Comrade Molotov was worthy of being a veteran Bolshevik revolutionary and statesman, and his speech was commanding, hit the nail on the head, and put into practice Leninist thought: He changed such a serious issue of war and peace, which had a bearing on the overall situation and fundamentals, and had a bearing on the party's survival and development, into a policy issue that was flexible, adaptable to the situation, and did not damage the party's image, line, and principles, and was also prefixed. The tactics of the struggle were collectively discussed by the Politburo, fully conceived and personally approved by Comrade Stalin. www.biquge.info This immediately set the tone and meaning of the meeting, so that everyone can speak with peace of mind and not have any worries.

As we all know, the question of the line is a life-and-death class struggle, and if you don't do it well, you will die; At best, the question of strategy is only a contradiction among the people, a disagreement based on the specific methods adopted by the same goal and direction, and the wrong comrades are, at most, problems of insufficient ability, low consciousness, and insufficient vision.

Didn't comrades like Zhukov, who had been urgently rescued from the execution ground, also oppose the correctness and necessity of the suppression? At most, he muttered a few words of enlargement, was used by a small group of careerists, and wronged some comrades -- just like a little sunspot on the glorious sun, and after seeing the forces of national separatism and independence in Central Asia this time, his review came: "...... I feel that my political consciousness is low, that my party spirit is not cultivated enough, that I have not fully realized the camouflage and ferocity of the enemy, that I have not realized the long-term and arduous nature of the suppression, and that I have committed the fault of political naivety, and that I should further strengthen my study in the future, and ask Comrade Stalin to help, criticize, and educate ......." This has fully verified Comrade Stalin's farsightedness and precautionary measures.

Did Comrade Stalin fight him? No! Not only that, but he also praised Zhukov several times for this incident, saying that he "has a bumper harvest in military and politics, and has made great progress and improved rapidly!" "Now that Molotov is so certain that everyone can speak their minds freely, it is a big deal to make criticism and self-criticism again in the future, and presumably Comrade Stalin will not hold on to it.

As a result, the atmosphere began to become lively, and the dull scene just now was suddenly swept away, and everyone first fully affirmed that Comrade Stalin's decision to break the kettle and give it a free hand was correct and wise, and that the situation in Central Asia and the Caspian Sea was now improving! Secondly, he believes that from the perspective of the war as a whole, the enemy is still strong and we are weak, and it is necessary to have the consciousness of persisting in the long-term struggle, and then he said that it is okay to talk about peace, this is not begging, this is a fight, and at best it is a truce! In the end, he insisted that the armistice was not the same as capitulation to the fascists and the Mensheviks, that this was just another tactic of the long-term struggle, and that in the future it would be possible to further mobilize the masses, further seek the support of fraternal parties and fraternal peoples in other countries, and gather more forces for a counteroffensive.

A bunch of Politburo members have expounded this set of tactics many times in reverse terms, and each of them has different angles and words, but the central idea is basically the same: accept what is good, preserve strength, wait for the opportunity, and struggle for a long time.

Stalin's close comrade-in-arms, Marshal Voroshilov, a veteran of the profession, said: "While being vigilant against German fascism, we must also be aware of the sinister intentions of US imperialism in the heart of not dying. Even if we look at the problem in this way, we will be much more comprehensive and profound, even if we look at it in this way, we want to use the last bit of vitality of the party and the country to fight to the death against the Germans......

Now the United States has gotten rid of the former Vice President Wallace, who usually advocated cooperation between the United States and the Soviet Union, and replaced it with a new Vice President Truman, a former senator who made a public statement at the beginning of the Great Patriotic War: 'If Germany is stronger than the Soviet Union, we should help the Soviet side; But if it is the Soviet Union that has the upper hand, then we should help Germany, and try to make them kill, although I have always been reluctant to see Hitler victorious under any circumstances. (The New York Times, June 24, 1941) Although these words were later retracted under pressure from all sides, the real motives in their hearts are clear. This man is now vice president, and judging by the poor health of Comrade Roosevelt, it is likely that he will be the next president. In addition, according to Comrade Military Attaché, there has always been a non-American committee in the US Congress, and the anti-Bolshevik sentiment is well known to all, and US imperialism is likely to reach a peace with the Germans to betray Soviet power, and this is something we have to guard against. ”

Voroshilov, who is in charge of US aid supplies, is second only to Molotov in his understanding of the international situation.

In the end, everyone had almost finished expressing their opinions, and they turned their attention to Stalin, waiting for the general secretary to "scientifically grasp, comprehensively summarize, highly generalize, and form the crystallization of collective wisdom" and implement the guiding principles that would guide the work line of the party and the state.

