In July 1900, Russia took advantage of the invasion of Beijing by the Eight-Nation Alliance, and sent troops to massacre the only remaining Chinese residents of Hailanpao and Jiangdong Shiliutun on the east bank of the Heilongjiang River, killing more than 7,000 Chinese residents and forcibly occupying these areas. Hailan Bubble, now known as Blagoveshchensk, is an important Russian city in the Far East, with a population of more than 200,000. The Russian army then invaded the northeast region of China, burning and looting everywhere, preparing for a long-term occupation, creating a fait accompli. At this time, the Qing government was overwhelmed and unable to take any measures other than weak protests. Tsar Nicholas II already had a plan to draw a straight line from Chogoli Peak on the Sino-Russian border in Xinjiang to Vladivostok, and to give all the land north to Russia. This is the famous "Yellow Russia Plan". It was only after the revolution in Russia that this plot did not succeed. In 1911, Russia took advantage of the Xinhai Revolution in China to instigate the upper princes of Outer Mongolia to declare independence and establish the Great Mongolian State. In 1915, the Chinese government vigorously protested and signed the Kyakhta Treaty with Russia, stipulating that Outer Mongolia was part of Chinese territory and that China recognized the autonomy of Outer Mongolia. After the Russian Revolution, the Beiyang government of China sent troops to abolish the autonomy of Outer Mongolia and restore territorial sovereignty. In 1919, Outer Mongolia established the Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party, and its leaders Sukhbaatar and Choibalshan were staunch **** elements. At that time, a civil war was raging in Soviet Russia, and some White Russian bandits fled into Outer Mongolia, burning and looting everywhere. The Mongolian People's Revolutionary Party took the opportunity to establish a people's provisional government and invited the Russian Red Army to enter Outer Mongolia to expel the White Russian bandits. After the Russian Red Army entered Outer Mongolia, it defeated the White Russian army and went south to expel all the Chinese Beiyang government troops from the country. After that, Outer Mongolia declared itself independent and was placed under the protection of the Soviet Union. Lenin, the leader of the Soviet revolution, once said that when the Chinese revolution was victorious, Outer Mongolia would naturally become part of China. However, Lenin died early, and his successor, Stalin, regarded Outer Mongolia as a wonderful buffer zone between the two great powers, China and the Soviet Union, and had no intention of returning Outer Mongolia to China. In 1945, when World War II came to an end, the heads of state of the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed the "Yalta Agreement", which stipulated that the Soviet Union would send troops to fight against the Japanese army in exchange for the Soviet Union. Under pressure from the United States and the Soviet Union, the then Chinese Kuomintang government signed the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance with the Soviet Union, recognizing the formal independence of Outer Mongolia. In this way, under the pressure of Soviet Russia, another 1.55 million square kilometers of territory broke away from the bosom of China. In addition, in 1914, Russia invaded 170,000 square kilometers of territory in the northernmost part of China, Tangnu-Ulianghai, and soon came under Soviet control. It belongs to the Altai Mountains and the Irtysh River Basin, is rich in resources, and many Uyghur-speaking Ulianghai people live. In 1944, Stalin annexed the Tangnu-Ulianghai region to the Tuva Autonomous Oblast of the Russian Federation. From 1858 to 1946, Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union, through armed aggression and diplomatic deception, directly ceded 1.7 million square kilometers of land from China, plus its instigated foreign ****, a total of nearly 3.3 million square kilometers of land out of China's embrace, accounting for a quarter of the total territory of the Qing Dynasty in its heyday. As a result, Russia has become the most vicious enemy in China's modern history. The cruel lessons of history prove that if a nation does not have a martial spirit, no matter how brilliant it has been, it will finally not be able to get rid of the fate of being slaughtered by a strong enemy. After the October Revolution in Russia, Lenin's government still had considerable internationalism, and issued two "declarations on China," explicitly declaring that "all treaties concluded between the previous Russian governments and China are null and void, and all the territories previously seized from China will be renounced." However, the Beiyang government of China at that time was incompetent and did not seize this fleeting opportunity. As the domestic situation in Soviet Russia improved day by day, especially after the death of Lenin, the Russian government reneged on its promise and no longer committed to the previous declaration on China. After Stalin came to power, he proceeded from the national interests of the Soviet Union in everything, not only denied the fact that Russia had invaded and occupied Chinese territory, but also took advantage of the time of war in China to go beyond the provisions of the unequal treaties of the Tsarist era and the universally recognized norms of international law, and demarcated more than 600 of the more than 700 islands on the Chinese side of the center line of the main waterway, covering an area of more than 1,000 square kilometers. In particular, in July 1929, the "Middle East Road Incident" broke out between China and the Soviet Union due to the ownership of the right of way of the Eastern Railway, causing an armed conflict. As a result, Zhang Xueliang's Northeast Army was defeated, and the Eastern Railway was restored to its original state under the control of the Sino-Soviet Communist Party. However, the Soviet Union seized the opportunity to occupy the Black Blind Island, a Chinese territory in the Ussuri River, which became one of the most difficult issues in the territorial dispute between China and Russia in the future.

