to the rental house today, I brought back the laptop that was placed there. Although there is no network installed in this house, I can use my mobile phone to open a shared network and search the Internet for the information I want.

He remembered that he had seen an article on the Internet a few days ago, which was specifically about the Soviet Union's food problem. Now that it is possible to go back to 1946 again, this article will be of great help to him.

After a search, the article he was looking for appeared on the screen, with the title "Analysis of the Causes of the Soviet Food Crisis in the Early Post-War Period (1945-1953)".

The opening is simple and clear: From 1945 to 1953, the Soviet Union fell into a serious food crisis, and its fundamental reasons were multifaceted. First, the Soviet-German War not only led to a decrease in Soviet food production, but also caused long-term damage to the agricultural production base; at the same time, the Soviet Union, which had just emerged from the shadow of the war, suffered many natural disasters, which had an adverse impact on food production. Secondly, the Soviet Union's agricultural economic system was tough, short-sighted, and ignored material incentives, which seriously weakened the production enthusiasm of farmers and restricted the increase in food production. Thirdly, whether it was the implementation of the food rationing system or the free purchase and sale system, the inherent drawbacks of the distribution system were not effectively corrected, resulting in the people's inability to freely and equally obtain enough food. Finally, the outbreak and escalation of the Cold War had a profound impact on the international grain trade pattern. The Soviet Union, which had always been highly dependent on grain imports, stopped grain imports and continued to export grain despite difficulties in domestic self-sufficiency, resulting in an irreversible trade deficit and aggravating the severity of the domestic food crisis.

In the article, the author elaborated on the causes of the food crisis in four aspects. First, the objective factors and outbreak of the food crisis; second, the shortcomings of the Soviet agricultural economic system in the early post-war period; third, the negative impact of the grain distribution system; fourth, the deficit in foreign trade in grain aggravated the domestic food crisis.

It was particularly mentioned that in 1946, the Soviet Union experienced the worst drought since 1891. The drought affected important grain-producing areas such as Moldavia, Ukraine, the Volga River, the Don River, Rostov Oblast and the Central Black Soil Region. Many places had no rainfall for 6 or 70 consecutive days. The annual precipitation in Ukraine was 16 mm, the annual precipitation in Kursk Oblast was as low as 10 mm, and the annual precipitation in the lower reaches of the Volga River was less than 9 mm. Severe natural disasters became the direct cause of the famine.

Sokov read the article over and over again for five or six times and found that the severe food crisis that broke out in the Soviet Union in the early post-war period was affected by objective factors such as war and natural disasters. Even if he returned to that era, he could only do very limited things.

He sighed softly, closed the article, and continued to search for content that might be useful.

Last time, he inexplicably traveled to the Patriotic War period. He was able to achieve so many achievements because he knew that period of history and avoided some mistakes that should not have been made. But as time went by, the history he knew had already happened, and he had no idea what would happen next. Now that he is back, he must hurry up to make up for the lessons and learn more about the unknown history, so that he can avoid making some low-level mistakes after returning to the past.

According to the diary of the landlord's grandfather, he was still in Vienna when he woke up. In other words, even if he no longer serves as the commander of the 4th Guards Army, he will stay in this country for a while, so it is beneficial to know more about Austrian history.

According to the data: In the later period of the war, it was not only the Soviet army that occupied Austrian territory, but also the US, British and French armies, and even part of the Yugoslav army. But unlike other Central and Eastern European countries, Austria did not become a satellite state of the Soviet Union. Even after the signing of the Austrian State Treaty in 1955, Austria became a permanent neutral country like Switzerland.

On the issue of Austria, the Soviet Union's principles were: prohibiting the merger of Germany and Austria, preventing Germany from making a comeback, and demanding war reparations to the maximum extent. In the mid-1950s, these goals of the Soviet Union had basically been achieved. Politically, Austria passed the non-Nazi law and the law on investigating war responsibility, and more than 100,000 Nazis were dismissed and investigated. Economically, most of the former German assets in Austria were investigated and confiscated by the Soviet Union.

Since the goals of weakening Germany and demanding compensation had been achieved, the Soviet Union took the initiative to withdraw its troops stationed in Austria. In September 1955, the last batch of Soviet troops withdrew from Austria. On October 26 of that year, the Western Allies also withdrew from Austria. In this way, Austria became a peace-oriented country that did not join any military bloc during the Soviet-American Cold War.

While browsing the Internet, Sokov heard a voice from the room again: "Misha, Misha!"

Hearing this voice, he couldn't help but shiver all over. This was Asiya's voice. Could it be that she was calling him in the dressing mirror again?

He turned his head carefully and looked at the dressing mirror beside him. Sure enough, he saw Asiya's familiar face. She shouted anxiously: "Misha, Misha, wake up quickly! Wake up quickly!" The person standing next to her was Yakov.

But when Sokov walked to the dressing mirror, the scene inside disappeared without a trace, as if it had never appeared.

Sokov squatted in the dressing mirror and began to mutter to himself: "What's going on? I have seen relatives and friends in the past time and space for three consecutive times. Are they using special methods to urge me to return to that time and space?"

He reached out and touched the dressing mirror in front of him, but felt the cold glass, and there was no so-called passage. He laughed and felt that he thought too much. He got up and sat back in front of the computer, continuing to search for useful information.

However, although his eyes were fixed on the screen, he seemed absent-minded. He was thinking, if he really went back to the past in more than a month, how would it appear? Was it like last time, exploring the underground fortifications and somehow traveling through time, or would a time-space door suddenly appear in the dressing mirror, and then the huge suction force would allow him to return to the past?

The phone rang, and Sokov picked up the phone and saw that the name displayed on it was Kononets. Last time, he followed him to explore the underground fortifications, and ended up traveling through time inexplicably.

After he answered the phone, he politely asked, "Kononets, what's up?"

"Misha, where have you been?" Kononets said angrily on the phone, "Khabarov and I came to have a drink with you, but no one opened the door for us after knocking on the door for a long time."

"Kononets, I'm so sorry." Sokov said, "The landlord wants to take back the house, and I have moved out." Considering that he had just moved in and Anna was still living with him, it was not convenient to entertain guests, so he said tactfully, "I'm staying at a friend's house for the past two days, so it's not convenient for me to entertain you. Let's go another day." Let's get together."

"Okay, let's get together another day." When Kononets was about to hang up the phone, he suddenly remembered something and quickly added: "By the way, Misha, there is one more thing I almost forgot to tell you. We rented a villa in the suburbs and are going to invite a group of friends to have a party. You can come and play with us then."

Sokof was about to refuse, but suddenly remembered what Anna told him about the villa party. He felt that he should still hear it with his own eyes and see it with his own eyes. Only by experiencing it in person could he figure out whether what Anna said was accurate, so he readily agreed and said: "Okay, call me when the time comes and I'll drive over."