"All the comrades just now, in an attitude of being highly responsible to the party, the state, and the people, have conscientiously expressed their views and expounded very good opinions on the proposals put forward by the comrades of the front-line commanders represented by Comrade Zhukov, and I think they are all very reasonable; until the war has been fought so far, we have displayed a spirit of stubborn struggle and unyielding on all fronts, and have waged a struggle that can be sung and wept, and the overwhelming majority of the people and the commanders and fighters of the Red Army have withstood the test and made the enemy feel that it is difficult to completely destroy and conquer us. This opportunity was not given to us by the Germans, but by our blood and lives, with our will and perseverance in the past nearly three years, and we must have the confidence to persist in it for a long time. Stalin glanced majestically at the crowd, "As has been mentioned, war or peace is only a formality, not a decisive one, and our struggle against the German fascists and the Menshevik bandits can be freely switched between the two forms, and we will adopt whichever form is more advantageous and easier to achieve results - this is the essence of Leninism of adherence to principles and flexibility." ”

"In light of everyone's opinions and the reality of the current struggle, I think it is advisable to negotiate a comprehensive armistice with the German army after the end of this campaign, and strive to reach an agreement at the turn of spring and summer, and the conditions for the armistice talks will be voted on by the plenary session of the Central Committee after deliberation by the Politburo...... If you have no opinion, I propose that a vote be put on today's item, and comrades who agree with it should raise their hands......" After saying that, Stalin was the first to raise his hands, and then everyone scrambled to raise their hands - Comrade Stalin's opinion was unanimously adopted.

"Send a telegram to Comrade Zhukov and several commanders and comrades at the front, telling them to fight hard and not have any baggage in their hearts, the whole party and the people of the whole country are supporting him, and I believe that he can bring us the best and most favorable conditions for an armistice!" Stalin told Vasilevsky that "find a way to send another 2-3 Guards tank brigades and about 150,000 troops from the direction of Moscow to support him, the better he fights there, the less pressure we will have in the future!" ”

After receiving the telegram from the rear, Zhukov also breathed a long sigh of relief, at least Comrade Stalin now personally agreed to negotiate peace, and stated that he would cease fire at the turn of spring and summer -- this shows that Comrade Stalin is still very sober, knowing that Germany will launch a large-scale offensive in May, and if he does not take the opportunity to make peace, he will suffer great losses, and he also offered to give himself another 450,000 reinforcements -- 300,000 supporting troops on the southern front and 150,000 reserves drawn from the Moscow front, which makes him also grateful. At present, the number of troops belonging to the Central Asian Special Front has reached 1.4 million, and with the cooperation of the three armies on the southern front, almost all the troops that can fight are in their own hands. He was grateful to Stalin for his trust, but he also felt that the burden on his shoulders was heavy.

As for the next step of the operation, Malinovsky had already reminded him that the Caspian thaw was imminent, and that it was necessary to prevent the German army from storming the eastern shore of the Caspian Sea and cutting off his own retreat, but in Zhukov's opinion, it did not matter whether there was such a retreat or not, and did the troops entering the Caucasus still want to retreat unharmed? This is impossible, and going back will not change the situation, they are the last capital of the Soviets to give it a free hand -- either to win the battle with the three fronts of the Southern Front and completely change the situation of the war on the Southern Front, or to annihilate the entire army in the Caucasus, these troops can only advance, not retreat, and there is no other way, and any compromise, vacillation, and hesitation is the great enemy of the use of troops!

"Send a telegram to Comrade Chernyakhovsky, ordering the troops to rest for a while, to storm the Caucasus Pass with all their might, to occupy all the predetermined targets in the Georgian direction and firmly obtain the access road to the Caucasus Pass before March 20, all Turkish troops in the Transcaucasia must be resolutely wiped out, and if necessary, they can put on a posture of attacking the Turkish mainland to attract reinforcements from the other side, as for the reinforcements and ......supplies," Zhukov muttered for a moment, "and after the Caspian Sea thaws, 100,000 men will be transferred to him from the east coast!" The offensive cluster must show the courage and determination to break through the cauldron and resolutely attack! ”

"Isn't this unfair to Comrade Chernyakhovsky?" Andrei Andreyevich Andreyev, who served as the political commissar of the Central Asian Special Front, a veteran member of the Politburo, and a former secretary of the North Kazakh Territory Committee, asked, "Do you need me to make a special trip to Baku to communicate with him?" ”

"I believe he will understand, this is the sacred duty entrusted to him by the party and the people! Moreover, his order for the promotion of the rank of general and the title of Hero of the Soviet Union has also come down, as the leader of the young generation of Soviet soldiers, his future is infinitely bright, and it is almost certain that he will be a marshal and enter the Politburo in the future, and I believe that he can defeat himself and defeat the enemy! ”

Almost at the same time, Field Marshal Manstein issued an operational order: "The divisions of the Southern Front should end their period of rest ahead of schedule, complete the relevant operational preparations, contain the enemy offensive on the Stalingrad front, but do not act rashly until the enemy breaks through the Caucasus Mountains......"