Khrushchev listened very carefully to the gushing narration of Suslov, the great theoretician of the CPSU, and he understood Suslov's attitude towards the territorial issue between China and the Soviet Union. Finally, he asked Suslov to theoretically find a basis for the Soviet Union to peacefully resolve the Sino-Soviet border issue.

At the next day, at an extraordinary meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the CPSU, the wind suddenly changed.

Suslov, who was called by the Soviet Union as the number one thinker after Lenin and Stalin, and the secretary of the Secretariat of the Central Committee of the CPSU, began his speech at the special meeting of the Presidium of the Central Committee with great emotion and argumentsAren't we ashamed? Lenin ruthlessly denounced and denounced this crime of Tsarist Russia, saying: 'They killed people and set fires, burned down villages, drove the common people into the Heilongjiang River and drowned them alive, shot and stabbed to death the unarmed inhabitants and their wives and children, and the policy of the tsarist axe in China was a criminal policy.' As a [***] person, we cannot deny Tsarist Russia's aggression against China just because we have enjoyed the fruits of aggression by the imperialist powers of Tsarist Russia, still less can we cover up and justify such aggression in the slightest; this is not the proletarian world outlook that a member of the Communist Party of China should have, and this is not conducive to the settlement of the territorial issue between China and the Soviet Union. ”

Suslov glanced at the text of the speech with his eyes and said: "China is a big socialist country, a decisive force in the international [***] camp, and our comrades. We should not be held responsible for the consequences of the criminal policy of aggression and expansion of Tsarist Russia's political axe and the chauvinistic ideas of some great powers during Stalin's lifetime. Let our enemies gloat and joke about the war between the CPSU and [***] over territorial issues. In the end, it led to the collapse of the entire [***] movement around the world. ”

"Yesterday some comrades said that the Chinese are narrow-minded nationalists, so let's not comment on whether the Chinese comrades are narrow-minded nationalists, but let's first check whether we ourselves are narrow-minded nationalists." He turned his face with a religious maniac to Molotov and said: "In terms of the allocation of resources for the entire socialist camp, the Chinese territory acquired by the Tsarist political axe and its dishonorable means should also be returned to the Chinese people." The territory of the USSR was already large enough, with more than 20 million square kilometers and a population of less than 200 million people. And the Chinese population is nearly 500 million, shouldn't we do this? This is not a problem for us and should be returned to them. ”

"That would give us the Soviet Union a lot of territory for nothing!" A general commissar shouted.

"If you don't lose it in vain, do you still want to take tens of millions of lives?" Suslov took a pencil in his pale and bruised hand and crossed his speech, and then said: "As the Chinese comrades have said, we ought to be as broad-minded as Comrade Lenin and to look further than we can be. I believe that it is a matter of course to return to them those Chinese territories that have been occupied by Tsarist Russia through bribery and force for a hundred years, so as to eliminate the bombs between the two parties and between the two countries, which are planted by the aggressive and expansionist policies of Tsarist Russia and Stalinist chauvinism, which will explode at any moment, and build our relations on a completely healthy basis, which will be more beneficial to the interests of the Soviet people and the proletariat of the whole world. And to tell our people frankly about this, I believe this is something that every truly patriotic Soviet person deserves to cheer. ”

"Cheers?" Malinowski shouted angrily: "Only a traitor like you would cheer!" ”

"This is a meeting of the Party Presidium to discuss issues, please don't button your hat indiscriminately" Khrushchev knocked on the table to stop Malinowski's invective and attacks, "Everyone has the right to express their opinions." ”

Suslov stared at Malinowski, who thought he was a traitor to himself, with his gloomy gaze, and then glanced at the outline of his speech, and continued unmoved: "Everyone should be clear about the current situation in China, and everyone should also know what it means to go to war with China. We cannot ignore this rising socialist power, and anyone who underestimates China's strength and their determination and will will be punished, as the example of the United States has come along. We should be clear about how important it is to develop our relations with the Chinese people and with China.

Our friendship with the Chinese people and the Chinese people is not only important to our two parties and two countries, but also necessary for the entire socialist camp and for the international movement. For the sake of this noble purpose, we must make every effort to overcome the difficulties that have arisen in our relations with each other.

"We cannot make such unprincipled concessions, compromise is sometimes necessary, and the two 'Garrahan Declarations on China' made by Lenin at that time were a compromise made in the face of a powerful enemy shortly after the establishment of the Soviets, and China must pay something for more than 150 square kilometers of territory." Molotov said like a businessman.

"It's not what China has to pay, but what we have to keep," Bulganin, chairman of the National Economic Council, took over Molotov's words, "For the sake of these territories disputed with China, for the sake of whether to fight with China and to consider the long-term interests and reality of the Soviet Union, if the Sino-Soviet war breaks out, its scale will never be smaller than the scale of our and Germany's in World War II. Everyone knows that if a war breaks out, it will be difficult to control its scale, and whether our national strength can withstand it. ”

"Joke! Sensational. Malinowski shrugged his shoulders disapprovingly at Bulganin's words and said: "China can afford it, what can we not afford?" ”

"Yes, China can afford it, but we can't. China's total national economic output value has reached more than 320 billion US dollars, and it is growing at a high rate of more than 18% every year, and the steel output has reached more than 50 million tons. What is important is that since 1954, hundreds of universities across the country have exported nearly one million high-quality personnel every year, and nearly 10,000 senior high schools and professional and technical schools have continuously sent tens of millions of service-oriented talents to society. Bulganin tapped Malinowski with the pencil in his hand and said, "Don't look at China with the old eyes of World War II." How did China's hydrogen bomb explode? How did China's satellites get into the sky? How many lesser-known things do they still have to come up with? None of us knows. ”

