When Chernov was still with the KGB in Sevastopol, Orgarkov in Moscow was dealing with feedback from frontline soldiers and officers. Even his staff had organized and summarized it, yet it remained tedious to read.
Now, he is reviewing feedback from Chernov. Despite being suspected of being influenced by the enemy, someone who participated in the battles in Leningrad and the Baltic States, their feedback is still important. Furthermore, his experience could also become an excuse for the Soviets to launch a war in the future.
He closed the report, leaned his body back on the chair, and closed his eyes.
"Interesting."
His reformation proposal for the Army has been submitted and a briefing has been scheduled for the entire Chief of Staff. The proposal is titled the 'Star War Project', which aims to establish a comprehensive new system for the army, extending from the ground to space.
By the end of the project, a completely new army will be formed, the space army. While it won't feature spaceships engaging in combat in space, it will develop a space station that can provide support to ground operations. However, this will require an additional 5 to 10 years to complete.
So improvement in the soldier's equipment will be the priority for these two years. And from Chernov's reports, three things are urgently needed.
Communication between soldiers and officers extended mechanized waves from ground to air and also night vision equipment.
Experience in Leningrad shows that communication has been a problem. Soldiers are not able to find their superior officers, and officers equipped with walkie-talkies can contact their superior officers but are not able to contact their soldiers. The solution to this problem is to equip every soldier with personal walkie-talkies, in the current status, they are only equipped at the officer level.
Extended mechanized waves from ground to air, the power of mechanized waves will be limited if they don't get enough air superiority. This idea has been used for the past few tens of years, and they build tens of thousands of various types of planes, thinking off make up for the disadvantage of quality with the advantage of quantity.
But with this idea, it costs a lot more than doing this on the tanks. Pilot and fighter cost more than it. So, drones again that can be used without a pilot are a choice, perhaps smaller drones can be developed. Before that, the Soviets built on bigger ones, but now, they should pay some attention to the smaller ones, that is cheap and large amounts.
Lastly, the advancement of night vision technology. The Red Army possesses this capability, but it is costly and only available to elite and specialized troops. Most tanks and personnel still lack it, including the T-54/55 tanks, which are currently the most widely equipped. Even the T-64 and T-72 continue to rely on outdated night vision systems.
In the future battle in the tunnel, infantry will conduct their combat in a dark environment, even if they can install flashlights on their guns, it is still necessary to equip them with some.
All the detailed directions have been confirmed in Orgarkov's heart. Thinking of this, he felt relaxed and stretched. Days spent inside his office had made him tired.
"Perhaps I should take a walk outside."
He then stepped out of his office and walked to the street with his guard. However, he felt something was off about the streets today, they seemed different and strange. It was a bit too quiet, and the streetlights were off, even though it was night.
All of this made Orgarkov feel alert, everything here was not normal.
"Bang"
Suddenly, a loud voice came, and an object was dropped on a car.
"Alert!"
The accompanying guards immediately issued a warning, and Orgarkov also took out his pistol.
"Marshal, let me check on it." Orgarkov's adjutant asked.
Orgarkov nodded his head.
A few guards led by Orgarkov adjutant carefully stepped forward to check with their guns. Some of them pointed their guns to the upper floors of the building alerting. Adjutant walked toward the object slowly, and the next moment, he felt horrified.
It is not an object, it is a body, and he recognizes who is it when he sees the face.
He quickly ran back to Orgarkov.
"Marshal, we should go, I will call for the patrol, it is the corpse of the First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee, Viktor Grishin."
Viktor Grishin, Secretary of the Moscow City, familiar name for Orgarkov.
He remembered that he saw this name on the name list that Andropov gave him to read in his office. He immediately stopped his adjutant.
"No, forget it. Everyone returned to the Chief of Staff with me, no one was allowed to tell me what happened here tonight. Remember, we stayed in the Chief of Staff for the whole day and night."
The adjutant was stunned for a while, but reacted quickly, he understood this is something classified that soldiers like him are not qualified to know. The more he knows, the quicker he dies, at least for now.
Regarding anti-corruption, or what people used to call the purge, it is better to keep them at a distance, just like military personnel such as him. Individuals like them, who lack political awareness, are easily exploited.
Georgy Zhukov, who was the first to aim his guns at Beria, serves as an example. Khrushchev asked Zhukov to do it because they two had forged a good relationship, and, in addition, during World War II, Zhukov had twice saved Khrushchev from false accusations. He was expelled from the Central Committee in the end, of course, there is some reason for himself as well, for being such a 'powerful person'.
The KGB will send their agents here to clean up the place, and by that time, they will have numerous ways to explain his death. Suicide, accident, or even claiming it was murder or assassination by enemy states can be used as an excuse to do whatever they want. The citizens would remain unaware of the truth, and the Soviet propaganda machine was as powerful as ever.
No matter what is said, officers only know one thing, the purge has begun.