Chapter 654: Seizure of power
The Battle of Kedunsnowsk was over, and the Russians suffered a crushing defeat, which alarmed Moscow.
In Kedunsnoyarsk, Soviet Russia has lost a large number of elites, who will not be able to recover in a short time. The battle for the defense of Moscow is imminent.
The enemy could be under the city at any time, and Moscow could be under enemy fire at any time.
Moscow was panicking, Stalin was panicking, and Lenin, who was seriously ill, felt panic.
When the news of the defeat of the Russian Red Army reached Lenin's ears, Lenin vomited blood and then fell into a deep coma.
The doctors in Moscow had done their best, but they found that they could no longer save Lenin's life.
This was actually a great favor to Stalin. Because Lenin no longer believed so much in Stalin, his once loyal subordinate, Stalin's position was being shaken.
And now, it looks like the problem has been solved.
From November onwards, Lenin fell into a slump and began to rapidly move towards death. The top students of the former Church High School considered a campaign of unprecedented scale under the name "The Death of the Savior". He had long understood the country, whether it was the Romanov dynasty or during the Cyplication, whether it was past or future, and always hoped for God and the Tsar.
He was determined to give the country a new God, a substitute for the one overthrown by the Bolsheviks. To a new savior God Lenin.
He had planned it all in advance. When the death of "God" was approaching, the doctors advised Trotsky, who was ill at the time, to go to Sukhumi for treatment.
After taking the "lion" away, he kept an eye on it, not letting any of the rest of the chalk sleeves go to Gork. If someone were to be at the bedside of the Savior while he was dying, he would have invented a deathbed will for the groaning dying!
Anatomist Vladimir Vorobyov and young biochemist Boris Zbarsky set out to embalm the remains, permanently preserving the remains.
The secret of embalming, the Egyptian mummy, the remains of Alexander of Macedonia, who had been kept in honey for a long time, and the remains of the Jewish king Aristopole were so preserved, and now it was Lenin's turn.
Scientists worked through the night. Stalin himself visited the mausoleum several times. By the time of the Party Congress, he had achieved results. Kamenev, who presided over the meeting the next day, announced that the delegates would regain their immortal countenance after the morning session. They lined up to go to the mausoleum. The delegates were amazed. Zbarsky asked, "Is it still a little similar?" ”
Lenin's brother replied: "I was speechless, I was so excited. He was the same as I saw when he died. ”
In this way, he sent a statue to Ning at the first party congress after Lenin.
After he established the empire, he rebuilt this poor wooden mausoleum.
Pillars made of marble, porphyry, labradorite, different kinds of granite. Krupskaya, who lived in the Kremlin, often visited the mausoleum.
It's time for the Party Congress. Lenin's letter to the congress was to be read out at the meeting. On the eve of the congress, Krupskaya solemnly handed over a paper package sealed with fire paint to the party center.
When Lenin's letter was read to the Central Committee, the reaction was "incomprehension, horror".
Because the Central Committee could not understand what Lenin really wanted. Why did he scold all the collars and chales, and didn't propose who would replace them?
Since Stalin was beyond reproach, except for being rude, why did he remove him from the post of secretary general? It is clear to everyone that it was not Stalin who "concentrated power," but Lenin who concentrated power in his hands. It seems awkward, because for a long time, these attacks are because Ilyich's wife has suffered a little grievance.
It's not pretty. So, to say that Stalin was afraid of this letter, that Kamenev saved him, etc., is all a myth. On the contrary, he can be calm, because in this letter he appears much better than the rest of the collar sleeves. Kamenev voiced everyone's point of view: dear Ilyich is ill, and he cannot be expected to be right in all respects. Since Stalin had already admitted the defects in his character that Lenin had pointed out, and of course would correct them, one should proceed from the fact that Stalin could continue to be secretary general.
So, as if to preserve Lenin's prestige, the decision was made: these "sick documents" should not be copied, but read out to the delegations one by one! …,
This congress, which was chosen by Stalin, with the support of Kamenev and Zinoviev, easily "swallowed" the letter. Trotsky remained silent at the meeting. After the meeting, a plenary meeting of the Central Committee was held to elect the secretary of the Central Committee.
At this time Stalin took a step of chess: he asked for resignation, because the savior wanted it, and for him the will of God Lenin was sacred. What happened next was not to his fault: Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev, because of their mutual hatred, were unanimously in favor of him remaining as secretary general. In this way, according to their wishes, Stalin became the chief chalk secretary. Now he can say to them all: You are the ones who want this! Shortly after Lenin's death, Stalin announced...... 1 Lenin called "the masses to join the party."