Although the events after World War II have not happened in history, the results can now be seen, so Zhou Wen has to believe it.

Two days after Zhou Wen arrived in Gorky, Stalin met with Zhou Wen and others. Zhou Wen and others submitted the Chinese side with questions about the border, and the Chinese side even made a map.

Looking at the maps submitted by the Chinese side, those are the territories plundered by Tsarist Russia and later Soviet Russia from China after 1858, plus nearly 4 million square kilometers of land in Outer Mongolia.

On the map of Shanghai and Sakhalin, as well as the area east of Lake Balkhash and the area of the Tangnu-Ulianghai Sea, Stalin looked at these fertile lands with pain, as if he had ceded them.

Zhou Wendao: "Comrade General Secretary, those places are the original Chinese territory, we don't want it before 1858, but we must take back these territories, and when Comrade Lenin was alive, he also publicly stated that he wanted to return the territories occupied by Tsarist Russia to China, and now that the time has come, I believe that Comrade General Secretary will not regret it!" ”

Stalin listened to the translator's translation and said: "I mean, the Soviet people are engaged in the Great Patriotic War, and now we don't have the energy to discuss the border issue, so why don't we wait until we defeat Germany, and then we can sit down and discuss, what do you think?" I'm sure you're not going to take advantage of people right now, are you? ”

Stalin suddenly weakened the issue of several million square kilometers into a border dispute, and it seemed as if China was petty to discuss the border issue during the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union, and to use force.

Zhou Wen said in his heart that Stalin was really not a good bird, originally he still had a good impression of the big brother of the Soviet Union in his heart, and he had been entangled, but Stalin's first sentence poured cold water on him, Stalin not only did not intend to return the occupied Chinese territory, but also did not even mention Outer Mongolia, Zhou Wen was really disappointed in Stalin.

Although Zhou Wen was extremely angry in his heart, he said very calmly on the surface: "Mr. General Secretary, we don't want the territory of the Soviet Union, and we don't want an inch of territory of the Soviet Union, we just take back the territory that belongs to us, this is not a border dispute, not a matter of thousands or tens of thousands of square kilometers of territory, but a land issue of more than three million, nearly four million square kilometers, and his area is the area of 7 France, do you think this is a small matter?" ”

"I sympathize with the German aggression against your country, but this does not become a determination to prevent us from recovering our territory, and I believe that the Soviet people and the Soviet government will not hold on to China's territory and not tell you, right?"

I didn't expect to be pulled back by Zhou Wen, and I underestimated him, Stalin said in his heart. But this is also to be expected, and there is nothing.

Stalin said: "Mr. Zhou, you should understand that there are a large number of Soviet people in that territory, as well as countless factories, we are now in the Great Patriotic War, and we are in great need of supplies, if we hand over the place to you, then we will evacuate the people there, we will evacuate the factories there, not to mention, it will be a great waste of time, not to mention, we will need a lot of money, the key is that we are almost out of food now, there is money there to do that kind of thing, not to mention that it will take a lot of time to reassemble the factories to be withdrawn, so how can we still produce weapons and ammunition." What about supplies to fight the Germans? ”

Zhou Wen sneered in his heart, if you fight or not, the Germans will fight against China's, will the Germans attack you, will you invade China and take away China's territory? However, Zhou Wen still kept a smile on his face and said: "Mr. Stalin, China's territory is China's territory, China does not want to use war to solve the problem, which also hurts the harmony between the two countries, I originally have an extremely good impression of the Soviet Union, but you are looking at him today, he has no intention of returning China's territory at all, if you don't want to give a happy word, I will go back to the business." ”

When Zhou Wen was studying in France before, he heard the French evaluate the Russians, "The Russians are all ** raised!" And this sentence is recognized by all Europeans, so Zhou Wen thinks that there is no need to express it euphemistically with Stalin all the time, and it may be better to be direct.

Sure enough, when Stalin saw that Zhou Wen was so stern, his tone immediately relaxed, "Mr. Zhou, I don't think there is really a way to let my country return those territories at present, otherwise, you will solve the Mongols first, I believe you will also need a while, and when they are resolved, I believe that our situation will also improve, and then we will hand over those territories to you, I think this idea is the most suitable for the current situation, so that the interests between the two can be taken care of, don't you say?" ”

Zhou Wen was about to speak, but Stalin said: "Okay, Mr. Zhou, you know that my time should be spent thinking about how to defeat the enemy, not fighting with politicians, and I will assign someone to talk to you about the territorial issue." ”

Zhou Wen saw that Stalin gave an order to expel the guests, and two strong guards also came in to invite them out, and that posture looked like as long as Zhou Wen didn't leave, he would take them out, Zhou Wen could only leave, there was nothing to talk about today, the country was weak!