The checkpoint was not far from Lubyanka's headquarters, and a few minutes later, Yakov was escorted into an underground interrogation room.
There is a table and two armchairs in the interrogation room, which are where the interrogators sit. Opposite the table is a special armchair with iron rings that can be opened and closed on the armrests and legs to fix the hands and feet of the interrogator.
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After Yakov was escorted into the interrogation room, two soldiers immediately came forward and unlocked his handcuffs, pushed him down on the interrogation chair, and fixed his hands and feet with the iron rings on the chair. After doing this
, two soldiers stood on both sides of the interrogation chair in order to deal with possible resistance.
After the captain calmly sat down behind the table, a clerk also sat down next to him, preparing to record the interrogation.
"Your name!"
"Yakov, Yakov Dzhugashvili!"
"Where are you from?"
"Georgians."
"What's your purpose in coming to Lubyanka?"
"Visiting patients in the hospital." Although the captain of the Ministry of Internal Affairs looked domineering, Yakov still responded very cooperatively: "My friend is a general. He was injured not long ago and was sent to the Lubyanka.
Military hospital, I came here to visit him."
When the captain heard this, he couldn't help but sneered, and then said: "Tell me honestly, what is the purpose of your coming to Lubyanka?"
Seeing that the other party did not believe him, Yakov still defended himself and said: "Didn't I already say it? I came to the hospital here to visit a friend, but due to an accident, I forgot to wear my military uniform and my ID when I left.
and pass are in the clothes."
The captain slammed the table hard, stood up, and said viciously: "At this point, you are still lying. Apart from our staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, not many people know about the military hospital in Lubyanka. And the hospital here is
Not everyone can move in if they want to. Unless your friend is a marshal or general, he is not qualified to move in. Does your friend meet this condition? "
Yakov shook his head and replied truthfully: "He is just a major general."
"Since he is only a major general, how can he be qualified to be admitted to the hospital here?" The captain roared at Yakov: "At this time, if you don't want to admit that you are a German spy, you just sneak into the Lubyanka.
Are you here to cause destruction?"
After finishing speaking, without waiting for Yakov to speak, the captain turned and asked the clerk sitting next to him: "Is the verdict ready?"
"Ready, Comrade Captain." The clerk quickly handed a piece of paper to the Captain.
The captain took the paper from the stenographer's hand and was about to read out the verdict when the closed door was opened from the outside and three people walked in from the outside.
After seeing the person clearly, the captain hurriedly put down the verdict in his hand and walked out from behind the table. He stepped forward and saluted: "Hello, Comrade Kruglov."
"Comrade Captain," Kruglov looked at the captain and asked, "Where were the prisoners for today's interrogation taken from?"
"At the temporary checkpoint near Lubyanka." The captain knew very well that Kruglov was Beria's first deputy and the deputy people's commissar of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. He should behave well in front of him.
He might be able to get a chance to make a career, so he reported to the other party with the mentality of showing his merit: "He didn't have any documents on him, and he even said that he went into the hospital to see patients and left his military uniform in the hospital when he came out, but his
I saw through the lie easily. According to my analysis, he is a German spy who infiltrated near Lubyanka just to spy on intelligence."
Kruglov hummed softly, and then looked in the direction of the interrogation chair. He wanted to see what kind of person this bold German spy was. He would wait until he saw the person sitting in the chair clearly.
After looking at his face, his eyes widened in surprise because he recognized who the other person was.
When Yakov, who was sitting in the interrogation chair, saw that the person who came in was Kruglov, he was secretly relieved, because he had seen this person in his father's mansion. At this time, he saw that the other person was throwing himself at him.
He looked at me in surprise, obviously having recognized his identity, so he grinned and took the initiative to say hello: "Hello, Uncle Sergey. It's a pity that we actually met under such circumstances."
When the captain heard Yakov calling Kruglov uncle, his face showed surprise. He asked tentatively: "Comrade Deputy People's Commissar, do you know this spy?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Kruglov rounded up his hand and gave him a hard slap in the face, causing him to spin in a circle. Before he could recover, he was hit again on the calf bone.
