Chapter 19 The Concentration Camp of Talents
The broken car drove in the muddy factory area for a while, and finally stopped at a place with a wooden isolation belt.
"General, here is the guarding area for those political prisoners," Sorkinchiko said while snatching the car, "The Kaganovich you are looking for is here, yes, the object of movement is under control."
Chu Sinan nodded silently, then pushed open the car door and walked down.
"Would you like to say hello to the guards in front of you?" Sokinchiko got out of the car immediately, hesitating on the other side, "that's the people from the Internal Affairs Branch of the Security Council, and this is their jurisdiction."
"No need, let's go in and take a look and come out. If you have something to do, then say it." Chu Sinan shook his head and said. He knew that this Internal Affairs Branch was a small organization of the Security Committee, and was under the Second General Administration under the jurisdiction of Gilnilova. Their main responsibility was to manage the internal defense, anti-special and anti-espionage work of all subordinate units across the country. In fact, to put it bluntly, it was similar to the internal security security of the public security in the era when Chu Sinan was in, but in comparison, the Internal Affairs Branch had much more power.
Seeing Chu Sinan casually walking towards the entrance of the wooden fence, Sokinchiko was helpless and thought to himself: I'm afraid you are the only one who dares not take the people of the Safety Committee seriously. If it were someone else, I would probably not have the courage to do such a thing. "If there is something to say, then it would be too late to say anything."
Indeed, private visits to political prisoners are not a trivial thing in the Soviet country. No matter who does such a thing, he will probably be brought to him by the local people of the Security Council less than the next day. But for Chu Sinan, such a thing is nothing, let alone the person in charge of managing the place or the person in the Internal Affairs Bureau, which is directly affiliated with Gilnilova's department. Who dares to tell him about Chu Sinan?
In fact, Sorkinchiko was also a little careless. He ignored a very critical issue, that is, in the past, the part of the warning area responsible for detaining political prisoners was always on high alert. No matter who you are, as long as you approach this area, you will be immediately questioned by the light and dark posts. Today, the situation is obviously a little wrong. Not only those light posts to the two of them, but even those who are truly affiliated with the Internal Affairs Branch did not show up. Why is this? It is very simple, someone is secretly manipulating all this to create convenience for Chu Sinan's prison visit.
Walking into the guard and isolation area as if no one was around, Chu Sinan saw a place similar to an outing camp. Behind the wooden partition wall was a huge empty yard. The entire empty yard was about thousands of square meters, and dilapidated tents were built everywhere. At this time, it was probably because everyone living here went to work. So it gave people a feeling of secludedness, with only some ragged children running and playing around. Chu Sinan had a feeling that he accidentally entered the German abandoned concentration camp. No, the conditions here were probably much worse than those of the German concentration camp.
Chu Sinan stopped in front of the first tent, lifted the patched curtain and looked inside. There was no one in the tent, it was empty, and the wet soil gave people a biting cold feeling. There was no decoration in the tent. Apart from a piece of "furniture" piled up with wood that looked like a bed, there was only a rough-working chair and two "decorations" hanging on the tent. These two "decorations" also looked so shocking.  ̄ ̄ They were two wooden boards engraved with big red characters, one said "Slacking off is also a counter-revolution!", while the other said "No fortress that the Bolsheviks could not conquer!"
But even so, there were still a few things in the tent that attracted Chu Sinan's attention. Of course, this thing would not be the wooden sign with the slogans. When he was in jail in a secret prison, the slogans he had seen were much more exciting than the ones here. What really attracted Chu Sinan's attention was a large stack of manuscript paper placed on the wooden bed. He was very curious, who was living in this tent, and he was still in the mood to speak in books?
He lifted the curtain to the top of the tent, and Chu Sinan walked into the tent, walked directly to the bed, took one or two pieces of manuscript paper scattered beside him, and put it in front of him for a look. The content on the manuscript paper was quite messy, with data and simple pictures. Chu Sinan couldn't understand these things. He speculated that this might be related to weather or water conservancy.
"Comrade Sorkinchiko, who is the person living here? What are you doing?" Chu Sinan put the manuscript paper in his hand back to its original place, then turned around and said to Sorkinchiko who was following behind him.
"Oh, let's see," Sokinchiko turned around and flipped the curtain off the tent, then looked over it, "Ah, it's Karnev, a water conservancy expert, who used to work in the Ministry of Water Conservancy."
"Oh, water conservancy expert?" Chu Sinan blinked. He felt that the name Karnev was very familiar. He seemed to have heard of it somewhere before, but he couldn't remember it in a hurry.
