The 8th Plenary Session of the 18th Central Committee of the Communist Party of Brazzaville was held on June 22, 1942. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

As in the past, the venue for the plenum was chosen in the Grand Kremlin. According to the arrangement of the congress, the 69 official members of the Central Committee were arranged to sit on the lower floor of the venue, and they had the right to vote, and the bigwigs sitting on the rostrum (Politburo members and Central Committee secretaries) could clearly see everyone's voting choice (it was still the era of voting by show of hands).

The 68 alternate members of the Central Committee were seated on the upper floor of the venue. They can see the speakers on the podium and hear what they are saying, but they cannot vote and hardly have any opportunity to speak.

At that time, Manturov was already a full member of the Central Committee, and he was still going to run for the post of secretary of the Central Committee, so he was arranged to sit in the front row, and a position of secretary of the Central Committee was reserved for him on the stage, and after he was elected, he would walk to the stage as a secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee, sit in this reserved position, and officially become a secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee.

Unlike in the past, this meeting was not held for a long time, because it was a time of war, and the plenary session of the Central Committee, which used to take several days, was compressed into a single day.

The morning session consisted mainly of reports and speeches, starting with Stalin's speech on the first anniversary of the anti-fascist war, followed by Manturov's summary report on the work of defense and the defense industry on behalf of the National Defense Council, and then by Voznesensky's report on the wartime economy.

In the afternoon, Stalin will announce the changes in the party organization and personnel structure, and finally the supplementary election of the full members of the Central Committee and the secretary of the Central Secretariat, after which the final meeting will be held.

......When Stalin walked to the podium, there was a round of applause in the Grand Kremlin.

With a smile on his face, Stalin waved to the members of the Central Committee in the audience, his hand was like a baton, and when he raised it, the applause became even hotter, and as soon as he put his hand down, the applause stopped abruptly, and then it was time for him to speak.

"Comrades! Today, the plenary session of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Brazzaville is being convened under serious circumstances.

Just last year today, the treacherous German bandits attacked our country and imposed an unjust war on us, posing a great threat to the safety of the lives and property of the Soviet people.

We have temporarily lost some areas, and the enemy has even advanced to the gates of Leningrad and Kiev. The despicable fascist bandits believed that after a brief victory, our army would collapse and our country would bend its knees and surrender.

However, the enemy miscalculated. Although our army and navy were defeated in the early stage, they still heroically counterattacked the enemy's attack on the entire front, inflicting heavy losses on the enemy, and our country, our whole country has formed a unified battle camp to crush the German invaders together with our army and navy!

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The enemy is not as formidable as some panicked intellectuals portray. The devil is not as terrible as people make it out to be. Who can deny that we, the Red Army, have repeatedly beaten the much-touted German army into a hasty escape?

Judging the problem not on the basis of the much-hyped statements of German propagandists, but on the basis of the real state of affairs in Germany, it is not difficult to understand that the German fascist aggressors were facing collapse.

Now hunger and poverty grapple over Germany, the fascist government is facing the threat of insufficient resources and insufficient productive capacity!

In one year of war, Germany had lost millions of soldiers, Germany had lost all its blood, its personnel reserves had been depleted, and not only the peoples of Europe, who had fallen under the oppression of the German invaders, but also the German people themselves, who could not see the end of the war, were full of anger.

The German invaders were in their death throes, and their resources and production capacity were not sufficient to sustain such a large-scale war. And at the same time, the capacity for resource acquisition and industrial production in our USSR is improving at an unprecedented rate!

Our tanks and artillery, both in terms of quantity and quality, were already ahead of fascist Germany in an all-round way! Our aircraft production is also increasing at an astonishing rate, and the quality is improving! This must be attributed to all party members, the hard work of party organizations at all levels, and your efforts that have created the subsequent victory!

These temporary victories were not enough to destroy them, though, but in a few months, another half a year, maybe a year, Hitler's Germany would surely collapse with all its crimes!

Comrades, our cause is great, and victory will surely belong to us!

Long live our glorious motherland, the freedom of our motherland, the independence of our motherland!

Advance to victory under the banner of Lenin! ”

When Stalin finished his speech, the Kremlin burst into applause. This was the support and affirmation of Stalin's leadership by all members of the Central Committee, which increased Stalin's confidence in resisting the enemy.

Stalin returned to his seat amid a round of applause, and it seemed that the effect of this speech was still good, and when Pravda published the contents of the speech to the people, it was believed that it would help the people's confidence in resisting the enemy.

Then, it was not Molotov or Zhdanov who came to the stage to speak, but Manturov, deputy chairman of the National Defense Committee.

This arrangement broke with the previous practice of only Politburo members and members of the Secretariat of the Central Committee being able to speak in public at the plenary session of the Central Committee, and fully demonstrated the trust that Stalin and the Central Committee of the CPSU had in Manturov and affirmed his ability.

When Manturov walked to the stage, there was also a round of applause in the Grand Kremlin, but this applause was obviously not as enthusiastic as when Stalin took the stage just now, and some people just made a clapping appearance, or even did not clap their hands, which was a performance of questioning the speaker.

Manturov had long expected this, and when he came to speak as a young Politburo alternate, he would naturally be questioned by some. He had not yet reached the age of thirty to reach this high position, which aroused envy, jealousy, and even hatred among some.

Manturov did not pay much attention to the reaction of these people, anyway, he just did his duty and did his best to improve the national strength of the Soviet Union and the quality of life of the Soviet people. But at the same time, he had to avoid the gains of the rise of the Soviet Union falling into the hands of some bureaucrats, which was his goal as the future head of the Organization Department of the CPSU Central Committee and deputy chairman of the Central Supervisory Commission.