Chapter 116: The Overturning Truth (Second Update)

Like a child caught in wrongdoing, Natalia anxiously placed her hands on her lower abdomen, her ten fingers quietly intertwining and tugging at one another.

“Do you have anything to say? I distinctly remember warning you repeatedly. Once you enter the Red House, I am no longer your brother—I am your chief instructor, your superior.”

“I... I know. But that wretched woman clearly lost, yet shamelessly came to me, trying to use... well, improper means to trick me into passing on the legacy. I... I couldn't stand it, so I just...”

Mei Mumu rubbed his forehead.

What kind of broken relationship was this supposed to be?

He was well aware that Natalia liked him, but they were not in a romantic relationship! They hadn’t done anything, yet he felt the same desolate guilt as if a married man had been caught in an affair.

Mei Mumu approached her like a caring older brother and tenderly stroked Natalia’s brilliant red hair. Feeling even more guilty after having thought she’d done wrong moments before, Natalia sighed, “I’m sorry, I should have trusted you, brother.”

Gently giving her a brotherly hug, Mei Mumu pressed on her shoulder and said, “Is there anything else you want to ask? Normally there’s no chance, but today I secretly rendered the listening devices useless. If you want to ask, go ahead.”

Natalia seemed afraid but mustered her courage. “Brother Major Cao, what you’re doing is dangerous. You’re stealing the future of our motherland!”

Turning agents into one’s own private force and cultivating an independent faction was strictly forbidden inside the Soviet Union, which had just undergone a massive purge not long ago. No matter if one was a Soviet hero, touching Stalin’s sensitive nerves meant facing the firing squad.

“I’ve begun to doubt the justice of the Soviet Union. Ever since the night I rescued Yakov, I heard a different version from Polish officers,” Mei Mumu began, recounting Yakov’s ordeal in the concentration camp.

After Yakov was captured, he naturally held on to his father’s beliefs—that the Red Army was the world’s liberator, the savior. But the Polish officers ridiculed him mercilessly, presenting abundant evidence of Soviet brutality in Poland.

It shattered his worldview.

Later, the Poles accepted this mysterious young Soviet officer.

After Mei Mumu’s rescue, on the way back, he often queried fellow intelligence agents about similar matters. Of course, no one dared answer the son of Stalin.

Mei Mumu knew words alone were insufficient proof. He produced a document that should not have existed in this era—both a copy and the original—and handed it to Natalia.

It was a top-secret file from fifty years prior, made public by Russia around the year 2000 after the collapse of the Soviet Union in his original world.

Natalia read swiftly, growing more distressed and despondent with each line.

The document chronicled a series of Soviet actions in recent years.

Before World War II, the Soviet Union had already begun aggressive expansion—first establishing itself, then forcibly annexing Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia no later than the late war years.

Moreover, in 1929, the Soviets instigated the Middle East Railway Incident, taking over the railway entirely. In 1939, they provoked the Winter War, seizing eastern Finland and its ports. When Germany invaded Poland, the Soviets joined in to help divide the country with Germany.

Northeastern Romanian regions in the Carpathians were also illegally occupied by the Soviets. By 1941, the Soviet western border had moved far west, with the homeland no longer directly on the frontier. Germany’s lightning war against the Soviet Union began by crossing this new border.

These were facts anyone with a bit of inquiry could uncover.

But what struck Natalia most deeply was the Katyn Massacre.

Also known as the Katyn Incident or Katyn Forest Massacre, it was an organized mass execution carried out by the Soviet secret police—the People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs—under the approval of the Soviet Communist Party’s Central Politburo, between April and May 1940. The victims were Polish prisoners of war, intellectuals, police, and other officials.

In the spring of 1940, around 22,000 Polish soldiers, intellectuals, politicians, and officials were killed by Soviet forces, with 4,421 executed specifically in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk.

In 1943, after the Germans discovered the bodies, they accused the Soviets of the massacre, which the Soviets vehemently denied.

At Mei Mumu’s current time, this event had just occurred.

However, in the timeline of Mei Mumu’s original Earth, the Soviet Union only admitted full responsibility in April 1990 during a visit by Polish President Jaruzelski, calling it “one of the serious crimes of Stalinism.” In April 2010, Russian Prime Minister Medvedev ordered the release of Russian-held historical documents on Katyn, marking the first public disclosure.

What Mei Mumu showed Natalia was the execution order for the Katyn Massacre bearing Stalin’s own signature. He possessed top-secret materials from another world, yet they concerned events freshly unfolding in this parallel timeline.

Such a mental shock was the greatest ethical upheaval for a fourteen-year-old orphaned spy.

Determined to serve her country and punish the brutal German invaders, who would have imagined the truth?

“Actually, Germany and the Soviet Union aren’t fundamentally different—they’re both imperialist powers. The Soviet invasion was just a failed attempt at hegemony, which led to a backstab. No one is innocent here.”

The Soviet situation was more like a victim turned aggressor. Indeed, the Germans launched an undeclared war first, but the Soviets had their own plans for western expansion—just on a slightly later schedule, only to be preempted by Germany.

As Mei Mumu subtly manipulated the Black Widow, he employed his mental abilities.

His mysterious bloodline granted him a potent psychic influence, making it easier for others to accept his version of events.

Besides, he spoke nothing but the truth, verifiable anywhere.

“Brother, is everything you say true? Look into my eyes—I won’t let you deceive me!” Tears welled in Natalia’s eyes.

Mei Mumu gazed at her sincerely. “Why would I lie? The Soviet Union was never that large. Before the Russian Empire formed, it was just a small Grand Duchy of Moscow. Where did the world’s largest territory come from? Were all those nations so enamored of Russia that they willingly joined?”

Such brutal honesty was the deadliest weapon.

This young girl, thoroughly brainwashed by red ideology, was shattered.

Natalia collapsed entirely, sinking into Mei Mumu’s embrace.