"The water conservancy expert is also locked up here. What mistake did he make? Counter-revolutionary? Traitor? Or did he act as a spy for the Germans?" Chu Sinan felt a little incredible and asked in a series of questions.
"I don't know either," Sorkinchiko shrugged, "You know, I can't come in often, even if I have to come for work reasons, there will be people from the Security Council monitoring each other. It is not allowed to chat with these political prisoners. It is absolutely forever like today, so I don't know their situation."
"How long have these people been imprisoned?" Chu Sinan knew that Sorkinchiko was telling the truth, so he asked in a second question.
"It's different. Some people were locked up a few years ago, while another group was sent by a few months or even a month ago." Sokinchiko replied, "Some people were released one after another, and some were taken in for labor reform one after another. The situation here is not so stable."
"Who are the people who are locked up here?" Chu Sinan continued to ask. This was the first time he raised this question. He had never thought about asking before, but the situation is different now. Kagannovic was once a close confidant of Stalin and a senior official of the Soviet government. He was detained here as a political prisoner, and it is understandable that he was imprisoned here, but experts and scholars like Kamov and Karnev were also locked up here. Why? They wouldn't have participated in the political competition, right?
"I don't know this, but there are some people I know." Sokinchiko thought for a while and said, "like Korolev, Thiorkovsky, Ditov, Kapicha, etc. These people are all celebrities, but I don't know why they were locked up here."
Among the four names of Sokinchiko mentioned, Chu Sinan knew one, that this person was Korolev  ̄ ̄ ̄The famous "Father of Soviet Launch Vehicles", the designer of the Soviet first intercontinental ballistic missile, the main designer of the world's first manned spacecraft "Oriental 1", etc., and so on. He has too many names.
However, Chu Sinan didn't know the three people, and they were not small characters: Thiorkovsky, Korolev's main assistant. Although he had not achieved so many remarkable achievements, he was the founder of the theory of human aerospace history. Rocket flight theory, liquid fuel rocket structure theory, multi-stage rocket structure theory, etc. These theories that are indispensable to ballistic missiles and aerospace history were all proposed and demonstrated by him. Ditov, an agricultural expert, to be honest, Chu Si
Nan should feel ashamed if he doesn't know how much his name is. The cotton production area of the Construction Corps of the Manas River Basin in Xinjiang is established under his personal guidance. This pragmatic agricultural expert, at the beginning of the founding of New China, broke the international conclusion that cotton cannot be grown in Xinjiang. As for Pikacha, it seems needless to say, a world-renowned physics expert, a pioneer in the low temperature physics community, a Nobel Prize winner, and one of the discoverers of superfluid phenomena.
Fortunately, Chu Sinan didn't know what he would be surprised to be, otherwise he would not know what he would be surprised, but even so, he had endless feelings. Talents, especially those who are so skilled and highly qualified, are extremely valuable wealth for a country and are not easy to use. In order to attract talents, Americans can be said to be using all kinds of methods, such as attracting talents, such as seduction, intimidation, threats, etc., without them, but what was the Soviet Union, which was more ideologically superior, doing? He threw these talents into concentration camps and let them do physical work. Isn't this a waste? No, this can no longer be described as waste. This is a crime, a naked crime, a crime against the entire country and the entire human race.
Chu Sinan secretly made up his mind that he must figure out what happened here. At least, those talents that are rare in a century must be liberated. Doing physical work is not their strength, and wasting their intelligence for no reason is even more stupid.
"Let's go, let's take a look elsewhere." Chu Sinan turned around with a calm face, said to Sokinchiko behind him, and then walked out on his own.
As Chu Sinan's pace extended in the alert area, Sorkinchiko discovered the problem. He sensitively realized that this noble general seemed not just to come to Kagannovic. He walked over one by one tent one by one, and each tent had to go in and check it out, especially those names marked behind the curtains, who had never let go of any of them. Sorkinchiko felt that Chu Sinan was probably drunk, and he just looked for another or several people under the guise of finding Kagannovic.
Hundreds of tents were set up in the entire warning area, which means that hundreds of political prisoners and their families were placed here. Chu Sinan wore a lieutenant general's uniform and stayed in this place without returning, and was still shuttled between the tents, which naturally caused panic among the women and children who had not gone to work. Therefore, when he came out of the last tent, he was almost overwhelmed by his frightened eyes.
However, Chu Sinan no longer had the heart to pay attention to these things. During the inspection, he was already confused by the names he had already known. The people who could make him familiar with were naturally people with a certain reputation in the Soviet military, but there were no generals here, and some were all so-called high-level intellectuals and weapons research elites. But now, they are nothing. At best, they are a group of coolies who cannot eat enough, wear, stay warm, and live in a down-to-earth manner every day, and they are also coolies living at the bottom of society.
