Chapter 1785: Kind Father and the Iron Alliance

The news that Beria brought was indeed very important. Stalin needed the latest information to understand the situation on the front line and every subtle change. In addition to these, Stalin did have other things to talk to Beria about, such as the unit named after him.

"Vatutin called me personally and reported the results and some details of the process."

"I am very satisfied with this operation, Beria. Stalin's First Guards Tank Division concentrated superior forces and superior equipment, played a flexible and excellent tactical role, and prepared sufficient combat plans and countermeasures in advance. It achieved such brilliant results in just one day. I personally think that this is worthy of being analyzed and studied as a classic and excellent battle example, and it would be best if it could be studied throughout the army."

To be honest, it was quite rare for Comrade Stalin, a loving father, to speak to his subordinates in this way.

Even when asking for the opinions of his subordinates, Comrade Stalin would simply say "Please speak freely" and then stop talking and just be a listener.

First, take the initiative to speak out your own ideas and opinions, and then seek the opinions and views of your subordinates. This not only shows that Comrade Stalin trusts Beria so much that he can speak and act like this, but more importantly, it shows how good Comrade Stalin's mood is at the moment. He is actually interested in talking about combat with Beria, the intelligence chief.

Beria, who was rarely asked such questions, seemed a little surprised at first, but the intelligence chief is still the intelligence chief after all. After a flash of surprise, he quickly returned to his serious expression.

"Your opinion is correct, Comrade Stalin, I think so too."

First of all, it is correct to affirm the leader's opinion. This is the basic operation. The more important content of the speech is actually in the second half of the sentence.

"You know, Comrade Stalin, I am not a military commander, and I am not good at talking about strategy and tactics. But I think that if we launch an in-depth study of the whole army, it will greatly enhance the soft power of our Red Army, which is indeed necessary in many aspects such as tactical application and troop morale."

"In the process of dealing with some commanders and deserters who made serious mistakes in front-line operations, the Ministry of Internal Affairs found through comparisons between different cases that most of them have one thing in common: their mastery of tactical application and combat command skills is so poor that when they encounter actual changes beyond the content of textbooks, they often panic and make big mistakes.

"Although this is only a small number of people, if we can reduce the number of this small number of people and continue to improve the capabilities of those who are already qualified, I think this will be very helpful in improving the overall strength of our Red Army. Obviously, the plan you proposed is the best choice to achieve this goal. ”

He used persuasive words to transfer topics that he was not involved in and was not good at to his own duties, and conducted in-depth and highly vertical special analysis, and finally gave his own conclusion.

Stalin admired Beria for many of his strengths, and this was the most shining one. Beria was always so satisfactory in his duties within the scope of his own responsibilities, and was only one step away from being impeccable. The satisfied smile on Comrade Ci Dad's face was enough to explain the problem.

"Very good, your opinions have provided me with some good ideas and summaries. I will talk to Vasilevsky and others about this matter later. A relatively complete charter needs to be formulated to implement it. ”

"Well, there is one more thing. The relevant publicity materials and tasks to be performed for this battle have been arranged now. Do you have any views and opinions on this matter? I mean internal propaganda. We need to let our people and soldiers benefit fully from it. We need it in all aspects. ”

People who work in intelligence generally have extremely high emotional intelligence and intelligence quotient. Compared with ordinary people, Yaan is definitely a rare talent in these two attributes, and the intelligence chief Beria’s attributes in this regard are even more needless to say.

As one of the hottest people around Comrade Cifu, Beria is indeed often asked by Comrade Cifu for some opinions that are not very related to his job. What exactly it is depends on the situation of the event itself and Comrade Cifu’s mood. There are all kinds of things, almost all kinds, so Beria’s expression at this moment does not seem to be very surprised.

“Hmm”

It cannot be said that Beria is pretending to think. Answering the leader’s questions must be carefully considered and thought twice before acting. This seemingly simple question is also worth some thought.

“Can it be in the form of a poster? I mean this can be used as one of the ways to promote it. The content of art painting is not my specialty, so I won’t express my opinion randomly, Comrade Stalin. But I think there is a poster slogan that is very good. This is what I suddenly thought of in an instant. ”

“A slogan? "

Comrade Stalin was obviously interested, took off the smoking pipe from the corner of his mouth and said with a smile.

"Tell me about it, I want to hear it."

"Stalin crushed Greater Germany, and the Iron Alliance defended the motherland!"

The slogan is the finishing touch of a poster. A painting with sufficient artistic level alone cannot be called a classic poster. It must have a slogan that can match it and is of the same level of accomplishment.

In many cases, slogans are even more important than paintings. After all, everyone has different understandings of the pictures of art, but only the direction of understanding indicated by slogans is the same, which is particularly important.

"Hmm"

Stalin could obviously taste the multi-layered meaning of the poster slogan presented by Beria while slowly inhaling with a pipe in his mouth. This is a poster slogan that is not difficult to interpret, but its artistic conception is high enough to make people admire the cleverness of the wording after reading the deep meaning.

"Not bad, it fits the facts and has multiple layers of meaning, short and concise."

"I wrote down the slogan and will add it to the publicity materials. You are really talented in this regard, Beria, I have to admit that this is a big advantage of yours."

For Beria, being able to satisfy the leader and praise him is the best result. When an official has reached this position, there will be almost no more important things than this.

"This is what I should do, Comrade Stalin, and your satisfaction is the best result I can think of."