Stalin made grand plans for the funeral.
Lenin "Holy Sacrament" solemnly arrived. The front and carriage of the Eucharist will be parked forever in a granite and marble building
The faithful disciples of "God" carefully carried the precious body from the station through the whole city of Moscow to the Great Trade Union.
At 7 p.m., the Columned Hall of the Union Building opens for people to pay respects to the remains. Lenin lay there, dressed in an army-green uniform. Stalin, dressed in a military uniform, stood by the frame of the spirit to keep watch. The visitors flow day and night.
In the morning, the body was quickly embalmed so that the masses would have a few days to bid farewell to Lenin in the Hall of Columns.
However, Stalin came up with a miraculous idea: the Bolsheviks could overcome even death. "God's" golden body is not broken.
So he organized thousands of calls from working people: postpone the burial. Thus, in order to fulfill the wishes of millions of people, it was decided to build a special mausoleum on Red Square, next to the Kremlin walls, to store Lenin's coffin.
At the same time, at the "request" of the Petrograd workers, the capital of the Romanov Empire was renamed Leningrad.
Then Stalin decided to take action against his enemies, such as Trotsky and others.
Stalin brought Bukharin, the chief general of the ideological front, into battle. The latter found new lethal shells in Lenin's last articles.
Lenin used to assert that socialism could not be built in a country. Trotsky followed Lenin and repeated this "...... of the basic tenets of Marxism". Bukharin, however, solemnly quoted Lenin's last article, On Cooperation, in which Lenin wrote: "Russia has all the conditions for socialism. ”
Bukharin found much in Lenin's last essays: Lenin spoke of the alliance with the peasants, while Trotsky repeated Lenin's old idea of hostility and conflict.
In this way, the "Eternal Ilyich" helped them completely defeat their eternal friend and foe from the mausoleum.
Both Zinoviev and Kamenev advocated the expulsion of Trotsky from the party at the Central Committee plenum. But Stalin did not agree. He persuaded the plenum not only not to expel him from the party, but even to keep Trotsky in his Politburo, to the surprise of his allies who were thirsty for bloodshed.
They don't know: the game has just begun, and it's not time to capture this important piece. Instead, now it's their turn to leave the board.
Trotsky, who hated them to death, would have favored the secretary of the chalk and used against the victors. These idiots, at the time, thought they were the winners.
However, although he left the "lion" in the Politburo, he cut off its claws. Trotsky lost his post as chairman of the Military Council of the Revolution. The founders of the Red Army were kicked out of the Red Army.
In the next few moves, he walked very fast.
Now it's Zinoviev and Kamenev's turn. They pulled out the last remaining chalk-sleeved Bukharin, as an ally. Bukharin was at the head of the current known as the "right" in the party. He and his comrades-in-arms, the leader of the trade union, Tomsky, and the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars, Rykov, all demanded the continuation of the implementation of the NEP, the alliance with the middle peasants, and the opposition to collectivization, super-industrialization, and the struggle against the kulaks. Bukharin advocated peaceful development without haste or impatience, quoting extensively from Lenin's last articles.
Pravda published Bukharin's article, in which he called on the peasants: "Get rich, do your economic activities, and don't worry that someone will suppress you." ”
The whole country breathed a sigh of relief, thinking that as soon as Trotsky fell, good times had apparently come.
This slogan took the old party members by surprise. Rich peasants! This is a fatal blow to utopia.
Kamenev demanded an explanation from Stalin. Stalin remained silent and mysteriously smoked his pipe. Zinoviev and Kamenev made up their minds: it was time to move Stalin.
But they were no match for Stalin.
One by one, Stalin eliminated them, and he decided to concentrate all power in the party in his own hands before the enemy launched the Moscow offensive.
Any enemy that lies in front of you must be firmly eradicated!
The Chinese also seemed to be faintly helping Stalin, announcing that in view of the approaching winter in Russia, large-scale military operations would come to an end for the time being
When Stalin got the news, he breathed a long sigh of relief.
God bless the Bolsheviks, God bless yourself.
The Chinese offensive had stopped, the enemy had been eliminated one after another, Lenin was dead, and now all the power in the party had fallen into his own hands.
Thus, another dictator also appeared:
Stalin!
However, Stalin will not know now why the Chinese left him plenty of time! )