One kick was so painful that he knelt down on one knee.
"Come here!" Although there were two soldiers standing on the left and right of the interrogation chair, Kruglov still shouted loudly to the two people he brought with him: "Hurry up, hurry up and help Yakov untie him.
"
The two lieutenant-level officers who followed Kruglov in, upon hearing this order, immediately stepped forward to help Yakov untie the iron rings that bound his hands and feet, and helped him stand up from the chair.
"Yakov, are you okay?"
"I'm fine." Yakov said with a wry smile: "Uncle Sergey, if you come a step later, maybe I won't be able to see you."
"Captain," Kruglov said to an officer who followed him in: "You take Yakov to my office first. I will go over immediately after I finish handling the things here."
After the officers accompanied Yakov to leave, the captain stood up with his face covered, and asked Kruglov with a grimace: "Comrade Deputy People's Commissar, who is he?"
Kruglov raised his hand and punched the opponent in the shoulder, and said angrily: "Captain, you are such a fool, do you know what you have done?"
"I'm just interrogating a German spy."
"German spy?!" Kruglov raised his voice and said, "The person you just interrogated is Yakov, the eldest son of the Supreme Commander himself, and you actually mistook him for a German spy."
Hearing Kruglov say this, the captain seemed to be drained of all his strength and fell directly to the ground. Although his subordinates were standing nearby, they heard that the person they were interrogating was actually Stalin's eldest son.
They were all so frightened that they couldn't help the captain.
Kruglov snorted heavily, turned around and left the interrogation room. He just wanted to return to the office as soon as possible, comfort Yakov who was waiting there, and try to control the impact of this matter to the minimum range. As for these
The life and death of minor characters is not within his scope of consideration.
Returning to his office, Kruglov saw Yakov sitting on the sofa drinking tea, and the captain who escorted him was standing aside with his hands lowered.
"Yakov," Kruglov said to Yakov with a smile, "are you used to the tea I have here?"
"Not bad." Yakov nodded and replied: "It tastes better than the tea at my father's place."
Kruglov sat down on the sofa next to Yakov and asked with a smile: "Yakov, what happened today? Why don't you have any documents on you?"
"Uncle Sergey, the situation is like this." Yakov put down the teacup in his hand and explained to Kruglov: "My friend Misha was injured a few days ago and was sent to the Lubyanka.
Military hospital, I came to visit him today."
"Misha?!" Kruglov only hesitated for a moment, then guessed who Yakov was talking about, and asked tentatively: "Are you talking about the commander of the 27th Army, Major General Sokov?"
"Yes, that's him."
As the deputy people's commissar of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Kruglov naturally knew that Sokov rescued Yakov from the prisoner of war camp. Now that Sokov is injured and hospitalized, Yakov's visit to him is also a matter of cleanup.
.But Yakov didn’t think twice about going out without his documents, otherwise today’s misunderstanding wouldn’t have happened.
Thinking of this, he said to Yakov with a smile on his face: "Yakov, everything today is all a misunderstanding. If you had brought your ID with you when you went out today, I'm afraid the misunderstanding wouldn't have happened."
"Uncle Sergey," Yakov replied with a wry smile: "Actually, I brought my ID with me when I went out today."
"Then why did the captain say you didn't have the certificate?" Kruglov felt that it was impossible for Yakov to lie to him about this kind of thing, so he asked curiously: "Is it because you didn't want him to see the certificate?"
"That's not true." Yakov explained: "When I was visiting Misha in the hospital, I accidentally bumped into two workers carrying printing equipment. As a result, the military uniform was covered with printing ink, so I put it on
I took off my clothes and put them on the chair next to Misha's hospital bed. But when I left, I was in a hurry and actually forgot to take my clothes."
"Since you left your clothes in the hospital, you can tell the captain about this during the inspection, and you won't have him take you back to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for interrogation."
"I said so and even asked him to send someone to accompany me to the hospital to get my certificate, but he refused."
Kruglov originally just wanted to wait for Yakov to leave, scold the captain, and then give him a first-class military rank. But after hearing what Yakov said, he not only felt angry for no reason, but also decided to kill the captain who had caused trouble.
