Stalin is dead! From the USSR came a shocking news to the world.

On March 4, 1953, Pravda, the most authoritative official newspaper in the Soviet Union at that time, published a bulletin on Stalin's illness, jointly issued by the Central Committee of the CPSU and the Council of Ministers of the Soviet Union the day before, which stated: "Stalin suffered a sudden cerebral hemorrhage in his Moscow apartment from midnight on March 1 to the early morning of March 2, causing paralysis of his right limb and loss of the ability to speak, and on March 2 and 3 the necessary medical measures had been taken."

On March 6, Pravda published a medical appraisal of Stalin's death: "Comrade Stalin died at 21:50 on March 5 due to continuous cardiovascular insufficiency and breathing difficulties. ”

Stalin was one of the founders of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, a great Marxist, a well-known activist of the International Movement, a statesman, and one of the five great men of the International Movement of Ma, En, Lie, S, and Mao. The model of socialist development in the Soviet Union, founded by Stalin, had an extremely far-reaching impact on the world in the twentieth century. One of his economic policies was the establishment of collective farms in the Soviet Union by coercion and the collectivization of agriculture. This policy was very unpopular among a part of the wealthy peasants, and Stalin implemented the policy of collectivization of agriculture by high-pressure means, and although it changed the living conditions of the poor peasants in the countryside to a certain extent, this form of production of the peasants seriously undermined the peasants' enthusiasm for production, and thus the agricultural situation in the Soviet Union has been poor. Another of his policies was to accelerate the industrialization of the Soviet Union. Although Stalin's industrialization policy left something to be desired, this industrial policy, which was close to the wartime system, was very successful. By 1940, the Soviet Union's total industrial output had become the largest in Europe and the second largest industrial power in the world after the United States.

After World War II, the Soviet Union's status as a great power was further consolidated and strengthened in the economic, military, and international political fields, and eventually it became a superpower that jointly dominated the entire international affairs with the United States. Although Stalin's posthumous evaluation of him was mixed, no one denied his historical importance and his great historical exploits for the Soviet Union. As former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill said: "It is fortunate for Russia that in her years of hardship, she was led by a genius and tenacious commander-in-chief. Dimension. Stalin. He was an outstanding figure who earned the admiration of our cruel times in which he lived...... He accepted Russia, which was still using wooden plows, and what he left behind was Russia armed with atomic weapons. ”

The supreme leader of China [***] made a very objective assessment of Stalin: "Stalin made mistakes not on all issues, but on some", "Stalin made three mistakes and seven points, and he was still a great Marxist on the whole"

The merits and demerits of Stalin's life have become a thing of the past, but what kind of family did Stalin leave for his successor?

Malenkov sat in his office, massaging his temples with his hands, pondering bitterly: "Lenin went west, Stalin went west, where is the USSR going?" Are you going west too? The current state of affairs in the Soviet Union today is terrible. Although the Soviet Union was the world's second largest industrial country after the United States, its national economy was already seriously out of balance. Industry produces only weapons and military supplies, completely ignoring the realities of the lives of ordinary people. In terms of the shortage of supplies, agriculture is in crisis, and Ukraine, Kuban, and Volga, which are known as the "breadbasket of Europe", are all shrouded in severe famine. There are many kinds of exorbitant taxes on the peasants. Raising cows, feeding poultry, and planting apple trees are all taxed. To avoid the levy, the peasants had to quietly slaughter livestock and cut down fruit trees. Alas, he let out a long sigh, the life of a peasant, it was so bitter. Just a few days ago, after the Ukrainian police arrested two people, they actually searched for several pieces of human flesh from them. The famine spread to the point of cannibalism, but the ballet danced in the city's big theaters, and the officials of the political axe still held lavish banquets in their luxurious villas. The polarization of the rich and the poor in the entire Soviet society was diametrically opposed to black and white. The discontent of the people is burning like a fire, can such a situation be done without reform? ”