Bulganin turned his face to Molotov and said: "A politician is not a businessman, and he should consider issues in the interests of the people and think about how to better serve the long-term peace and stability of the Soviet Union." If China and the Soviet Union can resolve this historical territorial issue well through negotiations, set aside some land, win friendly coexistence between China and the Soviet Union, and save the Soviet Union from the ravages of war, the advantages will outweigh the disadvantages in any respect. ”

Molotov held his fierce chin with his right hand, looked at Bulganin, who was still on the same front as him, and thought to himself, "This kid is turning fast." Fuck, how dare you say I'm a businessman. I'm a diplomat, a famous diplomat, you know. The diplomat scolded in his heart a foul sentence equivalent to the Chinese national curse, "Е6ать, "Why didn't Comrade Stalin see that you traitors were coming when he was alive, otherwise he would have shot you people all!" But in my heart, I can't say that.

"Comrade Bulganin, according to your meaning, should I immediately fly to Yanjing and say to the MZD in the Forbidden City: "Dear Comrade Mao, you old man must not be angry, we are very afraid, all the members of the Presidium of the Central Committee of the Soviet Union [***] have unanimously decided to return to you all the territories illegally occupied by the Soviet Union, please send troops to receive it." Molotov sarcastically said to Bulganin, "Is it supposed to be like this?"

"Anyway, that's a matter of your diplomatic genius," Bulganin said nonchalantly, turning the pencil in his hand and being a little careless, "I'm just expressing my personal opinion on the current situation in China and the Soviet Union." If you have a different opinion, you can raise it. ”

"My opinion is very, very, very clear!" Molotov was a little excited, and he tried to calm the anger in his heart: "Behind all the diplomatic activities we do, there must be strong strength as a backing, and we must show strong strength, so that the Chinese must also feel a kind of pressure." In a weak situation, it is not to negotiate, but to be slaughtered. ”

"Weak! Weak! It's too weak! After a small meeting with the two generals on the left and right, Marshal Malinovsky said very forcefully: "We must not adopt tolerance for China's aggression, and we must not allow the Chinese to slaughter!" What the millions of Soviet Red Army soldiers did was to defend the territorial security of the Soviet Union, and if they could not defend the territorial security of the Soviet Union, it would be a dereliction of duty on the part of our soldiers. We must take tougher measures against the Chinese than the Chinese. ”

Zhukov, who had not spoken all this time, finally spoke: "I appreciate the fearless spirit of Marshal Malinowski, but everyone is more interested in what are the measures you want to take tougher than the Chinese, you should tell everyone about your measures." ”

"This, this, this measure" Malinowski finally said a sentence after a long time: "As long as you make up your mind to fight, there will always be measures." ”

Zhukov looked at this marshal who was a bit of a two-pole and thought to himself, fight, fight, how capable you are. As far as you are concerned, I don't know, isn't it just a tank cluster attack, advancing in depth to the opponent in rapid succession, or keep your set.

"War really needs the determination and courage of a country's leaders, and the determination and will of the whole nation to fight a bloody battle with the enemy to the end, in addition to this, it also needs strength, more precisely, the comprehensive strength of a country, the comprehensive strength of a country is most concentrated in the quality of the country's military personnel and military equipment, since the end of the Korean War, China's army has been cut from 6 million to 2.5 million, and some young soldiers who have experienced a hundred battles have been sent to various military academies for professional study in phases and batches. In recent years, their army has always remained at about 2.5 million to 3 million at home and abroad. What does this mean? It shows that their mechanization level is constantly improving, and their mobility ability is constantly increasing. Two years ago, with one army and one army group of local troops, they were able to disintegrate India in just over a week with extremely inconvenient transportation, and this was not something that could be done with a few empty slogans. Zhukov looked at the audience and listened attentively to his speech, and then said: "Take this time they attacked Outer Mongolia and Tuva, for example, the reason why they dared to use only four divisions of real combat troops to forcibly occupy Outer Mongolia and Tuva, where our Soviet troops were garrisoned, shows that they are ready to fight us." They seem to know everything about us. How did they manage to do that like a good surgeon, not too light nor heavy, striking and disarming our garrisons with precision? In both operations, they cut off our radio communications, completely losing contact with our whole Outer Mongolia and Tuva, from this point of view? How do we deal with this tactic against the [***] team? Have we all thought about this as senior generals of the army? ”

"Have you thought about it? So what do you say? Malinowski asked impatiently, "Don't just ask questions, come up with a solution." ”

On the surface, Zhukov did not care about Malinowski's rudeness to himself, and then said in his own line of thought: "There is a very famous military saying in China, 'Knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent will not be defeated in a hundred battles', we don't know much about the Chinese [***] team now, how can this battle be fought?" It's really hard to make up your mind.

Judging from their situation in the war between Taiwan and India and the situation with Outer Mongolia this time, their tactics have changed greatly, in addition to inheriting the traditional characteristics of the Chinese army's traditional concealment and interspersing and roundabout encirclement, they have also added a completely new style of play, that is, to accurately destroy the opponent's command organ at the first time of the start of the war, this tactic is called 'digging out the heart or beheading', so if we really start a war with China, we must be prepared in this regard from the central government to the command organs of all military divisions. ”

(To be continued)