Chapter 578: Internal Struggle
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At the time of the outbreak of the Battle of Ktonsnoyarsk. Lenin, the leader of Soviet Russia, was seriously ill.
Perhaps Lenin's illness was not so serious, but with the successive victories of the Chinese army on the battlefield, the Soviet Russian army continued to suffer, which greatly affected Lenin's mood and aggravated his condition.
He'll have to think about his successor.
Before the outbreak of the Battle of Ktonsnoyarsk, Lenin created a new post of party secretary. At Lenin's suggestion, Stalin was to assume this post.
It was thought that this was a technical position, but Stalin's genius made it one of the most influential positions in the party. In fact, this was one of Lenin's various measures to deal with the unrest in the party, without understanding the situation and Lenin's intentions.
He knew that with the development of the NEP, discontent would intensify, and of course the eternal rebel Trotsky would be attacked, and the experienced Lenin would not fail to worry about the old cadres and their open rebellion, although factional activity had been banned.
But as his illness worsened, Lenin was exhausted and tired of the constant struggle against the "workers' opposition" and the "military opposition" at the party congress. Moreover, the increasingly severe and inexplicable headache bothered him greatly. He was determined to set up a body for a more pragmatic and peaceful party congress, and thus established a secretariat headed by the loyal Stalin. Stalin, who had been tested for a long time, should ensure that such a party congress was held, and that he would learn to control the whole party, and that it would be accurate to encompass the whole party. This is the purpose of the new position. Lenin deliberately defined the functions of the Secretariat in a very vague manner, and this was not for nothing.
The Politburo is used to solve the most important political issues, and the Organizational Bureau solves organizational problems. It was intended that the Secretariat should address less important issues.
However, there is a dangerous note: any decision of the Secretariat becomes a resolution of the Organizational Bureau if it is not opposed by the members of the Organizational Bureau: if it is not opposed by the members of the Politburo, it becomes a resolution of the Politburo. From the very beginning of its existence, the Secretariat was given the power to make important decisions.
At Stalin's proposal, his old acquaintance Molotov became the second secretary. Molotov could sit still and rotate 24 hours a day. The Secretariat and the Organizational Bureau, already in Stalin's hands, began to control all appointments and dismissals within the party.
Lenin also decided to implement a clean-up plan while his body could barely support himself.1
"We're going to clean up Russia, and we're going to take care of it for a long time!"
Lenin came up with an action that shook the Russian intelligentsia at last.
In June 1920, a steamer sailed from Russia to the port of Szczecin. The visitor was not greeted by anyone. They found a few wagons with a canopy and loaded them with their luggage. The men dragged their wives along the road behind the caravan. They were the elite and pride of Russian philosophical and social thought, and they were the setters of Russian social thought at the beginning of the 20th century: Lotsky, Berdyaev, Frank, Kizevet, Duke Trubetskoy, Ilyin...... A total of 160 people, all famous professors, philosophers, poets and writers, threw out the whole spiritual potential of Russia in one fell swoop.
The Russians do not welcome them, but the Chinese welcome them.
Chinese warmly welcomed them to China and was willing to provide them with some of the living conditions they needed......
Lenin was constantly afflicted with severe headaches and suffered from neurasthenia. Stalin advised Lenin to go to the sunny Caucasus. But Lenin, like any man on the verge of death, was troubled at the thought of the arduous journey:
"I'm afraid of going far away, and if I can't get cured, I'll be tired to death, and I'll work in vain."
Lenin's days in the Kremlin were frequent, and his days in the Gork villa near Moscow, which had been the domain of the mysteriously dead Savamorozov. Decided to see a doctor for treatment. Lenin did not believe much in the Bolshevik doctors - "Comrade Doctors". At one time, he wrote to Gorky:
"99 Comrade Doctors Are Stupid ......"
In the past, in Russia, which was destroyed by them, German doctors were generally considered the best. So, he invited a doctor from capitalist Germany to diagnose the strange disease of the chalk sleeves. Professor Klempler's colleagues found no fatal illness on his part, only a minor nervous breakdown. …,
They believe that the headache was caused by a chalky bullet left in the chalk after the assassination!
So he took out the chalk bomb, but . .
Lenin was paralyzed in his right limb and had speech dysfunction. He said to Trotsky: "Do you understand, I could neither speak nor write at that time, so I had to learn from scratch. ”
Thus began the tragic period of Lenin's life, in which he began to fight in vain against disease......