Malenkov, who advocated the rule of science and technology, took over the mess that Stalin had thrown behind, and he was very aggressive. He believes that the first priority of the state is the rejuvenation of the peasantry! While abolishing agricultural taxes, it is imperative that farmers be allowed to quadruple their own land. So the crowd was excited, and in the collective farms, the peasants applauded Malenkov's reforms loudly. Revolution or reform. Its essence is a process of adjusting the mechanism for the distribution of interests among various strata. Once they offend certain powerful and vested interests, they will not give up on spontaneous combustion. The conspiracy against Malenkov eventually turned into a collusive alliance, and in February 1955 Malenkov was dismissed as chairman of the Council of Ministers. Khrushchev, who took over, reinstated the exorbitant taxes imposed on the peasants, abolished the peasants' self-reserved land, expanded the scope of collective farms, and completely ruined the fruits of Malenkov's reforms. From then on, the Soviet Union had to rely on imported grain to get by, until the collapse of the Soviet Union.

The Supreme Chief did not go to Moscow for Stalin's funeral, he was the only [***] supreme leader of the entire socialist camp who did not go.

At dawn on 7 March, Li Dawei joined the Chinese delegation headed by Premier Zhou Enlai and flew to Moscow to offer condolences.

The C-47 airliner, which was converted from the base's aerospace research institute, has been flying very smoothly. Li Dawei and Premier Zhou flew from Yanjing to Ulaanbaatar for five hours on the same plane, and on the plane they talked a lot about Mongolia and the Soviet Union. Li Dawei told the premier about the situation in the Soviet Union after Stalin's death, and talked about how the Soviet Union finally disintegrated. Zhou Enlai has been listening carefully, and asked a few questions from time to time. Arrive at Ulaanbaatar, the capital of Outer Mongolia, around noon. At the airport, senior leaders of the Outer Mongolian political axe headed by Prime Minister Zedenbar greeted him at the airport, and Li Dawei looked at the black-edged Chinese and Mongolian flags hanging on the gate of the airport and the grief-stricken expressions on the faces of those Mongolians. Zedenbar and others are also going to Moscow to pay their respects, so they can only take our special plane. When the plane took off again, Li Dawei asked the premier to rest in the front cabin and told the premier that he would blow the wind to the Mongolians first.

In the back cabin of the special plane, Li Dawei had a conversation with Zedenbar and other Outer Mongolian leaders on the issue of the return of Outer Mongolia; after a few greetings between the two sides, Li Dawei changed his words and said: "Comrade Zedenbar, we will now talk about the reunification of Outer Mongolia and Inner Mongolia. ”

Li Dawei's words immediately aroused Zedenbar's vigilance and said: "Comrade Li Dawei, what do you mean by this? ”

Li Dawei said unceremoniously and firmly: "The meaning of my words is very clear, Outer Mongolia and Inner Mongolia must be unified and incorporated into China's territory. ”

Zedenbar looked at Li Dawei with great contempt and said: "You are a small director of the European and American Department, and you treat the prime minister of a friendly country so unreasonably, can your words represent your political axe?" ”

Li Dawei also looked at Zedenbar with the same contempt and said, "Of course, my words represent the country. Do you think you are really the prime minister of a country, in my eyes, you are a local official, if you can't say well, you are a criminal, a national scum, a national sinner who splits the country, we can completely prosecute you for treason! The so-called Mongolian People's Republic is completely illegal, and the establishment of the Outer People's Republic is completely an act of treason by you and the Soviets in an attempt to separate Outer Mongolia from China forever. ”

"I protest!" Zedenbar stood up, waving his fists angrily and roaring: "I protest that you have treated the leader of a friendly country so rudely and unreasonably! After that, he left Li Dawei angrily, wanting to go to the front cabin to find Premier Zhou Enlai, but was blocked by the prime minister's guards in front of the cabin door, and finally had to return to his seat indignantly.

Li Dawei looked at Zedenbar's back and thought, there is only one move for all national separatists, and that is to kill them!

After the funeral on March 9, the leaders of China and the Soviet Union held talks to exchange views on international issues of common concern. The talks took place in a solemn, quiet rectangular room in the Kremlin. After Li Dawei entered, he looked at the room, and there was a desk on the right hand corner on the opposite side. In the left-hand corner is a large old-fashioned fireplace. Adjacent to the fireplace is a side door, which leads to another room. On the inner wall are two oil portraits of the famous Russian generals Suvorov and Kutuzov, and a picture of Stalin wrapped in black gauze. There was also no carpet on the oak floor. Below the figure, parallel to the wall, there is a long conference table with a green tweed top. At this end of the table, on the left-hand side of the entrance, there is a tall table clock, and the hour hand points to 10 o'clock. On the Soviet side, Malenkov, the new chairman of the Council of Ministers, Beria, who was in charge of the secret police, and Khrushchev, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU, who was in charge of propaganda and ideology, were among the Soviet side at the talks. The two sides talked for nearly two hours.