The captain was immediately sent to the frontline punishment camp, where he was asked to participate in the most dangerous battles and receive the due punishment for today's reckless behavior.
But what we have to do now is to comfort Yakov and tell him not to make the matter bigger, otherwise most of the people will be affected. Kruglov raised his head and said to the officer standing aside: "Comrade Captain,
Please go to the inpatient department of the hospital and retrieve Colonel Yakov's military uniform."
"Uncle Sergey," Yakov said with some embarrassment when he heard Kruglov asked his subordinates to help him get his clothes: "I think it's better for me to go by myself, so as not to trouble this comrade captain."
"Yakov, you don't have documents on you now. It's very dangerous to walk outside. If you meet an unreasonable person again and forcefully detain you because you don't have documents, things will be more troublesome."
After Kruglov said this, he said to the officer next to him: "Captain, why are you still standing here? Why don't you hurry up and help Colonel Yakov get his clothes?"
After the officer left, Kruglov smiled and said to Yakov: "Yakov, although what happened today is a misunderstanding, I will deal with the person involved seriously. Do you think this matter can end here?"
until?"
Yakov knew that if he insisted on making this matter bigger, many innocent people would suffer, so he said smoothly: "Okay, Uncle Sergey, since you have interceded for them, then I will agree to it."
, we will no longer pursue this matter.”
Hearing that Yakov would no longer pursue the matter, Kruglov's heart finally fell to the ground. In order to ease the atmosphere in the room, he promptly changed the subject: "Yakov, that Sokov
How was the general injured?"
Yakov was thinking about how to change the topic. When Kruglov asked this question, he quickly told the other party in detail what he knew about the situation.
After listening to this, Kruglov said with emotion: "General Sokov's fate is really great. It can be said to be a miracle that he survived such an explosion." He paused for a moment and continued.
Ask, "Will you visit him often?"
"There have been a lot of things going on at work recently, so I guess I have very little time to visit him." After Yakov finished saying this, he specifically added: "But I sent his wife over today. I have his wife."
With him around, I don't have to worry about him not getting the best care, and it doesn't matter even if I visit him less often."
Commanders of Sokov's level have detailed information in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Kruglov frowned and recalled the information about Sokov, and then had a preliminary understanding of his wife:
"Yakov, you are talking about Assistant Military Doctor Asya. She was captured by the Germans during the Battle of Kursk."
"Yes, on the day Asya was captured by the Germans, Sokov launched a fierce attack on the German 19th Armored Division." Yakov heard Kruglov mention Asya's capture and quickly explained to him
: "During the battle, the division was completely wiped out, and several captured female medical staff, including Asiya, were all rescued.
After this incident, Misha felt that it was very unsafe for Asiya to stay on the front line. After discussing with me, he transferred Asiya to the Weapons and Equipment Department as a military doctor."
"Yakov, after hearing what you said, I realized that the information in my hand was out of date." In front of Yakov, Kruglov did not hide the fact that he had Sokov's information: "Look
It is necessary for the relevant departments to provide me with the latest information."
Since Kruglov took the initiative to mention the information in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yakov also asked jokingly: "Uncle Sergey, do you have any information about me in your database?"
"That's not true." Kruglov shook his head and said with a smile: "You must be an officer at the general level to be eligible to enter our database. Yakov, you must work harder and strive to become a general as soon as possible.
General, your information will be entered into our database by then."
"I'm afraid it's difficult to become a general." Yakov is still very self-aware and feels that it is not an easy task for him to become a general: "The reason why I was able to obtain the rank of colonel is because I
I have participated in several major battles and completed the testing of new weapons on the battlefield. It is basically impossible to get such an opportunity in the future, so I am afraid that I will stop at the rank of colonel."
"Yakov, you have to have confidence in yourself." Kruglov thought to himself, your father is the supreme commander, as long as he finds the right opportunity to promote you to general, it is just a piece of cake, he laughed.
He said: "I believe that sooner or later, you will become a general. After all, it is much easier to get promoted during war than in peacetime."