Chu Sinan speculated that if Germany, the United States and other Western countries learned about the situation here, they would not know how many people would vomit blood, and then celebrate with their foreheads or move around to make some benefits from it.
"General, you are tired, find a place to rest," said Sorkinchiko carefully, "I think this is better. Let's find a place to rest first, and then who are you looking for. Just leave it to me to handle it."
Chu Sinan shook his head with a heavy expression, then sighed and said, "Comrade Sokinchiko, do you know what I am thinking now?"
Sokinchiko shook his head in shock. How could he know what Chu Sinan was thinking?
"I'm thinking, for some people, this place may be just a concentration camp for political prisoners with ulterior motives, but for our entire country, this place is a tragedy," Chu Sinan glanced at him, and then said in a calm tone, "This is a cemetery of talents, a tomb of progress. If it is broken one day earlier, then one day it will bury our entire country."
Sorkinchiko was obviously shocked by Chu Sinan's sensational words. You should know that this is a taboo argument now. Where is the concentration camp where political prisoners are detained? It is a "blessed land" for those who take the wrong path to regret and reform. It is a sacred and inviolable place. But Chu Sinan here openly accused the concentration camp, saying that it is a "cemetery of talents" and a "progressive net tomb", and saying that "it will bury the entire country". This is really shocking. If this is said by someone else, there is no need to defend it. The person who speaks may soon be called a political prisoner.
"General, you are joking," Sokinchiko subconsciously looked around, and then smiled embarrassedly, "I think you are tired, so let's find a place to rest quickly. Oh, yes, why haven't Secretary Joka been here for so long? Can't find us? Let's go find him. Now it's time for lunch, and I think everyone here is coming back."
Chu Sinan naturally guessed what Sokinchiko was thinking. He smiled faintly and said, "I don't want to go anywhere now. I'll rest here and wait for the people here to come back. Let's do this. Go and find Secretary Qiaoka and tell him to prepare more delicious food at noon. I want to borrow his place to entertain these political prisoners."
"Ah, General, are you kidding me? Isn't this true?" Sorkinchiko was shocked and asked anxiously.
"Comrade Sokinchiko, this is the second time you have asked such an inexplicable question," Chu Sinan said unhappily, "Do you look like I'm joking? Or do you think I'm a joke?"
"No, no, general, I don't mean that," Sorkinchiko hurriedly explained, "I mean, this matter is quite a bit serious. If you don't do it well, you will get into trouble. So, please be careful and think twice before you act."
"Um..." Chu Sinan turned his head and looked thoughtful. After a moment of silence, he said breathing, "Comrade Sokinchiko, I thought about it. You are right. I didn't think about it clearly, or I didn't think about it carefully..."
When Chu Sinan said this, Sojinqiko breathed a sigh of relief. However, his relieved breath had not been completely breathed, and the hanging heart had not yet fallen, Chu Sinan's words followed him completely destroyed him, almost fainting on the spot.
"Well, it is irresponsible to solve the problem of eating one-sidedly," Chu Sinan continued casually. "In my opinion, the living conditions here are too poor, and it is simply not a place to live. By the way, you notify Secretary Qiaoka and ask him to arrange housing for these people immediately. I want everyone here to stay in a warm and comfortable room tonight, instead of staying in this cold and cold tent."
Sorkinchiko felt that he had been completely defeated. This young and vigorous boss obviously did not know what the cruelty of the political struggle was. It would be fine if he had contacted and sympathized with these political prisoners, but he had to improve their living environment for them. Isn’t this asking for trouble?
"General, you know, the housing here is very tense. In this haste, where did Secretary Qiaoka get so many housing?" In desperation, Soginchiko decided to change his way and use the word-drag method to temporarily sloppy this matter. "I think it's better to be like this. Give them a few more days to live here temporarily, and solve their food problem first, and then..."
"I don't have so much time to give him grace," Chu Sinan said impatiently before Sorkinchiko finished speaking, "If you can't even solve the accommodation for hundreds of people, then he, the secretary, should have done his best. There is no formal housing, is there a decent warehouse? Clean it up immediately and let someone move in first? If there is no warehouse, it's easy to deal with it. Qiao Ka and the smart people in the factory will move out of my house. Come here to stay here for a few days. I believe that he will solve all the problems by then!"
"This..." Sokinchiko seemed to have to say something, but was interrupted by Chu Sinan's wave.
"This matter was decided," Chu Sinan said in an unquestionable tone, "You can do it right away. I understand what you mean. No matter what the consequences of this matter are, Chu Sinan, will be responsible for me alone and have nothing to do with you."
Chapter completed!