On the Soviet side, Beria first introduced the situation of confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States in Europe, and now he is worried that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, led by the United States, will take advantage of Stalin's death to make trouble. The Red Army of the Soviet Union, in order to bring it into combat readiness, was ready to crush the provocations of the imperialist camp of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. This was followed by a presentation on the situation in the Soviet Union.

Finally, Malenkov wanted to import grain and meat from China.

The prime minister agreed, but told China that it is also very difficult to squeeze out a large amount of grain for export, even if it can support you, and the amount will not be too large, and hopes that the Soviet Union will pay for the grain with petrochemical equipment. Next, the prime minister raised the issue of Outer Mongolia to the Soviet Union, hoping that the Soviet Union would support the return of Outer Mongolia to China.

Malenkov said: "As far as I know, the leading comrades of the Mongolian People's Republic have raised this matter with Comrade Stalin, and they advocate the merger of all Mongolian regions of China with the Mongolian People's Republic on the principle of a unified Mongolian state. We, the Soviet political axe, were opposed to this plan of the Mongolian comrades, because it would mean cutting off many regions from the Chinese territory. But we also think that this proposal of yours is somewhat inappropriate, even though it does not threaten the interests of the Soviet Union. I think that the Mongolian comrades will not give up their reading power, because the Mongolian People's Republic has already enjoyed the reading power, and the Mongolian people have already tasted the reading power, and after the surrender of the Chinese Kuomintang, the political axe of the Chinese Kuomintang at that time recognized the reading power of Outer Mongolia, and you have now established diplomatic relations with the Mongolian People's Republic. We can't support the annexation of a socialist country by a socialist country. ”

After listening to the translation, Li Dawei said: "Outer Mongolia cannot exist as a national concept at all, and Inner Mongolia is originally a unified nation and has been a part of the Chinese nation since ancient times. How they split from China is best known to you Soviets. Now we just want to take back what belongs to us, but instead we become a socialist country and annex a socialist country. According to your logic, is it not that a child sneaks out of the house with the connivance of outsiders, and he can't come back if he doesn't come back? He said that if he doesn't have a surname and a family's surname, he won't have this surname? He said that if it weren't for this family, it wouldn't be a member of this family? The interpreter looked at the Prime Minister, who motioned for the full translation.

After hearing this, Khrushchev said disdainfully to Li Dawei: "If you must be unified, then set up a unified Mongolia." The Mongolian People's Republic has its own army, its own path of cultural and economic development, and they will not give up reading power at any time. They will fight to the end for their reading power. ”

Li Dawei glanced at the bald man with great contempt, and said in a challenging tone: "If they are willing, then let them fight to the end for their reading ability!" ”

Malenkov saw that the conversation was a little stiff, so he said: "The decision on this matter belongs to the political axe of the Mongolian People's Republic and the one million Mongolian people. ”

The premier finally said: "We really can't explain the problem of Outer Mongolia to our people, how can we explain it to the 500 million Chinese people?" On January 5, 1946, the Sino-Soviet Treaty of Friendship and Alliance signed between the Soviet Union and the Chiang Kai-shek authorities did include a clause in which the Chiang Kai-shek regime was forced to recognize the "Mongolian People's Republic", but this clause must have been abolished with the abolition of this unequal treaty. Let Outer Mongolia read out in the hands of our Chinese [***], we cannot afford this historical responsibility. I can't afford to bear this traitorous hat; We will make this issue clear to our comrades in Outer Mongolia. We will also give these comrades enough time to think about this issue. But this problem must be resolved once and for all. As for the time to solve this problem, we can continue to wait. On the issue of the return of Outer Mongolia, we hope that you, the Soviet government, will put the overall situation of Sino-Soviet friendship first, and will not interfere even if you do not support it. Otherwise, the problem will be more complicated and more difficult to solve.

(To be continued)