For the time being, however, Lenin was still practising his speech, and the doctors were still trying to make a definite diagnosis. Some people even speculated that the hereditary syphilis was investigated in Astrakhan, where Lenin's ancestors lived, but there was no clear result. At this time, Lenin slowly recovered. Doctors forbade him to read and receive visitors.
The doctor told him to rest while Lenin was seriously ill, and Stalin passed a resolution at the plenum of the Central Committee: "Lenin shall be personally responsible for the isolation and treatment of Lenin, and shall not be associated with the staff or exchanged letters." It was forbidden to meet Lenin. Neither friends nor family members are allowed to report any political life to Ilyich, lest he be agitated......"
Stalin decided to remove the last stone of his ascent to the highest peak of power!
The party resolution was not reported to Lenin. He never knew that he was under the control of the enemy.
What kind of collar sleeve is he now? The collar chalk sleeves were gone, and only one patient remained.
The Plenum of the Central Committee adopted the resolution that Lenin had proposed before his illness: that the monopoly of foreign trade should remain in the hands of the state, and Trotsky was the main instigator of this resolution. Now he clearly took the place of Stalin in Lenin. gram
Rupskaya told Lenin that his resolution had passed. Lenin dictated the letter to Trotsky: "It was as if the position had been seized without a single shot." I suggest to keep going non-stop and keep attacking. ”
The so-called offensive is to attack Stalin. Lenin was good at fighting.
The next day, Kamenev, frightened by Trotsky's proximity to Lenin, wrote to Stalin informing him of the correspondence between the two collars: "Joseph, Trotsky called me tonight and said that I had received a note from an old man expressing his satisfaction with the resolution adopted......
Stalin quickly replied: "Comrade Kamenev, since Dr. Feerst absolutely forbids it, how can the old man still hand a note with Trotsky?" ”
The tone was different, he was no longer Joseph, but the secretary general who would not allow anyone to violate the party's resolutions.
So, Stalin called Krupskaya and shouted at her rudely.
Krupskaya, on impulse, could not help but tell Lenin about the insult. As a result, an enraged Lenin wrote a letter of renunciation to Stalin.
Gradually, however, Krupskaya came to her senses, had made an assessment of the new situation, and understood that there was nothing she could do. It seems that it was at that time that she begged her secretary not to send Lenin's letter to Stalin first.
She said to Lenin: "I have reconciled myself with Stalin. ”
Lenin agreed, he was good at restraining impulses. Apparently, he decided to prepare for a new offensive before sending out that letter.
However, Stalin seemed to have a clear understanding of what was happening in Lenin's house.
He was determined to pretend to be "loyal" Joseph Stalin for the last time.
But he learned a very important lesson from this incident: Trotsky and Kamenev were deeply at odds with each other, and feared each other's rise in status, so they both preferred to keep him secretary general, even if it was against Lenin's will.
Lenin, who lived in the Kremlin and was just a little sick, continued to fight.
He quietly dictated the "Letter to the Congress", which would go down in history as "Lenin's Testament", because he made it on the condition that it should be read at the congress that would take place after his death.
In this letter, he commented on all his close comrades-in-arms, pointing out very significant shortcomings to each of them.
He spoke of Stalin at the end. The chalk sleeves put together the evaluation of Stalin with Trotsky's union.
"The danger of division is mostly made up of their relations, and this division can be avoided......
Increase the number of members of the Central Committee of the Central Committee...... It can avoid splitting...... I am not sure whether Comrade Stalin, who became secretary general and has unlimited power, will always be able to use it very prudently. On the other hand
Comrade Trotsky...... Probably the most talented man in the current Central Committee, but he was overly confident and overzealous with the purely administrative side of things! ”
And just like that, he hit two people he didn't like.
The document was transcribed by the secretary and the manuscript was burned.
Several copies were divided into several envelopes with the words "Top Secret" sent by Krupskaya. She could be taken apart only after Lenin's death.
The indefatigable Lenin added something new:
"Stalin was too rude, and this shortcoming, which is perfectly tolerated among us, in the dealings of our communists, has become intolerable in the post of general secretary. Therefore, I advise the comrades to recognize
To really think of a way to remove Stalin from this post and appoint another person to the post, who is only a little stronger than Comrade Stalin in all other respects, is more patient, more humble, more polite,
More concerned about comrades, less willful, and so on. ”
However, by this time Stalin no longer had to fear Lenin, who was seriously ill and under house arrest! )